Copyright ring tones?

Is there any way to copy ring tones from one nokia phone to another.
I bought a ring tone from Vodafone, it works great on my phone, but I've
bought a new phone
and want to transfer it to the new phone........ Explorer won't let me copy
it.
Why pay again for something I already have.

Any ideas??

Cheers
Nutter

 

Use bluetooth or infrared to send if from the phone that has it and choose to
accept the file on the receiving phone, assuming both phones have one of those
technogolies in common.

 

And I should have said, if it's infrared you're using you need to turn it on
first on both phones. Most phones will only activate it for 10 or 15 mins.
Sending is usually done by navigating your way through the menus to your stuff
on your phone, into the sounds part, select the file, then choose options or
something like that and choose send, the phone will then want to know how to
send (pxt, infrared, bluetooth etc).

 

T'was the Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:35:49 +1300 when I remembered

I've seen a few phones that have DRM in relation to ring tones, is
there a little padlock next to the music icon when you view on your
phone? If so, I don't think you'll be able to copy that file, I
believe the download is licensed for that phone only.

I had a whole bunch of MP3s stored on the memory card of my 6680, did
a hard reset of the phone, lost all the activation keys for the MP3s,
and then they worked no more. There's an earlier thread featuring
abuse and also discussion on DRMs, the problem with DRMs is that it
doesn't effectively deal with situations like yours or mine. It's very
brittle in what it does allow, and if you're slightly outside those
defined bounds, it all goes to custard.

Having said that, it doesn't mean I'm not a fan of DRM. I think the
idea has promise. But say if a cellphone company has the records that
I paid for a song, shouldn't I be able to download that song from then
on whenever I like, incase I need to reset my phone, I buy a new phone
etc? I suppose they think from the point of view of "You could put
your sim into someone else's phone, and then download music you've
paid for onto their phone for free". I'm not too sure what the answer
there is, but it probably has something to do with the price of MP3s
downloaded through a cellphone company. $3.50 a track is pretty
expensive, though it does include data charges.

 

I can never get infrared to work, i have two nokia's same model actiavate
both of them and when ever i try and send something, i get sending
failed...and give up

KB

 

What about using a data cable and using nokia's pc suite?

ive saved over a $100 dollars download free midi files of ringtones i want,
using the sound converter in the suite, it can upload it to my phone for
free.

i would assume since you can transfer sounds from your comp-to-phone. you
might be able to go from phone-to-comp.

just a thought, off topic note. The data cable is around $200 in stores last
time i looked, i bought mine for $30 off trade me brand new, although didn't
come with any software and had no technical supported i downloaded
everything i needed off the nokia website

Cheers
KB

 

T'was the Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:03:08 +1300 when I remembered "krazy Bob"

Nokia provides their software free off their website. Motorola on the
other hand, doesn't, last time I checked it was about $29.95 US.

 

The Nokia CA-42 cable was $100 at DSE last time I looked.

 

Yeah, what a ripoff! You can get non-Nokia CA-42 cables from Trademe for
~$16.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

 

I have the DKU-5 cable which my manuals says it needs.

KB

 

For what model phone? Must be very old, the CA-42 works with a lot of
Nokias.