How to Get Free Ringtones for Virgin Mobile

Ringtones are a classy and creative way to personalize a cell phone. Few easier ways exist for a person to stand out among a crowd than to have a cell phone that rings a cool ringtone. What a great way to meet someone new: just ask her or him about their ringtone and you have the foundation for a long and lasting relationship.

While a ringtone makes a great conversation starter, it can also make a bold statement about the owner. For example, if a phone has a ringtone from the song, “Take This Job and Shove It!” people around know that person has at least a healthy distaste for the workplace.

How to Get Free Ringtones for Virgin MobileRingtones, however, are far more functional than the fun you can have with them. For example, a cell phone user can associate a song ringtone with a contact in her list. She would want a sweet, loving song for her boyfriend, but after they break up, she will want to change it to something more derisive.

What this means is that a cell phone becomes a logical extension and reflection of a person’s mind. Associate different ringtones to different people to evoke memories, or just to identify the person who is calling into the phone. Ringtones are assignable as alarms for clock and timer functions as well, so there is no end to the practical and creative uses for a cell phone ringtone.

Virgin Mobile Ringtones

Like most cellular service providers, Virgin Mobile offers ringtones for sale to its customers. This is a convenience because the cost of the ringtones is billed to the user’s phone. It’s always good to know that Virgin Mobile is there, ready to help, for a fee, but downloading ringtones becomes problematic anyway because of the limited selection available from VirginMobile.

For users who enjoy creating and installing ringtones, however, the habit could get expensive. Most of the Virgin Mobile ringers cost over two dollars and the better they are, the more they cost. The logical solution to this problem is to get Virgin Mobile ringtones on a cell phone for free. To do this, users can try a couple different methods.

Free Virgin Mobile Ringtones from Virgin Mobile

One of the best ways to get ringtones for a Virgin Mobile cell phone is to get it free from Virgin Mobile. While they do have a small selection of free ringtones available for users to access, Virgin Mobile also sends out promotions that are redeemable for a free ringtone from its store. To do this, here are a few steps:

  1. Receive a coupon code in your email account or with your paper bill in the regular mail.
  2. Log into Virgin Mobile and go to the Virgin Xtras.
  3. Select the ringtone desired for the Virgin Mobile phone.
  4. When checking out, enter the coupon code, rather than having the ringtone billed to the phone’s account.
  5. The ringtone then downloads to the phone and is available for use.
  6. Select the ringtone for use as a default ringer, contact ringer, or other purpose. Users with questions can contact Virgin Mobile for support or reference the documentation that came with the cell phone.

The nice thing about getting ringtones straight from Virgin Mobile is that the user knows that the ringtone works (and works on a Virgin Mobile Phone). Besides, in such a case, the user is free of intellectual property infringement concerns. The problem with this method, however, is that the free coupons don’t come out every day, so user’s who are addicted to ringtones won’t get very far with this method.

Free Virgin Mobile Ringtones from Other Sources

The easiest way to get free ringtones onto a Virgin Mobile cell phone is to create the ringtone on a computer using an audio editing program. Many basic editors are free, while other sound editors, like Adobe Soundbooth, are expensive.

After creating the ringtone in MP3 format, post it to a web site so the phone’s web browser can download it from the internet. Blogs, drop.io, or other file services are all good places to upload the files. This is beneficial because the user gets to download homemade ringtones from the cell phone’s browser and because users can sell or share their ringtones with other Virgin Mobile customers.

The other way to get a free ringtone is to upload it to the phone using the phone’s USB data cable. Create the ringtone using an audio editing program and copy the file from the computer to the phone.

Special Considerations

Other options are to use a third party ringtone service such as Funtonia or Myxer, but most of the ringtones on these web sites are fee based.

Beware of free ringtone web sites that you find on Google. Many of these are scams that harvest cell phone numbers then either sell them to marketing companies or attempt to bill money to them.

Free Virgin Mobile ringtones are the cheapest, most creative, and most fun method of personalizing a Virgin Mobile cell phone.

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