Samsung SCH-U740 Alias

I was concerned when I read the following in in the Phone's quick reference guide: "Q: Are iPod and iTunes music files with my V-Cast Music-capable phone?" The answer was basically "No." However, I found that there were no problems with just taking iTunes Music (MP-3) and simply dragging and dropping them into the My-Flix folder that is created when you formatt your memory card.

You can't drag an album folder to the memory. The MP3 files must be moved directly to the memory card. However, strangely enough the software still recognizes Album names, individual songs, and the like. Setting up pictures were done in a similar manner by first converting on the Mac to 1280X960 files (previously suggested) in order for the software to recognize...
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Pictures of the u740 can be found on the site:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1112718 ... »

Hope you like it!

I have now had this phone for a week and I love most of it, my real problem with it has been the layout and smallness of the number keys. I really fear that making the everyday phone call will get tougher and tougher for these old eyes! I am considering the 8600 instead since it seems to be basically the same phone without the query board. Any words of advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Can anyone tell me why the photo on the front screen is different than the main screen when taking a picture in motion. I've found that when the subject is in motion such as trying to duck out on the shot, or if your hand moves, the front screen captures and freezes the image faster than the main screen. Is there anyway to save the shot captured on the main screen?

Can anyone tell me how to shut off the outside LCD for pictures? I looked in the setting menu and can't find it....

1. If your concerned with the long term reliability of the two way hinge (I am not), you could always reduce the strain on the hinge by opening the phone in the same axis as irt's pivot point. That is, open the phone from it's right side in portraight mode and open it from it's left side (next to the top) fo landscape mode.

2. Re: poor blurry pictures commented on by some:
a. Check to make sure that the picture resolution has not been set or defaulted to its lowest seting (160X120. I hace a suspicion that if your memory is low the camera may automatically default to a lower resolution setting.
b. Make sure "Quality" is set on "Fine".
c. Check your White Balance setting.
d. VERY IMPORTANT! It is very easy to smear the glass or plastic ...
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apparently this is a feature verizon phones have been void of for awhile, but my 3+ year old verizon phone could do this..

anyway does anyone know how to make this phone vibrate(without ringing) and then ring after a few vibrates?

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So does this phone offer vibrate as a function or not?? Thank you!!.

Hi, I hope someone can help me with these:

-I have the MEK so I have put some cds from my computer to my phone by 'syncing' it. However, I don't know how to get pictures from my phone to my computer or from my computer to my phone.

-I like taking pictures in landscape mode because they are nice and large, but when I'm viewing them in landscape mode they take up about 1/2 the screen (they are shrunk and in the middle rather than filling the screen). Am I doing something wrong? What's the point of the large screen and tkaing big pictures so that I can see them in small size?

-When I'm playing an Mp3 I can't do anything else like send a text or play a game. Is there a way to get out of the music player while still having it play?

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Overall I love this phone. I do notice that it could be louder though. When I have it in the leather case I can barely hear it ring at all on the highest volume. Does anyone else have this problem? As far as Music goes, you can store your own MP3's on the phone. For the MP3's you need a memory card, and either a card reader built into your PC or one that plugs into your USB port. Format the card on your phone and then put it into the card reader. Open the folder for the card and you'll see Folders for your pix, flix, music, etc... Open windows media player Version 10 and sync your songs to the card. Go back to the folder window and move the songs INTO the My_music folder. When done put the card back into your phone and turn off then back on....
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Hi,

Does anybody know if this phone is going to come in different colors? I like the fucntionality of the phone, but the gold metalic color is just awful. If it came in black or silver I would definitely get it.

Thanks!

I'd like to try a brew email client like eudora2go or sodapopmail, rather than wireless sync. For one thing, it's cheaper ($5/month vs. $20), the other is that I want to check more than one account.

I'm assuming that wireless sync from verizon will push multiple account inboxes into the one phone inbox and that I can't choose from which email account to reply. For example, I want to check both my gmail and work email accounts, but i don't want to mix them together.

a) is that assumption correct?
b) Anyone know when/if verizon will make other mail clients available on the u740?

Hi I just got this phone a few days ago and I'm still trying to get used to it. I have noticed that when I am texting I can only go up to 160 items then I get some mess age about not being able to put any more in. Could someone please help me out with this one. Thats the only grip I have so far about the phone.

Thanks

anyone worried about it being easy to break?? i have looked at the demo, is it as bendy as it seems?? i would think people would have issues with it not being to sturdy.any info???

If when adding a memory card to this phone does it extended the video capturing past 15 secs?

My phone turns off every night that I charge it overnight. I know it is not good to always charge it overnight but sometimes I have to. Anyway, verizon sent me a replacement phone and it does the same thing. Does anyone else have this problem? This is not good as I use my phone as an alarm. When I wake up it says charge complete but the phone is off.
Thanks

Hey everyone - another thing I've encountered with my 48 hour use of the U740... when the earpiece volume is turned to its highest setting, sometimes it has a scratching noise (a sound like when you blow across the side of a piece of paper) when people speak. Kind of sounds like the speaker is loose or overpowered ... went back to Verizon wireless and exchanged it twice, and all 3 phones do the same thing. An old motorola I've had used to do it and it went away once I exchanged it. Has anyone else experienced the same problem or know if there's a solution? The verizon tech agrees that it's an annoyance ...

anyone know if/when the new color(s) for this phone will come out? anything besides the gold! the gold doesn't really bug me, but if it was something different, it'd definetely be better. thanks!

On my old phone i could lock the contact list so u needed a passcode to get in to it is that possible on this phone?

does anyone know if they are going to make a quad-band version of this phone?

it looks pretty sweet and i have good ol' cellone