Off Topic Not About Caching!

[+Naefearjustbeer]

I have a new mobile phone (sharp gx10i) and it has WAP capabillities. Now I have ringtones (1000s) stored on my hard drive, As far as I can see I cannot download them using a lead but I can using WAP. How do I do this? I found a program that claims to do it but the free demo doesnt so I dont want to part with my hard cash without knowing for sure it is the right thing.

 

http://www.codingworkshop.com

 

Will this do the job and is it worth shelling out £12.95 or is there some other way (cheaper or free) that I can do what I want.

 

sorry for the non caching topic but I thought I might find out some techie info here

 

Cheers

 

Donnie

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Maybe there should be a Geocaching ring-tone

 

When you come across another person near the cache site, just play your special ring-tone to identify yourself as a cacher

[NeilFord]

Wouldn't that be the default Nokia ring tone?

 

"HELLO! I'M OUT CACHING!" :-)

 

- Neil.

[NeilFord]

I'm not familiar with the Sharp phones (been a Nokia person for most of my mobile using time) but check out this thread here, as it may contain some useful info.

 

It does seem that with the GX10i, WAP is the only option however.

 

- Neil.

[+Seasider]

Don't know this phone but with my Nokia 3650 I just bluetooth the ringtones across once they've been converted to the correct format. No WAP charges to pay. At £7 per MB WAP ain't cheap so if you are transferring a lot of stuff it might be cheaper to get your PC bluetooth enabled and then your only concern is the size of your MM card. I didn't have to pay for a format converter as Nokia provided it with the phone.

 

With music videos (which can be upto 2Mb) I just take the card out of the phone and put it in my PC card reader. I even had the entire spiderman & matrix 2 movies on my phone once - I've got a 128Mb card though!

 

Have fun!

 

Cheers!

 

Seasider

[+Naefearjustbeer]

I unfortunately did not get a bluetooth phone. I do have a little program that converts ringtones to a small format so that they dont take up much space or cost a lot to download. I just have to work out how to transfer them from my pc. The coding workshop program says it can do it but it cost 12.95 to get it working, As I am only interested in getting a couple of different tones on my phone so it is not worth the money, I would be just as well paying £3 a go on a comercial download. But I dont want to do that because I have the tones on my pc already!!