Hi there. Have you tried adding the tones using the method that I described in the message below your reply?
On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:40 AM, "Rose Combs" <rosecom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow! When I added ring tones from one of the apps a couple of years ago, I > e-mailed them to my computer e-mail, open them and they went right into the > tones area. Then I did a sync tones and every one of the tones I selected > are still in my tones folder. > > I recently bought about four tones from the store, easy as pie. > > The unfortunate thing is that I set a tone for a particular contact and it > works only some of the time and if it doesn't it reverts to the original > ring tone for the phone. I go in and check and the correct tone is selected > on the contact and the next time they call it works but then another time it > goes back to the marimba sound, which I don't even want to use because > everyone else does where I work and spend about 80% of my free time lately, > the hospital. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Raul A. Gallegos > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 2:40 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Adding Ring Tones to iTunes library - Was Re: Voice Over friendly > ring tone app > > Hi, you have to use iTunes to get the tones into the iPhone for use. So, > this app for example, has an entry in the file sharing section of iTunes. To > get there, connect your phone to the PC, bring up iTunes, go to the device > where it shows the name of your phone and the battery charge status. Tab > until you reach the apps button or tab. Press space to activate it. Now you > are in the apps section of your phone. Now, keep tabbing until you get to > the list of file sharing apps. Once you reach this list, arrow down until > you get to the app which has the files you want to save. In this case, look > for the ring tones app. When you reach it with down arrow, tab once and you > will see the list of files it contains. If you've downloaded ring tones > prior to all this, they will be listed here. Using shift-down arrow, select > all the ring tones you want to save to the computer and tab to the save as > button. Press space to activate this button and a standard save as dialog > will open. You can press shift-tab to see the list of folders. Navigate this > to choose which folder you want. I recommend a temp folder called ring tones > on your desktop for starters. Giving you the steps on how to create folders > and copying and pasting is a bit out of scope for this question, so I hope > you feel comfortable in doing this. Once the tones are saved to the folder > you want, close iTunes. The next step is for you to copy the ring tone files > into the automatically add to itunes folder. Be sure to put just the files > there, not the actual folder. Now when you restart iTunes, the ring tones > will automagically be added to the library. If you have your iPhone set to > sync all ring tones, then they will all be added the next time you sync your > phone. If this isn't set up that way, then you will have to tell your phone > to sync all tones. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > I can't live without y?o?u?. TEA. Bazinga! - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and > Facebook user ID: rau47 > > On 3/15/2013 11:19 AM, Paul Ferrara wrote: >> Someone has explained this before, but I did not understand it. >> What is the easiest way to download tones, through the app or through >> iTunes? >> Once they are downloaded, where do they go and how do we get them on >> the phone? >> >> Paul >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Raul A. Gallegos >> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 12:01 PM >> To: ViPhone List >> Subject: Voice Over friendly ring tone app >> >> The following is a good source for cool ring tones. Once you download >> them using the app they show up in the file sharing section of iTunes >> when your phone is connected. You get 10 free downloads and adds. If >> you upgrade to no ads then you also get unlimited downloads. The cost >> for that is $1.99. Have fun. >> >> Ringtones 500.000+ by DYSoftware >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ringtones-500.000+/id456280861?mt=8 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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