I wished to set my own ring tone on my N900.

I can set one via:

Settings - Profiles - General - Ringing tone

and selecting from the list. However, this only gives me the Nokia provided ringing tones.

I have failed to set any sound direct from sound file, even when my phone was new with few new applications installed.

Settings - Profiles - General - Ringing tone - More

Navigate to any sound clip (even the one already selected as ringing tone)

Select it

I get a yellow box message:

Profile
Device storage full.
Remove data to free memory.

A reboot does not help.

Output of df and free follow.

# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 233344 183812 45248 80% /
ubi0:rootfs 233344 183812 45248 80% /
tmpfs 1024 68 956 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256 92 164 36% /var/run
none 10240 72 10168 1% /dev
tmpfs 65536 4 65532 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 245444 1713908 13% /home
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2064208 245444 1713908 13% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2064208 245444 1713908 13% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
2064208 245444 1713908 13% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2064208 245444 1713908 13% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2064208 245444 1713908 13% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 28312128 16359168 11952960 58% /home/user/MyDocs


# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 245540 238004 7536 0 1756
Swap: 786424 49928 736496
Total: 1031964 287932 744032


top gives (first few entries):
Mem: 238896K used, 6644K free, 0K shrd, 1824K buff, 78452K cached
CPU: 0.5% usr 2.7% sys 0.0% nice 96.5% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.1% softirq
Load average: 0.11 0.18 0.12
PID PPID USER STAT RSS %MEM %CPU COMMAND
10 2 root SW 0 0.0 1.1 [omap2_mcspi]
1876 1863 root R 744 0.3 0.9 top
1859 672 root S 1912 0.7 0.5 sshd: root@pts/0
468 2 root SW 0 0.0 0.3 [wl12xx]
666 1 root S < 9556 3.8 0.1 /sbin/dsme -p /usr/lib/dsme/libstartup
1837 1816 user S 4724 1.9 0.1 skyhost -x -s /tmp/skyhost
1681 1171 user S 24068 9.7 0.0 /usr/sbin/browserd -s 1681 -n RTComMes
1536 1171 user S 17068 6.9 0.0 /usr/sbin/browserd -s 1536 -n browseru
1508 952 user S 15348 6.2 0.0 /usr/bin/modest
1065 952 user S 13648 5.5 0.0 /usr/bin/hildon-status-menu
796 666 root S < 13176 5.3 0.0 /usr/bin/Xorg -logfile /tmp/Xorg.0.log
1493 952 user S 12252 4.9 0.0 /usr/bin/image-viewer
1680 952 user S 12188 4.9 0.0 /usr/bin/rtcom-messaging-ui
1071 952 user S 12052 4.8 0.0 /usr/bin/hildon-desktop
1483 952 user S 11436 4.6 0.0 /usr/bin/browser
1070 952 user S 11352 4.6 0.0 /usr/bin/hildon-home
1486 952 user S 10796 4.3 0.0 /usr/bin/mediaplayer

Any ideas? I've seen other posts mentioning problems with the same yellow box, but not in relation to the ringtone, and I don't get the yellow box for anything else.

Thanks!
Adrian

Interesting. I believe when you choose a new ringtone, it gets converted into wav format and saved into a particular folder, so it sounds like that process isn't working for you. I can't see a bug about this on http://bugs.maemo.org/, so feel free to file a bug there.