Ring tones on SD card

[Guest EMGenius]

I have just got an SPV and found that I can turn any of my 3000 odd mp3s into ringtones for it :lol: (there goes my dissertation work then!! :cry: ), the only problem is that I can only seem to install the tones onto the phone and not the card:

This is taking up loads of room on the phone and slowing it down, is there any way that I can put the ringtones (ie, the wav files) onto the sd card rather than the phone :?:

Oh, and while I'm at it, I was going to buy a new SD card but was wondering is there really a difference in the performance with the SD cards and the multimedia cards?

Oh, and another question - (may as well get them all out at once hey :wink: ?!!!); if I get a bigger card and start using the phone as an mp3 player will the battery last longer than 5 mins?

cheers for your help and sorry for the multiple questions!

EMGenius

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(not so much of a genius at the moment!)

[Guest martin]

You can use the regitry editor to allocate filenames to sound value in Control Panel/Sounds.

SD cards (see previous SD/MMC topic)

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=28120

Not sure about the MP3 question although I can imagine battery life is good. The screen is the battery eater.

[Guest EMGenius]

thanks Martin,

Once I get the reg editor what string(s) do i edit, I am not too good with reg editors, have had some dodgy experience with regedit in windows!!

thanks for directing me to the interesting post on SD card, think i will be staying away from MMC's then!!

If the screen is the main battery guzzler do i need to have the screen saver set to turn the screen off; will this make significant difference?

Thanks again

[Guest Vector]

Follow this guide...

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=7695

It's the one under sound tweaks called "Ringtones on SD/MMC Card" :wink:

[Guest Vector]

And to put the screen saver on goto Programs-->settings-->Power Management-->then set the screen saver mode to "turn off"

[Guest EMGenius]

cheers davidrm, can you believe i have looked through that about 3 times and missed it every time!!

I did a seacrh for SD card and ringtone and got nothing aswel, ah well, ne' mind!!

does the screen off thing really make that much difference?

[Guest Vector]

Yep, it made a BIG difference with me :wink:

[Guest yatpeak]

I reckon it's great. I couldn't figure out how to turn the screensaver on at first, because the option that turns it on is labeled turn off :evil: ! But now that I use it, it really saves power.

Wyatt