[CoLoCo] GNU/Linux friendly phone: The Motorola Razr V3T on Ubuntu Fiesty

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Very cool, thanks Ringo!

On 6/23/07, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently got a Black Motorola Razr V3T and here's my little tutorial
> on how to get them to work with GNU/Linux. When I started doing this,
> there were a lot of resources but I didn't know which ones to use. I
> tried a variety of programs and found that I didn't even need any. My
> goal was to have my phone play "damn it feels good to be a gangsta"
> every time a certain person called me. I started at
> http://stephen.evanchik.com/node/43. This works under fiesty with
> restricted repositories enabled. I'd appreciate if somebody else could
> try this because I had lots of packages installed already and I don't
> know which ones I used that aren't default.
>
> So here we go...
>
>
> 1. Add a contact in your address book
> You'll need to add a contact to your address book that you want to
> play the specified ringtone for. (You should be on your main screen)
> Hit the down arrow, hit the up arrow, and select [New Entry] (you can
> skip this if the person is already in your address book). Put in their
> information
>
> 2. Enable Ringer IDs
> (You should be on your main screen)  Hit the menu key, go to settings,
> go to ring styles, set style to soft (you can change this later),
> select "soft detail", go to Ringer IDs and change to ON
>
> 3. Get your MP3 or WAV file
> I used an MP3 file, but supposedly a wav will work as well for
> starters. Put it in your home directory.
>  3a. Open a terminal
> Open your terminal by going to Applications>Accessories>Terminal. Type:
> sudo apt-get install mplayer audacity lame
> mplayer -ao pcm filename.mp3
> and hit enter. You'll need to change "filename.mp3" to the name of your file.
>  3b. Edit the file
> Go to places>home folder. Right click on audiodump.wav and select open
> with>audacity. Now edit it to the proportions you'd like. Make the
> sound file as short as possible (no need to be longer than 15 sec).
> Save that file (in your home directory) and then go back to your
> terminal.
>  3c. Encode the file
> Type this command:
> lame -b 64 -s 44.1 -mm cutsound.wav output.mp3
> Where cutsound.wav is the name of the file you just saved, and
> output.mp3 is the name of the new file it will create.
> 4. Transfer the file
> Hook up your phone to your computer via the USB cable. If a window
> does not pop up in 10 seconds, click on the new removable drive icon
> on your desktop (mine was called "disk").  Go to disk>mobile>audio and
> drop the new MP3 file in there. Eject the disk and disconnect it.
> 5. Configure your phone
> Turn your phone off, then turn it on again. Go to menu>fun and
> apps>sounds. Hit the menu key and select switch storage device. If
> memory card is not one of the options, you are already in the right
> place so just hit back. If it is in the list, select memory card. Now
> you should see your new MP3 file in the list of sounds. Click on it,
> hit menu, and select move. For the destination, select phone. *phew*.
> Now it's finally in the right place. Now, go back to your main screen.
> Hit the down arrow key to get to your address book, find the contact
> of choice, and edit their information. At the bottom you should see a
> ringer ID option, edit that and set it to your new MP3 file. Voila,
> you have a custom ringer ID.
>
> Hope this helps somebody, it was a bitch to figure out. Another
> program you might want to check out is moto4lin (available in the
> repositories). I couldn't get it to work with my phone, but I know it
> has worked for previous Ubuntu releases. I'd really appreciate it if
> somebody would try this to check to make sure these instructions work,
> even with other RAZR models.
>
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