VI2300 & BitPim, I've tried, really!

[cowgirl05]

I hope I chose the right forum for this. I've looked at all the other previous posts for bitpim, so I know it seems to work for some folks with the VI 2300. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Here is what I've done so far:
I bought a data cable (it is that USB to serial deal) off of eBay to download ringtone & pics to my phone from my computer. Bitpim can't recognize or detect my phone. Here is what I've done:
Am running windows XP Pro
I have downloaded the sanyo drivers
I have downloaded Bitpim version 0.7.34-official
Installed the Sanyo drivers, under device manager it recognizes the phone as a Sanyo USB phone and shows up under modems, it wants to go on com port 3 (which is my computer modem, so I put it on com 4) I've tried other com ports all of them up to port 256 and I get a message saying they are in use with another program, why, I have no clue. I have the computer modem and a printer on ports and that's it.
I start Bitpim and put it to com port 4, it shows the Sanyo USB phone is there, the port is available, correctly configured & can be chosen & it could be opened. and that it is a modem connection, and that drivers are installed. So my phone & Bitpim are set to the same port, com 4. Yet, when I click detect phone, it says no phone detected or recognized. I tried, rather than using OTHER CDMA phone telling it that my phone was a SCP 7300 but Bitpim didn't buy it. Still no phone recognized or detected.
This is not a charging data cable, just a plain data cable that the seller says other VI 2300 users have got it to work with BitPim, so must be something in the way I'm set up, but I've spent hours googling looking for answers and no joy, if anyone has any ideas, or suggestions, I would be most grateful.
I read the instructions the seller gave on his web site that said attach the cable with no phone to the usb port & hardware wizard should recognize it. My Hardware wizard could care less. It NEVER recognizes the cable unless the phone is attached. Then it says "ah, Sanyo USB phone" and rather than putting it under a port, puts it under modems (which I think Bitpim help section says is normal for Sanyo phones, as I have no idea, I will take their word for it) I thought maybe the cable needed a driver, so from the sellers web site downloaded & installed USB to serial drivers, that probably was not a good use of initative, as one set of drivers was for a GSM phone and the other for something called a Sagem. So added those drivers didn't help either. Finally got hold of the seller ( a WHOLE nother story) and he said I shouldn't need any other drivers than the Sanyo ones I had downloaded and installed. Maybe I am leaving out a step? I plug the cable into usb, put the 2300 on the cable, open bitpim, undersettings make sure it shows com port 4, tell it other CDMA phone or SCP7300 (actually, I've tried telling bitpim it was every phone in the list) the click edit, detect phone? It always says no phone detected. Is there something else I should do? Besides banging my head on my laptop? I don't want to hurt my lap top....
Thank you Kindly :bang:

[cowgirl05]

First, the instructions I got said to plug in the data cable to the USB port WITHOUT the phone on, then look for it under serial cable. Don't bother. I am running WindowsXP Pro, my hardware wizard couldn't have cared less. Just install the Sanyo drivers, then plug phone and cable in. Tell it to install the drivers from where ever you put them when you downloaded & unzipped them. Then check your device manager & see what port The Sanyo USB phone installed itself on. Mine wanted to install itself on the same port as my computer modem. This won't fly. So I changed it to Com 4. Sanyo phones install under modems, not ports, like printers ports. Then fire up BitPim. Set BitPim to the port your phone is on, then LIE to it, tell it you have a SCP 7300. This IS fair, because BitPim lies to me, and repeatedly tells me "no phone detected" This doesn't MATTER! Just go ahead and click on data, "get phone data". Even with BitPim saying "no phone detected" it still downloaded the data, allowed me to send files and worked. I hope this helps save someone the week of head banging I've spent! But, it does work! :clap:

[Rinnegato]

any chance you've figured out how to transfer ringers to the phone using bitpim?

[Rinnegato]

nevermind, focus works great! www.sprintusers.com/focus

[cowgirl05]

Sure, just do the send data thing (don't forget, at least for me, if you try to "detect phone", it will lie & tell you no phone detected). So just send data. Hook up your phone with the cable, open bitpim, click on the ringers tab. Remember to transfer ringtones to phone using bitpim, they HAVE GOT to be in midi. format. That is the only file format that bitpim will use. That is a bitpim limitation, not a VI 2300, which, if you are using the focus tool you've figured out. So put your midi file into the ringer tabbed section, then just do the send data. Make sure you "add" rather than replace. If you replace, you will end up with just your new ones. So add the new ones. That should do it, hope this helps. :fingers:

[Rinnegato]

Hi, thanks for your response, I found a way to create qcp files with bitpim, then using the focus tool, you might want to give this a shot, this is what I did.

1. In BitPim under edit-settings, choose SCH-A670 as your phone

2. Go to "Ringers" tab, click the "add" icon

3. Choose an mp3 file you would like to use, then "Convert Audio File" window pops up

4. Choose "0" in the optimization option, then click "convert"

5. Afterwards use the sliders to narrow down about 25 seconds of the song

6. Make sure in "volume adjustment" (highlight the first 0 in 0.0) then choose 4 or 5

7. Click "set", then click "ok" on the bottom

8. When the song shows up in the "Ringers" tab in BitPim, right-click and select "copy"

9. Paste in folder or desktop, rename the pasted file extension to (.qcp) *IMPORTANT

10. Now go to www.sprintusers.com/focus/ choose that .qcp file to send

11. And voila! You have yourself a ringtone :headbang2 :headbang2

Hope this helps people out, if there is a better mp3-qcp converter pls post, thanks!

[cowgirl05]

Yes, I too found using the focus tool more satisfactory than trying to make .midi files for bitpim. Ah, a converter, yes, I think you might try "pure voice". I can't remember the link, BUT I am pretty sure I found it on this site, so just run a search for "Pure Voice". It was free software, it makes really dandy .qcp files. Quick & Easy. Then just transfer them up using focus..
Have fun :clap:

[DieTheoFascists]

I hope I chose the right forum for this. I've looked at all the other previous posts for bitpim, so I know it seems to work for some folks with the VI 2300. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Here is what I've done so far:
I bought a data cable (it is that USB to serial deal) off of eBay to download ringtone & pics to my phone from my computer. Bitpim can't recognize or detect my phone. Here is what I've done:
Am running windows XP Pro
I have downloaded the sanyo drivers
I have downloaded Bitpim version 0.7.34-official
Installed the Sanyo drivers, under device manager it recognizes the phone as a Sanyo USB phone and shows up under modems, it wants to go on com port 3 (which is my computer modem, so I put it on com 4) I've tried other com ports all of them up to port 256 and I get a message saying they are in use with another program, why, I have no clue. I have the computer modem and a printer on ports and that's it.
I start Bitpim and put it to com port 4, it shows the Sanyo USB phone is there, the port is available, correctly configured & can be chosen & it could be opened. and that it is a modem connection, and that drivers are installed. So my phone & Bitpim are set to the same port, com 4. Yet, when I click detect phone, it says no phone detected or recognized. I tried, rather than using OTHER CDMA phone telling it that my phone was a SCP 7300 but Bitpim didn't buy it. Still no phone recognized or detected.
This is not a charging data cable, just a plain data cable that the seller says other VI 2300 users have got it to work with BitPim, so must be something in the way I'm set up, but I've spent hours googling looking for answers and no joy, if anyone has any ideas, or suggestions, I would be most grateful.
I read the instructions the seller gave on his web site that said attach the cable with no phone to the usb port & hardware wizard should recognize it. My Hardware wizard could care less. It NEVER recognizes the cable unless the phone is attached. Then it says "ah, Sanyo USB phone" and rather than putting it under a port, puts it under modems (which I think Bitpim help section says is normal for Sanyo phones, as I have no idea, I will take their word for it) I thought maybe the cable needed a driver, so from the sellers web site downloaded & installed USB to serial drivers, that probably was not a good use of initative, as one set of drivers was for a GSM phone and the other for something called a Sagem. So added those drivers didn't help either. Finally got hold of the seller ( a WHOLE nother story) and he said I shouldn't need any other drivers than the Sanyo ones I had downloaded and installed. Maybe I am leaving out a step? I plug the cable into usb, put the 2300 on the cable, open bitpim, undersettings make sure it shows com port 4, tell it other CDMA phone or SCP7300 (actually, I've tried telling bitpim it was every phone in the list) the click edit, detect phone? It always says no phone detected. Is there something else I should do? Besides banging my head on my laptop? I don't want to hurt my lap top....
Thank you Kindly :bang:
I had exactly the same problem, except with a cable that supposedly charges and does data transfer. I tried everything that you tried, with the same unsatisfying results. In returning the the cable and associated software, I spoke to the cable reseller, and he couldn't figure out the problem either. One thing he mentioned was that Sprint is always experimenting with ways to limit the ability of users to download files without resort to their pay services and that the later model Sanyo phones were good candidates for such manipulation. He said that he had been getting alot of complaints from Sanyo VI-2300 users, but only very recently. I wonder if Sprint has limited, or has induced Sanyo to limit, the data transfer feature to only work with certain cables/networks? I've heard that other manufacturers and service providers have done this and have gotten into legal problems for so doing because they failed to disclose the prorietary/limited nature of their data transfer feature to the customer at the time of sale.

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