Make a RAZR Ringtone with iTunes
General November 1st, 2005Use iTunes and Bluetooth to create your own ringtones for the Moto RAZR. It isn’t as hard as you think. Just use the right settings. When I used the wrong settings, the transfer failed when loading my phone. All of these instructions are for a Mac but if you follow along, I’m sure you will get it.
1- First you need to find what you want to use in your iTunes Library. Make a playlist and put your soon to be ringtones in it.
2- You’ll need to clip them to about 30 seconds long. This is about how long your phone will ring. No need to use the extra space with sound you won’t be able to hear. To do this just get info on your song and set the start and stop point in the options tab. Click OK and move on.
3- Next you need to set iTunes to convert your music to 22 khz and mono encoding. I used a lower bitrate to save space. These settings are found in the iTunes Preferences under the advanced tab. When you choose custom for the bitrate setting the second dialog box will pop up.
4- Convert the songs to mp3 and find them in your Library. I used a smart playlist with recently added songs. I then dragged the song to my desktop. This made a copy so if anything went wrong I could just go back to iTunes.
5- Now that you are to this stage you can go back to iTunes and set the in and out points on the original song back to normal. It’s easier to do this now while you are thinking about it. Your ringtone version should still be there. You can easily pick these out by looking at the bitrate which will likely be lower.
6- Send the audio files to your phone using a bluetooth connection and be sure to tell the phone to store them. I just use a D-Link USB adapter and it works great.
7- On your phone set the audio for one of your new tones and you should be good.
Enjoy your new ringtones!
January 8th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Does my mac have to have bluetooth or only my phone? cuz my mac doesnt have blue tooth..
January 8th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Hello Helen, You would need to have bluetooth on your mac as well. I just use a USB bluetooth adapter from D-Link. It was about $30 and works great. You can sync the address book and calendar with the USB connection to the phone but have to use bluetooth to get access to photos, video and sound files.
January 20th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I was googling exactly this and came across your site. Excellent, thanks so much!
February 8th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
will it work if i use the little black usb adapter and a usb cord to transfer the songs?
if so, how would i do it?
February 8th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
The USB connection will let you sync with the phone and exchange the address book and calendar information but not files. The only way I found was to connect via Bluetooth.
February 13th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Thanks for this info! I look forward to adding new ringtones!
February 13th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Is it supposed to send the entire file even when you’ve changed the settings? I’m sending a 5.3 MB file.
February 13th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
It looks like you are sending the full length file if it is 5+MB. Be sure that you encode a new file with lower bitrate settings. Look in your library for the short file at the lower bitrate. You can turn on the columns with the info to quickly see the bitrate. Once you find the short one you can move it to the phone.
February 16th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
dude, I love you. I was trying to find a place that would tell me the settings, and then I came across your blog which was a million times better…a full step by step through iTunes for Mac (makes it even better), just brilliant
February 28th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
doe sthis work with the cingular v3 phones as well? and does this work on windows or only mac?
February 28th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
i went out and bought the program and converted all the numbers in itunes. all the files from my phone show on the computer under the bluetooth exchange but how do i put the song onto the phone. im reallly getting frustrated and close to throwing my phone off a cliff into the ocean and just buy a nextel already.
March 1st, 2006 at 12:16 am
Cool! Very informative!!!
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:07 pm
aw man, you’re amazing. beautiful work. thank you.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Jake: Once you have the files converted you need to transfer them to the phone via bluetooth. On my mac it shows up with a folder for audio. Once I put the file in that folder it was a matter of selecting it to use as a ringtone on the phone. As for working on a PC, I don’t know. I imagine it would all work the same as you are just transcoding the file to a different length and bitrate.
Good Luck.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Amy and Toto: My pleasure. I hope it helps.
March 4th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Thanks for the simple instructions! I just created my first ringtone. Only problem is it’s a bit LOUD.
March 7th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Does this still work for the new Razr V3c? I thought Verizon somehow turned off the OBEX transfer on the new V3c. Let me know if this will really work with the new V3c.
March 7th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
I am not sure about the V3c. I only have a V3. I usually keep stuff like phones and computers for a long time. If it works for me I use it. I use cingular for my service. You may be able to send the file through a data service if you aren’t able to browse your phone. Motorola Phone Tools may work as well but I haven’t tried it and it is Windows only.
March 9th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
the music i bought from itunes doesn’t transfer to my phone, but the music i download from limewire does. is there anyway to fix this?
March 9th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Hi Laura, Good point. Itunes won’t transcode purchased music directly. However, you can burn an audio CD and then import them back into itunes. Once they are back in you can trim them for length and change the bitrate etc.
March 12th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Thanks for the help, but I’m having one problem. When I send the audio file that I create, it appears on the phone in the “sounds” section, but there is no option to set it as a ringtone. Is anyone else having this problem?
March 13th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Hi Nick, Once you have it in the sounds folder on the phone, you should be able to customize one of the audio profiles to use it.
March 13th, 2006 at 10:18 am
lol maybe im just being stupid, but its not working for me. I’ll be more specific, maybe you can help me. I can upload the audio file fine using bluetooth, and I store it in the sounds folder. When I go to the ring styles menu, my audio file does not appear as an option for a ringtone.
Also, I noticed that the preloaded sounds on the phone (that are in the same “sounds” folder) have the option in the menu to “apply as ringtone”. However, my sound files do not have that in its option menu! I have double checked that I have encoded the new file correctly in iTunes. Please Help!
March 17th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
You might try using the Send File function rather than the Browse Device. When you are prompted to store the file, you should be given the option to Apply as Ringtone. Once you have done that, the file should be your ringtone.
March 17th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Hello…. I am trying to use the same method for my Motorola V557…. has the MP3 encoder been removed from the most recent iTunes version? How do you pull that up?
Thanks!
March 18th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Genius! I was going to break out garage band to do it… Now all they need to do is give the waveform in the itunes options dialog so that you can select start and finish that way… we should get lots of people to suggest that feature.
Not to mention the ability to have your import options left alone, so that you dont have to change those prefs between making ringtones and rippping new CDs. should be able to have “Convert…” in the right click menu… though, export to ringtone would be nice too. =)
March 19th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
hi it works get
March 20th, 2006 at 6:03 am
HF, The MP3 encoder is still there. It is in the preferences->advanced->importing tab in the dropdown list.
March 21st, 2006 at 12:30 pm
What is happening to Nick is happening to me as well. The “apply as ringtone” function does not come up for any of the ringtones Ive made. Ive tried almost all the things I can think of and nothing is working. I thought I would finally get it after following this tutorial, but it still doesnt work. I heard something about the manufacturer not allowing their phones to use homemade ringtones because of legal issues…that could be it. But I’d really love to know if their is something I can do to make it work.
March 31st, 2006 at 9:46 am
how do you bluetooth i mean liek bluetooh music to ur phone im done all the steps except for the one were it says bluetooth the music to my phone how do you bluetooh?
April 1st, 2006 at 10:34 am
You connect with bluetooth and browse the phone as a drive. Then put the music in the “audio” folder.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:24 am
You don’t need bluetooth if you have a mac, when you plug it in with USB, just drag and drop it into the ringtone directory on your folder. Then in the Multimedia -> Sounds just move it to the phone and ta da….
Awesome, i did it with the 24 Cisco IP phone mp3 and now all the 24 crazies are really jealuous
April 4th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
hmm i turn the bluetooth on and everything but it cant find the computer. am i doing something wrong
April 7th, 2006 at 10:42 am
i seem to be having the same problem as nick. i have tried browse device, send file, i even renamed the files on the phone to have the extension .mp3 like the default ones. for some reason i am still unable to set an itunes files as my ringtone. anybody…any idea…any help????
April 7th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
i havent bought bluetooth yet but i want to make sure this will work with my razr, i have maosx and also i dont have panther, do u need panther, but my question is, where would i go to send it thru bluetooth, or does that option come up once i connect an adapter to my computer, thanks for the help . . .
April 8th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
I am not sure if you need panther. I don’t think it would be necessary. Once you plug in a bluetooth adapter, you will pair the computer with the phone. There is a bluetooth preference panel in system preferences that lets you set up a menu bar item. Then you would just enable bluetooth on your phone and connect to it. Then you can send files to it.
April 11th, 2006 at 1:56 am
Corrupt file!
April 11th, 2006 at 2:18 am
Great info, best I have found on the net. Complements to the creator! Mac would love to see this.. I followed 1-7 30 sec clip adj… 22kHz.. 32kbps MP3 encoding toothing
No problem with toothing can browse device… Can send mp3 files The phone is seeieng them… Every time I try to play… says “xxx.mp3″ Corrupt. Delete? if I select xxx for ringtone, phone doesn’t ring… Moto.mp3 that came pre-installed is mp3 Details size:122 Kb bit rate: 64 length: :15 type: mp3 Why does it play MOTO and no other mp3’s Any one send me a ringtone mp3 to tooth that works to eliminate this as a cause… jglaser@hawaii.edu
Before finding this info!; I have been working on this for the last few days I have had the phone… got it new…from 3rd party online twi wirless… I talked cingular, apple, and moto, no one knows why there is some typy of block on this mp3 playback feature… moto gave me a case #10-0000…said thay would send a box… send in the phone… is this me, moto, apple/itunes/ cingular… got the phone online… phone spces said mp3 playback and On-board downloadable mp3.. Got the phone, on box,it leaves out mp3 playback,”On-board downloadable mp3″ is the only feature under advanced features… Firmware problem/update? ANY 1 outthere? Thanx you reading!!! Just
DO I try moto phone tools mpt?
tiger g4 1.667 powerbook moto processor (still with out intel) You think the phone being moto and the cpu being moto there should be some sort of =playing ground…
April 11th, 2006 at 2:21 am
terral, Hats off to you for this bloggg how did you get all the info on this …. mp3 looked everywhere and this is by far the best step-by-step yet, wish it would work for my phone! j
April 12th, 2006 at 8:13 am
just, I will send you a file that works with my phone. I know I had the same problems early on when I was playing with ringtones. Did you save it as a mono file?
Terral
April 12th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Yes the ring tone worked…. you sent! thanx!!! Mono was selected…. Channels: mono …. under get info! I am thankful your tone worked…. gives me hope. Now I feel like it is me/user error!
I follow the steps to a T…… What am I doing wrong…. new itunes v6.0.4 (3) yours i noticed is tunes v5.0.1 in info….
best, JH
April 12th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
The new v6.0.4 (3) you sent works and plays great! Thanks I wish I could just follow directions for once…. I believe I am, no luck yet…. will read 1-7 again… See if I missed something… both files you sent look like the same settings as my files…? Strange
Best wishes! your friend in the mid pacific……. all alone with people with island fever J
April 12th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
is all good in da h0od!!! J
April 17th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Thanks a million for the excellent step by step. I got it to work on the first try. It’s great that this can be done using iTunes, I wasn’t aware of the full level of control you have over tracks in your library. Current Ringtone: AC/DC ~ Back in Black(truncated to 20 sec. sound clip) Current Phone: Moto Razr V3 Black Current Mood: Much happier!!!
April 18th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Awesome! Worked the first time I tried it. Our 2 Moto Razr are ringing much better. We’ve got 10 new ringtones and more planned. Thanks again for making this soooooooo easy!
April 25th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
How can I ever repay you. This worked perfect the first time. the only thing i did different was move my new short song to my desktop. Made it easier to find when I Bluetooth browsed.
April 27th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Great explanation. You rock.
It seems like some files are still much larger than others (some are 500k and some are as small as 150k), both for 30 seconds at the same bitrate. The larger ones take 20 seconds or so to load and begin playing, so as ringtones they’re kinda useless. Is there a way to make them even smaller?
April 27th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
hey i have a question, i have an olympus camera and i found out that my usb cable fits my razr to my computer. But when i try to use it it say that i need to have a disk. dia you need to have a disk in order for this to work? if not how can i make mine work?
April 28th, 2006 at 5:15 am
Chris, I haven’t had any trouble playing files in the past. The only way to make them smaller is to reduce the bitrate or the length of the clip. One of the first times I made a tone I accidentally grabbed the wrong clip. It was the shorter version but before compressing it. Do a “get info” on some of your clips and see if they are the right bitrate, khz, mono etc.
Dean, The USB cable will work for syncing contacts, calendar, phonebook but will not work for transferring files to the razr. On my mac I didn’t need a disc to connect via USB. I did need a USB Bluetooth adapter to transfer music, pics and video.
April 28th, 2006 at 6:52 am
I figured out the answer to my question!
It was the album artwork… when I went to “get info” and deleted the album artwork it solved my problem! Somehow the artwork must be part of the audio file unless you remove it.
Once again, thanks for the posting.
April 28th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
hi , when i tranfer the 20 sec song via usb to my mobile , it is stored in the itunes folder and there is no option of setting it as ringtone
April 29th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
I’m having the same trouble as just was. I can’t select the file as a ringtone for some reason! I’ve followed all the directions! Help!
April 29th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
abhayjit, I just have a v3 (pre itunes) and I put the tones in the “audio” folder. Then I select them from there. I am not sure how the new phones layout their storage. I am usually pretty slow to upgrade electronics. I try to get as much use as possible first.
Charlie, I had trouble early on when I was figuring the settings out. It would not work for me if the encoding was different. Try redoing your settings and re-encoding a song file. Maybe try a different one. Good luck.
April 30th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Paying $2.00 for a song that I don’t even want that everyone else has ..is now over. You make me love technology. I have a Razr and i wasn’t sure if it would work… but it did!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2006 at 7:01 am
Terral,
I think my problem may stem from the fact that I’m using moto4lin over USB to put files on the phone. According to that tool, the mp3 that I can select as a ringtone (the moto one) has an attribute number of 44. The song I’m loading on the phone gets the attr. # of 4 by default. Whenever I try to change it to match it doesn’t work. Could it be that transferring by USB is the problem? (since I’m using moto4lin)
May 1st, 2006 at 7:13 am
Charlie, That could be it. If you transfer via bluetooth it may work just fine.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:13 pm
I am able to convert and transfer mp3 files just fine to my V3. The problem comes in when I try and play the song on my phone. When I select the song to play, there is a 10 second pause until the phone responds and plays the song. This 10 seconds transfers over to when a call comes in. The callers phone will ring for 10 seconds before my phone even registers the call, then it will vibrate and play the song. I’m following the directions exactly as shown, but it just doesn’t want to cooperate. Any ideas?
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Chris, I’ve never had that problem. Not sure if you are the same Chris, but Chris a few comments above had the same problem and it turned out to be the album artwork. You might try his remedy and see if it helps.
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Chris, i had the same problem. Just make sure that the file size of the ringtone is less than 200 KB and everything should work fine.
May 5th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
I wanted to use my .mp4 files for ringtones. What a google chase! Finally figured it out. DL Audio HiJack (setting is 22500 khz during capture) capture to .aiff, import into Audacity, cut out what I don’t want then save as .mp3. Upload to phone and happy daz!!! My ringtones.
May 6th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
dude im getting pist. ive been on the computer for 4 hours everyday and i still cant figure this out. i went and bought a black usb cord from insten.com for 30 bucks and no matter what i do my computer wont detect my phone. it detects my disc i recieved with my usb cord and it says that it is downloaded and ready to use, yet it is no where to be found on my computer. should i just give up? i am getting very frustrated and about to break my razr.
May 6th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Thanks so much. Worked like a charm. Also saved my daughters ringtones when she had to exchange phones. Will this work on any bluetooth enabled phone?
May 7th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
I tried it and I love it! Thank you for showing us how to make our own ringtones so easily! I have only one problem. For some songs the size goes to 800KB which is too big and causes delays on the phone. Any reason why some songs wouldn’t copy as 30 second clips? Thank you!!!!!!!!
May 9th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
When i try and send via bluetooth to the “audio folder i get a error “the last operation failed: bad request”
May 14th, 2006 at 7:00 am
i have a razr v3c from verizon and i think they disabled the phone from receiving files… anyone have the new razr with verizon where this DOES work?
May 15th, 2006 at 12:42 am
You are the man, works great even when using itunes for windows!
May 18th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
[...] Step 1: Make the ringtones, using these instructions. Step 2: Send it to your phone, using these instructions. [...]
May 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
I have the V3 but for some reason i can’t get the ringtones to be LOUD it is alwayz low don’t matter what frequency i put it on. I use mobiledit to upload my songs and convert it to mp3 with a music converter.
May 21st, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Im using moto4lin and audacity and a usb cord i can transfer the newly made ringtone and even play it on my v3 but when I go to apply as ringtone and it says ringtone changed however when some calls it reverts back to the default ringtone any one had this problem?
May 21st, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Hey…does this work with the rzar V3c? and if not does anyone know how to get it to work with it? thanksss
May 27th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
hey how do you conect you v3 to your computr using bluetooth? any tips?
May 28th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
I do everything the way the instructions say to but when it finally gets to the part on my phone where I’m expecting the Apply as Ringtone/Store only/etc. it will tell me “File Type Not Recognized” Do you know what I’m supposed to do after that?
Thanks
May 29th, 2006 at 4:44 am
Aggie2013, I use the built in bluetooth browser on my mac. When you have bluetooth enabled the icon should show in the top right corner of the menubar. Browse the device or send files from there.
Annie, Not positive whats happening but it may have to do with the encoding of the song. Make sure the file type is mp3 and the bitrate and other encoding settings are right. Try another song as well.
June 1st, 2006 at 3:46 am
ive sent files as .mp3s, ive sent them as .midis and i still cant get them to work. Im emailing them to my phone, as i cannot figure out how to find bluetooth on my Windows XP, so I email the mp3s and they come in but it says “unrecognized format”, and I email the midis and they never even come.
im so sad, i want paula abdul on my phone!!
June 4th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
i have a linkys system. would taht work as a blue tooth?
when i plug in the phone with a usb cable it says i need a disk. if i click cancel it will not show up on “my computer”
June 6th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
So, i have a new razr V3c and have been on about every site trying to get songs on my phone. I have followed these instructions…. but my mac doesn’t let me connect with my phone. it will recognize it, but i can’t send or browse the phone. so i have made the file (229kb) mono, 64 kbps and have been trying to send it to my phone by changing it to a .mid file, and using xxx-xxx-xxxx@vzpix.com
everytime i send it my phone will connect and recieve almost all the file, before saying “UNABLE TO DOWNLOAD PIX/FLIX MESSAGE”
is there anything i can do? thanks
June 12th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
How do i send it to my phone. do i need a cerain software to send it!
June 16th, 2006 at 11:35 am
You Rock! Thanks so much for this! It was pretty easy with a bit of help from my co-worker! Thanks so much!
June 18th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
After all is done and I don’t have a bluetooth usb. is there anyway to send the song as a text message to the cell phone?
June 19th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
i can transfer my mp3’s to my v3c with the usb cable, but i cant set them as ringtones. does anyone know how to do this?
June 20th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
So i clip the song i want as my ringtone and then click “ok” it takes me back to my playlist! What’s the deal??
June 21st, 2006 at 8:31 am
Excellent! If you ever visit the Bahamas i’ll have a drink waiting. Good info.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Unsatisfied: Now you need to convert the clipped song to a new mp3 with the settings above. The new lower bitrate song is the one you load to your phone.
June 26th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
Is there any way to make the files you sent to your phone louder? Mine are pretty quiet… thanks!
June 27th, 2006 at 5:01 am
Is this task possible without Bluetooth?
June 28th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Hey John, I see you found out how to transfer the MP3s to your V3c, how did you do it, walk me through it.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:20 am
Any answer on whether this is possible with Verizon? I’ve got a Verizon RAZR v3m coming next week.
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:12 am
More recent Verizon Motorola phones are disabled for Bluetooth (or USB) file transfer. All new Verizon phones also do not permit user-created ringtones if one imports via a transflash card on the phone (RAZRs don’t have this card option anyway). One needs to get the files into the phone’s internal memory, into the “audio” folder. As mentioned in Jesse’s prior post, email to your phone as an attachment somehow doesn’t work either (some have suggested this work around in other forums despite the incurred nominal email charge … but perhaps this is blocked as well).
There are hacks to switch seam files to allow all of the above described at Howard Forums (enabling both types of file transfer -and- use of your mp3 files as ringtones). Hacking the phone requires a PC and the process is not for the feint of heart as it likely invalidates warranties and if done improperly, could create new problems in use of the phone. It’s unfortunate that Verizon has chosen to cripple their phones to this extent as $2 per ringtone is ridiculous, especially as it is a locked system w/o other options (even your iPod will play customer generated mp3s vs charge via iTunes for every single song you want to put on the device).
If you have an E815 (and not the RAZR) and just want to use your phone as an mp3 player, Verizon allows an alternative. Get a transflash card (microSD for the E815 phone … not the larger miniSD) and an adapter to hook up to your computer (transflash cards usually come with an SD shell to insert in, so you need an adapter that accepts SD cards). These cards need to be formatted on the computer first if of a size great than 512 MB (not sure why this is required, but some have reported problems if they skip this step and just format on the phone). I did this and then reformated/erased on the phone which created a folder series it requires (including an audio folder). Anyway, after this formatting, one can then transfer mp3 (not iTunes AAC or unprotected AAC files) to play in the phone. For at least the E815, one will need to get new headphones or a jack adapter as the jack size is smaller (2.5 mm) than the 3.5 mm used in iPods and other devices. Not a true iPod replacement (less accessible interface, won’t play non-mp3 files), but I always have my phone with me and hate carrying extra stuff so it’s a nice back-up. There are stereo headsets that can manage phone calls and music listening (e.g. see the expensive Sony HBH-DS970 which links via bluetooth).
July 4th, 2006 at 11:26 am
You are my hero! I have the new mac powerbook and a v3 razr - process went through without a hitch - bluetooth is my favorite toy now haha
July 6th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
THANKYOU! i thought i would NEVER get ringtones on my phone after trawling the net for info but this was soooo easy. even motorola couldn’t help me. you’re a star!
July 11th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
If you’re having trouble with the “corrupt file” error, try increasing the bitrate that you’re using. I found that by switching to stereo and increasing the bitrate and sample rate, the files I was making started working. I haven’t experimented to see exactly how low you can bring the settings before it stops working, but I thought I should throw that out there.
Happy ring-tone…ing!
July 14th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Does anyone have a problem with their ringtones? Whenever my phone rings the ringer starts then pauses for a few seconds then continues! Is my phone broken or just on a wrong setting? someone help!
July 15th, 2006 at 7:08 am
Amanda, Someone up above had a similar problem. It turned out to be the album artwork was embedded in the song. Once they deleted the artwork it worked fine.
July 15th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
I followed the instructions, and everything worked except the part when i had to hook my computer up to my phone (motorazr v3c). my computer found my phone using the bluetooth, file exchange, but when i wanted to “browse device,” it said, “device does not have the necessary services.” is this because my phone is not a v3? someone help!
July 16th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
can u email it?
July 18th, 2006 at 11:16 am
How To Make Ringtones for a Verizon RAZR
I bought a Motorola V3m from Verizon. The V3m has the microSD/TransFlash card function enabled, amongst a few other things. Verizon has disabled OBEX along with the ability to transfer mp3 files via the transflash. I have a workaround, however, that I came up with.
Convert your CD/MP3/WhateverAudioYouHave into a WAV file. Clip it to about 30 seconds or less. Then, when saving the file (still in .wav format) set the sample frequency to 22050 Hz, mono. This is your ringtone file.
Visit Verizon’s GetPix website and go to PixPlace. You can generate messages (picture messages with sound, too.. get where I’m going?). Create a message to your own phone number, with your sound clip inserted. They don’t allow mp3 sounds to be inserted, thus the need for the .wav file.
You’ll receive your txt message with attached sound. I’ve found the quality suffers a bit but it still beats having Verizon take every penny they can while FORCING me to buy their services. It’s robbery.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
thanks man youre a lifesaver, i almost bit the bullet and let cingular sell me some ringers. this is great.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Amanda, I had the same problem, but only with two of the several ringtones I made using this tutorial. It turned out they were 2-3 times the size of the working tones, which explained the behavior of the phone. By the time it got the song file loaded when someone was calling, the caller had already rung several times, so only a few seconds (or less) of the ringtone ended up playing before they went to voicemail! These tones would take just as long to load in the audio menu. While other ones played instantly, these two would freeze the phone for ~25 seconds until they loaded.
To fix this, I had tried reducing the bit rate and sampling rate to lower the file size, but the sizes didn’t go down by much! I was stumped. It turns out that, as Terral suggested, it was because the artwork was embedded in the mp3. Once it was deleted, problem was solved! WOOHOO!! I’m so glad I came back to this site, this problem was really bugging me. Give that a try, I hope it works for you!
And THANK YOU Terral for such a fantastic guide!!! I was SO excited to find this site. It’s so thorough and well-written. Plus I had no idea songs could be clipped with iTunes, I thought I’d have to get some other software to do it!
July 25th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
I just purchased a Cingular Razr, and i was trying to mod my songs to the appropriate bitrate and such on a PC, but i dont have the settings on itunes. For instance, i cant set it to 22 khz and i can only convert my selection to AAC Do i need to update my itunes or should i try this on a mac instead?
July 26th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
how do i transfer the songs on to my phone it dosent say in the pages
July 26th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Hi… I have the Razr V3m from verizon and I got everything down… but I can’t seem to set my song as a ringtone, even when I change the file format to WAV. My file size is only 448kb. Can someone walk me step by step on how to get my songs to be set as my ringtone?
July 31st, 2006 at 9:35 am
You can also use Audio Hijack and record the preview for any song in the iTunes store! I do this and use the settings Terrel specified, but with Audio Hijack instead of iTunes. Works like a charm and lets me get virtually ANY song as a ringtone!
August 1st, 2006 at 7:53 am
Hey, im stuck on part 3 where i have to convert the itunes to 22khz and mono encoding. i dont know where on itunes to look to change this. please help!!!
August 1st, 2006 at 8:29 pm
too bad when you convert the songs to the 30 second format it makes no difference once uploaded to your phone. no matter how many times i’ve tried, the full song still goes to my phone.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Great guide.
I can’t get it to work with the Telus V3c though. I can get the files to play fine on my phone but can’t set them as ringtones. I think Telus has disabled this.
Oh well.
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:28 am
i’m an idiot and it was late and now i got it to work. thanks for putting this up!
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:49 am
im having a problem with connecting my fone with my computer. i turn bluetooth on on my fone and the computer doesnt pick it up. do i need some kind of software?
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:20 am
Leslie, If you are using Mac OSX then the software is built in. As long as you have bluetooth on your computer you should be able to connect to the phone. First pair the computer and your phone. Then you can transfer files.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Will all of this work for SLVR and sending it through iTunes by a USB cord?
August 4th, 2006 at 6:26 am
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August 5th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Dude, you rule…and here i thought i was going to have to shell out tons of dough to get the stuff i wanted, this worked like a charm!!
August 5th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Thanks so much for these instructions. I was so excited to find out how to do this!
August 6th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
no matter what i do my computer wont detect my phone. it detects my disc i recieved with my usb cord and it says that it is downloaded and ready to use, yet it is no where to be found on my computer. what should i do?? im getting so aggervated!
August 7th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Ahhh…you don’t know how happy you’ve just made me. I have been fiddling around for about an hour, determined to figure out how to get this to work. I finally googled it and found your instructions.
I usually consider myself pretty computer-savvy, but I never really knew much about bluetooth and how it works. As soon as I found your site, I was up and running in no time.
Thanks for your help!!!!!
August 9th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
When i try to browse or send file through my bluetooth connection it just tells me that the “Device does not have the necessary services”. What’s up?
August 9th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Oh nvm. I have verizon. Does anyone know of a possible way to do it for a verizon razr?
August 10th, 2006 at 6:40 am
GREAT!! EASY AND FREE!!!!!!!!!
August 10th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Hi, how can I connect my cell phone to the computer, I did the seem edit and my computer is bluetooth, but where do I go to actually put the music in the cell phone?
August 12th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
I have the same problem as Wesley I am getting an error message that Device does not have necessary services. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 14th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Jeff, You will need to use bluetooth to transfer the files to your phone. On the mac you can use the bluetooth utility to browse the phone and then transfer the files. I have Cingular service and it has been working for me, although it seems that Verizon has disabled that option according to Wesley above.
Grant, I am not sure if there is a way around Verizon’s restrictions. Check back and see if someone else has been able to do it.
Thanks Terral
August 15th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Hey guys,
I own a Cingular V3.
I got it to work except I have one question. I see all of my mp3 files in the MY STUFF and then Sounds section.
I can ONLY Apply as Ringtone though. How do I set these up to ring for certain adresses in my phone?
For example, my friend calls, it will play something specifically I want it to play for him.
If I go to my address book and try to choose a ringtone, my mp3s do not show up for some reason there….
Any ideas?
THANKS!
August 15th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
In other words, I cannot set up a RINGER ID from the MP3s I just sent over…..even though I see them and can play them under my AUDIO section….
August 16th, 2006 at 7:14 am
I read throught all of thsi and I totally understand the “making” of the MP3 files in iTunes (bit rate, file size etc). Some one asked the question of weather or not these files can then be EMAILED to a V3 (T-Mobile). When I email these files to my phone the phone does not recognize the mp3 format? Any suggestions… I don’y have Bluetooth on my Mac…
August 18th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Thank you, THank U, TY! This is exactly the information I’ve been looking for. I now have “Hey Ladies!” blaring out of my RAZR speakers each time someone calls. Thanks again. Great article.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
hey thanks for the tip… I found this info surprisingly difficult to come by, but your instructions made it really simple. The only problem I had was finding the mp3 encoder window… but once I found that it was easy.
August 21st, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Guess I should have read this earlier… V3c and verizon disabled the OBEX transfer protocol. Im going to try another way as described here in this forum
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:28 am
Just a big big thank you. Got the phone yesterday. Got my first ringtone on today. Following instructions worked fine first time with a Macbook/V3i. This is now the coolest feature on the whole damn phone. You are a star:)
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I cant figure out how to save the song with the presets (time constraints) i set with iTunes. when i try to transfer it, it attempts to send the entire song, and tells me it will excede my memory…any suggestions?
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Chris, All you have to do to save the time presets is click ok in the information dialog. All this does is tell iTunes where to start and stop playing. The file size is still the same. You’ll need to select the shortened song and convert it with the mp3 encoder and setting described above. You should then have 2 copies of the same song. One large and one small (file size). You can then remove the time preset from the original song and transfer your new shortened version.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:58 pm
OK I think I’ve got it figured out
First I am running Ubuntu/ Audacity/ Bluetooth Razor V3 (T-Mobile).
I was getting the “File Type Not Recognized†error. Bottom line is you have to save your mp3 as version MPEG-1 for the phone to recognize the format (IMHO). I guess iTunes does it automatically or like Audacity will try to as long as the original rate is above 32k???
By googling around I found out the Razor has “issues” With MPEG-2 & MPEG 2.5 versions of the mp3 format. So I figured out how to force Audacity to save in MPEG-1 Layer3 version of MP3. If you are not using my setup, I’ll leave it up to you to figure it out. But if you use Audacity here’s what I did.
I tried adjusting the output in the preference tabs to 32k+ with a 128 bit rate sample and then using EasyTag seeing what verson was saved (Gnome properties incorrectly stated MPEG-1, don’t trust it). It had no effect.
I realized my WAV was sampled at 8k. This limited the output rate to 8k. I had to resample it at 32k+ (44.1k). Left click on the file title of the displayed sample and choose the “Set Rate”. This compressed the timing (Alvin & the chipmunks effect). I then played with the Change Speed effect (-82) to make it sound ok again. This time my output finally showed 44.1k 128 bit rate and MPEG-1. I uploaded to the phone and set it as my ring tone!
August 26th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
I have a question about the V3c. Can I create my own ringtones using the clips in my sounds? If so, then how? I did it when I had the V3, but I’m not sure if it is possible in the V3c. Thank you.
August 26th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for… and it worked on my first try! Thank you! (The screenshots really helped.)
August 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
google popd this up
worked great thanks
August 30th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I was able to use these instructions and bypass bluetooth because my wireless carrier, US Cellular, provides free email addresses that are linked directly to the phone. So I can attach files in an email from my home computer and download the messages from my phone. (This may help some of you with bluetooth problems or no bluetooth at all).
However, the ringtones I made are almost inaudible, no matter how loud I specify my ring style to be in my phone. I went back to iTunes and checked the info on the MP3’s and it says the volume is -10 db. Is there anything I can do to permanently raise the volume of these files?
I appreciate any help that can be afforded.
August 31st, 2006 at 7:27 pm
i cant get my stupid thing to work i have a regular usb and it dont work waz up with that
August 31st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
help me people i have a razr v3 i need ringtones i got itunes i dont no why but i got it o ya for my ipod lol anywayz i need help to put song on my razr
September 1st, 2006 at 7:45 am
I just found your link. Thank you! I was screwing around with QuickTime Pro to do this; I didn’t even think of simply using iTunes. Your encoding info (Including the advice to use mono) saved me a lot of time.
September 1st, 2006 at 7:12 pm
THANK YOU!! This is so much fun
I actually used ITunes to create the ring tone, transfered it to an IPaq then used the bluetooth on the IPaq to send it to my Razr.
September 7th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
1 more addition- you need to strip out lyrics, etc. from the mp3 file before sending it to the RAZR. My phone kept telling me that my mp3 was corrupt, even though the settings were correct.
Turns out I had added lyrics to the original mp3. I stripped that out, as well as the regular ID3 info, and the song then worked on my RAZR. (not sure if all ID3 info needs to be removed, or just superfluous stuff like lyrics and artwork.)
September 10th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
i have 512 mb memory in my v3i but its showing that itunes can have upto 50 songs!!! how to change this setting?????????????
September 11th, 2006 at 8:25 am
I have done all that you suggested, but when I try to download the playlist to my razr (I have a PC) it says that the FTP connection failed. Any suggestions?
September 12th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
This website was great, I followed the steps 1 by 1 and and everything worked. I didn’t even know my mac could do that. Thanks I thought it would be much more comlicated, and i’m onky 14 and i could do it with no problem. Chears again
—keep up the good work
September 14th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
I’m also a telus customer with a new v3c RAZR. I’ve sent the files to the phone using bluetoothand that worked fine…I’ve used the settings on the post and others…I can play the songs but can’t set as ringtone…..My daugther has a new single that I want to turn into my ringtone. There must be a way to get these on the phone. Has anyone had any luck or have we all given up?
September 16th, 2006 at 8:21 am
This was great. I had just sent my razor of to get repaired and lost about $150 worth of ringtones. Now I can get them back at no charge and I have more to choose from. I also got to put a wall paper on my phone that I wanted. Call me stupid but didn’t realize I could do this with my phone.
I did experience the same problem with my new tones with the delay effect. Took out the art work and sent it. Worked like a champ.
Thanks again for this thread.
September 16th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
uh do i need the dsb cable to do this
September 17th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
I just got a couple of used Motorola V557 phones today. They have bluetooth, use mp3 for audio, and worked first shot. Piece of cake. Use the same instructions and you should be up an running.
September 18th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
This process was incredibly easy. Thanks! I used it for sending new rings and other full file songs to my SMT5600 smartphone. I can seem to get this to send the songs to my razr though. The USB connection doesnt work because the computer requires software? Oh well… I will use my SMT
September 20th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
did you hav ea v3i?
i copied all of the new ringtone files from itunes and dragged and dropped them onto the desktop
from there i copied the new files onto the phone via USB cable but when i disconnect the phone and attempt to apply one of the ringtones as a new ringtone…the files dont appear on the ringtone list
suggestions?
September 21st, 2006 at 1:42 am
I have the same problem as dirty. I have Cingular and a RAZR V3. I can move the mp3 onto the phone. I can play the mp3 on the phone by going to My Stuff -> Sounds. Then I select the menu key and say “Apply as Ring Tone”. But this doesn’t do anything. Incoming calls are still the old one and the mp3 doesn’t appear in the list of sounds when i go from:
Settings -> Audio -> Detail -> Calls
So there is no way to apply the ringtone. Any ideas?
September 24th, 2006 at 9:58 am
i did everything you said, but i dont have a mac and i didnt transfer through bluetooth i used a usb cable my ringtone is in my itunes folder on my phone but theres not option on audio to set any of these as a ringtone
September 26th, 2006 at 5:42 am
Easy! Great instructions. Worked for me w/ no problems. Thanks for putting these instructions on the web.
September 26th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I followed your directions to the T and everything worked….I got it transferred to the phone, applied it as my ringtone and everything…but I am having a slight problem.
When I go to play the ringtone on my phone it takes a bit of time to load then it makes a ridiculous staticy noise before the ringtone starts. And when I have it set as my ringtone, when I call my phone my phone looks as if it is getting a call my it like stalls then will start to ring and vibrate and all that mess.
Am I doing something wrong?
September 28th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Samantha, The delay is probably due to artwork and/or lyrics in the file. You can select the file in itunes and “get info” then delete the artwork and lyrics and you should be good to go.
October 2nd, 2006 at 8:33 pm
That was brilliant! Since I don’t have bluetooth on my lowly PC, I loaded a few 30-second mono clips of audio onto a thumb drive and went over to my local CompUSA. I transferred the songs to a demo MacBook and from there paired my T-Mobile V3r with the MacBook and hit “Send File” on the Bluetooth menu. It worked great! Free ringtones! They sound better than the ringtones you buy, and they’re customizable too! Thanks!
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Thanks, that worked great! I was wondering why my v3 razr was saying the songs were not supporte, when I knew it supported MP3s.
If anyone needs a free music editor to edit songs into ringtones go to http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/ for a free editor.
Also if you dont have bluetooth on you computer you can send you files to your phone from
http://www.funformobile.com/pages/ringtone/uploadRingtone.php
It sends a link to a music file you upload to the site to your cell free of charge.
Hope this helps.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:05 am
This worked perfectly, thanks a lot!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Works perfectly for me. I have a Cingular Razr and a Mac with built-in Bluetooth.
Joe: Goto Settings > Audio > Detail. Look at Calls. If it is set to “Set by Themes” select change and set it to your MP3.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
I went out and bought a USB cord, but when I connect my phone it says that the soft ware can not be found. Do I have to download something first? OR is their a disk I need to buy before my computer will read my phone? I’ve spent the last few hour of my life on this so I figure I should ask for help before I do something to my new Razr >>’
October 10th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
it worked but on number 3 i got stuck where it said….3- Next you need to set iTunes to convert your music to 22 khz and mono encoding. I used a lower bitrate to save space.
do u have to have a certan itunes?
October 11th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
U don’t need a mac. Connect the phone with a usb cable and open the phone folder in the computer. Open mobile folder and drag files into the ringtone folder. Afterwards go into the sounds option on your phone. Highlight your track and go to options and move to phone. BAM!!!! Now you could select is as a ringtone.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
I have tried this many times, and was able to upload my files to my razr (thank you for the clear instructions). However, none of the suggestions seem to fix the “corrupt file” issue for me.
Help! I cannot stand the ringtones included and cannot afford to buy more.
October 14th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I could not get the ringtones to play on my phone. It said the file was corrupted. I then removed all the IDG Tag information, and reuploaded it. Bingo!
I’m also using Windows XP. It doesnt “optimize for velocity engine,” instead it’s MMX/SSE. Still works perfect.
October 14th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Excellent instructions. Just what I was looking for. No need for all those cheezy software programs which never seem to work anyway. For people having problems sending the files, I used the bluetooth ‘browse device’ and dropped the file right into the audio folder. It was then in the list of ringtones along with all the default ones.
Thumbs way up for the clear and simple instructions..!
October 16th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
can the program that comes with my razr for downloading ringtones, work on my mac? I tried but, it doesn’t seem to install anything.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:19 am
[...] I just recently upgraded my cell phone to a Motorola RAZR from a dinosaur. If you're picturing thisthen you aren't far off.Anyway, when I found out that the RAZR could play MP3 ringtones, I was stoked. I had the perfect song in mind: Metallica's Master of Puppets. Only I didn't want the chorus, because the chorus is lame. Anyone who knows anything about rock knows that the best part of the song is the opening riff. So I went to Cingular's download site. They have Metallica. Sweet. They have Master of Puppets. SWEET. It's just the chorus. Sheeeet. I'm up sheeeet creek without a paddle.Luckily, there exist many people on the internets who are orders of magnitude smarter than I am. Using this article, iTunes, and my handy new Motorola PC Bluetooth adapter, I cut the song to the appropriate 30-second chunk, reduced the bitrate, and then copied it to my phone. Presto, I now have the greatest ringtone ever.And if you disagree with me on that last point, then I politely suggest that you go suck on a tailpipe.That is all. Thank you. Posted: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:34 PM by Jon Sagara Filed under: Nerd [...]
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:53 pm
I managed to make the mp3 file and upload it to my RAZR using the USB cable and Moto4Lin software. The mp3 is in my songs (in Multimedia) and I set it to “Apply As Ring Tone” for Line 1 - which the phone acknowleges as “Changed : Calls”, but when I get a call, I still hear the original MIDI ringtone I had set before it. When scrolling through ringtone options in “Ring Styles”, I don’t see the mp3, only the factory preset MIDI tones.
wtf?
October 24th, 2006 at 11:05 am
wow. you explained it so clearly. thanks!
-esteban.
November 4th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
i cant get to do this stuff its hard! i cant find the bit rate?
please write back!
thank you!
November 5th, 2006 at 7:38 am
Fleshmachine The directions you gave worked great from my MacPro to the Verizon V3m but I now have to figure out how to get the volume loud enough on the file, no way I can hear this as a ring tone, probably comes out around 1/3 or less the volume as tested in GetPix test. THanks for the info bro’
November 5th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Ok, I have the newest version of iTunes, and I razr V3c, a mac, and no bluetooth, just a usb cord, is there any way that I can send songs to my phone with the usb, so that I dont have to go and spend more money and get the adapter, cause I already have motorola phone tools, only it doesn’t work with mac, and my other retard computer is a piece of junk eMachine and it wont run it with out freezing up, so, PLEASE HELP ME, I am usually good at stuff like this seeing as I am a 14 year old computer freak, but I am tired of trying to figure it out, again, PLEASE HELP ME :~P
November 6th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
I have the file downloaded on to my razr but its in sounds and i dont know how to set it as a ringtone HELP
November 6th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Do I get Free Ringtones?
November 6th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Thank You
November 6th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
terral! please help me bud. I have a V3c with telus,there is no audio file,I get them on my phone, they go to sounds,but you cant apply as a ringtone.
i know a lot have asked this
but is there away of fixing this problem
November 7th, 2006 at 5:50 am
Hi Evan. I’m on Cingular and haven’t had any problems assigning files as ringtones but I think Telus may have made it difficult to do. I searched around and found a number of threads that had instructions to enable them. I haven’t tried this but others have.
They recmmended deleting a couple files on the phone. audio/TempToneDB.db and MyToneDB.db. You will probably need other software to do this. They were using something called Bitpin or Bitpim? Once you remove those files, power cycle the phone and it will rebuild the database when it starts back up. You’ll have to do this each time you add or remove ringtones.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
how do you use bluetooth to put songs from my itunes to my phone. im stuck at stage 5. please helpe me, im really dumb and new to this..
November 9th, 2006 at 7:39 am
My T-Mobile RAZR will not allow me to assign ring tones to numbers stored on the SIM card. This is clearly stated in the manual. So if you are having trouble assigning ring tones even though they are on the phone it is most likely because you are trying to assign a tone to something on the SIM card.
November 10th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Hi, so I made the clip of the song. But where in itunes do I do steps 3 and 4? Because I didn’t do it and sent it to my phone anyways, and it didn’t play, and I tried looking on itunes and can’t seem to do it.
November 10th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Great Site. I too am trying to handle this dilemma. I have a Verizon RAZR V3M, and a 17″ Mac with Bluetooth. My Mac recognizes the phone, and I got through every step. At the end of the process, I get the message “Validating Device” and then “Device does not have the necessary services.”
I’m bummed. Everyone else is gushing about this, and I can’t get it to work…
Anyone got any ideas?
Patrick
November 13th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Ada, Steps 3&4 are in the iTunes preferences. You will need to set the bitrate lower so the song will play.
Patrick, Sounds like it is disabled. I’m not sure of any workarounds. Sorry.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
I converted the file and put it in the audio folder but im not really sure where to go from there? I thought it would come up in sounds but it doesnt. I have the v3i.
Any ideas would help
November 20th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
I saw this blog on google and thought it was pretty useful. It seems you know alot about phones so i was wondering if you could help me out. My phone for some reason doesnt want to recieve the ringtones i download from my computer. I have the program “Motorola phone tools” to put ringtones and after im done cropping the ringtone and sending it to the phone it says file was successfully sent, all seems well untill i go to look for the ringtone which is not there for some reason. Also when i try to recieve ringtones through bluetooth my phone always says “file is corrupt” but on the other hand i can send ringtones through bluetooth to other people. PLEASE HELP!!! I would really appreciate it, your my last resort
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
I tried this with a Nokia 6133 and you can upload ringtones to this phone pretty much the same way as the V3 Razr. (The V3r from T-Mobile also!) With the Nokia 6133 you must set iTunes to import using WAV encoder set to 22.050kHz, 8-bit, mono. My daughter loves her new ringtones. One other note. I find if you are having problems downloading or saving a tune from any source that you can “capture” it with Audacity (which is a free program). Simply start the record function on Audacity then play the tune from its source (a CD or a website). Once captured with Audacity you can edit it with Audacity then save it as either an MP3 for Razr or WAV for Nokia and add it to iTunes. Once that is done you would upload to the phone as per the above instructions.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
how do you complete step 6 using a USB cord? im using windows, is that why it’s not working? i tunes doesnt even read my phone when i hook it up to the computer.
November 25th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
I have the new RAZR V3m by sprint. I followed the intructions but i cannot get the song to go to my phone. it just says Failed: connection interrupted. I don’t know why this is coming up. any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks!
November 27th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Hi,
I have a razr v3i, as all know the indian editon of v3i itunes plays only 50 songs. So is there a way to increase this number can i play more songs. Do i have any other MP3 Play for v3i to use
November 27th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
i really need help with this i did the steps and like i dont know how to send it to my phone who is this possible please write bakc thanks….
November 28th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
so this is pretty much the sweetest thing ever it awesome being able to put any music on there but it does suck that you can only do 30 seconds : ( but its still krazy kewl and in case some of you haven’t figured this out you can set it to start at any time but you still have to end it in 30 seconds but at least if you don’t like the first 30 seconds of the song you can do a diferent 30 seond section of the song. So again this is pretty much sweetness I don’t have to pay for ringtones anymore!!!!!
November 30th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I followed all of your instructions but when I try to convert a song to MP3, I get a message stating that the file cannot be converted because it is protected. Any suggestions.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Posie, You can use the protected song but you will have to burn it to a cd first and then reimport it using the same instructions.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
jessica, You will need to transfer the file with bluetooth. Then you can use it on your phone.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Quote:
My T-Mobile RAZR will not allow me to assign ring tones to numbers stored on the SIM card. This is clearly stated in the manual. So if you are having trouble assigning ring tones even though they are on the phone it is most likely because you are trying to assign a tone to something on the SIM card.
Correct, you cannot assign any ringer to anyone stored on the sim card.
You people are not getting it. I repeat, THERE IS NO WAY TO PUT ON RINGTONES USING A USB CORD, YOU NEED BLUETOOTH!!!
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Hi, I have a razr v3, mobile phone tools and a usb chord. I was not having a problem untill recently. I bluetoothed some ringtones to people and I accidently went to move instead of copy. so now when I try to use the person’s phone to get the tone back it says file corrupt, also, some of the tones have disappeared off my phone and I now only have a select few to use as alarms and ringer ids.and when to use the program to put the tne back on my phone it doesn’t show up in the sounds folder. Could someone please help me. This is getting frustarting!
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Wow. I cannot beleive how easy that was. Your tips were brilliant as well, (I know I would have forgotten to reset the start/stop).
You have truly done a good thign and added fun to my world.
Blessings!
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
how do you get to the bluetooth i have an imac the kind where you can swivel around the screen but i dont know how to connect the phone to the computer with bluetooth
December 4th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Great work Terral. I just wanted to add a morsel I found which may make uploading easier for the money/tech challenged.
1)Create ringtone like described above and save to location of your choice. 2)Send a picture to your email acct. like your home email or office email…whatever. This will show you what your phone’s MMS “multimedia address” is. 3) create an email with this address. On Cingular which I have it looks like this> (phone number with no spaces including area code followed by @mms.mycingular.com) 2225551212@mms.mycingular.com
4)Attach the file you wish to send to your email and send it. 5) receive the text message and you should have an option for saving the media, or saving the file. My Smg D807 says save media, my gf’s LGCU500 just has you acknowlege the file is accepted. 6) typically the phone will save the file to the “downloaded music” if mp3 or midi or if a .gif, .jpg it should go to downloaded graphics location. This is phone dependant, but it ends up in the same location as files sent via bluetooth…as far as my phone is concerned. 7) do what you wish with the file…apply as ringtone or save in other location or whatever.
I would guess this would count to your multimedia plan limitations…multimedia messaging limits and all. But is an easy avenue to go down as most of us are used to sending picture messages and texts. However bluetooth is still a tad faster, but I have yet to see if it offers any better quality in sound than the method I described above…it is however free so that’s at least nice.
J
December 5th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Thank you Chas! I have had a Nokia 6133 for a week now and have been trying to get a custom ringtone to play ever since! None of the formats seemed to work, but thanks to your note, I’ve got it working! T-Mobile has really disappointed me by trying to force users to buy ringtones from their store…
Thanks again.
Chas Says:
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
I tried this with a Nokia 6133 and you can upload ringtones to this phone pretty much the same way as the V3 Razr. (The V3r from T-Mobile also!) With the Nokia 6133 you must set iTunes to import using WAV encoder set to 22.050kHz, 8-bit, mono. My daughter loves her new ringtones. One other note. I find if you are having problems downloading or saving a tune from any source that you can “capture†it with Audacity (which is a free program). Simply start the record function on Audacity then play the tune from its source (a CD or a website). Once captured with Audacity you can edit it with Audacity then save it as either an MP3 for Razr or WAV for Nokia and add it to iTunes. Once that is done you would upload to the phone as per the above instructions.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I noticed you said you use the usb for syncing. How do you do that?!? I tried to use isync but it won’t find my phone. Is there a special setting?
December 7th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
everytime i try to get a song from bluetooth it loads but when its done it just says “file is corrupt” and doesnt save it. waht do i do?
December 7th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
WOW!!!!
Man, you are amazing. It took me all of about 2.3 seconds (OK, maybe a TINY bit longer, but not much) to convert several christmas songs and set them as ringtones.
GREAT, GREAT, GREAT JOB!!!
BTW, Razr V3 on T-mobile, FWIW.
Scott
December 9th, 2006 at 10:51 am
If you are getting the “File Type Not Recognized†or “File Type Not Recognised” error when you send the song, you are skipping step 4. You have to highlight the song, right click, and scroll down to “Convert Selection to MP3″ then double click. To find the recently converted song: Click File on the itunes menu bar and click New Smart Playlist. On the New Smart Playlist menu click Artist then double click on Date Added. You should see the current date there. Click OK and a playlist will be added with the songs in it that you just converted.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
dude!!! i love u man, if u were a chick i’d kiss u LoL hahah
Worked out great, i tried everything, USB, my old softwares, etc. NOTHING would work.
But i went out and bought a bluetooth for my comp, my razr v3m synced up nicely
then i added the song and it worked GREAT 
plays extremely perfect.
lol the only problem is, i can’t delete the ringtones now :S i click options on my razr v3m(sprint) and there is only “listen, sort” only :S there is no delete.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Hey Spyke, i have a V3m, too, but i can’t get it to work. can you help me out?
December 15th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Ok….I have a problem that I don’t think is listed above. I have edited and added files with itunes and Modding software. My phone plays the sounds and I am able to select them and even “apply as ringtone”. However, when I get calls……..the phone doesn’t ring. I have a Mtrola Razr V3. Is 64 kbps required? These files are 112kbps cause I tunes wouldn’t convert to 64 for me (?). This phone has been hacked before but I just can’t figure out why it won’t apply my sounds as ringtones. I even downloaded ringtones from Kaza, and they won’t work either. Help would be greatly appreciated.
December 16th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Hey, I REALLY appreciate you putting this up! However, iTunes wont let me convert to mp3…I tried to redownload the song, but it just downloaded the old way…I will know how to put it on my phone when I get it converted, but how do I convert it? It says: “Song could not be converted because protected files cannot be converted into other formats” I’m sure this is an easy fix but I cant figure it out…Thanks for your help!
December 17th, 2006 at 10:41 am
I m trying to get music videos on the v3i. Any ideas on how to?
December 17th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Jasper, make sure the album art and lyrics are deleted. I think it takes a while to get through those. That may be the problem?
Mynx, To make a ringtone from a protected file (purchased file) you will need to first burn a regular CD and then re-import the song. You can import with the correct settings straight from the disc.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:32 am
I can’t seem to delete ringtones I’ve transfered over using Motorola Phone Tool’s File Transfering Studio. I’m using a Sprint Motorola V3M. Can anybody help me delete these ringtones? On the phone itself there’s no option to delete it, but yet, there’s an option to delete it in the File Transfering Studio in Motorola Phone Tools, but it doesn’t delete them after I click “yes” to delete.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:08 am
SUCCESS! I used moto4lin on an iBook with a Cingular V220 and USB- had the same experience as many here - was able to upload and play, but not set as a tone. Deleting the files audio/TempToneDB.db and MyToneDB.db on the phone and restarting allowed me to set the new uploaded files as ringtones. Still experimenting, but I would use moto4lin to backup those files first as well. YMMV. BTW, Moto4lin seems finicky about which USB port you use. It appears to want you to plug the phone in the same port as when you set it up. I was having issues where it would connect one time and not the next, using the same port appears to have fixed this.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Thank you for your help.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:27 pm
bought the phonetools http://www.wirelessground.com/momiusbmopht.html but can’t get the darn itunes up with it..any help?
December 24th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
I m trying to get music videos on the v3i. Any ideas on how to??
December 26th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
i successfully got the ringtones onto the phone but everytime i try to make it my official ringtone it seems to work until i get a phone call when it plays my old ringtone not the one i want it to.
what should i do/
December 27th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Ok I just go tmy mits on Phonetools. For my motorazr red It does all of the cutting converting and applying via a CHEAP usb cable from the local junk store for 2$ ;p If itunes is annoying many freeware (mac or pc) apps exist for making audio conversions bitrate samplerate etc. Im sure as well for those whom have the little micro sd card in the phone below the battery can shift junk of the appropriate BR to the phone too. I avoid messing with the card since it is so tiny its almst impossible to get out of the adapter or phone.
Now just to find a way to connect this samsung up to a app similar to phonetools. >_
December 28th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
This was excellent. Got it to work in no time on my V3 from Cingular. Thanks for letting the rest us know how its done.
December 30th, 2006 at 11:43 am
I am having problems getting the ringtones onto my phone. I followed all the steps for converting the files in itunes, but when I try to send them to my phone via bluetooth it says: “device does not have the necessary services. I have the product red Motorola Razr V3m as well as the product red bluetooth headset. Please help!! I am going crazy!!!
January 1st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
The directions left by FleshMachine about half way up work perfectly for the V3m. It is sooooo super frustrating that Verizon blocks out file transfers like that but converting to .wav files isn’t that bad at all. That might be why you (Moose) might be having problems with the bluetooth transfer… its not your software, its the way the phone is designed. Try following FleshMachine’s instructions if you have a Verizon phone (posted on July 18th).
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!!!!!
MAY WHOMEVER YOU PRAY TO BLESS YOUUUU
OH MMYYY GOD I’M HAPPY BEYOND BELIEF!!!!!!
YOU MADE MY YEAR MY FRIEND!!!
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Huggznkisses, I took a look at the directions left by FleshMachine, but I actually have a Sprint phone! I apologize for not mentioning that in my previous blog.
January 5th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Well my moto v3r pink is working fine accept when i go to download songs and delete the songs that were already in the phone it won’t let me it goes ‘u want to delete 2 files”deleted no files’ and i only have 2 songs i downloaded it won’t let me download anymore WHAT SHOULD I DO?????? and plz reply on my website plz
January 5th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
I just wanted to say thanks. This helped alot. I’ve got a Sprint product [RED] Razr, and once I got the microSD card properly installed (after hours of trying) it was pretty easy (and quick!) to transfer the files to the audio folder, and they show up in my sounds list when setting ringtones. The screenshots helped using iTunes to prep the ringers, maybe if you could post some shots of how to transfer the files with the Bluetooth File Transfer app some people will find out what they’re doing wrong. Just a thought! Thanks!
January 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Sorry, I meant “Bluetooth File Exchange”, oops.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Oh, and if you’re getting the “this device doesn’t have the necessary services”, check to make sure that you actually have the bluetooth on the phone turned on.
January 6th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I LOVE U!
January 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I have done everything up to the part where you say sync with bluetooth. i have the razor v3i and i dont have a cord or a blue tooth headset. I thought my phone could wirelessly sync up with the computer? What do i need to do to get the files to my phone? Do i have to buy this usb cord??? thanks!!
January 7th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
In response to what Jay said on Nov 29th… I am having the same problem. I follow the instructions but I get the same Failed: Connection Interrupted message. Also, before I go to send the file it prompts me saying: File type is not accepted, and this comes up with mp3’s, wavs, and mp4 files so click send anyway and then i get the failed connection message… is it a setting thing with my computer. I did get a file sent once but never got prompted by my phone so I have no idea how to get the file up
any help would be awesome
Brandon
January 8th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I’ll try to point some people here in the right directions if I can, with a few provisions.
I’m using a Mac running OS X 10.4.8, if you’re using windows, I can’t really help in anyway other than to tell you to try googling your questions.
Make sure that you have paired your phone and computer together - excellent step by step instructions here (with screen caps):
http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/bluetooth.html
MMC(removable) audio incamcorder incamera mixedmedia
Click once on the audio folder to highlight it. There will be 2 buttons at the bottom of the window “Get…” and “Send…” Hit send, a browse/dialog will open for you to select the file you wish to send from your computer to the audio folder on your phone. Find and doubleclick on your prepared ringtone to send it. A progress bar will appear on the window. Check your phone at this point to see if it is asking you to allow the transfer - hit “grant”. After the progress bar is done, you should be able to assign the ringtones from in the contacts or phonebook in your phone.
DCIM Music Motorola
Click to highlight “Music” and hit “send…” and select the mp3 file you wish to load on to your phone. once it is on the phone it will be available to your music player.
Alisha, does your computer have bluetooth built in? If not you will need a “usb/bluetooth adapter” (available from $9.99-$49.99) or a usb cable. Once you get the adapter just plug it into a usb port on your computer and then follow the above steps.
Brandon, check to make sure that your microSD card is full inserted. Until I got mine properly seated, I kept getting the same message. Then follow the above steps.
Good Luck.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Chiisu, Thank you for the clear instructions!
January 11th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Umm… does this work on downloaded songs? From the iTunes store?
January 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Kaleb. It will work on downloaded songs, but you must burn an audio CD of the song and re-import it. iTunes won’t let you convert a protected song file.
January 13th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
you absolutely ROCK for posting this tutorial! i don’t have bluetooth but have been emailing the ringtones to my phone instead. this is all probably some sort of copyright violation, but what the hell, right? free advertising for the authors. i’m going to turn my own songs into ringtones next! thanks!!!
January 14th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
hey guys i really need some help with my motorola razr v3. its has the bluetooth connectivity and all but i cant receive ringtones from other phones with bluetooth. i used to could get them but now i dont know whats wrong it just downloads or transfers or whatever and then when its on 100% it says file is corrupt on my phone but it says it copied the ringtone on the other phone. i can still send them i just cant get them. and i can receive videos and pics. can anyone help me?
January 16th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Thank you! You rock!
January 16th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
i have the new razr v3m and it has a micro sd card. can i use that? if so how?
January 16th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Great blog….thanks! Running Cingular V3i w/USB cable and iTunes….no tooth yet. No success following above tips to assign custom ringtone. Problem 1….using the cable, I can only access my PC phone files while iTunes is updating….when update completes, I lose my PC phone files. So I only have access to PC phone folders for, say….30 seconds. Here’s how I pulled a ringtone from my iTunes playlist and finally assigned it as my ringtone.
Plugged phone into my PC and when i-Tunes loaded and began updating, I dragged and dropped my clip from my playlist to my PC desktop. By the time the file move completed, iTunes finished updating and I lost my PC phone files. I unplugged the USB cable and immediately plugged it back in.
When iTunes began updating again, I opened my PC phone file and dragged and dropped the clip from my PC desktop into my PC phone file’s “audio” folder. Note that my phone was set for memory storage.
I located the clip as follows: menu > my stuff (multi-media) > sounds > menu > scrolled to the clip (beneath “shop sounds”) > menu > move > select “phone.”
I backed up to “sounds” > menu > select “switch storage device” > select “phone.”
“Sounds” menu automatically opened and my clip was at the top of the list. I highlighted my clip > menu > scrolled to “apply as ringtone” > select.
Here’s the really cool part about the V3i: I loaded the 39 second clip into my phone at iTunes’ 128 bitrate default and the guitar riff is clear as a bell. It’s a straight out audio file and I didn’t convert to mp3. Neither did I change from stereo to mono. Just did it with the iTunes defaulted for downloading music.
Tooth is coming with the wife’s phone package….maybe the process will be easier when it arrives.
Good luck and regards,
Sam
January 18th, 2007 at 7:59 am
My question is for all those with the Verizon v3m…I know I need to change my mp3/m4a files in a wma file, or does a wav file work just as well? I have a G4 Powerbook with the latest OS X, and have not been able to find a program that changes files into the wma format, so if I don’t need to do that, and wav format works, it would be great…THANKS!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
i followed all the instructions and i had the song length on my desktop. and i have my razr v3 plugged into my computer with a USB cord, but how do i transfere the songs, i have bluetooth on my phone but i dont know how to send it. do i need a program?
January 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
i just read sam’s comment, and i dont think my computer recognizes my phone, i don’t have a phone file, or i don’t know where it is. can someone help me?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Amanda….Be sure to set your phone to memory card rather than phone storage. Your computer will then recognize your phone as a storage device/hard drive. On your desktop, click on “my computer” and then check your alternate drives until you have the one that recognizes your phone; e.g. e, f, g, etc. drives.
Something else to check….hit the menu bar and navigate as follows: Settings >scroll to conection (connectivity) > USB settings > Default Connection: it should read “Memory.” If not, > and then scroll off of Data/Fax Connection > Memory Card.
I presume you don’t have the PC850 USB tooth adapter installed in a USB port on your computer. It comes with software enabling you to set up a master file on your computer from which you can import files from itunes, your computer, other tooth phones and devices, and then move them to your phone wirelessly from your computer.
Hope this helps and good luck.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
in step 6 how do i Send the audio files to your phone ?
January 28th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I have a RED V3r Razr. I got it from “santa” I just recently learned how to put songs on it. I’m using a USB cord. I have like 30 songs on my phone, but when I first tried the songs out, It played like 15 seconds then it said Play failed. IDK what is wrong with it. I also have a 512 mb memory card added on to it and it wont recognize the memory card. Any help please?
Jessie
January 29th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Sam, how do you turn the phone to memory storage? Your 2nd method didn’t work for me, no ‘usb’ section occurs under Connectivity. I have every step done but the actual transferring of songs via USB cable.
January 31st, 2007 at 5:52 am
Tom…. menu bar> Settings> Scroll down to connection/connectivity and select You should see “USB Settings” “Bluetooth Link” and “Sync” Select USB Settings Your default connection should come up If it doesn’t display “Memory” select “change” and switch it from “data/fax” to “memory card”
The other thing to check: Menu bar> My Stuff> Sounds> “Shop tones” should be highlighted Press menu bar “Switch storage device” should be displayed….select it “Memory Card” and “Phone” should come up Select “Memory Card”
Remember, when you save your clip as a ringtone, you must switch your storage device setting back to “Phone” to use it.
I’m assuming you have the V3i as all my info is specific to that particular machine. I have no idea why USB Settings doesn’t display otherwise.
Hope this helps.
February 1st, 2007 at 4:25 am
umm i got to the step where you make it MP3 like i click on it to convert and it is the short version for like a minute then goes back. what do i do to save the short version.?? thanks
February 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Sam, That’ll be the problem-my phone is a V3, not a V3i. When I go to connection only Bluetooth is available, and when I go to sounds there is no ‘Shop tones.’ So I have no idea what to do, you’d think there’d be a way to switch to memory but I’ve scoured this phone.. Thanks anyways and if there is any way you know how to do it for Regular V3, I’m all ears!
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:49 am
Tom….I pulled up a V3 manual on the web and searched it. Nothing in it about USB connection or custom ringtones. Neither did I see anything about the V3 having microSD/Transflash memory capability. Seems that the V3c CDM (Verizon) is the first model for for USB connection and the V3e was the first with the microSD memory card.
I’ve been picking through the .pdf manuals on motorola direct for the progression of models and features, but it’s a lot of info to try and make sense of. howards forums and hackV3 are other good places to check what can be done.
Your V3 can tooth so I suggest you look there. Looks like it’s time for you to sell your V3 and upgrade to the “i”….this sucker rocks! Especially with toothing music to the phone. Just throw the song/ringtone in your ibex audio file, pair up, and it automatically uploads to the phone.
Good luck.
Brittany N….not enough info. Which phone, where are you getting your clips, where you wanting to save them to, what are you wanting to do with the clips, etc?
Google free ringtones/music. There must be millions of free audio files available from +/- 20 sec mp3 ringtones all the way up to hours of dancemixes.
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 am
Sam, Thanks a lot for your help. Unfortunately, I just upgraded to the V3! I had an old phone for like 3 years and got a V3 for 30 bucks. I ordered a Mobile Phone Tools for V3 off of ebay, so hopefully that’ll work. I’ve checked Howards Forums and they are in the same predicament as I, and recommend Phone Tools. I’ll let you know if I finally figure it out. Thanks again!
February 3rd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Tom….feelin’ your pain. I’ve wanted a razr from day one but had to hold onto my N6012 until Jugular upgrade time….glad I did or I’d most likely be in your predicament. Got my “i” through cellphonehookup.com for $34.99 (after $50 mail in rebate; tooth, mobile kit, etc. was another $60 or so, and $50 for NCOA insurance. Also got a whopper bill coming from Cingular I won’t be able to comprehend until I get it. Buying the phone was the cheap part.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help and let us know what happens.
February 5th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Good news Sam-success! I got my motorola phone tools today and it works like a charm. Thanks for this sites help, though.
February 6th, 2007 at 8:08 am
How do I get bluetooth onto my computer, and then how do I use it to get ringtones on my phone?
February 8th, 2007 at 3:54 am
Karen….
Using the Bluetooth PC850 USB adapter as example.
Load the software; Follow the installation proceedure; During the install process, a window will display “device not found;” Plug the adapter into a USB port on your computer and click “Okay.” Complete the software installation; Restart computer.
After restart, configure the software for phones/devices you’ll be toothing.
Easiest way to move ringtones to your phone (V3i in this instance):
Set up a ringtones folder on your PC desktop; Download ringtones to that folder; Move the ringtones to the “Audio” folder in Obex; Pair your phone with your PC; Ringtones will automatically upload to your phone’s “Sounds” folder.
Again, this information is specific and exclusive to the Bluetooth PC850 USB adapter and the Moto V3i phone. I haven’t had time to figure out the processes/proceedures for my wife’s Nokia 6102i.
In the case of the V3i and its manual, I am either semi-stupid or semi-stupid people wrote/edited the instructions. I expect it’s a similar situation with all phones and their manuals. Technologically, I really am semi-stupid, so please bear with me.
Work with your phones/equipment and get to know it. You’ll accidentally learn more on your own than I can coherently explain to y’all.
Good luck and regards,
Sam
February 8th, 2007 at 5:14 am
You’re probably like me; unboxed your new phone and chompin’ at the bit to personalize it. Things probably haven’t worked for you like your manual said they would; you’ve searched out more/better info on the web, got more than you wanted and needed and are just more confused; and, you may not recall how you stumbled upon this relatively obscure site.
You probably started reading, realized how much info there is in this place, and shot to the bottom of the blog to decide whether you’re gonna hang here or move on somewhere else….
Stop!
If you want to learn how to do ringtones, tooth, and generally get to know and smoothly navigate around in your phone….especially the Moto RAZR, you’ve come to the right place. Contained herein is everything you need to know to personalize your phone to accomodate the simple tasks you’re anxious to do immediately.
Suggestions:
If you’re short on time, bookmark and come back when you’ve set aside an hour or so of quiet time.
Then, begin at the beginning. Read the entire blog, making notes along the way, but restrain yourself from mashing the buttons and tinkering until you’ve covered all the info herein. Things have changed and tweaks have been made to the equipment….sometimes in mid-production….since this blog began.
Like me, you’ll be grateful you took the time and exercised the patience. I owe the most sincere debt of gratitude to “T” and all the fine people who have contributed info and taken the time to kindly answer the same old questions that have repeatedly popped up during the thread.
Thanks, good luck, and enjoy!
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February 16th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Works like a charm, thank Terral!
I would agree with what Paris said “The only problem I had was finding the mp3 encoder window… but once I found that it was easy.”
February 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
UMM, OK, WHEN I TRIED TO CONVERT IT TO THE MP3, IT SAID IT CAN’T BECAUSE IT WAS PROTECTED AND IT COULDN’T BE CONVERTED INTO OTHER FORMATS…HOW DO I “UNPROTECT” IT…IF I CAN?
February 19th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Kelsey, You will need to first burn the playlist to a cd and then reimport them as an mp3.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
After I got my v3m razr connected via Bluetooth connection for the first time I wanted to upload a podcast to my built in audio player. I sent the 13mb file to what I thought was my upgraded 1gb microSD card. I actually sent the file to my phones internal sounds folder and it now only shows up as a ring tone without any visible means to delete! So every call I get launches Art Bell introducing the talk show Coast to Coast AM! I contacted Motorola and was informed that they blocked this feature and what IS happening on my phone is impossible. Is there any way to delete this file that is filling my internal memory without resetting the phone completely? Thanx.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 am
Sam,
When I followed your instructions: The other thing to check: Menu bar> My Stuff> Sounds> “Shop tones†should be highlighted Press menu bar “Switch storage device†should be displayed….select it “Memory Card†and “Phone†should come up Select “Memory Cardâ€
I got to where it says “Phone” & “Memory Card” only memory card isn’t listed under those settings.
do I need this Bluetooth PC850 USB adapter do download ringtones, and where do I find it, and does it come with the software I need?
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:01 am
Amanda….
I don’t know about the V3 and my tips are specific to the V3i and I assume also the V3m….models with the MicroSD card. V3 doesn’t have the card. So, you must use whatever procedure available to store tones….also assume “phone” would be the storing mode. Sorry I can’t be of more help, but if you again carefully read through the thread from the top the info will be there.
Regards,
March 4th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I don’t have bluetooth on my computer and I have a Window XP. Does anyone know where can I get a bluetooth for my computer. So I can connect it with my phone.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Works like a charm! Take that Cingular.
March 8th, 2007 at 3:53 am
V.S.
I use the Moto PC850 wireless adapter with latest XP Pro build but there are many others. For info on the Moto products go here: http://direct.motorola.com/ens/bluetooth/pc-connectivity.html
Luck!
March 10th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Great instructions. I just bought a V3 today and transferred some ringtones in a couple of minutes. Very straightforward. Thanks a lot.
March 10th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
hello. do i need to buy the buy the wireless adapter from motorola or can i purchase any wireless adapter for my pc?
March 10th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Lauren, Any bluetooth adapter should work. I am using a D-link USB adapter for machines that don’t have it built-in.
I also got a LG CU-500 and the ringtones work on it too. A nice phone but not very compatible with my Mac.
March 11th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Awesome, worked first time with my brand new Razr V3. I didn’t realize it only had 5 Megs of memory for data/ringtones, so 2 mp3′z and I was full. Now i can fit a ton of 119kb (30 second) mp3z on my phone for all my ringtone needs
Thanks, you da man!
March 11th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Also, no need to purchase a special cable, ANY mini USB cable works fine, I had a few from old mp3 players and it worked fine.
March 11th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Thank you Terral!
March 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I have Verizon Wireless, and I email my mp3 clips from my computer as a pix message to my phone, open the message, then save it. I can set it as a ringtone, but it sounds muffled when it plays. Would this happen if the ringtone was encoded as stereo rather than mono?
March 14th, 2007 at 7:36 am
I have the sprint red razor v3m. Do you have to have a mac and the itunes software to convert mp3’s to a ringtone for this phone? I have read through this entire blog and I tried to place mp3’s in the “music” folder of my microsd card, but it’s not working. It makes my card unreadable, and I actually had to get a new phone. Any suggestions? (I tried using the bluetooth but everytime I transferred something, it would say ‘failed’)
This sucks. I hate this phone.
March 14th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Hello, Iv’e followed all the required steps and reached the bluetooth stage. Maybe I am not setting things up properly, but I opened up bluetooth on my razr and bluetooth on my mac, and the program picked up my cell phone’s signal. I clicked send to send the song but after a moment of “validating device” it says “Device does not have necessary services” I really don’t know what that means….I also here people talking about audio folders and what not, but all I did was select the song from my harddrive and tried to send it (not sure if that has to do with anything). How can I fix this? Thanks
March 14th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Jimmy, not sure if that would make it muffled.
Shanaz, I use itunes to recompress the files to be more managable and I use a mac because that is what I have. My phone doesn’t have a removable card but I don’t see why it would have a problem. The failed transfer via bluetooth seemed to happen when my files weren’t encoded at the right bitrates. Sometimes just sending it again worked.
Chris, It looks like your cell provider has disabled using your own mp3 files for ringtones. There may be a way around this but I don’t know what it is.
March 15th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
this will work right
March 15th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
this is pretty cool
March 15th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
well I’ve done everything but I am unclear on how to get the ringtones from my playlist in itunes to my phone. I have the bluetooth adapter & have connected my phone & computer via bluetooth but I don’t have a mac. Does anyone know how to do this w/o a mac?
March 18th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Well, how do I send it to my Razr from iTunes using a USB cable? I’m using Windows XP
March 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am
hey im havin an early problem i cant seem to convert to mp3 encorder . when i right click it only give me convert selection to AAC. if you know any way of fixin this please email me. i have the item in my itunes lib. just cant seem to convert it .
thanx for ur help
March 27th, 2007 at 4:57 am
m using motorola L6, when i transfer .mp3 file via bluetooth, it says file not recognised. any help pls?
March 28th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Can some email me at m.sneft at gmail.com and explain exactly how to get the ringtone from iTunes onto my Verizon RAZR v3? Bluetooth does not “see” the device except in iSync and then ONLY for syncing contacts.
March 29th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
When I try to convery it to mp3 I get a message that says that it can’t be converted because protected files cannot be converted to other formats. Is there a way around it?
March 30th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Certainly amazing. What a genius. My t-mobile Razr V3R worked perfectly
April 7th, 2007 at 7:24 am
T-Mobile Nokia 6133 v05.60 (user *#0000# to see version) does accept WMA files as ringtones…to keep ‘em small, I used a bitrate of 32 and mono. Hey, it’s a ringtone, it doesn’t have to be perfect. For my old RAZR I had set them to MP3 mono bitrate 40 using LAME and had great results.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
ok so i have a motorola razr v3i. i have a windows xp or something like that…
i did all the steps up to the bluetooth part. i have a usb cord that connects my phone but i dont know if i have bluetooth on my computer.. and i dont want to go out and buy that thing… and i tried emailing the songs to my phone, but i didnt recieve the message back… ANDD i tried putting the file into the ”audio” file on my phone when connected via USB cord.
so my question is, how can i get it on my phone!!!
please help ! this is very frustratinggg…..
April 11th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Or heres an Idea use motorola phone tools and wham its one
April 16th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
How do I get my computer to open bluetooth connection with my cell phone?
April 18th, 2007 at 7:46 am
I’ve place the .mp3 file in the audio folder, also tried the ringtones folder. The file doesn not show up on phone, but I can see it and play it in the ‘disk’ that represents the phone. It’s there but the phone UI won’t allow me to see it.
I’m using a Razr V3i
Thanks
April 18th, 2007 at 7:47 am
“…I can see it and play it ( from my comupter, in finder) in the disk image that represents the phone.
Hope this is clear
April 18th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Figured it out. I had to move the file from my memory card to the phones memory, which is explained in the owners manual.
Thanks for the tip on all this Terral. I haven’t seen anything else on the web that talks about this
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
ok so i have a razr phone and i followed all your steps and transfered the song to my phone… when the song is on my phone it will not give me the option of applying the song as my ringtone.. the song is 30 sec long and i used blue tooth to transfer it.. can you please help me!!!!!.. i dont know what to do..
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 am
Chris, it may be your provider that is disabling mp3 ringtones. Who do you use? Verizon?
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Terral– You’re great. Found you via Google, Now My v3m Razr is my little Mac Mini’s best friend. Wouldnt even notice it with a usb cable. I’m now using the phone (with a 1 gb card) as an mp3 player, and transferring still photos AND videos both ways(From phone to Mac, and vice-versa). Now I need to figure how to listen to music through a bluetooth headset. Altell tells me it won’t work, but they have been wrong before. Do you think a wireless headset could be made to work? Thanks again!
April 28th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
yes i would like to say this is a great blog.but i was wondering i own a sidekick 3 which has a mp3 player an everytime i send to device via usb cord it tends to send the song into my mp3 player. any help on this would greatly help.. thanks
April 30th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
do you have to have the software to get your computer to recognize the phone?
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 am
These instructions worked great on myRAZRv3xx,I used a USB cable and was able to upload my “new” ringtones. The only problem is that I cant figure out how to set these new ring tones for my ALARM setting. I got to alarm clock>option> edit> alert> MUSIC> ALL SONGS:then it kicks me back to Alarm Details. Is anyone else having this problem. Instead of music I also tried SOUNDS,VOICE NOTES, etc.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 pm
thank you so much! this is awesome! i was up and running with my own ringtones in about 2 minutes. nice work.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:16 am
does it work with a regular pc?
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
i’m having the same problem as chris, everything works fine up until telling the phone to make the new song a ringtone. there’s just no “Apply as” option for the song, which is weird because under “File Details” it says “Apply possible: Yes” hmmmm
May 5th, 2007 at 3:16 am
all i want to do is wake up to AC/DC’s “It’s a long way to the top”. but my ringtones dont work for my Alarm setting for some reason. can somebody help.see post 296.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Hi there, i have a my razr v3 is by cingular and i’ve used bluetooth to get ringtones on my phone before using your blog, but now it doesnt work. I go to bluetooths wireless file transfer and it recognizes and connects with my phone, but as it starts to send the ringtone it stops and says “connection failed”. i dont know why it is doing this because it worked fine before, any ideas? thanks! t
May 8th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
can you make the ringtones for a razr v3i(razr with itunes)from this website?
May 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
this is just what i’ve been looking for!!! thaks so much i can’t believe i didn’t figure it out sooner. and bobby just in case you don’t get an answer, it will work for the v3i and any other phone that has an mp3 player. i have a pearl and i just put the files on the micro sd and it’s perfect! thanks Terral
May 10th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
i cant seem to make this work for my razor. could it be because i am using telus or have a new razor?
May 11th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
ive followed all the steps on here but i cant seem to send the file to my phone. i get errors everytime i try to send a file and when i try to browse the device it says that the device isnt capable. what am i doing wrong?
May 14th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
haven’t read through all the replies, but i had to transfer the file from my memory card to the phone memory for it to become a ringtone
May 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
on the fourth step, i dont see the option called convert to mp3 selection. All i see is convert id3 tags. i have a xp computer
May 15th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
i finished all the steps but when im copying the ringtone to the bluetooth to my fone it says invalid Ftp request. Can you help me?
May 16th, 2007 at 8:18 am
ah thank you sooooo much! worked like a charm from my powerbook to my nokia 6133. i pair the two via bluetooth and simply click and drag the ringtones directly to my phone. awesome!
May 17th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Thanks so much for this website it helped a lot! I have Windows and i dont know whether it is bluetooth compatible or not, but its a new laptop so im guessing it should be? I was just wondering how I would send the file to my phone from a windows
May 18th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Thank you for supplying this information. I now have the ringtone I wanted on my phone all thanks to you and your generosity.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:25 am
it really helped a lot, but i’m stuck at step 6: i hooked up the usb cable, but i don’t know what to do to get it on my phone. nothing popped up and nothing on my phone changed.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:51 am
okay…a little more information: i have a verizon razr v3m, my computer is a windows xp, and the usb cable i used isn’t a bluetooth one (if such a thing exists–?). is that why my computer won’t recognize it? if so, is there any way that i can get it on my phone without bluetooth? i don’t think the computer has bluetooth either.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
ok, so i went through step by step to create a 25 second ringtone. however, after i applied as ringtone on my phone, when someone called it would ring as “continental” and i can’t figure this out. it would play just fine.
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Mine sounds really fuzzy like i recorded it off of my computer or radio, but it doesnt sound like that on my computer. I changed my Itunes to the right setting, does anyone know why this is happening?
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Hey i’ve been having the same problem as nick. I have a new telus razr V3c, and when i go to put a ringtone i’ve made with itunes i cannot apply it as a ring tone. I am using a program called synccell and even their online assistant can’t help me. I have tryed all the types of ringtone files on the phone such as midi and mp3 but when i go to put the file into the ringtone folder on the phone it automatically sends it to the audio folder when it’s done transfering.
I am getting really frustrated. If i can’t figure this out i might talk to telus or even the head of motorola. I am going to see and buy motorola phone tools it might work so if it does i’ll make sure to submit the answer to the ring tone problem for all you razr v3c users out there.
Please if u find anything out please tell me.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Frustrated Telus clients out there? - “TELUS Mobility manages the delivery of ringtones and images for their clients to ensure artists and content owners are rightfully compensated for licensing fees”. They have disabled the option to set any audio file as a ringtone for all of their cell phone models that support audio file uploads.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:21 am
I have a sprint razr v3m and a PC. I followed these directions until step 6 - as I don’t have bluetooth access on my PC. I got the files to my phone by using this free uploader http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/
Everything worked seamlessly! Thanks to all for the great info.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:25 am
that site is http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/ sorry for any confusion. I hope it is okay to post links here. I am not advertising for anyone - just thought it was a nice FREE tool to use!
May 26th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Do you need to have a MAC in order to do this?
May 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Thank you so much for posting this. I love all of my ringtones I’ve made and it’s so easy to do.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
AMAZING! Awesome step by step, and I love that its for a mac and razr, just what I needed!
May 27th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
YES, I FOUND THE SOLUTION FOR ALL YOU USB CABLE USERS!
Don’t ever let anyone tell you something cannot be done, you do NOT need blue tooth!
There IS a work around for the problem that Nick and many of you are experiencing, but no one seems to know how to or care to fix. When do apply this solution, you will not be able to select the song and click “Apply as ringtone” but you WILL be able to go to the Ringtone selection in “Calls” and select it THERE, and it WILL work as your ringtone!
Follow the instructions here: http://www.wirelessforums.ca/forums/motorola/77-how-use-mp3s-ringtones-razr-v3c-phone.html
Use BitPim to delete the two files that are preventing you from using your ringtone.
You’re welcome
June 1st, 2007 at 8:55 pm
AWESOME STUFF!!!!! I totally spent a whole night on this stuff and now I’m really happy. Great Work
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:48 pm
does this only work for mac or can it work for windows.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
For those who are having problems applying the ringtone:
The solution I use is simple, does not require bluetooth, and does not require hacking your phone.
Using you computer, copy your mp3 files to the phone. Then load up the Sounds app, and select the song you just copied. Open the menu, and choose Copy, then choose Phone. This will copy the song to your phone memory, at which point you can use the Set As Ringtone menu option, or select the mp3 from the regular ringtone selector menu.
Good luck! (This works on my RAZR V3T, dunno if it will work on older RAZRs, but I think it will ’cause before I had a V360 and it worked on that phone.)
June 9th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
all right, this blog has been excellent help! thanks! but im having trouble. i dont know what to do when it gets to the bluetooth part? i need help.in other words i dont know how to send the ringtone to my phone, and i dont have a usb cord.
June 9th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Brian, Basically what you need to do is first: establish a connection to your phone with Bluetooth or by putting the ringtones on a memory card. Second: transfer the file to the audio folder on the phone and Third: let the phone know that it is a ringtone.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I only just found this right now, and it’s awesome! Now the first couple bars of “Peaches” by The Stranglers is my ringtone.
You rock!
June 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I can’t get this to work on windows…my only option to convert is to an ACC file and there are no options for choosing the section of song I want…HELP!
June 12th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Thanks for the guide! I just flashed my V3c to enable bluetooth transfers and wanted to add ringtones. This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks again!
June 13th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Worked perfectly on the first time and now I have the coolest ringtones on the planet. Now I’m just waiting for someone to call me
June 13th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Why won’t the song copy to my phone? It just says error copiying file…
June 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Terral,
This blog is great, and provided a lot of answers. However, I’m still having trouble with my new V3m.
I’ve been able to upload the songs, using your method, but I can’t get any of them to play. They’re all songs I burned from CD’s onto iTunes, so they’re not copy protected. They’re all shortened, and download correctly. It’s as though when I attempt to stream the audio, nothing is there. I don’t get 30 seconds of nothing, I get 0 seconds of nothing, despite having 114 kb of file or whatever it is.
I’m doing all of this over Bluetooh, on a MacBook Black.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I have a jones for new ringtones!
Kind regards, Fred
June 14th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I should also add that I use US Cellular phone service, not Verizon, so I’m hoping my service has not been crippled in the same manner. Thank you!
June 27th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Great instructions!
I just uploaded a song that I wrote and recorded in a recording studio last weekend to my phone, and now I get to hear “starlight” every time someone calls.
The wonders of technology…
June 28th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Thank you so much for putting this out there!! The directions were great and I was able to implement this with no problems whatsoever. You are brilliant!
June 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
i used a mini b usb adapter to my razr and still got the ringtone some how. i hope this helps.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
thanks for the tutorial! bluetooth didn’t work for making it a ringtone, but using the usb cable and putting the file into my rintone folder did work. super simple! i have a v3r BTW. yeah!
July 1st, 2007 at 11:45 am
Oh my gosh thank you sooo much for this info, its great!
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 am
yes what version of itunes is required?
July 6th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Terral i have windows so i would like to kno if it would work because when i plug my phone in(using my PSP usb cable)it always says that there is not software for it. so even if my phone has bluetooth and i get the d-link bluetooth usb cable would i still be able to get my ringtones on.if not can you plz tell me how to do it using windows?????plz!!!!
July 6th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
hi i did all the stuff above but then the songs i downloaded on my sandisk memory card wont show up in my phone. the card even says it has the songs on the phone. i need help…
July 7th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Does this still work for the new Razr V3c? I thought Verizon somehow turned off the OBEX transfer on the new V3c. Let me know if this will really work with the new V3c.
July 8th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Worked like a charm, had to figure a couple things out on my own. But it works great! Thank you so much!!
July 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
you are so helpful!! like seriously this was great… i was googling all week on how to save free ringtones through itunes or download software to transfer mp3 files to ringtones…. but this was simple and let me set all the songs i wanted. and you totally made my day!
thanx again!
July 12th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
There instructions were great, I however am stuck at the transfering it my KRAZOR. Once I transfer it I can no longer find the file on my phone. Can someone please provide me detailed instructions on how to fnd this on my phone? Thanks
July 13th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Worked for me! I don’t have Bluetooth so I used a free online text messaging service to send myself a multi-media message, then I just saved the mp3 as a ring tone. Simple!
July 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Muggsy what would that free website be?
July 17th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I have a LG Fusic, and i want to know how to take my music from iTunes to my cell. Is it the same as a razor? Thanks,
Abby
July 21st, 2007 at 3:35 pm
i have a razr v3, i understand i need to get a connection between the phone and the computer, but will it work if i pick up an ordinary usb from walmart, or does it have to be specifically for a razr, or bluetooth?
July 21st, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I have a krzr and itunes, and when I try to send the file it says “connection failure.” Verizon is my service provider. Any ideas?
I can connect to the computer, I can find the device, etc. Just can’t get past “connection failure” error message.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:47 am
I did everything the way you said to, but when I go to send it I get FTP connection failed. Any ideas? my provider is ATT/Cingular.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Whenever I try to convert my song to Mp3 it says I can’t because its a protected file! How can I “unprotect” it or get it to work??? Please Help!!!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Melissa, The file should be in the Audio folder to work as a ringtone.
Abby, I also have an LG CU5000? and it works just the same. I would guess it would be the same for you.
Humna, I use bluetooth but have heard others have luck with the usb cord. You may need to use Motorola Phone Tools however.
Brian, I’m not positive about this but it seems Verizon may have disabled the ability to have a ringtone that you haven’t bought from them.
Felicia, I have Cingular and haven’t had too many problems. You might try using a different song and go through the process of exporting and uploading again. I know that in the beginning I would occasionally get uploads that failed several times. Starting over from step one with the same settings would then work.
Austin, I you want to use a song that you have purchased from the iTunes Music Store you will need to first burn it to a CD and then re-rip it and used the new version. A few extra steps but not really too hard.
Good Luck!
July 27th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I got the bluetooth adapter. I have my sound clip ready to send. When I try to send file to the phone it says “Device does not support file transer”. So does that mean I wasted my money to get this adapter cause verizon and motorola decided to take away my ability to send files via bluetooth?
July 28th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Chad, That is a problem with verizon. You may still be able to get it to work. Some of the comments above tell about a some files that are on the phone that you can remove to enable transfer.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I’m so glad this came up as a Yahoo! search result it was EXACTLY what I was needed. Thanks so much for putting this up.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:44 am
Dude plz do let me kno how to apply themes n skins in my Razr V3i..I hav many theme files Jar , Jad , Nth files but unabl to apply in my phone plz do help me!!
July 31st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Awesome! I’d given up on finding ringtones I like, and now I’ve got 4 with very little effort right off my iPod. Totally cool! Thanks for putting this out there!
August 1st, 2007 at 2:16 am
Dear god… this is why i love the internet. Beautiful, simple, elegant. So helpful. Thank you very, very much.
August 5th, 2007 at 8:34 am
http://www.makeownringtone.com Just found this and am impressed.
August 5th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Awesome, Thanks
August 7th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
this was really really helpful. thanks so much.
August 11th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Thanks so much for this! It worked like a charm (Windows XP, iTunes). I do not have the connectors or bluetooth, but I emailed the file to my phone and then saved it as a ringtone. It’s perfect.
August 11th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
how can i download my mp3 files
August 12th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Hey there!
First off, thanks for the fantastic tutorial! I haven’t been able to find one this easy and simple before.
And speaking of simple, I’m sure there’s some simple reason why my ringtones won’t work. I’ve followed your instructions to the letter and I’ve been able to download the files to the ‘audio’ file on my RAZR. Then I can go into the ’sounds’ folder on my RAZR and hear the file, but I cannot see it when I go to change my ringtone, nor am I able to click on the file in the ’sounds’ folder and turn it into a ringtone. There is no doubt an explanation for this, but I cannot think of one. I would appreciate any help you would be able to provide. Thank you very much!
August 12th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
how do i set itunes to get to the 3rd step , cant find that page
August 13th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Tony, The 3rd step is in the iTunes preferences. Advanced->Importing. Make sure the “import using” is set to mp3. The mp3 encoder settings come up when you select custom in the bitrate drop down box.
Selina, I’m not sure what is going on but it may be related to your wireless carrier. They may have disabled custom ringtones on your phone.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:13 am
I have spent two days trying to figure this out and download the right programs. I had pretty much cracked it but couldnt figure out how to get the sounds into the list to choose from.
You are awesome.
August 14th, 2007 at 4:38 am
This was exactly what i was looking for, only i didnt have a bluetooth thing. i ordered one on ebay and as soon as i got it it was really easy to put the ringtones on. thank you so much. you rock.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Hi, this site is a great help I’ve read through all the replies, but I still have a few questions. I don’t have bluetooth on my computer. Is it worth buying or will I be able to put the songs on another way. (How expensive is bluetooth anyway?) I have an old USB cord that i can connect my phone to my laptop with, but nothing ever pops up. If my phone would connect with my laptop, couldn’t i just drag the shorter mp3 file onto the phone? Another question: Do new phones have enough storage for a few ringtones without first buying a microSD memory card? A few replies mentioned emailing the files to their phone. Does this require easyedge on your phone??
Thanks for all your help!
August 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Hi Rachel, The RAZR doesn’t like to communicate through USB unless you use special software such as Motorola Phone Tools. I just used bluetooth as I could get the dongle and use it for more things. Email should work fine but I’ve never used it for my RAZR. As for size, my old phone doesn’t have an expansion slot and could hold at least 20 ringtones. They aren’t too big. I wish my iPhone had custom ringtones. I don’t feel like hacking it so I’ll just wait. My kids use the RAZR and LG now and have a great time with the ringtones.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I’m so glad I found this site. The detail is great and it works for Windoze machines as well. I bought a bluetooth dongle for my comp about a year ago and it’s easy to xfer files for the Razr. It also works if you have a PDA with bluetooth capabilities. Thank you again for this great blog.
August 17th, 2007 at 7:15 am
can this be done useing steps above then save new file to sd card or directly to my Ipaq pocket pc then transfer to phone via bluetooth activesync ? if so can you tell me how to set up partnership between phone/Ipaq thanks
August 21st, 2007 at 11:47 am
ive done all the steps and it says there isnt enough free space….what do i do?
August 21st, 2007 at 3:22 pm
for some reason the on cd insert: show songs option in itunes, is not an option in the box. and i can send the music folders from the computer, but i cant recieve it through my phone! i have the bluetooth usb adapter, and it says that i am connected on both the computer and my phone, does anyone have any ideas about how i can fix the problem??
August 21st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
i understood all the steps in order to send a song onto my Motorola V3m but instead of using bluetooth i used a usb cord and it worked fine. the only problem that i have is that even though it shows up under my music list on my phone, i cant make it a ring tone. do u know why or what i can do to make it a ring tone? thanks
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
i try to send the edited file from my mac to razr w/o the usb cord….it downloads it all the way to 100% then says file is corrupt…i did all the steps b4 so how can i find out whats wrong, and is there a way to send it via bluetooth link w/o the usb cord?
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Hi! umm i just got this razr and its the on with itunes in it..and i have all my songs for my itunes on the razr but when i go to the sounds folder they arent there
even though they are in my itunes folder..i tired everything and im basically in tears!!!!!! Like help me!
i have the osngs on itunes..and then i go to my songs and onlyy the built in songs like latin loops are there!!!!!!!
HELLLLLP
August 25th, 2007 at 6:31 am
i spent 2 hours working on this and found out i dont have a computer with bluetooth but my phone has bluetooth so it wont work. is that true????
August 26th, 2007 at 12:46 am
why does this only work on razr?
August 27th, 2007 at 10:49 am
i don’t understand how to use the bluetooth to transfer the music onto my razr. i did all the steps though.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
i di this just fine a few months ago and then i went to make more ringtones but my phone says file is corrupt when i try to transfer it to my phone. I don’t think I am doing anything different. Help!!!
August 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
This works so well. Thank you for the informative screen shots and step by step instructions. So fun!!!
August 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am
ok, so i followed all the steps - to a t! and finally got it to work - or so i thought. i made the ringtone, sent it to my phone through bluetooth - and it said it was on my phone. So i go to change my ringtone and there it was - i listened to the ringtone before i assigned it, it worked great - then when my phone rang, it only vibrated, it didn’t make any sound - even though i can get them to play, just not when people call - i also tried for my text message sound and again, it only vibrated - no sound! any ideas?? anyone who can help PLEASE let me know! i’ve spent so long on this and am starting to get really frustrated so any help would be great, thanks!
September 7th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Is it possible to download music from iTune to Samsung A707 that I just purchasd, and can I just convert iTune music player to mp3 player and download all of my music along with purchased music from iTune? Please reply need help !!!!!!!!!!
September 8th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Heyy Terral i have a problem which is the same as a lot of what others posted.
First of all: I have downloaded [and bought!] some poly ringtones then i use moto multimedia studios to transfer them onto my cell phone which is a Telus V3c light pink if that helps. On my phone when i click on menu,then media gallery, then sounds, i have the ringtones on there but they have no options of putting them as my ringtone. i bought a couple of them and im pretty upset. ive heard you have 2 text the files to yourself but i tried that and it didnt work. plz plz help!! also the ringtones it came with have a setting that says APPLY AS RINGTONE. so plz answer this ANYONE thanks alot im sure alot of people r trying to ask this. i just dont want people to spend their money on ringtones and it not working. thanks so much.
TASHA
September 11th, 2007 at 6:04 am
my itunes won’t let me convert to MP3. it says the file is protected and therefore cannot be converted. what should i do?
September 11th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
okay, so how do you use itunes for a ringtone for a MOTOROLA SLVR L7?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:12 am
I can’t figure out how to clip the song to be shorter - I can’t find the “options tab” referenced in step 2. I’m in iTunes 7 on an intel Mac.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
i cant find the convert to mp3 thing it only says convert id3 and convert selection to AAC. what do i do?
September 16th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Dude… Thanks sooo much for this article you wrote. We have just recently switched to US Cellular from Verizon and have been trying to figure out how to get mp3 ringtones. We use to use them on Verizon but we had a music kit and US Cellular won’t tell us anything except to us the EasyEdge or w/e it’s called. And I have looked everywhere for software to buy that does this, but sure enough I already had the software installed on my MacBook Pro and my new iMac.
SWEEEET!!!!
Thanks, DJ
September 18th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Like soooo many others, I can get mp3’s and polyphonic sounds onto the phone (a Telus V3c), but I can’t find any topion to set them as rigtones. sigh Hopefully someone will figure this out and post the solution here… or somewhere. HowardsForums seems to have a gazillion answers to a gazillion questions, but none of them seem to work with a Mac, via Bluetooth, with a V3c.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I’m getting the same problem as Jess:
ok, so i followed all the steps - to a t! and finally got it to work - or so i thought. i made the ringtone, sent it to my phone through bluetooth - and it said it was on my phone. So i go to change my ringtone and there it was - i listened to the ringtone before i assigned it, it worked great - then when my phone rang, it only vibrated, it didn’t make any sound - even though i can get them to play, just not when people call - i also tried for my text message sound and again, it only vibrated - no sound! any ideas?? anyone who can help PLEASE let me know! i’ve spent so long on this and am starting to get really frustrated so any help would be great, thanks!
Any ideas?
September 24th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Hi, i was reading this and i followed all the directions and i have the mp3 file that i want as a ringtone. Where i get confused is i bought a USB cable just a normal one and it connects to my phone perfectly. But it never comes up on my computer so i can like save things to it. And then for bluetooth u have to buy it for your phone? so then why does it have it under my connections cuz i dont think i ever bought it. HELP!
September 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
To clear up all this nonsense once and for all, if you are using a USB cable and Moto4Lin it WILL work. After uploading your .mp3 files to /a/mobile/audio/ on your phone, the next step is to delete the two database files in the same directory. The two files that need to be deleted afterwards are MyToneDB.db and TempToneDB.db - After that is done you click on Reboot in Moto4Lin to reboot your phone, duh. When the phone is done turning back on ready to use, the Audio Database will have been rebuilt and the ring tones you uploaded will be available. If you use a Mac however, this may or may not work properly. There appears to be a bug in some builds of the Mac version and when you delete the database files you may temporarily disable sound completely. So if you have Moto4Lin you don’t have to have Bluetooth but if you are using a Mac it might be easier for you to just use Bluetooth File Exchange.
September 25th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
does this work for only a razr cuz i have an lg chocalate and i dont want to try it if i know it wont work
September 26th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Cami, It should work for any phone that uses MP3 files for ringtones. I have used it on an LG Cu5000 phone and it worked just fine. It won’t hurt to try.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
okai would anyone be able to help me out on this: i did exactly as the instructions said to do and i transferred it to my razr using mobile phone tools. it shows up on my sounds list but it doesnt show an option to apply it as a ringtone but the tones that came with the phone shows that option, so i was wondering if anyone noes how to fix this?
ps- could it b possibly because of the phone service ur subscribed to? currently im with Telus and not verizon or any other. does Telus block the option to set it as a ringtone? thnx for answer in advance.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Yay! This worked the first time I tried it. Now I’m a ringtone making fiend. Yay again, thanks!!!
September 27th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
do u noe if this will wrk with a telus v3c? because im able to get it on my phone and play it but there are no options to set it as a ringtone.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I have followed all the steps. I get to where the file is trying to transfer to my phone. My phone asked me to accept or reject the file that I am trying to transfer. I push the Accept button and it says “Failed. Transfer Interrupted.” What am I doing wrong. My computer sees my phone but when I try to browse my phone it says “Device does not have the necessary services.” Is there something I need to change on my phone?
October 1st, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Can all of this be done with Windows Media player?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
ok i followed all the steps and they worked great. I connected the blue tooth devices and sent it. I first tried to send it to a razr then a LG. Neither worked because it said the delivery had failed. What do i do now because everytime i try it says this.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
actually my problem is the same as brian’s
October 12th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for the help. You know, I used Audacity 1.2.6 to actually cut up the file; this worked really well, as I had plenty of control over what I wanted the end product to look like. I’ll concede that iTunes is about the best MP3 converter out there for the Mac…and free no less.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
do you have to have a mac to use this process? and if you can, does your PC have to have bluetooth?
October 13th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
i got a ringtone i want in my v3c razor but it doesnt have the obtion of setting it as a ringtone so how could i set it as a ringtone thnkx
October 14th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Im having problems with encoding the songs as an mp3, and changing the bit rate. Any tips? Also same problems as not being able to set the downloaded songs as a ring tone (”apply as ring” doesn’t show up) thanks
October 14th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
i have a mac by the way
October 14th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
how do i edit the bitrate? i searched for hours but couldnt find it
October 14th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Im on telus aswell and i have everything done except being able to apply as ringtone. I’ve read every single post on here and no one has any answers, except that it’s not possible with telus. Terral, I saw what you wrote to evan at msg. 17 or something, and I was wondering if thats possible. Thanks
October 15th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
i can’t find the second part on my itunes help me!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
what if i don’t have bluetooth on my computer?
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:00 am
Okay, so i go to send the files to my phone, the computer finds my razor, I press send and it says “File type not accepted: The target device claims it will not accept a file of the type you are trying to send.” What do I do? I press ” Send Anyway,” my phone connects to my computer, and it seems to be transfering and then it doesn’t. My computer says “The file transfer failed: not supported.” Once again, what do I do? I’ve transfered songs to my phone before and it has never done this. I’m getting VERY frusterated, if you can help that would be great! Thanks!
October 24th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
thanks for the easy instructions but every time i try to send the mp3 to my phone using bluetooth it always says there is an error called connection interuped how do i fix this
i have a mac and a vm3 razr
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:51 am
im using motarola E6 now i have problem i made call or recive a call every one taught ur voice breaking.. how can i get soulutions
November 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am
this worked perfectly. thank you so much for the clear instructions and the images.
November 7th, 2007 at 1:37 am
free ringtones from iTunes, you’re the man. why pay for something you already have when you can import it with a little work. great job dude!
November 13th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
omg thank you soooo much, you have no idea how long it took me to finally find this
November 13th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
wonderful instructions, did all the steps but I’m stuck I have one large file, no smaller one to be found did I miss something? Also how do I tell my Razr where to save the file? When I connect with bluetooth with my iMac, it just sends the entire 4.8m file to the music folder. Help! I’m in sad built-in ringtone hell…
November 19th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
TELUS SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
November 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am
v3c/telus test - I too was having trouble setting a transfered sound file as a ringtone.
TEST send a sound file that comes with the phone and has the option to “apply as ringtone” to my mac, and then back into the phone. (via bluetooth)
After doing so the option “apply as ringtone” was gone.
CONCLUSION The tel company wants more of your money
November 21st, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I’m stuck on the step .. convert to mp3 [[3- Next you need to set iTunes to convert your music to 22 khz and mono encoding. I used a lower bitrate to save space. ]] i dont find that option on my itunes
November 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm
ok i know how to convert them to mp3 now the problem is my bluetooth doesnt really work well because i have sprint which sucks .. but i have an sd memory card .. can i use it ? and could u tell me how? please and thank u
November 21st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Just got a Razor today, and this was a great help. Thank you so much.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:51 am
I finally found the solution for all TELUS (CAN) razr user here’s how i broke the TELUS code check out this site it work’s great.
http://www.paulyblog.com/2007/06/22/10-steps-to-use-your-own-ringtones-on-your-razr-v3c/
don’t forget to “go under View- View Filesystem then you could see the files”
enjoy! merry x-mas
November 26th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I am having trouble getting the ringtone to my phone. I am on a macbook and created the 24sec clip. I am sending it to my phone, but my phone says “connection interrupted”. This happened when my friend tried to send me ringtones she made through her bluetooth from her razr. I am beginning to think it has something to do with my service (Sprint) and not my phone. Does anyone know how to get this to work for me? I hate sprint!
November 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
whenever i try to convert to AAC it says i cant i am on a windows plz help
November 29th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
hey canchi i really hope u read this… i went to the site u posted and i followed the instructions fully but i still cant get it to wrk. my problem is after i finish ddeleting those files and reboot they come right back again. did u use the same detection settings as the original poster did?
December 1st, 2007 at 10:53 am
I have neither a Bluetooth Mac or PC or a USB cord to connect the phone to a MAC/PC. But the RAZR has a Micro SD memory card inside(the external memory you see referenced in some RAZR menus). With the help of an adapter for the Micro SD, I put an MP3 file on it. I don’t see the mp3 file show up as a choice in Settings:Sounds:Ringer Type:VoiceCalls:With/withoutID:MySounds. It does show up in Music though. Can I get it to be ringtone somehow?
December 1st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
How do u get to mp3 encoder???
December 1st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Hey, is there anyway to send the files to my phone without using bluetooth? say via USB?
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:27 am
This is great. I was looking for just this on a search engine! One question…Do we need to switch any settings back on itunes after we get our ringtones? Will this affect further songs, or can we just leave it like that? Thanks so much!
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:04 am
Nabisco…….i had no problems deleting the files I got my new ringtones working fine.
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:33 am
Stela, You should switch back your settings or iTunes will use them when importing songs in the future.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
ooo okai srry canchi i got it now, i panicked too early, wrking fine here too
December 7th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
how do i get my phone to connect via bluetooth to the computer?
December 8th, 2007 at 12:36 am
does my computer have to have bluetooth
December 14th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Terral - you absolutely rock! This is so incredibly helpful, and adds yet one more reason I am loving my Mac more than any Windows machine I’ve ever owned. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Chris
December 20th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Hi guy i just got the LG FUSIC and i tryed all the steps and it tell me “The target device claims it will not accept a file of the type you are trying to send…. what can i do?
December 25th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Hi, I followed all the steps correctly. i have the newest version of iTunes and when I make the song only 30 seconds, it doesn’t erase the other parts of the song but rather just skip over those parts, so when I sent it to my MOTOROKR it sent the whole song. AND… the songs went to “sounds”. why can’t I send it to ringtones?!
December 26th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hi Elizabeth, After you set the in/out points of the song, you will have to convert the song to an MP3. Then send that song to your phone.
December 27th, 2007 at 8:22 am
There is no way in hell I am reading/scrolling through all those comments, but wanted to give huge thanks to terral for the posting. You seriously rock dude!
Much Love,
December 27th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
This rocks. Finally get to add a real ringtone and some personality to my Razr. Preciate it.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Wow this was great! I was able to do everything else, but I have no clue how to send the song to my phone. I have USB and bluetooth, and I am using a new MacBook. Please help!! Thankyou sosososo much!=]
December 29th, 2007 at 10:12 am
ok, so before i looked at these comments I already figured out how to set them as my ringtone. thanks terral. now what’s wrong is even though i send the edited version of my song (as is I gave it a start/stop time within 30 secs.) the songs still start from the beginning. this has nothing to do with my phone, i think, but with just plain old iTunes. What do I do? I already went into song info and changed the song start/stop time.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Hi Elizabeth. Stick with it. You’re very close. Just make sure that after you set the in/out point you export the song. I have a smart playlist that lists the recent additions to my iTunes. I can then see the new shortened version.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I wonder, could you also use this for recording better quality voice mail messages?!
January 1st, 2008 at 11:50 am
This worked great for me. Thanks a lot!
January 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thanks so much for leaving this topic open for so long! I’ve learned a few things:
1) You can’t legally put custom-made ringtones on a Verizon phone purchased within the last few years.
2) Verizon is the new Sony and the new Apple. They aren’t compatible with ANYTHING!!!!
Thanks for saving my time!
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
kindof a noobish question but… for step 3, i dont know where to go in itunes to get that mp3 encoder thing. how do i get there? thanks
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
how do you do part 3 i cant find mp3 encoder
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 am
Brad & Greg, The MP3 setting pop up when you choose “Custom” for the bitrate.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Wow, thank you so much. I was so excited when my phone rang with a FREE ringtone, that I cut to the part of the song that I wanted it at. This is amazing.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
My wife and I just got our Razrs and I refuse to pay anyone for a ringtone that I probably already owned. Not to mention, now I can have EXACTLY what I want for a ringtone. One that’s me. Thanks a million. This worked exactly as you described.
January 5th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Thank you very much for posting this! I can’t afford to pay for internet access on my phone, which kept me from getting any new ringtones. This is a life saver
January 7th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I have the razor two, i have a micro sd cardand i used a card reader to get the files on the memory care, i can get songs onto it to play in the media player but i can’t figure out how to get them as ringtones, anyone know how to do that?
January 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
okay, wow. I think I’m stupid. But I still can’t get it. I shortened the songs, and they still send the whole thing to my phone, and play from the very beginning. Urrrrg!!!!! Can you give me a step-by-step thing to do? I am really annoyed……
January 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
heey how do yu open the mp3 encoder box?…
January 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Im kinda confused about steps 3 and 4, any help would be nice.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I understand how to designate the start/stop time, but then when I convert it to MP3, it’s set up so that it begins at the set time and stops at the set time, but the size of the MP3 stays the same. (It’s not just the 30 sec. clip)
Is there something I’m doing incorrectly?
January 12th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I got it, thank you!!
January 14th, 2008 at 8:55 am
HELP! Cant figure out how to transfer my itune clip to my razr to set as a ringtone. Am as far as the mp3 coder step.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:03 am
ok never mind figured it out! Am at the stage to send the audio file to phone. I have a usb cable and I also have bluetooth which is best and how do you do it?
January 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
help!!! i dont know how to send em to my razr phone!!! i have a usb cord…!!!
plz help thanks!
January 29th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Just got the V3 from Cingular and this works beautifully. Wish I had seen it before I bought 2 ringtones for $5. I don’t have a bluetooth computer but quickly realized my PDA has bluetooth. Just one extra step in sending it the the PDA through the cradle and then toothing it to the phone.
January 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Can you use any bluetooth adapter besides a d link?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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February 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Thank you so much for this guide! Perfect information, good presentation (and on a mac, too!) My one suggestion is that you specify to use the “Bluetooth File Exchange” utility… that was the part I was fuzzy on. Specifications are all perfect though!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Beautifully done, explained very well and the pictures are a big help! The big thing is is that it works!!!
February 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Never could have done it without you! I use Windows XP, and I used Digital Media Converter 2.7. I used Windows Movie Maker to crop my file down to 30 seconds, then converted it to MP3 from WMA. Then Bluetoothed it, and there it was! The quality wasn’t perfect at 64 kbps, though. Sad.
February 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
does this work for v3m
February 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
THANK UUUU ps for mine all i needed to do was set the loop point and convert it to AAC from the advanced tab and send it to my phone and wallah
February 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
This also works for the Blackberry Pearl, by the way. Nice work. This is genius.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
If you do not have iTunes or MP3, there are other ways to do it. Here is a good guide: http://www.somelifeblog.com/2007/03/motorola-razr-v3-how-to-upload_07.html
February 18th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Thank you so much!! The instructions were very easy to follow. I’m 10, and I had no trouble at all!
February 21st, 2008 at 8:03 am
You don’t need bluetooth to send the files!
For AT&T phones, you can send files via e-mail. Compose an e-mail to “yournumber@mms.att.net” using your tendigit number, ie 1112223333@mms.att.net. Attach the file, and send. Your phone will receive this as a multimedia message, it will recognize and play the sound. You can then press “save” and use it as a ringtone.
The same can be done with picture files, which you can then use as wallpaper, etc.
Just be wary of the size, big files won’t send.
Enjoy!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I have a Moto Razor from Us Cellular. I just purchased a mini SD Card and Adaptor for my cell phone. I was trying to save music to my SD Card, but I seem to be having multiple problems with it. I have Limewire, ITunes, and also Windows Media Player. None of them see to me working. I was wondering how I can save my songs to my SD card to use as ringtones on my Razor.
March 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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March 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Nice! Thank you!!!!!!!!! I have a ATT Motorola V3xx and a MacBook and it worked like a charm.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Just use the guide over at [url]fordhack.blogspot.com[url] . Solves this problem for any phone, any service. Real easy too.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Hi, this is too confusing for me :S step 3, i dont even know where to click,.
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
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April 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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April 4th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I just got my Motorola V3 Pink Razr two days ago, and it doesn’t let me record something then set it to my ringtone. Can someone help me? I want song ringtones.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Thanks, dude. Purchased ringtone from Apple using iTunes, didn’t work, wouldn’t load, yours did, just had to use a song not purchased from Apple…
April 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Oh, this is awesome. Thanks!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
my phone says connection failed, internal error.
anyone know how to fix this?
April 18th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
hey i’m gonna try this tomorrow when i get a razr v3. I’ve already converted some songs. thanks for the info!
April 20th, 2008 at 9:59 am
ok i clipped the songs, and got them to 45 seconds. i connected the phone to the computer, and the computer accepted the phone and paired and connected, but when i hit accept on the phone it says internal error….what am i doing wrong?? thanks!!
please help me!!!! thanks in advance!!
April 20th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Madi. I’m having the same problem. I dont know how to fix it.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I posted this last September:
I have followed all the steps. I get to where the file is trying to transfer to my phone. My phone asked me to accept or reject the file that I am trying to transfer. I push the Accept button and it says “Failed. Transfer Interrupted.†What am I doing wrong. My computer sees my phone but when I try to browse my phone it says “Device does not have the necessary services.†Is there something I need to change on my phone?
I forgot to mention that I have Verizon. I have tried a number of times and still the same thing and I have not seen an answer yet. Can anyone help me?
April 24th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Just wanted to say thanks — this worked! I used the instructions to make the ringtone for my son calls be a song he recorded in GarageBand! For anyone wanting to do this, I used the Share -> Send Song to iTunes option in GarageBand, and then followed the instructions on this page.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Thank you!!!!
May 7th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Nice article. A very simple way to make ringtones is to use Ventones.com
http://www.ventones.com
just use any mp3 file. No need to convert anything and they send it to your phone for free.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Thank you…something that the companies that make the hardware and software just won’t tell you.
I spent months trying to figure out why a high quality version of a Radiohead tune would transfer to my RAZR, play with it’s music software, but NOT play as a ringtone.
Problem solved, thanks to this webpage!
Cheers
May 8th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
which razr is this ment to be used on because i have the v3a and i cant seem to get it to work
May 10th, 2008 at 5:53 am
i got a cingular v3. it came unlocked and works fine with my sim and network ( not cingular) but it wont accept mp3 after i bluetooth it. i get ‘ file type not recognized’ after i the transfer is complete. i tried the itune method and got the same error message. i know razr v3 can play mp3 as ringtones or whatever cuz i have another v3 but from t-mobile and i can even play full length mp3. no encoding or conversion or compressin required. please help.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I was wondering why mine does not work. It will not let me choose the option of “Apply as” and then choose “Ringtone”. Thanks.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:26 am
You can also request any ringtone at http://www.mobiletrend.net just enter the details.
June 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
ok….so i did all that was asked, both bluetooths are on (i have wireless, doews that make a difference?) but neither device recognizes the other. what am i doing wong?
June 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
ok….i was able to get them to transfere, but it still wont allow me to use them as rigtones
June 11th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Somebody PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Help me!! I have a Sony Ericsson phone && Im confused on how you put the songs on my phone!! If anybody sees this plz respond!!
June 20th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Razors are cheap mine will not play any mp3’s what so ever it gives a message saying “media type is not supported”.
I got a Nokia 2610(This phone is a Dinosaur) it will play any mp3 and does not have bluetooth.
The razor is a v3 anyone know what the problem is?
June 25th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Hey! First- great information. it helped a ton, and i made some pretty sweet ringers!! second- will the settings that i had to change affect anything else besides making ringtones in itunes? do i have to switch the settings back to do anything??
June 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Liz, The settings will only affect things that you import or convert such as CD’s. If you are done making tones for now you can put the settings back to your preferred CD settings.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
You can also, for verizon, attach the file to an email to (your 10 digit number)@vzwpix.com.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I dont have bluetooth on my computer but i have it on my phone. How do i get bluetooth?
July 26th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
The steps outlined in this blog article worked but as someone pointed out, make sure that there is no artwork embedded in the mp3 ringtone file. This made a difference for me when I just made a ringtone. Works great.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:50 am
you are grand, thank you. now my phone does not have crappy, tinny ringtones from the voice notes feature. loverly.
September 28th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
hey i’ve got a few phones that i just tinker on systematically, trying things, remembering what works, and what doesnt work, cuz i write it down, including the steps i’ve taken to get what i want out of without really buying any special software or usb transfer cables at all. (just the Motorola Razr that i use as my phone and a 1 gig flash memory card to transfer the media of my chioce between my pc (wich has built in media card readers) and my phone) turn off the phone and leaving it off.. take out the flash card formatted by your phone and place the flash card into the card reader on the pc…now you can convert whatever media you want using this online site http://media-convert.com/
for converting all to all basically then download your converted file and place on the card just by dragging the file to the card not even in any special directory…now that u have the converted media on the flash card simply place the card back into the phone BEFORE!!!! you even think of powering the phone back up..this always seems to work just fine for me! if for some reason you mess up the format on the card and cant format it on that phone anymore get creative…i just put it in my other phone which is a chocolate. It’s mostly all different firmware on different phones and carriers anyhow just be a bit of a hacker and never give into technology totally flustered or not!!! remember http://media-convert.com/ look at the writing on page and you’ll eventually understand the formats and sizes and bitrates and blah,blah,blah see ya!!
December 19th, 2008 at 2:07 am
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December 31st, 2008 at 11:52 am
Thank you so much. I used this instead of to create ringtones, but to make a cut CD for my basketball team. It was a lot of help. One question… How can I make the music fade together instead of just cutting and starting another song? Thank, I love you whoever created this (:
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
This won’t work for me. It usually says “bad request” when I try to send a song. I’m using a Motorola phone with Verizon. Do I need a memory card to receive files?
January 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I have a V3c and have been trying everything and reading almost everything.
I am on a Mac running 10.5.6.
BitPim does not work for me OnSync does not work, along with many other things I tried. I can pair the phone with my Mac and run iSync to get my contacts in, but I could not get a new ringtone in :/
What DOES work is an app called DataPilot and a USB cable connection. I added a ringtone
I did change the .mp3 to a .mid. Not sure if I had to, but it does work!
Hope this helps some of you
February 18th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
i dont know how to get to number 3 thru my itunes with the converting and all, help pls !
March 10th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Anyone have a solution to transfer the file to a Verizon Wireless RAZR v3M (latest s/w version was installed last week)? Instructions are great and easy to follow. I also tried emailing the MP3 file, but Verizon strips off the attachment when the message is delivered to the phone.
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
this works great on my slvr. i can even up the quality and it’s fine! It somehow doesn’t work on any settings including the one you provide on my razr v3. It’s so strange. It transfers but stalls on the song when I try to play it back from my phone. When I look at the details it says the song is 1:47 but it’s only 0:17. So strange! Would it matter that I flashed my phone with the noob monsterpack from modmymoto?
March 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
i did this but when i upload it to my phone, via usb cable, it says,”although this device supports audio files, it doesn’t except .mp3 files”. HELP!! I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!
April 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Strange. Your provider may have disabled it.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Anyone using a Mac may be interested in the latest MacHeist. Not necessarily for tones but for everything else. I bought it last year and this year and found a few great apps. http://www.macheist.com/bundle/u/94642/
April 8th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
i tried this but i cant do steps 3 or 4 in itunes. I have the newest one and i see this one done quite a while ago.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I had to read several of the replies and inquiries from your readers, but it worked. thanks.