LG CU500

Does the LG CU500 play AAC files? I have this phone and I am getting a "Playback Error" when I try to play an AAC file with Music Player.

I have tried to resolve this with both Cingular and LG tech support and I have to say that the response was worse than useless.

The Cingular Tech told me that she can help me with "network issues" but that I would have to call LG Tech Support for phone issues.

LG Tech support says different things every time, which has convinced me that they don't know the first thing about music on this phone.

Either the phone does not really do what the manual says, or I am using it wrong, or it is broken. I have my suspicions, but I was willing to be shown any of these outcomes. No one could even begin ...
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I haven't gotten the phone yet, I'm picking it up this weekend. But if I want to watch TV on my phone, what video format is best to use? I know I can make an AVI file and I'm sure that would work. But they are pretty large. What compression could I use that this phone would accept and how would I convert the AVI to that format?

Man I'm pumped about this. I have TiVo that is connected to my PC (via LAN) and I can download the TiVo data and convert it to AVI. So I can automatically have all my shows downloaded to my PC and just copy them onto and off of my phone. I get to watch shows on the train to and from work!

This is nuts! I love it!

Can you make your ringtone an MP3 on this phone? And do you think I'd be better of with this or the Nokia 6620...I had that phone with AT&T a long time ago and loved it but this looks really neat.

I was reading a post on this form about using the internet and watching tv with the cu500 can be like 20 dollars every 2 minutes without a data package. Now i had added the unlimited data package as soon as i got the phone. Well just to be safe I called cingular to make sure the unlimited data package was working so I wouldnt be billed the outragious fees from watching tv and stuff with the phone. well i call, and the guy says,,...theres no data package on your plan!!!! By then i was so nervous,..thinking i was going ot have a million dollar bill from watching tv without the unlimited data package. he puts me on hold for 10 minutes and comes back,.oh im sorry you do have the unlimited data plan, i didnt ee it mymistake,..hope i didnt scare y...
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I am getting a CU500 from the Cingular Exchange department and had a question regarding its connection to the 3G network. I live in Phoenix and according to Cingular's map, my region is setup for 3G. I will be using my old sim card with this phone and am curious if I can still connect to the 3G network and take advantage of all of its features? I checked my sim and its the 64k Smartcard but is not the newest sim. My old sim will be from my RAZR that is 1 year old.


Thanks for your replies!

I have had my phone for about 3 weeks now and I do love it, but a couple of things have started to annoy me. I think it would be nice for them to possibly look at fixing some items on the next Over the Air firmware release. Here are mine.

Ӣ More than 100 sent/receive txt msgs in box
Ӣ If not, create an auto delete of the oldest messages
Ӣ Allow to protect/lock txt msgs u want to save
Ӣ Fix Java Appz, to auth all the time for inet access
Ӣ Allow network selection (for International Use)

Add to the list! Maybe someone from LG/Cingular might see and possibly give us what we want/need.

Thanks!
~Scott

My current Motorola phone beeps once every 5 minutes after it receives a voicemail or misses a call, and I love this feature. I failed to find this feature on the CU500, and I didn't find in the manual, either.

But maybe I missed it. Does the CU500 have the reminder tone feature that I crave?

(The CU500 manual is online at:
http://us.lge.com/download/product/file/1000001457/C ... »
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I just found a solution for creating ringtones form MP3's. There is a freeware software called mp3DirectCut. It is available at http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_229_18 942.html

I downloaded it, and found it pretty easy to use. The manual is included in the "?" tab.

Simply open an MP3 file, select the parts of the song you do not want, and cut that out. Then save the remaining as a new file name. Transfer that file over to your phone via Bluetooth or USB, and your good to go.

I haven't finished playing with this, but there are features that will allow you to adjust the volume, so I think it can handle that problem about increasing ringtone volume ( or lack of).

HTH.

There are plenty of kiosks around but I dont want to schlep to the store unless i haaaavvee to.

BestBuy.com has the Sandisk 1GB Micro SD card on sale for $44.99, and there is a $10 mail in rebate- net cost $34.99. You can buy on line, or go to a store if there is one near you.

I bought one and installed it, and it was immediately seen by my computer ( through the USB cable). Just copied and pasted MP3 folders like I was moving any windows folder or file, and the song's came up on the playlist.

HTH

Just like the subject states, how can I de-activate the tone that plays any time I make a setting change (or add a contact). It gets pretty annoying.

I havnt gotten around to getting the memory card yet for this phone, but i transfered a mp3 from my SE w600i to the LG through bluetooth, it stored onto my phone, it plays great, but when i tried to set it as a ring tone, it said that the file was too large?

If anyone successfully tethers this with a PowerBook, please let me know.

does any1 know where to get one for cheap online besides ebay. If it is compatible with the either ce500 or cu320 it is compatible with this phone right?

I love this phone. I think this could be the best phone I have ever owned, save for one fairly large problem...

Every once and a while, I try calling someone and the earpiece simply doesn't work. I will be sitting there thinking it's trying to connect, and the call timer begins to count down, meaning someone is on the other end saying, "HELLO?" Meanwhile they just hear me breathing because I have no idea what's going on.

It just started to happy a couple days ago and I don't understand why. I was wondering if anyone else has had the problem, or if it is just my device that isn't functioning properly. I got the phone from an indirect and this was the only one they had (and still have right now) so exchanging it is out of the questi...
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Everyone has recommendations for 2.5mm headphones, but it seems that no one actually has them. I can't find them anywhere (best-buy, cingular, circuit city). I went to a phone store and tried all five headphones they had. ALL of them were in MONO! So, if anyone has headphones that actually work (ie stereo sound)please let me know what kind they are.
Thanks.

is it possible to put movies into the phone and if so how just drag and drop? Any1 Know?

I'm a little worried that the screen is only 65,000 colors, but compared to 256,000 on a 176x220 screen, is there a noticeable difference?

well,...closed the phone looks really nice, open,...not to nice ,..it looks old. I was worried about the screen, but really its fine, the outter screen is also good. I love the swivel camera, but you have to be outside to take decent pics. Without having the memory card or usb cable I cant really tell how good the music player is, being i cant put music on it. I havnt been able to test the cingular video, my billing cycle ends tomorrow at midnight, so that is when they are going to add the unlimited plan so I dont get charged for 2 bundle plans (I went with the 1000 texts & unlimited data for 25$$ a month) wallpapers, for the few that are there arnt very good, and ring tones, you have a lot but they all kinda suck. once i get the usb and mem...
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I just bought an LG CU500, awesome phone, but looks like it doesnt have a vibration alert for when you receive text messages.

At club of bars since is difficult to talk with my pals we usually text message to each other, but now I have to be checking often if they wrote to me because the PHONE doesnt seem to have a vibration alarm setting for everytime you get a TEXT MESSAGE.

Does anyone now if you can set the VIBRATION ALERT TO WORK ALSO WITH TEXT MESSAGES AND NO ONLY PHONE CALLS? Thank you.