Doug Dalton

Verizon usually cripples all the great functions on a phone and rarely lets you customize any options, especially the search page on the Mobile Web Browser, but here is how you do it if you have a Bluetooth link or USB cable to your LG Vx8600

Download and Install bitpim

Once setup, Run Bitpim, under view, check view filesystem.

On the left filesystem will appear. Click Filesystem and expand "/"

Download paramtable1.fil

(Do this at your own risk, I am not responsible for any damage to your phone)

Browse the filesystem, under OWS (click OWS) right click paramtable1.fil, click overwrite and select the version of paramtable1.fil that you just saved.

Then start the browser and select search from the menu (#3) and it should be google moble replacing the lame VZW search.

Posted by Doug at 12:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

There a hidden menu in your Vx8600, type ##PROGRAM8600 SEND (##77647268600 SEND) You can change your WAP server here as well as the get it now server.

A confirmed open wap server is :

Wap gateway

An unconfirmed Open Wap server is:

Link1-IP1: 194.204.012.042
Link1-Port1: 9201

This will save you the $5 a month charge to verzion but still cost you airtime

Posted by Doug at 10:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

How do you get you save your phone book with LG verizon vx8600?

one way is to spend a bunch of more money with verizon and buy their sync kit, but I suggest another option using BitPIM. This is a great opensource package that works with most verizon phones. For the Vx8600 you will need to get the development version if you get the "provider blocked: unable to access filesystem " message, here is the version as of this article Development Windows install

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