How Do I Convert Nokia Ringtones To My Phone Format?

Your mobile phone is able to receive programmable ring tones, but there are not good enough ring tones that can be found on the net. Or have you have set your heart on some exciting ring tines found only on the Nokia Mobile Phone? Here is a brief description of what you should do.

There are many kinds of ring tone converter soft wares available, free or paid. These soft wares allow the conversion of any Nokia ring tone to at least 14 other formats present today that are used with other mobile phone models. The most popular converters are used for mobiles like Samsung, Ericsson, Siemens and Motorola.

The most successful converting software that is used to convert Nokia ring tones to any other phone's format is the Uniring, the free Universal Ring tone Converter which is easily available on the net and the service is free of charge. The output of Uniring is in the form of “&keypress sequences.&”. These sequences represent the actual numbers that are needed to compose the original melody in any other mobile. In some cases, the built-in features cab be used to send the ring tone to any mobile phone like Motorola or Samsung.

Composing a ring tone

At times, people want to compose their own ring tones. For this purpose, the original ring tone should be first converted into the phone's format, for which Nokring, a freeware program widely available on the Internet can be used. The output produced by Norking is in the RTTTL format which is then put in the Uniring for conversion.

How to transfer ring tones with the Nokia binary format to your own phone

There are some models that were distributed in North-America including the Nokia 8260 and Nokia 5165 phones that support the Nokia binary format, often referred to as &Nokia 8260 format.&. however, these formats have been not in use lately and Nokia has sticked to the other RTTTL formats.
Nokia binary format is a hexadecimal code that is easily read by phones that are compatible with this technology. This binary ring tone then needs to be send to your phone through a free SMS gateway:
Once the ring tine reaches the phone, it is automatically uploaded as a melody and it can be easily listen to and stored on the mobile phone. If it does not, then it means that your phone is not binary ring tone compatible or that the ring tone was not transferred correctly.

At times, some ring tones found on the net or from other messaging systems such as free ring tone websites add signatures and other data on top or at the end of messages, which can affect your phone's ability to recognize an incoming ring tone embedded in the message.

After you have found your ring tine that you need to convert in to your phone format, paste the ring tone into the large text box available with the conversion software like Uniring and just click on the format you want for your own mobile phone.