A990 Peeps, make your own Ringtones

[ClwTL]

This requires bitpim but is much safer than the traditional way. It also requires a memory card and a way to plug the card into the computer like a card reader. MEK won't work.
1. Download the damn thing
(select your phone...there is no a990 so you have to click a930 and have the port "manually set". you will see all those options when you go through the phone setup)
2. go to phone > media >ringers (click image below for example)
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3.click the music note with the green plus(add ringer)button. Make sure the song clip you want to add is easy to find by placing a copy on your desktop. You can place a full song as a ringtone but it takes up way to much space and time to transfer so cut the song up sorter using any one of the billions of programs available to do that.
4. this will launch something that says convert audio file. unless you want to play with the setting just click convert. when the dos screen is done click ok. It will probably say file is too big do you wish to continue. select yes because we aren't going to place it in the phone like normal bitpim users.
5. Put your memory card into your computer and right click the start menu, then click explore. find the removable drive which relates to the memory card and you should see 4 folders (my pix, flix, sounds, music). Go to song you just converted in bitpim and right click it. Select "copy". Go to "MY Sounds" folder on your memory card and paste the song in the folder.
6. The super sneaky step. The phones have mp3 as ringtone blocked so what you have to do is rename the song to a .mid . for example if you picked buckcherry.mp3 you have to manually change the file name to buckcherry.mid The computer will give you a warning stating "changing file name may make file unreadable" select continue and just manually rename all of your bitpim mp3's to .mid

Put the card back in your phone and you are done. You can't take mp3's straight from your p2p programs and put them on your card to make them work you have to run it through the bitpim first. Although it is only confirmed on the a990, I am sure it will work on any phone with a memory card. Good luck.

[ClwTL]

i know this is an obvious final step but when the card is in your phone again go to "my sounds" and you will see the file. click options and you will see one that say "set as ringtone" and you are done. The sounds will never show up in your ringtone folder but you can use them for any ring you want from call id ring, to vm notifier, to text messages. Another plus is that they are on the card so they don't eat up space on your phone.

Enjoy.

[m1ssy]

Thank you so much for this post!! It works great, and better than any other suggestions I have found. Thanks again!

[missbeefun]

OMG! I am soooo happy! nothing is seeming to work and everyone without 990's is telling me to go with audacity? Hmmm, I will try this! I don't have a memory card yet- how much do those cost? And how and where do you put the card into your computer? I am sorry, that part loses me! I have a mac book and swear there is no place to do that from.... HMMMMMMMM- I shall figure this out if it kills me!

[admin_mvu]

Good luck and let us know how it works out for you.