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MP3 Ringtones on LG VX6100
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Posted by: dustindd

Day before yesterday I went to my local Verizon Wireless store and purchased the LG VX6100 phone because I was told it plays MP3 files. Once I took the phone home and actually looked at it I see they want to sock me with more charges to download their ring tones. I don’t want their ring tones. I have my own I want to use.

For example, when my mother is calling I want to hear her voice say “pick up the phone”. Verizon’s web site, the phone manufacturers web site and the user manual all neglect to give instructions on how to use your own MP3 files as ring tones for fear you won’t buy tones from them. (Even if I wanted to, I don’t want to pay to browse through their individual applications to pay again to download ring tones. That’s unfair business practices. They don’t even have any ring tones I want).

On two separate occasions I emailed myself a ring tone I wanted to use in Mono, less than 100kb and I tried it once as a .mid file and once as a .mp3 file. Either way once received the phone says "Attachment Dropped (filename.mp3) of type "audio/mpeg" name= "filename.mp3"

I’ve searched all over www.howardforums.com to learn how to do this but I can’t seem to find the answers I am looking for.

Help!

Dustin
dustin@dustindrorbaugh.com
AIM: DustinDD9579

Posted by: LoveMy6100

The answer to this was posted somewhere else but I don't feel like looking for the link.

Even though you renamed it to .mid, it's still being read as FILENAME.mid.mp3. Go into the folder you have the mp3 in, click TOOLS -> FOLDER OPTION -> VIEW and make sure "Hide Extensions for Known File Types" is UNchecked. Then rename the file to FILENAME.mid and reupload. That should fix it.

Posted by: dustindd

Hey thanks for the reply... when I bought my computer a couple years ago the first thing I did was uncheck the "Hide Extensions for Known File Types" option... I did rename the actual file .mid and it won't let me save it to the phone.

Posted by: halfpint

Hi dustindd,
I did all of the same things you did, with no luck either. After reading the tutorials and the mp3 ringtones thread, it is my understanding that the vzw website will no longer allow you to send ringtones to your phone...

With that said, I did what most everyone else on this forum does and bought a data cable from ebay, downloaded BitPim, and transferred my own ringtones to my phone...

I am by know means technologically advanced (as a matter of fact half of the stuff I read on here I don't even understand) but I was able to get it all working. I did bug a few people through PMs, but they were nice and helped me make sense of most of it.

I would recommend purchasing a data cable... it is much better than GIN and way more fun to mess with all the stuff on your phone.

Good Luck!
-hp

Posted by: dustindd

thank you. I will take your advice and purchase a data cable.

Dustin

www.DustinDrorbaugh.com

Posted by: rottendumpling

You can just email yourself the ringtone via yourphonenumber@vzwpix.com instead of doing it straight from Verizon's website. Works for me at least...

Posted by: dustindd

I have emailed myself at the email address you posted, but when the message is received by my phone, I get the following error:

Either way once received the phone says "Attachment Dropped (filename.mp3) of type "audio/mpeg" name= "filename.mp3"

Posted by: li_deng888

i think what happened is that even though you renamed it to xxx.mid, the MIME type is still sent as mp3. i have been using this free site

http://www.funformobile.com

for my lg6000. it has worked well. hope it helps.

Posted by: rangerdave

upload it with the latest bitpim to that phone as a mp3 it will hold it and play

RD

Posted by: m0nst3r

yes just did it myself works great, i had one on and than i deleted it but it still shows the name in the ring tones folder, how do u get rid of it i think it was posted b4 but couldnt find it

Posted by: m0nst3r

nvm got it