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DIY: MP3 Ringtones on LG LX550(FUSIC) w/ BitPim
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LG really could have made this easier, but you can still use just about
whatever you want as a ringtone on your LG FUSIC phone. This took about
an hour of fiddling to figure out how to make it work, but fortunately
for you I found this guide so you can be using your very own mp3 as
a ringtone in just a few minutes. Here's how it works:
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Get the USB driver from Sprint. What you want is the "Sprint
PCS Connection Manager for Phone as Modem/USB Cables." The only
part you need to check to install are the LG Drivers.
From CD: - Win 2k &
XP
From Sprint website - http://www4.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/support/downloads/index.jsp
- Get
BitPim from Http://www.bitpim.org/#download.
It doesn't fully support this phone yet but that's ok (I hope it will
soon though so we can all edit the calendar, contacts and other stuff).
Install and run. Bitpim will tell you the phone can't be recognized.
That's ok, since we don't need the ability of bitpim to edit calendars
or the contacts list (I hope they add support for it soon though!).
We can still modify files on the phone -- just go up to the menu at
top and select View -> View Filesystem.
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Now grab your phone and open the Music Composer under Tools. Choose
Compose Melody, and pick a mode. It doesn't much matter since we're
replacing this file anyway, but I've found that Keyboard Mode is quick.
Throw in something short (1 note will do) and choose Save. Pick name
for the song you'll replace this with, and get creative because you
only get 21 characters. You can make a batch of these to replace if
you would like.
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Back to BitPim, connect your phone to your computer using the USB
cable that came with it. In BitPim's Filesystem view, find the MelodyComposer
folder under the root directory. You'll see a .pmc file and a .mid
file for each melody you compose. Select the .mid and right click.
Choose Overwrite, select the mp3 of your choice. I suggest you make
it a 64kbps mono file for space considerations, but I've had success
with other files. Large files also take a very long time to load over
this connection.
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Set your ring tone under settings. The files you loaded will appear
under My Melodies using the filenames you gave them.
Yes, it really is this easy! Experiment with using your
own mp3, aac, qcp, midi and other files.
Hi everybody,
Since there is still a bit of confusion, I'll try my best to clear
things up:
Q: Does this method of getting mp3 ringtones cost me anything?
A: No, it won't cost you anything. By transferring an mp3 directly from
your computer to the phone you don't use the PCS Vision data service
to do any downloading from the internet, Sprint, etc so there is no
charge. All you do is overwrite a file that can be set as a ringtone.
Q: What if my volume is too high/low even after adjusting ring volume?
A: You can use a free program called Audacity
to edit your mp3 file, which is very useful for making ringtones out
of sound clips. I suggest you cut out whatever segment of the song you
want to use as your ringtone, and then use effect->normalize to fix
the volume down to a typical level. Using audacity is a little out of
the scope of this forum but their site has some good tutorials to get
you started.
Q: What's this about 64kbps? Or mono?
A: The phone will probably play anything that works with the music player,
but mp3 files take up a lot of space. To save space, we can cut the
sound file to 30sec or less (voicemail picks up after 15sec by default
anyway). Another way is to re-encode the sound file at a lower bit rate
(lower kbps number). Bitrate determines quality, but since we're playing
it out of a single tiny crappy speaker, some quality loss in the file
won't be noticeable at all. You can also mix the left and right stereo
channel since you're only playing out of one speaker anyway -- that
halves the space requirement of whatever is left.
You can actually play your mp3 files in your FUSIC phone.
This is what worked for me.
When you insert the mini sd card in your fusic phone, it will create
some folders.
The folder "dcim" is used to store the pictures and videos
that you take with the Fusic phone.
The folder "music" is used to store any downloaded ringtone
from Sprint or other vendors. the kind of files that are stored here
have the extention "koz"
And the folder "media". I don't know what the Fusic phone
automatically stores here. But anyway this is the folder where you have
to place your mp3 files in order for the 2 players in the fusic to recognice
them.
This is the procedure:
1.- You have to insert the SD mini card in the Fusic for the folders
to be created.
2.- Onces the folder have being created, remove the SD mi card from
the Fusic and insert it in the adapter that comes with it.
3.- Insert the apapter (with the SD mini card in it) in your computer
( you may need a 5 media reader driver.)
When you insert the SD mini card adapter in your computer, it will
be recognized as a removal drive (usually drive "E") Well
it may be diffrente depending on your computer but lets say that it
will be the following letter to the last one you have.
4.- Copy any mp3 file you want into the folder "media"
(I know it is odd, you may thing it should be in the music folder, but
it is not).
5.- Remove the SD mini card adapter from the computer.
6.- Remove the SD mini card from te SD mini card adapter and insert
it in the Fusic phone and "bua la", you will be able to play
your mp3 files in your Fusic phone.
To do this using the front player, press and hold the play key (you
will get: "key guard off" message)
Press and hold again the play key until you get some icons, the one
on the left is for the folder "music" were you will be able
to play any downloaded ringtones with extention "koz" and
the one on the right is for the SD mini card "media" folder
were you placed your mp3 files.
Select he one on the righ with the right key, and finally select the
mp3 to be play.
Enjoy it
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