Ringtone changing on pebls?

Question

Does anyone know how to buy a ringtone on motorola pebls? I just got one and I want a cool ringtone. Thanks!

Answer 1

Why buy? Your Peble can use MP3 files just like the music files on your computer, only reduced in size. Make your own ringtones from your own MP3 music files on your computer, connect your phone to your computer and then copy the ringtones to the /a/mobile/audio folder of the phone. The drive letter may be different if you have a flash disk.

Here is one way to make ringtones using iTunes (free download for Windows or Mac):

Note-- These menu choices are based on my Mac version. If you have the Windows version it may vary slightly. With iTunes open, go to the iTunes menu > Preferences > Advanced > Importing. There you see a drop list for Settings. Choose Custom... Now change the rate to whatever you like. 96 is good for even the best of phones. Don't mess with the equilizer options or you may destroy the phone speaker. Choose mono to cut the file size in half without affecting quality. For 30 second ringtones, the files will range in size from 150-210k. Use this setting for making a bunch of ringtones because when you are totally done, you want to set iTunes back to your high-rate setting. Otherwise all future song imports will be mobile phone quality.

To extract a segment of a song in iTunes, click once to select the song in the library list. Then File > Get Info. In the Options tab, choose the start time / stop time. You can choose to the 1/100th of a second if you are of a mind, but, hey, it's only a ringtone, not a Superbowl ad soundtrack. You will do it custom for each song. I suggest 10-30 seconds. It should loop at the end anyway. Back in the library list, with the original song selected, go to Advanced menu > Convert selection to MP3. After a few seconds, you will have your ringtone with new name of "Light_My_Fire.mp3" or whatever. If you have two song files withe the same name, the one that is smaller will be the ringtone. Play it to see if you are satisfied with the edit. Trash it if you are not and then tweak the segment start/stop time again.

If your computer has BlueTooth, you can easily connect it to your phone and copy ringtones to the /a/mobile/audio folder of the phone. If your computer does not have BlueTooth and you don't want to spend 50 bucks on a BlueTooth adapter, you can connect your computer to phone via USB 2.0 to make a connecting network and then you copy ringtones (MP3 files) from your computer to the /a/mobile/audio/ directory on your phone. There are several different programs available to connect your phone to a Windows computer, such as P2K Tools (free), P2K Commander (free) or Motorola Phone Toolls (NOT free). To use any of these programs in Windows, you must also install driver software for the phone. See the link below.

For Mac OS X: Get Moto4lin ported to Mac from:
http://phlo.im-all.net/moto4lin-cvs/
The play-by-play guide is provided at:
http://www.themotoguide.com/index.p...PGID=DxzmOgpfuK
You will need to use Terminal program(already in your Mac system) as a command line input to find the phone's USB ID and paste it into the window of Moto4lin since the application has not been developed to detect it automatically. You'll follow the play-by-play guide for this. Sometimes it fails to connect. Try again or power phone off-on and try again. No drivers are needed for Mac; it's able to use any USB hardware without any drivers.

With Windows or Mac, after you have successfully transferred the ringtones, delete the two database files from the /a/mobile/audio folder of the phone: MyToneDB.db and TempToneDB.db to give the phone a chance to make new database files that refer to the new ringtones. Choose to disconnect and then power off-on the phone.

Now you need to tell the phone to apply the new files as ringtones. Here is how I do it with my Moto V3, the Peble will be similar, I'm sure. In the phone MyStuff area, find Sounds. Select a song, push the middle softkey to see the menu of things you can do. Choose Apply As Ringtone, right softkey, choose the line (Line 1 if you have only one line), right softkey. In the Addressbook, choose an entry, right softkey, right softkey again, select Ringer ID, change.