Motorola Mobile Phone Tools 4.0

Motorola Phone Tools 4.0

Posted Sep 6, 2007 - Have recommended to friends. Easy to use. Software loaded and upgraded with ease. Down and up loading of pictures, data and ring tones made simple. Great to have two cables for use on all Motorola products.

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Motorola Mobile Phone Tools 4.0

Posted Oct 5, 2006 - Can download my pictures & video from my razr to my PC. Created my own ringtones from compact discs and placed on my phone for use. Very fun to use for text messages as you can type on your computer's keyboard alot faster than on your phone.

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I bought the software simply so that I could manip ...

Posted Aug 28, 2006 - I bought the software simply so that I could manipulate MP3's into ringtones and it does it really well. It also has the abilitiy to sync addresses to and from outlook. I have not used this feature because I do not want every phone number that I have in my Outlook contacts to be on my mobile phone. It does everything that I expected from it.

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Good for non-Verizon Subscribers

Posted Jun 13, 2006 - If you have Verizon service, almost all of this software's features are disabled (at the request of Verizon). Verizon probably did this to force you to pay for the equivilent services thru Verizon. Only the contact list and calender functions are usable with Verizon. Moto should sell another version for Verizon users for $10, because that's about what the SW is worth to a Verizon user. For a non-Verizon user this SW may be great.

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Why don't you include instructions with a brand new product?

Posted Dec 18, 2006 - I think the program works--it's just that I can't cut songs and just use segments of them for ringtones...and I don't know how to do it since there are no instructions. So I have no use for the cropping and editing function at all since they don't work for me.

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Mobile Phone Tools 4.0

Posted Jun 20, 2007 - I use other software than microsoft for my calendar, address book and telephone number list (WinDates and Day-Timer). The software I use is not compatable with Mobile Phone Tools 4.0. I did make a copy of the phone numbers in my phone so if something fails I will have a list. Motorola and this software company should consider that one listing (person) can have more than one telephone number, ie Home, Office, Cellular and voice mail/other. I do enjoy the option of uploading photos of my granddaughters on my phone. Mobile Phone Tools 4.0 needs to be more logical and usable. I don't need and won't use the phone modem and it confuses the loading and use of the software, Mobile Phone Tools 4.0.

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Quality cable; works as advertized

Posted Aug 28, 2006 - It's the OEM cable, so it's quality. They've included both a mini-usb cable (presumably because their new phones use it), and the proprietary connection they've had for some time now. I'm using the proprietary cable, and it's given me no trouble. FYI, this product may not work with Verizon's phones unless you've opted to hack your phone; however, customers of other carriers should not have trouble.

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Don't bother with this product

Posted Feb 29, 2008 - It is a waste of money. I am completely dissatisfied with it. It only covers some of the models it advertises as being covered and for those it does cover, it does not do all of the functions it says it will.

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Computer meets expectations

Posted Jan 12, 2008 - I would definitely recommend this computer to anyone. It's fast and easy to use, has great features. The price is right and extra incentive with $50 mail-in and rebate sealed the deal.

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Great With Razr v3, After Upgrade

Posted Dec 7, 2007 - I initially thought I had wasted my $$$ since MPT wouldn't recognize my phone or install correctly. Investigation on the user forums at www.bvrpforums.com/mot... determined that a version upgrade was needed. After being supplied this and installing, all is working great.

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Motorola Phone Tools 4.0

Posted Dec 6, 2007 - This is a great tool, especially if you have a lot of contacts to transfer. I was able to transfer all of my wife's contacts from her old Motorola V3. And, wouldn't you know it, it crashed 2 days later. Whew! When she got her new Motorola V3 replacement, I was able to transfer all the data she had on there before in a matter of minutes. The problem I had with the Phone Tools is that it took a while to get it to finally recognize my phone, which is a RAZR VXX. It kept having to upgrade the version of the tools. However, it wouldn't necessarily update correctly, so it turned into a repetitive process for a while of installing and uninstalling. Also, It did not have VXX. So, I identified my phone as a VX and it worked fine. So, the short of it was the difficulty in installation, but it works really well once you get it going.

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Will not recognize my phone

Posted Dec 4, 2007 - I just purchased this software and it is not working with my phone. Also I look in the list and it does not give me the option for the V9M. It connects fine and downloads the pictures. But it keeps telling me it cannot find my phone. Does anyone know what I have to go under to make this work.

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Read the reviews first. Set your expectations accordingly.

Posted Oct 23, 2007 - I bought the Motorola Phone Tools (MPT) package (a CD and two cables) for less than eight dollars. For that price, I'm not too unhappy, even if I never get it to work properly. (The CD can be used as a coaster, and the cables can be modified to be dog leashes :-).) I spent two or three hours trying to install it, but with no success so far. I'm pretty confident that I'll eventually get it installed, perhaps with support from the vendor. I've been a software developer for more years than many of you have been living, though. If you're a casual computer user, the installation is likely to be a hit-or-miss thing for you, as other reviewers have said. Previous reviewers have commented on the lack of a manual. It's true there's no printed manual, but my CD contains two manuals, and you can download those same manuals from the Motorola Web page if they aren't on the CD. There's also a support forum with some FAQs. I don't have the URL with me, but I started from the avanquest page and navigated there in a few steps. I wish I had gone there before starting the installation. It says, among other things, that the "live update" won't work with anti-virus packages or an active firewall. That was probably the reason for the first failure that I encountered during the installation (and may have led to the later failures). It was getting late by then, so I stopped for the day. I'll try again, maybe tonight. As many other reviewers have said in this thread, some carriers (Verizon is mentioned most often) have modified the on-phone software in ways that have effectively disabled some of the MPT features. That fact should be much more prominently stated in the MPT advertising. I'm not sure that I'll have much more than a contacts backup/restore capability even if I get the installation to work perfectly. I can get that from Verizon (free with an online account). I can already transfer photos from the phone to the laptop using Bluetooth, although it's a pretty tedious and clumsy process. In short, I may end up with no significant added functionality from MPT. But, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised once I get it installed. My advice is to choose one of the least expensive storefronts. The cable and CD is going to be the same whether you pay $8 or $40.

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A bargain for the Motorola cell phone owner

Posted Aug 31, 2007 - This product fills the bill for those people with Motorola cell phones. It comes with a CD-ROM and USB cables for connections (a real plus). When you load the program, it automatically searches for updates to the program. [I use Windows XP and had no problems with this whatsoever; I've seen some problems noted online by Vista users.] The program allows you to set up for multiple cell phones--an important feature for my family with three cell phone users. The user interface is very simple and easy to navigate, and each area has help info that pops up when you access it, so you never are at a loss as to how to use the feature. My primary uses for the Motorola Mobile Phone Tools are for importing graphics and making custom ring tones. It's easy to make screen photos and ring tones using this product. In fact, you will save $$ by making your own ring tones rather than accessing the ringtone stores on the Internet. If you have favorite CDs or MP3s, you can very easily select clips and download them to your phone. It includes a waveform editor that lets you make simple but precise edits for your clips, then a few clicks and it's on your phone. At no extra charge. The same thing goes for photos. You can load them from your PC and clip them for use as wallpaper or a photo gallery or to send with a text message. You can also synchronize your call and email lists with such programs as Outlook and Outlook Express. You can view your address books in both and effortlessly move contact info between your PC and the phone. You can do the same thing with your calendar entries. There are some features I don't use but some would find helpful, such as using your PC to compose text messages and sending them over the phone. A less valuable feature is using the phone to connect to the Internet using your PC. If you have dial-up or broadband on your PC (or even WiFi), you probably won't need the expense of going through your cell phone. Occasionally my computer hasn't sensed the presence of the phone, but I think that's a function of my USB port and not the software or cable (it happens with other devices as well). All in all, this is a very good product and a bargain for the Motorola cell phone user.

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Motorola Mobile Phone Tools 4.0

Posted Aug 10, 2007 - WARNING! Make sure you get ALL the updates available for your phone via "live update" under programs menu before you plug in your phone! It will take several passes and they are huge. I still have not had time to get them all. If you have already connected your phone (as I did) you will have to use the utility provided to "remove" the memory of this from your computer or it will will not work.

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