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ok heres the deal

got a nokia 6100 for a knock down price off a mate. seems like a pretty good mobile now ive had a play with it, a bit limited in the memory dept, but once i strip out the rubbish standard tones/pics it'll have enough for anything i want to throw in it, and more phone numbers / contacts / texts / diary and to-do entries than you can throw a stick at.

i'd like to just get a couple decent wallpapers/screensavers in it, and some poly tones, to be going on with. however i'd like it to be unique so i fancy some stuff i can dig up out of my quite extensive high quality picture and MIDI archive on the hard disc, rather than paying £2.50 for some badly programmed/drawn trash that every barry round the corner will have.

i've heard of sites where you can load in your own stuff and have it sent over to your multimedia mobile cheaply (or cost-free!) and easily.. but does anyone on here know of any?
(because you just know something like "free ringtones" will be spammed out to the point of uselessness on google)

so far i'm relying on the Dr Who & Darkness ringtones the previous owner paid for, and transferring pics by snapping them direct off the monitor with the nifty but oh so low quality plug-in camera that came with it

When I had a 6100 I bought a data cable from Carphone Warehouse, cost about £30. Software itself wasn't all that great but you can back up your phonebook and contacts, sync with Outlook, and transfer pics messages and ringtones from your HDD with no problem.

Coincidentally, when I got my hands on my current Moto v600 I went out and bought the equivalent data cable for that too lol. Works much better cos its official Moto kit. Might be worth finding out how much the official Nokia cable is if you want to splash some cash

The (possibly cheaper) alternative to the cable is an infrared device for your computer that your phone can talk to. My Dad's got one for his 7210 but I've never used one so don't know what it'd be like tbh.

HTH

i suggest just going to google on ur mobile and typing in games wallpapers etc. most that appear are free to download

really?

cool.... but i still want to make my own
(i think a data cable for this phoen would be quite cheap off ebay now, or i could use mums laptop with it's IR port...)


aha!!!! what if i make a wap page e.g. on my nasty ol' geocities site and load them on there?

That would work, you'd just pay for the WAP call then (about 10p per min, dependant on network and tariff)

If your files are already in MIDI format you can download the software from Nokia.com, then you just need someway of transmitting these to the phone (via an infra red device or data cable)

hth

You could also try emailing them to the phone if it has the email function. Thats how i used to do it with my dodgy old NEC (brick)

mmm, inspired by a free ringtone site i bodged my way to over the wap, i'm gonna try just throwing them into my rarely-used webspace and seeing if the phone can retrieve them. start off simple and small filesize with yellow submarine or something....

no.....

better than that...

LEMMINGS!!!!!

schweet!


(google wasnt anywhere near as bad as i thought, but any site i reached required scrolling and clicking through about 10 "More...>>>" pages to even get to a link where you could choose between mono or poly - screw that!)

Hope i can find some simple freeware midi software or something now though - a bit put out that my 3330 hasn't got the function to send it's (masterfully composed! ) mono ringtones on to a better place like the previous Nokia (which my bro now has) and Sendo did. Arse crisps!

*marvells at little piece of joyous technology in hand, no bigger than a pack of 10 B&H superkings, merrily squirting out a MIDI version of python's "how sweet to be an idiot"*



been waiting a good 8 years for this sort of thing!!

cant figure out how to get JPGs into it though...

OK kind of answering my own questions I know, but a quick DIY guide for getting a Nokia 6100 (& others built on the same core system) Toned & Papered on the cheap.

This may also work for other phones, and for Java games / applications. I'm not much into that type of thing though... I have Speakerphone, pics, tunes, the built in organiser, and Space Invaders. Happiness.

Tip: Use geocities. Trying to use Imageshack will frighten you into thinking it doesnt accept JPGs

1. Doublecheck it uses MIDI for music and GIF/JPG for pictures (at 128x128 resolution)
2. Find your files... whether off the web, or your hard disc, making them yourself, etc. Helps if you choose a fairly bright picture with moderate contrast. The midi files should be as simple as they can be whilst still sounding alright (any more than 8 channels and it won't play), and short - if you're on orange like me, as the answerphone cuts in after the 8th "ring" and anything more than about 40 seconds will get chopped. I think they need to be under 16kb as well.
3. If absolutely neccessary use nokia's downloadable tools to dick about with the MIDIs
4. Use your favourite paint program (except MS Paint) to crop your pic to a suitable square, and shrink down to 128x128 "smoothly" and add a mild sharpening effect. Save to JPG - if you can adjust the compression, somewhere around a 4kb (tidgy i know, but with only 640kb of user memory on tap...) final filesize gives great results for most pics. 5kb-6kb for tricky ones that otherwise look crap, or 2-3kb for simple ones. (dont just go find a 640x480 desktop wallpaper thats 50kb or so and try using that - waste of memory and looks bobbins)
5. Log into your (or create a) Geocities website account, and select file manager
6. Upload your files there, with fairly simple names e.g. frogs.jpg, axelf.mid... if you need to keep them separate, short folders such as /ptone and /ppic will do the trick
7. Point phone's WAP browser at each file in turn..... eg for one of mine, http://www.geocities.com/tahrey/phonemi ... gadget.mid or http://www.geocities.com/tahrey/phonepi ... ritter.jpg.... breaking all the rules of shortness i know - and thats why i mentioned it, because i had to tap that into the handset

The phone will now load the picture or tone (reading "connecting" all the while) and display a message when complete, hopefully "ringing tone / image recieved". Drop the WAP call using the red button and continue to check and then save it. The pictures will look a bit dodgy til you set them as wallpaper, as they've been reduced sloppily by the phone's low-level software... and don't be dismayed if your tone doesnt sound perfect, theres none too many out there that dont have too many simultaneous notes for the device and HAVENT been programmed by a moron.

Tip: If you have a lot of them to load up, create a bookmark to the first one, then just edit the last part of the bookmark address for each subsequent one so you dont have to keep retyping.


There's a cookie waiting for the first person who can tell me how to send my old mono tones to the new one however, even if i have to write them out from the old handset on a scrap of paper and then send them back as a text message to the new handset.