Motorola VA76r ringtones?

**Sniper.338** · 11-04-2008, 09:19 AM

Sorry about the newbie question, but I just got a VA76r and bought the Motorola Tools and utilities and can't get the ringtones to work. It is a Rogers phone and I was told that they "lock" them so you have to buy their ringtones. Any suggestions?

**sacad** · 03-27-2009, 05:15 PM

Same problem here - Searched everywhere but have yet to find a solution. Unlocking the phoone won't help either

**iforce 5.7** · 05-01-2009, 09:25 PM

Seems like no one can debrand these phones as of yet. I hope they do as I got one from Rogers only to find out you can't put your own Ringtones on it! I bought the damn thing as it is very rugged much to my needs but the sob's want you to buy ringtones. I can't seem to find a rugged phone like this one that is unbranded.

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**Perios** · 05-02-2009, 03:14 PM

Motorola's sales this quarter dipped yet again. If Motorola sold directly to consumers, their sales would be much higher. Instead of being at the mercy of carriers who require Moto to not only lock the handsets, but put all that crap on them to promote carriers' product. What does Moto get in return? A used car salesman to peddle their phones whenever a contract is sold? It seems idiotic to me.

All these phones could have been SO MUCH nicer and perform better if only most of their features weren't thrown out in favor of carrier garbage.

**ALEXPOD** · 05-03-2009, 03:38 PM

I have the same issue with my phone that I picked up yesterday I went from the wimpy blackberry that I couldn't hear while in noisy places so I went to a mans' rugged phone and I only have these wimpy ring tones on it and I can't even add what I want, this really sucks . I'm ready to send it back unless there is a solutionhttp://207.218.242.35/default/images/icons/icon8.gif

**Irise34** · 05-10-2009, 12:26 AM

My mid's and MP3 are working on mine....Have you got MPT 5.17d? Keep updating until you get there with the Tundra hooked up by USB cable. Took my wallpapers too.

**iforce 5.7** · 05-10-2009, 07:55 AM

When you speak of (MPT 5.17d) are you referring to a firmware update? Also are you able to apply your MP3's as a ringtone or just listen to them as I like useing the Motorola Phone Tools to make up my own ringtones and use on my other phones. THANKS FOR THE HELP!!!!

**unregistereduse** · 05-10-2009, 01:57 PM

I have one ATT branded and one directly from motorola.com, and they both allow me to use anything i want for my ringtone. I just downloaded all mine from zedge.com to my memory card and stuck it in the phone. I did have to copy them to the phone's memory though to use them as ringer id's. I'd say that rogers must be your problems.

**Perios** · 05-10-2009, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by unregistereduse

I have one ATT branded and one directly from motorola.com, and they both allow me to use anything i want for my ringtone. I just downloaded all mine from zedge.com to my memory card and stuck it in the phone. I did have to copy them to the phone's memory though to use them as ringer id's. I'd say that rogers must be your problems.

When you say you have one directly from Motorola (vs. the at&t branded one), do you mean that the one from Motorola has no branding, no at&t logos or software etc. ?

**js1701** · 06-30-2009, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by unregistereduse

I have one ATT branded and one directly from motorola.com, and they both allow me to use anything i want for my ringtone. I just downloaded all mine from zedge.com to my memory card and stuck it in the phone. I did have to copy them to the phone's memory though to use them as ringer id's. I'd say that rogers must be your problems.

Do they have to be less than 300KB? That's what I get on my Tundra.

**Irise34** · 05-11-2009, 12:02 AM

Yep I am using homemade mp3's it works. MPT 5.17d software from motorola so far is the only thing I can get to connect to it

**Irise34** · 05-11-2009, 12:08 AM

I transferred my wallpapers I wanted thru Bluetooth I am not going to try loading anymore until I get my memory card.

**iforce 5.7** · 05-11-2009, 10:55 AM

I guess its lol at me with my last post. MPT (Motorola Phone Tools) I must of had a brain fart. I have it totally up to date (MPT) but Rogers (bless there greedy big asses) has DRM firmware on the VA76r and most all the other phones they offer. Would be nice to get around this and debrand and personalize as I wish. They (greedy big asses/ROGERS) seem to thing they are socialist rulers. I on the other hand have been collecting music most of my life and want my own tunes!!!!! FREE WORLD EH!!!!

**frog_pond** · 05-11-2009, 01:56 PM

I just picked up a VA76r Tundra. It came from AT&T, complete with all the branding garbage.

I did not need any software to upload a ringtone to the Tundra. I simply plugged it into my laptop's USB port using a mini-USB to USB cable I had laying around. The OS (Debian Linux) recognized the phone as a storage device with a file system on it and automatically opened its folder. I dropped an mp3 ringtone downloaded from the net into the appropriate sub-folder on the phone, then selected the ringtone on the phone itself.

It worked fine. No MPT needed.

I haven't tried it with Windows yet, but I don't know why it wouldn't work. The laptop just sees the phone as a USB storage device.