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How to Create a Dead Ringer - Step by Step
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Posted by: nancito

Ok folks, after much messing around and trying to put the pieces together, I wanted to create my own dead ringer (any sound file) for my phone. Here is how to do it.

You need the following items and software:

PCS Vision
Qualcomm Purevoice
Qualcomm Purevoice converter
Winamp or another sound converter - mp3 to wav
Nero Wave Editor (it is included as a part of Nero Burning Rom) or another wave editing program

1. Download the sound file and make sure you can convert it to a wave.

2. Open winamp and convert your file to a wave. Do this by going to Options -> Preferences -> Plugins -> Output -> Nullsoft Diskwriter Plug-in. After selecting, hit configure and select your destination directory. Check Convert to Format. Format needs to be PCM, Attributes is 8khz, 16 bit, Mono - 15 kb/sec. Hit ok and ok again. Close and play the file. This does the conversion - you shouldn't hear any sound.

3. Once this sound is converter, be sure to go back to the Output selection mentioned above and change the setting back to waveOut output or whatever it was previously set as. If you don't make this change, you will convert every song played in winamp into a wave file.

4. Now that you have created your wave file, you need to open your file editor and crop the file to about 10 seconds in length or so. This really should be close to sufficient, but you can make it shorter. Watch out with making it too long because the phone might have trouble playing it. This is trial and error but around 10 secs usually works. Once you crop the file, save it and close the wave editor.

5. Open Purevoice and either drag and drop the sound file or hit File, Open... Once the file is loaded, hit Alt + Shift + C to convert. Save the file. Please note that I included the converter as a necessary download but I am not sure it is necessary. I have only tried this with it installed, but it may work without it.

6. Now you have your file and it is in the proper format. Go to:
The Vision Tool and download the file to your phone through Vision. There are other websites that do this, but this one works just fine.

You're done! Congratulations and enjoy your new dead ringer!

Posted by: HollyKP

I don't see the 'Nero Wave Editor'. I see everything else BUT that. I clicked on the link you put on there too.

Posted by: nancito

bump for my friends

Posted by: Aurora

Maybe I've missed something, but what preicsely does this "dead ringer" do? Crash a phone? Lock it up badly so it looks defective?

...hmmmm.

Posted by: nancito

A dead ringer is any sound file that is converted to a ringtone. If you had the SCP-5000 it was the rooster sound available, the SCP-6200 had the cat meowing or the dog barking, the crazy chicken is a dead ringer. These are just examples, with the little tutorial above, you can create your own out of any sound that you want!

Posted by: explorer2k

Anyone else getting timeouts on the phone hitting the site?

Posted by: suzyqphone

How else can the .qcp files be uploaded to the phone? e-mail? your own webserver? I won't go through an upload site -- refuse to give out the number.

I've tried both approaches, and nothing.

Any help appreciated.

Posted by: ajoint

There's some processing required to make a file ready for download. I know that the format is qcd, however what's embedded, I don't know.

You would have to have your own web server to host the qcd files for the phone to download.

There are some other sites that have implemented the downloading service.

I have been using http://www.sprintusers.com/focus

It has worked well for me.

Posted by: suzyqphone

that dealt with the topic of DIY upload to your phone. I'll paste it in:
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I am using Personal Web Server on Windows 98. Here's what I had to do:

1. I went to any window and did a View -> Folder Options -> File Types -> New Type. I made the MIME type as "text/x-pcs-gcd" (no quotes) with a default extension of ".gcd" (no quotes). Personal Web Server apparently reads from Windows 98 File Types settings. Then I restarted my computer, just to make sure the setting took effect.

I have no idea how to change MIME types for other web servers.

2. Using Notepad, I created a file with an extension of .gcd (my example: "yesmaster.gcd"). It's a text file that looks exactly like this:

Content-Type: audio/vnd.qcelp
Content-Name: Vader Yes Master
Content-Version: 1.0
Content-Vendor: Lee
Content-URL: http://67.112.202.76/pcsvision/yesmaster.qcp
Content-Size: 2496

Some notes I've found: Content-URL MUST be an absolute path. Content-Size is the size of the .qcp file in bytes. Content-Name is the name that appears when you browse through your phone's ringer menu. Seems like Version and Vendor is just for info purposes (like when you do a Properties of that ringer). Content-Type has to be audio/vnd.qcelp for .qcp files.

3. Create a link to the .gcd file on any HTML page using the usual <A> tags. There is nothing unusual that needs to be done to this tag. Notice that DO NOT create a link to the .qcp file. The phone downloads the descriptor file, and then downloads the ringer based on the URL in the descriptor file.
Example:
<A HREF="PCSVision/yesmaster.gcd">Yes, My Master</A>

4. From your phone, go to this HTML page, click on your link, and your phone should do the rest!

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Your MMV, but this is the general procedure, apparently. If anyone sets this up for Apache, let us know how it goes.

Posted by: nancito

anybody having purevoice crash if they press the stop button when the track is playing as a wav file during the preview in XP?

Posted by: suzyqphone

purevoice is ancient, just have to work around it.

Posted by: longhornfan

nancito thanks for the step by step!!!

I did exactly what you said and it worked, a ringer i have been waiting matrixm to ok i now have on my phone.

My phone did not crash and the ringer sounds great it could be a little louder but for my first try i think it sounds good.

if you find out any more tricks let us know

Again thanks

Go horns
Goodbye chris simms

Hello ??????

Posted by: longhornfan

Ok small problem i am getting an error on my phone that reads

data error 906 invalid descriptor

and then it says

install failed

i have checked all the settings file size bit rate all the normal stuff. still nothing
any help would be great

thanks

Posted by: nancito

Sorry I don't know enough about the error message that you are getting. I will tell you that you can increase the volume of your ringers in the wave editor, though. After you complete the cropping of the wave file, select all and go to volume -> normalize. This allows the peaks and valleys of the volume to be smoothed. Go back to volume -> change volume and increase the volume. You can always undo your step if you over do the increase. Make sure that it doesn't distort, you can visually see this by the two spectrum analyzer bars. If they reach far into the red, you may want to turn down the gain in the change volume selection.

P.S. Longhornfan, my sis goes to UT.

Posted by: longhornfan

She must be a great person, thanks for the help

Texas EX 1995

Posted by: nancito

bump for the people looking for these instructions.

Posted by: nooge

Quote:

Originally posted by suzyqphone
that dealt with the topic of DIY upload to your phone. I'll paste it in:
===================================

I am using Personal Web Server on Windows 98. Here's what I had to do:

Your MMV, but this is the general procedure, apparently. If anyone sets this up for Apache, let us know how it goes.

try adding this line to the web server's HTACCESS file (if you don't know what that is then ask your hosting provider or the webmaster):

AddType text/x-pcs-gcd gcd

Posted by: nancito

Here are some links for midi's as well.

http://www.geerdes.de/mmc/eng (has demos)
http://www.midifarm.com/files/midifiles
http://www.mididb.com/
http://www.mystiqal.com/
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/mid...idi-search.html (great search engine for midis)
http://www.midimaven.com/hittrax.html (has demos)
http://www.vanbasco.com/midisearch.html
http://johnnyrico.future.easyspace.com (Music, TV, Movies themes)
http://home.epix.net/~sks/ (4350 midis)
Still can't find what you are looking for? Try the newsgroup:
alt.binaries.sounds.midi

Posted by: danl

Can all phones play these qcp files?

I thought it was only midi files. I have the N400

Posted by: nancito

I think all vision phones can play QCP files.

Posted by: nancito

bump for the folks looking for this. still don't understand why it isn't a sticky post. another great post is from martianviking with the screen dimensions for graphics. mods, if you are reading this, please make these posts sticky to reduce the clutter and confusion. thanks!

Posted by: nancito

ttp

Posted by: Sachmo12345

i am in need of help

my phone receives the message from the site but when i try to go to it it just has a blank web page

Posted by: justinc

i stumbled acrossed this php script that basically is a ready made wap site for u to upload ur own files to (thru ftp), and it dynamically shows ur files without having to edit the html code at all.... neways, heres the link. check it out if ur looking for something like this... http://jonroig.com/modules.php?op=m...=article&sid=74

oh and make sure u add a line in all the .htaccess files to add the gcd filetype..

Posted by: nancito

Try this site instead of timmy sprint users focus uploader

Posted by: action-packed

Why i cant download the purevoice converter everytime i download and unzip it i can't open the file or install it why please help me i aint that good with computers

Posted by: rick_pp

when i download the converter why it doesn't open. My operating system is windows XP. For some reason why i unzip the file it doesn't open or install. please help .

Posted by: K0m1k_kn0k

Quote:

Originally posted by suzyqphone
How else can the .qcp files be uploaded to the phone? e-mail? your own webserver? I won't go through an upload site -- refuse to give out the number.

I've tried both approaches, and nothing.

Any help appreciated.

sprintusers.com/focus they don't keep your phone #, if they do, ill stop using that site, just for you...

beer is my anti-drug