Motorola V710

can you play it in the sounds menu ?

Yes. Main menu - 6 - 3 - flintphone - play will play the ringtone. apply as ringtone and it won't play when phone is called. Took it to several verizon people and they are stumped. Very fustrating.

??????? you could try several things,probably none will work.try the power cycle by removing your battery for several min. try setting the midi as tone for voicemail,then send yourself a voicemail to see if it works.if it still don't work it may be a bad file(a little over my head).last resort i would try to downlaod the midi again,call customer support and they will take off the extra charge.if you do download again it would probably be a good idea to delete the "bad" midi before downloading again.good luck 😁

Tried as ring for the inbox and sent message. Still no noise. The ringtone was a wave and I changed it to midi on itunes. Works as sound but not as ringtone. Really wanted my cell to sound like Flints hotline - or austin powers car phone if you're a youngster. Thanks for taking the time to try to help.

Waves don't work -- and midi's don't work. Only mp3's will work in this phone.

The ONLY reason midi is even discussed, is because mp3's are disquised as midi's -- so that they can be sent using Verizons Pix Place messaging service.

Once you're in Pix Place you select CREATE and then go on to prepare your file to send.

Here's the deal --- you take your xxx.mp3 file and 'rename' it to xxx.mid --- you don't actually convert the file. This renamed file is what you send to the phone. Verizon will only allow you to send .mid's and NOT mp3's (using Pix Place) so you're just scamming their system! Your phone never looks at the file extension -- so when you go to play the file, it plays just like the mp3 that it really is!

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I download a short piece from walmart and sent that as a midi. It works. I looked at the details of both files. The one that I had trouble with didn't show a bit rate. It does on itunes, but not on my phone.

Visioneer said:
Waves don't work -- and midi's don't work. Only mp3's will work in this phone.

The ONLY reason midi is even discussed, is because mp3's are disquised as midi's -- so that they can be sent using Verizons Pix Place messaging service.

Once you're in Pix Place you select CREATE and then go on to prepare your file to send.

Here's the deal --- you take your xxx.mp3 file and 'rename' it to xxx.mid --- you don't actually convert the file. This renamed file is what you send to the phone. Verizon will only allow you to send .mid's and NOT mp3's (using Pix Place) so you're just scamming their system! Your phone never looks at the file extension -- so when you go to play the file, it plays just like the mp3

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dsnelson said:

That is complete and utter nonsense. I play REAL midi files (which I created myself) all the time -- no sweat.
--Dave
Dave:

I have a piano with a PianoDisk MIDI player. There is more than one type of MIDI, (1 and 0, I think) maybe that is the problem.

You ought to tell Visioneer where he can get your files and see if that's it. I know the piano only plays one type, but I don't know much about ringtones.

wnrussell said:
I have a piano with a PianoDisk MIDI player. There is more than one type of MIDI, (1 and 0, I think) maybe that is the problem.

You ought to tell Visioneer where he can get your files and see if that's it. I know the piano only plays one type, but I don't know much about ringtones.

Ah, so! That never occurred to me. I create my own MIDI files with Mozart v7 (available from www.mozart.co.uk in a free trial version). They work fine -- not sure what type. The Mozart doc says they are "...a standard MIDI format."

--Dave

wnrussell said:
You ought to tell Visioneer where he can get your files and see if that's it. I know the piano only plays one type, but I don't know much about ringtones.

Okay, here we go... Visioneer, if you are there, go to this link:

http://dsnelson.fastmail.fm/ »

Click on "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.MID"

I used that for a ringtone during the Christmas season... see if it works for you. Maybe wnrussell has something there.......

--Dave