Submitted by ploquit (not verified) on February 21, 2008 - 1:31pm.
I have absolutely given up trying to install Motorola Phone Tools (MPT)... It doesn't play nice with my Motorokr Z6m and if anybody else has (which i had) Windows XP Media Center Edition, it just is NOT compatible. (fine print. nice. compatible with home and professional editions only) and it doesn't list Z6m as a supported phone.
So i reluctantly upgrade to Vista home premium. SUPPOSEDLY Motorola phone tools is vista compatible. My hopes were high and my pockets now empty. Vista being a memory pig, I had to buy:
Ram. upgrade from 1G to 2G Ram $110 (Chipset videocard was basic, could't get full video performance so...)
a new video card $200 (which of course conflicted with existing sound card)
a new sound card $150
STILL not getting MPT to install. priceless
Perhaps if you are an I.T. professional you can get it going, but I wouldn't call it user friendly at all.
just getting the installer to load takes several attempts. (program is not responding).
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My Work-Around Solution:
I installed the MotoDev driver 3.4.0
>>>connecting the phone to pc is recognized and can explore and sort just like any USB mass storage . drag and drop
>>>I use Window Media Player 11 to sync songs/ringtones/videos.
Thats it.
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I'm not IT so don't take this as fact. I BELIEVE media player runs in the vista background. (i went file>exit and the song was still playing, no icons in taskbar)
I was restarting media player in order to get it to recognize the phone. but needed to simply refresh the device.
REFRESH DEVICE
TOOLS > OPTIONS > select DEVICES tab > REFRESH > OK
Your phone will be waiting for sync files where you can browse and sort the files
thats it. no more headache. well at least for the music end of things. still figuring out a way to access phone book and calender without MPT sync.
I have absolutely given up trying to install Motorola Phone Tools (MPT)... It doesn't play nice with my Motorokr Z6m and if anybody else has (which i had) Windows XP Media Center Edition, it just is NOT compatible. (fine print. nice. compatible with home and professional editions only) and it doesn't list Z6m as a supported phone.
So i reluctantly upgrade to Vista home premium. SUPPOSEDLY Motorola phone tools is vista compatible. My hopes were high and my pockets now empty. Vista being a memory pig, I had to buy:
Ram. upgrade from 1G to 2G Ram $110 (Chipset videocard was basic, could't get full video performance so...)
a new video card $200 (which of course conflicted with existing sound card)
a new sound card $150
STILL not getting MPT to install. priceless
Perhaps if you are an I.T. professional you can get it going, but I wouldn't call it user friendly at all.
just getting the installer to load takes several attempts. (program is not responding).
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
My Work-Around Solution:
I installed the MotoDev driver 3.4.0
>>>connecting the phone to pc is recognized and can explore and sort just like any USB mass storage . drag and drop
>>>I use Window Media Player 11 to sync songs/ringtones/videos.
Thats it.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
I'm not IT so don't take this as fact. I BELIEVE media player runs in the vista background. (i went file>exit and the song was still playing, no icons in taskbar)
I was restarting media player in order to get it to recognize the phone. but needed to simply refresh the device.
REFRESH DEVICE
TOOLS > OPTIONS > select DEVICES tab > REFRESH > OK
Your phone will be waiting for sync files where you can browse and sort the files
thats it. no more headache. well at least for the music end of things. still figuring out a way to access phone book and calender without MPT sync.