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robertmalta
Posts: 10
Phone Model:
5140i
Service Provider:
Go Mobile |
 
Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:34 am |
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I have a Nokia 5140i and got GPRS and downloaded a few midi tones. They download ok, but when I try to open them it says file corrupt. It happens to my brother too. He has a Nokia 3200. I did some research and found out that it may be because it has too much instruments. But I had downloaded the same songs on my Sony Ericcson T300, which is an old phone, and I think that a recent phone like mine should be able to play them. They are in midi format of course, and I uploaded them from my pc on a wap server, and they worked on the pc, so they are not corrupt. I am sure that the 3 sites I tried to use wouldn't ALL corrupt the file. It never even happened once on the T300. I could download from nokia.com, so nokia.com works, but their tones are...well pathetic. What should I do??
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Bjoern
Posts: 3615
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:56 am |
Try using the Nokia PC Suite to make the tone compatible, it might uses instruments, the phone doesn't support (and which might be ignored by the T300).
Also: why do you bother yourself with midi-tones? Why don't you use mp3s? And you brother could use truetones in .amr-format.
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robertmalta
Posts: 10
Phone Model:
5140i
Service Provider:
Go Mobile |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:37 am |
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I would use mp3, but the phoe memory is like 3mbs...so I couldn't fit a whole song for all the world. I wanted full midi songs you see? But I also took a small piece of an mp3 that I want to put in the phone...if it works obviously. Now I found out something else. The phone regonizes the tones as midi, and regognizes their length too if you look up the details before you play the tone. But when I try to play it, it says 'File Corrupted' and when I look up the details it doesn't recognize it. If I go back and try details before playing it again it recognizes it...I also tried sending it via Infrared to my friend's Samsung, and it worked fine for him, but when he sent it back it said 'File Corrupted' once again. Can you tell me what is wrong...and what I can do to get it right? I'm pretty sure that if the phone can play mp3's it can play midis...whatever notes they have in them. I mean mp3 is 10 times more complex then the most complex midi file...
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Bjoern
Posts: 3615
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:54 am |
mp3 and midi ain't compareable.
A mp3 is a record of the real sound.
A midi file can be compared with a sheet full of notes. It only tells the phone when and which tone and instrument has to be played.
A midi is in fact more complicated than a mp3.
If you re-compress and cut a mp3 you make it quite small, convert it to a amr-file and it will be much smaller.
Why the midi won't work, no idea, I still guess it is a note which makes a conflict and which is ignored by other phones.
Tried converting the midi with PC Suite? It may work.
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robertmalta
Posts: 10
Phone Model:
5140i
Service Provider:
Go Mobile |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:36 pm |
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I will try that. Is PC Suite complicated? I mean do you have to just press 'Convert' or something or is it more complex?
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ink
Posts: 3
Phone Model:
Nokia 6101
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:59 pm |
I think this thread answers my other post's question 
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robertmalta
Posts: 10
Phone Model:
5140i
Service Provider:
Go Mobile |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:02 pm |
Ok luckily I am not stupid so I worked out everything on my own. But when I went to convert the midi file it didn't have my phone on the list  . It only had 5140 and 5140b. Mine is 5140i. What should I do?
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Bjoern
Posts: 3615
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:12 pm |
Try a newer PC Suite? 
But the tones for the 5140 and 5140b are compatible too.
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robertmalta
Posts: 10
Phone Model:
5140i
Service Provider:
Go Mobile |
Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:12 pm |
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Ok tomorrow I'm going to buy an infrered port for my pc. I will try sending the midis using 5140b. Thanks for all your help.
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robertmalta
Posts: 10
Phone Model:
5140i
Service Provider:
Go Mobile |
Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:19 pm |
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I found out the problem...the phone does not support more than about 1.07 secs of a midi... I wanted a midi to be the ringing tone, but I wanted the others to be full tones. I adore music...and love listening to it 24/7, and can't bother to carry an mp3 everywhere. The Nokia PC Suite just makes it smaller. Is there an application or something for the Nokia to make it accept whole midi songs? If there isn't I will never ever buy a Nokia again...the only reason I chose this one was because it had 3.8 mbs of space and was hard to destroy, and compared to the rest with the same price it was the best...
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