i've read somewhere that you can make MP3's as ringtones on the Kyocera Slider Kx5 Remix, i've searched all over my phone on how to do it but can't figure it out, any help would be greatly appreciated
Posted by: crackur
get mobiletools for kyocera
Posted by: guessheiress
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Originally Posted by crackur
get mobiletools for kyocera
what do you mean mobile tools? i already have everything to load music to my cell phone, i just want to know how i can use the music as a ringtone on my phone once i have the music loaded onto the phone
Posted by: crackur
u have to put the ringers in the svdsds folder
NOT MUSIC
Posted by: sdhdfw
Make sure the file name is short not lengthy, rename the .mp3 to .mid
Posted by: Lucky-13
Where can I get MobileTools? I am assuming this a program.. Is there anything I need to know about loding it on the the phone. How do I go about doing this?
Well, I just discovered that I xan not get Mobile Tools with Cricket. If anyone knows a way around this please let me know. I still need to know how I go about making the Mp3's accessible for ring tones. I uinderstood that I must change them to .mid files, and put them in the other folder. But will this be possible without Mobile Tools, and do I need a file converting program to make them .mid's? I appreciate any info, and thank you very much.
Posted by: crackur
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Posted by: Zawmby
Mp3 Ringtones on the kyocera slider remix? well Im not sure if my provider makes a difference but I use us cellular. It should be a simple task. if you are using the trans flash card. just add the mp3s you want to the saved sounds folder and view them in your media gallery and choose options and assign as a ringtone. I do not know if it is true or not but I was told they had to be 30 sec or less clips. I follow these guidlines and Im doing just fine.
Posted by: pilot777
I made ringtones with such params -- mono, 128 kbs@44kHz (VBR or CBR) about 30 secs. IMHO the less size of the file the better.
The phone is the Virgin Slider KX5. The renaming tricks don't work on this phone. The FS of the Remix and the VMU KX5 is different, take this into account. To upload the stuff use the QPST or earlier BP. Good luck!
Posted by: luminati25
Say all I did was take a song mp3 file and cut it down from its regular 4 min, and made it 30 seconds long. then I put the sav snds section on my Trans flash card. I was then able to assign it as a ringer in my saved songs section... It was about 500kb, to large to send but quiet right to set for ringer.
Posted by: //Nathan
You don't need any fancy software. The KX-5 has a memory card slot. You can get a 512MB Transflash (aka MicroSD) card on Newegg.com for about $15. Don't pay any more than you have to for it. The book says that is the biggest card it can support, but people here claim to have some luck with the 1GB and 2GB models. For music alone, 512MB is all you probably need.
The memory card is too small to fit in any computer, but it comes with an adapter which will plug into any SD/MMC slot. If you haven't got a memory card reader, you should get one - they're fairly cheap. I built my computer with an internal one. You can get external ones which hook up via USB. And there are ones that support only one card type and "transform" your memory card into a thumb drive. So you have a few choices. Oh, and some printers have memory card readers, so if you have one, check to see if it does or not.
That said... To make a ringtone, you need something to crop audio. A ringtone will only play for about 23 seconds, so anything after that is a waste and will not play when you are called. I have a couple ringtones that are a few seconds longer, but that was just me being neat - they will play all the way when you select them on the list, they'll play till the end.
I use Nero's Wave Editor, and it works well. Audacity is a free audio-editing tool you might want to try. Figure out how to select a section of audio, figure out how to zoom in and out. I recommend Winamp (or just use your favorite media player) to figure out what part of the song you want as a ringtone. Then go into the editor, zoom in to the right area, and work out the specifics at a high zoom.
On your phone, if you haven't done this already, stick the card in, format it, and assign all available functions to the card. This will create the folders that you need and ensure the phone is empty. I recommend you have a dedicated phone folder on your hard drive. Have one folder for your music and one for the ringtones. Ringtones go in the SAVEDSND folder on the memory card.
Tip: If you assign a ringtone to someone, it copies it from the "Saved Sounds" folder on the phone to the "Ringtones" folder, in the "Sounds" folder. If you assign the same ringtone to another contact, it makes a second copy, wasting space not on your card but on your phone. Instead, assign the ringtone to the first contact, then lookup the second contact in Contacts, go into their profile, and choose Assign Ringer from there. That way every contact is assigned to the exact same ringer file.
Posted by: pilot777
An excellent guide, but rather a long post. However, the trick seems not to be done w/o a tf card. Can confirm working a 1 mg card on the vm kx5b, and the remix should definitely work with it. And in the end I would recommend Cool Edit Pro, a great sound editing tool, that I use myself.
Posted by: peckich7
Thanks for the info. I've searched all over the web for phone tools for this kx5 and couldn't find anything in download format that wasn't free. I'll give this a try
