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8100 MP3 to Ringtones??
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Posted by: anfgirlie21

Does anybody know how to make the MP3's you put on the SD card to convert to an actual ring tone?? Please help!!!

Posted by: cjmedina

you need to use bitpim for ringtones. google it the best part its free you need a data cable

Posted by: Artimis

There are two ways of doing it.

1) Ringtones stored on the phone
2) Ringtones stored on the card.

For Ringtones stored on the phone:
1) Change the extension to from .mp3 to .mid (just rename the file you don't need to actually convert formats)
2) Make sure the mp3 is ~30 seconds long (since only the first 30 seconds will play when the phone rings, having the entire song will just eat up unneccessary memory)
3) Using bitpim place the files in /brew/16425/lk/mr
4) Using bitpim delete /dload/my_ringtones.dat, my_ringtonesize.dat (it might be ringtone.dat and ringtonesize.dat......just delete any .dat file that mentions ringtones and you will ok).
5) Reboot the phone (this will rebuild the .dat files you deleted to include you new ringtones).
6) You should see your rintones in the list.

NOTE: You only have 2MB of ringtone memory available if you do it this way. Use it wisely.

For Ringtones on the card:
1) There is a hack that lets you do it. There is a sticky topic on this in either the LG -> Ringtone/wallpaper forum or the Verizon -> LG forum. It is titled something like "Program to put 144 ringers on the card". Alternativley, you can search for "Josh's program" and it should bring up info about this.

NOTE: Apparently, the new software version V6 (which hasn't been released yet) will disable this hack. If you are planning on storing ringers on the card then do not upgrade to V6 when it is released.

Hope this Helps.

Posted by: hisblessng

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Originally Posted by Artimis

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NOTE: Apparently, the new software version V6 (which hasn't been released yet) will disable this hack. If you are planning on storing ringers on the card then do not upgrade to V6 when it is released...

Do you know why this is?

Thanks,
Sandy

Posted by: Artimis

Quote:

Originally Posted by hisblessng

Do you know why this is?

Thanks,
Sandy

Rumor has it that the phone automatically rewrites the ringtone.dat file every time you boot up the phone. When this happens, the ringtone.dat file looks in the /brew/16452/lk/mr directory and rebuilts the list based off the content stored there.

With the card hack, you are telling the ringtone.dat file to look at a directory in the /mmc1 folder.... So everytime this phone reboots, this will get overridden with v6.