VX8100 Ringtone Application.

This application’s main purpose is to allow you to load up to 155 ringtones in your “My Ringtones” folder on your phone. It’s about as simple as one could ask for. First, you will need the data cable and BitPim. I’ll demonstrate two scenarios here. I don’t have my miniSD card yet, but this should work PERFECTLY!

• You have a miniSD card with your MP3s loaded in the my_sounds subfolder on the card.
1. Open the VX8100 ringtone application
2. Choose the drive letter of your miniSD card using the drop down box for the drive letter (this assumes you have a SD card reader. If you don’t, you’ll need to keep a mirror of all files you have on your SD card in a specific local hard drive folder.)
3. Browse to the my_sounds subfolder
4. All of your MP3s should show up in the right browser pane.
5. Make sure the “Path on phone” is listed as “mmc1/my_sounds/”
6. Click “Go”
7. The file you need (my_ringtone.dat) will be created IN a folder beneath the one you’ve browsed to. The application will tell you where it is. Keep in mind where it’s at.
8. Open BitPim, go to the /dload folder, and right-click the my_ringtone.dat and choose “Overwrite”. Browse to the one you made a note of, and go!
You don’t even need to reboot the phone, you’re done! Install the miniSD card and you should be all set!

• You don’t have a miniSD card and want to load a bunch of ringtones – MIDI, MP3, or what not.
1. I recommend that you create a folder on the phone’s filesystem called “/ring”. This allows us to have longer song file names .
2. Browse to the folder on your computer that you have exactly the same files you have in whatever folder on your phone. (For example, you’ve copied a bundle of files to /ring/song1.mp3 /ring/song2.mp3 etc on the phone. Browse to a local folder on your computer where song1.mp3, song2.mp3, etc. are located. Basically keep a mirror on your computer)
3. Choose or type the folder name using the “Path on phone” box. Don’t put a preceding “/” in that box, use the same naming scheme as the predefined selections.
4. Click “Go”
5. The file you need (my_ringtone.dat) will be created IN a folder beneath the one you’ve browsed to. The application will tell you where it is. Keep in mind where it’s at.
6. Open BitPim, go to the /dload folder, and right-click the my_ringtone.dat and choose “Overwrite”. Browse to the one you made a note of, and go!

All set! No need to reboot the phone, just open your menu and browse for the ringtones!! After I loaded 252 of them I realized it sucks you can’t use the first character to skip down. I actually loaded about 7 MB of plain MIDI files on my phone, just for proof of concept. When my 1GB miniSD comes in, I’ll load the real songs up!

Hope I covered everything here. Please keep questions in the thread that way I can answer for everyone else to see as well. A dedicated mirror/host for this installer would be cool too. I’ll host it for now unless I start to get hit too hard with downloads.

Download Installer HERE.

Feel free to ask questions or give suggestions… And I’m sure there are things you can do to make it crash if everything isn’t done just right, but hey I put it together in a few hours so… Everyone post your comments and let me know if it works OK for you.

Enjoy!!

Edit -- the maximum ringtones safely placed in the "My Ringtones" folder is 155. However, you can place 252 additional tones in the "My Sounds" folder. The installer has been updated with a new version of the app to correct this limit and give you an option. 252 ringtones would show up fine in the "Ringtones" section, but some would not be applied due to an internal identification issue.

Please do post if you find any bugs or issues and I'll get them corrected as promptly as I can.

Is there any chance of something horribly going wrong with my phone? Im about to test the miniSD method and Im afraid, Ive never done cell phone alchemy before.

Not really -- the worst you would have to do is delete the my_ringtone.dat file and reboot the phone. The phone will self-repair and regenerate most of those DAT files on it's own. Do be sure that the title bar of the application reads "V1.01" though as I updated it. Same link for download if needed.

you can always save the original just in case

hey, when i click "go", i get this runtime error : run-time error '380': invalid property value. can you please help?

It was probably because you hadn't navigated to a folder containing your ringtones. I added a catch for this and recompiled the installer -- download it again and let me know if it works now. (be sure title bar says v1.04)

i tried this but the ringtones are there and they don't work.....Helpp@!

First I suppose I should ask if you're using the VX8100, or the 6000 as indicated in your profile? This application will ONLY work (or I should say has only been tested with) the VX8100

Also--please post if this app works for you so i know it's working OK

i got the 8100

what is "1. Open the VX8100 ringtone application"?
what application do you open?

and what does "browse to your My_Sounds subfolder" mean?

my app is working i have the vx 8100 but the songs are listed on the phone but they do not play!

how exactly do you do this? what app and how do specify a path?

sorry it took me so long to say this, but , THANK YOU, it works perfectly. After u updated to 1.04, i stoppped having those run time errors, and just to let u know, i did the same exact thing as before, so i didnt not click on the path =P. One question tho, how many characters can we fit in as the song name?

shadow...can you walk me through the process? and where do you get this ringtone app? thnaks in advance...