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Custom Ringtones/Text Sounds?

Hello, I had a verizon razr v3 for two years, I am now waiting for my Droid Eris to arrive. My question is this: Is the Eris Ringtones locked like the verizon razr v3? Had to hack the razr so I could add ringtones. Will I need to do this with the Eris?

You wont need to "hack" the Eris to add ring tones, but you cannot remove the ring tones already on the phone
 
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Hi, I just recieved my Droid Eris today and I am loving it. I put my own ringtones on an SD card, then put that into my Eris, I now have my own ringtones, my only issue right now is how do I set up ringtones for each of my contacts, that part I have not figured out yet. Thank you for any help.

Rdit the contact ... below the email field will be the ringtone field. It will say default, click it and select the ringtone of your choice
 
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Hi,
I really thank you for your help. I really don't mean to be a pest or anything. I am still learning....When I used my razr v3 for text messageing, I could send a text to ten people at the same time, can I also do the same with the Eris? If so, how?...Again I thank you so much

Yeah, just keep adding people in the "to:" field
 
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Problem solved. I took it to my local carrier, Verizon, I told the lady what the issue was. She spotted the problem right away, she fixed it. The issue was, my phone was not programed correctly from the beginning, so therefore it was not connecting to the net. She re-programed the phone and now it works just fine. Just thought I would post it here incase anyone else has the same issue.
 
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I tried it with a folder called ringtones, but my Eris did not recognize the folder or the mp3's in it (the droid & imagio did though). I made a folder in my music folder called ringtones and selected the ringtone from the drop down list. The only problem with that is that you have to scroll through all of your music you loaded on the SD Card. Not happy with that result, i go on to try using ringdroid (which is real easy to use), but find the ringtones i've just made are not loud enough. I go looking for the new ringtones i've just made (so i can get rid of them), and find them in a new folder called media which was created by ringdroid, the path to the created ringtones on the SD Card is media>audio>ringtones. I've since placed all my custom ringtones in said folder, now my custom ringtones show up with the htc/android ringtones.

+1 Thanks Wolfdroid-this did the trick for me-and for notifications, also. Everything is showing up where it should.
 
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I've had the same problem with getting ringtones to show up where I want them on my SD card. I have everything working like I want except that every ringtone I have isn't title the way I originally had it. The only work around I could find was to save the ringtone to my SD card so that it was picked up by my music. Then I would edit it in Ringdroid and then delete it from my music file. That's a hassle though so does anyone have a solution for me? I'd really appreciate it :)
 
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ok i actually just spent .49 cents just to answer your question. apparently no, it will not play. i went to verizon site, sent the animated talking text message. it was recieved to my phone as a mms via handcent, i downloaded it, opened it, the animation worked but there was no sound.

this message thing verizon offers idk how it works exactly, i guess it bundles a sound file and a animated gif together, but there is no such thing as a animated gif with sound , or any gif, or any picture, with sound in 1 file.

im sure it plays fine on a feature phone but does not play nice with a smartphone.
 
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