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Cool little tutorial on getting customized ringtones on your Kyrocera M1000 (Lingo).

Creating the ringtone:
I’m sure there are better tutorials out there for this, but I used the free Audacity. Simply take in your mp3 of choice, trim it down to your favorite 30 seconds, use the high-pass filter to drop everything below 100Hz (the ringer can’t really pump out the bass), and then use the default dynamic-range compression. Mix it down to a single mono track, and save as a 22KHz, 64kbps mp3. The total file size needs to be under about 500K.

Getting the Ringtone into the Lingo
You’ll need a website of some sort to upload the mp3 too, any free service will do, but the key is, there needs to be a direct URL to your mp3. If you can’t think of something easier, HotLinkFiles will work. Note the complete URL for the mp3. Enter the URL (using the handy QWERTY keyboard) into the web browser, and wait a minute for it to download. It will ask if you want to save the mp3 in your ‘Sounds’ directory– you do.

Activating the Ringtone
Just navigate into your ‘Media Gallery’, then ‘Sounds’ and then ‘Saved Sounds’. Your new mp3 should be at the top of the list, but find it and press ‘Options’ and then ‘Assign’. From there you can make it the default ringer or whatever you like.

Source: Gadgetize

Related to the last post. When switching to the Cricket network, you will not have web, and picture sms abilities. The post below over at howard forums will give you all of the information you need.

Link:  http://www.howardforums.com/showpost.php?p=9772640&postcount=2

A lot of people are beginning to take advantage of Cricket Mobile. It’s really gaining speed here in San Diego, and has been for quite some time in the more eastern regions of the U.S. Why wouldn’t it? The prices are great, there is no contract, unlimited sms, picture sms, internet, all kind of thing. Albeit, the internet from this network is a joke, but it’s generally pretty limited by the phone its self. Which brings me to my next point.

With all of these great prices and deals coming out of Cricket, people often get to the store, or start doing their research. Then they find out, the phone selection for cricket is terrible. The only thing close to a ‘cool’ or interactive phone, is the Kyocera Lingo. The lingo has a terrible internet display, comes with no serial cable, headphones for driving, and often de-synchs from the Cricket network causing missed calls, the inability to send sms messages, and more really weird issues. It breaks very easily, and costs well above what it should ($200.00). But it’s arguably the ‘best’ and most popular phone in their line up. What can be done about it?

Cricket works on the CDMA cellular network. That means a lot of VZW (verizon), and SNXTL(sprint) will work (granted sprint phones getting internet access is a bit trickier.) The two most common phones to be ‘converted’ are the Treo 600/650, and the LG enV. This guide is for the Treo 600/650. I may do one for the enV at a later date. Also, it should be said now, you may render your phone useless if caution, and patience is not exercised while doing this. But in the end, you will have a PDA on the Cricket network, even though Cricket tells you that just won’t work.

Guide just after the break.

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If you’ve ever tried to flash, hack, crack, transfer, do anything with a cell phone, that you really aren’t supposed to be doing, you will have heard of this tool.

QPST is a in-house cellphone manufacturer utility program that is used to edit many of the cell phone features that are not editable in any other way.

It was never meant for public consumption, so you can’t buy it anywhere, but it is in wide use. The reason it isn’t for everyone is that it is VERY powerful. You can destroy your phone at the click of a button and your cellular manufacturer will be under no obligation to fix it. If you don’t have a couple hundred dollars available that will allow you to replace your phone at full retail cost, don’t run this program.

You can do most things you might want, like uploading MP3’s to your phone or downloading pictures, through the somewhat safer program BitPIM. That program is available for download from SourceForge at the site http://www.bitpim.org/.

Direct Download (rapidshare): http://rapidshare.com/files/9279799/QPST_2.7_B215.zip

Torrent Download: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3516150/QPST_2.7_Build_215