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Posted on 09-18-07 02:51:37 AM Link | Quote
So, I just acquired a brank spankin' new cellphone ™ today (and before anyone asks, no, you're not getting my number.)

I figure "oh man, this needs more mega man 2 stage intro theme as a ringtone", right? Well, turns out it's not necessarily possible... out of the box... and without a barrage of stupid hacks to use custom ringtones.

Even then, Nextel forces you to pay for ringtones should you go with the "official, not needing ugly hacks" route. Considering the phone itself cost nearly $400, it should have very few restrictions with what I can do with it.

*Fat Catgirl Hydra sighs.

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Posted on 09-18-07 02:59:19 AM Link | Quote


Reminds me of my dinky little phone, which, despite it having the ability to "surf the web", can't access pages on ports other than 80 (it returns a message saying "Network gremlins") nor can it download .gifs, .jpgs, .mids, or anything for use as wallpapers or ringtones (garnering 403 forbidden errors when it tries). But I guess that's what I get when I buy a $20 phone...a $400 phone probably should do a lot more than that.
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Posted on 09-18-07 03:20:40 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Ran Yakumo
But I guess that's what I get when I buy a $20 phone...a $400 phone probably should do a lot more than that.

Exactly. I have the tools to convert audio to any format my cellphone supports, so why is it that I can't get new ringtones without paying money out of my ass for them? ._.

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Yeah, the only ways I know of to get custom ringtones or wallpapers on my phone is to buy a nonexistant cable or email them to it, and of course it costs money to receive the email.

I should see if there are any ugly hacks available.

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Posted on 09-18-07 08:47:17 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Fat Catgirl Hydra
so why is it that I can't get new ringtones without paying money out of my ass for them? ._.

RIAA?

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Posted on 09-18-07 06:21:40 PM Link | Quote
I'll have to keep this in mind when I get a cell phone. If I can't put my own ring tones on it without paying extra the cell phone automatically gets throw into the "no" pile

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Posted on 09-18-07 07:11:11 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Yeah, the only ways I know of to get custom ringtones or wallpapers on my phone is to buy a nonexistant cable or email them to it, and of course it costs money to receive the email.
My old phone was that way, although the cable existed. It did, however, cost something like 40 bucks for one, though...

I feel the need to mention that I like my new(-ish) phone. It just needs a standard mini-USB cable and software that you can readily find online... And can use ringtones in MP3 format.

Not that I didn't hack the shit out of it anyway, of course. A combination of Motorola's and Alltel's startup noises is just a bit too irksome to leave on.
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Posted on 09-18-07 08:14:42 PM Link | Quote
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Originally posted by Fat Catgirl Hydra
so why is it that I can't get new ringtones without paying money out of my ass for them? ._.

RIAA?

Actually, consider it... a 10 second ring tone (or 30, whatever) and they can charge you $1.99? Lots of people are stupid, so it's basically free money.

Underlining "people are stupid". Unfortunately, they lock out the smart ones, but that just means they don't get ringtones.

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Posted on 09-18-07 08:18:12 PM; last edit by Imajin on 09-18-07 08:31 PM Link | Quote
Hm... awhile back, I had an old, black and white cellphone... it came with Tetris, a Breakout clone, and allowed you to create your own ringtones for it by pressing in notes, with a large selection of pre-coded ringtones... After I got a new cellphone, it has no built in games (you could buy them, though- in fact, it cost money to use the online store!), no self-writing of ringtones, and a paltry set of built in ringtones... it definitely looks like the companies are milking the customer for everything they can get.

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Posted on 09-18-07 08:27:44 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Imajin
Hm... awhile back, I had an old, black and white cellphone... it came with Tetris, a Breakout clone, and allowed you to create your own ringtones for it by pressing in notes, with a large selection of pre-coded ringtones... After I got a new cellphone, it has no built in games (you could buy them, though- in fact, it cost money to use the online store!), no self-writing of ringtones, and a paltry set of built in ringtones... it defiantly looks like the companies are milking the customer for everything they can get.




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Posted on 09-18-07 08:33:34 PM; last edit by HyperHacker on 09-18-07 08:37 PM Link | Quote
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Fun fact: Googling "2125i hack" is a good way to find spam sites that obviously just throw a ton of random words onto a page to trick search engines.

Fun fact: 4 times in a row now, the Google ads here have been one of those giant fucking annoying ones, and all advertising eBay. >:[ It's coming up a good 50% of the time at least.

You know what, fuck it. *HyperHacker AdBlocks http://*.googlesyndication.com
After seeing those so many times, and having just blocked the Google ads on every site I found during a search because they were annoying, the whole "not blocking Google ads because they aren't annoying" thing kinda falls apart.

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Posted on 09-18-07 10:02:13 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 09-18-07 10:03:21 PM Link | Quote
I just send midi's to my phone. I had a certain model that had some weird midi type support that was like X(somethingsomethingsomething) and it made types of midis that were made that way sound great.
Right now I have Kirby Super Star - Invincible Lollipop as my ringtone and the Pokémon Healing Theme as my "YOU GOT MESSAGE"

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Posted on 09-18-07 10:05:58 PM Link | Quote
Simplicity v1.1
I've got MID and MP3 support on my phone. Uploading them to my phone's as simple as sticking this microSD card into my comp, sending whatever I want over and that's about that.

Heck I can have anything really. I don't have to worry about that bullshit 'trading MP3 ringtones' factor; I make my own.

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