Verizon no longer lets you email Mp3 ringtones to your phone

One thing you can do is edit your phone so you roam all the time. You know no offense but I am getting on the edge with Verizon. I had them for many many years and honestly didnt know what I was missing out on. Now This last year I did have the chance to try new things and know what is out there. If I keep having the problems I am having as of late then you know I am just going to plainly leave and not come back.

 

I have been on from the Bell Atlantic days and am not thrilled with the take it or leave it cr^P. And not filling local big holes.


Although my friend on AT&T called my land line the other day from Cherry Hill NJ and garbled and dropped the call. Most of us "older" types don't customize our phones that much, but I want the option and not to have needless greed driven rules shoved at us.

 

Thanks to Miker, ZeroCoin and everyone else. I was able to do the deed no problem with my LG VX8300 phone. 10 second MP3->renamed to <someting>.qcp. emailed it directly to my phone and magically my ringtones appear, just like they used to!

Let's hope VZW don't catch on too quickly....
:browani:

 

I live in an area where Verizon, Sprint and AT&T are our only options. I have a Verizon Dare myself.

I just went through all this crap trying to figure out how to convert the media from that damn QCP format to an MP3. Because whatever recordings are done on my phone (forget music for a moment - I'm talking about voice recordings) I can't play when I transfer them to my PC. I can't convert them either because of the DRM B.S. (I dispise DRM) Verizon put's on it.

Ringtones also were a pain in the ___ too. But here's what I've found:

1. Convert your voice recordings to whatever format can easily be accomplished by getting a patch cable (a cord that has a 1/8 headphone plug on both ends) and plug it into the Line In jock on your computers sound card. Then go out to GoldWave - Audio Editing, Recording, Conversion, Restoration, & Analysis Software and download and install it. plug in your phone and play your recording while recording with Goldwave (or whatever audio editing software you may have just laying around). Save into whatever format you want. I actually find it easier to do this than tying to convert the damn file.

2. MP3 ringtones - Maybe I'm missing the point but I guess I don't know why you are insisting that it be an MP3 for your ringtone. I mean, it definately would be pretty swanky if you could just set whatever MP3 from your phone library as your ringtone but, you get about 20 seconds or so worth of sound before going to voice mail. So why not capture a snippet of a song (you can use Goldwave or whatever audio editing software you may have) and send that to your phone. Yeah, it is more work to do this but...

 

I'd be happy with Midi, wav, I don't really care.
I was doing exactly that - editing down to a 10 second clip in Goldwave, saving to MP3 because compression makes it teeny, and I was able to email files to <myphonenumber>@vzwpix.com. The file would show up as a pix message. I could then save the sound as ringtone and all was right and well with the world.

Now, my emails bounce back and I don't know of any other way to transfer audio clips to my phone. I certainly am not gonna PAY for my ringtones. So how can I "send that to my phone," now that I can't email it anymore?

 

Hmm, I think there may be something amiss with your email application or something else between your computer and your phone. I say this because I just (not 10 seconds ago) sent an email to my phone with my clip attached, recieved it and saved it as a ringtone.

If you are trying to do this from your work computer your companies email system may be blocking the attachment. I have that trouble at work too but I have a web based email account that the Internet nazi's at work haven't shut down yet.

 

Well Kiss mah Grits! It worked this time... I used a .mid file. Thanks for the help!