You mean people cant get mp3's to play as ringtones? Its pretty easy. If everybody wants a tutorial just let me know and I will post up an easy to understand and follow tutorial. I currently have 6 MP3 ringtones on my 870. I can tell you this, they sound soooooo much better than .wav tones thats for sure!

Here is an mp3 tone I made that works just fine as do all my others. So everybody try it out and see what you think. If you like it then I will tell everybody how to do it.

http://home.comcast.net/~prostreetcamaro/SES.mp3



Also I notice everybody complaining that it wont play anything higher than 8,000hz and it wont play stereo. Well guess what? The speaker CANT play stereo so it makes no difference. My mp3 ringtones sound exactly the same as the high quality mp3's that I have on my flash card. so whats the big deal here guys? Seriously.

Ah, okay, I noticed you were using 8khz as opposed to the suggested 12khz. That got the mp3 working for me as a ringtone.

Additionally, I don't think the concern here is people playing their ringtones in stereo, but they would like it if they could play back at a higher quality. The difference over the phone speaker is noticeable.

Again though, thanks! Oh, and great ringtone. Almost forgot about that song. Still love it, heh heh.

Ok guys here is what you do.

1. Get yourself a copy of Adobe audition

2. Install and open audition.

3. Go to file in upper right hand corner then navigate to your mp3 files and choose the one you want.

4. Select the section of the song you want useing the mouse. Just left click and drag to your desired end point and let go.

5. Right click on your selection and click "copy to new"

6. Now hit F11 and choose sample rate 8000, then click mono then 32 bit resolution then click OK

7. Now go up to file and click save as. Once that window is open click on options.

8. Go down to where you see CBR BitRate and put in 48 and click ok.

9. You will still have a save as screen open. In the bottom left of that screen uncheck "save extra non audio information"

10. Choose where you want to save the file and rename it something short. (I forget the limit of characters) Then click save.


There you have it. A pretty good quality mp3 that will play on your 870 as a ringtone!


I hope this step by step directions will help somebody with there quest to make mp3 ringtones for there i870.

prostreet, are you loeading that through webjal or the TF card

Webjal. It may work if you load it via TF card then transfer it to the internal memory of the phone. I havent given that a try yet.

25 MB internal storage

Sorry, I haven't tried it yet...just reporting what I've heard regarding mp3's. I've been using wav's and using my old settings, as they sound good enough to me! Who knows, maybe a "certified" mp3, whatever that may be, would fix the problem and allow us to assign the highest bitrate as ringtones. That would be cool, but what the heck is a "certified" mp3?

I made a ringtone with exactly what you wrote....when i loaded the mp3 through webjal it wouldn't let me put it as a ringtone...but it was in my media center

Tried this method with some 8kHz / 48kbps / Mono and it didn't work. I don't think it's possible to load the ringtones from the TFlash card. Going to try the same files through WebJAL to make sure that's it.

I made an mp3 ringtone. 8000hz 16 bit. Itried loading it onto the 870 through webjal, but webjal only gives me the option of loading midi files. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.

first of all your ringtone is in the wrong format, second have you tryed hitting the drop down menu? and ohh yea try actally connecting your phone to the webjal.

what you are doing wrong is simple, you are not utlizing the search button. problem solved, i would say done.l but i guess i can say, "yes you can"
sorry, i had to. just drag down the tab and it should open other options, make sure the phone is connected and you are logged in.

followed every step and nothing, actually sounded worse than before. this sucks that the i860 sounds better

whats the best settings to get the best quality ringtones? 8000hz mono 32bit? there has to be a way to get the crisp sounding ringtones of the 930... i hella like my 870... but the 930 ringtones make me want my 930... i knwo its just ringtones... but man... you feel me?

Im trying to figure out how I got a 64 kps file to assign as ringer. I dont know if its a fluke or what but so far only one file has worked. Im affriad if I remove it from the phone it wont let me load another like it, seeing as though its only worked once.

In order for a ringtone to work in the first place you must convert it to mono. It will NOT work in stereo and will only show up in the media player.

For mp3 music that I listen to I convert any stereo file down to a mono file to save some space since it sounds the same either way.

It is quite obvious that the ringtone software is limiting the quality of the assignable ringtone. I hope that someone can find a way to get around this as the phone is no doubt capable of much much more.