Treo Forums | Everything Treo - View Single Post

benjie · 05-02-2008, 12:29 AM

Ring tones are just plain exciting. You can either use device based ring-tones (created with an application similar to MusicTones or another similar program) or a card based ring tone management application.

A device based ring-tone means that the ring tone lives in main memory RAM. This is fine for one or two files, but these files which may be rather big if they play a bit, have a habit of becoming more than one or two as we add to our collection - this eventually means that main RAM starts being eaten up and eventually...

A card based ring tone application is an application that manages ring tones that live on the card. What this means is that prior to population control becoming mandatory, you can have bunches and bunches of them living on the card; whereas bunches and bunches of them living in RAM causes the device to die due to RAM starvation - something a liberal would scream about.

There are bunches of threads here about ring-tones, so a bit of searching will find food for thought. I have done the entire route and find the card based ring tone management applications to be superior in a few bunches of ways.

The applications to look at include RingCare, CallBlock, LightWav, mRing and Ringo. I prefer RingCare and CallBlock; LightWav has bunches of features that I would not use. These three are exceedingly well supported. Ringo works for some people and not at all for others. mRing, well the interface did not interest me.

Ben

05-02-2008, 12:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
benjie Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In the middle of nowhere. Posts: 2,650 Thanks: 3 Thanked 73 Times in 73 Posts	Ring tones are just plain exciting. You can either use device based ring-tones (created with an application similar to MusicTones or another similar program) or a card based ring tone management application. A device based ring-tone means that the ring tone lives in main memory RAM. This is fine for one or two files, but these files which may be rather big if they play a bit, have a habit of becoming more than one or two as we add to our collection - this eventually means that main RAM starts being eaten up and eventually... A card based ring tone application is an application that manages ring tones that live on the card. What this means is that prior to population control becoming mandatory, you can have bunches and bunches of them living on the card; whereas bunches and bunches of them living in RAM causes the device to die due to RAM starvation - something a liberal would scream about. There are bunches of threads here about ring-tones, so a bit of searching will find food for thought. I have done the entire route and find the card based ring tone management applications to be superior in a few bunches of ways. The applications to look at include RingCare, CallBlock, LightWav, mRing and Ringo. I prefer RingCare and CallBlock; LightWav has bunches of features that I would not use. These three are exceedingly well supported. Ringo works for some people and not at all for others. mRing, well the interface did not interest me. Ben __________________ Treo Centro - Honolulu - 2,500 miles west of somewhere in the middle of nowhere, the land of Shakes. Kyoceria 6135, Treo 300, 600, 650, 700p, 700w, Centro & 800W + 3 other WM phones...