Sending Ringtones To Verizon Phones 09.03.09

I’ve always tried to avoid the ringtone sites where you choose your carrier, enter your phone, and let them send it directly to your phone because I never feel like reading the terms to see what kind of hidden charges there may be.  It turns out that sending a ringtone via email to your phone is just as easy, and saves you any chance of being charged.  I’ve tried this in the past, and was unsuccessful, and I believe this is completely due to the cellphone address I was always trying to send it to.

First, the .mp3 file is supposed to be less than 200kb to be used as a ringtone.  Since we know the size limitation, you could either crop a song or tune to the specified section you want, or just download already created ones online.  Attach the .mp3 file to an email, and email it to your phone.  The address that you have to send it to for Verizon phones is yournumber@vzwpix.com, NOT @vtext.com.  From there you’ll just receive the text message with the attachment, and apply it as a ringtone.  Applying the ringtone is probably going to be different for most all make and models of phones, so you may need to check your manual.

I’d imagine everything up to the phone email address is the same for the other carriers, you’ll just have to find out if there is a alternate address  for your number in order to receive attachments.