Getting the Motorola V3M to sync with Windows Media Player

Source: http://motov3m.com/tiki-index.php?page=UsingBasics

This is a guide to setting up your phone to sync with Windows Media Player.

The Motorola V3m serves not only as a phone, but also as a multimedia device. One of its primary uses is as a music player. It is a fairly robust music player, allowing for music syncing with the device through Windows Media Player 10. Out of the box, the device works only with the Windows WMA format, so WMP 10 is required to ensure that songs that are synced to the device are in the proper format.

It should be noted that the only thing required to sync Windows Media Player with your computer is a USB to mini-USB cable, with this being an example. (NOTE: You need a mini-USB 5-pin cable.)

You will also want to purchase a microSD (transflash) card for your phone, if you want to have more than the approx. 30MB of storage space built into the phone ( = approx 10 song capacity). Transflash cards range from 128MB (approx $20), to the newly released 2GB capacity; the 2GB card does not appear to be compatible with the V3m (the entire 2GB will not be available for use).

A 1GB transflash card can be purchased, with USB adapter, from the link on the right of this website. The USB adapter is handy if you don't have an SD card reader for your computer (the transflash fits into an SD adapter for copying files - however this requires an SD card reader on your computer; the USB adapter requires only a USB port for use with the card).

Verizon sells a music essentials kit for the phone for $30, which includes drivers for the music sync, a mini-usb to usb cable, and a pair of earphones that have a mic attached so you can answer the phone while listening. However, it appears that many have had trouble getting this kit to work out of the box, possibly due to out-dated drivers on the CD.

The following is a step-by-step process on how to get Windows Media Player 10 configured for use with the V3m. It requires only a V3m phone, a mini-usb to usb cable, and Windows Media Player 10.

Steps to Configure Windows Media Player 10 Sync with V3m:
1) Download and install this program: http://www.bvrp.com/Customers/Motorola/DriverTool.zip
This program will uninstall any old Motorola drivers, and install the appropriate drivers for your phone to connect to Windows Media Player.
2) Turn your phone off and plug it into the computer
3)Wait for the phone to be recognized as a modem by your computer - a box should pop up informing you that "Motorola USB modem" has been attached
4) Turn your phone on
5)In your phone, go to Menu....Get It Now Menu....Get Tunes and Tones...Sync Music
6) Windows should recognize your phone as an MTP device, and ask you if you want to open Windows Media Player
7) You should now be able to sync files in Windows Media Player, just like with a regular device

Troubleshooting:
In certain circumstances, it has been reported that WMP10 will not sync with the V3m, despite the above instructions. I have had this happen to me when I installed WMP11, then uninstalled and reinstalled WMP10. For the life of me, I couldn't get the computer to sync with the phone after that. If you run into problems syncing, try this patch. It is the only thing I have found so far that restored functionality.

File Conversion Issues:
If you are trying to copy MP3 files, it appears that the WM10 file conversion tool does not work properly. Files are converted and copied to the phone, but produce no sound when played.

If you encounter this issue try using a different audio program (such as Adobe Audition) to encode the files to WMA format before copying them. This process was tested and worked with Constant bit rate encoding, Windows Media Audio 9.1 - CBR 192 Kbps, 44 KHz, 16 bit, stereo. Other settings may work, but have not yet been tested.

You can still use WM10 to copy the files to your device. WM10 certainly copies files to your phone faster than BitPim or MPT.

Source: http://motov3m.com/tiki-index.php?page=UsingBasics