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Ralph says

Just have a few questions regarding the Krzr. Do I need a SD memory card in order to transfer .mp3’s (for ringtones) to my phone or can it be done using the stock memory. Also, is there anything I need to do to get my phone working with windows. I plugged it in using usb and it states that the drivers are not installed. Any suggestions?

ah says

For those of you wanting music and wireless stereo headphones on your KRZR K1m read on…I have spent countless hours playing with this phone and here is what I have found. 1st-i bought the Moto Mobile phone tools to sync with outlook and also do music and it works very well but i found that getting a lezar usb drive for my micro sd card moved music 1o time faster than syn via teh usb cord. Windows media player syncs to the jumo drive very fast. I loaded 60 songs in about a minute vs the 10 minutes it took over usb cable. I had to format the card and manuall create a folder called MUSIC in the right place in order for the music to show up on my k1m but it all works well now. IF YOU WANT WIRLESS STERO MUSIC is doesnt matter that the phone does not support A2DP. I bought the Moto mini usb to 3.5 MM jack ($20)and also bought the logitech free pulse wireless headset ($100). It comes with a small transmitter that plugs into the moto jack and it works GREAT. DONT USE the 2.5 MM jack because it only does MONO sound…go for the 3.5.

ron says

JJ gave a summary on 30 November. Who do we send our ringtones to in order to get them onto our KRZR? He said @vzwpix.com, but what is the email address prefix?

Anthony says

Hello,
I have picked up a lot of very usefull hints for my KRZR. Especially from JJ’s FAQ write up. Thanks JJ.

Now, I have a question. This is my second KRZR because my first, the 8 was hard to push. So, now I’m on my second phone and I’ve notcied either a glitch, or i’m doing something wrong. Sometimes, and it’s happening now. If I open the flap and click the volume adjustment up as high as it goes, and then press play, nothing happens. No sound comes out of the speaker. I went to settings and call sounds and looked at my ringtones, I tried to play all of them. None of them are playing sound. But what is strange is, if someone calls me I can hear the ringtone fine. And I can go to My Music, and listen to songs in there. But I can’t hear sounds from “My Sounds” and I can’t hear sounds from “My Ringtones”.

Anyone else having this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Is this some sort of defect?

Thanks a lot.
–
Anthony

P.S.
I did restart the phone multiple times and took the battery out.

lyne says

does this phone have a setting where i can have it vibrate AND ring at same time. I where it on my toolbelt and sometimes the machinery I work on is sooo loud I cant hear when it rings. Also anyone else have problems with the volume on this thing. I can hardly hear the other party. I always have to put them on speakerphone. Maybe 1 call out of 10 is audible. I never had this problem with any of my past cell’s before. I regret buying it.

sahas says

You will need a microSD card. From our experience SanDisk is a good brand. Also there are no 4GB microSD cards available to the public at the time being. (as far as I am aware off) The 2GB ($66) or 1GB ($30) is probably the best solution for you. The slot for the microSD is located under the battery pack lid.

V says

Hi Anthony, I called Verizon Wireless and the said, if you go to “My Sounds” or “My Ringtones” select the song that you want to hear and press the play button. While the ringtone is playing press the button on the side of the phone to raise the volume…you should be able to hear the ringtone.

Hope this helps!

jason says

hey everyone, ok so i have the krzr for verizon. i bought the music essentials kit. which later i found out i didnt need but it was on sale for 30 and thats how much the headphones are seperate. the headphones are what made me keep the stupid set. so basically i got the usb cable and cd for free. i ordered a 1gb card off of amazon for 30 bucks after shipping, which is a great deal compared to verizons rip off prices on their mem. cards. the card came with an adaptetr and i bought a cheap card READER/WRITER. you need the write too, some are only readers so watch out. i put alot of music on their just by finding my memory card in the “my computer” folder and simply opening that up and dragging the songs i wanted into the folder pre-made named music. then you go to the section on your phone where you would go to listen to ringtones and instead of going to ringtones click on my music. this should open up and load all of your songs and press play for a song then you can shut your phone and the outside buttons will light up and that feature is what makes this phone so cool. but now for my question. my worked for about two weeks, but now it will attempt to load my music but it will freeze and then eventaully just take em back to my main screen. i was wondering if anyone else had the samething happen to them and if they could help me out

thanks

tony says

Jason,

My Vz K1m froze on me to when I opened to player. It turned out that some of the songs’ names were asian character set. I renamed those song names and the problem went away.

Brian says

Hey, I have a Verizon Krzr…great tips on getting ringtones by emailing them to the phone by the way…but i have another problem. When I try to record video to my sandisk micro sd card a message appears that says “Unable to Record Video”, even though there is more than half the memory left on the card. But, when I record video to my phone’s memory, they work fine. Therefore, the problem must be with the memory card, right? I was able to record the video to the sd card until I connected my sd card to my computer using a sandisk card reader and tried to add videos to the card. Do I have to reformat the card and lose all the music i have or is there any other way to fix it to record the video to the card?
Thanks

sahas says

@ Shawn I.

does verizon have another phone that doesn’t have all these issues?

We reviewed the KRZR and we weren’t too happy with it either. I have had a chance to play along with some newer Verizon phones recently and I have been quite pleased. If you are looking for a KRZR-like bug-free phone i’d suggest the LG VX8600. I also found the new LG enV to be quite powerful and function as a Mp3 player although it is a bit bulky. I would suggest purchasing or exchanging the KRZR for either of those two phones.

Tiger says

To Tasha,

This KRZR is a nice phone to have if all your going to do is make calls. The ringer goes quite loud with the default rings. The problem lies in the extra features that we want to get working (e.i. actual music we upload to the phone as ringtones, connection problems, ect…) Otherwise, the stylish and compact phone is quite decent.