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- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Great, cause the world needs more cell phones with "Sexy Back" playing as loud as they can.
Crappy ring-tones cause terrorism. - john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21great, and for those who don't have web-browsing on their phones?......
- john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14....or you can save yourself $1000 and easily do it on the PC you probably already own.
- pirco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Luckily, my phone plays mp3's, so I don't have to convert anything. I just put the file on my phone and select that to play as my ringtone. Easy as pie, whatever that really means.
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8haha good luck on verizion
they are the most locked down network
they cripple all their phone hardware
time to switch carriers
Can you hear me now ?! - doorock42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Definitely beware of what ringtones you have. My wife's ringtone on my phone until recently was Stewie & Brian singing: "I want to have intercourse with you HUH OOH YEAH intercourse with you RELATIONS".
It went off while I was in my boss's office (the phone was in the newsroom) and when I came out to get it, EVERYONE over at the meeting area was staring.
Kind of embarrassing. - catchneyez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yea, this doesn't really help anyone. There are tons of programs out there you can use to clip an mp3 down to a smaller size. The problem is transferring the file to your phone, especially for Verizon customers. Most cell phones (in the US anyway) are not set up to easily connect to a PC. And even if you do have a simple USB connection, you can't just drag and drop a file into your phone. If you're really interested in learning what you can do with cell phones, check out http://www.howardforums.com/ I learned some good tricks and hacks for the Verizon Razor v3m there. Also, http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/ has some good reading material.
- scooterbaga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Sounds like you just need a program to crop your mp3s.
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I agree, the only thing that is worse is a ringback tone. I hate when i call a friend and I have to listen to a song that I can't stand until they pick up.
- doorock42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh, and btw, anyone who pays more than the cost of a single text message to send a ringtone to their phone isn't being industrious enough.
- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I didn't realize US mobile customer were so bent over...
My current ring tone is a full size mp3 of super mario world.. geeky I know. I blue-toothed it there from my laptop. I could have infareded it, took the memory card out and pluged that in my PC, used the USB cable, emailed my phone it, downloaded it via HTTP/GPRS/UMTS. My phone has an FTP client, or I guess I could have logged on the IRC client and DCCed it, or SSH, I guess but thats just overkill.
Get your self's an unlocked k800i, I think they call it the k790 there! - tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6dugg - for using the word "Pshaw!"
- jls33fsls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can do this for free and instantly at http://buildatone.com. It all works in your browser, so there is no need to download any software.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Unlike Mobile17, there is no wait for http://zedge.net
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My phone won't let me set an mp3 as a ringtone if it is longer than 20 seconds.
- Rayor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@merr
Use Audacity.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
If you want to save stuff as MP3s you'll need the LAME encoder.
http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html - nicc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5same here.
I havent come across a new phone in the past year or 2 that couldnt play a mp3 file as a ringtone... - worxman02, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I have one of those crappy phones that still only play MIDI files as ringtones. I am a big Top Gear fan (ie. here comes the geek/fanboy part) and wanted to use the theme song as my ringtone without paying Verizon too much $$$. MIDI files of most songs are easily found online, the problem with them is that they are too long for a ringtone. Download Anvil Studio from download.com and use that to trim/truncate the MIDI file. Then if you have verizon you can go to vzwpix.com and upload the MIDI file and send it in a SMS message to your phone. It costs the same as sending a picture text, about $0.25. It works great and now i have a better ringtone than the crappy stock ones
- gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6There's a site I've been using that is essentially free. For free, it takes a few hours to send the converted file to your device. If you donate $$ to the site, they will send your files more immediately. Seems to work well, and no, I haven't received any spam either:
http://mobile17.com - gwinerreniwg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@warpdragon: This doesn't seem to work for all accounts, though not sure why: My wife's Verizon RAZR can receive files this way, mine (paid for by my employer) cannot, even though Mobile17.com works consistently. Still, your's is a good tip and worth trying if you're on Verizon. If it doesn't, the afore mentioned web site seems to work all the time.
- shagz7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that's CLASSIC..... my condolences
- l33t_pSyCo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3OK... this takes up wayyy to much time. Everyone needs to grab tonethis. I dont know if you get charged for the data, but it makes the ringtone, and sends it to your phone, very painlessly. www.tonethis.com
- gharding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I just email pictures/mp3s to my phone. I get them as an SMS and save it.
- CBanga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Try out Mobile17.
It is a website that does the whole process for you. It works really well. I have made 5-10 ring tones on the site. It also lets you send pictures saved on to your computer and put them on your cell phone.
Best of all, it is all free with no software to install.
www.mobile17.com - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ditto, I cropped down a portion of the orchestral Zelda Hyrule theme and dropped it on my memory stick, then set it as the ring.
- CaptainScarlet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ummmm...
I just use bluetooth to send the mp3 to my phone...
I'd guess without bluetooth, it must suck! - warpdragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Same with me. If you go to vzwpix.com and create an account, you can email ringtones and pictures to your phone by emailing [phone number]@vzwpix.com and then open it like a picture message. However, this only works with Verizon.
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here are some instructions specifically for phone on the Sprint network that use the QCP format:
http://surfing.textamerica.com/?r=1954769 - lava, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I was actually messing with my phone yesterday. I used to navigate with the web browser to a page on my website that had some mp3s. I don't have a website set up right now, so I decided to email a background to my phone and it worked. Here's how to email something to yourself:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/939/sms_email_cingular_nextel_sprint_tmobile_verizon_virginv
Note... your phone must support multimedia sms. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i got a new W810i cingular, and it keeps you from putting your mp3z as ringtones (so they can screw you into the "voice tones" i hope i can find a way to debrand my phone, but in the mean time i use Audacity, take about 30 seconds of the song i want, and convert it to 112kbps mp3, then i can select it as a ring tone.
- AntiInsight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2old news. this isnt anything extremly new.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have been doing this for two years now! I started out with a motorola v551 and copied the mp3s via bluetooth, now with my RAZR I can do it with just the USB.
Don't forget, when you are saving it, change it from a stereo to mono file. It will be exactly half the size. Save some space on your phone! - jsaya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use: http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html
mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files (e.g. to wav format) for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files. (ASOT) ;) - DamageInc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Of course you can make any MP3 a ringtone if your phone plays mp3s and you can transfer them to it. I've being doing this for a year and a half with LG VX6100 and a data cable.
A program called BitPim makes it real easy - will re-encode the mp3 to 32kps mono, allows you to trim it to how you want, and then uploads it to your phone. It also allows you to upload pictures, and download any pictures/data off your phone.
I don't really see how this is interesting or new. Buried. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1find ringtone, turn on bluetooth on phone, right click sent to device
voila - metfuel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3My phone plays "mp3 ringtones" (motorola v265), but the first time I tried to send one
to my phone through verizon they blocked it out. Then I just used itunes to slect the start and stop time of the song. Converted it to an mp3. went to the file and renamed .mp3 to .mid and sent it to my phone. The file plays just like an mp3 and verizon doesn't filter it out. - eean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13guploads.com does all the conversion for you for your relevant phone. So like my phone requires m4a, this is the easiest way to get it. You can download the file to your computer or from the phone itself (I used my month of free mobile Internet to do this).
- u8myfoood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for verizon users, who have phones that have expandable memory slots, cut clip down to a file under 300kb, "email" it to yourself, but make the address any random number, and it will not be able to send, so it saves onto the phone's memory, from there save the clip that u attached...
now you have a new ringtone for FREE... - chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3the thumbnails at poster sites make excellent phone wallpaper -for free.
- catchneyez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, Verizon is locked down hard. But one little Seem edit and the program BitPim will give you all the functionality you would ever need. It's nice to open your phone and instead of "Verizon Wirless" you see "I Hax Verizon" with a half naked woman dancing where the old Verizon startup logo use to be.
- JOJOFACE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MyxerTones has worked very well for me. ^_^
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So all we need to do is find a suitable song, crop out a bit and transfer it to a mobile that has the ability to use mp3 as ringtones. hmmm, who would have thought that would work.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh wow. when did dig turn into an after school arts and crafts show?
- hexydes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty easy solution to the problem of custom MP3 ringtones:
http://www.phonescoop.com
Find one that supports MP3s and either Bluetooth for file transfer, or MiniUSB.
Oh, and don't use Verizon, since they lock you out pretty bad (not that others are much better, but they are the worst). - crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried this and it shows up as having an attachent at the bottom of the email , but there is no option for me to download it. Do you know of something I missed?
- trashcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wap? sms? sounds like those phone companies have you over a barrel! Most phones I know of (maybe just EU?) have usb and can drag-n-drop full mp3's to be used as ringtones - thus avoiding wasted money/airtime.
I've never understood why people pay £3 per week for a few ringtones when they can just hook their phone up to a pc. - Ascus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Many phones can use Bitpim ( http://www.bitpim.org/ )to transfer the MP3 ringtones to your phone, even if the provider has reprogramed the phone to stop bluetooth file transfers. Best of all its free.
- bilangew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In Canada, Telus also locks down their cell phones so they "force" you to use their online services/downloading sites. Surprisingly enough, you can only download from telus' site, and not anywhere else from the web.
What happens is that even if you try to read an MP3 from the web, the browser will only play it, and not download/copy it to the ringtones folder. (except with telus web store) The workaround is to copy it from either from bluetooth (if your provider doesnt disable this!) or from a cable made for your specefic phone, using bitpim (google this). I dont know about less-than-a-year-old phones, but older phones are a bit a pain to install/use as a ringtone... at least my LG does.
Anyways, is there any Canadian providers which doesnt lock down its users/phones? Anything but Bell please :( - doppler00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The fact that verizon filters out MP3's shows how much they hate you, but love your money. I simply cannot recommend a company that is so bent on crippling your phone to anyone I know.
- JOJOFACE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Fantastic site. Intelligence +1.
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