I recently downloaded a soundboard which has .ogg files in it. They worked as ringtones until I plugged my phone into the computer (which unmounted the SD card). But, on remounting it, they still do not work and the phone substitutes in the default pulsation.
How can I fix this problem? the option for the tones still shows up, but upon previewing and actually using them, they play the pulsation sound.
What folder do you have them in?
/sdcard/notifications/
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Hi all,
I'm just having a weird issue with my ringtones. It seems that after I've trimmed a song, and set it as default ringtone, which works fine, as soon as I power off the phone, i lose the ringtone and have to do it again.
Is anyone else having the same problem? I wondered if it gets saved in some sort of temp directory or buffer in the phone somewhere that I need to save permanently to the phone's internal memory or SD card.
Cheers
Gaz
Yepp,
same problem here, ended up with moving the trimmed one from /.ringtonetrimmer to my MP3 dir and selecting it as ringtone (same place as choosing to trim) from the music player.
Ah OK I'll give that a go, nice one
Yup the /.ringtonetrimmer is useless at present state.
symptom 1 - I get the above error message every day when I try to play an audio file in the music player. It is not the fault of the music file and a reboot always cures it.
Whenever this happens I also get:
symptom 2 - All ring tones default to a horrible ringtone. When I go into the ringtone settings whatever I press it always plays the same horrible ringtone.
It is as if something is locking out the audio player or audio codecs or something. I am using the Modaco 3.0 ROM.
Has anyone else come across this or has any answers, please?
same issue... different device Archos 5 - Android 1.6
I have rigorously the same issue...
I do not kill any process, i just leave the device... and then it returns to the bip/bip alarm sounds and the music can not play... the same exact message...
and same when i reboot it works again...
I am looking for a solution... it is not that bad... though never sure if my alarm will ring... but it is annoying...
Hello!
I have the same issue, but I've detected that when I plug my phone to any
PC and activate the file transfer to the PC and later unplug the phone, if the file transfer mode
is not deactivated, the music player don't play music and my ringtones have reset to default.
As a conclusion, in some way when the phone is unplugged suddenly with
file transfer mode activated, the system cannot access to the mp3 files
in the SD card and it just come back to normal when I unmount and remount
the SD.
I hope that it can help with your issues.
I believe you are correct on this issue virulento. I had the same issue as described above. I rebooted my phone and the media files were played fine. Yesterday I rooted my phone and before had been transfering files. Thanks!
Clarification, please
I am a new (not rooted) Droid X user having left behind a Blackberry Storm.
I, too, am getting the "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file" message and seek a solution, or at least the workaround.
gadgetgaz - what do you mean by "reboot"? A simple power off, then on, or the "reboot" option via the recovery panel (accessed by holding the power and home keys)?
virulento - by "file transfer mode", what do you mean, "USB mass storage"? And how do you deactivate it?
TIA
drcarl
The reboot works fine. @drcarl, just a simple reboot (off and back on, not the reset).
Currently running the most recent energy rom. My ringtones only play for like 2 seconds then stop, then repeats when someone is calling. I know it cant be the mp3 file itself because it fully plays in my media player. Anything I can do to fix this? Thanks.
Bump
I have the same problem with an SMS alert that is about 6 seconds long. Have tried putting the MP3 in phone memory and on storage card. Problem occurs on various ROMs (COM2, COM3 etc). Goes away for a short while after a soft reset.
Must admit, I haven't tried changing the file type to .wav or .wma to see if that helps yet.
I just solved it. I went over to "ring type" in the sound and display menu...it said "ring type: Currently set to: "Other". I changed mine to Ring and vibrate, and that fixed it.
Hello all. I am using a Huawei U8500 with CyanogenMod 7 (2.3.5-Slax-SP10-3) and have been having an issue with ringtones/notification/UI/unlock (a.k.a. all) sounds. Before, none of the sounds (except Music) would work on CM7, but I figured that out. It was the sound profiles that were overriding all my other attempts at resetting volumes.
However, while my sounds were disabled, I used the Music app to set a song as a ringtone to see if the sounds would work again. Now that I have solved the issue with the volumes, every single one of the sounds (again, except music) are replaced with the song that I set as my ringtone. When I go to Settings>Sound and try and select a new sound, all the previews of the sounds are even of that song. I checked the .ogg files in /system/media/audio and they still play the correct sound.
Now for the questions:
-Has anyone encountered this issue or something similar?
-If not, how does Android handle setting a song as a ringtone?
-Does it put the .mp3 file somewhere on the root phone storage? (If so, I could just delete or rename it and hope for the best.)
-Or, does it simply reference the .mp3 file on the SD? (If so, I could rename it so that it wouldn't be able to fetch it.)
Thank you very much for any help!
Maybe I searched the wrong keywords...
I can't seem to set an Mp3 as my ringtone as I just recently flashed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205141
Any ideas?
EDIT: Turns out you have to put the mp3's you want into folder on your SD card named "ringtones" and it'll show up on the list. Alternatively download ringdroid