Adding custom ringtones to your Alltel LG Tritan AX840 Step by Step:
So you went out and bought what you thought was an awesome phone, only to discover that you can’t seem to find a way to personalize your ringtones without buying them from Alltel. Sound familiar? Are you annoyed yet? I was FOR SURE! BUT where there is a will there is a way. After scouring the internet for hours and hours I could not for the life of me find one good “how to” on this subject. Bits and pieced and many many sites later (not to mention a lot of trial and error) I came to a final solution that worked. I know many ppl out there are just as frustrated as I was so I decided to make a detailed step by step guide to help the rest of you along. Please understand that modding your phone can be a bit tricky and I take no responsibility if you decide to follow my instructions..do so at your own risk. Also – Thanks to the many other people that had already figured some of this info out (I don’t take credit for it, I’m merely organizing it and updating it for what worked for me)
First the bad news (more you say?) you WILL need a micro sd card! My pc did not even show anything was plugged in until I installed mine. After calling LG I was told there can be no transfer of info without it. Good news is they start at under 10 bucks for a 2gig chip at Wal-Mart. You can install up to a 16 gig chip.
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Once this is installed (just insert). You will have to download a few files before you begin.
Installing Drivers
1) Go to http://www.colordrives.net/LG7000%20Driver.zip and download this driver. It is not necessary to install the whole thing.
2) Open with winrar or winzip.
3) Drag the folder that matches your operating system to your desk top.
4) Plug your data cable into your phone and then into the usb port on your computer.
5) Choose “USB Mass Storage”
This will set up your SD Card for use with your phone.
When finished touch exit on your phone.
6) Disconnect USB cable from PC and then reconnect.
7) On your phone choose the option “USB Modem”
A window should come up asking you for a driver. (I assume here that you know how to install a driver onto your pc *crosses fingers*)
8) Point it to the folder containing the drivers that you placed on your desktop.
9) Do this several times until it tells you that your device has been installed and is working properly. Double check that everything is working properly by going into your system properties and making sure that nothing has an ! next to it.
Installing Bitpim
Next you will need a small program called Bitpim
1) Go here to download. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitpim/files/bitpim-tests/1.0.7.20090805/bitpim-1.0.7.20090805-setup.exe/download
2) Install the program.
3) Start Bitpim
A window should come up that says “Found other CDMA phone” Make note of the COM# (depending on your pc set up this can vary)
4) Click Edit on the top tool bar
5) Click Settings
6) Click the Phone Wizard button
7) Choose Alltel – LG – VX9700 (Dare) then Next
8) Click the COM# that it told you in step #3 above
9) Click the Detect Phone button (it will probably fail ..but that is ok)
10) Click Finish
This will take you back to the main screen of BitPim
11) Click View on the top tool bar, then click View File System
12) You will notice that this puts a File System Icon on the left column at the bottom
13) Click the File System Icon
14) In the second column over you will see a file with a + next to it, Click the + (this expands the folder) It SHOULD say retrieving and then a large list of folders will appear. This is the contents of your phone. Tamper with this at your own risk.
15) Click on the folder named dload
16) Right click “mysound.dat”
17) Choose to save this file to your desktop
18) Then delete the file from the dload folder in Bitpim
19) Expand Brew
20) Expand Media
21) Expand lk
22) Click on the ms folder
23) In the right most column you will see all of your ringtones that are on your phone.
24) Drag any mp3 ringtone that you have to this list and Drop (you should see it appear in the list) *note midis and wavs may work .. Im not sure because I haven’t tested this
25) Exit Bitpim
26) Unplug your phone
27) POWER DOWN your phone and then POWER BACK UP.
28) Your custom ringtones should now be listed with the rest of the ringtones on your phone.
I know this seems like a lot and it kinda is the first time through (since you have to install the drivers and all). Good thing is BitPim remembers your phone and the next time all you have to do is start it up with your phone attached to your PC and begin at step #13.
Also it is very easy to make your own ringtones from any mp3 that you have. I recommend using an audio editor (I like audio edit deluxe). You can cut just the part of the song you want for your ringtone (I prefer to keep mine under 15 seconds but hey that is up to you) Good Luck!!
After completing this process the next time you do it begin at step #13, this is correct HOWEVER you do NOT need to preform steps #15-#18 again (just skip directly to step #19).
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i got the new Lg touch from alltel. I can’t put any ringtones on it. It says ony DRM protected mp3s. Is there anyways I can put ringtones on there without having to do that crap.
Thanks for this post. I’ve done this for other phones and it has worked great. I’ve followed the directions here, but when I finally turn my phone off and then back on, the ringtones are not there. I’ve gone back in multiply times, step-by-step, and it just seems to not be working. I wonder if they have blocked us somehow from doing this? any help would be appreciated!!!!! thanks!
I’m having the same problem as Zig. All is done and they just aren’t there when I turn the phone back on.
Thank-You so very much…I recently got my LG Tritan… You have saved me a ton of money cause I love Ring tones!!!! I followed all of your instruction to the T… And everything works just fine… Being that I go to college I understood the driver part just fine thanks a again….Happy NEW Year…
My ringtones are there, but when I select them, it still plays the standard ringtone from the phone. I’ve selected one of my ringtones for all my rings, but it doen’t play it when the phone rings… any help?
same problem as you guys. Download them fine per instructions, but they do not show up in the ringtones when I reboot phone. Tried it several times. Same result. Please help!!
i have windows vista and there isnt a driver in the folder from http://www.colordrives.net/LG7000%20Driver.zip any help please!!!!
Hey, I had a Tritan and this worked just fine! Thanks!@!! but it broke, they just sent me a new one, 1/21/10 and I tried this, and I get the same as everyone else…not there! is there some new file we need to delete now? thanks!
Well, idk what did it, but I called *228 and flashed the phone, then instead of just exiting Bitpim, I clicked the send phone data button, and boom, there they are.
TRAV – for vista and windows 7 that driver will not work. You need to go to the LG website and download a driver called:
LGUSBModemDriver_Eng_WHQL_Ver_4.9.4_All
Then it should work for you.
oh yeah, should also add I was trying all sorts of things. After having awesome ringtones on my old Tritan I was going crazy!
I also overwrote my new Mysound.dat with the old one I had saved on my desktop from previous Tritan.
Dont know if that made any difference, but figured I should add all info in case it helps!!!
Good Lucks!!!
Has anyone been able to get SOMETHING to work on the recently released Tritans? I go through all the steps, but nothing seems to work. The ringtones are there in bitpim but I can’t get them to show up in the phone. It’s very frustrating and I’m thinking I’ll be returning this phone.
didnt you read my last 2 posts? I finally got mine to work! try to hit the “send phone data” button on bitpim before you turn off the phone.
so i got something new for ya… I followed your steps and when i clicked the “send data to phone button” my phone restarts itself and still get nothing…
not sure that i can find a solution to this problem… if anyone can help, let me know…
also note: i cannot update phone to latest firmware update V05…
I have done this over and over and i got nothing in the bitpim when you are suppose to see your files. This is crazy. I have installed the driver for windows Vista and it said that the driver was install sucessfully. I don’t know what i am doing wrong. I have been trying to figure something out so i can get free ringtons. I do have alltel i am not sure if its alltel but my husband is able to get free ringtones for his banter. So can anyone help me out here please!!!!!! i am frustrated.
This may work for you, it worked for me. Instead of adding it to the file system, expand media under phonebook(all these are should be under “Phone”) on the left side of the screen. Click and drag the mp3 that you would like to add to your phone to “ringers”. Once you have done that it should take a few seconds to copy to your phone, and click send phone data. Click the box besides ringtone (the circle under “add” should be filled) and click ok. It should restart your phone. Once your phone has restarted, check your ringtones and it should be there. Like I said this worked for me.
THANKS!!!! IT WORKED!!!
click and drag… The phone still restarted and everything was there this time, right where it should be!
non of it worked for my phone!
I got the files on my phone. I can preview the ringtone from the ringtone menu, but when i set it to a call or a message alert, it plays the default lame-o sitar song. Any suggestions or a fix?
D’s way worked great for me…i tried the old way that I used with my first tritan to no avail. After searching around found this page and tried it out. Thanks.