Sanyo MM-5600
Sprints Ringers for free
Just came across the most simple way of getting ringers you could over think of.
As most of you know the sprint website offers the ability to test ringers before you buy them on your phone. Well if you test it you will notice that the song will play in a separate window for windows media player. you can save the song to your computer and it saves its as an MP3. I used itunes from apple that came with the free quicktime. Open itunes and drag the saved MP3 into the itunes maker and right click the song and convert to AAC and DONE. Now just drag the AAC version of the song back to your desktop and upload to phone. New ring just the way you like. Takes itune less then 10 seconds to get the file, convert, and drag back out.
As most of you know the sprint website offers the ability to test ringers before you buy them on your phone. Well if you test it you will notice that the song will play in a separate window for windows media player. you can save the song to your computer and it saves its as an MP3. I used itunes from apple that came with the free quicktime. Open itunes and drag the saved MP3 into the itunes maker and right click the song and convert to AAC and DONE. Now just drag the AAC version of the song back to your desktop and upload to phone. New ring just the way you like. Takes itune less then 10 seconds to get the file, convert, and drag back out.
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Here is a great site that Sprint does not want you to know about
www.3gforfree.com
Bookmark this site, the library of ringtones is awesome. Make sure you download the correct carrier version (Sprint) and you are good to go. Save the $1.50 to $2 per ringtone.
www.3gforfree.com
Bookmark this site, the library of ringtones is awesome. Make sure you download the correct carrier version (Sprint) and you are good to go. Save the $1.50 to $2 per ringtone.
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you all should get with it and head over to www.d-d-n.com
this is your number one source for 3g goodies.
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That idea has been in use for a couple years now. If you have RealPlayer you can do it as well. But... you are doing one crucial thing that completely reduces the quality of the ringer.
See, typical ringers are MIDI files at heart. Which are just representations of instruments. And each phone has its own way of playing it. Thats why a ringer can sound different on different phones. But when you take a MP3 file and make it a compatable ringer, you have lost the representation of the instruments.
The one problem that has been found with this is that ringers set too high for a song will be distorted. But the same ringer in MIDI format can play at that level just fine. I guess this is something that ultimately just bothers people like me.
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See, typical ringers are MIDI files at heart. Which are just representations of instruments. And each phone has its own way of playing it. Thats why a ringer can sound different on different phones. But when you take a MP3 file and make it a compatable ringer, you have lost the representation of the instruments.
The one problem that has been found with this is that ringers set too high for a song will be distorted. But the same ringer in MIDI format can play at that level just fine. I guess this is something that ultimately just bothers people like me.
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Thanks for the idea of doing that. I did just what you said, saved the ringtone into my itunes and moved it to the minisd card. i put it in the media file of the minisd card b/c that is the only place it can be stored. it works fine but it seems i cannot set any of them as a ringtones b/c when you choose a ringtone for a contact the only files it lets you use from the minisd card are video files. I don't know if i'm doing something wrong. can anyone help? thanks!
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you cant put them on the mini SD that i know of and use them for ringers. I just used the http://www.sprintusers.com/focus/ and just uploaded them that way to the ringer section of the downloads where the normal ringers would go if you downloaded from sprint. Only downside is the phone can only hold so many due to size .
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I thought that was the whole purpose of the sd card to give you additional memory! So I am still limited on how many ringtones I can put on the phone?
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from what i know..yea. I know the phone has the pc sync like the old sanyo 5000 /6000 .I havnt tried to you that , so im not sure if it saves to phone like normal ringers or not. If not then YES your ringers cant be saved on the SD card and you can only use it for the mp3 player and picture/video.
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Okay i download the itunes unto my computer but where is the itunes maker. Thanks for your help.
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oka never mind about that question i figured it but how do i upload it to my phone
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once u made the AAC ringer drag to desktop and send thru http://www.sprintusers.com/focus/
thats all. it saves under your ringers in the download section .
thats all. it saves under your ringers in the download section .
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Okay i understand everything now but i have one more question. How do i make a AAC ringer? I understand how to convert it and upload but how to make it a ringer. Thank you for all your help.
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To make an AAC ringer u simpley have itunes open and u drag the ringer in. At that point you just right click the song while its in itunes and say convert to AAC and 2 seconds laters its done.
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when i try to upload the ringer to my phone it says file too big. Whats up with that
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is your phone have a ton of stuff already filling up the memory ?> go to download section of phone and hit options. view memory and see if your low. You might have a lot of pictures..or other things making it full
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Thats the thing i just bought the phone today so thats kninna crazy if its too full.
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Not sure what the prob would be if its new and the ringer isnt that big ..for file size...i didnt come across that problem once.
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okay, its not free (its a WHOLE $20 a year) but subscribe to www.myphonefiles.com. Its not just that they have lots of ringers and screens but they have software that allows you to take any audo file on your PC and send it to your phone. You can edit, crop and even layer! You can use a piece of music and layer your voice over it!
It also converts to QCP wihich takes up MUCH less room than MP3. A 200kb MP3 is only 4kb in QCP format! Have fun! Let us know what you think!
It also converts to QCP wihich takes up MUCH less room than MP3. A 200kb MP3 is only 4kb in QCP format! Have fun! Let us know what you think!
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