Customizing My New Phone
Ringtones are just about the biggest racket out there. I think it’s funny when people complain about the cost of CDs or legal music downloads, and see no problem spending $2-$3 on a 15 second clip of their favorite song for their phone. Well I don’t believe in paying for anything I don’t have to, including data transfer cables for my cell phone. Fortunately, when I plugged my phone in to charge last night, I noticed the Razr uses a very standard 5-pin mini USB connection. Curious, I plugged my phone into a mini USB cable I have and my computer recognized it, but could not find a driver. I was able to track down a driver online so that I could charge my phone through my USB ports, but my computer was still not detecting it as a mobile device.
After some more digging around, I managed to “borrow” a copy of Motorola’s Mobile Phone Tools software, and have since been making my own wallpapers and ringtones. Carefully ripping clips from an emulator, I have begun work on an obnoxious, NES-themed tone package. Here’s a sample of what I have come up with so far:
Super Mario Bros. Ringtone
Mega Man 2 Voicemail Tone
“1up” Text Message Tone
July 8th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
I would totally use those. Except I don’t have a phone. I’ll get on that, and then I want ‘em.
July 8th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
You have to be the biggest dorkass(thank you homie RC for that word) i have ever seen but at time same time i love you but you and jesse could have killed at this guitar hero comp but just need to rip til death dude rip til death
July 8th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
That’s awesome that you’re making ring tones for cell phones! Can’t wait to hear one playing while I’m stuck behind some Motherfucker in line who is shooshing the clerk while texting his entire family!
July 8th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Errr… typo, please replace “Motherfucker” with “balding in the midst of a middle life crisis Motherfucker (yes capital ‘M’) desperately trying to prove to the world that he’s important and failing to realize that driving a Hummer doesn’t change the fact that he has a stack of dimes for a dick and will die lonely and without his existence being validated.”
July 9th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Sweet man. My Windows Mobile phone has the same USB cable, and it’s actually made to connect with the computer. It’s really simple to make ringtones for mine, pretty much plug and play, and I have a good dozen ringtones of my favorite songs. I just downloaded all of these, though. I hadn’t thought of making my own for voice mail and the like. Sweeet. Thanks!
July 9th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
and mother feels obliged to “chime” in with her paranoid (though in the era of Bush maybe not so delusionally paranoid) admonition about admitting to illegal activity so openly
July 9th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Nothing illegal…
July 10th, 2006 at 12:30 am
H4ck the pl4net Bill’s Mom!
July 15th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Wow…you’re so luck you can upload that stuff to your phone. that 1-up idea for a message is so neat, that’s great stuff.