LG 380 music video and picture explanation (on windows)

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Hi Everyone,
I was looking for info about that LG 380 cell phone (with MicroSD
compatible) and I wasnt able to find what I needed, until I look for
special stuff that I wanted to do.

So here is the explaination of everything I found about that phone

First, microsd. To make sure your microsd will work, shutdown your
phone, enter the microsd in it, and when you will power up it will
create the require folder for the phone (I know sometime it will work
without powering off and on the phone, but if you want to make sure,
just powercycle)

When the microsd is ready this is the folder you will see

my_music
my_video
my_picture
my_sound
(and maybe more, but those are the folder we need for this tutorial)

my_music is pretty simple, just add mp3 in that folder but don't
create any sub folder cause it will not recognize it (every mp3 should
be directly in my_music, you can always filter out the group and song
via the music&media utility on the phone)

my_picture and my_sound are identical, easy to work with (just add
your file in it)

my_video are a little more tricky, cause of the 3g2 extension, you
will need Windows Essentials Codec, it will make your pc compatible
viewing the 3g2 file (but I did not figured out how to set up the
sound when watching video that were taken by the phone itself, but any
other 3g2 that I created work great)

after you installed Windows Essentials, you can download free
converter here http://www.dhost.info/jack1024/download_en/ I used
Pazera Free Video to 3GP Converter to convert my AVI or MPEG to 3g2.
after that just put it on your microsd under my_video

Like I said bellow, just to make sure everything work like it should
(meaning that you will see all your mp3 and your video) you need to
power cycle your phone when entering the microsd (power off the phone,
enter the microsd, power back on)

I hope you will enjoye that phone like I do right now


PS: Ringtone, right now the only way I was able to put them on my
phone was with the usb data cable (I know there is free site that you
can upload your mp3 and it will convert in ringtone and you can
download it on your phone, but I don't have unlimited internet browing
on my phone and I dont really need ringtone.

[T***@gmail.com]

Now the fun part, with USB data cable (you can buy any vx8800 cable,
they are compatible with this phone).

I used BitPim with this driver http://sylvain.robichaud.googlepages...sb_drivers.zip
, install the driver (make sure it detect as a modem, and it will also
install a driver as a serial com port), and then run BitPim.

It should detect as a vx8800 (or something like that) and it's ok,
cause we will not use the Get Phone Data/Send Phone Data function, it
does not work yet (well it wasnt working with the version of BitPim I
had).

When the phone is detected, go under BitPim, under View and select
View FileSystem, now you should see another Icon Filesystem appearing
on BitPim.

Important folder and file
brew\16452\mds (where the ringtone go)
dload\oma_ringtone.dat (where the file is reconized, tricky part
bellow)

This will be a little more complicated for those who are not familiar
with a hex editor, but I will try to explain the best I could

Download a free hex editor (ex: http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delph...vi32/xvi32.htm)
and install that on your windows.

with BitPim, go under brew\16452\mds, rightclick on mds and click New
File, this is where you select your mp3 to upload on your phone.

Reboot your phone (power off power on, or use Bitpim to reboot it)

when it reboot, redetect your phone with bitpim (to refresh the
filesystem) and go under dload, select the oma_ringtone.dat,
rightclick and Save... on your pc (anywhere but remember where).

when the file is on your pc, open xvi32, and go under File, Open, and
go select that oma_ringtone.dat.

You should see something like that

E9 03 07 04 62 72 65 77 2F 31 36 34 35 32 2f 6d 64 73 .. (filename in
HEX and a bunch of 0)............. 00 00 00 00 00 39 D6 61 35 00 00 00
01 76 AF 03 00 (and it continu for each file)

this is tricky to explain, the way the dat is store, first bit is a
flag (E9 or E8), a header (03 07 04), the filename (62 72 65 77 2F 31
36 34 35 32 2f 6d 64 73....), a bunch of 0 to reserve more space for
the filename, another flag to validate the file (right now its 00, we
need to change it to 01, continu reading) , 4 group of 00 and a footer
(39 D6 61 35 00 00 00 01 76 AF 03 00)

The way to find where is the flag to change from 00 to 01, look for
the footer, and count 5 group of 00 from right to left. that's where
the flag is, change it to 01, and save it back where you opened it (on
your pc)

after that go back to Bitpim, Filesystem, under dload, rightclick on
oma_ringtones.dat, and click Overwrite, and choose the file you just
edited.

Thats it now you should be able to use the ringtone without the dam
lock.