USAGE OF MEMORY CARD

IN ALMOST ALL PHONE WHENEVER WE USE MUSIC PLAYER IT CREATE A 'MY MUSIC' FOLDER IN MEMORY CARD.IN SOME PHONE IT CAN ONLY READ THOSE FILE WHICH ARE IN THIS FOLDER. SO WHAT YOU HAVE TO IS TO MOVE YOUR MP3 FILES TO 'MY MUSIC' FILE.
IF MY MUSIC FOLDER IS NOT THERE THEN MOVE ALL MUSIC FILE TO FOLDER WHICH HAS THOSE THREE MP3 FILE.MOVE ALL FILE THERE.
NOW YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE ALL MP3 FILES IN MUSIC PLAYER.
SAME RULES APPLY TO VIDEO PLAYER.
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Slot the MicroSD memory card into your phone, power on the phone. Scroll the phone menu to navigate to the memory card. You can also use the phone setting to set the phone to use the memory card to save pictures taken from the phone, Music, Videos or even your personal documents

Are you using it with the same device? Some devices handle the formatting of the SD card differently. If so, devote one card for each MP3 player or camera, etc.

Put a microSD memory card (limit 4GB) in the phone. Take a few pictures and make a short video .Use the phone menu to transfer the pictures an video to the external memory card. Use the media player to watch your recorded video. Try to play music and you will get a no content found message. Now, turn off the phone, remove the memory card and place it into an adapter that will connect to a computer by usb port. Windows should recognize it as a removable drive. If you look at that drive in Explorer you will see 3 folders. Pictures are in my_pix. Videos are in my_flix. Transfer .mp3 files to the my_music folder. When you put the card back into the phone you can play the mp3 files with the media player. Yes, I did this and it works.

It is hard to provide any useful suggestions without knowing the type of cell phone your son is using.

Normally he would put the memory card in the cell phone microSD slot (provided it can support 2gb card), plug the USB cable from computer to cell phone (if it supports this). Normally the phone will have also got some software apps CD which should be loaded to computer. This will provide the necessary functions to load music files to the phone.

Alternative to USB is bluetooth connection which both the computer and the cell phone will have to support. He can transfer music files that way.

I am not sure if he can copy the files directly from the computer to the memory card and play it on the cell phone as data formats are not standard. Also iTunes files need to converted to mp3 format. If these are protected iTunes files then it becomes a bit harder - best to burn a CD and then rip into mp3 format.

Once again these suggestions are useless if cell phone cannot play music (mp3 or WMA etc) files, does not have microSD slot, does not have USB or bluetooth support.

media center>music and tones> my music> options> scan memory card for new music. only thing that does not seem to show up is my sounds unless you record. I think my sounds depends on the file type.

It's probably just that you aren't using the correct folders, but...

First, make sure you phone TRUELY sees it as it should. Some phones don't properly handle SDHC cards. As long as it's a picture phone, put in the card(blank and formated) and take some pictures. If you have a data plan, download a tune or two (sprint has "free sample" mp3 download of the week).

Now, take the card out, and access it with the computer.
You should see a picture folder, and a media folder(names depend on the type of phone you have)

Specifically, the music folder is where you want to put your music files.
Also, depending on your phone(you didn't say what kind you had) you should begin trying by uploading 128Kbps mp3 files. Most modern phones should handle that format.

Now, return to the phone, and test it out with either your "mass storage manager" app, or your media player app.

i could be that the songs are not formatted correctly

You must make sure that the music files are individual music files and not just the music folder.

try just sending music from your pc to the memory card