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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Kyocera Lingo - Make Your Own Ringtones

Update: Heather points out below that you can actually email the ringtone right to your phone instead of this whole crazy sequence. If it works, sweet-- I'll have to try it. Just mail the mp3 as an attachment to your phone, like an MMS message. In my case it would be xxxyyyzzzz@mms.mycricket.com, different providers I am sure will be different. In any case, thank you to Heather!

Just a quick tutorial today, there is no Mobile Phone Tools (yet) for the Lingo M1000, and sort of by accident I found a way to put my own ringtones on my Lingo.

First off, it may only work on Cricket, but it should work on any Lingo with a web browser.

Creating the ringtone:
I'm sure there are better tutorials out there for this, but I used the free Audacity. Simply take in your mp3 of choice, trim it down to your favorite 30 seconds, use the high-pass filter to drop everything below 100Hz (the ringer can't really pump out the bass), and then use the default dynamic-range compression. Mix it down to a single mono track, and save as a 22KHz, 64kbps mp3. The total file size needs to be under about 500K.

Getting the Ringtone into the Lingo
You'll need a website of some sort to upload the mp3 too, any free service will do, but the key is, there needs to be a direct URL to your mp3. If you can't think of something easier, HotLinkFiles will work. Note the complete URL for the mp3. Enter the URL (using the handy QWERTY keyboard) into the web browser, and wait a minute for it to download. It will ask if you want to save the mp3 in your 'Sounds' directory-- you do.

Activating the Ringtone
Just navigate into your 'Media Gallery', then 'Sounds' and then 'Saved Sounds'. Your new mp3 should be at the top of the list, but find it and press 'Options' and then 'Assign'. From there you can make it the default ringer or whatever you like.

So it's not the smoothest way to get a ringtone, but it works, and I miss my old Nokia 6265i or whatever it was a little less every day.

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» At 9:29 AM, Blogger Shar2020 said...

Great!! thanks so much, I just got a Lingo and had tried just about everything and stumbled onto this to get new ringers,
I take my mp3's and cut them down and make any adjustments using the free download of "WavePad" the free one is not fully functional but has plenty of functions that do allow you do do allot of sound editing.
Then I went out and bought a USB bluetooth for my laptop, I got it at Wal-Mart for $20, it also comes with software and will allow you to connect to any bluetooth enabled device witch is handy due to the fact that many new devices do not have cables and or software yet.
Once installed all I had to do was turn on my Lingo cell phone, then have the Bluetooth on my laptop look for it, match it up and then once found all I had to do is drag and drop my ringer I made onto the phone icon that is in the Bluetooth folder on my computer and it downloads to my phone as a "saved sound" but one thing to remember that when you go to transfer your phone will ask you if you want to allow it so you will have to approve it on your cell phone.
Then just wait for the download to complete and then you have it.

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» At 9:17 PM, Anonymous Heather Van Wilde said...

This might be a simpler method. you can e-mail your phone attachments (at least with Cricket). The format for my e-mail is xxxyyyzzzz@mms.mycricket.com (xxxyyyzzzz is your phone number i.e. 208-123-4567)

Once you get the e-mail as a pix message, just download the media. Faster than uploading to a website, surfing to it from the phone, and downloading, and cheaper than a bluetooth adapter

» At 1:32 PM, Blogger Shar2020 said...

Hi Heather, I used to e-mail my ringers to my old Cricket phone but it would not work for the "Kyocera Lingo", thanks for letting us know it now works, I will have to give it a try.
I just wish they had made an external speaker on the Lingo, some ringers are very hard to hear unless you have the Lingo open to the QWERTY feature.

» At 1:34 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

so i don't really get how your supposed to do this part...

and save as a 22KHz, 64kbps mp3. The total file size needs to be under about 500K.

can anyone tell me?

i have everything down pack on audacity though

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