Well I finally got it - my new phone! HELP!

[wdwgrandma]

So let's talk ring tones. I'm a little confused (ok, I'm a lot confused) about the costs involved. For example, the following information was stated about downloading some Disney ring tones:

$0 - 1 day demo
$4.69 - 3 use purchase
$11.99 - 10 use purchase
$1.99 - 1 use purchase

Ok. I understand $0. Free is always good. However, what do they mean by "1 use purchase" or "10 use purchase"? Does this mean it costs me $1.99 every time the phone rings with that tone? Or does it mean I can only use it once? Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and it also says "Airtime is required for use". What does that mean?

[luvalab]

It's a shame that they have to charge such prices for things. I'm surprised they don't charge for every note it plays in the ring tone. :eek:

[dcfromva]

wdwgrandma,

I have only downloaded ringtones a couple of times, but I believe 1 use purchase means you can add it to one phone. I believe there are some folks who change their ring tones according to the season, so they would probably like the multiple use plan.

I "think" the reason they may say airtime is required is because you have to be activated in order for your phone to ring...

-DC :ears:

[tushypat]

Are you using the 'Get it now' website? I'm wondering if they have a FAQ button?

[wdwgrandma]

Are you using the 'Get it now' website? I'm wondering if they have a FAQ button?
Yeah, I am using that site! I checked out something there that was supposed to explain it, but I was more confused after... Oh well, if I want the tones, I guess I'll just download them and see how it works!

[PaulaK]

My little brother brought me a CD full of them. I just gave him a blank look like what do I do with them on here?! :nutty: I handed my phone over and he did them for me but I have the disc still if it's any use :shrug:

[tushypat]

Ok, I've checked the FAQ and it is a little confusing! They have used the word 'use' as in credit. The amount of 'use' you choose equals how much credit it will cost you - 1 use/credit = $1.99 meaning one ring tone. Once that ring tone is downloaded to your phone its in the memory of the phone and yours to keep and free to use. Obviously the more uses you buy the more money you save if you get my drift! Hope this helps Donna!

[wdwgrandma]

My little brother brought me a CD full of them. I just gave him a blank look like what do I do with them on here?! :nutty: I handed my phone over and he did them for me but I have the disc still if it's any use :shrug:
A CD full of ringtones? How in the world did he get them from the CD to your phone? Are they Disney ring tones?

The Disney ring tones on Get It Now doesn't include two that I would like: When You Wish Upon A Star, and the Haunted Mansion theme....

[BevW]

I shouldn't have gone here...I'm confused too. With my phone service, It's a one time fee of whatever the ringtone I want costs (between $1.50 to $2.50) I then keep the tone in my phone.

I want that CD!!! Just so I can take days figuring out how to load them on my phone! :lol:

[wdwgrandma]

And ya gotta love this new phone I bought... It has a port for a memory card - but nowhere in the documentation does it say what sort of card to be used!

[PaulaK]

I wonder if there's a way of sending them from my phone to yours? I have loads, including HM and When you wish. They're good clear ones too. Maybe someone will know. :)

[Keith]

what phone did you get Donna? some can play mp3s which makes it really easy

[wdwgrandma]

I got a Motorola V710. It plays ring tones, takes photos and videos, let's me store email addresses in a person's profile, has GPS... Does everything but the laundry! LOL

[wdwgrandma]

I wonder if there's a way of sending them from my phone to yours? I have loads, including HM and When you wish. They're good clear ones too. Maybe someone will know. :)
Wouldn't that be awesome? I have a HM .wav file on my PC that plays when certain people email me... I'm not sure the phone will accept .wav files, tho.

[Keith]

you know.. I think that phone can accept .mp3 files as ringtones! so you could have a proper haunted mansion theme on there if you can get it on there somehow. Did it come with a cable to attach to the computer? (there's other options like infra red or bluetooth from your laptop if you have one)

[dcfromva]

takes photos and videos, let's me store email addresses in a person's profile, has GPS...

...maybe paula could email it to your phone? or, can you send an attachment on text messages?

-DC :ears:

[BevW]

Cool Phone! Hmmmmm maybe it's time for me to upgrade phones :lmao:

[PaulaK]

I have a nokia 6310 and it's let me attach as a file via multimedia. Do you think it will work? :unsure:

[wdwgrandma]

you know.. I think that phone can accept .mp3 files as ringtones! so you could have a proper haunted mansion theme on there if you can get it on there somehow. Did it come with a cable to attach to the computer? (there's other options like infra red or bluetooth from your laptop if you have one)
Nope. No cable to attach to the computer. It is a bluetooth device, however, I don't have a laptop!

[wdwgrandma]

...maybe paula could email it to your phone? or, can you send an attachment on text messages?

-DC :ears:
Honey, I've never sent a text message in my life! LOL Send an attachment? I think it allows attachments since I can send photos that I take... How does that work? I have NO idea! I just activated the phone last night!!!!!

[BevW]

:lol: I'd never done a text either until Candyman texted me! Talk about clueless, but I did it. It took me over 20 minutes to send him 2 lines of text. :lmao:

[wdwgrandma]

As you may be able to tell, I'm lucky my old phone even made calls!!!!!!

[wdwgrandma]

Ok. Yes, it does accept .mp3 files! I guess that is a "good" thing?

[Keith]

Its excellent it means you can have a full proper song on there :)

[PaulaK]

I think mine are full songs. I'm always really embarrassed when POTC rings full blast anywhere though, I try to answer it ASAP! :lol:

[wdwgrandma]

Its excellent it means you can have a full proper song on there :)
I listened to the Disney ones that you get from Get It Now, and they don't really sound all that "good", if you know what I mean. They don't sound like the "real" song. Just sort of like "computer generated" versions....

[wdwgrandma]

I wonder if I can download the songs to the memory card I'm going to have to buy (once I find out WHAT to buy), and then put the card in my phone and upload them to the phone? Would that work, ya think?

[dcfromva]

I wonder if I can download the songs to the memory card I'm going to have to buy (once I find out WHAT to buy), and then put the card in my phone and upload them to the phone? Would that work, ya think?

:yes:

-DC :ears:

[wdwgrandma]

Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PaulaK]

Donna is your phone able to receive multimedia messages? I tried sending it and it won't go. The code for the US is 001 isn't it?

If I emailed it from my phone DC, how would Donna get it onto hers? :unsure: It's all getting a bit technical this! :nutty:

[dcfromva]

If I emailed it from my phone DC, how would Donna get it onto hers? It's all getting a bit technical this!

PaulaK,
If you emailed it to Donna's phone's email address (whatever it may be :) )

Or, if you email an attachment to Donna's regular email, she could download it to her memory card and get it to her phone that way...

-DC :ears:

[PaulaK]

phones have email addresses?! :faint: :lol:

[wdwgrandma]

Donna is your phone able to receive multimedia messages? I tried sending it and it won't go. The code for the US is 001 isn't it?

If I emailed it from my phone DC, how would Donna get it onto hers? :unsure: It's all getting a bit technical this! :nutty:
Honey, I'm as lost here as you are - probably more so! I can receive emails to my phone - once I've registered somewhere I guess...

I have no idea how to call from the UK to the US - or vice versa...

[BevW]

Yup, phones have email addresses...but I can only find mine when I'm on the Sprint website! :lol:

[Keith]

It's probably more accurate to say that phones can check email these days.. in fact Paula yours could probably check whatever email you'd normally check on your pc/mac with a little (very little) bit of setup <G>

Soooooo.... once Donna knows which email address her phone is either already setup with or could be setup with <G> you can just email with an attachment and there's an excellent chance Donna can receive the email and save the ringtone :)

[PsychoAlice]

when I had ding dongs phone over the summer I had "iasw" and "Im Late" with the white rabbit doing a dance on my screen for my ring tone!!

[PaulaK]

I wanted to send Keith IASW and he turned me down flat?! :shrug: :wink:

[Keith]

Arhghghghghg :p

[PsychoAlice]

awwww keith think of all the looks (and unwanted advances) youd get if you had IASW for a ring tone! I always giggled when my phone rang!

[Johnie]

I have a headache from just reading this........

[wdwgrandma]

It's probably more accurate to say that phones can check email these days.. in fact Paula yours could probably check whatever email you'd normally check on your pc/mac with a little (very little) bit of setup <G>

Soooooo.... once Donna knows which email address her phone is either already setup with or could be setup with <G> you can just email with an attachment and there's an excellent chance Donna can receive the email and save the ringtone :)
The email on my phone is available for a "mere" $4.99 a month...

[BevW]

AND for an additional $10 a month we'll add all the ringtones you ever wanted EVER!

[PsychoAlice]

you are kidding me.....

[wdwgrandma]

If you mean me, no, I'm not kidding.....

[BevW]

If you mean me!!! YES I was !!!

[Keith]

If you mean me, no, I'm not kidding.....

GASP! I'm with PA here... are you KIDDING?!

jeez... $4.99 for an email address.

I'd be really surprised if you can't setup one of the email accounts you already have with the phone.... :/ need to look at the specs again but does it say anywhere that you can set it up for POP3/IMAP email?

[wdwgrandma]

That was for web access.... I don't have the specs with me, so I don't know if it allows for a POP3/IMAP email.

[Keith]

well on one page I found it says " Protocols Supported: POP3, SMTP, IMAP4
carrier-dependent"

Soooooo as long as the network hasn't purposely tied the phone to its own email accounts somehow you ought to be able to set it up to retrieve email from any other provider you have.. earthlink or whoever provides your email

[PsychoAlice]

keith i think you just confuzzled her more!

[PsychoAlice]

so just incase she doesnt do it :slap:

[Keith]

so just incase she doesnt do it :slap:

:slap: right back ATCHA!

:lol: see. We'll both be in the naughty corner now :afraid:

It's not hard to setup a phone to check email it really isn't and I'm sure Donna knows there's help here if she needs it. Although my guess after all this is she's starting to think the built in ringtones are sounding better all the time :lol:

[JuniorMickey]

I know that Sprint assigns you an e-mail address when you use their web (Mine is something like cmoquin05@sprintpcs.com)

[wdwgrandma]

Yeah, I found the same info after I googled the model: Protocols Supported: POP3, SMTP, IMAP4 carrier-dependent. What I haven't been able to find in the phone itself is how to set this up. Oh, and I use Comcast as my email provider.

To get to the web from the phone, you have to "sign up" - hence the $4.99 a month fee.

[JuniorMickey]

I have free internet included in my plan

[wdwgrandma]

Oh, and I did my very first text messaging a little bit ago - with DC. Hopefully she got my response...

[GraciesMom]

Would somebody PLEASE explain this text message business to me. I just don't get it. If you have a phone and somebody else has a phone, can't you just call them :unsure: This whole text message concept just dumbfounds me :blush: Don't you have to type it out on your cell phone keypad? I can't even do the phone book thing on my cell, I have to get somebody else to. Am I missing something? :sigh:

[wdwgrandma]

See. I'm not the only one who wonders why you'd want to do this!

[JuniorMickey]

Texting is great... sometimes when you need to get a quick message across but don't wanna talk, a text is great.

[GraciesMom]

You mean if like you are mad at somebody JuniorMickey? You have to be more specific for this old lady. :wacko:

[JuniorMickey]

Usually a quick message. A note if you will. I'll text my friend Christy that I'll meet her at 12:30 at Subway for lunch..... no phone call needed

[GraciesMom]

... but isn't that what voice mail is for? Or do you mean maybe you don't want to have to talk to Christy and hear here gripe about her husband and kids? Is it a way to avoid people? :shrug:

[JuniorMickey]

Generally if I'm at work, I don't have time to have a convo with her, which is what will happen if I call. Voice mail only works if the person lets the call go to voice mail :D

[GraciesMom]

Can understand in a situation like that. But don't understand...like my son will text message somebody when he is doing nothing :wink: to one of his buddies who is pretty much doing the same thing, and I will ask him why he just doesn't call him. And he will tell me that maybe so and so is busy, and then I will tell him that is what voice mail is for :wacko: for when your busy, that way you don't have to answer the phone.

[JuniorMickey]

Many plans have unlimited text messages while minutes have limits

[Shogun]

Bet you can't explain text shorthand to Gracie's mom and wdwgrandma.:rotfl:

[dcfromva]

Would somebody PLEASE explain this text message business to me. I just don't get it. If you have a phone and somebody else has a phone, can't you just call them This whole text message concept just dumbfounds me Don't you have to type it out on your cell phone keypad? I can't even do the phone book thing on my cell, I have to get somebody else to.

I have a QWERTY keyboard/4.5in screen on my phone, so texting is very easy for me.

I know a lot of people who like texting because when you ring an individual, you take a risk that the phone ringing will disturb what they are doing at the time. (Maybe the party you are trying to reach is in church service or at a movie or having a chat with an important client or in a class lecture, et'c.).

Then, there are some individuals who would like to communicate with folks, but they feel "put on the spot" when talking on the phone (I am in that category)--It almost feels like being put on stage and not being able to think of the lines. It is a very uncomfortable feeling. Texting is great because you can take the time to compose your thoughts and send it off to the individual. On the receiving end, if you have made an appointment with a friend, you have a record of it which you can review... (Instead of asking did she say 1 oclock or 2 oclock? :) )

-DC :ears:

[wdwgrandma]

Well, DC, those are better reasons than any I could think of. All I could think of was that students wanting to cheat on tests could use text messaging... And when you sent me that text message yesterday, the guy that sits in the next cube heard the little chime noise my phone makes and thought it came from his computer!!!!

[dcfromva]

And when you sent me that text message yesterday, the guy that sits in the next cube heard the little chime noise my phone makes and thought it came from his computer!!!!
:oops:
:whistle: (I wonder if there is a volume control or a mute setting on that chime?....)

-DC :ears:

[BevW]

I saw the new Nokia phone that opens up to a keyboard and screen for texting! I want that phone! :lol:

[JuniorMickey]

Donna, under options you can change the tone that your phone makes when you get a text. I have mine on set on vibrate so I don't disturb anyone

[GraciesMom]

Bet you can't explain text shorthand to Gracie's mom and wdwgrandma.:rotfl:

:D HA! Alot you know... I took shorthand in highschool along with business math :D

[wdwgrandma]

Donna, under options you can change the tone that your phone makes when you get a text. I have mine on set on vibrate so I don't disturb anyone
Turning the phone off also works!!! LOL

[wdwgrandma]

Well, over the weekend I downloaded some ring tones - including a USC fight song that plays when John calls me!

[JuniorMickey]

How perfect is that!

[wdwgrandma]

When he got home last night I had him call me on my cell to "make sure I'd downloaded them right and attached it to his phone profile correctly. As luck would have it, somehow my phone got set to vibrate. So the first time he tried, it didn't work! I took the phone off vibrate and had him call again. It worked! You should have seen the look of surprise on his face to hear his "song"!!!!!

[JuniorMickey]

:thumbs: that's awesome!

[josh.p.]

hi,
there is a website where you van get free ringtones, but u have 2 surf the web on your phone to get it. i have used it many times and not get charged 4 it! put this rul in your mobile phones browser
www.polyphonicringtonez.com/wap (http://www.polyphonicringtonez.com/wap) i don't think it works on a computer but it works on mobile phone browsers!
from josh

[BevW]

polyphonics, that's what I have, but it came with Sprint. I like it.

[Meezers]

I have given up on ringtones...except the ones that came with the darn thing...mp3...oog...wav....players for each one! AAARRRGGGHHH!

But my checkbook is balanced...on the pda/cell phone!