hey andy,

love the site... keep up the good work

Hi Dave and Crowdraven87, thanks for joining the forums!
I hope I haven't mislead anyone about the extent of my expertise. I'm no Verizon employee, I'm just a college student who saw a gap in the internet where there should have been a unified, well written, useful cell phone guide. Some of the tricks and hacks I figured out myself, and many I refined myself, but honestly, most of the information presented on my blog was culled from stuff that other people figured out and posted on various corners of the internet. I just saw the need to synthesize it into a one stop source for all things VX8300, with a consistant writing style, and no need to tax the Google engine.
So that's pretty much what I'm trying to do with the Hellaphone wiki. I'm trying to make a one-stop source for simple, unified cell phone guides, this time for every phone on the market.
Regarding your WMA problem, it's important to note that if you have the latest firmware, my old comments are rendered moot. The new firmware will play MP3s just as easily as WMAs. Even if you have the old software, many people are content using the old MP3 player, so don't sweat it.
Glad you like the site, and hope you stick around the forums.
Andy

I'm new to the 8300 and (so far) I like its features. I do not like the limitation of using V-Cast (& the MS formats) and will be sticking with mp3. I'm hoping that some specific posts about the best/worst features of the phone come to light here.

Thanks for the forum!

Thanks for the info especially BitPim. You probably already know this, but if you have the new firmware and sync with wmp it puts your music on as an mp3 if that is how they were stored on your computer.

Johnny C

Whats up Andy...I agree with everyone this saves us all so much time, excellent resourse...

Hey Andy !

Just got my VX8300 about a month ago. For the most part I like it. I am coming from a Motorola E815, which was a sweet phone in itself. The VX8300 has some cool featurs too. With your help in your blog, I have learned more about the phone than I would have reading the manual, that's for sure.

Thanks for your efforts.

Jim

Andy, I'm glad you've expanded and hope this will grow into a thriving, informative community. The info I got from your blog when I got my VX8300 a few months ago was invaluable.

I'm seeing a lot of the questions that were answered in the original blog being asked several times over in the forum, already. Also, questions that were answered in the comments section are being asked here. Suggestion: Get all the blog info migrated over to the wiki and sticky a post with the most FAQ, or a sticky telling people to read the wiki before posting.

Thanks for the community!

Hi Andy and Forum members. I'm new here and am happy to read up on the VX8300. I just ordered my phone and it should arrive tomorrow. Glad I'm able to read up on the phone and get smart on it before I use it. Thanks to all here for the useful posts.

Hey Andy.

As many others have already said, I owe you a very big THANKS! Its people like you that make the internet a better place. I work as a web designer and generally pride myself on being resourceful when it comes to finding stuff online, but I was having very little luck until I cam across your site. Your documentation blows everyone else out of the water. I've had my LG VX8300 for less than one day, and I can already do much more with it than my old motorolla phone I've had for the past year. From now on I'm buying whatever phone you buy. Keep it up!

Andy, do you know of a .mp3 to .wma converter for MAC? Everything I've found converts FROM .wma, but NOT to it. Thanks, your blog and now your forums are a great help. I've added two ringtones, though in .mp3, to my new vx8300. yay for me! =-)

Email alerts are a good suggestion, thanks. I'll look into it.

Hello Andy I am having a problem with a VX8300 i was hoping you could help me with i work with alot of flashing phones and the way to get into this phone is normally 0 menu but its not working so i was wondering if you knew of a different way of getting into the programing part of this phone so i can change the MSID and MDN thanks

What a great resource you have provided Andy! It is great to find so much info in one place, and not have to search all over the Internet. I enjoy my phone more now because of your time and effort . Thanks a bunch!

Ok... I'm in.
I had my VX8300 for a few years already. Found this site from your blog.
Kids borrowed my phone for a week, and reprogramed my phone to make it "BETTER".

But now I'm lost. Told the kid to "Put it back" and he don't know how.

I'll be reading and exploreing your board... Thanks.

Hey Andy. Hellphone Wallpaper maker site appears to be down. Any ideas when it'll be up and running again?

Thanks for creating such an awesome site!

Vas

Is any way we can load jad file to VX8300 phone? What is game directory in the phone? Which directory we can load jad file? A lot of free games in jad format. I hope we can do that. I tried diffrent way. I could no do it.

Do you consider this thread the best place to ask your question?

So I have the LG VX8300. I dropped it for the millionth time yesterday and finally the screen broke. Now its just the screen that broke. It doesn't light up or anything. But the BODY of the phone still works. I still get phone calls and people can hear me talk but I can't hear them.
I took it to a Verizon store - said there was nothing that could be done.
That's a bummer but expected.
My question is this. Is there anyway I can retrieve my inbox of messages from this phone somehow? Could I use the MicroSD drive to copy them over? If I had another new VX8300 could I find the same steps (like what keys to press) and then do it on my broken phone without looking at the screen since its broken but because the body of the phone still works, could somehow transfer them? I just have some meaningful texts I want to have. I appreciate the help.
Thanks

This thread isn't the best place to ask off topic questions. To both Cody83411 and Dunterman, see recent posts that address your individual concerns. If you need to, start a new thread.