LG Chocolate / V-Cast / Music help

hoodie13

I recently bought an LG Chocolate phone for renewing my Verizon contract. It's a great phone, really sexy interface and feel to it, though the smaller buttons are kinda throwing me for a loop sometimes when typing. But that's not what this thread is about.

I was able to, via the cord and software that I bought, put some music from my PC onto the 512 Mb card. I can play the music fine and all. That's great. I cannot, however, set the music I've put on the card OR phone (via moving the actual file with the phone's built-in software) as any kind of ringtone.

I'm hoping that I'm not just up Chocolate creek without a paddle, and that I can actually do this. But I haven't seen anything in the instruction booklet, all my poking around does nothing... I'm a little frustrated.

Help?

redstormpopcorn

Welcome to Verizon's horribly gimped phone interfaces.

What works for me is sending the song (or segment thereof) to myself as a text message or with mobile17, then setting it as a ringtone once it's saved on the phone itself.

Mugenmidget

Apparently the more direct approach is to use e-mail and attach an MP3 (under 300KB is what I usually hear) to this address:

yourtendigitphonenumber@vzwpix.com

Obviously replacing "yourtendigitphonenumber" with your ten digit phone number.

This didn't work at first for my sister's phone, but after contacting Verizon it functioned just fine.

hoodie13

To be honest, I tried like mad to just say to my parents "Yeah, I'm 22... I think I should start paying for my own cell phone contract, and I'd like to go with Cingular instead."

But they insisted...

This mobile17 thing is pretty nifty. I'm gonna play around with it for awhile.

Anyone else have anything to suggest?

edit: Thankee sai, Mugenmidget.

Kyougu

Man, that really sucks about having to go through that trouble to set up ring tones. I wonder if it's because they want you to purchase them from them?

I just got the Nokia 5300 from T-Mobile, and I love it. I can set any mp3 song to any ring tone, message tone, or even alarm, without any hassles. Not sure if they offer it through verizon though.

LondonBridge

Go to howardforums.com for help. It's the best forum on cell phones!

Apothe0sis

I have an LG chocolate, though it is not on Verizon, what with my being in Australia and all.

In any case, to be able to use songs you put on as ring tones you need to move them from the simple "Others" directory under "My Stuff" to either Sounds or Music, I can't recall which.