HELP! Need to upload video clips from mobile, how????

[Flightattendant]

It's a sony ericsson k800i
I can upload normal picture files but cannot get the option to upload videos. I have a couple on there of the kids and would really like them safely stored online.

Please help - has been driving me nuts for months thankyou, I will send chocolate if you can sort this out.

I had one of those a while ago, and they come with software and a USB cable (mine are spare if you need them, as unfortunately the phone fell from my shirt pocket into the cat's milk and is dead now, as far as I can tell )

I cannot remember the format of the files created, but they might not be playable without some browser plug-in (assuming you really do mean for them to go online, and not that you're planning on just storing them by sending them as e-mail to yourself)

So it'd be fairly easy to copy onto a folder on your laptop/PC and then (when you've collected a few hundred MB) you could write them onto a blank CD (make 2 copies and store one with a friend or relative) - it can be done in parallel with any plans you have for online copies and CDs are a cheap and reliable backup option...

Webdude, thanks so much for your help.
Sorry to hear about the milk incident

I just wanted to put them into the computer, sorry not actually 'online' - brain wasn't functioning too well last night!

I have tried and tried and tried this over the past year or two, and failed - but somehow last night managed to get into the connectivity menu and then somehow the option came up to view the files on the PC, so once they were on there I could burn them or watch in realplayer.

I have no idea how it worked - pure luck!
thankyou though, for your help and for not telling me I am an eejit

After ~35 years using computers (from days when they used card readers, paper tapes, and mono screens slowly scrolling text!), I am still learning things every day, and hesitate to suggest anyone is an idiot... they might have finger (or mouse) trouble (and talking to them over the phone to right-click here or left-click there can be a bit frustrating)...

As for the connectivity menu for that phone, yes, it was often 'hit and miss' and while the milk incident was a shame, the software link (and use of an M2 memory card, which I never got round to buying) put me off touching Sony Ericsson ever again, to be honest.

Loads of phones use the MicroSD cards and whatever new phones I may buy in future will use those, so I don't have to worry about blueballstooth or dumb USB links that are fussy at the best of times...

Glad you copied the files off. Incidentally, you can get a tiny bluetooth adaptor for under 4 quid inc postage on Ebay, which may be an alternative worth trying... I cannot remember whether I had joy with that using the SonyE. phone, but it worked fine using my Motorola W377 to grab photos (mind you, the USB connection has always been easy with the Motorola anyway - I think the complication with the Sony is the option to use it from a PC as a modem - ie using the mobile phone to act as both modem and dialler for the internet connection).

Thankyou so much, you are very sweet and kind despite having baffled me completely with all this talk of blue tooth etc. I think I would have been far more comfortable in the days of scrolling text!

I think phone came with blue tooth but I have not been near it and don't think I will now...it is lurking in my desk drawer, ominously.

Thanks again.

Aw, don't feel baffled - try Wikipedia when you see some gizmo or techie term you're unfamiliar with.

Must say that there are far more geeky people here on MN than I meet in real life, and while I am still a novice on some technology, I am extremely glad to have grown up when I did, as it means I've seen the developments taking place, from things like small transistor radios to walkmans to portable CD players to MiniDisc and then MP3 players, in parallel with shifting from film to digital camera, VHS, Beta and Video2000 going over to DVD and with small (and much bigger) computers, mobile phones and other electronics...

Oh, and I had BSB before Sky bought it. That was a service with a 'squarial' - a flat satellite aerial (!)

Old enough to remember not having flown until I was over 20, but was able to walk into the cockpit of a 747 when it was on the tarmac in Bombay (without being treated as a terrorist and shot for illegal entry) and having seen Concorde in flight, then parked at airports in Singapore and Finland {but never had chance to fly in it, unfortunately}

Youngsters these days fly and have iPods and small mobiles with digital cameras without really knowing how much things have changed (I bought a Sony camera 10 years ago which used floppy disks... most PCs cannot even read floppy disks now, and few youngsters would have seen 5.25" or {even older} 8" floppies !!)

Sorry, rambling like an old fart but just happy with life, and rarely if ever 'bored' !