looking for input on free ringer etc. sites

Few of the free sites require your phone number. They simply host the file on their web site, and you browse to that location and download it to your phone. The only privacy exposure is your email. Many people register with a "junkmail" account, or have a mailbox for every registration so they can identify if a particular site is a source of spam. I haven't been spammed by any of the sites yet.

 

I've put about 40 ringers on my web site, and there is no registration or privacy barriers. I'll try to get some more out during the holidays. On your phone visit http://www.CraigGiven.com/pcs.htm

Or on your computer (to preview first) visit http://www.CraigGiven.com/phone.htm

 

Although any of these free ringer/screen saver sites are not approved by Sprint, and therefore void your waranty, here are two sites I recommend to my customers, and use myself:
www.3gvisioncorrection.com and www.sturmie.com

 

you are kidding about voiding the warranty right? Thats funny.

 

Certain Sprint salespeople have claimed non-Sprint material voids the warranty. Yet Sprint sells the data cable and the FutureDial SnapMedia software -- specifically to let you load non-Sprint items on your phone. Kind of a contradiction, eh? There might be some fine print somewhere, since corporate lawyers are always trying to absolve their companies from the slightest bit of responsibility. So they may have included that contingency that some malicious hacker could create a Java Midlet program that could screw up your phone.

 

Yea that makes sense but I dont think anyone should really worry about downloading free ringers, apps, etc.

I think its funny that eSunny warns about non approved Sprint ringers and then recommends the sturmie.com website with the classy song ringer "back that thing up". I'm sure Sprint lets all of their customers no about this website and it's colorful ringer selection

Just playing around. Honestly though sturmie.com does have a nice selection.

 

I have gone to a few sites that do indeed require phone number. They do this to send the link to the download directly to your phone.

I havent run into any problems this way and no strangers have called me

 

Hey, I'm not warning against free ringers/savers I recommended 2 sites that I use myself. Being a Sprint employee, I told you what I tell every customer. Here's where to get the free stuff, I use the free stuff, but it DOES void your waranty. My TSR won't even test a phone that has nonapproved stuff on it (how he can tell, damned if I know, he's still using a TP 2200).... Last thing I need is one of my customers downloading something from a site I recommend, and something actually happenning to their phone (even if it's unrelated to the download), and then having to listen to them chew me out for it.

 

Voiding the warranty by downloading non-sprint approved content is a fuzzy area. This may or may not be written in some fine print someplace. If someone feels like posting an example where this is I would appreciate it. What it comes down to is sensible and reasonable use. If you used the phone for say, a doorstop, you might void the warranty. You might not have known that this would void the warranty, but using the phone for a doorstop is not a reasonable or sensible use for it. Since the phone is not intended to be used this way you are out of luck and have no warranty. However the phones ARE designed to access the internet and download ringers and pictures. If you use the phone in a sensible and resonable way, ( and without specific knowledge that you might be voiding your warranty ) Sprint has very little ground to penalize you for it. Feel free to jump on me for this one, but I do have some basis for what I'm saying.

 

I am completely in agreement with you. The phones are made to access the internet and have the ability to download anything, therefore should be covered. As of yet I haven't seen a customer's phone ruined from anything that has been downloaded. I have however seen a Handspring Treo that completely crashed due to the amount of porn the customer had downloaded to it. This phone was not replaced under waranty, but running refurbising software (wiping out everything saved on the phone, and resetting it to factory settings) fixed the problem, even if the customer did lose all his porn. It is the same matter as downloading files from the internet to your computer, only download from sites you trust.