transfer picture to phone?
Audrey
it (they were not taken by it, and are on my hard drive). I thought I
did it, at least the transfer worked, but the phone showed a message
saying that the pictures were too big when I tried to open them. They
are saved as JPGs on my hard drive. I tried to save them as GIFs, but
that didn't work either.
I'm kind of inexperienced at this, just know the basics. Can someone
help me? TIA!
Audrey
Savageduck
First resize a copy (so you retain your original) of the picture file
to a file size and dimension size accepted by your phone.
JPG should be fine.
Once that is done use whatever transfer procedure is oulined in the
phone manual.
or
If you have a memory card in the phone you could mount that to your
computer and load the resized pictures to the card, they would them be
available for the phone.
or
If you have a USB tether cable to connect the phone to your computer,
the phone should appear on the computer desktop as a US drive, and you
can save th picture files to the phone.
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Regards,
Savageduck
Matt Ion
> On 2009-05-20 07:07:40 -0700, Audrey <dkf...@yahoo.com> said:
>
>> I have a Motorola RAZR 3 and want to transfer a couple of pictures to
>> it (they were not taken by it, and are on my hard drive). I thought I
>> did it, at least the transfer worked, but the phone showed a message
>> saying that the pictures were too big when I tried to open them. They
>> are saved as JPGs on my hard drive. I tried to save them as GIFs, but
>> that didn't work either.
>>
>> I'm kind of inexperienced at this, just know the basics. Can someone
>> help me? TIA!
>>
>> Audrey
>
> First resize a copy (so you retain your original) of the picture file to
> a file size and dimension size accepted by your phone.
> JPG should be fine.
>
> Once that is done use whatever transfer procedure is oulined in the
> phone manual.
>
> or
No "or" here - the photo will need to be resized before it's put on the
phone.
> If you have a memory card in the phone you could mount that to your
> computer and load the resized pictures to the card, they would them be
> available for the phone.
Some versions of the RAZR support microSD cards... but not all of them.
> If you have a USB tether cable to connect the phone to your computer,
> the phone should appear on the computer desktop as a US drive, and you
> can save th picture files to the phone.
Nope, the RAZR does not. In fact, most phones I've dealt with don't,
not even my HTC Windows Mobile phone.
If you're using a USB cable (which is easy with the RAZR, BTW, because
it has a standard mini-USB port and doesn't require a proprietary
cable), you'll need to use some sort of specific software to do the
transfer. There are freebies like BitPIM (www.bitpim.org), or
commercial products like Susteen DataPilot (www.datapilot.com).
Your best bet is Motorola Phone Tools, available from Motorola and other
sources (some wireless carriers include it with your phone - you could
always check with your dealer, they may have a free "OEM" version
available). It will allow you to simply import your photos, and will
automatically resize them as necessary before sending them to the phone.
It also has a display that shows how they'll fit on your phone's
screen, so you can crop and rotate them as necessary to appear properly.
Savageduck
> Savageduck wrote:
>> On 2009-05-20 07:07:40 -0700, Audrey <dkf...@yahoo.com> said:
>>
>>> I have a Motorola RAZR 3 and want to transfer a couple of pictures to
>>> it (they were not taken by it, and are on my hard drive). I thought I
>>> did it, at least the transfer worked, but the phone showed a message
>>> saying that the pictures were too big when I tried to open them. They
>>> are saved as JPGs on my hard drive. I tried to save them as GIFs, but
>>> that didn't work either.
>>>
>>> I'm kind of inexperienced at this, just know the basics. Can someone
>>> help me? TIA!
>>>
>>> Audrey
>>
>> First resize a copy (so you retain your original) of the picture file
>> to a file size and dimension size accepted by your phone.
>> JPG should be fine.
>>
>> Once that is done use whatever transfer procedure is oulined in the
>> phone manual.
>>
>> or
>
> No "or" here - the photo will need to be resized before it's put on the phone.
True, you might not the "or" was not an alternative to resizing, that
ws going to be the first step regardless of Tx method.
>
>> If you have a memory card in the phone you could mount that to your
>> computer and load the resized pictures to the card, they would them be
>> available for the phone.
>
> Some versions of the RAZR support microSD cards... but not all of them.
I did say "if."
>
>> If you have a USB tether cable to connect the phone to your computer,
>> the phone should appear on the computer desktop as a US drive, and you
>> can save th picture files to the phone.
>
> Nope, the RAZR does not. In fact, most phones I've dealt with don't,
> not even my HTC Windows Mobile phone.
>
> If you're using a USB cable (which is easy with the RAZR, BTW, because
> it has a standard mini-USB port and doesn't require a proprietary
> cable), you'll need to use some sort of specific software to do the
> transfer. There are freebies like BitPIM (www.bitpim.org), or
> commercial products like Susteen DataPilot (www.datapilot.com).
My old RAZR was able to mount and appear on my MacBookPro desk top as a
drive with no issues. My current Samsung Omnia (Verizon) mounts via
USB and functions as a USB Drive. With the Samsung and a Verizon data
service I am also able to exchange files via e-mail.
Both phones showed up on my Mac as BlueTooth devices, but I was never
able to make file exchanges via BlueTooth???
>
> Your best bet is Motorola Phone Tools, available from Motorola and
> other sources (some wireless carriers include it with your phone - you
> could always check with your dealer, they may have a free "OEM" version
> available). It will allow you to simply import your photos, and will
> automatically resize them as necessary before sending them to the
> phone. It also has a display that shows how they'll fit on your
> phone's screen, so you can crop and rotate them as necessary to appear
> properly.
I never did get the Motorola tools to work properly on a Mac, It might
be fine on a Windows machine. Also Verizon does not make phone
tethering an easy project.
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Regards,
Savageduck
J�rgen Exner
>I have a Motorola RAZR 3 and want to transfer a couple of pictures to
>it (they were not taken by it, and are on my hard drive). I thought I
>did it, at least the transfer worked, but the phone showed a message
>saying that the pictures were too big when I tried to open them.
"To big" could mean two different things:
- the dimensions are too large and the phone does not support resizing
- the file size is too large
In the first case open the pictures with your favourite photo editing
software and save (a copy) in the correct display size of the phone.
In the second case open the pictures with your favourite photo editing
software and save (a copy) with a higher JPEG compression level.
jue
Matt Ion
>> If you're using a USB cable (which is easy with the RAZR, BTW, because
>> it has a standard mini-USB port and doesn't require a proprietary
>> cable), you'll need to use some sort of specific software to do the
>> transfer. There are freebies like BitPIM (www.bitpim.org), or
>> commercial products like Susteen DataPilot (www.datapilot.com).
>
> My old RAZR was able to mount and appear on my MacBookPro desk top as a
> drive with no issues. My current Samsung Omnia (Verizon) mounts via USB
> and functions as a USB Drive.
Fair'nuff. My wife and I have both had RAZRs and she now has a KRZR...
neither mounts as a drive in Windows XP.
> Both phones showed up on my Mac as BlueTooth devices, but I was never
> able to make file exchanges via BlueTooth???
I don't know if the RAZRs are designed with OBEX file-transfer
support... I know my older Moto V710 specifically did not have it. It
may also be disabled by your carrier - often carriers will disable
certain features in their versions of phones, for various bizarre
reasons. My provider, Telus, blocks the ability of most of their phones
to transfer MP3s to the phone and use them as ringtones... their stated
reasoning is to prevent piracy, but it also allows them to sell you
ringtones via direct download.
>> Your best bet is Motorola Phone Tools, available from Motorola and
>> other sources (some wireless carriers include it with your phone - you
>> could always check with your dealer, they may have a free "OEM"
>> version available). It will allow you to simply import your photos,
>> and will automatically resize them as necessary before sending them to
>> the phone. It also has a display that shows how they'll fit on your
>> phone's screen, so you can crop and rotate them as necessary to appear
>> properly.
>
> I never did get the Motorola tools to work properly on a Mac, It might
> be fine on a Windows machine. Also Verizon does not make phone tethering
> an easy project.
It's probably plenty easy... if you purchase some specific software from
Verizon. Anything for a buck, you know. I do like that Motorola
finally started using standard USB connectors on their phones, rather
than the proprietary connectors that some manufacturers still insist on.