Software Required:

• Nero Burn 5/6 w/Nero Wave Editor
• Sound Recorder (windows component, should have if your using windows)

Pre-steps:
-download and install developers kit from http://developer.danger.com
-apply to developer key using your sidekicks IMEI # and your username
-upload developer's key received in email to sidekick allow it to be able to upload apps, tones, etc (unlocking it for developer uses) (see guide to installing dev kit)
-have a copy of the ringer or song in mp3, wav, wma format

Step 1. Cropping Ringer in Nero Wave Editor and Cleaning Up Ringer

Open Nero Wav Editor. Then open your mp3, wav, or wma you want to use as a ringer.

Then select the part of the song you want to use as a ringer (usually between 10-17 secs long, remember that the ringer can be at MAX 100kb in size!)

Once you have the part you will want to use, go to Edit > Crop

This will crop the song length to what we want to edit and manipulate to use as a ringer.

Now, to really make a good ringer, one has to play with the ringer and use the Equalizer to do this.
Select the Whole Song (CTRL + A )

Then go to Tools > Equalizer
I use the following settings for my ringers: The Low Shelf option removes tones below 250hz since those sounds would otherwise distort since the sidekick can't handle that range. I also boosted by 4db or so at 4000hz as is suggested by danger in their ringtone specifications guide. (the items highlighted in yellow are what i changed)

You can sample the changes before you apply them by using the preview function. Sometimes however, you might have to do some other playing around if the file your working with is not a very good quality and so on.

Once your happy, click OK.

I would also suggest adding a Fade-In and Fade-Out if the ringer/clip does not have a subtle intro or end (makes it sound much more professional and cleaner).

Select the beginning or ending part of the ringer/clip, then go to Volume > Fade In > then choose your flavor of Fade In. or Volume > Fade Out > and again, choose your flavor of fade out.

Now, we can save our file as normal wav file in Nero Wave Editor.

Go to File > Save As (since we don't want to overwrite the original and want to save it as a .wav file)

We will do the compressing and format change with, Windows Sound Recorder (who would have thought how nice it is for creating ringers!)

Step 2. Using Windows Sound Recorder to save the files as Sidekick compliant ringtone/ringer (IMA ADPCM wav file, 8Bit, Mono, 11,025khz bitrate)

Open Windows Sound Recorder (every version of windows has this, if not you might have to install it from the Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components).

Go to Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder

Then open the new wave file we created, cropped, and eq'd in Nero Wave Editor.

Play the wav and see if the volume is good or not, if not, in Sound Recorder, go to:
Effects > Decrease/Increase Volume (25%) . Again, make sure its not too loud or it will be distorted.

Once your satisfied, we need to save the file in the format that Danger recommends.

Go to File > Save As.
Choose Sounds (*.wav) as Save as type
Then click the Change button, we need to select the correct wav type.
Then choose: Format: IMA ADPCM and Attributes: 11,025kHz, 4Bit, Mono 5kb/sec
(see below)




Then save it. and BOOM! Your very own custom, hi-fi ringer that doesn't suck!

Now just use htConsole to upload it to your sidekick phone!