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Looking for a new phone? Well the brand new Motorola KRZR K1m is now available through Verizon Wireless. After being frowned upon for being the last cell phone provider to get the RAZR, VZW is now the first to get the new KRZR. This new RAZR-like phone features a 1.3MP camera, Mp3/Mp4 playback (plus V Cast Music/Video), MicroSD expansion slot, Bluetooth, and Verizon’s V Cast services. The KRZR has now has many of the features that the RAZR lacked, which include external music controls (touch sensitive), a more robust battery life, and a slightly larger internal storage capacity.
Anyways if you wish to get one it is available online now for $199 with a new 2-year contract and $99 for existing customers who are eligible for upgrade. (Note: Won’t be in stores until October 5th) Although we havn’t had a hands-on-review yet, by the looks of it, it seems as though it will be a pretty good phone, despite the fact that it is a bit pricy. Also Skatter Tech will be getting a KRZR by Monday (10/02/06), so check back and expect an in depth review with plenty of pictures soon!
UPDATE: Moto KRZR Review (Verizon)
Links: Verizon Wireless | Motorola
Press Releases: Verizon News Center | MotoInfo Center
I can’t get my krzr to sync up with my computer. Any ideas to why? I’ve tried removing the program and re-installing it but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
Will the Krzr K1M handle a 2gb SD card or is it limited to 1gb? I have seen different comments on the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
All this seems like so much effort. Why don’t you
just do the seem edits and enable all the Verizon
disabled features? It only takes 5 minutes and you can use the multimedia features of Mobile Phone Tools and the TF copy move options on the phone. Not to mention many other great features. Verizon is a good network, they just try to make an extra buck off of everything which is a shame.
GODFATHER-i have tried 2 gig cards and it work off and on…the phone doesnt seem to format the card of that size well. I put about 1.7 gigs of music on it and it did not keep all the ablum titles and some songs would not play at all
I have the Krzr k1m with Verizon. My earpiece volume is very low. I have the master and earpiece volume on the highest setting. When I use my bluetooth, the volume is perfect, but when I don’t use it, I can barely hear people talk through the earpiece. Can anyone please tell me how to reset the volume settings on the phone. I have tried pulling out the battery and holding down the end button which was supposed to power cycle the phone. Did not work. This is my 3rd Krzr that has had this issue so it is apparently something I am doing. I have a feeling it is something with the bluetooth. I have also taken the bluetooth off the phone and that did not cause the volume to be corrected. Any help would be much appreciated
I bought the KRZR k1m last week. Thought I would be able to sync my Oulook via bluetooth. No deal. Spent several hours trying to figure it out. Called Verison…ouch! Their tech guys are nice, polite, but dreadfully illadvised to provide assistance. Apparently no go on the bluetooth sync options. They told me I “had” to use a USB cable due to the fact the bluetooth has been disabled for everything but the headset! Good God all mighty. They also told me that none of their bluetooth phone will sync with Outlook or any pim for that matter without using the usb! Now what kind of deal is that? Apparently I can’t sync the k1m with my Palm either. Oh they did try to sell be Q, a Blackberry, etc. But I already own a $600 PDA that works great. I just need the dang phone to work without wires…any ideas?
Stike that last comment.. I found seem edit on the internet and it looks too confusing. Any easier way? I also want to know if anyone found a way to turn off the missed call reminder (only verizon disabled this feature). PLease help.
I have a technical issue I was discussing with a with a Verizon rep on an iPhone. Looking to continue discussion on this issue with the same verizon rep, the lady was from Greece and worked at Verizon.
I have the Verizon KRZR K1m and it works great. I can not get my PC to reconize it transfering music. I have tried downloading drivers, using the software from Verizon, still I can not get it to sync with my PC. Any thoughts? I love the phone. It works great. The lights on the front work when I am playing music. But I had to download music which is just too expensive to do.
As a Mac user, I am wondering if you can put mp3 files onto an SD card and have them play on the Krzr… has anyone done this sucessfully? I got the phone on the 4th, so I have just over 10 days to return it, and I don’t want to buy a mini SD card and reader/writer if I am not able to use the Mp3 files on my Mac.
Thanks.
@beth
YES, it will work just fine with a card reader. Just format the card in the phone first, it will create some folders. When you insert it into the reader/writer connected your computer you will see some folders. Just drag your MP3s into the “my_music” folder and that should be it!
1. How do I turn off the missed call reminder?
2. How do I lock the outside player controls – motorola manual says “press the side button” verizons manual does not mention it.
3.Is there a way to enlarge the fonts?
I got the chocolate and it does everything. Verizon you guys rock.
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Same here,and honestly Im pretty pissed off about it. I bought the Music Essentials Kit with the Stereo Headset included.Ill say that the stereo headset is easily the best headset Ive ever owned for a mobile phone,but as far as the rest of package is concerned…IM NOT SATISFIED AT ALL!!!! I installed the software & drivers on a total of 2 PC’s & 1 Laptop,and all 3 said they couldnt find the drivers even with the disc in the drive…
I did all the “fixes” mentioned above and NONE worked. I also have Motorola Phone Tools,which is completely up to date and even that is failing to load the drivers.Is there anything I can do at all???
Also,for the said they got the software installed it,plugged in the phone & it worked fine…Did you have a memory card in it when you did all this? Or was is just the standard phone? And,when you installed the phone was it activated already? Or did you do the installation prior to activating?
I have the same problem as “bad animal”!!! Only the first song I put on my card showed up. I tried “Reinitialize library database” numerous times, turned everything on and off. The phone acknowledges that there is 500 Mb on the card but only the one song showed. I also tried to add two pictures but only the first one showed. Its a 1GB card microSD by sanDisk. I tried reformatting the card on my comp (a mac) and now the phone doesn’t even acknowledge it is there. Just now, I had my friend with a Treo put the card in his phone and he reformatted it. But my Krzr still shows nothing (looking under memory in the setting and tools menu). Any sugestions?
Hi Everbody,
I just spent the over an hour on the phone with Verison Tech support. They could NOT help resolve this problem. They suggested that I have bad phone. I have their Music Essentials software and did a scan on my C drive for any driver containing K1m and did not locate it. I did not see a driver for the KAZR listed on the install files. Has anyone gotten this to work??
I still have not gotten it to work. I do not think that the phone is the problem.
Its NOT the phones. I spent 2hrs 3mins & 44seconds on the phone with Verizon Tech Support,and got NOTHING accomplished.The phone is NOT the problem,its is crappy motorola software & drivers. We literally exhausted EVERY OPTION,and still couldnt get it to work,on 2 different computers…
The guy said hes never ran into a problem like mine,asked me how old the comps were,etc,etc. Told him theyre just a few months old,still couldnt get it to work. At this point folks,youre best bet is to just cave in and go to http://www.tigerdirect.com and order you a micro SD card for $20 and a card reader for $5 and be done with the bullshit. Apparently Motorola doesnt care about the driver issues,since the phones been out for months now and still no fixed drivers.
I finally get my krzr (2 week new) to be recognize by my laptop. I can drag songs to krzr but can’t seem to drag the songs from krzr to my laptop. But I can live with it. Below is my experience to get all my 3 laptops to regconize the krzr. Hope this can help someone like me struggled to get it work. I have a 2gb card installed and the music essential kit.
First install music essential kit. You need to get the sync music fix (Sync_Music_Fix.exe) from verizon (http://support.vzw.com/phones/index.html?p=2586). Both Windows Media player 10 and 11 work for me, I have them on different laptop. So below are the steps.
1. If you want to be safe, turn off your krzr and maybe remove the battery for 10 seconds. Put it back and turn on the krzr.
2. Run “Motorola Driver installer.exe”, select “clean and reinstall” click “Start” button. Again, if you want to be sure, restart your PC. But I don’t have to it for one of my laptop.
3. Connect your krzr (turned on) to your PC now, it will go through a sequence intalling the krzr.
4. After it says successfully installed. Run the “Sync_Music_Fix.exe”. Then Turn your Krzr to Sync Mode (Menu-Get it Now-Muisc & Tones-6. Sync Music). Once you hit the Sync Music, Windows will go through the sequence to install the “MTP device”. After it’s done, it will bring up the program selection window to ask you what application you want to use for this device. You can choose the Windows Explorer or Media Player, etc.
After I got these steps figure out on one laptop,I have no problem connect the Krzr with my other 2 laptops. Good luck.
Hi, I just got a krzr k1m, and cannot get my computer to recognize the drivers. I did not buy the media kit, i was told i can do it by just downloading the drivers. Everytime i plug my phone in it comes up with a new hardware installation wizard, and it won’t locate the drivers that i downloaded from the link on this site. Yall have covered this extensively, and i have done everything and it still wont work. I talked to verizon for 1.5 hours and nothing. Now when i plug my phone in it comes up as an mtp device, or something like that. What the hell is going on, should i just break down and buy the kit? Or would it do the same thing? Help!
@Chris
The kit will do absolutely NOTHING but get you quiet possibly the best non-bluetooth headset available. Other than that its an absolute waste of time,money & effort. Just do as I said above and go to http://www.tigerdirect.com & get yourself a 1/2GB SD Micro card & a multi card reader for about $30 total.
Does anyone know how to turn off the missed call reminder. For some reason that beep scared my dog to death.
I just managed to successfully transfer an MP3 using my bluetooth connection on my laptop to the k1m. However, I can’t find the file either on the phone memory, or on the mini-SD card memory! Confirmed that the filename is not too long, in the right format. Can anybody offer suggetions?
It took me almost a month to get ring tones on my phone, there are SO many posts on the net about this issue! I’ve tried a few different ways but the fail safe way for me is to just e-mail the mp3 file to my phone. To be able to assign different ring tones to different contacts, I had to turn off the call vibrate function, which sucks because that’s a good feature. I read in an earlier post that Motorola acknowledges that this is a bug and was working on a fix. Does anyone know if this was fixed?
Has anyone tried DataPilot to transfer MP3 ringtones to the KRZR K1m ? I have successfully transferred some MP3’s and they work fine as ringtones. Others show up on the phone as ringtones, but when I try to assign them to a contact, it goes back to the default. These ringtones play fine when I play them, but will not assign to a contact. I have used the specs discussed in an earlier post. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Funny,I just got my 1GB SD Micro today. Popped it in,plugged the USB in,phone now connects NP…..
But Im not gonna bother as its just faster & easier to drag & drop with a card reader.