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Teris · 10-27-2006, 06:21 PM

I have emailed a file from my PC to my hotmail, gmail and yahoo accounts. It's a WAV file that I want to save as a ringtone. But when I open the email on my Palm doesn't give me the option of downloading the attachment!! Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I'm not particularly computer/palm savvy, but this seems like a simple issue. Please help. Thanks.

kdallen · 10-27-2006, 06:35 PM

Which email app are you using?

Teris · 10-27-2006, 06:39 PM

I've just gone to yahoo, hotmail and gmail on the web from my phone to download the WAV file. Is that not do-able? If not, do you know why? This Treo seems like more trouble than it's worth. Thanks for the quick response.

kdallen · 10-27-2006, 07:05 PM

I don't think it's possible to download using Blazer to view email. You'll need to use an app like VersaMail (comes with the Treo), or a 3rd-party app like Chatter, Snapper, Agendus, etc.

Teris · 10-27-2006, 09:07 PM

Okay, I got the files to my Treo using Versamail (what a pain!). Now I can open them, but they play in something called "Wave Player" and there is no option to make them a ringtone. Any ideas?

ChefLionfoot · 10-27-2006, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Teris

Okay, I got the files to my Treo using Versamail (what a pain!). Now I can open them, but they play in something called "Wave Player" and there is no option to make them a ringtone. Any ideas?

You need an application such as Minitones (free) which will convert it to a ringtone. Next time, try using the Palm quick install to drag and drop the file onto your SD card.

Stillrockin · 10-28-2006, 08:01 AM

Speaking of which, here is minitones in a zip format. I will see what we can do about getting this in the downloads section also

pool_shark · 10-28-2006, 09:01 AM

So you're about to smash a $600 device because you don't fully know how to use it?
Sounds like someone needs anger management.

Teris · 10-28-2006, 12:29 PM

This "$600 device" is very frustrating. Look at what it takes to get a ringtone on the phone compared to any other phone on the market. My post was tongue-in-cheek and if you can't see that, then you're the one in need of therapy.

Thanks to all for your help. I was finally able to get the ringtone to the phone and use it. Here are the steps I took for anyone else having the same problems (I have edited some other great intructions I found on this site). Again, to everyone that helped - thanks very much.

1. Download a freeware program called Audacity to your PC. Open Audacity on your computer.
2. Open up whatever full mp3 song you want to convert.
3. Hit stop. You can't edit a song while it's playing.
4. Figure out which 20-30 second part of the song you want to use as a ringtone. Highlight that part by click dragging in the display window. It will highlight that portion. Once it's highlighted, go to Edit, the hit Trim. You'll just have the portion of the song in the display window.
5. Go to Edit, then Preferences, then Quality. Change the sample rate to something low (like 11025Hz).
6. Go to File Format, then Uncompressed Export Format. Choose "WAV Microsoft 4-bit" (the top one, not the 2d one below), and hit OK. The small window will close.
7. Go to File, Export Selection as WAV. The popup window will give you name choice (make sure there are no periods in the name) and the type should be WAV. Save it to desktop.
8. Email the file to yourself (you must use gmail or another service supported by the phone.).
9. Open your email on the Treo (Key here is that you’ve already loaded your versa mail which comes with the treo – this app will locate your web-based email and download the emails to your phone, which allows your phone to load the attachments). Click on the file (or, more precisely, the little file folder next to the file) and it will “convert” it. Click on the little folder next to the song and click on “select viewer.” Set the choices to WAV and sounds. Then click on viewer to send it to sounds.
10. Open sounds and set it as a ringtone.

kdallen · 10-28-2006, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teris

1. Download a freeware program called Audacity to your PC. Open Audacity on your computer.
2. Open up whatever full mp3 song you want to convert.
3. Hit stop. You can't edit a song while it's playing.
4. Figure out which 20-30 second part of the song you want to use as a ringtone. Highlight that part by click dragging in the display window. It will highlight that portion. Once it's highlighted, go to Edit, the hit Trim. You'll just have the portion of the song in the display window.
5. Go to Edit, then Preferences, then Quality. Change the sample rate to something low (like 11025Hz).
6. Go to File Format, then Uncompressed Export Format. Choose "WAV Microsoft 4-bit" (the top one, not the 2d one below), and hit OK. The small window will close.
7. Go to File, Export Selection as WAV. The popup window will give you name choice (make sure there are no periods in the name) and the type should be WAV. Save it to desktop.
8. Email the file to yourself (you must use gmail or another service supported by the phone.).
9. Open your email on the Treo (Key here is that you’ve already loaded your versa mail which comes with the treo – this app will locate your web-based email and download the emails to your phone, which allows your phone to load the attachments). Click on the file (or, more precisely, the little file folder next to the file) and it will “convert” it. Click on the little folder next to the song and click on “select viewer.” Set the choices to WAV and sounds. Then click on viewer to send it to sounds.
10. Open sounds and set it as a ringtone.

Great post! Glad you got it working.