So I have a ?. I just got my a920, I downloaded the connection manager for it, but how the hell do you get mp3 on the damn phone. I Know you can download through sprint vision, but I have a hefty mp3 libarary on my computer and I would like to be able to share that on my phone. This is been a week long ordeal for me, if you can help please DROP ME A LINE. thanks

Very helpful. I’m considering purchasing this phone and do plan to use it as a modem. Some spec sheets say you need to purchase a data kit (cable and software). Samsung says they have none. Spring doesn’t sell anything. I’d already grabbed the connection software. So… is there another cable, other than the USB that is necessary and if so, where did you get yours?
Thanks for taking the time to post the instructions!
Lenora

How simple! :-) That’s how it was on my old 2g except that the software hasn’t worked since WIN95. :-0 Thanks again, for your help!
Lenora

Good tips. I started out in December, paid $150 for a data connection card and got an $80/month data line, unlimited. This seemed good until I dropped my laptop on the card sticking out. Now what? I didn’t want to pay $300 for a new card (what sucks is if I had waited, my first card would have been free with all the rebates!) and Sprint said I could terminate the line, with a $150 early termination fee. Luckily i had just purchased the A920 and realized it had data capability on the 3g/ EvDo network. My old 8200 could do that somewhat, but I knew that previously they would send you a big whopping bill for data useage if you go over the 10mb limit for latent useage.
So I called Sprint and when they found out I wanted to cancel my data line they put me through to Steven (must be a supervisor or upper-level CSR) who was extremely helpful! We canceled the line and added “Power Vision Attachable Plan” which includes UNIMITED data and also the power vision which I had been paying $30 for. All for, get this, $49.99!!!!
So my net savings are $60 a month, and he even gave me free text messaging for a year and waived the connection/upgrade fee ($36) for my “trouble”. What started out as a really, really bad day turned out to be a blessing. I’ll save over $1500 over the remainder of my agreement due to having this great A920 phone. And yes, the speeds are identical to speeds I was getting with the Novatel wireless data card. The only things I lose are talking on the phone while browsing (heh, nobody wants to talk to me anyway) and battery life on the phone is limited. I came across your blog looking for a data cable that has the 2 pins to get power off the USB cable to solve this.

Karen Press The Windows Key and kept it held in, then press ‘Paude/break’. A Menu should popup click the ‘harware’ tab and then ‘Device manager’ If you have any yellow exclamation marks then post again.

Make sure the card is the right way up because sd and mmc cards are identical, but reverse side up to each other if i make any sense!

sorry… hit Enter by mistake!! Anyway, to continue, he said I had to pay an additional $39.99 per month for the ‘Phone as Modem’ plan. He said this was just implemented January 1st. Anyone else experiencing this issue? I was really ticked off by that considering I’m already paying for the EVDO service. Please advise if you can.

Thanks!

when i try to open the drive with the micro flash card in it, windows tells me it needs to format the disk. when i try to format, though, i get a message saying that windows was unable to complete the format. what gives?

Hello there, I was wondering if you can use the mp3 ringtones from the memory card or not? Can you somehow transfer using the USB cable?

when I attempt to install the samsung usb driver (for a920) the win logo testing does not allow me to continue anyways, it only has ok and it stops the installation.

any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

same phone but unrelated topics.

know of any car chargers that plug in just like the usb cable? why they would have a home charger (one typically being used when the phone is NOT being used) click into place, and yet have a car charger (most commonly used while the phone IS being used) not click in….. sounds pretty stupid.

any clue how to get it to use the memory card for memo pad also? i need more than 9 ’sheets’ for crying out loud my 2 year old vx6000 gives me 20!

according to my research you are correct…. the cable is pretty much useless, the bluetooth is also ‘castraited’ (Cnet.com said exactly that) so that you can’t connect it to a pc, only to a headset. I dumped verizon cause i thought they were always out to get you….. now it looks like sprint is even worse!

http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/faq/index.php?Topic=phones

I think it lists the external screen’s info, pretty sure the internal screen is actually 262K colors

question, how bad would this beat a 56k connection? i was looking at that 15 dollar DSL too how bout on a $/kb comparison between the three?

wonder how long it will be till we get hacked phone firmwares like we have with some other electronics.

I have an A920. I followed the above instructions to use my phone for internet on the computer. I updated the profile, after setting the username and password at sprint.com/personal Info. I have the “Sprint Power Vision Ultimate Pack” on my plan. I installed the connection manager, and the drivers. Everything went fine. I run the connection manager and it says “connect phone”. I connect the phone, and nothing happens. I went to control panel/phone and modems. I can see that it’s connected, but if I try to Querry the modem, it says it’s not connected and to check com settings. It’s on COM3 which should be fine. I’m a computer tech, and had no problems with my old sprint phone on the 3G network. I can usually figure these things out, but this is stumping me. I don’t know why it’s not working.

Any advice/help is appreciated.

Does anyone get phone as a modem access with only their power vision package? I was told by sprint that I needed to pay for the phone as a modem plan, which I did, to get acess. Not sure it is worth it since I really only want to use it thru my pocketPC.

The a920 can handle a 1 gb trans flash card, im using it. I got it off ebay for 35 bucks and it came with a USB drive, but the catch was 25 bucks for shipping. Search for this SanDisk 1GB 1 GB TF Trans Flash Micro SD Card + T Drive. Looks like the price has dropped alot since i bought mine.
Im pretty computer savy and I’ve had no luck getting my cell to connect as a modem. I installed the connection manager. Unchecked the bit optimize option. restarted. Then started the connect manager on the display is says to connect phone i do that. The phone says that is it being used as a usb modem. But nothing happens on my compter… Ive tried to do this while im not connected to the internet.
If anyone can help me out. Im using a PC with xp Pro.
Also someone above was indicating that their cd card reader for their dell isn’t work. I have the same problem. …….. :( It happened to me because I re-installed my OS. Ive spent alot of time with dell trying to fix this with no luck. So good luck and if anyone knows anything about this too help me out ppppplease ..
Thanks
Brad

I was looking around the net yesterday, and I learned the usb cable is not for transfering data in/out of the phone. It is for some modem utility.

To transfer data in/out, you have to use the Transcard, (put it inside an SD/USB device, and plug that into your computer).

EVDO- using as a modem for my laptop.

Per Sprint Tech Support…when the sales rep told me i could use the phone as a modem with vision plan for $20 bucks just like my old Sanyo phone on non-EVDO connection,,,,they were WRONG!

I must add an additional module for $40/month that only includes using phone as a modem and still keep $20 Vision pack for everthing else.

TOTAL CRAP!!! I do love the dang phone though so probably won’t take it back in the 14 day free look period and just forgo modem capability for now.

Any solutions are welcome,
-Enzo

aaron, I found a way to make your mp3 play as a ringtone.
Here’s what I did.
convert the file to a .m3u format, if I remember correctly. And also you will want to chop the song file to be no longer than 29 seconds.
next upload the .m3u file to the web, it must be someplace that your cell phone browser is capable of going.
next browse to the site on your cell phone browser that contains the file link to the uploaded .m3u
click on the link to the file, and tell you phone to download it. Your phone should then automatically place the song clip into your ringers section.

There may be other ways, but this is how I did it.
btw, I’m using a samsung A920

-Static

Or… You can use the following URL(s)
http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/
http://www.sprintusers.com/focus/

They’ll send the mp3 to your phone for use as a ringer.

so i’ve successfully connected my a920 to my laptop. it recognizes it, and it’s all fine and dandy. but i’m concerned about the bill, lol. currently i do have the unlimited internet access on my phone, which allows me to download music and use the video/tv feature. is this the same as using it as a data modem for notebooks? or do i have to shell out more money for that option? i’d rather do this than pay 45/month for a pcmcia card that will sap way more power from my battery. thanks for any info. i’m with bell.

well, i contacted bell about prices. apparently it works to 12.00 Canadian per 1MB of data. That being said, I used 0.24MB just trying to view msn.ca

They do have deals, and she said it was the same price as a wireless pcmcia card. For Bell Canada it was 25.00 for 4MB, and up 100.00 for 25MB. I don’t see myself adding additional fees to my phone bill, especially that steep, but it’s nice to know that in an emergency, I can use my A920 for a modem. Definitely a great tool.

You don’t have to pay for the $40 charge all you do is hit menu, then go to display. hit 0 and for the fld serv code type in 040793 then go to NA1 and toggle modem to OFF yes OFF and then plug in to comp with USB drivers and make a new connection using the samsung CDMA modem and then use NO user account or password and it will log on and it will work been using it 4 2 months and no charge and do not i mean DO NOT use the SPrint connection manager i think that counts ur kilobytes and just log on using the Connect thing on the connection you made and it should work

DMingo,
What number do you dial when you do that setup? #777. Please advise. Thanks..

Thanks DMingo. It worked great. If you make change to the settings it allows you to use the Sprint Connection Manager but I don’t know if you are being charged during that time. The new connection worked great 230kbps. Thanks a bunch.

For 51 days I’ve had nothing but trouble with an A920 and using it as a modem via. Bluetooth or USB under Win, OS X, and Linux. This issue has existed with 3 920’s, so it’s not a device issue. In total, I’ve spent *days* on the phone with Vision advanced tech support, to no avail.

Anytime I connect phone as modem, afterwards I cannot access features from the handset that require web access (HTTP errors 403 and 1012), including updating the vision profile. If more than a few minutes passes between using PAM, the modem connects to the network, but I receive a user/pass error and can’t get back online.

This error condition is 100% repeatable, but all Vision ATS can come up with is to keep swapping the phone for another.

The only solution I’ve been given thus far is to restore the 920 to it’s factory defaults (##RTN#), reprogram, and grab the Vision profile. This works every time, but of course wipes out everything in the phone (contacts, etc), rendering the phone all but useless as far as I am concerned.

Another issue is that once the phone is paired with whatever computer I’m using, if I reboot the computer or turn off the 920, the phone always wants to re-pair with the computer. This is 100% repeatable. If I pair a headset with the phone, it remains paired through power cycles of the 920 and/or headset until I have to clear the phone to get back online.

Of course Sprint is blaming me for this issue. Something was added to their notes, so any tech I get now knows to abandon support with respect to this ongoing problem.

Only two trouble tickets were created, both of which I was told were supposed to be bumped up to a Sprint network engineer.

Both tickets ended up closed prematurely when some idiot called to follow up the ticket. Each wanted me to take the battery out for two mins (yeah, that’ll fix it), but knew nothing about troubleshooting past that, and each moron closed the ticket saying I needed a new phone.

Since the second phone I’ve been saying that the issue has to do with my account, that something in their backend is screwed up, like a flag or setting, since it seems that I am the only one experiencing this issue. Supposedly they’ve ‘rebuilt’ my account almost every day for the past 7 weeks, to no avail.

Anyone with anything on this, help me out. I have a Verizon phone with data also, which works fine, but there are two areas in which I spend alot of time that Sprint is the only carrier, and even 1XRTT is better than nothing…

Thanks,

mBm

This phone is the best. I access high speed wireless anywhere. Have converted movies and put on transflash card. (Napolean Dynamite was only 37 megs). Just put your vids in memory cards Media folder. I have made my own music vids and put on also in 3gp format. bunch of free encoders like Super that will do that. Phone does everything, like a mini video IPOD. \Trust me phone does everything.
Even got free GPS NAV software on it.

YES! YES!…Please explain this GPS NAV thing!

How do you do this?

Dmingo,

When you say “Yeah just use the other connection i wasn’t willing to risk being charged so i don’t use it. ” Do you mean Sprint Connect Manager or the *cough* “other” one….

A few answers:
1. How to use your phone as modem
call customer care or your local store and ask them for a phone as modem plan which is $39.99 this is a “power vision plan with phone as modem.” Once that is added you then update your profile with your phone down load the connection manager and your good to go.
2. How to manage your phone, ie phone book, pictures and mp3
To manage your phone book the best software I can find is from “datapiolet.com”
To manage your pictures and mp3 you HAVE to have a sandisk reader not sure what that is google it.

where do I get my fld serv code?

(to enter in Menu –> settings–>display–> press ‘0′)

it keeps telling me that the one i enter in is an invalid lock code.

You don’t have to pay for the $40 charge all you do is hit menu, then go to display. hit 0 and for the fld serv code type in 040793 then go to NA1 and toggle modem to OFF yes OFF and then plug in to comp with USB drivers and make a new connection using the samsung CDMA modem and then use NO user account or password and it will log on and it will work been using it 4 2 months and no charge and do not i mean DO NOT use the SPrint connection manager i think that counts ur kilobytes and just log on using the Connect thing on the connection you made and it should work

I mean the Manual one that you can make bye using the new connection manager. I use #777 without a username and password and it works for sure
i’ve done it on six phones and also works on that Razor looking Sprint phone just the same. The steps to making a connection with Windows XP after you install the drivers are as follows. 1. Open up My Network places. 2. Click View my network connections on the left side. 3. click Create new connection. 4. Click next when the box comes up. 5. Click on Connect to the Internet then next 6. Click Setup connection Manually then next. 7. Click Use Dial-up Modem then next. 8. Choose your modem which is Samsung CDMA. 9. make a connection name. 10. make it dial #777. 11. Leave username and password empty. 12. Connect using the connection you made which can be found in my network places under connections and voila it should work.

DMingo, you’re a ganious! Thanks.

i have a new idol. his name is DMingo. thanks!!! hopefully this will always be around, its very handy when on the road.

By the way I have a samsung a 920 if that changes anything and I live in Canada. My service provider is Bell Canada

hey sunny,

i had the same problem, i couldn’t get that lock code to work. but what i did was install the drivers for the phone to xp, so when i plug in the cable to my laptop it automatically recognizes it as a modem. from there i followed dmingos instructions minus the entering of that code. i set the dial number to #777 and left password and username empty. and it works. however, i’ll see what happens when i get my bill. hopefully. hopefully it doesn’t charge me. i’m with Bell as well and am in Canada. hope that helps.

I also have another question for allan. Do you use rumkin to upload files to your phone? Also do I have to use a laptop or can I also use a normal computer?

sunny, there should be a link at the top of this page for the sprint connection tool. drivers should be in there, but don’t use the sprint connection thing to connect. use the windows connection. just follow DMingo’s instructions after you download the sprint package. you can use a laptop or a desktop.

Thanks allan
Leave a message here when you find out if you were charged or not.

Hopefully you don’t get charged…becuase it would be pretty cool to get some custom ringtones on our phones. Do you use rumkin to upload the ringtones and images? What program do you use to cut down the length of a song to make it a ringtone? If this works out it’s gonna be great.

hi amber..i actually don’t know how to make it take up so much space..sorry. I had a question. What program did you use to cut the the ringtone??

hey allan
i was wondering if u got ure bill yet.

hey sunny, haven’t got the bill yet. should be any day now. but i’ll let you know. i did get charged using the sprint connection manager thing, so i hope dmingo’s #777 connection will be better. If not…I’m lookin’ at a huge…one, lol. :(

Sunny!!! Don’t do it!! Bell counts your usage…at 15.00 cdn per MB. I didn’t download anything on my laptop, I just used it for browsing, and my bill came today…i’m looking at 1100.00 for usage for a month. Unless you’re viewing text only pages…it’s gonna cost an arm and a leg. DON’T DO IT!! And if you do, keep track of your usage. I used about 70MB in a month. It’s still handy to have…but man alive…keep track.

the field service code is : 040793 and it has worked on the a920 and the other razor style sprint phone i’m not sure of the model

Dmingo do you know how to get it to work with linux?

thanks phantom and dmingo! yeah, it’s a minor setback, lol, i can pay it off, just a little bit of a shocker. phantom, how’d you get the bell code? either way…we’ll find out next month lmao thanks guys

anyone know the code for sprint? also where do i get the software for that charging usb data cable?

Is there any way to play music (mp3) without having a data package?

I have had this phone put on my company plan when I started a new job (my hardware, company plan) only they will not cover a data package. I got burned the first month I owned this phone with the personal plan I had did not include a data plan. I was listening to music that I copied to the phone using the transflash card. It was only after I received a $160 bill that I was informed that the phone makes a connection to the internet (Musicstore) even if you are listening to music storeed on the phone.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

This is for DMingo, Allan and Phantom…

Sorry for the noob question, but where are you guys?!

I mean, where do you go for those options?
My laptop is xP Home… is it in the network connection properties?
could one of you please give instructions… I’m sorry, but I looked in abunch of places, and I can’t find what you’re talking about…

I actually did get the internet stuff to work, I created a new connection and all, and the internet worked fine with full speed… however, I didn’t do anything about the NA1 or the modem options or the code you enter… I really don’t want this charging on my bill… I don’t know where to go to access those options…
can you please help?

Thanks in advance

I just downloaded the sprint pcs manager…if i connect my phone to the comp and go online….is there a charge?

Im with Aliant (Bell?) in Canada and they charge $5/mth for unlimited web use on the cellphone, but if you want to use the phone as a modem for your laptop, its $15/megabyte. Thats pretty insane when you think about it. Apparently there is a way to make it so they think you are using the cellphone internet while actually using it for laptop access. I’ll have to see how that goes… One thing that is really frustrating me though is the crippled BT file transfer since the only way to get media onto the phone is through the flash card. Even if I could use the USB cable I’d be a littler happier, but there’s nothing. If anyone has any idea how to fix these problems, post the solutions here.
Thanks

HOW DO YOU TRANSFER PICTURES FROM YOUR PHONE TO YOUR COMPUTER?

1) many mentioned above about a flash/reader card. Do I use that memory card that came with the phone and then transfer everything from that memory card to my pc? How do I do that? By purchasing a reader card? Does this reader card attach itself to a USB adapter and then attach it to the USB Port?
2) what other gadgets do I need to purchase in order for this to work? If so, the cost involved?

Thanks

Ok, scratch my previous post abit back… I did actually get the access code screen thing. Weird enough, when I followed DMingo’s instruction the first time, I was lost… but I decided to try it again recently, and I got in.
Now, just like Allan said, mine was off to begin with too.
When I tried using the EV-DO access on my laptop, it worked fine, and I’m using online billing. I don’t even see it on the list, unless I have to wait abit… I’ll post in if anything changes.

Thanks DMingo, Allan, and Phantom

Does anyone know if there is a way for me to play my mp3’s on the a920 without having to connect to the music store online? I want to get rid of the internet function on my a920 but I noticed that to play the mp3’s on my microSD i still have to connect to the music store online. please help if anyone has any ideas thanks

Anton

Glad someone finally noticed i wrote that!

2G’S?!?!??!?!

holy crap man… somthing aint right…
Well, still nothin on the online account so far… but I haven’t recieved my bill through mail yet

wow… thats crazy… I’ll be sure to post as soon as I know man…

Hey does anyone know if its possible to play games from the trans flash card? Also i put a .jpg on the card and the phone recognizes that there is something there but when i go to the picture it just shows a red “X” through it, so i guess it knows there is a .jp there but cant read it. Any ideas? Also is it safe to say that if you are with Bell there is no way that you can use your phone as a moded without paying more than the 5$ unlimited data for browsing on the phone?

Thanx so much any answers will be appreciated
-Greg

Greg I was having the same problem. I came up with a solution finally, (albeit not the best and I hope someone has a better one) I had to use my computer and an Imaging Application (Adobe Photoshop) to convert the pictures. Unfortunately, I ended making the pictures almost 10x their original size. I had to make a pic that was 29K into a pic 290K, but when finished the pic worked perfectly on my phone. Greg, not sure how your problem came about but mine came from trying to use pictures from a Samsung T609 on the Samsung A920.

DMingo and others -
i also have a samsung a920, which i purchased when told by the sales person in the store, confirmed by the sprint sales rep, that the powervision pack together with the included usb data cable would be enough to use the phone as modem. no mention of the phone-as-modem data pack for extra money until i called tech support because i could not get the modem recognized by my pc.

i’m willing to try the #777 option, but how do i get the computer to recognize the phone if i’m not using the sprint pcs connection manager? i have not been able to locate a driver, and windows xp requires one to set up the hardware.

any help would be appreciated.

I just got an A920 and am learning to use it.

Does anyone know if there is some software management tools that allow you to access the photos, MP3s,calendar, contacts, and other things though a USB cable to PC?

I purchased a Mobile Phone Managemnt tool that includes a USB cable made by http://www.mobileaction.com. This software only allows access to contacts and sychronization of contacts only. It doesn’t seem to work perfectly, it often puts peoples home numbers from outlook in the phone as cell numbers. On some of the other phones like A900 and A940 it does more like picture and music. It does have the capability of charging throught the USB cable that comes with the software. I purchased it online throught http://www.cellphoneshop.net. They have other reasonably priced accessories.

I haven’t tried it as a modem yet.

I found transflash fairly reasonably priced through http://www.geeks.com.

If anyone knows some better file management software for the A920 please post.

ouch kishman…i feel your pain…only a bit more, lol

i’ve got half of mine paid off now. pay the remain thousand this month (nov)…

it sure is a big hit…hopefully someone can figure it out.

pretty much. the USB cable is mainly for using the phone as a modem, not as a method of data transfer (music/vids/pics)

as for the internet usage…if you plan to use the phone to its capability (TV/music) you might want to invest in the $5 / month for unlimited internet ON your phone. and its pretty useful, i get to catch my news, highlights, etc on the phone, as well as checking email and stuff. but i wouldn’t dare use it without the unlimited internet. this unlimited usuage does not pertain to using your phone as a modem (connecting it to your pc). heh heh, as kishman and I found out the hard way.

Guys there is a way to use cable for transfer of files using qpst

Its a software for browsig your phone’s OS and file infrastructure. Just search it in google use the EFS explorer component of it. If you want tutorials of exactly how and where to get it and how to use it go to http://www.3ginferno.com thats how i figured it out, the mod there is extremely nice and helpful

hey, im gotten music and made my own ringtones for my phone which is sweet so thanks for the tips but im just wondering if anybody has found a site or a way to get games downloaded that you can then send to your phone? if anybody has figured this out just post greatly appreciated

the cable is only used for transfer, in order to charge and use it as a modem, you will have to buy another cable designed for both charge and transfer.

kishman, email me ballangray@hotmail.com

i might be able to help you out

hi kori,

unless you plan to buy the 5$ / month unlimited ‘phone’ internet (not MODEM, lol) option, i wouldn’t use it. you’ll get more out of your phone if you do have the unlimited internet. lets you check your email, watch TV,etc. but if you don’t plan on using the phones services, in specific, the music downloading, you’re better off just transferring files, (avi, mp3, etc) to your flash card and using the media player to play your files. The online music player can get pricey if you don’t have unlimited internet. example: 1 song download from bonfire is about 1 mb. bell charges (in canada) 15.00 per mb. Plus the cost of the song. hope this helps.

hi guys, i just bought the samsung a920 (limited edition) yesterday… and i want to start transfering my mp3 files from my computer to my phone.. but i dont have the SD slot on my computer.. so i was wondering if i could just use a digital camera to run the files through??

HOLLY

Anybody have any luck in the U.S. with Dmingo’s tecnique. We don’t use Bell here in the U.S. What code would we use in Dmingo’s instructions?
Thanks y’all
Neil

Holly, actually… yeah, you could be able to use your digi cam.

As long as it has an SD slot in it, and you can connect it to your comp, and access the contents in the SD slot… then you can easily transfer your music and what not into it. Just make sure it’s in the right folder. I think the phone automatically creates the appropriate folder when you first access the media player.

Hope that helps.

Kish