Customer Reviews

USB Data Cable For LG CU515, CU575, TRAX, CU720 Shine

5 star:		(49)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

We just wanted connectivity between the LG shine and our PC via USB. Should've been simple. However, our wireless company wanted $30.00 for a USB cable. I knew there was a better way.

The cable worked right out of the box. The trick here is you need to change your USB connection settings on your phone if you want to transfer mp3 or picture files. On the LG Shine, we changed it to "Mass Storage" and then our PC treated the phone just like an external drive.

Okay, so I have an LG Shine. And on that LG Shine I have about, oh lets say, 500 photos. So, I tried to be smart and read all of the reviews of the usb cable on this website. I waited about 3 days until it got here; very fast shipping in my book. It was easy to install. I can't tell you how many times I've bought things and them be hard to set up/install. I really like how you can transfer music and photos from your memory card.

But that's part of the major flaw...

It only transfers from your memory card. I received the memory card yesterday (which works just wonderfully!), so I was in good shape. But when I went to transfer the files about thirty minutes ago, I thought it was going to transfer *everything* to my computer. You can't even fathom how disappointed I was when I just saw the ten pictures from my memory card instead of the 500+ pics from my phone itself (before I got the memory card).

So, my big advice? If you're looking for a usb cable to transfer files from your memory card AND phone, don't buy this. However, if you already have most of your pictures saved on your memory card (unlike me), go ahead and buy it. It does a great job of transferring.

Overall, it's very nice. Easy installion, fast transfer, charges your phone as it's plugged into your computer. I just really wish it transferred my countless number of photos on my phone's memory.

My cable came with software (even though the product description explicitly states that it does not come with software), but I did not install it. Without the software, the phone shows up as a USB Mass Storage Device, and that's all I need anyway.

The cable itself works great. It's a little stiff to plug into and unplug from your phone at first, but it seems to be loosening up (which is a good thing at the moment). An added bonus is that it will also charge your phone's battery as long as it's plugged in, which if anything, makes this a really cheap and convenient charger.

I have an LG CU575 phone and thought this cable was all I needed to transfer the video and images from phone to computer. Not so, but the cable works great and was a fantastic deal at $0.01 + shipping. However the cable will not work with this type of phone UNLESS you have a memory card already in the phone.

It took about an hour of trying to install the driver, uninstall, trying a different computer, different driver downloaded from the Internet, etc. before I noticed the message on my phone - which only appeared momentarily, so I kept missing it -- that I need to have a memory card when using the USB cable connection. (By the way, another plus for the cable, is that it provides one more option for charging your phone since it charges when plugged into the computer.) I didn't see this in the description but mine came with a mini-CD that contained the drivers needed for the types of phones used with this cable.

So a quick trip to the shopping conglomerate and $10 later, equipped with my Micro SD Premium (Cell Phone Flash Memory) card in place, I began to move my data onto the card. I could not find an efficient one-step way to move all the files, but this method worked for me, so here you go:

Step 1: Put the Micro SD card into the phone; the metallic strips face up. This is the slot in the upper right corner. Push it in until it clicks into place.

Step 2: On the cell phone, go to Menu > My Stuff > (and in my example) 5 or Video > this will show you all the video files on your phone.

Step 3: Highlight the video you want to add to the card, and select Options (right screen menu) > 4 or Move > 2 or Memory Card > then Paste (left screen menu). You should see a little graphic showing you the file is moving and get a "completed" confirmation message.

This will put all the files at the root of the card. You can reorganize them later from your computer.

Step 4: To continue moving files one at a time, hit Cancel once on the phone, then you should be back at the phone's Video folder where you started.

Under the phone's Video menu, so you can discern which have been moved to the Micro SD and which are still on the phone, look for the little blue data card icon to the right of the filename. Once you are finished moving all the files to the SD card, then connect the phone to the computer using the USB cable and voila! all files you moved pop up in a new browser window. At this point, you can move the files onto your computer or other storage device, reorganize them, etc. You may need to wait for all the icons to load fully before manipulating them on your computer. Have fun!

The cord works fine. However, I could not achieve what I wanted to do, which is edit/synchronize the address book. This is basically AT&T's fault. It turns out some of the functionality of the phone is locked by AT&T. So, while other companies allow access to the address book, etc., that functionality is not available for many of us. With this cable, after downloading the USB drivers and hacking the device via BitPim program (LG electronics has listed this as a "Tips and Trick" document) I have managed to open the file structure, manipulate the files, and even copy images. However, to date, I have not found a way of editting the addressbook... This is not a problem with the cable but a problem with what you can get done. The cable otherwise works.

Update: The best use of this so far has been transferring photos off the phone to my PC. I can also use my laptop to charge the phone with this cable while on the road and avoid bringing the power supply. Definitely worth the price.

Cable doesn't work. Software appears to load OK on Win-XP system, but software needs an update for CU515 phone or..?.. which isn't available from LG.... at least not free. Free software updates unavailable from LG. Nokia, by comparison, does offer free software for similar applications on their phones. This customer is very disappointed.

Gotta have it - instantly syncs with phone's MP3 player & windows media player - no software to download or install, just plug & go.

The price for the LG Shine data cable is 1/4 of OEM version and works well. Delivery was as promised, would buy again.

Oh my goodness... when my phone company told me I'd have to pay over $30 for a replacement cable for my LG Shine I immediately came to Amazon to see if I could find a better deal... and WHAT A DEAL! Works perfectly, no problems, just plug in and go. Basically paid for shipping - a total bargain.

I ordered this with hesitation, after seeing the reviews that suggested it would only transfer data off a MicroSD card in the phone. However, after doing a lot of research, this isn't the case.

The cable came with a diskette containing drivers, which was encouraging. After installing the drivers, my Windows XP Pro SP3 recognized the phone as a USB device, but didn't recognize it as storage. I had heard about a free software called BitPim ([...]) that claims to be able to access phones' filesystems, so I downloaded and installed it and gave it a try.

I used a message board I found off Google on my AT&T LG Shine CU720, and had good results with this method:

1. Run "lg.exe" off the diskette.
2. Go to Menu > Settings > Connection > USB Connection Mode on your phone and set it to "Data Service".
2. Plug in your cell phone into a working USB port on your computer.
3. Download and install BitPim. The starting wizard should be set to "other CDMA device".
4. Click on "Find Phone" or Edit > Detect Phone. A popup window will come up and say that the "other CDMA device" was recognized.
5. Go to Edit > Settings and change "other CDMA device" to Verizon LG VX8700.
6. Select View > View Filesystem.
7. Open the filesystem and browse to "/LGAPP/Media/Images/Graphics" for camera images, and other folders for other files.

After doing this, it worked perfectly. The only con was that I couldn't mount the phone as a partition, but I can live without that. Hope this helped!