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Ringtones
Absolutely nuts.
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Verizon
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Ringtones and Public Performance
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They also 'coincidently' run their own ringtone, background and game download service.
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It's fun to hack your own phone and make your own
I am not paying $37 a year for the privilege of having a custom ringtone! The current Verizon phone Samsung SCH-u740 that I have requires more hacking skill than previous mobile phones I've owned. But it can be done. I spent more than $37 worth of my time figuring out how to accomplish this task, but I now have the satisfaction of hearing my own preferred ringtone.
I also don't consider this hacking, as I am not stealing mobile phone service - I pay and have paid $50 a month for a dozen years as a Verizon wireless customer. And I would have been okay with paying one time for the ringtone but not over and over again. In fact, they could have charged me a one-time $5 fee for that ringtone and I would have paid it. I just morally object to being screwed in the ass to the tune of $37 a year for a lousy ringtone.
Another aside. I'm also a T-Mobile customer, with a PDA that you would have to shoot me dead for if you were a robber. They will have to pry it out of my cold dead hands before I let go. T-Mobile claims that no custom ringtones are available for this device. They won't even try to sell you a ringtone - flat out, no custom ring tones will work.
It took me all of five minutes to figure out how to crack the legs of that w---e open, and the T-Mobile MDA does indeed also accept custom ringtones. You just have to figure it out, that's all.
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With a little help I could???
Thanks in advance.
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(The only reason I didn't try this with my Verizon mobile phone is that I have text blocked on that account. The first day I started using my new SCH-U740 I was suddenly blitzed with text spam, even though I've had that same mobile phone number for years.)
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Smugness.
I use a Samsung that comes with a mini-SD card that I load ringtones unto and then to my phone. I create the ringtones with Audacity (a free open-source program) using DRM-free mp3's purchased from Amazon. Woot!
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Pay for ringtones? Yeah, right
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hmm
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