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Silent Ringtone

King KongKing Kong Registered User regular
edited May 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Hope you guys can help me with this some what weird request.

I have a cellphone and people I don't wish to speak with have got the number. I know about the old trick of adding them to contacts as "Don't Answer" so when they do call I can just see who it is and not answer.

What I want but am lacking the tools to do so is a ringtone that is just silent since my phone MAKES me assign one to a contact. I looked around and the closest I can get is the silent ringtone only kids can hear or whatever. I just want a ringtone of nothing. Could anyone point the direction to one or perhaps make one and host it?

It would be much apperciated.

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Can you get new ringtones by simply pointing your phone at at http address and downloading an mp3? If so, I'll make one for you this evening.

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  • King KongKing Kong Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Yes. A link to an Mp3 would be just fine. Thanks!

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2007
    How about this?

    http://jeffcovey.net/music/scores/blank/mp3/blank.mp3

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    A ringtone only kids can hear?

    umm....no?

    Can you point me to that? I've very interested. Unless you're being sarcastic, I think you've been had.

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  • ddahcmaiddahcmai Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    It shouldn't be that hard to do Iceman.USAF, children can generally hear sounds at much higher frequencies than adults, all you'd really have to do is create a ringtone that operates above an adult's hearing range but within a child's. Maybe they're not out there to buy, but you can probably make one pretty easily.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    ddahcmai wrote: »
    It shouldn't be that hard to do Iceman.USAF, children can generally hear sounds at much higher frequencies than adults, all you'd really have to do is create a ringtone that operates above an adult's hearing range but within a child's. Maybe they're not out there to buy, but you can probably make one pretty easily.

    Yeah, actually, I remember a news story about this a little while back. The kids used it while in class, and the teachers couldn't hear the phones ringing, but the kids could. It was just really high frequency.

    Edit: Here it is. There's also a download link on that page.

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  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Iceman.USAF wrote: »
    A ringtone only kids can hear?

    umm....no?

    Can you point me to that? I've very interested. Unless you're being sarcastic, I think you've been had.
    It plays a tone at a frequency that is so high most adults are unable to hear it due to changes/damage to hearing as they age. If you try the link above, keep in mind that depending on the speaker capabilities, they don't always work. On my old laptop (I work for a mobile media company, so I get my hands on these sorts of things from time to time) it would play at a perfectly normal, audible tone. Also, some adults of course can hear them just fine, too.

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  • GrimmGrimm Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    embrik wrote: »
    ddahcmai wrote: »
    It shouldn't be that hard to do Iceman.USAF, children can generally hear sounds at much higher frequencies than adults, all you'd really have to do is create a ringtone that operates above an adult's hearing range but within a child's. Maybe they're not out there to buy, but you can probably make one pretty easily.

    Yeah, actually, I remember a news story about this a little while back. The kids used it while in class, and the teachers couldn't hear the phones ringing, but the kids could. It was just really high frequency.

    Edit: Here it is. There's also a download link on that page.

    Yeah i remember hearing about this in the news too. They were also trying to use the idea to keep kids out of the mall by broadcasting the frequency through out the building. Kinda like those little white pest control things that plug into a power outlet that are supposed to drive out rodents. They even used the idea in an episode of law and order. They were trying to interrogate two suspects in different rooms but for some reason they let them keep their cellphone and they were texting each other so they could keep their story straight.


    In case people have no clue what im talking about with the pest control things. I cant remember the code to make text into a link so im just gonna have to put this hear instead of making that sentence in my post link to it.
    Example: http://www.victorpest.com/mousesonicfaqs.htm

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Just in case your cell phone has issues with Doc's mp3 (as it's very short), here's another one:

    http://www.eggytoast.com/sound/silence.mp3

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    There are indeed sounds that most adults can't hear as our hearing deteriorates over time.

    However, I am highly skeptical that there are many, if any, cellphones that have speakers good enough to produce said frequencies. I could be wrong.

    I used to have a link of various high frequencies you could listen to an see if you could hear them. Lemme see if I can find it.

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  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Na, those things tend to work pretty well on most cell phones. We tested them on several at work when they first came out. The only place I've seen them not work was one model of dell laptop out of the 3 or so of those that we also played them on.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Not the link I was looking for but this one has a similar idea.

    http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/

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  • DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    either use your phone's voice recorder to record nothing and use that file as the ringtone, or use your computer to record nothing with MS sound recorder, and send that to the phone and use as a ringtone

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Not the link I was looking for but this one has a similar idea.

    http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/
    I can't hear the highest tone! I feel so imperfect D:

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Not the link I was looking for but this one has a similar idea.

    http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/
    I can't hear the highest tone! I feel so imperfect D:

    I can only get up to 15.8kHz D:

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    This still seems a bit far-fetched for me, but I'll try it out tomorrow, thanks guys.

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  • FatsFats Corvallis, ORRegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Not the link I was looking for but this one has a similar idea.

    http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/
    I can't hear the highest tone! I feel so imperfect D:

    Me neither. I can hear the 21.1kHz one just fine, but that one is just.. nothing. I'm not entirely convinced there's actually a sound playing. :|

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  • SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Fats wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Not the link I was looking for but this one has a similar idea.

    http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/
    I can't hear the highest tone! I feel so imperfect D:

    Me neither. I can hear the 21.1kHz one just fine, but that one is just.. nothing. I'm not entirely convinced there's actually a sound playing. :|

    There isn't. Click the hearing test results in the section below the clips.

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    I used to have a link to one with far more frequencies, and oddly I could hear almost all of the sounds, but not one of the middle range ones. Like my ears skipped a frequency.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Smasher wrote: »
    Fats wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Not the link I was looking for but this one has a similar idea.

    http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/
    I can't hear the highest tone! I feel so imperfect D:

    Me neither. I can hear the 21.1kHz one just fine, but that one is just.. nothing. I'm not entirely convinced there's actually a sound playing. :|

    There isn't. Click the hearing test results in the section below the clips.
    Wheew..still at the peak of human condition.

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  • blincolnblincoln Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    I used to have a link to one with far more frequencies, and oddly I could hear almost all of the sounds, but not one of the middle range ones. Like my ears skipped a frequency.

    What that probably means is that the higher ones were aliased down to lower frequencies. If the frequency of a waveform exceeds the maximum frequency of the system, it will be "folded" down to a lower one. Look up the Nyquist frequency for more information. I did some experiments years ago with a Soundblaster 32 or 64, and even at 44.1KHz sampling rate, above about 18 KHz it would get aliased way down.

    It could also be that your ears are actually damaged. I've heard that ex-soldiers will often be unable to hear frequencies in the same range as very loud noises they were exposed to for long periods, like explosions and gunfire.

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