Single-contact ringtones

I successfully synched my Treo 700W with Windows Media Player on my
computer and transferred a music file. The file plays perfectly well on
the Treo in WMP.

I imported this file into the ringtone collection and assigned it to one
of my contacts. But when the contact called, the phone responded with
the default ringtone. Is the problem (a) that there are restrictions on
what kind of files can be used as ringtones (though if so, why would it
then let me import the file into the ringtone list?), (b) that there's
something else that needs to be done to activate contact-specific
ringtones, or (c) something else?

Is your music being synced to a storage card or to onboard memory? If it is
synced to a storage card, the card itself has to initialize when coming out
of sleep mode, and probably didn't have time to do that before it started
ringing, therefore it used the default ringtone instead. Try instead
turning an mp3 into a short 20 second clip and place this directly in your
rings folder, then it should be selectable in "sounds and notifications" or
within the contact info for ringtones.

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Edgar
"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:55ssghF263lsuU1@mid.individual.net...
>I successfully synched my Treo 700W with Windows Media Player on my
>computer and transferred a music file. The file plays perfectly well on the
>Treo in WMP.
>
> I imported this file into the ringtone collection and assigned it to one
> of my contacts. But when the contact called, the phone responded with the
> default ringtone. Is the problem (a) that there are restrictions on what
> kind of files can be used as ringtones (though if so, why would it then
> let me import the file into the ringtone list?), (b) that there's
> something else that needs to be done to activate contact-specific
> ringtones, or (c) something else?



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Thanks for the tips. Yeah, it's a 5Mb file on the memory card. I'll cut
it down and put it in main memory.

Edgar wrote:
> Is your music being synced to a storage card or to onboard memory? If it is
> synced to a storage card, the card itself has to initialize when coming out
> of sleep mode, and probably didn't have time to do that before it started
> ringing, therefore it used the default ringtone instead. Try instead
> turning an mp3 into a short 20 second clip and place this directly in your
> rings folder, then it should be selectable in "sounds and notifications" or
> within the contact info for ringtones.
>