Is there a way to easily copy the notification sounds from one Rom to another?
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Yes, use root explorer.
You can use root explorer, go to SYSTEM, MEDIA,AUDIO. There you will see all folders for notifications, ringtones, alarms, and ui.
You can long press on any folder or any file inside those folders, or select all and copy. Then go out to your sdcard or external sdcard and make a file with the same folder names and inner folder names (just copy the same format of how they are listed) and then paste them in the respective folders. Now no matter what rom your in they will always show up for use when your changing ringtones and all.
PS. You can ALSO long press in the MEDIA folder, choose copy, go to sdcard or external SD card, and paste. This will keep all them in there no matter what rom your on and show up whenever you are changing ringtones, etc. Then you can also add/start adding any mp3s into the folder and they will also show up.
If this helped hit the thanks button.
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Im updating the first post so everyone can see how to do this u can get the updated vold.fstab from chevy on pg 2.
Basically you must be rooted before doing this.
Download above file posted by chevy
Use a file explorer program like root explorer browse to your download folder or wherever you downloaded the above file. Extract it and when it says go to extracted folder say take me there.
Once there click on the vold.fstab and long press it and select copy from the menu that pops up.
Then browse to the root of your system device and select the system folder
Once there select the etc folder
Once in there at the top right of the screen if your using root explorer change the r/o to r/w and paste the file in here.
It will ask you to overnight the file. Select yes to overright
Then at the top right of your screen change the r/w to r/o
Finally reboot your phone and you should be good to go.
To verify just go to settings and select sd card and storage and you should see your external sd card showing up as the main sd card now.
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I haven't had time to make the change myself, but it can be done if you are rooted.
I've attached the files that need to be changed as a rar file.
"init.rc" is a initialization file that will create the directories /mnt/sdcard/ & /mnt/sdcard-ext/ on the system partition. It will also create a symbolic link to those directories as /sdcard/ and /sdcard-ext/ respectively.
Then, "vold.fstab" is used to mount the internal memory to /mnt/sdcard/ & mount sdcard to /mnt/sdcard-ext/
You should back up the original files from your device, the vold.fstab I attached has been edited to switch the internal memory to /sdcard-ext/ & sdcard to /sdcard/
Thank you ill try this when I get off of work.
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Bigdragon2k3 said:
Thank you ill try this when I get off of work.
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Let us know how it goes. I'm interested in this as well.
Ok well I tried this but I guess I messed up some where I ran the init.rc first. Then I backed up the vold.fstab and put it in a folder. I then put the new vold.fstab in etc/ now neither of my sd cards are being mounted. Maybe im trying something too advanced for me. But hopefully there's an easy fix. Was I supposed to push the file with adb
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I wouldn't be messing with critical system files like that until an SBF is available for our phone. Just my 2c.
You can adb the original files you backed up onto the device and reboot and it will remount the partitions. I did the same thing when I tried and made the mistake of overwriting the backup I made when I saved the edits in RootExplorer, so I had to grab the files off my wifes phone and push them onto mine to get it back up. Other than the devices not mounting, there isn't much harm in editing these files.
Did you edit both files at the same time to match the directories and reboot? If they don't match the devices won't mount when the vold.fstab is called. The edit needs to be done at the same time. In init.rc make sure the paths for the export & mkdir are the same. I was able to get it to create the directory /mnt/sdcard/ext/ so the external sdcard would have been in a directory inside the internal sdcard, but couldn't get it to mount to that directory.
Where I got hung up was on the vold.fstab edit, the formatting kept getting messed up and the file wouldn't work.
I was able to change the symbolic links around which helps if the sdcard path is hardcoded in the app to be /sdcard/, but when getExternalStorage is called by the app to get the path it will return the mnt/sdcard/ path, so that only helped get certain apps to store their files on the real sdcard.
The link below is how this edit is done on the Galaxy S, it was successful on that device so thats how I know it can be done on ours if we figure it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094090
Well I got it back to default now. Im not sure if you have taken a look at the original one posted for the i9003 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088474. When I went to edit yours it seeemed like you had extra stuff in there. Also on the other post it diddnt say anything about the init.rc. Not saying that your wrong I just diddnt see it mentioned. But hopefully we can figure this out and get it working.
Yeah, the vold.fstab I attached had the formatting messed up when I saved it in notepad and after that it didn't seem to accept any changes I made. I need to replace it with a fresh original file, I attached it to reference what I was saying, but should have been more clear to start with a clean copy. Sorry about that.
If our goal is just to swap the two cards, editing the vold.fstab is all that is needed, but if we want to combine the cards we need to edit the init.rc to make the /ext/ directory inside of /sdcard/, that way the apps that are setup to only work with the 1 card will be able to use both as the internal card would be mounted inside a directory of the real SDcard. Ideally I was thinking of mounting the internal storage to the /sdcard/data/ folder so app2SD stuff would go there, but started by trying to set it as /sdcard/ext/ as that wasn't a preexisting directory on my SDcard so it wouldn't be an additional monkey fighting the mod.
Ok I understand now. Hopefully we could get those files coded so we can try this out. This would be a great addition.
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you needed a better text editor. i did the exact same thing to vold.fstab and it works.
use the attached file.
I got it working as well (just swapping partitions). These were my steps:
1. attached the phone to my PC and made sure both the internal and external storage locations that mounted on my PC contained the same information. Just copied files back and forth until they were equal
2. disconnected the phone from the PC.
3. Used Root Explorer (RE) to copy vold.fstab to a few different places on both internal and external storage (just in case)
4. Mounted the /etc folder R/W in RE and did my edits on vold.fstab via the text editor in RE. Stored my changes and this automatically created a .bak file.
5. Mounted /etc RO and rebooted.
6. Both storage areas got prepared and mounted after reboot and were swapped as expected. Now I just need to copy the 8G SD contents to my 32G and I'll be back to where I was with the OG Droid!
Corey
Well thank you that definitely worked, thats so awesom.
Is it XMas morning, feels like Santa just visited! Now I have to order up that 32g card I've been drooling over, thanks!
Can someone post these instructions step by step in simple-man terms? Thanks!
Basically you must be rooted before doing this.
Download above file posted by chevy
Use a file explorer program like root explorer browse to your download folder or wherever you downloaded the above file. Extract it and when it says go to extracted folder say take me there.
Once there click on the vold.fstab and long press it and select copy from the menu that pops up.
Then browse to the root of your system device and select the system folder
Once there select the etc folder
Once in there at the top right of the screen if your using root explorer change the r/o to r/w and paste the file in here.
It will ask you to overnight the file. Select yes to overright
Then at the top right of your screen change the r/w to r/o
Finally reboot your phone and you should be good to go.
To verify just go to settings and select sd card and storage and you should see your external sd card showing up as the main sd card now.
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coreywilner said:
I got it working as well (just swapping partitions). These were my steps:
1. attached the phone to my PC and made sure both the internal and external storage locations that mounted on my PC contained the same information. Just copied files back and forth until they were equal
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Explain, please? How do you get both the internal and external storage locations to show up on the computer?
usb mode will show both sd cards in your computer screen.
Bigdragon2k3 said:
usb mode will show both sd cards in your computer screen.
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Was able to figure it out, sleep is a wonderful thing when it comes down to thinking clearly! LOL
Thanks cvmaas and Bigdragon, it's great being able to fully use my SD card again!
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Not trying to hijack, but have any of you done this and purchased a 32gb card? Maybe a class 10 card? If so which one and how is it working?
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Hi,
I've had my Prime for a couple of weeks now - a great device, but one thing that is bugging me - I can't seem to copy music to the Music directory on the internal storage.
So far, the only mechanisms I've tried are copying music from the external SDHC card or the external Micro-SDHC card over to the internal memory - fail, or copy over the LAN using ES File Explorer directly - fail.
I have successfully copied movie files over to the internal storage, but the internal Music directory still has just the default files shipped with the tablet.
The one thing I haven't tried is copying directly from a PC over the USB cable, but I shouldn't really need to resort to this surely - it's not an Apple device after all!
Has anyone else had this experience? Am I missing something here? :-/
Regards,
Bruisah
[Replying to my own post - what poor etiquette! ]
Update: I can copy the default music out of the folder, and I can rename the folder, but I cannot write to the folder, nor delete it, nor delete the contents.
Workaround was to rename the folder ".music.orig" to make it 'hidden', create a new "Music" folder, copy the default music across (I haven't listened to it, so...), and copy my own music into the new Music folder...
Presumably, ASUS want to make sure the default music survives a hard reset...(?)
Still, irritating...
Regards,
Bruisah
if u use the asus file manager i can tell u itz bugged (not that badly), it corrupt my download and music folder before on separate occasions.
btw after factory reset the free music are gone.
How to delete the wallpaper file permently. The file .thumbnails keeps coming back, loads to my sd card and shows up with my pictures in the grid. I deleted it from my sd and my nook by deticking all boxes in prefernces and deleted the file. Then when I did a reboot there they were again. I would like to get them gone !!!!!!
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but if there's a specific folder you do not want to appear in your gallery, you can stop it from showing up by adding a file called ".nomedia" (no quotes) to the folder.
I found the .nomedia file and tried to get the thumbs put in it they won't go, but I got the .nomedia put in the .thumbnails file and then deleted them, don't know if this will work??????? I don't have the wallpaper in my media now so I'll just wait and see. I'm not to savy on this stuff. thank you for the hint.
Well I had to turn my nook off, because video on pulse locked, and the wallpapers are back. They must be part of the boot up so I don't have a clue what to do now. I just did a bunch of deleting, cutting the file to my computer and the software in the nook just makes a copy of all my files on my sd card and puts them in the .thumbnails folder. My files on the sd are still where they should be. What's next??????
Where is this folder located? Is the .nomedia file still there?
The file is in the B&N download folder and is still there in both nook & sd.
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after a search I was not able to find a solution very quickly.
Completely stock phone... just replaced today due to the original not always receiving my touch input.
I have a few ringtones and notifications that I have used for all my phones... if anything else is used I just don't hear it; I simply think it is not my phone. In the past all I have done is create two folders, "notifications" and "ringtones" with the mp3 files contained within. It has been long enough that I do not remember if I left these folders on "sdcard2", moved them to "sdcard", or to the phones internal storage.
I have the folders containing the mp3's on "sdcard2" and "sdcard"... whenever I try to move it to internal storage (system > media > audio > notifications) I get an error that states I cannot do that... and still no option for these ringtones or notifications when attempting to alter the settings under profile > sounds.
I am using File Expert while attempting to perform this task.
What has changed... or am I doing something wrong??
JNeutron said:
Please forgive if this is covered...
after a search I was not able to find a solution very quickly.
Completely stock phone... just replaced today due to the original not always receiving my touch input.
I have a few ringtones and notifications that I have used for all my phones... if anything else is used I just don't hear it; I simply think it is not my phone. In the past all I have done is create two folders, "notifications" and "ringtones" with the mp3 files contained within. It has been long enough that I do not remember if I left these folders on "sdcard2", moved them to "sdcard", or to the phones internal storage.
I have the folders containing the mp3's on "sdcard2" and "sdcard"... whenever I try to move it to internal storage (system > media > audio > notifications) I get an error that states I cannot do that... and still no option for these ringtones or notifications when attempting to alter the settings under profile > sounds.
I am using File Expert while attempting to perform this task.
What has changed... or am I doing something wrong??
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You should root your phone and make sure to mount your internal memory or external sdcard as r/w or read/write. I personally use root explorer as its a rock solid file explorer that allows you to set r/o read only or r/w read/write quite easily.
tekno4ever said:
You should root your phone and make sure to mount your internal memory or external sdcard as r/w or read/write. I personally use root explorer as its a rock solid file explorer that allows you to set r/o read only or r/w read/write quite easily.
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I am not comfortable rooting my phone.
I have done this in the past (with my last EVO LTE even) without rooting... I should be able to do it again.
Thanks for the suggestion.... it is appreciated.
I installed an app called "Zedge" and it seems to have worked around the issue... I have ringtones and notifications that sound similar to what I am used to.
I am still puzzled as to why folders on the SD card labeled "notifications" and "ringtones" all of sudden are not recognized...
Hi guys,
So I'm trying to symbolic link the cache of google music to my external SD, but the Cache file seems to be persisting even after I try to delete through Rom toolbox (root browser). I tried overriding the cache file through renaming my symbolic link short cut, but it just seems to end up INSIDE the cache file unchanged. Not sure how to test if this is actually working or not... Anyone properly get this set up to work on Verizon GS4?
I'm on ME7, rooted.
Wrathos said:
Hi guys,
So I'm trying to symbolic link the cache of google music to my external SD, but the Cache file seems to be persisting even after I try to delete through Rom toolbox (root browser). I tried overriding the cache file through renaming my symbolic link short cut, but it just seems to end up INSIDE the cache file unchanged. Not sure how to test if this is actually working or not... Anyone properly get this set up to work on Verizon GS4?
I'm on ME7, rooted.
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I've had this working on mine using the root browser in Rom Toolbox. This is what I did:
0. Open ROM Toolbox > Root Browser
1. Make a folder in your desired location (sdcard) called "Music" or something to that sort.
2. Tap and hold, select the option "Create Shortcut" at the bottom
3. Navigate to /data/data/com.google.android.music/
4. Paste (to create the shortcut)
5. Delete the "files" folder in this directory
6. Rename the shortcut to "files"
This will cache all music files and album art to the sd card location you choose. Items will still appear to be in the location on the internal storage, however if you watch the available space on your SD card and Internal Storage after caching a ton of music, you will notice only the SD Card is increasing despite the apparent presence on the internal storage location.
Interesting, it's "files" and not "Cache"? I didn't know that's the case, let me try it now.
charliebronson said:
I've had this working on mine using the root browser in Rom Toolbox. This is what I did:
0. Open ROM Toolbox > Root Browser
1. Make a folder in your desired location (sdcard) called "Music" or something to that sort.
2. Tap and hold, select the option "Create Shortcut" at the bottom
3. Navigate to /data/data/com.google.android.music/
4. Paste (to create the shortcut)
5. Delete the "files" folder in this directory
6. Rename the shortcut to "files"
This will cache all music files and album art to the sd card location you choose. Items will still appear to be in the location on the internal storage, however if you watch the available space on your SD card and Internal Storage after caching a ton of music, you will notice only the SD Card is increasing despite the apparent presence on the internal storage location.
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So, when I try to delete the file "files", it isn't deleted at all. It just... stays there, so when I rename my file "Music" to "File", the file "Music" goes under the file named "file". It's a bit confusing, but the thing I'm curious about is that I cannot delete the file named "file" it seems, through the root browser.