Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

The following instructions should help you to learn how to make your own cellphone ringers for free. I think this is pretty cool, since Sprint charges users for ringers that expire after a set time. The ringers you make yourself will never expire, and shouldn't cost you anything except possibly data charges on your phone. If you have a SprintPCS Vision or similar data plan already, the following should be totally free. If you don't have such a plan, you might be charged based on how many kilobytes you download onto your phone.

The first thing is to make sure you have these prerequisites:

Sprint or other cell phone allowing downloaded polyphonic ringers

mp3 file

mbuzzy.com user account (free)
Qualcomm Purevoice (free, download here)
WinAmp (free, download here)
Any .wav file editing program

1) Select your favorite mp3 file.

Basically choose any file you like, but realize the quality will be a bit lower, so some lyrics may not sound as clear.

2) Use Winamp* to convert the .mp3 into a .wav file (it may be large ~50mb).

To do this:



Click Options | Preferences



Change the output to Disk Writer and Click Configure to choose the folder to save the new wav file to

3) Use your favorite wav editing program to clip the wav down to under 30 seconds.

I use Creative Wave Studio that came with my sound card. There are many free programs available online if you don't have one. Try searching for one on download.com.

Basically, just crop the file down to a segment of lyrics or melody that you like best.

If you make the clip too long, it will send calls to voicemail before the ringer finishes playing. Also realize the longer the ringer, the more memory it will take on your phone.

Save the edited file to a place you can find it.

4) Use Windows Sound Recorder* to convert the .wav file to 8.0 kHz, 16-bit mono format.

To get to this program: Start | Run | sndrec32.exe.



Open the edited .wav file and click File | Properties




Click Convert Now button




Change the format to PCM 8.0 kHz, 16-bit, mono.




Save the file.

5) Use Qualcomm Purevoice* to convert the .wav file to a .qcp file.

Open the .wav file





Press Shift-Alt-C on the keyboard to convert it to a .qcp file.

If you can't convert the file, it probably means it isn't saved in the right format (8.0 kHz, 16-bit mono).

The file size will decrease a lot with this conversion.





Save the .qcp file.

6) Upload the .qcp to mbuzzy.com* and send the file to your cell phone.

Log into mbuzzy





Name and upload the ringer to your mbuzzy locker.




Click the phone icon beside the file you uploaded.




Click the blue buzzme! link under Quick Send to send an alert to your phone.

7) Use your phone to download the new ringer

Within a few minutes, you should get a new alert on your cellphone.
Follow the URL in the alert, and download the file.

8) Try out the ringer, you're done!

Assign the ringer to incomming calls on your phone, as you normally would.


* You can use any program you like, but these are the ones I chose.