2-1/2 yrs to figure out how to transfer pics from cell to laptop!!!! (d'oh!!!)
@Masihi (4413)
Canada
July 24, 2011 4:41pm CST
I have a BlackBerry, and I regularly take pictures, and even some videos and like so many others I just email everything to myself. My BlackBerry plan is part of a 3-year contract, so I got mine for free since I signed up for that three-year contract with my carrier. Now, it's 2 and a half years into the plan, and I'm just kicking myself in the rear for not discovering this earlier! I finally found a way to transfer all of my pictures and videos by using a USB cord LOL!
It all started when I took a video file that was too big for regular transfer from the BlackBerry to my email client, even though it was only a few megabytes. So here I am, trying and retrying over and over again, draining a fully-charged battery in the process. I gave up, then when I got home, I rummaged in my box of about a million computer cords and found one that fitted my laptop, and installed the driver. My BlackBerry asked me if I wanted to turn on Mass Storage, and not knowing what to do, I said yes. Immediately, a window popped up on my laptop screen asking me if I wanted to import the pictures. I was so excited and I clicked on the right option and I got ALL of my pictures, including that elusive video of my daughter swimming!
*blush*
Wow, I certainly wished that I would've known this earlier, my importer thingymajig even gave me the option of erasing my picture files, so I did, and now I have a fresh BlackBerry Picture/Video card that I can have more fun with! :-) Whew, that's a huge relief.
I can just imagine all the techies laughing their heads off at me! 
5 responses
@fabsprecious (1565)
• United States
1 Aug 11
I normally don't take to many videos with my HTC phone and if I do they are small enough to sometimes e-mail, I do however take pictures, that's my portable camera and let me tell you it takes better pictures sometimes than my regular camera.
Don't feel to bad, I recently discovered that myself, that the phone actually brought a USB cord in order to transfer things into the computer as well as the phone. The other day, I wanted to put music into the phone so I asked my hubby how to do it, because he had done on it his phone. He looked at me and laughed and said "Honey, that's what the USB cord is there for." I looked at him replied, "Well honey your the computer guy, do it." We both just started laughing, he is normally the one that deals with all those technical issues not me.
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@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
2 Aug 11
You know what? I can't even remember if my BlackBery came with a USB cord or not. But I rummaged in my box of cords and found a match nonetheless.
Back about a hundred years ago, everyone knew how to knit, bake bread, and churn butter, no complicated stuff there, heh heh ......
Today, I'll just have to limp alone to keep up with what everyone else knows to do - program computers, develop software, and use photoshop!
@fabsprecious (1565)
• United States
10 Aug 11
You are right technology changes from one minute to the other, once you get the hang of one thing, there is something new to learn and/or update and with time it is only getting worst.
@hardworkinggurl (37062)
• United States
24 Jul 11
Yeah the Blackberry's do have a RIM application in which you transfer all your contacts, pictures and video. I do have a Blackberry storm now for almost 3 years and did learn to do so right away, but then again I have had data phones for a while. I am glad you figured it out and now it is easier for you to manage and organize them all on your computer. I won't be laughing it is a bit confusing and I only figured it out because I called on the phone and Verizon walked me through it.
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@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
25 Jul 11
My contract is up in a few months and I'll want to upgrade to a phone with a larger screen so that I can see more clearly and not squint so much. My font is set to large print, but some other stuff is still really small so I end up putting my reading glasses to help me see the other smaller print. I just figured this out here and I really do hope I can figure all of this stuff out on a new phone....I love pictures :-p
@hardworkinggurl (37062)
• United States
25 Jul 11
What is funny with me is that I am a hands on type person and never really take out the manual to learn my new phone. By the time I accidentally learn all the features it is time to upgrade, lol
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@GardenGerty (169590)
• United States
24 Jul 11
Well, I am not laughing. I would be lost if I had a blackberry. If it has a card, though, I would have tried using a card reader. I had misplaced the cord from my camera, so got one. Now I have a laptop with a card slot. LOL.
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
25 Jul 11
My laptop has a card slot as well, and my big camera card fits in there, I should purchase a card reader as well, as the ones in the blackberry is tinier than the fingernail on your pinky finger. I'm not kidding. I think mine is 2GB, wow, it's amazing that you can fit 2GB of data on such a tiny little piece of plastic and metal! 
@lumenmom (1986)
• United States
25 Jul 11
Well the techies may be laughing but you are miles ahead of me. All this technical stuff left me in the wind a long time ago. I use to be so "with it" and usually the first to know about or try anything but everything is moving so fast I can't keep up anymore. Maybe 2 more years from now I'll learn how to transfer my pictures online 
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
2 Aug 11
Oh, tell me about it!! It's getting to be pretty darned annoying to say the least with the ever-changing technology features! Just the other day I tried to download BlackBerry's new Facbook version, only to find out my device doesn't support the new version. It's only 3 years old! but I guess in Techie World that's like ancient dinosaur-age 
@kaylachan (84928)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Jul 11
Most smart phones come with this option. I find it a bit shocking that you're just now figuring this out. Not to say you're stupid or anything, but yeah. Granted I'd be careful using this method because over time it can easily not want to work right. At least that's the problem I've run into. My stupid computer likes to over-charge all equitment I plug into it (except my printer) so they fry usually within a few months to a year of use. So I try to be careful using mass storage. While windows generally offers the ability to delete the data on my memory card... I don't. If something were to happen to my laptop those things would be gone.
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
25 Jul 11
I suppose it takes me a while for me to learn things, sometimes I'll be fooling around and "accidently" find something, other times I won't get it until someone explains things to me.
I was born in the 1970's and raised in the 1980's, so I love the old ways of doing things. I didn't even regularly watch the television set, and I still don't. Technology is not one of my strongest points, I suppose.
