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deleting problems and ringtones
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Posted by: aotiko

I have a vx6000 and I put a ringtone on in the format of Mp3, now I can't delete them. i can delete all the stock ringtones but the mp3s remain and don't even work. How can i delete these? Also, could you link me to a tutorial for how to load on ringtones with a lower quality so they can work and take up minimal space. BTW I use BitPim. thanks in advance

Posted by: DinoVelvet

when you sent the mp3 ringtones to the phone, did you click it to add or replace the orginal ones? if you clicked it to replace them, only the mp3 ringtones you added will show up (even if it's only 1 mp3 ringtone) even when you restart the phone. if you delete all of those mp3 ringtones, the next time you restart the phone the names of the mp3 ringtones will replace the original ringtone names, but no tone will play at all...

you could fix it by opening bitpim and clicking the ringers tab. then, delete ALL of the ringtones in the ringers tab that you added. with no ringers listed, click data and send data to phone. then check off ringers and the replace box should be checked. click ok and give it a few seconds to send the data. now, when you restart the phone, the original 5 ringtones that were always there from when you got your phone will be there and woking fine. to add ringtones, follow the above steps but instead of no ringers being listed you will list the ones you want to put back on the phone. it's more of a way to start over than a fix...

if you want, you can try it with just the ringtones you want on the phone and see what happens. that should be more of a fix. it should only load the ones you add to the ringers catagory, cancelling out the problem you're having by not being able to hear the ringtone on a ringer. if you delete the ringers on the phone, what happened to you (the ringer not playing) will always happen, at least it has when i tried it. you should really delete ringers using bitpim like i described above, at least that's what i would say from my personal experience with bitpim. i could always be wrong though, so maybe someone here with alot of experience with bitpim can add some knowledge here...

and here is the link to the 6000 tutorial if you still want it, it's at http://home.nycap.rr.com/stopcbt/vx6000.html

Posted by: aotiko

thanks, for some reason whenever I delete anything stock on the phone, it just comes back whenever I turn it off. I don't know why

Posted by: DinoVelvet

that's because those 5 ringers are in the phones software, i don't think there is a way to totally remove them and never see them again using bitpim or anything else.

Posted by: easiwrap

Had the same problem. Spent 2 1/2 hours at store today. Bottom line-they replaced the phone with a new one. MP3's do something to the brain of the phone, kinda like ROM in a computer. They tried everything including software upgrade to version 8. Each time the phone restarted, the mp3's came back. The last time they came back, but would not work. They obviously tried to make it my fault, since mp3's don't just appear on the lg6000.

The service tech told me to be real careful, they will not exhange again and left a note on my account. Sorry I can't say anything more technical. I can just tell you the same thing happened to me

Good luck and be careful!

Posted by: DinoVelvet

if that ever happens again, try what i said above, it worked for me. all you have to do is delete all of the ringer in the ringers tab of bitpim then send them (really nothing) to the phone. check it off to replace the existing ones, you will see no ringers in your media file and then restart it. when it restarts you will see the original 5 that are always there and none of the ones you have originally loaded, it's really like a way of clearing all of your old ringtones and starting over without messing anything vital up. i've done it and it worked, unless you are talking about something completely different happening to you and i'm missing it...

Posted by: easiwrap

You happen to be correct and that solution has worked in the past. However, for some reason this time it did not.

I have it down to 2 reasons
1) I was getting bitpim errors that I had never received before
2) One of the mp3's was over 40k-which shouldn't be a problem

The Verizon guy thinks that while the files were transferring, one of the mp3's may have been or became corrupted. He claims that would easily fry it.

Posted by: DinoVelvet

it is certianly strange that it did work and all of a sudden didn't. and i personally don't think the size of the ringer really matters at all, one of the ringers i deleted was over 140k. it could have been another bitpim error that caused it though, the do start to add up after a while and i'm sure they start running to each other after a certian point...