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V276 Ringtones. Help please.
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Posted by: dequardo

NeoPhoenixTE originally posted this.

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..or something to that effect. I'm bad at topic names.

Anywho, after some work and a ton of help from spring45, I've managed to get very clear quality ringtones from MP3s onto my Motorola V276. Here's what you need:

- USB cable for a V276
- Motorola PST program (gonna have to google it, good hunting)
- Audio editing software able to save WAV files (I used Audacity personally)
- A WAV to MMF converter (This is the one I used, linked by spring45)
- Software for transferring fiels to your phone (I used p2ktools.exe personally)

Here's how ya do it:

1.) Take your desired MP3, open it into your audio editing software. Crop it to any legnth under 1:06 (30 seconds preferable for ringtones, but max length is 1:06 after experimentation)

2.) Save as a WAV file. Any sample rate you want. No fancy numbers here.

3.) Open up the WAV --> MMF converter you have, and drop the WAV file in and convert it to an MMF

4.) Rename the MMF file to an MID file (file.mmf --> file.mid)

5.) Connect your phone via the USB cable, and open up Motorola PST. (If it starts doing some crazy driver stuff, then I recommend you pause here and start checking threads on USB cable conenctivity. I cannot explain it all in here. :\)

The following step is just a means of suspending the phone. If you know how to suspend a phone, just go ahead and do it and skip ahead to step 7

6.) Start a new "startup graphic" file and Retrieve the picture info from the phone

7.) Wait for it to retrieve the info. If it says "this feature is not supported by this version of PST" then don't worry. So long as it completed the step "Suspending phone"

8.) Leave PST running where it is, minimize it, and open up your software for transferring files to your phone

9.) Transfer the MID file you made to your phone's shared audio directory (I'll try to edit in the exact path here in soon. I'm reciting this all from memory, but if you find a shared/audio folder, that's gonna be your media folder on your phone)

10.) Let the transfers finish, and then diconnect and boot up your phone

11.) Go to your file, play it to make sure it works, and then hit your middle soft button and "set as ringtone"

That should do it for ya.

Some notes:

Your ringtone length is limited to 1:06. Anything after will be cut off by the phone. For something that will be for calls only, you only have 30 seconds due to the fact that it goes to voicemail after 30 seconds.

If you uploaded multiple files (I uploaded both a ringtone and a file for voicemail and text messages) then you will need to go through each file and apply it as a ringtone one time. If you do not do this, they will not be selectible in your menu of selectable ringtones in your ringtone details menu.

That should just about do it. Again, huge thanks to Spring45 for bringing up MMF ringtones and talking about them working for a V276. I enjoyed playing guinea pig for this little tale.
NeoPhoenixTE

Posted by: dequardo

Note that I successfully completed the Wav to MMF procedure and then renamed them to .MIDs. I tried using BITPIM to transfer the files and that appeared to work however none of the files appear on the phone.

Is PST and P2Ktools required? Anyone know why using BITPIM wouldn't work?

Please advise. Thanks

Mike

Posted by: weiweiwei

does moble phone tools work?

Posted by: dequardo

Yes for phonebook transfers. No for Multimedia studio.