The invention discloses an electronic terminal and a ringtone prompt method for the electronic terminal. A control module of the electronic terminal instructs a ringtone sound source module to play a test ringtone signal, and instructs a ringtone channel switch system to switch all sound channels one by one to output the test ringtone signal; a sound collection module collects an exterior sound signal while each channel is outputting the test ringtone signal and feeds it back to a signal processing module; the signal processing module processes the intensity of the test ringtone signal therein; the control module determines the output channel of a prompt ringtone signal according to the processing result of the collected signal, instructs the ringtone channel switch system to switch to the determined output channel, and instructs the ringtone sound source module to play the prompt ringtone signal.