Wednesday, November 21, 2007


One of the first things I wanted to do with my new phone was change the default ringtone. So, I went right to the media mall in the browser, and clicked ringtones. I went through and finally picked one. I clicked it, downloaded it, agreed to pay for it, and then clicked the save button.

I then went to play the mp3 file I downloaded (the theme song to the Indiana Jones movies). The file opened right away in Windows Media player, and it played just fine. I clicked the options, and saw no way to set it as a ring tone.

I then went to Settings, and then Sounds and Notifications. I choose the Incoming Call option, clicked ringtones and was presented with a drop down menu of choices. My Indiana Jones MP3 was not listed.

I looked in the help menu that came with the book, and it told me that I needed to copy the MP3 file from My Music to My Documents in order for the song to appear in the choices for ringtones.

Perhaps I should have looked up how to copy and paste files at this point, but I plugged the phone into my laptop, thinking it would be easier to look at it through my laptops File Explorer and copy the file this way. It was not easier! My computer wanted the CD that came with the phone, which was in my car. So, I took the phone away from the computer and went back to the help book.

It turns out, you have to go to Programs, File Explorer, locate the file, click the options menu, and click copy. You then have to navigate to the My Documents folder and click options and click paste. Then, close all that, go back to the Settings, Sounds and Notifications, Ringtones and magically, the Indiana Jones MP3 I downloaded from the Ringtones area on the website was available as an option now.

A little more complicated than I thought!