Joseph Moon
07-31-2006, 01:12 AM
Okay - I am so close to throwing this freakin' phone through the wall... Another hour of my life is wasted as I search for more clues on why the custom ringtones have stopped working...
Anyone who has any of the applications running on their Palm Treo 700w - please respond to this message...
Pocket Music
Pocket Player
PocketInformant 2005
I also need to know if you have custom .mp3 ringtones assigned to any of your contacts in the PI software.
For those with a programmers mind - here is what I have discovered...
WM5 no longer acknowledges either the \Windows\Rings directory and/or any .mp3 ringtone in that directory. System applications such as NOTIFICATIONS does not play any of the files in the \WINDOWS\RINGS directory. But I can play all of the files in that directory with Pocket Music - so the files are good. Moving the .mp3 files out into the \Windows directory does not help as the NOTIFICATIONS app does not look for custom .mp3 files in that directory.
When a caller calls the phone, and the assigned ringtone can not be found/played, WM5 will select the annoying standard Treo Classic.mid to play. To get around this, I have to clear the assigned ringtone and let it default to the NOTIFICATIONS assigned KNOWN CALLER ringtone - which is a .mid file that came with the phone.
I am certain all of this began when I was evaluating and selecting a music program... Pocket Player was the first to be installed - and the ringtones appeared to be working ok after that install... But as Pocket Player became more and more of a problem with memory, I installed Pocket Music. This is when the ringtones went nuts. I uninstalled Pocket Music to get my ringtones back - believing that it was a registry entry that got tweaked at install... But that didn't work... The ringtone problem remained... I then reinstalled Pocket Player - hoping that program would fix the registry entry... But that didn't help... I finally decided to re-install Pocket Music so that I could at least listen to my music... And that is where I am at... I have a music player I like, but my ringtones are useless...
I have been through the registry a 100 times... I am good enough at the regsitry to know what it is saying, but not that good to know if something is wrong...
I am so desperate for help... I am sure a registry entry was changed during the installation of Pocket Music...
Any clues of your experiences could help me locate the issue...
Thanks for your help...
Joseph...
Anyone who has any of the applications running on their Palm Treo 700w - please respond to this message...
Pocket Music
Pocket Player
PocketInformant 2005
I also need to know if you have custom .mp3 ringtones assigned to any of your contacts in the PI software.
For those with a programmers mind - here is what I have discovered...
WM5 no longer acknowledges either the \Windows\Rings directory and/or any .mp3 ringtone in that directory. System applications such as NOTIFICATIONS does not play any of the files in the \WINDOWS\RINGS directory. But I can play all of the files in that directory with Pocket Music - so the files are good. Moving the .mp3 files out into the \Windows directory does not help as the NOTIFICATIONS app does not look for custom .mp3 files in that directory.
When a caller calls the phone, and the assigned ringtone can not be found/played, WM5 will select the annoying standard Treo Classic.mid to play. To get around this, I have to clear the assigned ringtone and let it default to the NOTIFICATIONS assigned KNOWN CALLER ringtone - which is a .mid file that came with the phone.
I am certain all of this began when I was evaluating and selecting a music program... Pocket Player was the first to be installed - and the ringtones appeared to be working ok after that install... But as Pocket Player became more and more of a problem with memory, I installed Pocket Music. This is when the ringtones went nuts. I uninstalled Pocket Music to get my ringtones back - believing that it was a registry entry that got tweaked at install... But that didn't work... The ringtone problem remained... I then reinstalled Pocket Player - hoping that program would fix the registry entry... But that didn't help... I finally decided to re-install Pocket Music so that I could at least listen to my music... And that is where I am at... I have a music player I like, but my ringtones are useless...
I have been through the registry a 100 times... I am good enough at the regsitry to know what it is saying, but not that good to know if something is wrong...
I am so desperate for help... I am sure a registry entry was changed during the installation of Pocket Music...
Any clues of your experiences could help me locate the issue...
Thanks for your help...
Joseph...