Cant change ringtone on C500

[Guest gingerninja]

Last night my C500 changed its ringtone to 'ding-0809' when I go into menu settings/sounds I can change the tone but when I press done it flashes blue but doesn't apply the change. I have to press home to get out of the settings screen and the ringtone remains unchanged. Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

[Guest Disco Stu]

That sounds rather like the old partial reset and something is corrupted.

It is usually caused by low memory / battery but I've not heard of it happening on the C500.

I'm afraid you're lookng at a full hard reset or ROM flashing unless someone knows a better solution. :)

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Just try a reboot first

then a hard reset second

I would be reluctant to suggest flashing the

ROM at this stage though.

[Guest gingerninja]

Tried reboot already with no joy :cry: Looks like a hard reset then. Can anyone recommend back up software? as I don't fancy re-installing everything manually. Cheers for the quick replys :)

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

The problem with backing up in this situation, is that you may have

inadvertently caused the problem by installing a dodgy homescreen

or application that may have made alterations in the registry.

So using a backup may just recreate the problem.

As for applications there is Sprite backup which should be available from www.handango.com

[Guest gingerninja]

Thanks awarner I see what you mean about recreating the fault with backup software. Will do it manually just a bit of a pain though.

[Guest benjymous]

Arrgh - looks like I've got the same problem - I tried changing one of the sounds today only to find that Done button has no effect whatsoever (I don't get any kind of flash)

This is on a C500 too, btw

I have been registry hacking (I changed the device name, as "SPV_C500" was getting on my nerves, and I tried changing the systemdefault sound to something other than Default.wav) but even after I put the systemdefault sound back to what it was, it still won't let me change the settings.

The problem is I haven't changed any of the sounds for ages, so it might have been broken for a long time and I'm only now noticing it

I'm a bit reluctant to hard reset though :-(

[Guest ga!nusha]

so why are you ignoring my post???

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=199953

????

[Guest benjymous]

Aha, I found what the problem was in my case

- If you have betaplayer installed, and have the "Windows Media Files (ASF, WM, WMV, WMA)" file association ticked, it seems to break the sounds settings page - turn that off again and it'll happily let you save your changes

I guess this is a betaplayer bug.. I'll go report it

[edit]

Reported.. let's see what the betaplayer guys say:

http://corecodec.org/tracker/index.php?fun...p_id=9&atid=117

Edited February 4, 2005 by benjymous

[Guest ga!nusha]

tnx benjymous now i dont have to cold boot weekly :D

[Guest SilentlyScreaming]

THANK YOU sooooo much

My wife has a C500, and this problem was getting a bit silly, as with the phone in her handbag, she hardly ever heard the phone, as it was stuck on the silly DING ringtone.

I changed the setting in Betaplayer, and all is now well.

Most, most grateful....