DISCLAIMER

Note: BEFORE YOU DELETE OR CHANGE ANYTHING, ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF IT FIRST…..even if you intend never to upload it back to your phone again.

REQUIREMENTS

USB cable.

P2Kman

MPT (only required for the ‘0 Byte’ Method of deleting media)

PST (only required if you find yourself being locked out of your ring style detail page)

OVERVIEW

It is usual to delete these using p2kman, although there is a way to delete all but ringtones by sending a ‘0 Byte’ file with exactly the same name and extension to MPT (please note that name and extension are case sensitive) . Deleting ringtones is slightly more involved – problems may occur when only the ringtone(or vibe tone) is deleted – users have reported not being able to access the Ring Style Detail menu as a result. The reason why this happens is that, 2 files(databases) called MyToneDB.db and TempToneDB.db, hold information about which ringtones are present on the phone and what(if anything) they are assigned to(eg calls, sms alert, answerphone, etc), etc. If inconsistancies(such as answerphone having a particular .mp3 assigned to it, yet because the .mp3 isn’t in the system, answerphone is actually pointing to a null value) occur in the database, problems accessing the RingStyle Detail menu can occur. If this has happened to you, then see the heading entitled ‘If you locked yourself out of your ringer details page’.

Ringtones are found in: /a/mobile/audio
Screensavers are found in: /a/mobile/picture
Wallpaper are found in: /a/mobile/picture
Video are found in: /a/mobile/video

If you deleted files that you shouldn’t do and forgot to make a backup
If you went on a deleting spree without making any backups, you should be sentenced to 10 years hard labour for your extreme stupidity.

I) DELETING LOCKED RINGTONES

Deleting ringtones is slightly more involved so i’m going to deal with this first. It appears that the following ringtones are used by the phone for system purposes: Continental, Siren, Classic, Attention – Do not delete these……just to be on the safe side. Also, the .bas files are used by the motomixer, so i don’t recommend deleting these either. There are 2 methods that you can use.

METHOD 1
Stage 1: IMPORTANT!
1) Go to Alarm Clock, PhoneBook, and Ring Styles, and switch ALL your ringtones and caller ID’s to Silent.

2) Switch your ring style profile to Silent

Stage 2:
3) In p2kman, while keeping the CTRL key pressed down, click on the ringtones that you want to delete. Then right click on one of them, and select Delete.

Stage 3:
4) Delete the files:
/a/mobile/audio/MyToneDB.db
/a/mobile/audio/TempToneDB.db

Stage 4:
5) Powercycle your phone(ie switch it off then on again). The TempToneDB and MyToneDB databases will then be built up again when you switch your phone back on.

Stage 5:
6) You can now change your ringtones and ring style profile back to what they were.

METHOD 2
Stage 1:
1) In p2kman, there should be a main window with 4 columns:
File.
Attributes. (On the old version of p2kman, the column is called Flags).
Size.
Type.
Have a look at the last digit of each of the ringtone’s Attributes. The significance of the attribute is explained here:

• 0 = No attribute
• 1 = Read only file (has a lock symbol in phone menu’s – can’t be deleted)
• 2 = Hidden file (hidden in phone menus)
• 3 = (Read only + Hidden) file
• 4 = System file (will not be deleted on master clear).
• 5 = (System + Read only) file
• 6 = (System + Hidden) file
• 7 = (System + Read only + Hidden) file

You will notice that the stock ringtones all end in 4. That implies that they are locked and cannot be deleted from the phone’s menu. If you have added your own ringtones, you will notice that they have 0 as the last digit.
What you can do is to set the last digit of each ringtone’s(do not do this for Continental, Siren, Classic, Attention) attribute to 0. This means that you can delete them normally from the phones menu. To do this:

1i) Type 0 in the Attribute box.

2ii) Highlight the ringtone by clicking on it.

3iii) Click the Change button.

3iv) Scroll through the list of files and check to see if the attribute of the ringtone has indeed been changed successfully.
Repeat 1i through to 1iv for each of the ringtones that can be safely deleted.

Stage 2:
2) Powercycle(switch off then on again) your phone.

Stage 3:
Note: BEFORE you delete a particular ringtones, ensure that it is NOT assigned.
3) In your phone’s menu, go to Main Menu -> Multimedia -> Audio, and delete each of the ringtones as you would a non-locked ringtone.

If you locked yourself out of your RingStyle details page or phonebook

METHOD 1
1) Open PST Phone Programmer (version 6.7 or higher) not Multiflexflash.

2) Go to New, then select Feature file.

3) Push the button Read Phone at the top.

4) Scroll down, you will see Ring Styles and they will have boxes.

5) Select 0 (zero) which is silent for all options (this doesn’t need to be done for the vibrate only section) and reminders should be set to Off.

6) Push the Write to Phone at the top and then restart phone.
(method credited to bzpilot)

METHOD 2
1) If you are locked out of any of the vibe detail profiles, then you may have deleted all your vibe tones. Upload at least 1 of the vibe tones back to your phone. Backups are available from here if need be. If you are locked out of anywhere else, then just follow Step 2 onwards.
2) Using p2kman, delete the files:
/a/mobile/audio/MyToneDB.db
/a/mobile/audio/TempToneDB.db

3) Powercycle your phone(ie switch it off then on again). The TempToneDB and MyToneDB databases will then be built up again when you switch your phone back on.

4) You should now be able to access your Alarm Clock , PhoneBook, and Ring Style Detail menu in order to set your ringtones and caller ID’s.