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I have wanted to find a way to add my own ringtone to my Android OS on my HTC Evo. Not only did I want to add my own ringtone I wanted to apply them to my notification sounds. I had been playing around with it for months now. Finally, with some help from my brother, I have been able to add any song on my phone as my ringtone and/or notification sound! Is this something you have been trying to do too? The software does not automate the notification sounds the same way it does with the ringtones. I can give you step by step instructions.

First you connect your phone to your computer. I don’t use HTC Sync because it has only worked once for me. You can choose to have the phone be seen as a ‘disk drive’. An easy way to do this is to connect the phone, then drag the *top notification bar down, choose the option that shows how the phone is connected and choose to ‘mount as disk drive’, Click done. Now you can go to your computer and see the files on your phone.  So, I have a file called Ringtones, I think it is default because I don’t remember putting it there however that may not be the case. Either way another file that will be used is the media file. In this file there is an audio file which has ringtones and notifications. You can set it up whichever way is going to work for you. However when you go through the process the created ringtones default to the file called Ringtones not the one in the media file.

Stay with me cause I’m getting to the good part. Now that you know the back-end a little, let’s create a ringtone. First change how the computer sees the phone, ‘charge only’ is a good option (refer above: via *top notification bar) .Open your Music. Find a song that you would like to hear every time your phone rings. Press Play. Notice the # location of the part you would like to have as the actual ringtone. This helps a little when you are doing the next steps. While it’s playing choose Menu, set as ringtone, trim the ringtone. Do that by moving the left and right square to select. Choose ‘Set as’, ‘phone ringtone’. Choosing phone ringtone saves it in the folder I mentioned before. This way you will be able to find it and move it if needed.

Again we have to change how the computer sees the phone. Change it back to ‘mount as disk drive’. Open the folder to view files (window should pop up) or go to my computer.  Open the Ringtone folder, the song that you just trimmed should be in there, saved with  RT_ the name of the file. If you did it more than once to test it they will be numbered. Cool?.....cool.

Now that you have the ringtone saved you can copy it over to the other ringtone file inside the media file. This makes it so you can choose it when you update the ringtone via the phone.  One important thing to consider is when creating a snippet of the song specifically for the notifications folder only do 10 seconds or less because once the notification sound starts you can’t stop it, quiet it, or turn it off. Also when you are sleeping and the phone is charging on your night stand the notification sound will go off when you get an email at 3am, which will probably wake you up and gets really annoying.

Don’t forget if you are unable to see the song in Settings, Sound, notification sound: you may have to change how the computer sees the phone, or just unplug it. Also if it is shaded, make sure your volume is up and not on vibrate.

In the end I really like my HTC Evo. Nothing really compares to the iPhone because of its intuitiveness but with the iPhone you would be forced to buy the ringtone through iTunes…..Gustapo! It’s a conspiracy!

Next thing to learn is how to get a screenshot of my phone. Thought I would do some for examples on this post but apparently it's not as straight forward as I thought. There is always something else to learn how to do!