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
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Hi,
One thing I really dislike on Android, is the very little flexibility on contacts organization. I can't seem to figure out a good way to organize all my contacts.
I have 2 problems with the current contacts organization:
Problem 1)
I like to have a contacts database with ALL my contacts and on that database I like to have the persons first and last name. However, for some of the contacts, I don't want to have their name displayed, I want to have something else instead; like a nickname for instance. I can't do what I want because of two simple things:
a) Google Contacts does have support for a "nickname" field, but Android doesn't. At least not on my Hero... I'm not sure but I believe the 2.1 ROMs already support this field if I recall correctly from the last time I tried one.
b) The People app on the HTC Hero (and probably the stock Android one but I don't know for sure) does not allow me to pick what I want to display as the contact's "name", if their real name or the nickname.
If these 2 things were possible, my problem would be solved. I could have my contacts database with their first and last names, but also with a nickname for some people where I could pick which one to display on my phone.
Problem 2)
My full contacts database on Google Contacts, includes every single person I ever contacted in my whole life since I had a mobile phone. Well, not exactly every single person cause I lost a few numbers over the years. But I have a big collection of names and phone numbers of people that I no longer can associate a face with or don't get in touch that often anymore.
However, I don't want to delete those numbers, so I know who's calling/texting/whatever (if that ever happens or if I need to contact them). But I also don't want all of them displayed on the main contacts list (People app on my case). Only a few contacts are the most important contacts to me, my family, closest friends, people that I get in touch from time to time, etc... Those are the ones that I wanted listed on the phone so I can quickly find one on the list if I need it.
Basically, I just want to hide a few groups of people from the main list. I still want/need them on the phone in case they call or I need to reach them (like I said above), but 95% of the time, they are cluttering the contacts list.
Now, it doesn't help much but, for those "less needed" contacts I placed them on a few different groups than the other "most contacted" contacts.
So, does anyone have any suggestions to help me fix, or at least workaround these organization problems? Does any one face the same or similar situations?
No suggestions, anyone?
Too complicated request?
aContact or Dialer One
This two app for contact maybe help you.
Not in evere question, but for me are very usefull.
You can switch betwen "saved" contact and all collected contact (google cont.).
aContact is for Android 1.5
Dialer One for Android 2.1 (1.6...?)
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.
ringo lite free from android market
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.
Hey everyone - just got my photon 4G finally I still haven't explored much into the phone - just getting the basic things set up. This is my first android OS device. I got the dock, but will hold off on doing anything for a few weeks until I get use to the phone OS.
question :
a) how can I remove the "bubble" style SMS's and have the traditional, threaded form? I couldn't find the setting for this (at least from when I clicked text messages > message settings. Can anyone give me a prompt to where I need to look?
b) On a side note - are there more "standard aka non-musical" traditional/professional ringtones available from Sprint ID or through the market for free? I think I noticed one digital ringer and then the old ring from the dated telephone.
Thank you.
If you install handcent from the market, it will give you options. I don't think you can switch with the default sms.
Sent from the best phone yet!
Thanks for letting me know about that.
I was about to ask how to remove the microSD card that I just put in - but see that the "black flap" just lifts upwards freely - maybe I overlooked that in the manual....
Use Zedge for ringtones, plenty for free
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Thanks for that suggestion.
So I downloaded handcent sms - it seems pretty customizable. One thing - does this application then connect to your "data" when retrieving the "advertisements" that are displayed? I suppose the "handcent pro" doesn't have the advertisements. While the application is great and better at removing the "bubbles - I think from a business perspective, reading advertisements while checking out your SMS (whether for personal or work) can be very* distracting.
Are there any other applications (advertisement free) that some of you have happen to use that lists everything "threaded" with the possibility of organizing or sorting SMSs within a directory "tree" (i.e. inbox / outbox / deleted / drafts )?
I may have to upgrade to "handcent pro" if I need to remove these things. Unless really overlooked, I can't believe motorola didn't consider that for their business users...
Go SMS works well too and free,
Yes thank you - I actually installed it :
SMS Go Pro (from android market - free) - it's perfect to what I was looking for (as described above), and from what I see - free from ads! It's great that it has the option to disable other text messaging notifications/services.
Does anyone else have this issue?
I'll be doing my thing, living my life, and all of a sudden I'll get an email or SMS and my SGS2 running CM7.1 will randomly decide to play an MP3 instead of my chosen messaging tone (which is Link collecting a rupee).
It usually changes it to a specific song I have on my phone, but once has changed it to a different messaging tone I had used before.
I can then manually set it back to my link collecting a rupee sound but a day or two later it'll decide it wants to play "Take This One From Me" by 'It's True'
I can't seem to pin down why It's happening though.
Hello,
I have some many Bob's & Franks etc in my phone book when they call i have no idea who it is, is there a dialer app that displays the company info?
Each of my contacts have the company info saved in their google contact info, i just need it to display on the incoming call screen.
THank you,
Bump
Did you ever find one? I'd love to find something that will work without trying 20 different products and getting malware...
I have the same issue...
Same issue
I know it may seem like a pain but for myself I almost never know the last name of anyone so when I store contacts it's usually "Bob NAPA Rep" or "Frank OCC" but you could leave their last names and just add initials or titles on the same line to have it displayed when they call. Doing this on your phone would take forever too so you could log into your Google account and do it from a laptop or pc and it would be much easier and faster.
VidJunky said:
I know it may seem like a pain but for myself I almost never know the last name of anyone so when I store contacts it's usually "Bob NAPA Rep" or "Frank OCC" but you could leave their last names and just add initials or titles on the same line to have it displayed when they call. Doing this on your phone would take forever too so you could log into your Google account and do it from a laptop or pc and it would be much easier and faster.
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Then i need to edit 1500 contacts
Well aren't you in luck if you check this sooner than before. Looking thru Android Central forms there's an app mentioned called Call Notes Pro. There's a free version but you have to get the pro version to get three feature you want but if you go today it's half price. $1.49. the sale ends tomorrow. It's rated 4.9 stars which is unheard of. Best of luck.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nikanorov.callnotespro
Thanks app works. Can show any info from address book and even can add notes.
Call notes pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nikanorov.callnotespro
I use "Smart Notify - Dialer, SMS & Notifications" by Milan Vyšata
There is a free version which is very good (although I'd encourage you to support the developer).
It seems this app also work great as both dialer and show company info.
True Phone Dialer & Contacts
Hamster Beat
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hb.dialer.free
True Phone Dialer & Contacts – Apps on Google Play
Powerful T9 phone and contact manager with dual SIM support and call recorder
play.google.com
this does make my help so easier...... I fail to understand why google can't have this company name feature in the incoming Call Screen.