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Downloading Images to my Motorola/Nextel i730 & i95cl Phones

While I don't have an i95cl phone, an owner of that phone reported that these steps worked identically for him. I personally have an i730 phone myself.

This process turned out to be more cumbersome than I thought. I purchased a USB data cable, and no documentation was included.  Given that (1) Nextel provides sounds and wallpapers for a price at their site and (2) the support costs of having people create their own wallpapers (along with all the potential errors), they probably aren't crazy about promoting it.

First, I found the USB driver at the Motorola site here.  I found this page by doing a google search on “iDEN Update Software Application”.  It's easiest if you install the driver before plugging in the cable/phone.  Upon completion, you can connect the phone to your computer.

Next, I found I needed an app that would download content without Motorola/Nextel. After some searching, I found an app called myJal that can be downloaded here. I did a search on “myJal” at google to come across the link. This link had some other useful information as well. The program comes with a 7 day free trial period and has a one-time $9.99 purchase fee as of this writing.  (There was another product called “webJal“ that required purchase, no free trial and had to be renewed yearly - I ignored that product.)

Finally, I created the pictures at the recommended 120 horizontal by 126 vertical pixel resolution and saved them as a gif.  Everything seemed to be fine, but the images would not appear on the wallpaper list once downloaded to the phone.  I checked out a number of sites, and people generally preferred the IRFanView product for resizing and saving the gif files. This is a freeware product that does a nice job with resizing and maintaining image quality.  I found that I still had a problem until I turned off saving the original picture comment information.  (It turns out that most digital cameras store information in the picture comment fields - and these comments will prevent pictures from loading on the phone.)  I removed the comments by using the option box provided by IRFanView when saving a gif image.  Just make certain all boxes are unchecked, the image size is below 16kb, dimensions are 120x126 and you're set. 

Once I had the picture, I used myJal to send the wallpaper gif file I created to the cell phone.  Then, using the phone's buttons I went to [Menu]/Settings/DisplayInfo/Wallpaper and my picture was on the list and viewable.

Based on reading other sites and posts on the subject, I believe the picture comment information causes the most hangups for people who have all the software loaded and everything else seems to be working correctly. 

posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:55 AM by sdhebert





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