{"id":1597,"date":"2010-12-01T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T10:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2010-12-01T21:24:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T10:24:56","slug":"custom-ringtones-for-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/custom-ringtones-for-windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Ringtones for Windows Phone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one for the night.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"ChevronWP7 custom ringtone manager | ChevronWP7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chevronwp7.com\/post\/2054291102\/chevronwp7-custom-ringtone-manager\" target=\"_blank\">ChevronWP7 custom ringtone manager<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0,<\/li>\n<li>Ringtones in WMA audio format encoded @ 48KHz \u00a0(you can use <a title=\"Expression Encoder 4 | Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/expression\/products\/Encoder4_Overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Expression Encoder 4<\/a> to help you),<\/li>\n<li>Windows Phone 7 Developer SDK (to deploy the special XAP application to your phone).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you can manage all of that, you can load up to five ringtones to your Windows Phone &#8211; 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/custom-ringtones-for-windows-phone-7\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,151,18,674],"tags":[1123,530,1125,1124,462,2246,1122,456,2337,350],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-phone-7","tag-net-framework","tag-audio","tag-chevronwp7","tag-expression-encoder","tag-jailbreak","tag-microsoft","tag-ringtones","tag-sdk","tag-windows-phone-7","tag-wma","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}