Hi All! One day both screens (internal and external) on my Motorola V551 died right in front of my eyes while I was going through some menues on the phone. The phone is fully functional, i.e. I can receive or send calls, Bluetooth is working, as everything else. I decided to get a new phone instead, but want to recover my address book. Guys in Cingular store could not connect to it. I aslo tried to copy address book to a sim card using my friend's V551 as a guide to get to the right menue, but when I checked the sim card after several attwempts, it remained empty, i.e. no phone were copied. I connected with Bluetooth to my phone, by address book is not accesible via bluetooth. I don't know what else I can try to recovery the phonebook?!? Does anyone know if address book is accessible using data cable? If yes, I might try to get one. Other ideas?
I had the same problem, and i tried this:
turn off your phone and turn it back on, but don't open the flip phone all the way... so that the phone makes a 90 degree angle... and the screen should come back on.
don't flip it open all the way, that's when it'll mess up.
If the phone works, but the screen does not, it may be the video flex cable. This is simple to do, but you do need the correct part, and a T6 screwdriver. Try these two links on how to replace it. http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1091210&highlight=V551+flex+cable http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=336305
I just got off of the phone with Motorola and they told me that the infformation can be extracted with a data cable, but you have to have the Motorola phone tools software.
Yes you can access the address book using a data cable, but why don't you just take out the sim card if the numbers are stored on there? Or are they stored on the phone? I have a v551 with the sme problem that i am trying to fix so I have mine in pieces. If I can fix it I will let you know.
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Unfortunatelly, the address book was stored on the phone only. Since you mentioned that I can access the address book using the data cable, I guess I will need to purchase it since I guess it is my last option. If anyone will be willing to sell his/her data cable for Motorola V551, I will be glad to pay for the cost through PayPal. Please contackt me. Also, if you have new ideas how to get my address book from the phone, please let me know. In summary, I already tried:
1) Using another V551 as a guide, to navigate to place where you copy All phones to simcard. Results->No phone were copied.
2) Took it to one Cingular store to copy phone book from one phone to another->They were not able to talk to my phone (i suspect though that it is their device that had problem, since my phone is fully operational except screen)
3) Accessed through bluetooth. However, turned out that Address book is not accessable via bluetooth.
4) Call Motorola Tech Support. They were useless. In fact, they told me that I even won't be able to get to address book using cable, however, as someone posted above, I should. They also insisted that if I send them the phone for repair, first think they do no matter what is re-flash. Thus everything is lost anyway (why they would do it if someone ask them not to?!?!).
if you screen still works, I suggest you to copy the address book to a sim card. There is an option, to copy everything at once. Let me know if you need help to do this. Also, via bluetooth, one can copy all the images, video, and audio from a phone to a pc(at least I was able to save those..) .
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