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Cell Phone Ringtones

17 years ago

I just got a new cellphone. It came with about 20 ringtones already installed but they just didn't do it for me, know what I'm saying? Digging into the instruction book (bigger than the phone itself, I might add) it tells how to download any WAV file and assign it as a ringtone or alert tone. You can ever assign a different one to certain people so you know who's calling in advance.

Kids calling - "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr, Howard" from the 3 Stooges

Wife calling - Imperial march from Star Wars, aka Darth Vader music (it's a joke, OK?)

Regular ring for everybody else - old time standard phone ring we all grew up with

Text message alert - communicator chirp from Star Trek TOS

Voice mail message alert - intercom sound from Star Trek TOS

Anybody else? Or do I just have too much time on my hands?

Comments (16)

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I think you have too much time on your hands :-0
    Having said that, I wish my phone had better choices. It's soon time to renew the contract, & I sure hope the next phone has improved ones. My last phone I had Winter Wonderland as my ring tone. Never!! had to wonder if it was *my* phone or not :-0

    My sis has a different ring for each of her kids, & I think, her husb. Don't know if the kids do or not. And my oldest & his wife have special tones for the mothers.

    Have fun with your selections!

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Some of the ringers really iritate me. So I have a regular ring on mine except for when my youngst son calls. He recorded himself saying "Answer the phone Mom". And set it as his ring tone. I have to smile everytime he calls and I hear his voice.

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  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Nope. .you don't have too much time on your hands. .here's all of my ringtones
    General ring "R E S P E C T" by Aretha Franklin
    Hubby "You send me" by Aretha Franklin
    Daughter "When the sun goes down" by Kenny Chesney
    Granddaughter "Shouda said no" by Taylor Swift
    Son "Me and my Gang" by Rascal Flatts
    Son In Law "The Fireman" by George Strait
    Voice Mail "Mr Postman" sung by the Carpenter's

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I had a really cool "ding dong the witch is dead" tone on my old phone.

    Found a ding dong one on the AT&T site, but it is just not the same...

    I would love to take something off my puter... but don't know how.

    Got plenty of .wav files to choose from.

    Moni

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I'd like something more fun on my phone, but not sure how to do it. Do they cost to download?
    Leslie

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    When I first got a new cell phone in 2001, I often wouldn't realize it was mine that was ringing. One of my daughter's recorded a message that it played instead of a ringtone. It was "MOMMY, answer your phone!"

    I actually miss it now that I have a new phone. It may have been embarrassing, but it worked!

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    How difficult is it to put a ringtone on your phone? Do you need computer software? Getting too old to understand all this technical stuff but have a tone I'd dearly love to have on my phone. Thanks, girls....

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I've "emailed" several ringtones to my cell phone.

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    DD: Drunken Pirate (pirates are our thing)
    DS: Mission Impossible (son is very much an action figure in his own right)
    BF: Green Acres (we both know all the lyrics,but can't remember what we ate for lunch LOL)

    I change my others quite often. There are plenty of free sites to download from but my phone has a record option and then I can save it to "ringtones".

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    so, does anyone have a link to find FREE ringtones?

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Koda - you could Google "free ringtones" and I'm sure you'd come up with a bunch of sites.

    My phone is a Nokia 6126. It came with a bunch of ringtones, one of which is called "Jazzy Piano" -- and I like it, so that's my default ringtone.

    This phone can hold one of the MicroSD cards (and, of course, I have one). I can take the card out and put it in my card reader attached to my computer, and transfer ringtones (and photos, etc.) onto it just as if I were moving or copying files from one folder to another on the 'puter. Ringtones can also be sent to the phone via SMS messages, then saved to either the phone itself or to the MicroSD card. I can go onto the Web with the phone and get ringtones, too.

    I can, and have, created calling groups. One is called "Brothers" and my hubs' four brothers and their wives are in that group. The ringtone assigned to the group is Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. I do not have a graphic assigned to that group -- yet.

    Another group is named "Heart" and the graphic is, of course, red hearts. The phone numbers assigned to this group are our two landlines at home, hubs' cell phone, and hubs' work phone. The ringtone is Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore sung by Il Divo.

    Ringtone for my older sister is Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Graphic is the Eiffel Tower ('cuz she speaks fluent French and loves Paris).

    Ringtone for my younger sister is Over the Rainbow sung by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. She's in LaLa land half the time...

    Ringtone for niece Elizabeth is Surfer Girl by the Beach Boys. She's more of a snowboarder than a wave surfer, but she surfs, too. :-)

    Ringtone for niece Maggie is Maggie May by Rod Stewart because (duh) her name is Maggie.

    Ringtone for nephew Daniel is Danny Boy sung by Elvis Presley because his name is (duh, again) Daniel.

    Ringtone for our friend Javier - Truckin' by the Grateful Dead, because he's a Deadhead and drives a truck.

    Ringtone for our friend Johnny - Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash because it's his favorite song. Graphic is a photo of Johnny.

    Ringtone for our friend Ken - Java by Al Hirt, because Ken is a professional trumpet player.

    Ringtone for my boss - La Copa De La Vida sung by Ricky Martin - just cuz I like the song and I like my boss.

    Ringtone for our friend Mike - Soul Man sung by the Blues Brothers, because Mike portrayed Jake Blues in Legends in Concert for many, many years.

    Other ringtones that I've put on the phone (that are yet to be assigned to specific people) include:

    Baba O'Riley by The Who (theme song for CSI New York)

    Desperado by the Eagles

    Dirty World by the Traveling Wilburys

    End of the Line by the Traveling Wilburys

    Handle with Care by the Traveling Wilburys

    Hotel California by the Eagles

    I Believe in You (Je Crois en Toi) by Il Divo with Celine Dion

    The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens

    My Music by Loggins and Messina

    Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani

    Tubthumping by Chumbawamba ("I get knocked down, but I get up again....")

    Tweeter and the Monkey Man by the Traveling Wilburys

    Unwell by Matchbox Twenty

    Who Are You by The Who (theme song for CSI)

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    myxertones.com has a lot of free ring tones. You just have to register but at no cost. When my mother calls my phone says( Hey shut up,it's your mom calling, hey answer the phone it's mom. When DD calls it says, duh your phone's ringing, answer your phone. When son in-law calls it's a rooster crowing ( well you know the reason for this one)grandson's is the mightymouse theme song, an old friend is the oldies rockinrobin. and if someone calls me from our home phone it's an alarm. DH says i have way to much time on my hand to go through and find each of those. Maybe so but if i'm standing in a store and one goes off i have people asking where i got it.

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I hate the ones that came with my phone. I don't have internet on my phone, so apparently, can't put others on it.
    Somehow, my DD friend got House on Pooh Corner - Kenny Loggins put on it. It's a favorite of my GDs and Loggins and Messina were one of my favorites.

    Wish I could get a couple others put on.

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    well, I give. I tried several sites, but all want to send me a text message. I don't text message, and thus, don't have texting on my plan.

    I will just have to record my own sounds.

    Moni

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Moni -- you may not have a texting plan that allows you a certain number of text messages each month for a set fee, but you do have the ability to receive a text message. AT&T, for example, charges 10 cents per incoming or outgoing message. You can sign up for a 200-messages-per-month plan for a $5 monthly fee (and for a higher monthly fee you can get unlimited messaging).

    But unless you have had your carrier specifically block the ability to receive text messages, you CAN receive (and send) them.

    Most of the ringtones are in mp3 format, and are small in size (because they're usually only 30 seconds or so in length).

    I would be more than happy to e-mail to you any of the ringtones that I have. You can then save it to your computer, then double click on it to open Windows Media Player, and record it by holding your phone in front of your speakers while it's playing... ;-)

  • 17 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Lindsey, I have tried the recording from the computer, but find it isn't a very good quality.

    But I have recorded stuff off a music CD running on the stereo, and that sound is a WHOLE lot better.

    Got some really nice classical music right now as my ringtone. Still looking for "it", LOL, but if I can't find "it" I can live with what I have.

    Moni

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