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changing ringtones help!!! on xda2

please help!! i downloaded a xda2 ringtone pack with about 20 different ringtones, but i cant get the xda2 to assign any to any profiles.
ive tried going to add ringtone , selecting the ringtone or ringtones i want to add to the ringtone selection box as it says but when i go to the sound an notifications, gone to select event and chose phone incoming call, but under ringtone still only has same old basic 10 it comes supplied with !!
does anyone know what im doing wrong please help!!!
thanks
karl

i go into settings->system and click [add ring tone]
i switch the one i want and press ok
then i go into settings->personal and click [Phone]
and find the file under the Ring tone: dropdown box
you dont go into sounds and notifications to change ring tone

If the ringtone is a .mid file, or possibly even a .wav (others will confirm?), then you first need to choose the option to 'create ringtone' on the phone before it will appear in the Notifications listbox.
On the other hand, where some users get confused, is when they cannot find a .wma file, when going into the "create ringtone" option, for the simple reason that .wma ringtones don't NEED converting, and are already in the notifications list box, if you saved them in the right place.
So for .wavs, midis, and similar, you need to first choose the option on the phone to Create a ringtone.
But for .wma files, if you save in the right place, these will NOT be available in the covert list, and instead ALREADY in the sounds and notifications drop down list.

All I had to do was to copy them into the Windows/Rings folder. And they were listed along with the original ringtones.

Ringer for the messages

Is it possible to change the Ringer tone for the Sms Messages?
Thanks!

Yeah, get any .wav file you want and chuck in in your Windows directory. Now go to Start, Settings, Sounds and Notifications, Notifications (tab) and select "Messaging: New Text Message" in the top drop-down box. Make sure "Play Sound" is ticked and then select the sound in the drop-down box. Your .wav file should be there.

Thanks !!!

I tried this but it doesn't work
Hi there,
I do not get SMS sound notifications even though I have set the notification as mentioned in the o2 instructions manual. A soft and hard reset do not resolve the issue.
Any thoughts on this? Is there a windows registry hack that I can carry out in order to resolve this?
Cheers!
Henry.

Several different predefined sound setups

Does anyone know if there are some software that gives me the possibility to define different sound setups and store them for quick access and change?
If I go into a meeting I want to change the ring tone and the sms notification sound to something that no one else will pay attention to. To do this change manualy takes too long when the meeting has started. It has to be done quick and unintrusive.
The ideal way to solve this is (in my opinon) to have icons on the today screen, one icon for each sound setup. One tap to change both ringtone and sms sound.
Regards
Asbjørn Søbye

I am using MortScript for this, here is how I do it.
I have different ringtones in a folder A. The ringtones that are assigned to an event are in a different folder B.
For every sound setup, I have a different script; this script copies files from the folder A and overwrites the assigned soundfiles in folder B.
Furthermore, the script also changes the vibrate function using a registry setting and shows an indication on the todayscreen (with rlToday or a registry hack, both work but I'm not sure which I like best).
Changing to a different soundsetup is then a matter of launching the apropriate script.
Jorg

I use Pocket Zen Phone for this purpose.

Ring Tones - frustration. Help / advice please

Hello,
I've had several previous generations of HTC devices, and never really got to grips with Ring Tones / Vibration / Ring Volume. I had high hopes that WM6 would have sorted the mess out by now (my last PDA was WM2003).
What I really want from the phone part of my PDA is to be able to consistently and simply do the following (based on an O2 Orbit 2, UK)
1) Choose my ring Tone (ideally starting a little quietly and then rising in volume)
2) Set the ring Tone to Ring & Vibrate.
3) when in meetings / cinema / church etc. quickly set just to vibrate
4) after the meeting quickly set back to Ring & Vibrate
(Personally I have no use for zero ring volume combined with vibration off.)
5) as a final customisation, I'd like to be able to set different ringtones for different calling numbers.
This is what I've done so far:
First I used the O2 "sounds & notifications" profile on the home screen.
This integrates nicely with the volume slider button on the LHS of the orbit - BUT it appears to have a few problems:
a) you can't choose custom ringtones
b) you can't have a rising ring tone with vibrate
I created a custom rising ringtone by editing a small MP3 so that it starts quietly and rises in volume over about 25 seconds. Placed this in "My Ringtones" directory in "My Documents". Then had to read the phone handbook (always a last resort) to see how to set this mp3 as my ringtone. The answer is that the "my ringtones" tones are not selectable under "sounds & notifications", instead you have to open up the phone dialer app, select menu, options, then you can select your custom ringtone.
Unfortunately, every time you subsequently use "sounds and notifications" to select, for example, the "meeting" profile, or the "silent profile", you lose the custom ringtones - so you can't simply put the phone on vibrate, and then back to normal without then having to go back to the phone dialer, menu options etc.
surely there must be a simple way around this? every non PDA phone I've ever used has this sort of thing down as a straightforward essential tool.
Hopefully someone out there can either show me the obvious step that I'm missing, or point me in the directions of some 3rd party (preferably free) software that manages this task.
Thanks in advance
Roy.

1. The ringtones can be in the windows, windows/Rings, My documents (not subfolder), storage card (root).
2. On the phone settings tab, there is an option to set it to 'Vibrate and Ring'.
3. You can use the HTC Home screen (free, and included in original Polaris, but can be found here) or some other 3rd party app like SPB Phone Suite (not free).
4. Same, or setting up "busy" events in the calendar, and setting the HTC Home screen for atomatic.
5. Check your options on the contact details page.
For the increasing ringtone, there isn't a better workaround then what you did.

I had exactly the same problem; this is my first non-Nokia, and I've always loved the quick access to "profiles".
From a recommendation on here, I now use pocketzenphone, which is fantastic.
I've got a row of five icons under the HTC home, to change profile. Each profile can change so many things, I don't use 20% of it! I just change ringtones and volumes.
It's free to try, and I think £10 or so to buy if you like it.

[PARTLY SOLVED][NEED HELP] Set ring/sms to vibrate WITHOUT altering sound volume

Hi,
I'm searching for a tool, preferably command line driven with options, to do something quite unusual : Set Ring/SMS notifies to "vibrate" but WITHOUT altering the global sound volume.
I recently evaluated PhoneWeaver which is quite neat and highly configurable and I was able to do that. I altered the profiles (night/day) in order to set all notifies to vibrate but at the same time, kept the global volume configuration untouched!
Unfortunately, PhoneWeaver is a bit overkill for what I really need and I don't need a so featured software.
Why would I want that ? Simple... late at night when I go back home, I love listening music with my neat headphones but if I receive a phone call, I want it to be quiet
Setting volume mode to "vibrate" puts the volume at mute level so I can't enjoy my music.
Anyone knows how to achieve that ?

Well,
I've investigated as far as I could and found a partial solution that works for now only for SMS.
Using the amazingly excellent MortScript, I could alter registry to make SMS notification behave like I want :
HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications\{A877D65B-239C-47a7-9304-0D347F580408}
and set "Options" to DWORD "2" for "Play sound" and "1" for "Vibrate".
Well, it's fine for SMS but I can't get it to work for the Phone part. HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications\Phone => Options
seems to have NO effect.
Altering HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0 => Script
to switch between "apw1r" (Play sound) and "av1r" (Vibrate) does not produce a real time effect (only after soft reset).
Anyway, it works when using "Sounds and Notifications" applet directly so it seems that I lack a simple "refresh system" command to make it take these news settings effective.
Any clues on achieving that goal ?
Thanks.