[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
Hate to say it, but I'm getting the same thing on my Kaiser with 23541. The ringtone I prefer is just the basic Ring-OldPhone.wma which I think I pulled out of my Elfin, maybe got it somewhere else. It's not a MIDI, but after I select it and OK (with the on-screen OK, as the hardware OK button causes it to revert to WindowsPhone while I'm watching and doesn't close the dialogue), the next time I get a call it rings with that silly WindowsPhone tone. I don't want my phone to sound silly, especially when clients are in the workshop. It's embarrassing, like a kid's phone or something. Just want a normal phone ring. Actually sometimes Ring-OldPhone holds out for a couple or a few calls, then reverts to WindowsPhone.

I've been using that ringtone file in the location \My Documents\My Ringtones for a few phones and lots of ROMs. Maybe that's the problem? I just tried moving it to \Windows but the notifications applet won't recognise the file there. So now I'm trying it under \Windows\Rings to see if that might be more stable. In the past I've had problems like this on other devices, and in those cases the location \Application Data\Sounds worked, sometimes... I'll try there as well after giving this location a fair test.

I've also found with this ROM and with some others, no pattern that I can detect, that many sounds revert after some random interval to their defaults. Messaging/SMS notifications seem especially happy about going back to sounding silly. All I want out of those guys is a little *CLICK CLICK* and that's enough to know something's happened, and I look at the phone if there's time.

Another phone ring issue with the previous ROM and with this one to a lesser extent is that sometimes rings don't come through, at all. For example, I just rang my Kaiser from my wife's landline phone and got a 'number you are calling cannot be reached' message the first time, but the Kaiser lit up and showed a missed call notification, right away, without ringing. I tried again in 10 seconds and the phone rang without problems. So I again turned off my phone, and called again from her phone, and this time it lit up and rang properly. I've missed calls from 2 clients and 1 family member since installing this ROM yesterday thanks to this error. Wish I could tell you anything more exact about what's going wrong, but so far can't find any pattern.

Since it's well known that registry edits don't really 'stick' under WM6.5.3 if the phone gets reset after using the reset button, I always make sure to trigger a software reset to make them stick. I do this with AdvancedConfig, or with the default Reset app in the menu folders. Doesn't seem to help in the case of sounds though.

This reminds me of a glitch in backlight presets which also sometimes reverts. I'll be happily using my phone for days or weeks with my selected 1 minute backlight dim, 2 minute suspend option on battery power... then suddenly, at random, the device starts dimming the backlight after 10 seconds and suspending after 1 minute. No pattern I can detect here, again, as there's no relationship to any program installs or even going into Settings for any reason. It just happens sometimes.