Computer isnt recognizing micro sd but cell phone does. I'd like to transfer mp3 files from computer onto cell with microsd

Might need to be formatted as Fat32 and not NTFS or other filesystems. Use a computer first to format the SDcard and then transfer your Mp3's to it. Then use your phone's media player to play the files.

If this is an SDHC card, you need an SDHC capable reader.

No problem at all. As long as the phone recognizes the memory card, you can transfer the pics from it. What you do is - connect the phone to the PC as a Mass Storage Device through a data cable using the USB port. It will appear in My Computer as an additional drive which can be used as any other drive in the HDD. Copy, paste, delete, whatever. However, remember that after the file transfer you must first stop using the card from an icon in the system tray and only when it tell you that it is safe to remove the card, then only detach it from the PC. Else there are chances of you card getting damaged.

according to motorola, this phone has bluetooth and micro SD card slot.
if you have computer with bluetooth, then you can pair the computer and phone and simply send music files wirelessly via bluetooth.
if you dont have bluetooth, then you can buy a cheap usb bluetooth adapter from ebay and have a bluetooth enabled computer, then follow above step.

if you have SD card slot on your computer then you can get a SD card to micro SD card slot adapter from ebay or elsewhere, where you can simply put music on then card from pc and then transfer the card to the phone.

here is the phone manual.for safety read the whole manual.
p.55 for music and p.79 for bluetooth instructions.

http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/US-EN/Mobile%20Phones/i856/US-EN/_Documents/Static_Files/i856_UG__%20Boost_NNTN7815A_.pdf

Please tell me what you are trying to tranfer to (Ex: cell phone, mp3, computer)...with the sd card

Sorry, it doesn't work that way. You can use a separate card reader to put files onto the microSD card. When the card is installed into the Sansa, the Sansa will see the additional music.

Hi. Well the problem is that your songs probably aren't recognized as mp3 files. I have a SanDisk micro SD and I downloaded a CD onto on a program such as RealPlayer or Windows Media Player first. Secondly, I dragged the files from there onto my SD. Try this but if this doesn't work then take out your micro SD and format it to your phone. This will end up erasing all that you have on there and possibly require you to do it many times just as I had to do, t eventually mine did work perfectly. I hope this works.

Now a days you are getting latest Mp3 players with Micro SD card fecility. Buy them and copy the mp3 songs from computer to Micro SD and shift that from mp3 player to your lg phone. This works fine.

Here are the steps I took:

1. Insert the micro sd card with the metal plates facing you (that took me a second). Don't worry about the little push you have to give.
2. Go to the Settings & Tools option in the Menu.
3. Select *. Memory
4. Selct 3. Card Memory
5. Select Options while the bar is on "1. Memory Usage". The only option available to me was 1. Format and select that.
6. It will ask for the phone lock code-if you have never set it IT IS THE LAST 4 DIGITS OF YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER.
7. The phone will format the card and put the file folders on it.
8. Use the adaptor USB reader or whatever you have to connect it to the computer. Copy songs to the my_music folder.

for mp3 as ringtones:

1. You should select the part of the song you like, and can add effects with this:http://www.mptrim.com/
2. To set it as a ringtone, send it as an attachments to you [email protected]. It must be small to go through, around 30 seconds.
   
3. You will get a text message, and select options. Select Save As Ringtone.

1) get a MicroSD card (it'll come with an adapter)
2) on your computer, transfer the mp3 files to the microSD
3) put the microSD in your phone.