I had a Motorola SLVR forever and was real good at making it do what I want with P2KTools and Motorola Phone Tools. MPT was great, it not only synced contacts but transferred anything like photos, sounds, music, whatever, back and forth between phone and computer. It also Let you do and see SMS messages and manage contacts.
Now I have a Verizon Droid X (Wow, is this really a phone?) and I got the wireless setup with ES File Explorer app that is really cool for moving files between the computer, but anytime I connect the USB cable, I get this super noisy Verizon web page wanting me to install some sort of crappy Verizon software on my computer. I am very reluctant to do that, sounds like adware to me.
Motorola Phone Tools did a lot of cool stuff, it took big mp3 songs, let you chop them down with fade in/out and reduced the bit rate to like 56K, perfect for a ringtone, and let me upload it to the phone, then I could select it from the SLVR menu.
Although I have uploaded quite a bit of mp3 music to the Droid X, nowhere in the ringtone select menu does it allow for importing other mp3, wav, or any other sonds. How can I get my own ringtones on a Droid X please. This one has me stumped and, no, I do not want to pay for ringtones.
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or if you want to use your own music and cut it down, use ringdroid... also free in the market.
as for the usb-tools its wanting to download, its basically verizons version of the phone portal. its just a system so windows can browse and manage android.
I downloaded Ringdroid from the market, some dude on droidforums.net told me to get this and it worked like a MF, dam that was a good, free app! That plus FS File Explorer to grab stuff from home wireless network right off my big computer or Linux server. The built in file manager does not connect with all computers but this FS thing does, and it does local, LAN, and FTP too! So now I grab my mp3 files with FS Explorer, plop them on my droid, and use Ringdroid to make ringtones. ...sweet!
I need games, man. Good games. Last time I came here for my SLVR, some dude S Brown gave up a 180 top shelf cellphone gamepack file share. Wonder if there are any good games like shooters, etc, for Droid X?
look up whatever you want... then search google for the .apk file.
nice and simple, then use astro file manager to install it.
"apk file"? That is how games come for the droid phones now like droid x? No more jar or jad files? And then how do you do it, put the apk file anywhere and then find it with the astro file manager and it will install it? I do not have an "Astro" file manager, I installed the FS File manager so I could grab stuff from my Windows 7 box off the wireless LAN. Let me check Marketplace for this Astro thing. Will get back to you, thanks.
"apk file"? That is how games come for the droid phones now like droid x? No more jar or jad files? And then how do you do it, put the apk file anywhere and then find it with the astro file manager and it will install it? I do not have an "Astro" file manager, I installed the FS File manager so I could grab stuff from my Windows 7 box off the wireless LAN. Let me check Marketplace for this Astro thing. Will get back to you, thanks.
.apk is the file extension that android uses. All apps you install on the phone will be an. Apk file. Jot sure he fs. Works because I have never used it hit as long as you can navigate to your SD card that is all you should need. If it won't let you install Tue
apk file then use astro which will.
What is this "Astro", I have heard this before. Is this a file manager? Right now I am using FS File Explorer which is awesome! It does local, LAN, FTP, and Bluetooth for file navigation, copy, delete, etc. I can go to my home PC with it on LAN, grab what I want, and copy it to the phone. .apk files all show up in FS File Explorer as installable applications. If they are installed from the Verizon Market, then holding your finger on the app will offer to remove it. Anything installed otherwise such as touching Cubik.apk from my game pack will install the application, but to remove it, go to Settings, Applications, Manage Applications, and see the list of everything installed on the Droid. Touching the item gives the option to delete or uninstall it.
I am still learning this phone, I miss arrow keys to pinpoint cursor location for editing, but am learning to live with it with the red dot and the magnifying window that comes up. So far, I stink at it, I always get the option list instead of the magnifying edit window, but am working on it. It is like parallel parking, there really is a simple procedure for it and if you follow the procedure, it is not hard at all. If you do not know the procedure and just try to "wing it", then it becomes very difficult.
Load your MP3's.
Go into Music
Find the one you want.
Click it to play.
Hit Menu.
Pick "Use as Ringtone"
Done. No need to duplicate songs, cut, paste, etc.
Doh!
That was just too simple. How could I miss that? I have never owned a phone like this before in my life. I am a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to cars, phones, and TV service. I get everything for free on the Internet and am good on it so for me to pay for a phone like this is a very big deal. I really got this one so I would not have to buy two things to call on phone and give Internet to laptop with. This one phone does it all.
I tap on my friend in the contact and it shows me within feet of where I am on a google map or where his house is. I talk text messages and it writes them down for me and hardly ever gets it wrong. And I think it is supposed to do voice commands like "Call Bill Meyers" and it will, although I have not figured that part out yet.
I thought that only Paris Hilton could have a phone like this, no way a blue collar computer and electronic dude could have something like this. Wrong, a tad expensive compared to my SLVR, but way the F worth every penny of it.
The Ringdroid app is still very cool as it lets you trim the song to the length and part you want. But for basic turn this song into a ring tone, the Droid OS has it covered, just like Windows 7 now knows enough to burn a music CD, movie DVD or data disc when you insert a blank disc of any kind. Eat your heart out, Vista!
Now I got songs up the butt, games up the butt, and a hell of a lot of stuff to learn. This Droid OS is really Linux, I wonder is there is a way to get under the hood and open a term window to the command line in there. Good question for all the super major phone geeks out there.
I just bought a DroidX after having an IPhone and I can't do a thing with it. Can you HELP? First how do you "Load your MP3's" to the DroidX?
Ok. Since you are coming from an iphone, we'll assume you use iTunes. Go to the market and grab a copy of iSyncr. Pay the $2.99. Connect the phone to your computer. It will show up as a drive like a thumbdrive. Run the isyncr app from the drive that appears. It will let you sync your itunes playlists to the music app on the Droid. Repeat this as needed for more tunes you import to itunes.
I just bought a DroidX after having an IPhone and I can't do a thing with it. Can you HELP? First how do you "Load your MP3's" to the DroidX?
This phone is *way* easier to use/load/play with than any other phone I've ever had. I am a PC man, Windows 7. First off, what kind of computer do you use? It makes a difference. I can help with the PC stuff, there are many others that will jump right in for Mac computers.
Thanks this worked; but the DroidX wouldn't let me download the iSyncr it kept saying there was an error with the server. So I ended up downloading the iSyncr Lite. Now one more question. Can I create my own Ringback tones? If yes how?
How to get ringtones into DROIDX phone?
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