Comments on: How to Upload/Download Ringtones and Wallpapers to your LG VX5500 using Bitpim and Bluetooth

By: pam

pam — Wed, 11 May 2011 01:32:27 +0000

Hi! This is almost perfect for me – everything seems to be connecting, and all I’m trying to upload are texts (SMS!), but I keep getting An unexpected exception has occurred, usually after long bouts of apparent uploads! Help?? Thanks!

By: Blog Master

Blog Master — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:35:26 +0000

You can’t select all the photos but you can do a folder backup on the directory which will save the files as a zip file. Much quicker than one by one!

By: Roy

Roy — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:21:35 +0000

Thanks very much, this is exactly what I was looking for. Was able to use Bitpim to get the pictures off of my wife’s LG VX500 before upgrading to her new Droid.

A couple things I’d like to point out that may help others:
- Bitpim now autodetects the VX5500, so you don’t have to tell the software it’s a different phone
- You can connect this phone to your computer with a standard micro USB cable (like the one that comes with a Droid), so there’s no need to get a cable specifically for this phone or use Bluetooth

I simply connected the phone to my laptop, Bitpim detected it, and I used the Filesystem to Save the pictures to the laptop (one by one, unfortunately — you can’t multi-select the photo files, but it works!).

By: Bonhomme

Bonhomme — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:54:10 +0000

Thank you for the guide pal. I was getting desaperated to not be able to put my own ringrones on my LG 5500.

It works like a charm with a bluethoot key

By: ltg

ltg — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:36:04 +0000

Thanks for this guide, especially the directory locations. Just a heads-up though. As of bitpim 1.0.7 (24 jan 2010), vx5500 is officially supported and I had no problems getting ringtones on and photos off my phone.

By: James R. Krear

James R. Krear — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:51:47 +0000

I have an LG VX5500 cell phone. How soon will the software be before it works on my Macintosh with Leopard. It seems that it is needing a driver or something to recognize the USB port.

By: Ulcer35

Ulcer35 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:32:39 +0000

Awesome! I have a mac and it worked also! Note that I had to follow Stephen’s suggestion of copy/paste because BITPIM doesn’t find “/dev/tty…” it finds “/dev/cu…”, which is probably why it wasn’t working the first several times I tried.
Thanks for this suggestion, it’s great! I can upload pics and ringtones. Very happy!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:22:09 +0000

I followed the instructions above to the letter and I still cannot get this program to work with my Chocolate 3. Is there an issue with Verizon? The only difference that I note is in 1. In the Bluetooth properties window, under the COM port tab, I only show an outgoing port connected to my phone and no incoming port. Could this be the problem? Any suggestions? Thank you!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:57:45 +0000

Thanks for posting this information. It was exactly what I needed.

Keith, I have a Mac and this is how I got it to work:
Once you have paired your phone (step 1 above) go to bluetooth under system preferences. Select your phone from the options on the left (the default name is LG VX5500). After you have selected your phone, click on the gear icon on the bottom left corner next to the plus and minus, scroll down to Edit Serial Ports. When that comes up you should have two options at the top: LGVX5500-SerialPort-1 (or something close to that) and LGVX5500-DialupNetworki-2 (or something close to that). You want the first one, the one that says SerialPort. Make sure the check box next to the one that says SerialPort is checked. Then you need to select the one that says SerialPort. Once you do, near the bottom of the window there will be a field that says path: /dev/tty.LGVX5500-SerialPort-1 (or something close to that). Copy that text. That text (/dev/tty.LGVX5500-SerialPort-1 for example) is what you need to paste in the field labeled Com Port in BitPim in step 3 above. Then you should just be able to follow the steps as listed above. I hope this helps.

One other thing that I found helpful in BitPim was to go to the View menu and select View Protocol Logging. It was nice to use to see what BitPim was doing while it was accessing the file directory. I’m not sure why, but the first few times I tried to access the file directory, it kept timing out. I’m not sure why. But eventually it did work, and I am not sure what I changed, but it worked.

By: Blog Master

Blog Master — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:14:58 +0000

I am not sure about the MAC OS and com port issue, but you shouldnt need another bluetooth adapter if you have one already built in the laptop.