help with smt 5600!

[Guest dantheman1]

Ok, i have two questions for all of you phone guru's

1. how can i tunnel my phone to use internet through my computer through active sync

2. Recently, my phone will not play my mp3 ringtones that are saved in the sounds folder (where the factory ringtones came). If i save the same mp3 file in a any other folder, it plays perfectly. the phone will not recognice the mp3 format in the sounds folder, any yet, it seemed to work yesterday.

[Guest dantheman1]

anyone???

[Guest KenR7A]

Ok, i have two questions for all of you phone guru's

1. how can i tunnel my phone to use internet through my computer through active sync

2. Recently, my phone will not play my mp3 ringtones that are saved in the sounds folder (where the factory ringtones came). If i save the same mp3 file in a any other folder, it plays perfectly. the phone will not recognice the mp3 format in the sounds folder, any yet, it seemed to work yesterday.

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1) I would like to know this too..... (Is it possible?!)

2) I dont think youc an use mp3s as ringtones. Straight from the SMT5600 manual:

1. Go to where your sound file is stored on your desktop

computer and copy the file. The WAV, MIDI, and WMA

filetypes can be used.

2. In ActiveSync on your desktop computer, click Explore,

go to \Storage\Application Data\Sounds, then paste the

sound file into the Sounds folder.

3. In the Home screen of your Smartphone, select Settings

> Sounds from the Start menu.

4. Select the desired category (such as Ringtone, Reminders,

New E-mail, etc.), specify a sound, then press the Left

Softkey ("Done").

[Guest dantheman1]

well...alrighty then. Whats strange though is that my mp3 ringer did work a couple of days ago. Guess ill have to convert it then. Thanks for the reply

[Guest KenR7A]

well...alrighty then. Whats strange though is that my mp3 ringer did work a couple of days ago. Guess ill have to convert it then. Thanks for the reply

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:)

I dont know, I could be wrong....but hey, it is the manual. :D

[Guest KenR7A]

Ok, I was just browsing the internet through Active sync. In the active sync options, I set the passthrough internet to "Work". Then, on the phone I went to Start>>Settings>>Data Connection and went to Work and set it to Passthrough. (This option seems to only be available when the phone is hooked up.

Then I opened Internet explorer. I went to its options, and then Connections. I selected "Work" as the network. Then I went online!

The stupid "G" never appeared on the Signal Bars so I know that it was not GPRS.

good luck!

[Guest dantheman1]

thanks, worked like a charm

[Guest KenR7A]

thanks, worked like a charm

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awesome! 8)

[Guest mjsmith75]

1)  I would like to know this too..... (Is it possible?!)

2) I dont think youc an use mp3s as ringtones.  Straight from the SMT5600 manual:

1. Go to where your sound file is stored on your desktop

computer and copy the file. The WAV, MIDI, and WMA

filetypes can be used.

2. In ActiveSync on your desktop computer, click Explore,

go to \Storage\Application Data\Sounds, then paste the

sound file into the Sounds folder.

3. In the Home screen of your Smartphone, select Settings

> Sounds from the Start menu.

4. Select the desired category (such as Ringtone, Reminders,

New E-mail, etc.), specify a sound, then press the Left

Softkey ("Done").

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You can use MP3's as ringtones on this phone.... you have to save the .mp3 file in your ...\Storage\Application Data\Sounds folder.... then it will be there to select from the in settings\sounds where you select your ringtone! Hope that helps.

[Guest snathanb]

Ok, I was just browsing the internet through Active sync.  In the active sync options, I set the passthrough internet to "Work".  Then, on the phone I went to Start>>Settings>>Data Connection and went to Work and set it to Passthrough.  (This option seems to only be available when the phone is hooked up.

Then I opened Internet explorer.  I went to its options, and then Connections.  I selected "Work" as the network.  Then I went online!

The stupid "G" never appeared on the Signal Bars so I know that it was not GPRS.

good luck!

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Wow, that worked great! Another way to check to make sure you are not going out over GPRS is just to drop into flight mode!

[Guest KenR7A]

You can use MP3's as ringtones on this phone.... you have to save the .mp3 file in your ...\Storage\Application Data\Sounds  folder.... then it will be there to select from the in settings\sounds where you select your ringtone!  Hope that helps.

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Really? I tried that and it just kept on saying "Invalid File type" or something like that. Is there a type of encoding that I need? CBR 128KBPS, VBR?