Mobile

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Up until recently, I’ve not owned a cell phone that allowed me to have funky ring tones. When we purchased a smart phone last year, I didn’t bother to change it until I got into one of my music grooves. Now I own a Windows Mobile 6 phone so I’m not entirely sure if this process will work for everyone. But here’s what I did. It is so simple you’d be surprised.

For one, I found out that any MP3 can be used as a ring tone on my phone that made it super easy. I expect most phones will accept plain old MP3’s for ring tones too but don’t quote me on that. There are too many phones and models out there.

So what I did was simply find some music that I like. Using Audacity – a free audio editor, I selected the chorus of the song and ‘clipped’ it. Then I saved the clip. Now, I have a short clip of the chorus.

Next, I transferred this new MP3 clip onto my phone into the MyRingtones folder.

Then, I went to Settings >> Sounds & Notifications >> selected Phone: Ring and simply selected the clip I uploaded.

I also took it a step further and made another ring tone for specific people. Another song was chosen and the steps above followed. On the phone, I went to Contacts, looked up the person whom I want to apply this ring tone to. Clicked on their name. Then clicked Edit. Scroll down to the Ring tone field. A popup comes up so I can select the tone I want. Done!

For the last 9 weeks, I’ve been learning to apply routines in my life. One of the things that are absolutely necessary is a timer. I didn’t want to buy a timer when I was sure there would be a decent application for my phone. After all, I have the phone with me pretty much all day. Why spend extra money?

I was quickly dissapointed when I found out how few alarm and timers work well on my Windows Mobile phone. Many work but if the phone is turned off, they aren’t able to wake up the phone to trigger the alarm.

Finally I tried Spoon Alarm which did what I wanted and best of all the buttons are large enough that I don’t have to use the stylus. Only one alarm and one timer setting though but that is suffucient for my needs.