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How-to: Turn your favourite mp3 into a ringtone for Windows Mobile

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Making a ringtone for Windows Mobile is easy
A little birdy told me that putting a ringtone on their phone is one of the first things new phone owners look to do. So today, for your auditory pleasure, I’ll show you how to put a ringtone on your Windows Mobile device!

You’ll be glad to hear that it’s actually dead simple!

Ringtone installation quicklist:


What you need: Your favourite song or sound as an mp3 file
Difficulty Level: Very easy!
Time it takes: Literally takes minutes
Cost: However much you’re willing to pay for an mp3 file

Installation:

1. Choose the sound/song file on your desktop/laptop that you would like to use as a ringtone.
The music file is on the desktop

2. Connect your device to your desktop/laptop via USB.

3. Locate your device via My Computer as shown in image below:
PocketPC on the network

4. Explore your device. Open up the devices internal drive (storage doesn’t seem to work well with ringtone access):
Selecting the drive

5. Locate “Application Data” as seen below:
Another pic for the how-to process

6. In “Application Data”, locate “Sounds”:
Here is the sounds folder

7. Drag and drop the sound/song file into “Sounds”:
Drag and drop into sounds folder

8. File should appear in the “Sounds” folder:
Now the file is in the proper folder

9. Go to your device and open up “Settings” in the Start menu:
Go to the start menu

10. Under “Settings” open up “Phone”:
Phone settings

11. Under “Phone” drop down the “Ringtone” menu:
Drop down menu

12. Drop down the menu and search for your sound/song file:
File in the ringtones menu

13. Once you’ve selected your sound/song file, you can hit the play button to preview it. Then hit ‘ok’ when you’re ready to set it as your ringtone.
The file is right there for you

Voila! Easy as pie, right? Benefits? Now you can do this with any sound/song mp3 that you’d like! So you can tell your friends that if you don’t answer their call right away it’s likely because you’re rocking out to AC/DC or groovin’ to P-Funk instead. It’s a noble sacrifice.

Relevant Links:

How to: Upgrade your WM5.0 device to WM6.0 Pro, Part 1
How to: Upgrade your WM5.0 device to WM6.0 Pro, Part 2
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[Via Windows Mobile Cool]

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  1. 1 Tony Chung
    August 18, 2008 at 8:33 pm
    My HTC TyTN II has it even easier. There’s a folder in My Documents called “My Ringtones” and any files placed in there show up in the ringtones list. Maybe this folder doesn’t appear on certain brands.

    I found an ideal compression setting for ringtones is mono 48kbps. This compensates for the lousy speaker on most devices.

    Now, would anyone happen to know how to use a custom file as an alarm sound? I hate all the built-in alarm sounds.

  2. 2 YH Kwon
    August 18, 2008 at 11:00 pm
    i think there should be a single notion that some carriers like AT&T have a limitation on the size of sound files to be set as a ringtone. My experience says that AT&T has set this mark to 300 KB for their devices in the market.
  3. 3 JaredT
    November 30, 2008 at 12:01 am
    ok thats cool but if its a ringtone will it ring the entire song? Surely not right?
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