Old BT 746 Ringer wav

[Guest pisquee]

Borrowed by sister's retro BT phone today, and got mic and stuff out and recorded the lovely ringer sound ... attatched is the wav for use as a ringtone ... it sure cuts through nice and loud on my e200.

Audio is uncompressed mono 44.1kHz/16 bit ... so good quality for you to do what you want with.

To save memory, there is only one ring recordrd here, so you need to hack your profiles to remove the wait times, then it will loop nicely.

(for any audio people out there, used a Behringer ECM8000 mic, a Edirol UA-5 USB pre-amp and Cool Edit)

Old Telephone.jpg

Ringer.zip

[Guest Gavin]

Excellent, thanks a lot.

I've been looking for a ring like this for a while now, it's hard to find a good quality recording like this.

[Guest pisquee]

I am a sound engineer ... so naturally the quality is good! :-)

[Guest kobukan]

Fantastic sound. I'm a newbie to the SPV. Can you tell me how to "hack" my profile to reduce the pauses?

Thanks

[Guest pisquee]

This applies to E200 - not sure of difference with other Voyager models, original SPV, or other Smartphone devices.

Connect your phone to your computer via active sync.

Go to Explore your phone

Storage>Application Data>Profiles

In here you will find the xml files for your profiles.

What you need to do is copy them to your PC to edit them.

Open them up and you want to remove "w3" from the line

a = audio (guess)

v0 = vibrate

w3 = wait 3 seconds

r = repeat (guess)

You could also get a registry editor, and edit Current User>Control Panel>Sounds>Ringtone0 and there is a script in there with the "av0pw3r" string in it to edit ... though i think that this gets reset if you change ringtone, or maybe even everytime you change profile.

Hope this helps.

[Guest SystemicAnomaly]

I love it!

Retro ringtones are definately the way forward! I've just found this for my alarm (takes a lot to wake me!):

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Porta...6986/speccy.wav

The infamous spectrum loading sound. Enjoy

[Guest pisquee]

For an alarm clock (following the same theme) you'd really need a recording of one of those old fashioned alarm clock with the two big bells on the top ... alas i do not have one or know anyone with one that i can borrow to record.

[Guest MPXtricky]

Borrowed by sister's retro BT phone today, and got mic and stuff out and recorded the lovely ringer sound ... attatched is the wav for use as a ringtone ... it sure cuts through nice and loud on my e200.

Audio is uncompressed mono 44.1kHz/16 bit ... so good quality for you to do what you want with.

To save memory, there is only one ring recordrd here, so you need to hack your profiles to remove the wait times, then it will loop nicely.

(for any audio people out there, used a Behringer ECM8000 mic, a Edirol UA-5 USB pre-amp and Cool Edit)

Top ring tone - gonna turn some heads at work tomorrow matey :D

[Guest pisquee]

Yup, people looking round to see where the old fashioned phone is at! :-)

was part of my thinking on doing it!

[Guest MPXtricky]

Yup, people looking round to see where the old fashioned phone is at!   :-)

was part of my thinking on doing it!

how fecking loud is that ringtone? bloody hell - I was *that* close to being escorted off-site by a retired gent from Group-4 security!

[Guest pisquee]

Is normalised to 0dB.

It also takes advantage of the frequency response of the speaker - it is not puching a load of bass, and so the speaker is more efficient, and it is mainly high mid and treble which is easy for it to reproduce.

I too was impressed by the loudness though, is great to have a ringtone that you can hear clearly.

[Guest kobukan]

I have followed your instructions for removing the w3 in the registry but it seems to keep re-setting itself. I haven't changed anything other than this entry. Any ideas?

[Guest pisquee]

Change it in the profiles xml intead of the registry

[Guest kobukan]

I have tried. For some reason I can't copy the file from my SPV onto my PC. Error message says, file maybe read only, not have permissions etc. Sorry I'm a newbie to the SPV.

[Guest sparkisgti]

top ringtone, cheers :)

[Guest dkleeman]

I have tried. For some reason I can't copy the file from my SPV onto my PC. Error message says, file maybe read only, not have permissions etc. Sorry I'm a newbie to the SPV.

I can't copy the file either. I tried putting the phone into another profile first, but it didn't help. Anyone know how to fix this?

Dan

[Guest arman68]

I forgot to backup my phone, and after upgrading it, I missed this ringtone. Took me a while to find this thread again.

Since this is quite an old thread, for people who have tried this ringtone, do it now: this is the best.

[Guest pisquee]

Agreed, now using it on my SPV M500

[Guest badhusin]

I have converted the ringer tone into wma file. much smaller, thus wont burden the phone's storage too much..

Ringer2.zip

[Guest pisquee]

I have converted the ringer tone into wma file. much smaller, thus wont burden the phone's storage too much..

Ringer2.zip

Think when i did this recording that either the SPV didn't support wma ringtones, and definately the Cool Edit didn't. Think, also being a purist, I wanted to keep an uncompressed filetype.

Am now am SPV M3100 and Adobe Audition, and have much better collection of mics at my disposal. So my tech has moved on, but am still using this ringtone, as are family on their SPVs.