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James - 07 Nov 2006 22:14 GMT

Can anyone tell me what is different in V02 and V03 firmwares?

I have read elsewhere on the net that we loose the MP3 player?

Thanks.

-james

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tdstr - 07 Nov 2006 22:21 GMT

> Can anyone tell me what is different in V02 and V03 firmwares?
>
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> -james

Just did mine last Fri. When I first went through the service menu I
thought that capability was lost as it did not let you enable it.
However I just loaded my 8300 up last night and so far I can play mp3's.
However, I'm still trying to figure out how *exactly* the mp3 player
works.

Much to my amazement, the 8300 picked up the details of one of the
albums I loaded, like year released, genre etc. Impressive considering
the album I chose is rather...old and underground.

Ted Novak
TRA#5512
IEAS#75

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James - 08 Nov 2006 05:22 GMT

> However I just loaded my 8300 up last night and so far I can play mp3's.
> However, I'm still trying to figure out how *exactly* the mp3 player
> works.

How did you "load it up?"

I tried using an SD adapter and copying from my PC to the folder
"my_music".

The message I get when attempting to play is "PLAYER ERROR" followed by
"Music is not available."

-james

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tdstr - 08 Nov 2006 15:46 GMT

>> However I just loaded my 8300 up last night and so far I can play
>> mp3's. However, I'm still trying to figure out how *exactly* the mp3
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> -james

I put the card into a old digi cam I had and just copied the mp3's over
to the my_music folder.

These particular mp3's I encoded myself with cdEx several years ago. I
actually I copied 5 whole albums. Three of these albums I've been able
to play and the other two I cannot. All of the playable albums seem to
show up with some metadata of sorts which leaves me to believe that mp3
player is phoning home.

What I'm trying to figure out how the mp3 player really works as in...do
I have to index/catalog the songs before playing?

Ted Novak
TRA#5512
IEAS#75

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Bob - 08 Nov 2006 02:07 GMT

Anyone know if they added the ability to enlarge the font size for text
messaging?

> Can anyone tell me what is different in V02 and V03 firmwares?
>
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> -james

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EB - 08 Nov 2006 03:00 GMT

> Anyone know if they added the ability to enlarge the font size for text
> messaging?

Hi,

I just had the update to v03 done two days ago, and unfortunately,
the answer is no :-(

EB

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Bob - 09 Nov 2006 20:19 GMT

>> Anyone know if they added the ability to enlarge the font size for text
>> messaging?
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> I just had the update to v03 done two days ago, and unfortunately,
> the answer is no :-(

Geesh! Do they think everyone can see those puny characters? I have 20/20
but trouble with small print. Messaging fonts are terribly small.

Thanks for the reply.

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EB - 09 Nov 2006 23:21 GMT

>>> Anyone know if they added the ability to enlarge the font size for text
>>> messaging?
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> Thanks for the reply.

You are welcome.

I too was very disappointed. I didn't know v03 was out, and I knew
v02 didn't have this enhancement. So when I discovered v03 I was hopeful
that this would be one change.

Well, maybe down the line.... it's a great phone otherwise, but I didn't
need my reading glasses with my old Audiovox 8900 :-|

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James - 08 Nov 2006 05:11 GMT

I just upgraded to V03 after writing this. Now I can't play my old V01
MP3's. I deleted the my_mp3 folder and reformatted the card under V03. I
copied my MP3's into the my_music folder using my PC. But still can't
play MP3's. If I go to my_music folder (from the phone) it lists all of
my MP3 files but it still won't play them.

I read something in howardforums about having to re-tag or re-encode my
MP3s and having to download a program to do this (called MP3TAG). But
what do I change with this program? Can anyone help?

Thanks,

-james

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