Apache Ring Tones

[thrdcoas]

How do I install ring tones on the Apache.

[Lvballer06]

drop them in the windows/rings folder.
~mike

[emmfan]

One thing is that if you have installed an mp3 player other than the default Windows Media, then you will not be able to use mp3s for your ringtones. You can always just re-sample the wav files.

[Lvballer06]

I have installed TCPMP and can use mp3s as ringtones.....so I dunno what ur talkin bout. :D

[mackaby007]

I have installed TCPMP and can use mp3s as ringtones.....so I dunno what ur talkin bout. :D

I think the problem is that if you install 3rd party appl MP3 player and allow it to be associated with MP3's specifically, then Windows & phone rings will no longer automatically be associated with MP3's. This happened to me using PocketMusic, where on installation it offered to be associated with all these different formats. I thought 'Yeah Great' why not? Afterwards none of my MP3 Ringtones worked until I found this out.
So try disasociating all MP3's from your media player if you want Windows to recognise it for Ringtones. The downside is that in order to play your MP3's through your chosen MP3 player, you will have to 'File/open' (or something similiar) from within the player itself. Not a major problem, unless you like to select your MP3s through File Explorer, in which case you would have to associate your chosen file-type (MP3) from within the options menu of your 3rd party player.

Same goes for TCPMP and WMP10. If you associate .wmv or .wma in TCPMP and then usually select single tunes/vids through file explorer, then WMP10 will no longer be the default player as you associated that file type to another program!

Sorry bout the long post but It frustrated me to no end when I first got my WM device. Hope it helps.