Phone Ringtones?

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Hi i got a new phone for christmas and im totally new to phones and their ringtones. My old phone was a nokia 6310 and now I have a motorolla Razr V3 and apparently it supports MP3 ringtones. Also i can create Imelody files using a composer of some sort on the phone. My question is where can i find the notes to succesfully make some ringtones. And how do i get my mp3's from my computer to a ringtone on my phone?

Any help would be appreciated.


PS i have no idea of the right place for this thread.
 
threr are usually 2 ways:
1. Buy it (the ringtone)from your carrier,if your carrier provides such service.

2. make it yourself.
You'll need :
-an audio editing program.
-an mp3 file.
-an data cable to conect the RAZR to your computer or an bluetooth dongle,if it has bluetooth connection.(not sure about that)

p.s.

tell me exact razor model you have: Razr v3,Razr V3i,or Razr V3x -so I can help you better.
 
Didn't it come with a USB cable? My brother-in-law's V3 came with one, and also a software to edit MP3 files into ringtones. It's pretty easy to use.
 
I have a Razr V3.

I dont have a USB data cable or a bluetooth dongle but its no trouble for me to get one if i need to. Plus i dont see a CD that came with it.
 
I have a bluetooth adapter for my PC which cost £10. Easy to setup and saves having more cables hanging out your USB ports.
 
If you get the Bluetooth adapter you won't need any software. It will be the equivalent of someone sending you a file from a phone via bluetooth.
 
Don't even bother making your own tones. Just beg and steal them off your mates with bluetooth, that is what it was made for afterall. :)


P.s. How long have you had the 6310!?
 
If you get an appropriate USB cable, your phone will ask you what type of connection you want and if you select Data Storage mode (or equivalent), your phone will act simply like a USB pen and you can manually transfer any mp3's you want (depending on the free memory) Just remember to transfer them to your memory card, and not the phone memory, since the phone memory is tiny usually...

As for making mp3's, download something like Wavepad (which is free) and you can use Windows Sound Recorder to 'record' .wav samples of anything you want, or merely load an mp3 into Wavepad and edit it as you see fit. The problem them becomes choosing what to have as your ringtone... now that's the tough part!
 
I just hooked mine up with a standard USB cable for digital cameras. It requires some software to access the phone, but once that was working I just picked an MP3 from my music collection.
 
Wow, a Nokia 6310. That's an OLD phone!

I just upgraded from my siemens ME45 :lol:

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My old model cell phone says, ring ring. That's all, no ringtones what so ever.
 
If you have the Same RAZR V3 that I have you have to send motorolla 40 dollars for THEIR USB cable, and their extremely overpriced software. Or get a blutooth thing for your PC and you can bluetooth them from your PC.
 
I have a problem with mine and it's not transferring or making ringtones it's setting them to be ringtones. I have Sprint and a L7c(slvr) if it helps.

I just got the feeling I might actually have to use bluetooth unless they blocked that feature for transferring stuff. :rolleyes:

Up until now I've been doing everything via my Micro SD card.
 
I have the RAZR on Alltel, and I got the Motorola software on eBay cheap, 15 bucks shipped, I think. I've also used Bluetooth, so either way works. What the software adds over simple USB or Bluetooth file transfer is management of your phonebook and calendar on the PC, much easier than on the phone, and you can sync the phone with Outlook.

When you manage the files, there are three folders on the phone, audio, picture, and video. Anything in audio is available as a ringtone, and picture and video contain images from the phone's camera.

The USB cable is nothing special, it's the same as many digital cameras. The PC won't know what it is without the device driver, though. The phone charges while on the USB cable, also, which is what I use when travelling, since I'll have my camera's USB cable along anyway.

It's easier with Bluetooth, so if you get a USB Bluetooth dongle you're all set.

Some providers, notably Verizon, will have their own software on the phones which kills file xfer capabiliy, forcing you to buy their stuff if you want to customize the phone. I don't know if Sprint does this or not.
 
Install Motorola phone tools and you can just drag files over. I've always used my own USB cable that I got with some camera - there's really no need to go buy a bluetooth dongle or special cable. You'd have to check, but I think V3s support MP3s, providing they're unprotected. The v3i and v3x do, anyway. There's about 8 different versions all going by the RAZR name. If you need a copy of phone tools, PM me and I'll upload a copy of mine somewhere (I spent 2 hours looking for my CD the other day after I couldn't find a free version online...).
 
wfooshee
Some providers, notably Verizon, will have their own software on the phones which kills file xfer capabiliy, forcing you to buy their stuff if you want to customize the phone. I don't know if Sprint does this or not.
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Probably and most likely, they did. :rolleyes: I'll just continue to use the built-in voice recorder.

Jondot
Install Motorola phone tools...
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I HATE MPT... A rock is less pointless than it.
 
I just got one too! Its black and silver, and I put ringtones on mine all the time with Motorola Phone Tools. I use the same cable with it that I do with my PSP and it works great. To note, the Melody Studio is OK but really ***** up the quality. I use it though, but only for some songs. If you do get MPT (Motorola Phone Tools-make sure to update!) and don't see the multimedia studio option PM me or reply here and I'll help you out.
 
So MPT is able to convert mp3's to ringtones for my phone? because the ringtones on my phone are much smaller than a mp3 yet they sound just like a mp3.

Today i will get a bluetooth dongle (since my parents phone uses it also so it will help us all out) and use that to transfer files.

BTW to save some confuseion i will link you to my exact model.
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So basically i get some software to convert mp3 to ringtone and then use bluetooth to send it to my phone?
 
Small_Fryz
So MPT is able to convert mp3's to ringtones for http://www.motorola.com/consumer/v/...a010VgnVCM1000008206b00aRCRD&show=productHome

So basically i get some software to convert mp3 to ringtone and then use bluetooth to send it to my phone?
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exactly.

Note though,if your carrier is Vodafone,youre basically screwed-Vodafone (well,it does do that here where I live) likes to install in all models of cellphones it sells its uber crappy branded firmware,wich(sp?) usually locks out half of the features you bought the phone for.....one of them is playing unprotected content,as an edited mp3 file you sent over BT,be it an old recording of yourself screaming nonsense or your favorite music band's new hit song...DRM at it's finest *sigh*....


Sure,you could install original motorola firmware,or even better,an hacked one that improves the RAZR V3 by a mile,but I'm not sure is it legal there,and I probably have now confused you alot,so I'll just shut my phone nut mouth now.
 
Exactly. You'll only want 30 seconds or so of the song for a ringtone, so there's no point in converting it to anything else because the filesize will be tiddly. It will, however, convert most video filetypes to .3gp for you.
 
Small_Fryz
So MPT is able to convert mp3's to ringtones for my phone? because the ringtones on my phone are much smaller than a mp3 yet they sound just like a mp3.

Today i will get a bluetooth dongle (since my parents phone uses it also so it will help us all out) and use that to transfer files.

BTW to save some confuseion i will link you to my exact model.
Here

So basically i get some software to convert mp3 to ringtone and then use bluetooth to send it to my phone?
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You don't convert the MP3. MP3 files in the phone can be selected as ringtones. Put them in the audio folder, and they'll be in the list of available tones. The reason you need audio software is you don't want to waste memory by copying a 6-minute MP3 into the phone, when all you need is 15 or 20 seconds. Use the audio editor to truncate the file and get just the part you want. My own favorite ringtone that I made is the Looney Tunes theme, got it from a Bugs Bunny laserdisc. Animaniacs is a close second.

When you pair the phone with your PC on Bluetooth, the phone should show several services. The one you want is file transfer. If that's not there, then your cell company has fubar'd the phone with their own software.
 
kikie
My old model cell phone says, ring ring. That's all, no ringtones what so ever.
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That sounds a lot like one of the ringtones that TMBG offers – scroll down to the bottom right where it says They Might Be Ringtones, and click on the
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icon next to “Ring Ring”.
 
Ok i have a bluetooth dongle all i need now is a program to get the mp3 from 3+MB to only a couple hundred kb.

BTW for some reason my phone didnt come with MPT so if anybody has a link, pm me.

I cant put a .mp3 to my phone, so im not sure what i need to convert the mp3's into for them to work..
 
Small_Fryz
Ok i have a bluetooth dongle all i need now is a program to get the mp3 from 3+MB to only a couple hundred kb.

BTW for some reason my phone didnt come with MPT so if anybody has a link, pm me.

I cant put a .mp3 to my phone, so im not sure what i need to convert the mp3's into for them to work..
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If you can't put mp3s to your phone then it isn't going to work, because the ringtones are in this format too. Like midnight runner said, this must be locked with the Vodafone firmware. Maybe you can update its firmware from the Motorola site, but that would require a USB cable I guess. :p

DWA
So... it has to be 3gp format?
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I don't know if all phones use this format, but V3s and my SE W800 do. I use WMP with a codec pack to play it on my PC.
 

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