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Help Can't get ringtones as notifications

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SourPatchKid

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My husband downloaded ringtones from phonezoo which we've used for years. The tones are on his phone. I can't get the PC or the phone to recognize I've got it plugged in so I can't move the music to his SD card that way. And I can't figure out how to do it on the phone itself. I know I need to put the tones in his notifications folder on the SD card but first I've got to get it on the SD card!

Help?
 
31 looks and no comments? Come on folks my husband is in my ear about all day every day. Apparently since I've been on a Motorola Android phone for a while (Devour and then Droid) I'm supposed to be the resident guru.
 
What I've been doing for so long is going into my music, holding down whatever song, then the options come up; and I click the "Use as Ringtone.." option. I don't know whether you've tried that or not. And if I'm correct, when you save it from the MMS to the phone, it should save it as Music rather than a Ringtone. Atleast, that's what I remember.

And if that doesn't work, use an outside music application. I personally use Winamp.
 
I don't want to use the sounds as ringtones but as notifications. I can use them for ringtones no problem. But I can't use them for text messages or other things.
 
An option for you:

Download ASTRO File Manager. Find the downloads folder you have the sounds in from the MMSes. Hold down click them and hit move or copy, whichever is there, I forget. Then go to a folder called "/media/notifcations" and paste/move it int here.

Should work.
 
ludeawakening said:
Well first off does he have an Ally? If so we need to figure out why the computer will not recognize his phone.
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Yes he does. And my pc makes a sound like I've plugged something in but the little notification that you click to safely disconnect the hardware from the pc doesn't even pop up. My Droid? No problems.

I figured it out because it turned out the files were in a folder marked download on his sdcard so I just put the card in an adapter and used my pc to move things around on the sdcard. Easy peasy. At some point though I'm going to have to figure out why I can't get the computer to recognize his phone though.
 
SourPatchKid said:
Yes he does. And my pc makes a sound like I've plugged something in but the little notification that you click to safely disconnect the hardware from the pc doesn't even pop up. My Droid? No problems.

I figured it out because it turned out the files were in a folder marked download on his sdcard so I just put the card in an adapter and used my pc to move things around on the sdcard. Easy peasy. At some point though I'm going to have to figure out why I can't get the computer to recognize his phone though.
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Sorry for the late reply. I'm glad you was able to move the ringtones. I'm not really sure why the computer won't recognize the phone. You could try installing the LG drivers and see if that helps. Also try plugging it up with USB debugging enabled and disabled. If you're not sure where to do this it is under Settings/Applications/Development.
You can get the driver here: LGAndroidDriver_WHQL_ML_Ver_1.0_All_Win7.exe (9.4 MB)
I know it says Win7 but it should work on XP and Vista as well.
It installed for me on XP. Make sure the phone is disconnected while you are installing the driver.
 
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