text and email sound notifications...........no options?

Incredible2 is my first smart phone so maybe I'm missing something here. Can't I customize the text and email alerts with my own sound or am I stuck with the options that are on the phone? Even with the volume turned up all the way I can't hear any alert unless the phone is out of my pocket and sitting right next to me. Any suggestions?

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Ann154

crusher wrote:
Incredible2 is my first smart phone so maybe I'm missing something here. Can't I customize the text and email alerts with my own sound or am I stuck with the options that are on the phone? Even with the volume turned up all the way I can't hear any alert unless the phone is out of my pocket and sitting right next to me. Any suggestions?

You can set a custom ringtone for text messages, email, gtalk, gmail, etc. by going into each app, press the menu button and select settings. There will be an option to change the ringtone.

For your own custom ringtones, place the mp3 or audio files in the following on the sd card. The "SD carddrive" is the root of the sd card or drive letter when it is plugged into the computer.

SD carddrive:\media\audio\ringtones

SD carddrive:\media\audio\notifications

SD carddrive:\media\audio\alarms

Once the files are in those folders, the phone will automatically found the files and list them in the ringtone selection list. You might have to reboot the phone to force a rescan of the sd card.

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Ann154

crusher wrote:
Incredible2 is my first smart phone so maybe I'm missing something here. Can't I customize the text and email alerts with my own sound or am I stuck with the options that are on the phone? Even with the volume turned up all the way I can't hear any alert unless the phone is out of my pocket and sitting right next to me. Any suggestions?

You can set a custom ringtone for text messages, email, gtalk, gmail, etc. by going into each app, press the menu button and select settings. There will be an option to change the ringtone.

For your own custom ringtones, place the mp3 or audio files in the following on the sd card. The "SD carddrive" is the root of the sd card or drive letter when it is plugged into the computer.

SD carddrive:\media\audio\ringtones

SD carddrive:\media\audio\notifications

SD carddrive:\media\audio\alarms

Once the files are in those folders, the phone will automatically found the files and list them in the ringtone selection list. You might have to reboot the phone to force a rescan of the sd card.

crusher

Thanks for the response. I connected the phone to the computer, opened the drive and there is no drive that you mentioned for the SD card. Do I need to format the card on the phone first or am I just and idiot and not seeing something ? The sounds that I want to load for alerts are listed but nothing for the card. If you give up on my ignorance I understand but would appreciate any more help you can give.

THANKS

Blackepoxy

You can use a file explorer to do this, download es file explorer from the market.
You can use to view and modify sd card contents and create the new folders without having to connect the phone to a PC.
Create the directory add listed above then just copy or move whatever files you want to use and put them in that directory.