Solved Ringtone Software

[StalkeR]

According to GSMArena it have microUSB. So if you have at home MicroUSB cable you can try connecting it through that cable.

 

[bigmck]

Looks like Bluetooth is your best option?

What do I need to do to DL via Bluetooth?

 

[Zepher]

Looks like Bluetooth is your best option?

Looks like that phone doesn't have Bluetooth either.
reading some posts on google, it looks like this phone is locked down with no way to do anything with it, no USB support, no VZ Backup, no Bluetooth, etc...

and it looks like it supports 56–Note Polyphonic Ringtones, so I guess they are midi style tones, like my old old Samsung.

I guess you can send yourself some .mid files and see if you can save those and use those as a ringtone.
http://www.free-midi.org/

 

[bigmck]

According to GSMArena it have microUSB. So if you have at home MicroUSB cable you can try connecting it through that cable.

I think that is what I have. The cable has the normal USB on one end and a smaller USB on the other that hooks to the phone. Is that what you meant?

 

[StalkeR]

Yes,that is.

 

[bigmck]

I just got my phone Saturday. I had thought I saw a Bluetooth option in the menu, but after looking again I don't see it. I guess since I don't have an OS or Bluetooth, I am not going to be able to get my Ringtones. I really appreciate all of your help.

Thanks,

 

[StalkeR]

Yes,the phone don't have BT. But as I said above,try to connect it with usb cable. Phone doesn't have memory card,but maybe it's able to use it as data transfer.

 

[Trucidation]

Hmm, it appears your phone is a locked down one? Sorry couldn't help.

P.S> Even without Bluetooth, and assuming that the USB connector from PC to phone doesn't show a new drive in Explorer, you could still try looking under Win7's "Devices and Printers". That's where my dumbphone shows up when I connect it via Bluetooth.

If it shows up there, just rightclick on it and try properties -- that should lead you to a large popup that contains, among other things, a link to "explore files on phone" on the left sidebar. Clicking on that opens an explorer folder located on your phone, just drag the mp3s from another explorer folder there to transfer them.

Edit: That's also how I downloaded images from the (extremely low resolution) phone camera to my PC. In this case it's dragging the image files out from my phone to a folder on my PC, same thing just the other way around.

 

[Mark Phelps]

I had an older Motorola phone through Verizon that was also "locked down" -- but I could still send myself ringtones through texting, and still had the option to save the file attachment as a ringtone. Have you tried doing this?

 

[bigmck]

I had an older Motorola phone through Verizon that was also "locked down" -- but I could still send myself ringtones through texting, and still had the option to save the file attachment as a ringtone. Have you tried doing this?

No I haven't. I am kind of embarassed to say, but I have never sent a text message. I might get the courage up tonight to try that. I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable guy about electronics, but man cell phones just kind of freak me for some reason. I know almost nothing about them. I just dial and talk and that is about it. I wouldn't even have one if my girlfriend had not insisted and paid for it. == Thanks Mark, I will try that tonight.

 

[Zepher]

I had an older Motorola phone through Verizon that was also "locked down" -- but I could still send myself ringtones through texting, and still had the option to save the file attachment as a ringtone. Have you tried doing this?

No I haven't. I am kind of embarassed to say, but I have never sent a text message. I might get the courage up tonight to try that. I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable guy about electronics, but man cell phones just kind of freak me for some reason. I know almost nothing about them. I just dial and talk and that is about it. I wouldn't even have one if my girlfriend had not insisted and paid for it. == Thanks Mark, I will try that tonight.

If she was paying for it, why didn't you go with a cool phone, like a Droid or iPhone?

 

[bigmck]

If she was paying for it, why didn't you go with a cool phone, like a Droid or iPhone?

When we were at the Verizon store over the weekend, I mentioned that several times. I am not sure if she is hard of hearing or was ignoring me.

 

[carwiz]

When all else fails, read the manual that came with your phone.

 

[bigmck]

When all else fails, read the manual that came with your phone.

Yea, Believe it or not I have tried that. Nothing about it so I came to a better source here.

 

[carwiz]

I suspect that if it's not covered in the manual then ringtones aren't available on your phone. Even my old Sprint-Sanyo had ringtones but you had to download them from $print.

 

[bigmck]

I suspect that if it's not covered in the manual then ringtones aren't available on your phone. Even my old Sprint-Sanyo had ringtones but you had to download them from $print.

I can DL ringtones, but I am trying to put in my own custom ringtones.

 

[StalkeR]

I'm now out of ideas ...

 

[carwiz]

There-in lies the rub--You can't. I couldn't on my old Sanyo either. As I recall, there was no provision to do so and they were a special format too. I had to buy the ringtones from Sprint or use the choices in the phone. My new phone allows storing my own up to the allocated memory. I've loaded the family numbers with individual song clips that match their life, personality or favorite song. Gets a few grins when some go off in the store.

 

[bigmck]

I appreciate all of your efforts. To wrap up my story, I connected the phone to USB and did see it in the Printers and Devices window. It said that there were no drivers so I seached the net for some, but none were found. I then decided to do one last thing, it possibly should have been the first. I called Verizon and they confirmed I could not load custom ringtones. Thanks to everyone.

 

[StalkeR]

That's not good...
And no problem bigmck !