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How to create a ringtone on your Android phone
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Friday March 26, 2010
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Friday March 26, 2010
Your Android phone is not truly your Android phone until you customize it to your tastes. The first place you'll likely start is by switching up the ringtones. Utilizing a free utility called RingDroid you can
create custom ringtones for your Android phone
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- In the Android Market search for RingDroid and download it to your Android phone.
- Once installed, just tap on the RingDroid icon.
- The program will load and you'll see a display of music and ringtones.
- Tap on the menu key and the tap on Show All Media.
- Ringtones will appear in a teal color.
- Scroll through and find the song you want to make a ringtone out of and tap on it.
- It will load into RingDroid.
- At the bottom you'll see the start is at 0.00 and the end is at 15.05 seconds.
- You can tap on the tab in the center of the music and make the ringtone longer, or shorter.
- You can also select a portion from the middle of the song if you like. The choice is yours.
- You can tap the Play arrow to hear your creation.
- When you're satisfied you can tap on the menu key and then tap on Save.
- A dialog comes up and if you're happy with the defaults you can just tap Save.
- In the drop down box where it says Ringtone you can tap and reveal other choices, like Notification.
- You can also change the name and RingDroid automatically appends "Ringtone" to the end of the file name.
- Now you'll be asked if you want to make this your default ringtone, assign it to a contact, or just close.
- Once installed, just tap on the RingDroid icon.
- The program will load and you'll see a display of music and ringtones.
- Tap on the menu key and the tap on Show All Media.
- Ringtones will appear in a teal color.
- Scroll through and find the song you want to make a ringtone out of and tap on it.
- It will load into RingDroid.
- At the bottom you'll see the start is at 0.00 and the end is at 15.05 seconds.
- You can tap on the tab in the center of the music and make the ringtone longer, or shorter.
- You can also select a portion from the middle of the song if you like. The choice is yours.
- You can tap the Play arrow to hear your creation.
- When you're satisfied you can tap on the menu key and then tap on Save.
- A dialog comes up and if you're happy with the defaults you can just tap Save.
- In the drop down box where it says Ringtone you can tap and reveal other choices, like Notification.
- You can also change the name and RingDroid automatically appends "Ringtone" to the end of the file name.
- Now you'll be asked if you want to make this your default ringtone, assign it to a contact, or just close.
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