Custom Ringtones?

[fddrummer06]

Ok, I've been searching for about an hour now and can't find any answers so I'm making a new topic. I've made some custom ringtones and tried putting them onto my phone, but I can't get them to show up in the list to select them. I've tried both wav and mp3 and can't seem to get it to work. I've done the registry hack to point WM to a folder on my storage card and that didn't work either. What am I doing wrong?

[AstainHellbring]

try putting them in \windows\rings

[fddrummer06]

Isn't there a way to keep them on my storage card?

[AstainHellbring]

You can but you run the risk of missing calls and having lots of issues best to keep on the actual phone

[fddrummer06]

Ok, thanks.

[Trident]

Also, the 6700 seems to prefer ringtones to be *.wma files. Especially if they are in the \windows\rings folder.
I also find that when in that format, they ring a little quicker and don't ever have the issue of not stopping when ignore/mute is pressed.
Storage card tones are especially risky when we have a device that periodically unloads the SD card and doesn't recognize it until a second of two after it has woken up. But then it's already found the default tone and used that. Or nothing.

[TekkieTag]

yeah, i used to store all my ringtones on the SD card, but i would hear ringing in my headset for a good 2-3 seconds before the phone itself would ring. And sometimes the phone would start ringing with the standard then stop, and then switch to the custom.

Of cource, I was using full-length songs as ringtones too......lol

[Penny]

Originally Posted by AstainHellbring

try putting them in \windows\rings

Ok, I am a newbie at this and I was trying to place the "You've got mail" sound to my text messages alert tone but I don't see the \windows\rings file when I search my device with active sync. Am I doing it wrong? Is there a way to make that my message alert?

EDIT: Ok, I see it when I open it with File Explorer but how do I get it there if I can't see it in Active sync?

[gguruusa]

Browse to it from file explorer on your PC. Or select Explore Device from within ActiveSync.

[schettj]

That's a notification, not a ring, and (usually) notifications have to WAV files in the \Windows folder.