Comments on: MP3 to Nextel i730? How?

Question: MP3 to Nextel i730? How?

kc0dxh — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:15:56 -0800

How can I take a mp3 and load it as a ringtone on my Nextel Motorola i730? It's a lousy question, I know, but I just can't find the answer on either Nextel.com or with Google.

By: k8t

k8t — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:20:04 -0800

Did you look at yesterday's questions?

By: kc0dxh

kc0dxh — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:01:47 -0800

Yes, that was for a Samsung phone. This phone is very different, but thanks k8t.

By: itchie

itchie — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:41:21 -0800

Would Mobile17 work?

By: phox

phox — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:04:50 -0800

Nextel makes it hard to do that on their phones. Come to think of it, Nextel makes it hard to do anything, especially cancel. I used to load ringers on that exact phone. It's been a year or two though, so the technique may have changed. You need a data cable and a program to load the ringers, which need to be in the correct format(bit rate and wav). I used a program called webjal. Check out www.howardforums.com for all phone info or www.nextelmodz.com for the nextel niche. You'll need to search a lot to figure it out. The i730 is a Falcon series IDEN phone, this will help your search. Good luck.

By: baylink

baylink — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:46:13 -0800

You need WebJAL.

That's all I'm going to say. :-)

I've done it; it works.

[ On reading more closely; what phox said. ]

By: kc0dxh

kc0dxh — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:43:58 -0800

Holy Hampsters! Know wonder I couldn't figure this out. Thanks for the WebJAL idea, that was the springboard I was looking for. Who knew I'd have to install a web server just to get a ringtone. I guess this is why Nextel never dominated the market.

By: baylink

baylink — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:47:15 -0800

Kinda but not quite: Nextel's goal *was to make themselves money*.

If you can load ringtones onto your handset yourself, you won't pay them $3.99 for a 12 second snippet of a sing you'd pay iTunes $.99 for all of...