Comments on: How To: Custom MP3 Ringtones (LG Chocolate)

By: KG

KG — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:25:22 +0000

Great tip, thanks!!

The beta version of BitPim has a built in converter – I didn’t have to use AudaCity or the Lame encoder! It was pretty simple (after a quick glance at the BitPim help file). I’m running BitPim version “1.0.7.20081215 – Test” on my Vista PC, and used it to convert, then transfer the mp3 to my VX8560B (LG Chocolate 3). Worked like a charm.

The steps in BitPim:
1. Clicked the “Add Ringer” button in the toolbar, and navigated to the mp3 I wanted to turn into a ringtone and clicked “Open”
2. Kept the default conversion settings for file type, sample rate, channels, and bitrate. Then I set the start and stop positions on the file (to create a 30 second clip). NOTE: there was some processing going on whenever I previewed the sound file – so I had to wait a few seconds for the preview to play, after setting the start and stop positions.
3. When I had the clip defined, I clicked “OK” on the conversion dialog, the sound clip processed, then appeared in the Music folder.
4. Right-clicked on the sound clip and selected “Move to…” the Ringers folder.
5. Clicked the “Send Phone Data” button in the toolbar and let it do its thing (file transfer and phone reboot).
6. Flipped open the phone and used the settings menu to select the new ringtone!!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:37:48 +0000

Great Job I just got the VX8560B for my wife and want to customize it. Your instructions are clear and easy. I had some problems downloading BitPim. I had to change mirrors. Then everything went fine.

Thanks again

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:40:59 +0000

“Circle of Life” from the Lion King is the sweetest ringtone out there aside from ACDC’s “T-N-T” Directions are simple and it took me less than fifteen minutes to read through it all and started editing and uploading ringtones. Thanks!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:19:00 +0000

FANTASTIC tutorial! I’d never used Audacity or Bitpim but had my first custom ringtone on a Chocolate 3 within 20 minutes. Thank you so much!

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:11:51 +0000

i had a problem installing the “Lame encoder” i just couldnt get it to work. any ideas? thanks

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:45:22 +0000

Hey wanted to say that I’ve been using this for about a month now and it has been fantastic! I have a Chocolate3 and it works just fine with it. Thanks for posting this.

By: crushcard

crushcard — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:13:39 +0000

~dt~

actually DT, brew for these newer technology phones are in actuality BREW, a new runtime environment (much like Java) for the coding of apps. It stands for: Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless. Think of it as a new way for Verizon to handicap many of their phones :D

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:07:02 +0000

It’s despicable that Verizon locks so many of their phones, though any honest Verizon employee will tell you that they CAN be hacked. My LG VX8500 (Chocolate) with OS version 06 was disabled (from connecting to BitPim). Big bummer since I’d switched phones and wanted to transfer my entire contact list onto my new Chocolate. I installed BitPim 1.0.6 and everything is fine: the data transfer went smoothly and I’m once again happy.

Thanks for this blog and the helpful how-to notes.

By: ~dt~

~dt~ — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:43 +0000

Chris: “brew” is short for “homebrew”, an old term reffering to computers that were made at home, being tinkered around from scratch. (this was before home PCs were commonly availible).
Source: my brain’s file cabinet

Hope this helps!

By: tom

tom — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:06:56 +0000

So does it work on the 8550? If it doesn’t, how can you get it to?