Anybody had a problem where all ringtones were gone from the phone?
SD card is fine, ringtones are there, I even copied in some new ones.. But when I try to choose a ringtone from settings, it only shows "Silent".
Funny thing is, it actually HAS a ringtone, some dumb music playing, but I can't pick anything else.
DarkDvr said:
Anybody had a problem where all ringtones were gone from the phone?
SD card is fine, ringtones are there, I even copied in some new ones.. But when I try to choose a ringtone from settings, it only shows "Silent".
Funny thing is, it actually HAS a ringtone, some dumb music playing, but I can't pick anything else.
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Sounds like something has gone pretty badly wrong there. Personally I'd just flash my existing ROM again without wiping. You shouldn't lose anything (Bar any themes/mods set) and it should *hopefully* be fixed.
Hollow.Droid said:
Sounds like something has gone pretty badly wrong there. Personally I'd just flash my existing ROM again without wiping. You shouldn't lose anything (Bar any themes/mods set) and it should *hopefully* be fixed.
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Yeah this ROM I'm running has been nothing but trouble.
Not gonna name it.
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As mentioned in the title. The contact specific ringtone used to work with 2.2. Then I got the OTA to 2.3.4, rooted my Atrix 4g. Now no matter what ringtone I assign to the contact, it always plays the default ringtone. Anyone can help me with this?
Didn't notice it until I read this post. My custom ringtones that I set in 2.2 still work but I cannot seem to change them. Where is the setting in 2.3? I've been looking in edit, contact but don't see it. Is this feature even in 2.3?
Edit: Nevermind found the setting under menu, options when viewing the contact. They seem to be working fine.
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killerb7854 said:
Didn't notice it until I read this post. My custom ringtones that I set in 2.2 still work but I cannot seem to change them. Where is the setting in 2.3? I've been looking in edit, contact but don't see it. Is this feature even in 2.3?
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it's been moved in 2.3.x , took me a while to search on how to do this.
Go to contacts, select a contact, hit the menu button and select options, there will be a ringtone section there.
edit: nm you found it .
OP, where are the assigned ringtones stored? internal/external memory or in /system/media/audio/ringtones?
Thanks for the reply.
My ringtones are stored on the external SD card. I can assign the ringtones, but it doesn't work, really frustrating ...
gnahc79 said:
it's been moved in 2.3.x , took me a while to search on how to do this.
Go to contacts, select a contact, hit the menu button and select options, there will be a ringtone section there.
edit: nm you found it .
OP, where are the assigned ringtones stored? internal/external memory or in /system/media/audio/ringtones?
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You could try moving the files (not copy) to the internal sd memory. However, its a known general Android issue (at least with 2.2.2) where assigned ringtones switch to the default ring or a random ringtone whenever the external/internal memory is unmounted (power off your phone, plug into your computer) and then mounted again. Very frustrating. The only surefire fix that I know of is to root and move the ringtones into /system/media/audio/ringtones . I did this soon after I got my Atrix. No more lost ringtone assignments.
Before moving my ringtones to /system, I think once my phone ringtone switched to a google voicemail wav file...that was interesting .
Much appreciate, I will try it out
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You could try moving the files (not copy) to the internal sd memory. However, its a known general Android issue (at least with 2.2.2) where assigned ringtones switch to the default ring or a random ringtone whenever the external/internal memory is unmounted (power off your phone, plug into your computer) and then mounted again. Very frustrating. The only surefire fix that I know of is to root and move the ringtones into /system/media/audio/ringtones . I did this soon after I got my Atrix. No more lost ringtone assignments.
Before moving my ringtones to /system, I think once my phone ringtone switched to a google voicemail wav file...that was interesting .
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Grrrrrr..... copied to /system/media/audio/ringtones, still doesn't work... help ... :'(
jbhbs said:
Much appreciate, I will try it out
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That's strange, do the sound files play properly? You mentioned you had them before the update so I would think the files themselves would be ok.
Yes, they play properly. Another thing I found out is that when I choose sound for the alarm clock, I can no longer choose "Music". When I click on "Music", the pop up dialog only shows OK and Cancel buttons. It used to display all the music files I have available on both internal and external SD cards.
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That's strange, do the sound files play properly? You mentioned you had them before the update so I would think the files themselves would be ok.
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Ok I'm stumped . If all else fails...factory reset? Not fun, I know.
Aww... maybe I just have to do that. Thanks for your help
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Ok I'm stumped . If all else fails...factory reset? Not fun, I know.
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jbhbs said:
Thanks for the reply.
My ringtones are stored on the external SD card. I can assign the ringtones, but it doesn't work, really frustrating ...
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hi mate, what did you root your atrix with, mine was rooted with gingerbreak when i had 2.2.2 installed but i upgraded to 2.3.4 today and now i cant root it. thanx
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jbhbs said:
As mentioned in the title. The contact specific ringtone used to work with 2.2. Then I got the OTA to 2.3.4, rooted my Atrix 4g. Now no matter what ringtone I assign to the contact, it always plays the default ringtone. Anyone can help me with this?
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hi mate, what did you root your atrix with, mine was rooted with gingerbreak when i had 2.2.2 installed but i upgraded to 2.3.4 today and now i cant root it. thanx
Hey.
I'm on CM10 and when i open gallery,or Apollo,or something else,there's no music or pictures showing...
Has anyone have this problem,how to fix it?
Yarman2000 said:
Hey.
I'm on CM10 and when i open gallery,or Apollo,or something else,there's no music or pictures showing...
Has anyone have this problem,how to fix it?
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This maybe isn't useful to you, but I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm running CM10 FXP133 on my Xperia Ray. Wrote a post a bout it here.
So I guess we're both equally desperate. Anybody please help!
/Daniel
Not sure if this is any good (I don't have time to try it out right now), but I found this.
/Daniel
edit: Nope. Sorry. Didn't work. Crap.
Looks like its a problem with the latest nightly.. it was working fine last release...
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I partially solved my problem. Something had put a .nomedia file in /sdcard, which quite naturally led to problems. I removed the file and did a new scan and now I got photos in the gallery again. Apollo is still empty though, so I'm kinda pulling my hair here. Done the obvious stuff (reboots, clearing cache, purging app data).
/Daniel
Ha! Found the rest of the solution. Seems the media scanner doesn't scan all folders anymore but just some (found out about it in this post). I moved some of my music to /sdcard/downloads, run a scan and suddenly it's there in Apollo.
Oh, and the .nomedia in sdcard root appeared again. No idea where it comes from, but it seems like a good idea to check for it and delete it once in a while. Strange things happen...
Oh. And sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I hope some of my mumbling is useful to you
/Daniel
I reflashed rom again,and now in gallery and apollo,media is showing.
Maybe it's a problem with Rom Manager,because that pushed .nomedia files in wrong folders.
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Ha! Found the rest of the solution. Seems the media scanner doesn't scan all folders anymore but just some (found out about it in this post). I moved some of my music to /sdcard/downloads, run a scan and suddenly it's there in Apollo.
Oh, and the .nomedia in sdcard root appeared again. No idea where it comes from, but it seems like a good idea to check for it and delete it once in a while. Strange things happen...
Oh. And sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I hope some of my mumbling is useful to you
/Daniel
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on galaxy nexus, paranoid android 1.99:
after using Rescan Media Root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
there's a folder in DCIM called 100ANDRO.
put the music files in there and stock player detects them
put pictures in DCIM>Camera and gallery finds them.
check out Mountain Laurel Handrails http://awoodrailing.com
Similar thing happened to me on CM9, Xperia mini. I deleted the .nomedia file and cleared the app data on music players and things are fine now.
My status on this one right now is that scanning mostly works. It refuses to scan some directories though. If I move all my music to /sdcard/music it's scanned, but in /sdcard/subsonic/music where it's always been before it's not. The only big problem with this is that for example /sdcard/ringtones is not scanned. So according to the system I no longer have any custom ringtones. This gotta be a bug, right?
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Maybe you could try another music app like winamp. Because there you can do a manually media scan and as far as I know you can choose the folder where it should scan manually, too. Maybe give it a shot
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My status on this one right now is that scanning mostly works. It refuses to scan some directories though. If I move all my music to /sdcard/music it's scanned, but in /sdcard/subsonic/music where it's always been before it's not. The only big problem with this is that for example /sdcard/ringtones is not scanned. So according to the system I no longer have any custom ringtones. This gotta be a bug, right?
/Daniel
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at first i couldn't find my ringtones, put one in sd/ringtones and in the system/media/audio//ringtones
in doing all this i ran SDrescan and rescan media root multiple times.
now i've got two of the same showing up.
one thing the messed me up is that the ringtone filename is not used on the menu.
instead, the ringtone menu is pulling the metadata to tile it.
so I've got my filename 'ringtone.mp3' but it show up in the menu as 'song'
jimmypader said:
at first i couldn't find my ringtones, put one in sd/ringtones and in the system/media/audio//ringtones
in doing all this i ran SDrescan and rescan media root multiple times.
now i've got two of the same showing up.
one thing the messed me up is that the ringtone filename is not used on the menu.
instead, the ringtone menu is pulling the metadata to tile it.
so I've got my filename 'ringtone.mp3' but it show up in the menu as 'song'
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Ok. I also ended up putting my ringtones in /system/media/audio//ringtones which solves my problems. The media scanner still doesn't want to have anything with the ones in /sdcard/ringtones to do. Guess the media service will need some polishing before CM10 is released
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on galaxy nexus, paranoid android 1.99:
after using Rescan Media Root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
there's a folder in DCIM called 100ANDRO.
put the music files in there and stock player detects them
put pictures in DCIM>Camera and gallery finds them.
check out Mountain Laurel Handrails http://awoodrailing.com
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the method helped me resolved the music files issue but still Im having problem with the gallery pictures...tried to reboot coz that made the music problem solved but it doest worked on the pics...got any other idea?
but all in all THANKS really :laugh:
info: after restarting my phone music is not again detected by the phone. THis is a head exploding problem.
Hello fellow SGS2 user,
Normally, after installing another custom ROM, I adjust the ringtone, alarm sound and also whatsapp and sms notifications. I tend to use the same sounds all the time, and do not require all other beautiful sounds that my device contains.
Today I decided to see if I could delete the sounds that I never use.
I installed Android Commander on my PC and accessed the root of my phone.
I went to the root:system\media\audio folder and deleted all sounds that I don't need.
Afterwards I rebooted the phone and went to Settings -> Sound and tried to see what sounds would pop up when I clicked on "Phone ringtone".
Guess what: the names of all ringtones were still there! And they all seemed to still function.
With a file manager I went to the folder mentioned above, but only the sounds that I left behind were there, and the previously deleted ones were still deleted.
My question: is there another location on my phone where sounds are stored? And is there any way to make the sound list (when wanting to chose another ringtone, or alarm sound, or whatsapp sound) as short as I want it to be?
Thanks in advance!
jupkeyope said:
Hello fellow SGS2 user,
Normally, after installing another custom ROM, I adjust the ringtone, alarm sound and also whatsapp and sms notifications. I tend to use the same sounds all the time, and do not require all other beautiful sounds that my device contains.
Today I decided to see if I could delete the sounds that I never use.
I installed Android Commander on my PC and accessed the root of my phone.
I went to the root:system\media\audio folder and deleted all sounds that I don't need.
Afterwards I rebooted the phone and went to Settings -> Sound and tried to see what sounds would pop up when I clicked on "Phone ringtone".
Guess what: the names of all ringtones were still there! And they all seemed to still function.
With a file manager I went to the folder mentioned above, but only the sounds that I left behind were there, and the previously deleted ones were still deleted.
My question: is there another location on my phone where sounds are stored? And is there any way to make the sound list (when wanting to chose another ringtone, or alarm sound, or whatsapp sound) as short as I want it to be?
Thanks in advance!
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why do you want to delete those ringtones in the first place? Is it to free up more space?
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No not really, though it helps. I just wanted to see if it is possible.
Sounds can be stored on internal sdcard. And no, you can't make sound lists.
I have always used custom ringtones/notification sounds, but for some reason when I change them they stay for about a day then revert to the stock Verizon sounds.
Any ideas why our how I can get the custom sounds to stay? Never had a problem on any other Android phone.
Same thing here
sanscritt said:
I have always used custom ringtones/notification sounds, but for some reason when I change them they stay for about a day then revert to the stock Verizon sounds.
Any ideas why our how I can get the custom sounds to stay? Never had a problem on any other Android phone.
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I am having the same problem
That happened to me when I had the ringtones on an external sdcard that occasionally dismounted on its own. Are you moving the ringtones to the internal sdcard?
I have moved my ringtone from the extsd to the internal sd and will see what happens.I will update later.
I'm trying to add custom ringtones and notification sounds to the stock picker list. I've already tried the usual spots ("media", "media -> audio", and the root directory of the internal storage), but none of those worked. My device isn't rooted, so I can't put them in the system storage. And I keep over a thousand songs on my phone, so using the "Ringtone from internal storage" option isn't practical either.
So the question is... Does anybody know where the files should go? Or did they remove the option completely from OOS?
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I'm trying to add custom ringtones and notification sounds to the stock picker list. I've already tried the usual spots ("media", "media -> audio", and the root directory of the internal storage), but none of those worked. My device isn't rooted, so I can't put them in the system storage. And I keep over a thousand songs on my phone, so using the "Ringtone from internal storage" option isn't practical either.
So the question is... Does anybody know where the files should go? Or did they remove the option completely from OOS?
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I haven't moved my files over yet, so I'm not 100% sure. And I haven't been on OnePlus in years either. But I just downloaded a ringtone from Zedge and it immediately showed up in the audio system settings (media picker) as a ringtone option. There is also a ringtones folder in the root of your internal storage. Maybe try that.
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I haven't moved my files over yet, so I'm not 100% sure. And I haven't been on OnePlus in years either. But I just downloaded a ringtone from Zedge and it immediately showed up in the audio system settings (media picker) as a ringtone option. There is also a ringtones folder in the root of your internal storage. Maybe try that.
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Yeah, that's the third location I mentioned having tried. Unfortunately, they didn't show up. I tried rebooting to kick in the media scanner, but I'll try forcing the scan manually, since it worked for you there. Maybe it just didn't scan yet when I checked that spot. Thanks for the feedback.
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Yeah, that's the third location I mentioned having tried. Unfortunately, they didn't show up. I tried rebooting to kick in the media scanner, but I'll try forcing the scan manually, since it worked for you there. Maybe it just didn't scan yet when I checked that spot. Thanks for the feedback.
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Good luck. Also, remember that you have to select "ringtone from internal storage" in the picker. I'm sure you knew that though...it's basically common sense.
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Good luck. Also, remember that you have to select "ringtone from internal storage" in the picker. I'm sure you knew that though...it's basically common sense.
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Yeah, I was hoping to avoid that list, since it pulls up all 1000+ songs in my phone. Tough to scroll through 1000+ files to find a ringtone. But it didn't show up there either. Forced media scan didn't help either. Very unusual. My shiny new phone must hate me... lol.
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Yeah, I was hoping to avoid that list, since it pulls up all 1000+ songs in my phone. Tough to scroll through 1000+ files to find a ringtone. But it didn't show up there either. Forced media scan didn't help either. Very unusual. My shiny new phone must hate me... lol.
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Oh I see what you're trying to do. Yeah, I don't know about that either. Normally you can also separate ringtones from notifications. I'll play around with it and see if I can get files added to the 'main' list.
Mine are in /sdcard/Ringtones and /sdcard/Notifications as an .ogg file, as they have been since Android 2.x