A Consuming Experience : LG mobile phones: PC connection - troubleshooting ...

Thanks for your comments.The Contents Bank functio...

2007-04-28T19:56:00.000+01:00

Thanks for your comments.

The Contents Bank function is NOT the same as the removable drive function.

To use it as a removable drive please see this post and in particular this comment - make sure the phone is NOT in modem mode if you want USB removable drive mode.

Games - sorry no suggestions, the phone isn't exactly lightning fast, I think we're stuck with that.

Hi! It works good on my lg kg320,5/10 games.The on...

2007-04-16T21:02:00.000+01:00

Hi! It works good on my lg kg320,5/10 games.The only problem is that the Games are too slow!! Is someone who can help me?

I have tried everything provided here. I have coun...

2007-04-16T04:27:00.000+01:00

I have tried everything provided here. I have countelessly turned the phone off an on, installed and re insalled drivers and content bank software. Yet I still get the initializing error and sometimes the time out error.

Also I cannot connect the phone to the computer and see the removable media. I have tried on 3 computers, I have two lg choclates at home and both of them are the same.

The computer will recognize the phone, and say the hardware is ready to use, but when I open up my computer I dont see a usable removable drive.

I have been trying for about 3 days now with no progress, what do I do next?

Alan - that's useful to know too. It may differ fr...

2007-04-08T20:26:00.000+01:00

Alan - that's useful to know too. It may differ from model to model, I believe the US model is different from the UK one. On the version I have, if you don't back all the way back up, it doesn't work. I'll add an update to my posts for that too.

Brad, that's really useful to know, thanks for sha...

2007-04-08T20:23:00.000+01:00

Brad, that's really useful to know, thanks for sharing. I'll update my post for your info.

Anon - thanks for your comments. It's always good to be appreciated!

Your posts have been very helpful. I noticed that ...

2007-03-29T05:24:00.000+01:00

Your posts have been very helpful.

I noticed that sometimes my phone and my computer may not connect properly. In your posts you tell the user to back all the way to your wallpaper after you turn the modem on. I found that this turns you modem off. As soon as you turn the modem on and then connect it to the PC, after it says "done (with the checkmark)" the connection for LG contents bank always works.

Well at least for my phone.

Thanks,
Alan

For that anonymous LG-hater up there, bear in mind...

2007-03-07T10:32:00.000Z

For that anonymous LG-hater up there, bear in mind that both NOKIA and SAMSUNG (i've never used any phones other than N, S, SE, and LG) 's PC Sync/PC whatever softwares are also crappy. Even worse with the Nokia's, it throws rubbish into your PC.

Learning helps in most circumstances. And learning takes time - maybe including your Xmas holiday.

For that,

Thanks for the blog, Improbulus. ;)

I was experiencing the timeout problem while trans...

2007-02-11T08:30:00.000Z

I was experiencing the timeout problem while transferring Java apps as well. Here is what I found:

SLEEP_TIME: Changing this had no effect. I believe that it is in minutes, and I never reached the limit. I haven't tried decreasing the value to confirm.

MAXFILESIZE: This is the file size limit in bytes. Make sure that it is larger than the size of the file you are uploading. I chose a number that was a multiple of 1024. Computers seem to like that kind of thing.

After changing those two values, I was still getting a timeout error. The file progress bar was about 1/4 of the way done. I changed the BLOCK_SIZE next.

BLOCK_SIZE: I set this to be 4 times bigger at 8192 instead of 2048.

After making these changes I was able to transfer a Java (.jar) file that was nearly 1.5MB to the phone. Unfortunately, the phone did not have enough space to compile a program of that size. So far I have found that files smaller than 512KB can compile on the phone.

Thanks for the comments.I agree LG phones aren't e...

2007-01-05T17:44:00.000Z

Thanks for the comments.

I agree LG phones aren't exactly user friendly - I prefer Nokia myself.

But as I've figured all that out from the review phone LG were kind enough to lend me, I may as well share...

This is a shorter version for those readers in a h...

2007-01-04T15:20:00.000Z

This is a shorter version for those readers in a hurry:

Step 1: Go to mobile phone shop
Step 2: buy any brand of phone apart from LG
Step 3: Go home and relax in the knowledge that you don't need to spend days of your precious xmas holiday trying to get it to sync.

Well written indeed, i personally like the perspec...

2007-01-03T19:23:00.000Z

Well written indeed, i personally like the perspective of your blog.