Ok i need to assign ringtones and message alerts for a particular group of contacts lets say hypothetically the group is called "My little black book" and i'm getting fed up of explaining the odd cherp late at night. any help would be great and help me sleep better. JC55
I can assign different ringtones to certain people in my contacts. I've done it so when I hear this ringtone I know its her... ^^
So, I dont know for sure what you mean but your contacts has the option to assign ringtones to different people.
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Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to give specific ringtones to your contacts? I couldn't find it in the edit portion of contacts.
Thanks.
the contact has to be stored on the phone in order to set an individual ringtone. an easy workaround is to create another contact with the same name and save it to the phone then link the two.
Thanks. Somewhat annoying and a little more work, but it worked
Just dl ringdroid from the market its a free app.. It will let you make and edit ring tones on the phone the you can assign to contcts... worked flawless for me ..
I'm still waiting for integrated contact/ringtone saving directly to gmail, so I don't have to always retype, or reconnect my ringtones to everyone in my contact list.
I saved one of the contacts to the phone so i could put a rintone on the person but now it displays the person twice 1 for sim and 1 for phone. is there anyway to merge them together so it only shows the name once?
^ you can hide contacts from the contacts app, go to menu and display options and have it only show your google contacts, and not from the phone.
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htown978 I love you! been trying to do this since thanksgiving!!!
THANK YOU!!
On the jl4 release, not sure about any after or before that, 2.2 touchwiz contacts allows you to save custom ringtones for contacts without saving a separate contact.
and yes, that was annoying as hell on 2.1 having to save another contact just to have a custom ringtone.
Hi there, first of all im a noob and ive been only using this phone for a week or so. I am wondering, is there a function to set a message alert (SMS ringtone) specifically to certain contacts? Its frustrating to use global message alert for all the contacts. It would be nice if I can know who is messaging me by assigning them a specific ringtone. Please advice
anyone care to help?
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oldSAP Oist v1.4 individual SMS Tones
thanks bro.. One more question.. When choosing a tone, how do I access the folder that has default msg tones?
Update: This software only plays wav files
Hi All,
Before you say it, I know what I'm doing and understand how Google contacts work, I had a HTC HD2 (thanks Pongster and XDA!) and I am used to Android.
I know how Google contacts work, infact I submitted a bug fix to AweSync to fix up their syncing of Google Contacts with Lotus Notes.
Why does the Samsung Galaxy 1 (and 2!) show me _ALL CONTACTS_ when trying to SMS people? or when I try to save a newly dialled number into contacts, it shows all contacts?
I don't want to SMS an email address! I don't want to sift through 1,300 contacts yet this idiot phone is showing me them.
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It's listing email Address's in the SMS TO: field - yet I've CLEARLY unticked "All contacts" and I've made it only show contacts with a phone number.
What is wrong with this thing?
EDIT: also, forgetting my ring tone every time I reboot isn't impressing me either.
Okay, I can't answer all your problems, and I do agree that the management of contacts on this phone is pretty poor, but there's obviously ways round certain issues.
One thing that will immediately help you is to use the contacts app to send SMS, rather than the SMS app. Select your contact (filtered as shown in your post) and you can swipe them left to SMS or right to call. That's a pretty handy feature.
However, if you're sending a message to more than 1 person you're back to square 1. I'd strongly recommend getting GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts (both free) from the Market. They're excellent replacements and I'm sure you'll be a LOT happier with them.
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johncmolyneux said:
Okay, I can't answer all your problems, and I do agree that the management of contacts on this phone is pretty poor, but there's obviously ways round certain issues.
One thing that will immediately help you is to use the contacts app to send SMS, rather than the SMS app. Select your contact (filtered as shown in your post) and you can swipe them left to SMS or right to call. That's a pretty handy feature.
However, if you're sending a message to more than 1 person you're back to square 1. I'd strongly recommend getting GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts (both free) from the Market. They're excellent replacements and I'm sure you'll be a LOT happier with them.
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Would go contacts solve my issue when saving a new phone number into my contactl ist?
wizzbang3 said:
Would go contacts solve my issue when saving a new phone number into my contactl ist?
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It does what you describe above. I don't know what you expect it to do though. You dial a number, click "Add to contacts" or "New contact" to either list all your contacts or create a new one.
is there any solution to this, i quite like the messaging app, but find it quite annoying when i have to search through hundreds of contacts, or else exit out to the contact application to text some1 who's actually in my contacts list ....
Its not a deal breaker for me, i prefer the stock than go sms or handcent, or any alternative i've tried, so if there is no fix i'll grin and bear it but if there is please help out
.... its not that i prefer the stock to any other, its just that no other provides anything that makes me want to move from stock, and since both will be running anyways it seems pointless to be wasting battery .... also i found double contacts problems with other apps aswell
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is there any solution to this, i quite like the messaging app, but find it quite annoying when i have to search through hundreds of contacts, or else exit out to the contact application to text some1 who's actually in my contacts list ....
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It's just poor design by Samsung.
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It's just poor design by Samsung.
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Why? I think it is a good idea, since I very often MMS to email addresses! It is very handy to automatically downsize an image to MMS size when you are sending it to a person who you know will be looking at the email on their phone (e.g. my friend in Japan doesn't have MMS at all, over there nearly everything is email).
Been wondering about this too, i know the contact app you can customize what to show, which is fine, but the sms app show everyone you have been in contact with on google. Only "fix" i've found so far is to use another SMS app that can filter the contact list.
The solution is very simple. Just open display options in contacts and select only display contacts with numbers. Also untick everything that you don't want it to display. I don't save any numbers in phone or sim card so I save it to gmail account.
Even if I select only gmail it shows lots unnecessary contacts. So I went to gmail on my laptop and opened the contacts (phone book or something like that. Its been over a year so I don't remember)
I created a new category (u can choose an existing one) and transferred every single contact that I needed under it.
And thats it. Everytime I format my phone I just go to contact display settings on my phone and only choose the category that I made. And it only shows the contacts that I need.
It works also if u want to save a contact. I chose to save contacts to my gmail account when it asks. And everytime u save it saves it to the category that u choose.
I have been using this over a year and work flawlessly. I remember beig sick of choosing amongst 1000s of contacts.
I tried to explain as I could. If there is a problem ask me I will try to help.
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I realized this doesn't answer ur question about sms. This doesn't fix that SMS list behaviour.
I switch ROMs a lot. And the way I want my ringtones set up, currently takes a lot of effort.
I have about 50 contacts. I usually set 5-10 of them with a specific ringtone.
But what I would REALLY like, is there to be a generic ringtone for "all CONTACTS" and then another ringtone (Default) for NON-CONTACTS.
So if my phone rings with the default ringtone, in theory, is someone I don't know or has never called me before. But I don't want to filter out all unknown callers, because sometimes I do still need to answer it for a noncontact.
I'd just like to know when I hear the phone ring.
Now in the past, I've gone through the effort of setting a ringtone for each individual contact, but when you reflash your phone at least once a month, this feels like it's more effort than it should be.
I feel like it should only take a simple app or mod that'll go
IF CONTACT IN DATEBASE: Ringtone A
IF CONTACT NOT IN DATABASE: Ringtone B
Is that really so much to ask?
But my efforts to search the market don't leave me with anything like this in app form.
I've also tried contact groups. But that requires you to have duplicate contact entries. The ones loaded into the phone memory and the ones sync'd from your google account. Which is pretty much just as much work if not more.
Because;
I could simply export them to a card file, import them to phone memory and set the groups in a bout 5 minutes. But then if I don't want to see all the names twice (which I don't), I have to go into each contact and select "join contact"
Which is about as bad as setting a ringtone per contact.
Perhaps I'm a little too OCD. But I'm OCD and also an obsessed geek who watches too much Stargate SG-1 / SGA, and I take the Gate = Phone analogy a little too far.
So my ringtones are this:
Noncontact: [SFX] Unscheduled Off-World Activation.] What have we got? [We're not sure ma'am, we're not receiving and IDC] Defense teams standby! Lower the shield! [SFX]
Generic Contact: [SFX] Off-World Activation. Receiving IDC. [Lower shield/open iris] [SFX]
Specific Contact: [SFX] Off-World Activation! Receiving [X-Person's] IDC! [Lower shield/open iris] [SFX]
etc etc etc.
PS. I have an Epic 4G (keyboard) on Sprint. Currently running latest official stock build, however I just came off of ACS ICS 5.5
and am considering reflashing that or going back to FrozenSyndacite 1.2
I have wanted this ability since custom ringtones have existed and I have yet to find a phone application that has a ringtone for "unknown caller". All I can advise is ask the developer of your favourite 3rd party phone app to add it. I filed bug reports with Google during cupcake and donut and they were never addressed.
Cheers!
-M
XDA member since 2007
Hi guys
I have a very annoying issue. I am on android 4.0.3. I set up my contacts to show only phone contacts as I always have. I had sgs2 before so this is just another unit.
So, I setup a contact picture for one special contact and I can see the small thumbnail next to the name. Ooook. Now, when I call or get a call from that person the photo doesnt show. Just the regular samsung calling screen. Never happened with another unit.
Second issue is with the ringtones. No.matter what song I setup for a contact, phone only plays the general ringtone.
I dont understand what is happening. I dont want to use a 3rd party app, for such basic function.
Any idea is welcome. Thank you!