This is something that had been plaguing me for several months since I acquired my Palm Treo 700wx.  Overall I’ve loved the device and found it absolutely indispensable.  There are of course a few niggling details like the lack of a scroll wheel, but overall I’ve been really happy with it.

One thing I couldn’t figure out is why despite it’s ability to play MP3 files, there didn’t seem to be a way to set them as ringtones.  With MIDI files, there was a context menu option to make this happen, not so with MP3s.  So I scoured the Internet looking for something, anything which would give me a lead.   After finding nothing, I was thoroughly prepared to give up.

Then it hit me, why not browse through the phone and see if anything twigs.  After only a few minutes of searching, I stumbled upon the answer:

Under the folder: /My Device/Windows/ there is a folder called Rings.

Just place your favourite MP3 file in that folder, and it will show up on the ringtone list.  *sigh*  The tough ones always turn out to have the simplest of answers.

Finally I can sit back and smile when people call, and I can hear the sound of Transformers changing into their robot form.