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Ring Tones

Can I use MP3 music as a ring tone, if so how can I do it?

yup just put the MP3 file in the sounds Dir\ in your device
Sumpthin like this mobile device\windows

my understanding was that it played mid wav and wma files
add these to the /windows/rings folder and select in settings phone

It's a shame
I've tried this too and finally contacted the tech support guys at T-Mobile. It is only possible to use wav files as ring tones. This is a shame, because they are much bigger. To be able to use them, you should store them in Windows/Rings. I've created a couple of nice ones to last around 30 seconds (the maximum ringtime for most providers).
-Rocky Theme
-Eurytmics - Sweet Dreams
-Lumidee - Never Leave You
-George Baker - Little Green Bag (Resevoir Dogs opener)
As I do not understand how FTP works. I'll only attach one file. If you're interested in more, let me know.

appereantly, attaching didn't work either. just let me know if you'd like one of the ringtones. i can mail them.

Izzard: If you dont wanna use ftp, the files uploaded must be relatively small. Try to RAR any ringtone-file. maybe uploading via http will work then.

It's not that i don't want to use FTP, I just do not know how it works. In the "manual" it sais:
"Simply FTP to 'xda-developers.com', username 'xda', password 'xda' and put the file in the root directory (do not create subdirs)."
How do i SIMPLY ftp anything? Where do I log in, do I have to go to another site?
Even Rar-ing a 5MB ringtone will not make the file uploadable via http, I've tried it
So if you could help me out with the FTP part, I'll gladly post some ringtones.

I've tried this too and finally contacted the tech support guys at T-Mobile. It is only possible to use wav files as ring tones. This is a shame
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the guys at T-mobile definitely don't know the difference between a file and a directory to tell you this..
the following is 100% correct:
you can use .wav or .midi or .wma(which is better than mp3) as ringtones for phone calls by putting the file in \windows\rings
you can use .wav or .midi as sms ringtones or as alarms by putting the files in windows root directory
we have talked a lot about this befor you have to search the forums before posting :wink:

Ringtone manager for WM6 that Faria used in WM5?

Anyone know where i can find the Ringtone manager that was included in Faria's Updated-aku-3 Roms V2 For Htc-wizard 3.3.0.0 WM5?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=291806
It was included in the cooked rom which allowed you to select an mp3 file and it would be available to use in the ringtone section without moving it from the storage card.
I know about the 3rd party apps out there, I was just looking for this particular one that I love but haven't seen out in any of the WM6 builds.
Thanks.

I guess no one knows what program i am talking about?
Faria, can you shine any light on this program?

My 8125 does that automatically.. all the songs on my storage card show up on the drop down menu for my ringtones... and I run WM6

Madcap180 said:
My 8125 does that automatically.. all the songs on my storage card show up on the drop down menu for my ringtones... and I run WM6
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Just create a folder on your Card call it My Documents. Inside that folder create a folder called My Ringtones. Put your ringtones in there... Good Luck

badbert said:
Just create a folder on your Card call it My Documents. Inside that folder create a folder called My Ringtones. Put your ringtones in there... Good Luck
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Well I'll be damn, it was that easy, been doing it the hard way all this time.
Thanks so much for the response because It worked like a charm.

Sound assignment prob

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and also new to my smart phone. I have an HTC Elf 0300. I'm trying to assign a sound to Notification/ MMS downloaded. I've looked at the existing sounds available and tried to find the folder they're in via ActiveSync to no avail. I've converted the mp3 I want to use to .amr and put it in the My Ringtones and My Voices folders. I can access the amr file if I want to change the ringtone notification but not for the MMS downloaded. I can only assume that one can't use anything other than what came with the phone. If you know different, please advise, many thanks.

Ron_H said:
Hi all, I'm new to this forum and also new to my smart phone. I have an HTC Elf 0300. I'm trying to assign a sound to Notification/ MMS downloaded. I've looked at the existing sounds available and tried to find the folder they're in via ActiveSync to no avail. I've converted the mp3 I want to use to .amr and put it in the My Ringtones and My Voices folders. I can access the amr file if I want to change the ringtone notification but not for the MMS downloaded. I can only assume that one can't use anything other than what came with the phone. If you know different, please advise, many thanks.
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Put your tones in the main windows folder, you will see that many of the tones already available to you are in wav/wma format.

Thanx Timmy, that worked, one learns as one goes along eh, lol.

[Q] Focus S: Custom Ringtones not working, help!

I have a new Samsung Focus S, and I am having the hardest time trying to get a custom ringtone on the phone.
I have followed all the instructions that are out there, have an MP3 (non-DRM) file that is 37 seconds long, 500kb in size and have the 'Genre' set to "ringtone" (and I even tried "Ringtone"). When I sync it over to my phone, it doesn't show up on my ringtones list in Settings -> Ringtones.
Please advise. Thanks.

I think I might have an answer, I have also noticed that some ringtones will show up while others don't and end up in your music collection instead of your custom ringtones. From what I've seen WMAs work better than MP3s for some reasons as far as ringtones. I also seems to depend on how they were converted or if they are encrypted. Try to deploy a few of these see if they work.

Thanks for the reply- sorry for the delay, but I finally got a chance to play around with this.
When I create WMA files instead of MP3 files, it works perfectly. Whoever is having issues as well, try creating WMAs, i'm sure you'll get the same positive results.
Thanks again.

Avazee said:
Thanks for the reply- sorry for the delay, but I finally got a chance to play around with this.
When I create WMA files instead of MP3 files, it works perfectly. Whoever is having issues as well, try creating WMAs, i'm sure you'll get the same positive results.
Thanks again.
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Cool! Glad to see you got it working

Custom ringtone
I am having htc 7 mozart, i have followed all the rules to create a custom ringtone,
but it joins in music album, the below things to be done
its a 80kb wma file and edited in zune as genres as ringtone.
any one tried in mozart , write ur experience,
thanks in advance
Javed
HTC 7 Mozart

javedn said:
I am having htc 7 mozart, i have followed all the rules to create a custom ringtone,
but it joins in music album, the below things to be done
its a 80kb wma file and edited in zune as genres as ringtone.
any one tried in mozart , write ur experience,
thanks in advance
Javed
HTC 7 Mozart
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Go to where the ringtones you crated sit on your computer via Zune, find them and right click on on one of them and then choose edit, set the genre to "Ringtone" and re-sync. You'll have to do one ringtone at a time.

Can't set custom ringtone after ICS Update

Hi friends I got ICS update (Official) in India on 11th Sep ....Everything is fine but not able to set custom ringtone...screen shot below

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saikat_das said:
Hi friends I got ICS update (Official) in India on 11th Sep ....Everything is fine but not able to set custom ringtone...screen shot below
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What did you do to get the custom ringtone..
I mean I have copied a Nexus S rigntone to the notifications folder and I am able to use it a ringtone, this is the usual way of setting a custom ringtone.. have you done this??

Put ringotones in''ringtones'' folder
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Copy your custom ringtone mp3 to sdcard/media/audio/ringtones directory. Once the sdcard is scanned for media, the file will appear in your available ringtone list.

kousik said:
Copy your custom ringtone mp3 to sdcard/media/audio/ringtones directory. Once the sdcard is scanned for media, the file will appear in your available ringtone list.
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Thanks friend.... this worked for me thank you a lot

kousik said:
Copy your custom ringtone mp3 to sdcard/media/audio/ringtones directory. Once the sdcard is scanned for media, the file will appear in your available ringtone list.
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I stumbled on this thread/post after searching on the internet. The above solution that you have mentioned did not work for me. I do not have a ringtones folder under sdcard/media/audio directory,just the notifications folder. I copied my ringtones files to this notifications folder and restarted the phone. That did not work. Next I created a ringtone folder under sdcard/media/audio and pasted the tones under this folder.
I restarted the phone again and checked... that also did not work.
Am I missing something here? Please help.
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Thanks,
M

MadhaviJ said:
I stumbled on this thread/post after searching on the internet. The above solution that you have mentioned did not work for me. I do not have a ringtones folder under sdcard/media/audio directory,just the notifications folder. I copied my ringtones files to this notifications folder and restarted the phone. That did not work. Next I created a ringtone folder under sdcard/media/audio and pasted the tones under this folder.
I restarted the phone again and checked... that also did not work.
Am I missing something here? Please help.
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Thanks,
M
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I create my own ringtones in the .ogg format rather than MP3s. Then, I place them in /system/media/audio/ringtones or /system/media/audio/notifications, change permissions to rw-r--r--, change owner and group to 0-root and reboot. It has worked for me every time. I also remove all the existing ringtones and notifications because I never use them, but I don't think that's necessary to make it work.
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1BadWolf said:
I create my own ringtones in the .ogg format rather than MP3s. Then, I place them in /system/media/audio/ringtones or /system/media/audio/notifications, change permissions to rw-r--r--, change owner and group to 0-root and reboot. It has worked for me every time. I also remove all the existing ringtones and notifications because I never use them, but I don't think that's necessary to make it work.
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Create own ringtones & save as .ogg format, appreciate if you can advise more to achieve this. Also we do have a qhd wallpapers thread specific to A2, any leads to some really cool ringtones & notifications site? I usually go t to zedge on web & d/l mp3's. Got the Matrix phone ringtone currently

RAD7 said:
Create own ringtones & save as .ogg format, appreciate if you can advise more to achieve this. Also we do have a qhd wallpapers thread specific to A2, any leads to some really cool ringtones & notifications site? I usually go t to zedge on web & d/l mp3's. Got the Matrix phone ringtone currently
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I started to reply here, but decided to make a tutorial in the general section here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2205151
Thanks for asking and giving me an idea for how I can contribute to this community. :thumbup:
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Why guys do so much work to put it in ringtones folder.
Just open any mp3 or any ringtone in music player press menu key and there is option set as ringtone.... Simple

pritkudale said:
Why guys do so much work to put it in ringtones folder.
Just open any mp3 or any ringtone in music player press menu key and there is option set as ringtone.... Simple
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Personal preference. You like your way, I like mine. It's not all that much work and doesn't really take much time. Also, when my phone is connected to my PC, the ringtones are still usable since they aren't on the SD card.
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