Database Users

Help Needed: Ringtones and IE Favorites

Can the Universal Play mp3 or wma files as ringtones thru the standard contacts application? I see where to assign ringtone but my wma tones are not shown. I placed them in a folder in the mydocuments folder in the internal memory. Do they need to go into a different folder? Or do I have to use a third party application?
Also, in WM5 I dont see a Windows folder when I select Explore thru active synch. In WM2003 inside of the Windows folder I had a Favorites folder. I am looking for this folder to copy and paste a few links I saved on my PC from my Jam.
Thank you for your help!
Darrin

RESOLVED
Sorry, I figured it out. Ill leave the post just in case someone else runs into this problem. I had my file settings to not show hidden files. Changing that to show all files I now have the Windows folder. The ringtones go into the windows\rings folder and under windows there is the folder for favorites.
d

If you have MP3 or WMV files go to the option of the file u we be able to set that file as ring tone... Windows automatically copy that file in to Ring folder and shows u in ring tone list for u from Phone.

How to customize the Notification sound?

I am trying to change the notificantion sound of recieving new text-msg.
I putted the mp3 file into ringtone folder which is in the device, but I cant see it on the list.

just reboot pnone (soft reset)

put your mp3 in windows folder

How to set our mp3 as the sms alert??

sorry i know this is a noob qns but i have been figuring out for quite some time and cant find the way to solve it...
i put all the mp3 into the windows/rings folder with all the stock alarm tone of our phone and when i went to the notification page to set the tone, i cant find my mp3??
please help me..thanks.. =)

You have to put your mp3 in Windows root folder, not in Rings subfolder. Cheers!

oh izzit..thanks..i will go and try now..thanks man!!!

hi sorry one more qns...
how to use our mp3 as the alarm tone??
i use ur method above and it works for the sms tone..but i cant see my mp3 in the alarm tone selection...
pls help again..thanks!!! =)

You have to convert that mp3 into a wav file.

hi, you can use mp3 as a ringtone or sms alert. but you have to unclock normal windows settings menu. in sound and notification menu ou can choose mp3 as alerts. i don't really remember if you have to put files in /windows or /application data/sounds folder. give it a try

when you just put a .mp3 file in the root of your storage card it will also work.

jamieeeee said:
when you just put a .mp3 file in the root of your storage card it will also work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you could do that also create a "My Documents" folder and put everything in there

ramthor said:
You have to put your mp3 in Windows root folder, not in Rings subfolder. Cheers!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
we don't need to put it in windows folder just put it to phone memory works i tried it my self yesterday

[Q] no custom text message ringtones for wp7 on hd2???

i was wondering is it possible to do so because ihavent been able to find away to do it noir have i found anything on google that talks about it been trying get help with this all night someone plzzzzzz HELP! i dont want to go back to winmo just because i cant have text msg ringtones....

What I did to change mine was,
1 convert the file to .wma format
2 rename the file to Alert-05 (or 01 ,02 etc) (it needs to be Alert-## otherwise it won't be found it settings)
3 copy it to the windows directory using touchXplorer
4 select it using settings ...
there must be a better way but it worked for me, hope it works for you.

As neilarmes said.
Think that this is the only way to get custom alert tones and does work for custom ringtones as well. You have to bear in mind that when you rename the .wma file and move it using touchXplorer, it will overwrite an existing WP7 alert tone as you I don't think you can add extra tones.
Using the above method you can however add mp3 files to your ringtones folder to have custom ringtones. Would just advise not to have too much music synced to your device as the file names in the Zune folder don't immediately lead you to the file you're after.

Beany69 said:
As neilarmes said.
Think that this is the only way to get custom alert tones and does work for custom ringtones as well. You have to bear in mind that when you rename the .wma file and move it using touchXplorer, it will overwrite an existing WP7 alert tone as you I don't think you can add extra tones.
Using the above method you can however add mp3 files to your ringtones folder to have custom ringtones. Would just advise not to have too much music synced to your device as the file names in the Zune folder don't immediately lead you to the file you're after.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Note about ringtones...all ended up doing is copying my custom ring tones (in mp3 format) using Zune as if they were music transfers. After syncing, go into the My Documents\Zune folder, I believe, and using TouchXplorer copy your ringtones to the My Documents\My Ringtones folder. After some lag in time, your customer ringtones will appear in your selection list. No conversion to WMA needed for ringtones.
As for the SMS sounds, I was about to try converting my mp3 notification files into WMA then renaming it Alert-11 through whatever, the copying it to the \Windows directory. Alert-01 thru 10 are already present. Going to see if naming the file other than Alert-xx.wma will work as well.

How do make the tones useable on the text messages and other notifications. Thanks

hjhjhj said:
Note about ringtones...all ended up doing is copying my custom ring tones (in mp3 format) using Zune as if they were music transfers. After syncing, go into the My Documents\Zune folder, I believe, and using TouchXplorer copy your ringtones to the My Documents\My Ringtones folder. After some lag in time, your customer ringtones will appear in your selection list. No conversion to WMA needed for ringtones.
As for the SMS sounds, I was about to try converting my mp3 notification files into WMA then renaming it Alert-11 through whatever, the copying it to the \Windows directory. Alert-01 thru 10 are already present. Going to see if naming the file other than Alert-xx.wma will work as well.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I jsut tried "Alert-VM" and "Alert-TXT" but no dice. Also tried Alert-11 and Alert-12 to no avail. Time to rename the default guys and overwrite w/ the new ones!

[Q] alert tones

Hello
I'm sorry if this has already been threaded but for the life of me I have not been able to change the alert tones on wp7 mango on HD2. I have got touchxperience and touchxplorer, tried emailing the file but I cannot find the downloaded file on the phone. Touchxperience 1.3 does not seem to work on my mango phone and I cannot find a 1.6 version to download I look through my volitile file in Application data in xplorer but cannot get the file to copy and paste in windows to rename it. can anyone help me?

1 Install touch xplorer to device
2 Ensure that you have no media synced onto your device
3 Sync the alert tone you'd like to use to the deivce
4 Launch touch xplorer and navigate to content folder of zune
5 Locate the file you want (will not be known as the filename on your PC, which is why it's a good idea to not have any other media synced to your device)
6 Change the name of the file to "Alert-01" or 02 etc... upto 10
7 Use touch xplorer to copy the file and then navigate to the windows directory on your device
8 Paste the file and select Yes when prompted to over write existing file - NOTE that the original tone will be overwritten.