AT&T LG Vu Tutorials:How To Change Tone for Incoming TXT Messages
We know the AT&T LG Vu only offers the dozen or so pre-set incoming text tones, maybe you can download free mp3 ringtones for you LG Vu, but set the ringtone size only less than 300kb. you can learn how to bypass the 300kb ringtone file size limit here. We share the tutorial will teach you how to change tone for incoming txt messages.
To use bitpim with the Vu set you phone to an lg vx8700 same as the shine.
Instructions:
1. Install software listed below
2. Hook up phone
3. Launch BitPim (if using EFS, skip to step 12)
4. BitPim should show “Other CDMA phone on COMx” (where x is the COM port being used)
5. Choose Edit, Settings
6. Change Phone Type to “LG-VX8700″ (this is the CDMA version Shine)
7. Click OK to close
8. Choose View, View Filesystem
9. Click the Filesystem icon
10. Click the expand button beside “/”
11. It will say “Retrieving” for a minute or two
12. Expand to the following directory: /LGAPP/Media/Midis/RingTone
13. Add whatever MP3 ringtones you want by right-clicking on RingTone folder and selecting “New File …”
And a few final things to note:
* You can also modify sounds in other folders but you can generally only replace existing ones (ie. the new files
must have the same name)
* There is still a size restriction of 300kB on the ringtone MP3s so you can’t use a full song
* You can bypass the Java security restrictions by modifying the .pol files under /LGAPP/Media/Java/cert/
Download the Latest BitPim software and AT&T LG Vu PC Suite, also need usb driver, if you don’t download bitpim, you can to download EFS File Explorer, go here.
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