How do you add a personalized ringtone for the Samsung Instinct?

that site that you used sucks! they obviously don't customize the ringtone for your particular phone because if they knew anything about ringtones, they would know that you can't download ringtones for sprint phones and then transfer them to your phone. Sprint blocks all their phones!

As you already found out, it DOES NOT WORK

VENTONES (.com)

is wayyyy better for FREE ringtones.

Ventones is awesome and FREE

i use it all the time, and its worked

on my last 4 sprint phones

(been a sprint customer for the last 6 years)

sprint DOES NOT allow you to use mp3 files or songs in the memory card as ringtones.

they block that in order for you to buy ringtones from then and in turn make more money off of customers (its a rip off)

You have 2 options

http://www.ventones.com/free-sprint-ringtones-with...

1) follow the above FREE tutorial from ventones and convert the mp3 files to a video file. then transfer that to your memory card.

ventones is the only free ringtone site that allows you to do that.

This is what you do

Step1

a) upload an mp3 file

OR

b) use any youtube video to make the ringtone from their site

step2

crop the file to however many seconds you want with their free online ringtone maker

step3

after you finished making the ringtone (don't press the send to phone button)

click on the "sprint customers without internet" button

step4

that will take you to the

FREE SPRINT RINGTONES WITHOUT INTERNET PAGE

step5

click on a link in the middle of the page

step6

wait a few seconds and then you will see a link to download the new specially formatted sprint ringtone file

step7

transfer that file (it should be in .3g2 format, NOT in mp3 format) to your dcim folder (memory card).

if that didn't work, try making the ringtone again from a different mp3 file, maybe the mp3 file was corrupt

IF YOU HAVE A DATA PLAN ON YOUR INSTINCT

AND WANT TO DOWNLOAD IT FROM THE LINK THAT THEY TEXT TO YOUR PHONE, DO THIS

2) make the ringtone on ventones from an mp3 file or a youtube video

and then use your phones internet browser to download it directly onto the phone's filesystem . Using this method will not force you to convert the format but it will use your phone's internet data plan.

if you have sprint's unlimited power vision plan, you're set and you have nothing to worry. otherwise, sprint charges 3 cents a kb.