I'm having trouble getting some ring tones to work with my V220. I
have mobile phoneTools installed and working, and have communication
with the phone. I've cut pieces of wav files from CD's and
successfully installed them as ring tones, so the process demonstrably
works.

Specifically (this is going to sound silly) I'd like to install the
hotline from Our Man Flint as a ring tone. I have collected three
different wav files, one 8 bit and two 16 bit, all three mono, at
varying bitrates. I've converted them to mp3 with Audacity with every
different setting and combination of settings I could think of, but I
only get one result after I download it to the phone -- when I try to
play it, I get a notice that the file is corrupted. It plays fine on
the computer, using Real or iTunes or Windows Media Player, but not on
the phone.

There's got to be something different between pulling a wav off a CD
and the wavs I've collected off the net. The primary difference is
mono vs stereo, but I can't make myself believe that the phone requires
a stereo mp3 when it has only a mono speaker.

The other major difference is that the wav files from CD are all 22K
sample rate, and the Flint wav files are generally 11K sample rates.
Is there a problem with using wav files at lower sample rates? Or is
there something else I'm missing?

In summary, using cuts from CD's always works (so far), and using any
of the three wavs I have downloaded from the net has never (yet)
worked.

I've researched this on the net, and tried various settings as
previously suggested to get a ring tone to work with a Motorola phone,
including doing a full clear of the phone (which was annoying, as I had
to put my phonebook entries back) to see if that would solve the
problem. So far, nothing has had any effect.

Any and all comments welcome, including "you just can't get there from
here", if that is in fact the case.

Thanks!


Ron ([email protected])



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