1. iTunes: import any song from a CD, or buy songs for $0.99 from the iTunes store. Export the song as an MP3 file using Preferences => General => Import Settings and choose MP3. Then right-click on any song in your library and Choose Convert to MP3. Remember to set your import format back to AAC or whatever it was.
2. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux. Read the MP3 into Audacity and trim out exactly the piece you want.
3. (Mac) Bluetooth: set up file transfer from your (Mac) computer to your phone. Mac will guide you to do that once you enable Bluetooth and enable your phone.
4. Copy (drag and drop!) your sound file into My Sounds on the phone.
5. Create a message to yourself (or another phone), select the file from My Sounds, and Send. After you receive the message and it plays out, select Options => Save As Ringtone.

I am on my third replacement phone for this model.
Everytime I shut the phone, it would shut off. I took it back to the store and the guy said that the battery was coming disconnected and he replaced my phone. Not once but twice.
This was all with in three months of having it.
The only way it dosent shut off if I shut it is if I have the leather case on it or I shut it very gently (and even then half the time it shuts itself off)

Another thing I find annoying is the placement of the speaker phone button. This phone is not for the frequent texter.
I text about a hundred messages a day and the location of the speaker phone button is rather inconvienent.

I didnt even notice that the camera had no flash and spent about twenty minutes looking for it. It does take decent pictures reguardless but a flash would have been nice.

I bought third party software Handset Manager in order to transfer my own music from Win2K (Verizon’s software only works under XP/Vista, and they seem to discourage you from using anything but downloaded music by making it very difficult to figure out how to transfer music from your hard drive.

I’m also using normal MP3 player stereo headphones with a 3.5 to 2.5 adapter (with no push button to talk/answer). I’m wondering if this might be my problem.

As of now the music player is useless to me. My wife has the same phone and has the same problem (but I’m using the same cable and adapter–until I get it working, I don’t want to buy more stuff that also won’t work).

Any ideas?

The sound on a call sounds uneven somehow; I keep turning the sound down, only to find that I’m still getting louder syllables now and then, like bursts. // P //

My phone becomes very warm in the body (keypad) and it’s unpleasant. I called Verizon, and they said that’s not normal, and have the phone checked at a Verizon Store. Yeah, like I have time to waste standing in line at a V Store for a silly phone. Thanks. // P //

Since purchasing the phone, I’ve read random accounts that LG phones can become warm, some become warm/hot randomly, and this is ridiculous. Nice in the Arctic, perhaps. // P //

I was so happy before with my Moto e815 that this LG seems junky. The charger connector and the charge port on the phone don’t seem to connect well; once inserted, the USB head can easily rock from side to side. The hinge doesn’t feel all that solid. And the OK button and respective arrow buttons don’t feel as if they’ll hold up well. // P //

Won’t bother using this as a music player or camera, so can’t comment on that. // P //

Not getting any better signal than I had with my e815, even though this LG is all digital and that’s why I upgraded. Call quality is okay, nothing to write home about. Overall: 5 out of 10.