Custom ringtones for the Chocolate

If you want to make mp3 ringtones for the LG VX8500 (Chocolate) is very simple:

First download and install the mp3 editor of your choice. I chose the freeware Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you are going to use Audacity then you will need the plugin for Audacity called Lame that allows you to save your edited mp3 as an mp3 clip. Get Lame here http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/lame.html.

Open your favorite mp3 song using Audacity. Edit the song anyway you see fit. Then save the project as an mp3. You can only do this if you have the Lame plugin. I unzipped this into the Audacity directory and then pointed Audacity to the lame enc.dll file when prompted to do so.

Now to get the mp3 clip onto the VX8500 to use it as a ringtone. I downloaded and installed Bitpim. Get Bitpim here http://www.bitpim.org/#download

Plug the USB cable that comes in the Music Essential Kit in to the data port on your phone and open Bitpim. At first Bitpim will detect your phone as "Other CDMA phone" Go into the "edit settings" and change phone type to LG-VX8300. Apparently the VX8300 is similar enough to the VX8500 that Bitpim allows you to access your ringers, pictures that you take with 1.3megapixel phone.

Now you can drag and drop the mp3 clip that you created into the ringers section of Bitpim then click "send to phone" and your done.

You just created and uploaded a ringtone for free and you can do this all day long without being charge one dime from VZW.