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I can't find it anymore but for the longest time it was the yell the headless bomb guys make in the first Serious Sam game.

"beep beep beep beep" -leonard nemoy

Before I switched from conventional communication, my ringtone for the longest time was the unsuspecting sound of a baby crying, which once served as an April Fool's joke but also something that predated and went longer than that. Now that conventional phones have tried to make it more and more difficult to actually get a custom ringtone, I don't know what the future holds but know the change I made gives me my best chances of having a ringtone tradition.

Default Android ringtone for calls.

However my signal/whatsapp message tone is Sergeant Doakes from Dexter saying "Surprise Motherfucker!", which occationally turns some heads in public.

CAFO

Go Cubs Go

Or

Jurassic Park hold music.

A trimmed down instrumental version of "Beneath the Mask" from Persona 5. I found the song to have a really nice vibe to it.

I know it's goofy, but it's some sort of chip tune song that played in the background of an app patcher program that I used forever ago to install some pirated game or app or something.

I have no idea what the song is called and it doesn't seem to exist on the Internet. It's just on my phone as an .MP3 file (and on my computer within a sketchy program called patch.exe). Dunno why I drifted to it.

My text notification tone is the notification sound from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1/2 (ex: "3 peeps have drowned" popup). It works well.

Devilish Influence from Ninja Gaiden 1.

https://youtu.be/5mQVljB7JGw?si=phV8TM7b9YHgBlBd always happy to hear the song and always just a little anxious to hear it because the actual calls always mean something serious.

I used to have cheerful tunes for ring tones but then all my old relatives died in a row like flies and "I don't feel like dancing" felt really out of place. Beth Ditto has stuck with me since then.

I have to change mine semi-regularly because after a year or so I'll start thinking i hear my phone ring while it isn't. Currently it's the Nokia 3310 Badinerie ringtone

Music from the first stage of Marble Maddness from the NES

I have a ringer that starts at a highish frequency and then with each ring drops lower. I find the changing frequency helps me pick it out from background noise.

Back when I had a loud phone, my text message alert was the Icarus 1 Distress Beacon from the film Sunshine.

Star Wars: the cantina band

Notification: R2D2 sound

But I mostly have my phone on silent

The Avengers theme. My alert is Cap shouting "Language!"

The Exorcist theme.

I made my own remix of crab rave

I've been using the Stonecutter's theme from the Simpsons for over 15 years. It never gets old.

Right now it is a .mid file of A-ha's Take On Me. I plan to change it up soon though. I always use .mid files because they sound classic. The soundfonts, the lack of sustain, everything.

Dragonborn

Doesn't matter it starts off quiet because the phone vibrates anyway.

The Ballad of Serenity.

suicide is painless.

"GTA V Franklin ringtone"

The same that I'm the GTA V

Shop Theme from TLoZ OoT or Sushi-Go-Round Theme from Pokémon Stadium

This masterpiece

I've got two:

An excerpt from "I am the Doctor" from Doctor Who The Eleventh Hour

An Excerpt from the "Good Omens" Title Theme

Mine is Carnival from the default samsung tones. My 7yo wouldn't let me pick up the phone because she loves the music

I clip portions of music that I make in GarageBand on my phone for my ringtones. Right now it’s a song called Cave In. That or a monophonic version of Grande Valse.

You know that ringtone from the movie Jurassic Park 3? The plumbing jingle I think? That. XD

I like the way ringtones used to be, and when someone recognizes it, it's a good laugh.

Something that weirds out most people. It's chanting and singing in Latin to epic music. It is meant to sound like it's for religious zealots because it is. It's a song of worship for the savior of humanity, the God Emperor of Man.

Warhammer 40k is fun.

Imperial Klaxon - a sound effect from a Star Wars movie. And my notification sound is the B1 "Roger Roger".

My general ringtone is a section from Henry Mancini's Pink Panther theme. For family and friends I use Leo Kottke's guitar version of Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

The default one.

I just started watching through 24 again and have been really tempted to figure out how to get the phones as my ring tone.

Only problem is I'll never hear it because my phone is on silent 100% of the time.

I like the kind of ringtones that the people who know it know it and to everyone else it's just a nice ringtone. I've had an elevator version of the Mass Effect theme, and also the intro song from Monsters Inc .

The intro section to Echo Beach