Creating MP3 ringers for the 7135 can be a little tricky. You need to keep in mind the following: <ul><li>Amount of time the ringer should last. </li>
<li>It will loop during the duration of the incoming call, so even if it's 5 seconds long, it will play over and over again until the incoming call is answered or times out. </li>
<li>Making a real long ringer is fine, but you may not hear it all if you answer your calls quickly. </li>
<li>The MP3 you choose, and the ringer it creates is yours, and the loudness of it is your problem </li></ul>There are some basic things you will need to edit, convert, and load this successfully (other than already having the software installed for synchronizing your 7135 to the PC): <ul><li><b>Kyocera MP3 - Ringer Maker</b> - You can find it under the "7135\Additional Apps\MP3 Ringer Maker\" directory on the CD.</li>
<li><b>MP3 to WAV converter</b> - You can find free and free to try converters here for Windows. I happen to use Easy CD-DA Extractor as it does CD ripping, converting, bit rate changing, etc all in one application. MP3 is a compressed audio file that can't really be edited properly. It's a "zipped" version of the WAV that is extracted as it's played. Some editors will allow you to edit the MP3, but you are really editing the WAV, and that's fine.</li>
<li><b>WAV editor</b> - (Windows PC's come with "Sound Recorder" in the accessories folder on the start menu. It works fine for this). If you need a WAV editor, look here.</li></ul>This is assuming you already have the MP3 you want to use. If you don't have the MP3, but have a CD with a song you want to use, the link above also shows CD rippers/encoders for extracting CD audio to a WAV or MP3 file. Once you have your MP3 file, you will need to convert it to a WAV file for editing using the following steps: <ol><li>Take the WAV file and open it in your favorite WAV editor. Find the section you want to use as the ringer sound and remove the audio before and after that section in time. Depending on the editing software you use, you can change the properties of the WAV file and play with the sounds.</li>
<li>Save the edited WAV file (some editors will allow you to save it as a MP3, and that saves the need to convert it. </li>
<li>Convert the new edited WAV, back to MP3 using your converter. If it asks you for the bit rate, etc, stick with anything between 64-128kbps. Any more is useless for a ringer as the "quality" is not that important, any less will have poor sound. I personally use 64kbps for the ringers to keep them small, and they sound great while making a 20 second ringer only 80kb.</li>
<li>Rename the new MP3 file to something seven characters or less. I would recommend ring001.mp3, ring002.mp3, etc. </li>
<li>Open the Kyocera MP3 - Ringer Maker application. Browse to your new MP3 using the "Open File" button. </li>
<li>Choose ringer as the type of sound you want to create. </li>
<li>Leave the "Maximum kB" box blank. </li>
<li>Press the create button.</li></ol>The Kyocera MP3 - Ringer Maker will create a PDB file in the same directory as the MP3 you used. Install this PDB like any other Palm application to the handset via a synchronization. After installation, reset the 7135 by pressing the reset button under the battery door. Your new ringer will be available after it boots back up.
Another Option
Another option is to not edit the MP3. You can pick any MP3 you want using the Kyocera MP3 - Ringer Maker. The "Maximum kB" box will allow you to specify the size of that file. What this does is allows the tool to start from the beginning of the MP3 and create the ringer until it reaches the size limit you specified. For example, if you have a 4MB (4096KB) MP3, and you specify a 1000KB limit, you will get about 1/4 of the MP3 as the ringer. I that happened to be a 4 minute MP3, more than likely, that's around a one minute ringer. This is obviously the easy way, but leaves you to the mercy of the beginning of the song.
Either way, the PDB contains the raw MP3, with a Palm wrapper. You'll notice this when you see that the convert works in a second no matter the size of the file.
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