[WLUG] More Java phone stuff: Ringtones

[Pritpaul Mahal]

Try GCD Creator:  
https://web.archive.org/web/20090315011711/http://www.sprintusers.com:80/downloads/gcdcreator/


Quoting Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com>:

> I have managed to get app loading working on Java phones simply by
> putting a jar/jad pair of files in my www directory on Grex.
>
> However attempts to do the same with Ringtones have met with no success.
>
> Putting an mp3 file on Grex then downloading it directly just plays
> the file, and gives no option for using it any other way.
>
> Going through the stuff I got from archive's save of rumkin, I found
> reference to .gcd files, which are to ringtones and wallpapers what
> jad files are to jar files. Creating a .gcd file manually to point to
> the .mpg then trying to downoad it results in the phone's native
> browser saying "Unable to display the content".
>
> Rumkin is dead, and now so is Myxer. But I found that funformobile
> still (for now) has ringtones that can be installed in a java phone.
> They have an uploader too, but it wants a phone number to send it as
> an SMS. Not only does this cost me money, but gives away my phone
> number as well. So...
>
> It occurred to me to try something. I booted up Ubuntu with Firefox,
> and put a user agent spoofer on it, and set it to pretend to be my
> java phone. Then I went to funformobile and went after a ringtone. It
> balked at giving it to me on one page; but by switching the UA spoofer
> on and off and cutting and pasting links I managed to get funformobile
> to cough up an mp3 file and a php file whose contents are that of a
> gcd file, pointing to that mp3 file.
>
> So I edited the php file to point to the mp3 on grex, uploaded both to
> grex, and tried to install with the phone native browser. The mp3
> directly downloaded still just plays and doesn't present options to
> use it; and the php file still returns unable to display the content.
>
> What else does the phone want? What exactly did rumkin, and what does
> funformobile, do to get the file to work as a ringtone? Can anyone
> else make sense of it?
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