Getting photos from your phone...

[jeffrey collins]

Greetings all,

I've been wanting to get the photos out of my Samsung SPH-A900 phone for a while now. I finally got it hooked up to my printer, and it printed out some OK photos, but what I want to do is to actually have the photos on my Hard Drive. Anyone out there got any ideas. My computer says it has Bluetooth, but will not recognize the bluetooth in my cell.

My computer is a toshiba laptop and my printer is a 3 month old Epson printer all in one model.

Thanks for your time.

Jeff

[rainman]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

if you are using verizon as a wireless provider, you will not be able to send the pics via bluetooth. the reason for this is they have the manufacturers of their phones disable the serial port on their bluetooth stack. thus only giving you the ability to use a handsfree profile. you may try sending the pics as a multimedia message to your email address. it has been a while since i have tried doing this on a verizon, so i'm not 100% on whether or not it will work. if all alse fails look for a data cable/software on ebay. (by far the cheapest place to get data cables for phones.) if you need help with any of this pm me.

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

i forgot about letting you know that. I'm with sprint. I'm trying to not use the sending function of my provider because it costs 5$ to start sending pics, but hell maybe that might be my only way.

[KinKyJ]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

Have you tried to connect it with the USB cable? I have a Samsung SGH-D600 and hook it up to my laptop for data transfer with a cable like that. Friggin nice when you have a transflash card of 1GB in your phone

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

Yeah, of course I've tried the USB cable. It's just that everytime I try to do any kind of data transfer, the damn thing won't work. I guess I'll just have to wait and just e-mail the photos to myself.

[cyrus32]

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i have a samsung myself and have used the bluetooth on my friends ibook and it worked just fine. i dunno why you are having a problem with the bluetooth. the best thing i can tell ya is just play around with the bluetooth and see if your comp recognizes it.

i remember one of my friends had a sprint phone and it was a samsung too and i connected it to the ibook no problem.

[jeffrey collins]

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i guess Ibooks must do better with their bluetooth than Pcs. I'd take my phone to my friends, but he's now in Wisconsin.

[toasty]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

i forgot about letting you know that. I'm with sprint. I'm trying to not use the sending function of my provider because it costs 5$ to start sending pics, but hell maybe that might be my only way.

I've got Samsung phones for Sprint as well, and I always just upload the photos from the My Pictures menu and then download them/right click them from Sprint's website. Not sure if that counts as Picture mail or not.

Let me know if you have any problems doing this -- PM me and I'll shepherd you through the process.

[jeffrey collins]

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I think from what you're saying is your putting photos ON your phone. I'm trying to take mine off of my phone onto my computer. I guess I just need to sign up for pic mail, or get a bluetooth adapter.

[toasty]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

I think from what you're saying is your putting photos ON your phone. I'm trying to take mine off of my phone onto my computer. I guess I just need to sign up for pic mail, or get a bluetooth adapter.

nah, I am talking about taking them off. try this:

Under "Pictures/Video" select "My Pictures" and then select whatever pictures you want to upload. Select "Options" and then select "Upload" and that ought to be it. Then go to sprint.com, sign in, create a photos account if you haven't already, and view whatever photos you've uploaded -- and then you can download it like any other photo on the web.

Come to think of it, maybe you have to have a photos account first. I dunno. I do it all the time, though...

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

well i went and just signed up for picture mail, and now have all my photos onto my computer. had to email them to myself.

[KinKyJ]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

Yeah, of course I've tried the USB cable. It's just that everytime I try to do any kind of data transfer, the damn thing won't work. I guess I'll just have to wait and just e-mail the photos to myself.

have you installed to software on your pc?

[jeffrey collins]

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yeah but the software for that particular samsung phone is not very good at all.

[KinKyJ]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

Yeah, I've noticed Samsung phones sometimes use different software when I bought an X680 for Erzina. Weird actually...

I'm using Samsung PC Studio 3 for my D600. Works like a charm and apart from file transfer and synchronisation interfaces it also enables you to edit video and sound.

Maybe if you update the firmware of your phone (if there is an update) you can use PC Studio 3 too. Or maybe it will work without update as well, can't say.

This is what I hate about Samsung btw: they have great phones, but their online support (drivers/software/...) stinks. I took a look in the A900 manual and it says

Mass Storage

The mass storage tool allows you to connect a USB data cable
from your phone to a PC, manage your files using the file
manager, and check the available memory information.
Before connecting, download the necessary files at
http://www.samsung.com/a900download.

Aint it a bitch that you're getting this at that URL:

If I were you, I'd toss that phone and get a SGH-D600 instead. Quad band, 81MB internal memory, TransFlash slot (I've got a 1GB card in it atm), 2 megapixel camera, PictBridge, TV-out connection (handy to plug it into a beamer and display presentations, etc), ...

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Getting photos from your phone...

bro i don't wanna have to go spend all kinds of extra money to get features I don't even use. I don't wanna watch TV on my phone. All I need it for is talking, texting, and taking pics.

Maybe one day when I've got all kinds of money coming it i'll get a really sweet phone.