How to Load Ringtones and Notifications To Droid – For Free
Tired of overpaying carriers for ringtones that are then locked to the phone you’ve downloaded them to? Here’s a way that I’ve been obtaining free ringtones and notifications for my new Verizon Droid. What’s great about this service is you don’t need to register or provide your mobile phone number (often used by unscrupulous sites to ding you with some absurd monthly fee). Here’s how.
How To Load Free Ringtones, Notifications and Alarms to your Verizon Droid
The first step to loading your own ringtones, wallpaper and notifications is to cable your Droid to your computer. I’m using a Mac but this will work just as well with a PC.
Once you have the cable connected you’ll see the USB icon in the upper left corner of your Droid’s screen. Use your finger to pull down on the icon and view the notification.
Touch the USB connected notification on the above screen and then select “Mount” as shown below. That’s it. That’s all you need to do for your Droid to then show up as a drive on your computer.
Open up Windows Explorer on the PC – or if you’re using a Mac as I am in this example – open Finder. You can see my Droid has mounted onto my computer and is shown by the “NO NAME” label under devices.
To the right you can see all the folders on the Droid microSD card. Some of these are default folders created by Android.
The folder that you want to create is media. I created it right in the root (home) folder.
Once you’ve created the media folder – create folders to hold your content. You’ll want to use
- alarms
- notifications
- ringtones
Place these folders inside the media folder as shown
Now you can drag and drop mp3 files into the appropriate folder. When you dis-connect your Droid it will re-scan your microSD and the new media files will show up for selection.
I’ve found the web site Zedge.net to be handy for downloading free ringtones and notifications. There’s no registration and you don’t provide your cellular phone number. All their tones can be downloaded to your desktop and then uploaded to your droid.
To edit tones on your Droid – use Ringdroid which is free and allows you to open any MP3 on the Droid and select a tiny portion to use as a notification or ringtone.
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