Change location of ringtones

**Wideawake** · #1 (**permalink**) 10-22-2006, 09:37 PM

Change location of ringtones:

You can change the location where WM5 will look for ringtones by adjusting the following key (example given is for ringtones placed on the Storage Card root folder)
HKCU\ControlPanel\Sound\Categories\Ring\Directory = "\Storage Card\" (REG_SZ string, no quotes)
The default location may be "\Windows\" or "\Windows\Rings\" depending on your Device provider

xclusiv_1 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-24-2006, 09:32 AM

can you create a cab file to do this so that wm5 looks for my ringtones on my storage card so that I can save space... p.s. will this mess up the rings or make them choppy...

xclusiv_1 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-24-2006, 09:35 AM

can you create a cab file to do this so that wm5 looks for my ringtones on my storage card so that I can save space... p.s. will this mess up the rings or make them choppy...

**Wideawake** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-24-2006, 04:48 PM

yes sir I could do that for you. and so its been said it may delay the ring but I haven't tried it....let me know if u want that.

sker · #5 (**permalink**) 11-06-2006, 12:43 PM

i messed up and changed the location to the storage card but how do i set the ringtones i have on the card?....how would i go about puttin it back the way it was?....please help my phone is not ringing

**Wideawake** · #6 (**permalink**) 11-06-2006, 09:19 PM

change the the location back to windows/ringtones and u should be set.

phakeorama · #7 (**permalink**) 12-04-2006, 01:35 AM

when i did this the ringtone would only play if the phone was on.
If off it would just vibrate nomatter what settings i tried. I think there is a 3 second delay before the phone reads the sd card so by then the ringtone is too late

johnnyv5 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 12:36 PM

I want to save them to my Rom, but can't find the keys. I only have HKLM\ControlPanel\Sound. I don't have the Catagories or Ring keys. Shoudl I create them?

**Wideawake** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 08:11 PM

Backup to ur rom?

But ur looking in the wrong key, its HKCU not HKLM

~Mike

johnnyv5 · #10 (**permalink**) 12-14-2006, 01:37 PM

I have the hack to view my Extended ROM, so I want to move some of my ringtones there. But actually I was looking and all the Ringtones I have add up to 10mb, so I don't think I'll be moving them to EXT_rom.....

jv