Nick asked if there was a way to set an MP3 as a ring-tone. Yes! This post will walk you through setting one of your favorite songs as your ring-tone. Note: It is better to use an MP3 without DRM protection. Read on for the Full story!
Step One: First things first, you should be able to access your device’s memory when it is connected to the computer. The following thumbnails will show the navigation/screens we need to get to.
On Windows Mobile Device Center, click on ‘File Management’ and then ‘Browse the contents of your device’
Step Two: A window should open similar to the image above. If you wish to store the MP3 on a memory card skip to Step Three
If you do not wish to use the memory card, double click on the icon denoted with just a ‘\’
Next, double click on ‘My Documents’ and open the folder ‘My Ringtones’
If you haven’t downloaded any ringtones yet don’t be surprised if this is empty. Skip to Step Four
Step Three: Double click on the icon marked ‘Storage Card’. Create a new folder here titled ‘My Ringtones’
Step Four: On your desktop, in a separate window, open the folder containing the MP3 you wish to use as a ring-tone. Right click and hold on the MP3, drag and drop it into the ‘My Ringtones’ folder you have open and release the right mouse button. Select ‘Copy’ from the menu that pops up.
Step Five: On your device, from the main screen go to the settings pane and select ‘Change Ringtone’
This is the screen you should be seeing. With the current ringtone selected press the Center/Select on your Shadow’s wheel.
From this screen scroll up and down to find your ring-tone. Once highlighted press Done.
If you are successful the new ring-tone should show in the Sounds screen. Press done and you are finished!
November 27th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Thank you for your help!
November 27th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
[...] our previous post “How to Set an MP3 as a Ringtone” I overlooked making the thumbnails viewable as fullsize. That is fixed now so you can see [...]
November 28th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
can you write a column if possible on how to cahnge the size of the picture from the home screen. I had a samsung t809 and the picture fitted perfectly on the screen like widescreen. I just bought the shadow and the same image is enlarged and zoomed in on the picture. Basically that small given space on the home screen will not the display the image i recently had just some zoomed in enlarged spot. This happens even after i have selected the whole picture and dragged the cursor to select the entire image. If theres a way to allow the whole image to be displayed please let me know.
November 28th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
about the background for the homescreen see this post http://www.allshadow.com/2007/11/28/the-secret-to-background-images/
November 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I did not know where else to post a question so I am doing it here. This is probably a very easy question but I don’t know the answer to it. I bought a shadow online today, its being shipped to me, and I want to be able to plug it into my aux in part of my car stereo. What cables do I need to do this so I can listen to my MP3’s in stereo in my car? Where can I get them. Thank you.
November 28th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Hi Adam,
you can get an audio adapter from our parent site’s online store. There are a ton of accessories available as well. When you get to the page, just type ‘audio adapter’ into the search box and you should see several for the Shadow. We will have our own store soon. http://software.pocketnow.com/homeAccessories.asp?deviceId=689
November 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Thank you very much. That is exactly what I need. Another question…is the Shadow 3G compatible?
November 30th, 2007 at 9:37 am
OK, I read the manual and it says to place them in: File Explorer: Menu: My Device: Application Data: and then paste into Sounds folder. This worked but I couldn’t do it the way you described. Also, the song will continue to play if you use it for say Text Message or email or voicemail. How can you stop the song from continuing to play?
December 1st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Patrick: you can’t stop the song from playing with a text message/email/voicemail. You could use some sort of sound editor program to just get a small clip from the song that you’re using.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
You just put the music onto your phone from your computer then just copy and paste into the ringtones folder. I think its much easier.
December 8th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
HOW DO YOU DOWNLOAD MUSIC VIDEOS< MOVIES AND TV SHOWS TOTHE SHADOW I HAVN”T GOTTEN MY PHONE YET I GET IT NEXT WEEK BUT I SEE YOU SHOW HOW TO GET A LOT OF APPLICATIONS TO MAKE THIS PHONE DO A LOT OF OTHER TINGS SO I FIGURED THIS WAS THE PLACE TO ASK THANKS> RANDY
December 8th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I downloaded a song from a CD to Windows Media Player and then followed instructions, but my phone says that the ring tone file is “corrupted or unavailable”. Why? What did I do wrong?
December 8th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Maybe the file is protected? Is there any way to unprotect it or something?
December 11th, 2007 at 11:22 am
How do you get to that device manager??
December 12th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
how do you get to the device manager?
February 20th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
[...] folder. This should also work in the My Ringtones folder on the storage card that we made in the MP3 as a Ringtone [...]
April 12th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
is it possible to set different ringtones to groups e.g. friends, family, business, other.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I dont want to use up storage on my phone. So is there a possible way to play ringtones directly from an SD card instead of putting in sounds folder in application data?