Convoy SCHu640 Ringtones With Bitpim!!!

[Monkeygrits]

I just figured out how to add ringtones to your Convoy with bitpim. I started with this thread from grc which say the that Convoy can be recognized through bitpim by manually selecting the SCH-U750 (Alias 2) phone....Thanks GRC!!!

GRC's Thread

The ringtone will actually get written into your sounds instead of your ringtone folder but it can still be used as a ringtone just the same.

first of all leave your phone in usb sync mode and DO NOT switch it to modem mode.
1 Start Bitpim
2 Hook your phone to the computer with the usb cable. Phone will be recognized in bitpim as other cdma phone. Open your phone and hit clear so that sync mode is closed and your wallpaper comes up. DO NOT unhook your phone from the cable. The phone will momentarily disconnect from bitpim and then reconnect. SWEET NOW
3 Go to edit and then to settings in bitpim. Manually set your phone to SCH-U750 (Alias 2)
4 Go to media in bitpim and click on SOUNDS. Now click the add music note at the top and make the ringtone as you normally would. when your finished making it send it to your phone with the add ringtone button and once your phone restarts, check your SOUNDS folder in your phone.....BAM!!!!

Once again, thanks to GRC for getting the ball rolling...I guess this will have to work untill they update bitpim...

Sorry if this is a repost BTW

[bkw999]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I just got the convoy...and I am following your instructions but it's not working...must be doing something wrong...can you help?

I set the phone to USB modem...then plus the phone into my computer.

Then start BitPim...select U750 Alias 2...port auto

BitPim is just not detecting the phone.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

[bkw999]

One more thing....I also followed your direction by not putting the phone in USB modem first....and left it in sync mode....but BitPim never detect the phone.

Thanks.

[motokatz]

This is not working for me either; I set BitPim to SCH-U750 (Alias 2) & do the transfer of ringtones, it appears to be transferring, but when i check the phone they are not in the ringtone folder.


However, I can view the Phones Internal memory when I connect the data cable, by looking in My Computer. I can see the "Music & "Playlists" folder. I can drag music into those folders, but that is all. Can't set them as a ringtone any way at all...

Any other suggestions?

I just figured out how to add ringtones to your Convoy with bitpim. I started with this thread from grc which say the that Convoy can be recognized through bitpim by manually selecting the SCH-U750 (Alias 2) phone....Thanks GRC!!!

GRC's Thread

The ringtone will actually get written into your sounds instead of your ringtone folder but it can still be used as a ringtone just the same.

first of all leave your phone in usb sync mode and DO NOT switch it to modem mode.
1 Start Bitpim
2 Hook your phone to the computer with the usb cable. Phone will be recognized in bitpim as other cdma phone. Open your phone and hit clear so that sync mode is closed and your wallpaper comes up. DO NOT unhook your phone from the cable. The phone will momentarily disconnect from bitpim and then reconnect. SWEET NOW
3 Go to edit and then to settings in bitpim. Manually set your phone to SCH-U750 (Alias 2)
4 Go to media in bitpim and click on SOUNDS. Now click the add music note at the top and make the ringtone as you normally would. when your finished making it send it to your phone with the add ringtone button and once your phone restarts, check your SOUNDS folder in your phone.....BAM!!!!

Once again, thanks to GRC for getting the ball rolling...I guess this will have to work untill they update bitpim...

Sorry if this is a repost BTW

[Shawnf350]

To get the ringtones to work follow MonkeyGrits instructions BUT YOU MUST RENAME THE FILE WITH A .QCP FILE EXTENSION before you send it to phone. Then they will show in the My Sounds after you send them and it works. If you sent previous MP3 files in my sounds I have no idea how to remove them so they will always reappear when getting phone data.

[figueroa4]

Worked for me, thanks!

[floydo]

I just figured out how to add ringtones to your Convoy with bitpim. I started with this thread from grc which say the that Convoy can be recognized through bitpim by manually selecting the SCH-U750 (Alias 2) phone....Thanks GRC!!!
first of all leave your phone in usb sync mode and DO NOT switch it to modem mode.
1 Start Bitpim
2 Hook your phone to the computer with the usb cable. Phone will be recognized in bitpim as other cdma phone.

After quite some research including going thru GRC's great descriptions, and trying the current Bitpim with a couple of drivers on two different hard drives, I cannot get a driver to satisfy the new hardware driver request or allow BitPim to recognize the phone. I tried a samsung driver that came with a data cable that provided a Samsung CDMA modem driver that was inoperable per Bitpim, and tried the GRC vzw driver SamsungUSBDriver_4_40_7_0_v1_6.zip with similar results (it did provide a "modem driver".... I do have LGE CDMA ports that show up as inoperable from my old LG8300 that connected fine to the LG....
If Bitpim could recognize a driver that was "operable" or the phone as "other cdma device", I'm sure I could get to the ringtone transfer. As it is I ended emailing myself a couple of ringtones...but I have over 50, so that is a pain in ...
Device manager does recognize the Convoy as a SCH-U640 storage device, but does not seem to be useable to BitPim.

Any suggestions would be welcome!
Thx
Floyd

[Shawnf350]

The drivers are included in Verizon's Software . You can actually watch it install the driver before you accept the software agreement and then cancelthe install . If you get confused just install all the software.

http://www.vzam.net/vcastmusic/Step1.aspx

[silverj]

I could never get bitpim to work for me. It never recognized that there was any phone, but I did manage to transfer .qcp files via micro SD straight into the ringtones folder. The quality of those files is very poor (it sounds just like it was recorded by the phone), but they play. Does anyone know how to make the sound quality better?

[floydo]

The drivers are included in Verizon's Software . You can actually watch it install the driver before you accept the software agreement and then cancelthe install .
http://www.vzam.net/vcastmusic/Step1.aspx

Thx Shawn, but the link you posted is for the GRC vzw driver SamsungUSBDriver_4_40_7_0_v1_6.zip I previously described as not working ....(it did provide a "modem driver".... and also shows a "Samsung Mobile Modem Diagnostic Serial Port (WDM) (Com11)" that is not available.....

However after your prompt, the problem of phone recognition was solved by changing the order of loading the phone with Bitpim (see below)

Ah Hah! After messing around with "unavailable drivers" per Bitpim that actually show up in Device Manager, plugging in the phone first, then starting Bitpim allowed Bipim to see the phone as other CDMA. Changing it to Alias 750 turned the right lower icon yellow, but does allow the phone book to be transferred to Bitpim. Did not see a sync mode to clear as Monkeygrits described (phone always showed wallpaper as far as I could tell).
Next try adding a sound. Took an mp3, converted it via the add sounds dialog, then transferred it to the phone with Bitpim...It shows successful, but the sounds folder in the phone initially does not show the sound. Looking in the phone file directory via Bitpim the file shows up in mm as a .mid....weird...After several reboots of the phone, and another recognition by Bitpim, Bitpim shows the file in the sounds and the phone does shows the clip in sounds, but when you set the sound as a ringtone...the sound does not appear in phone ringtones.....
Hmmmmm.
Additionally tried adding another sound that was an mp3, changed the file extension to scp, based on Shawns description, then converting it to mp3 within the Bitpim dialog, but received a series of errors....
So in summary

Stuck again, but further in with the phone recognized, sounds transferred, but not showing as ringtones after setting sound as ringtone......

Perhaps there is something in the send sounds to the phone dialog that is not correct in sequence...

[Anubis62118]

Try looking under My Sounds for your ringtones.

Also, straight .MP3 files will work perfectly, you just need to put them in the right place.


See my post in this thread for how I got mine to work.

[Stealthpiper]

I followed Monkeygrits instructions- worked fine. I did change the file type to .QCP (from MP3). I did notice that when you buy a ring-tone for the Convoy it comes from Verizon in MP3 format. See no reason why MP3 wouldn't work.

I did install Vcast Rhapsody before doing all this. I did not have driver problem although Windows 7 consistently advised me that it could not find a driver. It all worked.

Thanks for all the post and help from everyone.

[floydo]

Try looking under My Sounds for your ringtones.

Also, straight .MP3 files will work perfectly, you just need to put them in the right place.


See my post in this thread for how I got mine to work.

Your explanation is very helpful....I finally got the phone and computer to talk (recognizing the phone) using a combination of monkeygrips and others inputs. It appears there are many ways to install these drivers, and manually installing them is a great idea. I did finally get a ringtone transferred to sounds and set from sounds after getting the driver to be recognized, but it was set as the generic ringtone for all! The key you indicated was "set as contact".
Yes!

I didn't recognize what that meant!
Hopefully this thread in total with all the contributions will demystify this for others...


Thanks for the linky and explanation.

[travBrack]

I followed Anubis62118's instructions and they worked well, except I had to tweak MsInfo.db to get it to work

On mine at least, when you would copy the mp3 ringtone to the 18067 folder it would not be recognized, so I tried recording a sound and I noticed that it makes entries in MsInfo.db. So here's what you do

Follow Anubis62118's instructions, reboot your phone. Then download MsInfo.db in the same folder, and it should look like this:

/ff/brew/mod/18067/myringtone.mp3|0|0
/ff/brew/mod/18067/0430100848.qcp|0|7 (if you have any recorded sounds)

Change the 0|0 on your mp3 file to 0|7 like this:

/ff/brew/mod/18067/myringtone.mp3|0|7

Overwrite the file on the phone and you're in business.

[jwadsley]

Has anyone tried using Samsung PC Studio to transfer files? I curently have a Samsung A437 from ATT and the PC Studio works fine, just wondering if this will work for the Convoy. I love my custom ringtones