Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

How do you add new ring tones to the 6700 ? The format used is "wma" and not wave.
I amplified and converted a couple of ringtones to "wma" format and copied them to the windows directory in the phone, but the phone won't recognize or use them. I'm trying to get my phone to ring a little louder.

Any help would be appreciated...

they go in \\windows\rings

Try this website for Ringtones! I have found everything I want and it makes them easy to make as well. You will have to sign up but it is free and takes a lot of the work out of it.

https://www.myxertones.com

I tried the "myxertones" site and the phone said that the ringtone I downloaded was corrupted and wouldn't work.
What type phone did you select because my XV-6700 was not available as one of the choices.
I also tried the \\windows\rings directory and that didn't work either....

Any help would be appreciated....

Thanks...

I have entered Microsoft as the manufacturer and Windows CE as the model. This worked for my phone. You may want to try again as there have been some issues with Verizon delivery that are supposed to have been fixed. I wouldnt give up on this site yet! I think that my ringtones are being downloaded to the "My Documents" folder on my device. They then show up under the Settings/Phone and then select the ringtone you like. You can also use the Pocket outlook to specify specific ringtones for specific contacts.

Making Ring Tones For Your Apache Phone:
A very simplified guide by unGOdlike.
Use at your own risk! I offer no warranties, or guaranties that any part of this guide will work or won't mess up your phone, original audio file, or computer.

1) Download or buy an audio editor. I suggest http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity for those of us who don't want to fork out lots of cash but still want an easy to us program with lots of features.

2) After installing the audio editor of your choice, make a duplicate file of the file you wish to use as a ring tone. Open the duplicate file with the editor.

3) Listen to your music file and decide what piece of it you'd like to keep as a ring tone. Typically, ring tones are kept under 30 seconds to save space, increase quality, and reduce the chance of the ring tone not being recognized.

4) Delete the parts of the audio file that are not in the piece you decided to use. Export the file as a .wav I suggest changing the attributes to PCM 22.050 kHz, 8 bit, mono 21kb/sec. This will reduce the size of the ringtone to about 650kb but retain excellent sound quality. Alternatively, you can use PCM 11.025 kHz, 8 bit, mono 10kb/sec to reduce the average file size to about 325kb but it will sound like its coming through a tin can.

5) Connect your phone to your computer via the usb cord and open the active sync program.

6) Click the Explore button and navigate to \My Documents\My Ringtones

7) Drag and drop your ring tone into the folder.

8) You should now be able to Start\Settings\Phone on your Apache phone and select the ringtone.

9) Make a test call to make sure it works!

here is a great website for ring tones - http://www.tuneusin.com/mobile/
"Save target as" to your desktop then use activesync and transfere the file to "My Ringtones" folder

If you have htc audio manager on your phone with songs you want to use as tones, simply choose menu, Set as ringtone, (suggest you trim it to save on size) then simple "save to ringtone folder" or "set as default"

try funformobile.com

Great, got it to work by using "My Documents\My Ringtones" and "Wav" files instead of "WMA" files.
Last question, now that I have a list of corrupted ringtones, how do I delete them from the list of available ringtones ?

Thanks...

Corrupted ring tones should be removed when they are deleted from the phone. If they aren't, try pressing the reset button on your phone.

In which folders or directories would the corrupted ringtones be located so that I can go in and manually delete them...?

Is there a certain way to delete the corrupted ringtones other than manually when they are located in a directory ?

Thanks...

I've actually saved my own ringtones in MP3 format at 22,050 Hz, 8 Bit. A 30 second clip takes up 250k.

Re: Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

I am trying to use these steps given for the ringtones. I recently had a 6600 and I had no problem creating ringtones. Now I upgraded to the 6700 and I try to do it and it is not the same. When I go to drag and drop the files, there is no windows folder so i cant get to rings. But on the device it show the windows and rings folder. Kinda confused, please help

Re: Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

I've used "myxer tones" as well, and love it, i've put about 12 ringers on my ppc6700 and havent had any problem at all both by downloading from the computer then syncing them and also from the phones internet connection itself. I dont know why anyone else had any problem with the site, i found it super easy and bam bam done stuff. I can also change any song they have available to get the cut i want from it and their varity is fantastic. I even found Greek songs there, and believe me, its not easy finding Greek ringtones!!
Diane

Re: Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

um...on my phone (i have helmi's wm6) and all I have to do is find a mp3 and click hold and the menu will popup and one of the options on the menu is "set as ringtone"

Re: Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

'Setting" the ringtone is not the issue of most but rather "adding" the ringtone.

Thats likely because you do not have your window viewing settings setup correct on the device. On your PC go to (in Windows Explorer) Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> and then place a dot next to "Show Hidden Files and Folders" and while youre there you might as well "Hide Extentions For Known File Types". Then you will be able to see your Windows folder in ActiveSync.

That totally depends on where you saved them or copied them to. There is no other way to delete them other than manually which means either going to the folder on the PPC and clicking and holding and deleting or doing the same in AS.

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So I can use MP3 and not just wav? Can I assign the ringer folder to a folder on the flash card so I do not have to leave them in the internal memory? Confirmed mp3 seems to work just fine. Just need to know if I can move ringer folder to flash card :-) BTW the mp3 trimmer for the ppc is a really nice little app :-)

Re: Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

it is recomended "NOT" to have ringtones on the storage card...due to delay for card to wakeup play all that stuff......phone might start to freeze, just keep them short.

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Oh I always chop them to 30 seconds silly to go longer since the phone will only ring for 23 seconds anyway :-) (max most of the time less) I also use them for tv theme trivia so I use 30 seconds. I was not aware of the mem card delay issue. Its not a space thing its a if it crashes thing if there all on the mem card anyway nothing to restore :-) but its not a big deal.

Re: Adding new ringtones or rings to phone ??
 

i use a program called m3 ringtones and you can customize the tone and the it automatically uploads them to your phone