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How to add a new SMS receive tone

I know how to use an mp3 as a ringtone.
What I desire is a way to set an mp3 or a wav file as my Sms receive tone.
Thank 'ee.

27 said:
I know how to use an mp3 as a ringtone.
What I desire is a way to set an mp3 or a wav file as my Sms receive tone.
Thank 'ee.
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First you have to copy the ringtone you wannna use, into the windows/rings-directory. ( my experience tells me that with SMS-tones, it's actually better to just put it directly in the Windows-directory, I have renamed mine, so my custom-ringtone is now my default ) :wink:
Then go to Start/Settings/Sytem/Add ring tone, when it's finished reading all your soundfiles, add the ringtone you want to use.
Then go to Start/Settings/Personal/Sounds & Notifications, open the dialogue-box, scroll down 'till you find SMS- settings, add your ringtone and bingo :wink:
Hope this helps...

Flipside said:
First you have to copy the ringtone you wannna use, into the windows/rings-directory. ( my experience tells me that with SMS-tones, it's actually better to just put it directly in the Windows-directory, I have renamed mine, so my custom-ringtone is now my default ) :wink:
Then go to Start/Settings/Sytem/Add ring tone, when it's finished reading all your soundfiles, add the ringtone you want to use.
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I can't believe I never clicked on that before. :lol:
Thank you!!

27 said:
Flipside said:
First you have to copy the ringtone you wannna use, into the windows/rings-directory. ( my experience tells me that with SMS-tones, it's actually better to just put it directly in the Windows-directory, I have renamed mine, so my custom-ringtone is now my default ) :wink:
Then go to Start/Settings/Sytem/Add ring tone, when it's finished reading all your soundfiles, add the ringtone you want to use.
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I can't believe I never clicked on that before. :lol:
Thank you!!
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I'm just happy to help :wink:

hey in my S100 when i go to "add ringtone" it does not show any of my mp3s, why's that? only mids and wavs! i copied 3 files to windows/rings and again the same... any suggestions plz? sorry 4 my engilsh!

dj_vts said:
hey in my S100 when i go to "add ringtone" it does not show any of my mp3s, why's that? only mids and wavs! i copied 3 files to windows/rings and again the same... any suggestions plz? sorry 4 my engilsh!
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Don't copy them to Windows\Rings.
Copy them to Windows.

made a mistake of purchasing this software called "Ringo" that handles ringtones and sms tones. Should have just moved the ringtones to the \windows folder

Thx 4 your replies. i did copied 2 files to \Windows folder. One .mp3 and one .mid and neither appeared in sounds&notifications on incoming text message... What am i doing wrong guys?

dj_vts said:
Thx 4 your replies. i did copied 2 files to \Windows folder. One .mp3 and one .mid and neither appeared in sounds&notifications on incoming text message... What am i doing wrong guys?
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This works fo me
Flipside said:
First you have to copy the ringtone you wannna use, into the windows/rings-directory. ( my experience tells me that with SMS-tones, it's actually better to just put it directly in the Windows-directory, I have renamed mine, so my custom-ringtone is now my default ) :wink:
Then go to Start/Settings/Sytem/Add ring tone, when it's finished reading all your soundfiles, add the ringtone you want to use.
Then go to Start/Settings/Personal/Sounds & Notifications, open the dialogue-box, scroll down 'till you find SMS- settings, add your ringtone and bingo :wink:
Hope this helps...
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Custom Sounds for Text Messages etc.

Guys,
My apologies if this has been covered before.... Only I've had a really bad day in Theatre (I lost a loving, warm and friendly aged Lady earlier) and all I want to do now is pack up for today and go home.
So.... I have a few custom sounds in .wma format that I've placed into Windows/Rings and would like to use these for my Text Messages, Email Alerts etc.
Trouble is the Sounds & Notifications list does not show these in the drop down list of available sounds.
If I select Phone they do show but any of the others and they are not displayed.
Therefore, the question being ~ Is there any way to have these custom sounds displayed and readily available for my Phone?
Thanks in advance.

Ringtones need to be be in the Rings folder.
Don't know why but anything else needs to be in the Windows folder to appear.
Here is one from Python Holy Grail that I find good.

Farsquidge said:
Ringtones need to be be in the Rings folder.
Don't know why but anything else needs to be in the Windows folder to appear.
Here is one from Python Holy Grail that I find good.
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That is quite strange...... All my Ringtones are located in Windows/Rings.
I don't have a folder named Rings in the root.
Thanks for the Monty Python... appreciated.

Apologies, let me clarify.
Ringtones in Windows\Rings
All others Windows\
Hope thats clearer.

My Sounds and Notifications show all the wav files in the windows directory, plus any wav/mp3/wma in My Documents (device or storage card).
HTH

Farsquidge said:
Apologies, let me clarify.
Ringtones in Windows\Rings
All others Windows\
Hope thats clearer.
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Yes thanks... Got it now.
I've moved them into the Windows folder and they now work.
It's quite confusing when we mention ring tones and basically the ones I will be using are a ring tone.
But now I can see what you mean.... The default ring tones are in the Windows/Rings.
All other ring tones are in the Windows main folder.
Thanks.
gadgetuk437 said:
My Sounds and Notifications show all the wav files in the windows directory, plus any wav/mp3/wma in My Documents (device or storage card).
HTH
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Cheers for the contribution..... Didn't appreciate you could use .mp3 as well.
Thanks.

Carrying this forward, is there any way we can change the 'tap' sound?
The iPhone sound is very nice when you tap the screen but the custom HTC one is awful

Text Message Tones...

Apologies if this has been posted, my search capabilities are limited as on a faulty UMPC at the mo...
Is it possible to change the SMS received tone to a MP3 file or other audio file? Ideally without any third party software...?
Cheers!

Try Ringo Pro...it works perfectly..!!!!

jmdrizen said:
Apologies if this has been posted, my search capabilities are limited as on a faulty UMPC at the mo...
Is it possible to change the SMS received tone to a MP3 file or other audio file? Ideally without any third party software...?
Cheers!
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If you just mean the system default go to messaging, settings, select ringtone. If you want custom tones for individuals Ringo.

tannyfiles said:
Try Ringo Pro...it works perfectly..!!!!
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Cheers for that, but for a feature that is available on most devices, it's not something that I'm willing to pay extra for... I'm sure the developer has done a great job, but I don't need different ringtones for different contacts or any of the other features...
The Lite version doesn't seem to have this bit, atleast, not by it's description....
I guess I'll just have to make do with "Captains Log"... unless anyone else know's of any other methods or free market place applications..?

daveid said:
If you just mean the system default go to messaging, settings, select ringtone. If you want custom tones for individuals Ringo.
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I've got a MP3 file I would like to use... can convert it to any other format, but that's the one I want... cheers though!!

If you create a directory 'notifications' on your sd card and drop the file in there it should appear on the list for selection when changing notifications.

uberlad said:
If you create a directory 'notifications' on your sd card and drop the file in there it should appear on the list for selection when changing notifications.
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Perfect! That works...!!!
Out of curiousity, is there a folder I can create where it will add them to the phone ringtones section?
Cheers!!!

jmdrizen said:
Perfect! That works...!!!
Out of curiousity, is there a folder I can create where it will add them to the phone ringtones section?
Cheers!!!
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Got them...
ringtones to appear in Ringtone Menu
alarms to appear in the Alarm Tone Menu
notification to appear in the Notification Tone Menu
Cheers everyone!

That works great! Thanks for the idea.

By puting mp3 ringtones in a folder called 'ringtones' on the sd card, you can use mp3's with ringo lite

Ogre said:
By puting mp3 ringtones in a folder called 'ringtones' on the sd card, you can use mp3's with ringo lite
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If you had read above, you'd know you don't need any other software for that....
-bZj

If you have root, you can also do this so that all of the notiications, ringtones, alarms etc ..... are moved from your phone to your SD card.
Code:
mount -oremount,rw /system/dev/mtdblock3 /system
cp -r /system/media/audio/ringtones /sdcard/
rm -R /system/media/audio/ringtones
obviously change it for notifications and alarms.

you can use any sound u like 4 any notification u like by simply dropping the file into the windows folder in the file explorer under my device works for me cheers guys

Changing the alert tones

Ok I've searched the forum and come up with nothing so thought I'd start a thread. Does anyone know how you can add you own tones for alerts (such as new sms, e-mail, IM message etc)? I've created the wav files placed then in the correct file in the windows folder but they don't apper in the options for alerts. They do however apper in the options for ringtone. Does anyone know a way around this other then simply renaming them and saving them over the orginal tones? maybe theres an app out there or a trick I've missed?

Custom Ringtones
I have a diamond and what I did was convert the file to WAV format and kept it to no more than 15 seconds long, I put them in internal storage/My Documents folder. I am able to choose them for any sound or notification. They also work on phone memory/ windows folder but I like the storage card to keep phone memory high. I can't assure you it will work on the Blackstone but hopefully it'll help.

just drop .wav file in windows directory....
i had same problem ..battle for about a month to figure it out and answer was actually straight forward ...i also kept dropping them in the windows "rings " file of device, with the other tones that was in there....did not work..
then i read somewhere ....just to drop it into device/windows directory , no specified file..! ....just drop it ..in directory and if you check start/settings//sounds..notifications ..it should show up ,for sms
further ,for sms tones .. i believe it must be wav.file ,30sec max..?
i did it on my hd and kaiser phones and it worked for me..
hope it works for you !

any way to change sms alert tone to a mp3?

i tried copying the mp3 file to the rings folder in windows. it worked for the phone ring signal but it doesn't seem to for the sms alerts. it just doesn't show up in the menu in sense ui to change it. any ideas on how i could implement this? is there a winmo setting or reg hack? this is my first winmo phone so i don't have very deep knowledge base of the os. any help?

jdbpogo said:
i tried coping the mp3 file to the rings folder in windows. it worked for the phone ring signal but it doesn't seem to for the sms alerts. it just doesn't show up in the menu in sense ui to change it. any ideas on how i could implement this? is there a winmo setting or reg hack to do this? this is my first winmo phone so i don't have very deep knowledge base of the os. any help?
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I use mp3 for ringtones and notification sounds with no problem, but I put mine on the device in the My Documents folder. I don't know if that will help, but it's worked for me on my last 3 WM devices.

johncmolyneux said:
I use mp3 for ringtones and notification sounds with no problem, but I put mine on the device in the My Documents folder. I don't know if that will help, but it's worked for me on my last 3 WM devices.
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thats how i did it before the upgrade, now they dont show up. had to do it the way the OP did it... strange

nope. they don't show up...
paulking said:
had to do it the way the OP did it...
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could you please elaborate on that?

It'll show up if you dump it straight into the windows folder, not the rings folder, just the root windows folder

jdbpogo said:
nope. they don't show up...
could you please elaborate on that?
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by copying the file into the rings folder to have mp3 ringtone

paulking said:
by copying the file into the rings folder to have mp3 ringtone
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just for the ringtone, not the sms tone. i thought maybe that was working for you also.
Duncb said:
It'll show up if you dump it straight into the windows folder, not the rings folder, just the root windows folder
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thanks. worked like a charm!

Duncb said:
It'll show up if you dump it straight into the windows folder, not the rings folder, just the root windows folder
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your a genius mate! no more boring beeps! i can now once again irritate my flatmate with my "mmmmmmm....... ham sandwich" msg tone!