Dec 01 2010

Custom Ringtones for Windows Phone 7

Just a quick one for the night.

A little while ago a piece of jailbreak software was released for Windows Phone 7 but there has been no actual use for it yet on consumer phones. Well, someone has been working away and has come up with a small homebrew application to fix an issue with Windows Phone 7 concerning the inability to add custom ring tones (apparently a feature slated for release in January).

The ChevronWP7 custom ringtone manager essentially pushes a specially formatted WMA audio file to an application on the phone from a desktop application on a Windows computer. You will need a few things to get it working though, such as:

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0,
  • Ringtones in WMA audio format encoded @ 48KHz  (you can use Expression Encoder 4 to help you),
  • Windows Phone 7 Developer SDK (to deploy the special XAP application to your phone).

If you can manage all of that, you can load up to five ringtones to your Windows Phone – for everyone else I would probably recommend you wait for the update to be released by Microsoft in the new year as it is not for the faint of heart!

Boydo

My name is Boyd and I’m a Service Management Specialist with a knack for operational data gathering, transformation, analysis and reporting.

In 2012, I obtained my Masters of Science in Information Technology through the University of New South Wales @ The Australia Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA).

I was also part of an online community known as the Panasonic Insider Crew in the capacity of “Insider Guru” for Panasonic Australia where I interacted with other tech enthusiasts and find out more about Panasonic's latest gadgets.

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