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How to Make Your Own Cell Phone Ringtones for Free
If you've ever bought a ringtone of a song you already owned, or just want to record your own sounds to use as ringtones, then you've come to the right place. Forget about the ringtones being offered by your service provider, mtv, jamster, or anyone else. You can make your own ringtones for free, and you aren't limited by the songs or snippets of song chosen by content providers, just follow the steps below:
1. Get your cell phone connected to your computer and install BitPim, a free open-source software program. If you haven't done this already, just follow the steps in How to Hack Your Cell Phone Using BitPim.
2. Cut your audio down to ringtone-length samples (and convert to .mp3 or .wav format). You will need to use an audio editing program, but don't be intimidated, there are free and easy-to-use programs available. If you need some help, see How to Edit Audio: A Beginner's Guide. Also, if you are having trouble converting your audio into a workable format, take a look at How to Capture Streaming Audio.
3. Import your audio into BitPim. Select "ringers" under the "Media" category, then choose "Add Ringer" from the tool bar at the top (the icon is a blue note with a green plus sign) and select your file. You must convert the file before going and further. BitPim sets the default Bitrate at 48, but you can set it higher. Most mp3's sold online are at a 128 bitrate so don't hesitate to bump that number up, your phone shouldn't have a problem handling it (BitPim may give you a standard warning that the file may be too big, but it isn't always accurate). You can also change the starting and stopping points for your ringtone at this point.
4. Send your ringtone to your cell phone. BitPim will send all of the ringtones in your "ringers" folder to your phone. You can either add the new ringtones to the existing ringtones on your phone, or you can replace your old ringtones with the new ones. Select "Send Phone Data" at the top of the tool bar (the icon is a green arrow pointing toward a cell phone). You should see a pop-up window with a number of check boxes. Check ONLY the "Ringtone" box and BE SURE it is set to "Add" and NOT "Replace All." Accidentally selecting "Replace All" for other items such as calender or address book COULD ERASE IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR CELL PHONE.
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5. Select your new ringtones on your cell phone. If done properly, your new ringtones will appear right along with any others you may have purchased.
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Don't work for my TELUS
Don't work for my TELUS DARE.
It detects "Other CDMA phones" on COM5... So i've switched for LG VX8700(DARE) on the same com port.
I can access to the data, but when i make the upload for the new ringtone, my phone crash(goes off then on..).
And the ringtone wasnt uploaded..
Any solutions.. ?
it says that directory is
it says that directory is blocked on this phone by the provider. anyway to unblock?? lg VX8800. bitpim detect it fine. got all info off of phone but wont let me put any on it??? plz hlp!!!!
BitPim will detect my phone
BitPim will detect my phone as " other CDMA phone". i can drag the tones the my ringers folder but when i click Send Phone Data everything is unselectable. what do i need to do? BTW i have a LG rhythm UX585.
everythign is unselectable
You're right - everything is unselectable. I think this method only works when BitPIM knows your phone. For those of us who have to use "other CDMA phone", you have to go through the file system and find where your ringers are stored, and manually add them...takes forever!!! I have an LG Rumor.
Trouble getting phone data
I got bitpim to read my phone MANUALLY (Found 'Other CDMA' phone on 'COM7') but I don't see any of my phone data on the category list. Any ideas?
Well, great tutorial. BTW I
Well, great tutorial. BTW I always make my own ringtones just by cropping mp3 songs and uploading to my cell, why to pay twice?
great for DiY people -but there are still free quality resources
I create ringtones for oringz.com (free original content, supported by advertisements only). I know that is not a trivial task to create something to call your own. This tutorial is excellent for those that want to slice soundwaves themselves.
But for the others... there's no excuse in saying that all quality ringtones costs $$. I hope the aforementioned website proves this point.
oringz for original ringtones, bitpim for fair use of music
Niwt,
Good points, and sources of original ringtones are great to have. As a side note, the audio quality on these is REALLY good. I'm glad you bring up quality.
For those who download directly to their computers, then upload with a program like BitPim, the quality should stay very high.
That said, some websites offer free ringtones, or opportunity to make ringtones, and send them DIRECTLY to phones through the Internet. I have seen firsthand, and heard many complaints about degradation by the carriers of these ringtone services.
This leads into my main point about BitPim, which is that it is an option that allows users to make "fair use" of their existing music collection. Because of
1. degradation from online ringtone making services,
2. legal issues surrounding websites hosting already cut ringtones
BitPim provides one of the best free options for using existing music collections at top quality without degradation, as well as for using original files like mp3s at oringz.com.
It would be good to hear from people on here about other ringtone services and programs they find useful.
Here's the New Media Rights guide about fair use
http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/legal/copyright/fair_use/citizens_le...
Make and download your own ringtones for free.
Make and download your own ringtones for free.
i want free ring tones this
i want free ring tones this is my first time
Take a look above, somebody
Take a look above, somebody just pointed out a good resource - oringz.com
That is, if you don't like to create the ringtones yourself.
bitpin good but myxer easier
great and easy tutorial on how to use bitpin but if you go to myxer.com you don't have to hack the phone just upload the song and edit it on there website. then you text it to your phone.
This is great tutorial
I started to use this, but for great audio editing results I used cool edit which is a very nice professional software to make your own sound effects and even boost the volume of the music part that you want to make as ringtone.
There is also another software which is sound forge I think made by Sony. useful and for Professional editors.
Enjoy your ringys.
I'd recommend audacity over
I'd recommend audacity over those expensive programs.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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