Telus broke my legs

December 26, 2008 12:31 PM

I have a Samsung SCH-A950 phone. Telus has crippled it. Has anyone figured out how to subvert the ringtone download store and use mp3 ringtones?

Things I have tried already:

-BitPim (doesn't know the phone exists when I plug it in)

-Renaming an mp3 to .mid and putting it in "my sounds" on the phone (option to set as ringtone does not exist with telus firmware)

-Mobile web download sites (telus either blocks the download or doesn't let me set the file as a ringtone if it succeeds)

disclaimer: What I'm doing isn't illegal, I'm using mp3s to which I own the copyright.

posted by tehloki to Technology (8 answers total)

With an old phone I had to set BitPim to blindly try USB-Serial COM ports and maybe a few different settings until something worked, but that did work though BitPim didn't autodetect the phone in any way. I'm on a different computer now, but if you poke around the options you should see how to do this. I think it's worth a try.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 12:54 PM on December 26, 2008

Try Myxertones.com - worked for my last-year's-model samsung...
posted by Aquaman at 12:55 PM on December 26, 2008

Have you tried howardforums.com? I've never had a Telus phone they couldn't help me crack.
posted by Zozo at 1:03 PM on December 26, 2008

The BitPim site claims that it works with your phone.

I will say that when I wanted to use BitPim with an old Razr, it appeared that the software didn't work. A little Googling showed that I needed to either download the Motorola Developer Drivers or hook up using Bluetooth.

I'd second diving into howardforums.
posted by clearlynuts at 1:25 PM on December 26, 2008

Third vote for www.howardforums.com. They are the number one place for these things.
posted by tiamat at 10:47 PM on December 26, 2008

When I had a Telus 1950 I wasn't able to find a way to change the ringtone.
posted by Midnight Rambler at 11:32 PM on December 26, 2008

TO something other than what they gave me, that is.
posted by Midnight Rambler at 11:33 PM on December 26, 2008

Response by poster: tiamat, clearlynuts, Zozo: I've been all over howardforums before this, and it's full of people who are as frustrated and unable to do anything as I am with the telus-crippled SCH-a950 firmware on the phone.

Aquaman: myertones, like every other ringtone site I've tried, just allows me to download the sound file to my phone, but like any other sound file, it can't be set as a ringtone. The option just doesn't exist. The ringtones menu options consist of "GO TO THE TELUS RINGTONE STORE" and "GO TO THE TELUS RINGTONE STORE."
posted by tehloki at 10:20 AM on December 27, 2008 [1 favorite]