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Greetings one and all,
Brand new here, seeking some help. I have a 910i, on an O2 contract. I copied some tunes straight from some of my CD collection onto my SE laptop, saved them as MP3 files. Then I put them on the MS, and transferred them to the phone. They play fine in the music player, they play fine as alarms (if you can call waking up to 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath fine, but what the hell - I like it!).
Here's the problem, set any of them as ringtones, and when the phone rings - it DOESN'T! It freezes, then it switches itself off. I've had a software upgrade, still the same. The engineer at Carphone Warehouse then decided that because it was a contract phone
I couldn't use MP3s as ringtones. SE Helpdesk said this was rubbish (they DID say that it was true for Vodafone though, which may be of interest to someone out there). Can anyone help? I'm sick of getting nowhere with Carphone Warehouse. It doesn't seem logical that they can play everywhere but as ringtones, or does it?
Any advice would be most appreciated.
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Posted: 2005-02-25 17:56:46
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Welcome to Esato
I don't have a solution just yet but I can just let u know that it certainly should work!
If it was a Network barred feature then the phone would just not let u choose it & not crash!
What quality/bitrate are the mp3s?
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Posted: 2005-02-25 18:26:00
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Hi, and thanks for the welcome.
I'm not actually sure what you're asking. They were recorded from shop bought cds, burnt using WMP10, but I've since gone back to WMP9. According to the properties of 'Paranoid', bitrate is 128kbps, channels are 2 (stereo), audio sample rate is 4kHz
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Posted: 2005-02-25 18:59:07
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I was asking what the bitrate was & u answered 128kbps & that should be fine.
You could make it much lower though & have smaller file size, especially for ringtones as the speaker won't produce the full quality of 128kbps anyway.
I usually use 80kbps which sounds fine (also fine in headphones)
Anyway that's not related to the problem u have I don't think.
Have u tried assigning another mp3 which u didn't encode? i.e. one d/loaded from a wap or web slte?
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Posted: 2005-02-25 19:12:00
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I wondered about that. On one of my MANY return visits to CW, we tried my mp3 ringtone in a brand new out of the box P910i and it produced exactly the same effect, which would tend to indicate there's either a generic fault with them, or there's something wrong with MY mp3s, but then why do they work in every other bit of the phone, including text messages?
Is it possible to reduce the bitrate on an existing file or do I have to re-record it at a lower rate?
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Posted: 2005-02-25 21:52:28
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Use dbpoweramp. Its a free music converter & u can set the bitrate, frequency etc to whatever u want.
I use 80kbps, 44,100Hz Stereo for music but u can go lower for just ringtones.
You can just convert your current files.
It sounds strange really but it may just be due to the way WMP has encoded them. Try using dbpoweramp (which can also rip from CD) & see if it works
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Posted: 2005-02-25 22:25:00
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OK, that didn't work either. It compressed it down to about 1.1 meg. It transferred it, set it as ringtone and it STILL freezes and switches itself off!
Next?
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Posted: 2005-02-26 17:46:09
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