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sms ringtone

Is there a way to have different ringtone for different peoples sms messages?

BUMB would like to know also
and i cant make custom tones for my SMS

Same here

so far the only way I have done it is to rename the sound I want to one of the default sounds name (ex. Alert-High) and over write it in windows folder.
I thought there was a registry add to add custom sounds to the list but I cant find it.
This doesn't allow custom sounds for different people but it allows A custom sound for SMS/MMS

Try Qorefunctions
they make a program called InBox Tones that is supposed to do the trick.
I used in on my Fuze but it kept crashing or hanging, probably overwhelming the system resources. I'm optimistic it will do much better on the Tilt 2 but haven't gotten around to checking it out yet
Good luck!

try the Ringo Mobile
http://ringomo.com/windows.php
I use this program a lot of years and it is working perfectly (some time I have to delete the file /My Documents/ringo.log because increases very much!)

yeah i had this same problem. i ended up moving the sound file to windows/rings. it wont read them from "my ringtones"

Notifications Question

Quick question: is it possible to add custom sounds to stock notification panel? By that I mean add a song to the alarm choices... I know how to do this on my X but I'm asking for a friend who is a Evo user TIA
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I'm looking through my system directories right now to figure out where these sound files are located. If I can find them, I bet we can replace them.
EDIT: One easy way is to just drag your MP3 of choice to /media/audio/notifications on your SD card. It will show up in the list of sounds for notifications, so you can set a custom text message or email sound. Still working on the alarm.
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Media>Audio>Alarms Place your MP3 there and you should be good to go.
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Trying it now.
EDIT 3: Yup, that did it. Just make a new folder called "alarms" on your SD card under /media/audio and put your MP3 in there. Thanks, I had been wondering about this as well.

Thanks you fckin RAWK just KNEW I was gonna get flamed for this post on the DROID devices it's pretty simple to add sounds but, I have no knowledge of Evo but wanna help a bigger "n00b" than me if I can
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I'm looking through my system directories right now to figure out where these sound files are located. If I can find them, I bet we can replace them.
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Just to cover my bases, check my edited post above, it does work.

That's how it's done on DROID basically... So it adds to alarms also on Evo?
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Yes, I put a new MP3 in my new "alarms" folder and it showed up in my alarms options list for a new alarm. I also put one in "notifications" and was able to set it as my default notification sound (texts, voicemail, email, etc). But they are independent of each other - having an MP3 in "notifications" does not put it in the alarms menu.

Confused About Custom Ringtones In Mango

I remember reading that they would allow for ringtone creator apps bein made available with the mango update, but just a few days ago there was news about having to use zune on the pc to make the ringtone and categorize the file as a ringtone then sync it over to the fun
which way will it be will we be able to cut our mp3s on our devices and make them into a ringtone or will we have to use the pc to do so?
why is microsoft so strict on downloading mp3 files from the browser and adding them to the zune library that way or even downloading ringtones through the browser and applying them as a ringtone?

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which way will it be will we be able to cut our mp3s on our devices and make them into a ringtone or will we have to use the pc to do so?
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I'm assuming that there will be various options, and since Mango and the Dev Tools only just came out, you probably aren't gonna see any custom ringtone apps yet.
Pretty sure the PC option was for those who already had their own set of ringtones that they've made themselves on the PC (or those that know how). Considering Zune is the only way to transfer media from PC to Phone, makes sense that it'd be the way to get your ringtones to your phone as well.

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I remember reading that they would allow for ringtone creator apps bein made available with the mango update, but just a few days ago there was news about having to use zune on the pc to make the ringtone and categorize the file as a ringtone then sync it over to the fun
which way will it be will we be able to cut our mp3s on our devices and make them into a ringtone or will we have to use the pc to do so?
why is microsoft so strict on downloading mp3 files from the browser and adding them to the zune library that way or even downloading ringtones through the browser and applying them as a ringtone?
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I can tell you what I did. I followed the instructions in the Mango Tips & Tricks thread. First you need to make sure your intended is less than 40 seconds long & less than 1 MB in size. Also, make sure it's a MP3 or WMA. To do this, used a audio editing software. I used AVS Audio Converter6 (Paid for app). Than load it into Zune by putting it in a folder being monitored by Zune for music. You can check in Zune settings which folders are watched & add or remove folders as needed. Now in the Zune software, find the file & right click on it. Click on Edit, than click the Genre field & type in Ringtone. Than just drag it to the WP7 icon at the buttom of Zune. On your WP7 device, go to the ringtones settings & it'll show up at the top of the list under "Custom". It'll be named by filename btw.

I gather this works only for ringtones and not SMS/Email alerts?

Can you remove custom ringtones?

Handala said:
Can you remove custom ringtones?
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I would assume that you just remove them from your Zune media library and resync. I suppose you could also change the Genre from Ringtones to something else as well.

Wait ... you guys can sync your mango device ??? My Zune kind of detect it, but it's not. Then it ask for update but always failed with WMDU error or something like that.

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Can you remove custom ringtones?
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Touch and hold, then delete.

minori_aoi said:
Wait ... you guys can sync your mango device ??? My Zune kind of detect it, but it's not. Then it ask for update but always failed with WMDU error or something like that.
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You need to update your Zune software. From the main post detailing how to update, download the version of Zune sw needed for Mango

I am not seeing the custom ringtone. I did exactly as said in the tips and tricks. I used Audacity to cut the mp3 to 39 secs. Its 640 KB in size. Still won't show up in Phone.

drkfngthdragnlrd said:
I can tell you what I did. I followed the instructions in the Mango Tips & Tricks thread. First you need to make sure your intended is less than 40 seconds long & less than 1 MB in size. Also, make sure it's a MP3 or WMA. To do this, used a audio editing software. I used AVS Audio Converter6 (Paid for app). Than load it into Zune by putting it in a folder being monitored by Zune for music. You can check in Zune settings which folders are watched & add or remove folders as needed. Now in the Zune software, find the file & right click on it. Click on Edit, than click the Genre field & type in Ringtone. Than just drag it to the WP7 icon at the buttom of Zune. On your WP7 device, go to the ringtones settings & it'll show up at the top of the list under "Custom". It'll be named by filename btw.
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thanks for the instructions.
BTW. you can still use RingRing7 to create a ringtone. When you are finished cropping your mp3 you can deploy. The application creates a temp folder in the ringring7 folder with your newly created ringtone. copy or move it to a save place (your ringtone folder). The application will give you an error. you need to copy/move the file before you click OK to the error message (just ignore it).

notebookgrail said:
I am not seeing the custom ringtone. I did exactly as said in the tips and tricks. I used Audacity to cut the mp3 to 39 secs. Its 640 KB in size. Still won't show up in Phone.
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just followed deadwrong03's instructions and it works fine here. try the ringring7 method in my post above.

notebookgrail said:
I am not seeing the custom ringtone. I did exactly as said in the tips and tricks. I used Audacity to cut the mp3 to 39 secs. Its 640 KB in size. Still won't show up in Phone.
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Are you sure the file is a mp3? i know audacity requires the lame_enc.dll for it to create an mp3.

A Dustman said:
Are you sure the file is a mp3? i know audacity requires the lame_enc.dll for it to create an mp3.
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Yes..It is and it's 128kbps. Interestingly, i extracted it as wma with audacity and that works.

minori_aoi said:
Wait ... you guys can sync your mango device ??? My Zune kind of detect it, but it's not. Then it ask for update but always failed with WMDU error or something like that.
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You have to have the pre-release Zune in order to sync. version 4.8.2098.0

Wheezle said:
I gather this works only for ringtones and not SMS/Email alerts?
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Annoyingly, yes, the new "custom ringtone" functionality only applies to actual ringtones, not any other alert tone. One of the formal MS support forums for Mango says that they're still looking into custom alert tones.
Since it's really only just a registry key, I'm not really sure why they made this new functionality so limiting. And, of course, none of the registry editors work anymore. <sigh>
Brad.

yea, i was bummed that it was only for the ringer and not sms/alerts. i hope they add that in a later release...

Mango on my Trophy and Zune 4.8XXXXX. This worked flawlessly, took one of the ringtones from my TP2 (one I used for my wife) and put it on my Trophy, flawless.
It's about time I can do a basic task like this on WP7....

notebookgrail said:
I am not seeing the custom ringtone. I did exactly as said in the tips and tricks. I used Audacity to cut the mp3 to 39 secs. Its 640 KB in size. Still won't show up in Phone.
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It won't show up in Zune on your phone, only under ringtones in settings.

I also could not see MP3 in Zune. When I took the MP3 file and converted it to a WMA and saved it back to the same folder that it came from, I showed up in Zune. I could then drag it down to my WP7 icon and it installed the ringtone and it showed up on the phone in settings / ringtones.
Cant seem to figure out how to find the MP3.
Frank

Question on custom ringers

Hello,
I'm still new to Android.
1. Can you tell me how to load a custom ringtone on this phone?
2. On my old WM phone I could set it to Vibrate 1st then ring so I could reach for my phone before it made noise (and disturb others) if I felt it vibrate. Is there any way to make this happen?

boe said:
Hello,
I'm still new to Android.
1. Can you tell me how to load a custom ringtone on this phone?
2. On my old WM phone I could set it to Vibrate 1st then ring so I could reach for my phone before it made noise (and disturb others) if I felt it vibrate. Is there any way to make this happen?
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Look for an app called Ringdroid. You can trim and make any music on your phone a ringtone or notification...real easy to do.

alnova1 said:
Look for an app called Ringdroid. You can trim and make any music on your phone a ringtone or notification...real easy to do.
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Thanks - if i already have a ringtone (wav file for WM) I can't just load that to a directory on the phone?

I have a couple cool ringtones I've accumulated over the years that I'd like to get into my phone... They are mp3 format and I'm sorta lost as to how to load them in also.
Dont need any editing etc; just need to know how to make them show up in the ringtone list!

Its easier if you already have a ringtone that doesn't need editing to still use Ringdroid. Just open it up in the app and just save it like it is.

boe said:
Thanks - if i already have a ringtone (wav file for WM) I can't just load that to a directory on the phone?
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If its on your computer load it on your phone through Kies air. If you dont know what Kies is open the app on your phone and it will tell you what to type on your desktop. I think you'll get once you see

On the root of your SD card, create a folder called media, then create a folder inside that called audio. Inside the audio folder, you can create "alarms" "ringtones" and "notifications" folders. Then put whatever audio files you'd like in these respective folders. Reboot and the sounds should show up in the default selection list. Mine are all in mp3 format, I don't know if it would recognize wav files or not.
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MoMatt said:
On the root of your SD card, create a folder called media, then create a folder inside that called audio. Inside the audio folder, you can create "alarms" "ringtones" and "notifications" folders. Then put whatever audio files you'd like in these respective folders. Reboot and the sounds should show up in the default selection list. Mine are all in mp3 format, I don't know if it would recognize wav files or not.
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Thanks. I did as you said - didn't even have to reboot the phone.
Perfect!

Right on! Glad it works.
This is the first question I had when I got my Hero running Android 1.5, glad to hear it has persisted to gingerbread.
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Any way to set it to vibrate first then ring? Basically I'd like the first ring to be a vibrate instead and then go to ring. It was handy on my old Vogue. I could leave it on ring but if I felt the vibration I could use my BT before people were annoyed by my ringer. It made sure I was covered in case I didn't feel the vibrate but it also made it more polite for people around me.

boe said:
Any way to set it to vibrate first then ring? Basically I'd like the first ring to be a vibrate instead and then go to ring. It was handy on my old Vogue. I could leave it on ring but if I felt the vibration I could use my BT before people were annoyed by my ringer. It made sure I was covered in case I didn't feel the vibrate but it also made it more polite for people around me.
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No setting that I'm aware of. To hack it you could create a ringtone that is silence for 5 or 10 or 3 secods at the beginning, then comes in with sound. Kind of a pain and would work only for that specific ringtone, but it would work.

Ringtones/Alarms

So can you not use a MP3 for a ringtone or a wake up alarm on this thing? Or is there an app for it?
Thanks.
BTW, 1st Windows Phone, just came over from Apple/Android, am liking the Nokia quite a bit. Great UI experience.
Thanks

bothfly said:
So can you not use a MP3 for a ringtone or a wake up alarm on this thing? Or is there an app for it?
Thanks.
BTW, 1st Windows Phone, just came over from Apple/Android, am liking the Nokia quite a bit. Great UI experience.
Thanks
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Yes, you can create your own custom MP3 ringtones, but you can't add custom alarms/notification sounds. Do a search for the specifics, but basically the file needs to be less than 1MB and you have to change the Genre to RINGTONE when you edit the fine in Zune.
But a much easier method is to use easyRing&Music (free in Marketplace) to search for and download a ringtone of your choice. I have created some and downloaded a few. Both options are simple.

jimski said:
Yes, you can create your own custom MP3 ringtones, but you can't add custom alarms/notification sounds. Do a search for the specifics, but basically the file needs to be less than 1MB and you have to change the Genre to RINGTONE when you edit the fine in Zune.
But a much easier method is to use easyRing&Music (free in Marketplace) to search for and download a ringtone of your choice. I have created some and downloaded a few. Both options are simple.
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You can indeed use custom alarms, but not notifications.

JMackey said:
You can indeed use custom alarms, but not notifications.
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I stand corrected. Never noticed that on my Surround, but all my custom ringtones do appear in the alarm selection screen. Thanks.
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How do you set up a custom alarm?

bothfly said:
How do you set up a custom alarm?
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If a custom ringtone is already on your phone, simply select it off the list. If not, create one on your desktop (MP3, less than 1MB). Open Zune Desktop, find your ringtone, edit the Genre to RINGTONE (you have to type of in the first time, select off list later), sync with your phone. Ringtone is on your phone.
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jimski said:
If a custom ringtone is already on your phone, simply select it off the list. If not, create one on your desktop (MP3, less than 1MB). Open Zune Desktop, find your ringtone, edit the Genre to RINGTONE (you have to type of in the first time, select off list later), sync with your phone. Ringtone is on your phone.
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Ok, kinda like for the iPhone.
Thanks