Stephen Evanchik A random act of software http://stephen.evanchik.com/node/43/atom/feed 2006-11-12T18:27:44-08:00 Ringtones on my RAZR V3 in Linux http://stephen.evanchik.com/blog/2006/05/ringtones-my-razr-v3-linux.html 2006-05-16T21:18:22-07:00 2006-11-12T18:27:44-08:00 Stephen Evanchik I just got a Motorola RAZR V3 when I changed my cellphone plan. It is a really nice phone that I can connect to my computer using a USB cable. I decided that I wanted a custom ringtone instead of the default. It’s not a difficult process at all but there is a lot of information scattered around the Intarweb that makes it difficult. Here is my summary process:

  1. Find something you want to use as your ringtone. It can be an mp3 or wav file or whatever.
  2. Convert to wav file if its not already there, minimal survival command: mplayer -ao pcm filename.mp3. You should now have a audiodump.wav file.
  3. Download and use Audacity to cut the audiodump.wav to about 20 seconds (mine is 18)
  1. Save the clipped wav file and then encode it to mp3, minimal survival command: lame -b 64 -s 44.1 -mm —tt “Title” cutsound.wav output.mp3
]]> I just got a Motorola RAZR V3 when I changed my cellphone plan. It is a really nice phone that I can connect to my computer using a USB cable. I decided that I wanted a custom ringtone instead of the default. It’s not a difficult process at all but there is a lot of information scattered around the Intarweb that makes it difficult. Here is my summary process:

  1. Find something you want to use as your ringtone. It can be an mp3 or wav file or whatever.
  2. Convert to wav file if its not already there, minimal survival command: mplayer -ao pcm filename.mp3. You should now have a audiodump.wav file.
  3. Download and use Audacity to cut the audiodump.wav to about 20 seconds (mine is 18)
  1. Save the clipped wav file and then encode it to mp3, minimal survival command: lame -b 64 -s 44.1 -mm —tt “Title” cutsound.wav output.mp3

Basically, the RAZR V3 needs to have mp3s at 44.1kHz, 64kbps and under 200kb for it to be used as a ringtone. Once you have the file, you need to upload it to the phone using moto4lin. Connect to the phone and place the file in /a/mobile/audio/.

Change your phone to Silent and then delete MyToneDB.db and TempToneDB.db. Power cycle your phone.

Once your phone is back on, change your phone to something other than Silent and then browse for a new ringtone. You should see the name of the uploaded file.

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