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Hello does anyone here know where I can obtain Drivers that will let me connect my cell phone to my PC via USB cable?

I am using a Motorola RAZR phone, and I want to transfer ringtones into it, but I don't have any device drivers.

Can anyone help?

The drivers needed are part of the Motorola Phone Tools Suite that you have to buy.
The asshats at Motorola charge you for the program while Nokia and Samsung have their equivalents available free of charge.

I got a fuxxored version of MPTS with my V3. It's fucking shit. Everything that could go wrong with a 'plug ur phoen in' thing does - random disconnects, incredibly slow transfers, cluttered and shit software. It won't even CHARGE without the software.

If you have Bluetooth, I do believe it is possible to bypass the software requirement. But barring third-party drivers, you'll probably need Motorola's software...

Yeah, you can send files via BT, but not do anything else a sensible software suite should let you do. Bah on Motorola.

Thanks for your responses.


Are there any third party drivers available?

I find it totally unreasonable that I have to pay $30 or more just to transfer sound files to my phone.

You can find them if you haunt the cellphone newsgroups, but it was so frustrating trying to make everything work reliably I wound up ordering MPT.

I find it totally unreasonable that I have to pay $30 or more just to transfer sound files to my phone.

That's the economic model of most US cellphone carriers and Motorola: Nickel and Dime your customers to death.

Windows comes with the drivers for my Sony Ericsson so I didn't even need to install the software. I just connect it and can copy over to the memory card using explorer.

While we are on the subject of PC to cellphone connections...

Does anyone know a good software for syncing contacts between Outlook and the phone that works over bluetooth?

I had a bluetooth USB dongle before that had good, simple software that did all that it should (suprisingly, a Trust product), however the hardware died on me so I had to get a replacement. That replacement had crap software (as in creating multiple entries insted of inteligently managing duplicates) that was slow, with a complicated UI where you had to open 2 windows to even be able to sync. Of course the original software didn't work since it was tied to the hardware. So I kinda stopped syncing my contacts, however that is something I would really like to have available, so if anyone knows some software of that sort I would be thankful for the recomendation.

Oh, and the software that came with the phone (a Sony Ericson T610) works wrt syncing, however it uses the virtual serial port interface which is slow and glitchy so it isn't a sanity-keeping solution.