At a birthday party recently, I tried to get the phone to record the whole birthday song and the blowing out of the candles. To my surprise, it would only record 15 second clips. I couldn't figure out what to do! I had to settle for recording with my Samsung Hue (which isn't bad but it isn't the cool new camera phone I so badly wanted to record something major with).

I spent about 30 minutes decrypting the camcorder section of the manual later that night. No help at all for this issue. But then I got a hint of what to do. Some setting involving Video Msg! Dun dun dun!

Anyways, here is the solution. Go to your camcorder and hit the "Recording Mode" button on the left side. It should look like a movie reel. Normal goes by memory capacity, and Video Msg goes for 15 seconds only. On normal setting you'll see a timer on the recordings rather than the xx/15 tomfoolry.

Unfortunately, the timer is a click timer. Sad that you can only have a 15 second recording timer or nothing. Thumbs down.

i recored 45 min with no problems but my batt lol !!!!

Funny, I've never been able to get past 10 minutes on an 8gb storage card. According to the manual, you can record a video until the storage runs out.

Do you have the Finesse saving to the phone or memory card?

click on recording mode, if it is in video message mode it will only record 15 seconds, if it's in normal mode it will record longer

It's not on message mode. Even if it were, I'd never get 10 minutes of video. When I get through updating my Lenovo S10 with OSX, I'll get back to it.

Hahah that was easy to figure out go to your camcorder go to recording mode and set it to normal now go to setting and go on the second tab at the top and set the default storage to card memory and press okay.. Ba-da bam ba-da boom

He's just saying not to forget that step. Doing this properly is a 2 step process.