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8125 and MP3 ringtones
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Posted by: thehirsches

I am having a problem and have not, through 100's of pages of searching, founfd a answer.

I have a few 10-15 sec MP3 ringtones I created which are saved in my storage card root. They show up in the list of sounds to use, but when the person calls, the ring does not ring. It just vibrates as I have it on vibe then ring.

I can play them fine in media player on the phone and they even play when you select them as the chosen sound; just not when it gets a call.

My volume is all the way up as well.

Can someone help?

Posted by: kernel843

yeah i posted this problem a while back and there have been recent threads about it. If you are trying to use an mp3 ringtone for the phone, place it in the root folder of your minisd card in mp3 format and it should work (there's another 8125 thread just like this but it never got moved from the phone thread to here). Now if you're trying to use it as a notification for txt msgs, vm, etc. it must be a wav file, and in the main windows folder and the file must not be too big, or it will do what you're saying. I had the same problem u listed trying to get my file to play for txt msgs, but it was around 40 seconds long, once i got it down to about 15 it worked fine.

hope that helps

Posted by: senofed

i've actually been getting some pretty strange results with the mp3 ringtones on the 8125.. the tone plays just fine but sometimes the tone plays really high pitched. i have to coldboot the phone and they sound normal again.. but it sounds like alvin and the chipmunks are singing on my phone when an incoming call occurs.

Posted by: thehirsches

Hmmm.

I have the MP3s in the root on the card. They are only about 10-20 sec in length. They show up in the list that I can choose for rings and play when selected, but no sound when the contact with the custom ring calls.

Can someone send me a link to an MP3 that they use that works just sitting in the root of the storage card. I'd like to see if maybe it's the MP3 format.

Thanks.

Posted by: senofed

essentially there's two ways you can set up your mp3 ring tone...

1) find the directory the mp3 is in, hold click it and select "Set as Ringtone" ( i have my mp3s saved into my My Documents folder and have never had a problem with them)

or

2) Click the windows button, and select Settings then Phone, then select from the drop down menu the mp3 that you want, then press OK in the top right corner..

if that doesn't work, here's a dumb question but: do you have both your PDA volume and your Incoming Call volume up to a good level? because even if you preview your ringtone, you can have your PDA volume up and that's what it runs off of, but if you don't have the Incoming Call volume up when a call comes in-- it's worthless. and don't ask why i'm asking this.. but sometimes the simplest things cause problems.

also: it doesn't matter what the size of the ringtone/MP3 is-- i've run full length mp3s as ringtones and they just stop playing as soon as it sends the caller into the voicemail. all i do is take a simple MP3 and edit it down inside of Sonic Foundry SoundForge, to add a lead in and lead out and cut down the length of it.

Posted by: kernel843

When i posted about length I was referring to useing a .wav as a notification for txts, etc. The ringtone can be mp3 and any length, i have it doing something just like you do. However, if trying to use it as a notification length does matter (not sure if its length or file size), but if the file is TOO big/long then it will do exactly what hte op said. It took me a week to figure it out on my phone.

Posted by: BobaFettm

my favorite error so far by having the ringtone in the storage card is that it started to go off... and i pressed dismiss but for some reason the song was still going... i tried to turn the volume down but it was still going... i finally had to softboot the phone off... it was funny to me... it felt possessed by Panic! At the disco... lol