Comments on: New Motorola v180 Cell Phone

By: Erik Rivera

Erik Rivera — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:27:33 +0000

how do u upload pics from your computer to your phone using a usb cable. my phone is a motorola v180 and i have cingular but no internet

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:48:44 +0000

Forgot to mention that I made a USB charging cable out of a retractable USB cable and a V180 car charger that had died. The USB data cable was made by connecting a standard USB male to female retractable cable with a male USB to mini USB plug at the end. Weird that the USB data cable doesn’t charge the phone?

Now if I could just figure out how to get pictures and ringtones into this darn thing via my powerbook! I spent way too many hours putzin around with p2k and other programs in virtual pc 7.0.2 with no luck. VPC can see the V180 in its USB settings, but nothing is ever detected within Win98se or WinXPSP1.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:43:38 +0000

I am using iSync 2.1.1 on OSX10.4.5 and it still syncs perfectly with my v180. I found sound scripts that allow for syncing iCal and Mac Address book with Entourage 2004 so now I have a way of syncing the v180 with Entourage! Here’s the link to purchase one of the scripts (one for iCal and one for Address book) https://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=LNK&&

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:46:50 +0000

I used the usb cable for a psp. it was $5 at walmart and immediately recognized my phone. the only problem is that I don’t have the software to do anything with it. Tmobile has the desktop manager file available to download on their site, but it never works.

By: Ken Nerhood

Ken Nerhood — Mon, 02 May 2005 15:53:25 +0000

That’s a good warning. The v180 was not supported under Panther (10.3) either, but still worked. I’m not anticipating going to Tiger any time soon (no driving reason for the upgrade), but if you find anything out please let me know.

By: Alexander Price

Alexander Price — Sun, 01 May 2005 01:55:18 +0000

Be warned that with the new version of iSync 2.0 (comes with Tiger), the Cingular version of the v180 is NOT supported. I’m very dissapointed to say the least. I’m going to google a bit and see what I can find as to why, and what can be done to re-enable it.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html

Note the notes at the bottom of the page (6 and 7 for the v180)

By: John Howes

John Howes — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:47:32 +0000

I discovered a web site that enables you to load your own pictures and ring tones to your phone. It is free, but you do have to pay for the web connection on your phone to receive the files. It takes a little work, but it does the job. Take a look at it here:

http://stt3.smashsworld.com/

By: Ken Nerhood

Ken Nerhood — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:50:53 +0000

I would love to load ring tones with my Mac too, but as far as I can tell there is currently no way to do that. There are a number of tools on the for the PC. Two good discussion can be found here and here. I've tried to loak the P2K tools on the PC at the office, but I haven't spent much time getting it to it work so I can't really comment at this point.

By: John Howes

John Howes — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:49:14 +0000

I used the cable for my Palm Tungsten E to connect to my v180. It was immediately recognized by iSync. Now if I could just figure out how to load pictures and ringtones I would be happy. Ive only had the phone for 2 days, so maybe I will figure out something.

By: Ken Nerhood

Ken Nerhood — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:04:28 +0000

I used the cable off of my USB card reader. The connection is a mini USB Plug type B 5-pin cable. I just did a quick search on