Keeping myself busy.
I want to thank you all for your words of support and encouragement, it really means a lot to me, and I am sorry if I am unable to personally respond to each and every one of your comments, there are just far too many of them.
Do not get me wrong, I LOVE all of your comments, they really do mean so much, it is awesome to know that I have so much support from so many people during all of this.
I got tired of crying and decided to do something to keep myself busy, so I went and looked up how to make my own ringtones for my cell phone because A) I could not find any on the Virgin Mobile site that I liked, and B) they are just too expensive when you start adding them up.
I found a great site to make ringtones that really works awesome, so if you want to make your own for your cell phone, just go to this site.
It is fast, easy, and there are no harmful things on the site or when you download your newly made ringtone.
Then I needed a way to get them to my phone.
I don't have the USB cable or a micro SD card to use to store and transfer them from my pc to my phone.
They are on sale this week for really good prices, so maybe when I get paid this week after I pay some stuff, I'll pick those up so that I can transfer whole songs to the phone so that I can listen to music on it using the media player it comes with.
But I did find a way to do it.
I needed to download and install Opera Mini 5, and I tried upgrading Opera Mini 4.2, but it wouldn't do it, so I deleted 4.2 and then tried to install 5 for like 2 hours but I kept getting the message "Access Denied" when I went to the site www.m.opera.com, m.opera.com, I even tried the link for Virgin Mobile phones specifically, opera.mini.com/virgin, no matter how I tried it, I was denied.
So I did a search on Google and found that I needed to type in to my phones default web browser, mini.opera.com, and it will download.
The file size on mini.opera.com is like 1kb bigger than the others, so maybe that's why it works, who knows.
Then once you get Opera Mini 5, you need to make your ringtone, then if you have gmail, attach the ringtone file to an email and email it to a yahoo mail account, so if you don't have one of those, get one, they are free.
Then open up Opera on your phone, go to your yahoo email account, click on the email with the ringtone, (hopefully you labled it by putting something in the subject line) then click on the attachment, then click on the box shaped icon that appears, and then in the lower left of your Opera browser, you will see that it says "save".
Click that and it will download the ringtone to your phone, to the ringtones folder.
It will not be labeled the title you gave your ringtone, but instead, it will just say "securedownload" as the ringtone filename, but it's there and it will work.
I have now made two ringtones and emailed them to my phone.
I am way happy that I figured it out, I supposes that sometimes it helps to have OCD, it makes me complete every single thing that I start no matter how frustrating it was to keep seeing that "Access Denied" message.
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Hi there
Just dropping in to say hello and to let you know that I have been following your blog although I haven't had time enough to finish reading all your blog post.
I think you're a great lady and the best mom to your son so all the best for the future! Chin up and God bless you!
Take good care!
Posted by: simie | June 28, 2010 7:13 AM
Hope you're feeling better.
Make my own ringtones, never thought of doing that before, have to try it out for myself.
Posted by: Mik | June 28, 2010 12:24 PM
Cool link, thanks for posting it. Considering that VM charges $2-3 for their ringtones, this is a big money-saver. And sometimes, I can't find songs that I want to use, so being able to use songs from my personal collection is great.
A occasional problem I've had with Opera Mini is that it sometimes craps out and refuses to connect to the internet. Sometimes, just powering off the phone, and then turning it back on helps. But sometimes I can only fix it be re-downloading the software. Once I tried doing it through the "get more stuff" option on the phone, and it overwrote OM 5 with an earlier 4 version. I didn't like the 4 versions, 5 is much better, faster, and more user-friendly.
So I tried to get 5 back and got the same "access denied" messages as you did. I finally figured out the default browser fix, too.
I wish Virgin mobile would let people download the newest versions of Opera Mini directly through the "Get More Stuff" option; don't know why they still have a much older version.
I've done the emailing to myself thing, too. I wanted to have a New Hampshire Fisher Cats logo as my phone's wallpaper, and that's how I got it onto the phone.
Hope you're feeling better!
Posted by: Christine | June 28, 2010 6:55 PM
What kind of phone do you have through Virgin? I love that they have the Blackberry now, and thought about going back to them instead of staying bound to my husband's contract service. But my sons had such trouble with their service out here that they switched to ATT prepaid, and I guess I'll just keep what I've got.
Posted by: This Belle Rocks | July 4, 2010 12:32 AM