Method #2

This tutorial will explain how to load MP3's onto you LG VX6000.

Software Needed:
1] BitPim v.61
2] Sound Forge
3] LG1200 USB Drivers installed and working

Hardware Needed:
1] LGVX6000 (OEM) Data Cable or Future Dial LG1200 Data Cable (Not Tested)


NOTE 1] Steps 1-3 can be omitted if desired, it is simply to reduce the size of the MP3

NOTE 2] This method will erase all your ring tones, you will have to reload them using the data cable or by MMS. There are methods of adding ring tones to the phone without erasing all of them first, but that involves edited the map files located in "/download/dloadindex/". It is possible to load MP3's onto the phone by simply naming the MP3 to another ringer on the phone and overwriting it (including the
.mid extension) this method has been proven successful as well.


STEP 1] Select any MP3's you'd like and load it into soundforge. Find and highlight the part of the song you would like to use as your ring tone.

STEP 2] Select Edit -> Trim/Crop...you will see that only the part of the MP3 you've selected will remain. You may want to play around with highlight the Beginning or End of the song and selecting Process -> Fade -> In or Out depending on your preference. This will prevent the song from ending abruptly. I've also found that the MP3's play very low on the phone so by selecting Process -> Volume... and using the preset "200%" usually helps (NOTE - If this is done with a song that has heavy bass, it will usually distort the sound much like loud .qcp's on the VX6000.

STEP 3] after adjusting the song the way you'd like, select File -> Save As... And rename the file to something else.

STEP 4] Navigate to the directory in which the MP3's lives and rename it to "filename.mid" (i.e. - change the extension to .mid).

STEP 5] On your VX6000, Select Menu, My Media, and Music. Then hit the right soft key Options, then Erase All. Do not power off you phone after doing this, this is important b/c your phone will then rebuild the map files upon booting and that is NOT what we want.

STEP 6] Open BitPim (or Gagin) and navigate /user/sound/ringer on the embedded file system. If you are using Gagin you will need to patch the apploader so that it points to "/" (the root directory). This can be done with
BalPatch3.

STEP 7] In BitPim, right click on "ringer" and then select "New File..." Locate the new MP3 you've created and renamed or any MP3 you'd like as long as it has been renamed to .mid. Let BitPim upload the file.

Note - The MP3's I’ve loaded have been around 30-45 seconds long and are usually under 400K. I currently have 6 MP3's loaded totaling 1.88 Meg. I have not tested the phones limits as far as memory is concerned. Just be careful not to load too many as you may loose functionality such as phonebook capacity, MMS capacity, gallery capacity, and so on. Also larger files take very long to write to the phone, this can be very annoying.

STEP 8] Power cycle the phone and check under Music on your VX6000. The MP3's should be there. You may delete the preset ring tones that have been rebuilt if you wish.