Custom ringtone added to EnV Touch with SD Card
by Greg on Jun.15, 2009, under Uncategorized
It’s possible to email an mp3 as a TXT message to yourself, but that’s not going to work for me. I suppose there are other’s out there like myself, that do not have any data on their plan. I do have text messages, but no data, so no pictures or audio can text to me phone. (because Verizon rips you off on the data pricing!) I just don’t really need that, but it would be handy.
Anyway, down to business. I figured out how to add a ringtone to my Env Touch (LG-VX11000) using the SD Card!
Make your ringtone MP3 file, then insert the SD card into your computer. Find the “my_sounds” folder. Copy ringtones into there. Next put the SD card back into your EnV Touch. Hit the center, blue icon (with the four white dots) to open the menu. Go to “Media Center” in the menu, and then “Music and Tones”. Next go to “My Sounds”, you should see the ring tones you’ve added in there. Click on one that you want, the “Options” menu should show, and select “Set As”. Then select “Ringtone”.
There you go! You now have your custom ringtone on your EnV Touch!
(This might work for the EnV 3 too! They have very similar menu’s and options.)
July 1st, 2009 on 1:52 pm
Every time I try to add a mp3 file to the sound folder it says “remove the write protection or try another disk” Even though the file has no protection on it. Any thoughts????
July 1st, 2009 on 1:59 pm
You have the Micro SD card in your computer, in an adapter right? That adapter might have a “lock” switch to write protect it. Check for that. Hope that helps. :)
July 2nd, 2009 on 5:59 am
Thanks!!! That was the problem.
July 27th, 2009 on 4:54 pm
thank you! very helpful
July 30th, 2009 on 4:39 pm
Have you figured out any way to do it maybe through bluetooth? I don’t have an adapter for the card…
August 5th, 2009 on 7:09 pm
Use your phone as a mass storage, and access it through your computer. Works the easiest… just use the USB/power cord.
August 7th, 2009 on 8:05 am
@j
OMG! I wish I knew that before!!! You see, by default when you plug in your USB cable, you only get access to the music. Which isn’t correct if you want to add movies or ringtones. Just so happened that last night I was messing around with settings and saw in the Tools menu that there is a “USB Mass Storage” option. ARGH! That is so much easier!!! Ok, so everyone… just to that and don’t worry about the whole SD Card thing.
August 7th, 2009 on 9:20 am
Hey I was wondering if anybody knew where I can order cheap MicroSD cards for my Env Touch? Thank you very much!!
August 9th, 2009 on 7:03 am
You can buy microsd’s cheap from Newegg.com and Meritline.com. Stick to popular retailers and don’t buy stuff that’s too good to be true because it’s most likely a fake. 8GB MicroSD should be around $20 right now (8.8.09).
August 22nd, 2009 on 5:57 am
hey…..i went to tools and went 2 USB Mass Storage and copy paste to my_sounds folder. bt when i open frm my fone it doesnt show up. even in the computer says its there
September 17th, 2009 on 7:52 am
Ok I am lost I inserted my sd card into my computer but I dont know what to do from there. I went into
“my computer” but I dont see my card from there..
October 18th, 2009 on 11:18 pm
Have you found a way to make the music louder? i have it set on the loudest setting and still not that loud…
October 30th, 2009 on 8:16 pm
Oh my god, THANK YOU!!! I have been fighting with this all day and you helped me enormously. I appreciate the info!!
November 1st, 2009 on 1:16 pm
I’m having the same problem as omar – I put it into my “My_Sounds” folder via the USB mass storage option, but when I view “my sounds”, it’s not there. Are you sure it works with mp3s? All the default “my sounds” are midi files.
November 16th, 2009 on 1:08 pm
I just tested it once more. I used the USB Mass STorage option in Tools, then opened the folder in Windows and copied a few MP3’s into the my_sounds folder. They showed up in the phone just fine. Now, my mp3 files were small, just large enough for a ring tone or alarm, so it wasn’t a full mp3 song.
Maybe you’re mp3 specs are not supported by the phone? Like if you have 320Kbps bitrate mp3 file. Just guessing, maybe this isn’t the issue. Maybe the encoder you used?
Also, if you want to add music or video, you want to use the other folders: my_music and my_flix.
November 19th, 2009 on 1:59 pm
thanks,
by the way, read your manuals people, it says you can do this…
December 1st, 2009 on 5:15 am
there is no my music folder on my phone! what do i do
December 3rd, 2009 on 4:07 am
the my sounds folder does not appear in the external memory. Is there a way to make it appear or create one?
December 4th, 2009 on 11:09 am
@derek and @nate
Are you trying to view “my_sounds” folder from the phone? I don’t think you’ll see it there. If you don’t see it while plugged in your computer, try creating the folder. Maybe it creates that folder on first use. For example, add some sound as a ringtone or alarm in your phone. Maybe then it will auto create that folder. But I’d just make it myself from the computer. Just manually create “my_sounds”, “my_flix”, and “my_music” folders when you are in USB Mass Storage mode.
December 9th, 2009 on 6:18 pm
Any way to get the mp3s louder? I have my phone all the way up & is still hard to hear.