Alright, before I had issues with my ringtones changing randomly. After experimenting with file locations, which loader I was using (I use Handcent SMS for text), and so on, I read up on the forums and the issue seemed to be with the SD card. So, I took everything off of my 32GB SD card, and reformatted it fully, rather than "Quick formatting". It took forever, so I really don't want to have to do that every two months.
About a month later, this started happening again (keep in mind, the first time I was on stock, the second time I was rooted w/ Steelrom), so now that I had root access, I downloaded AntTek explorer (app), and moved my ringtones and notifications to the proper folders on the phone's memory
([Device Root>system>Media>audio>notifications] for notifications, and [Device Root>system>Media>audio>Ringtones] for ringtones, respectfully).
I added about 12 new ringtones, and 45 new notifications (people text me more than they call me).
It was working great for a bit. All of my ringtones still go off every time, which is good, but my notifications only go off about half the time, and the other half, my phone remains silent. The phone remembers the right files, and when I click "Test Notification", it plays the sound out loud. Yet, two minutes later, and when a text message comes in, my phone just vibrates.
Help? Maybe there's some kind of indexing file I need to edit or something..?
EDIT: Whoops, I meant to post in the Q&A section... Can a mod please move this..?
Have you set the default sound from within the stock msg app ???
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
I've had this problem as well.
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laie1472 said:
Have you set the default sound from within the stock msg app ???
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
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Yes, and it doesn't fix it :/
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I'm having some unusual problems using custom audio files as ringtones and notifications. I've looked through a lot of existing discussions about this, but none of them seem to fully match the issues I'm experiencing.
Most questions about setting custom MP3 ringtones and notifications are replied by descriptions of how a set of "notifications" and "ringtones" folders should be created on your SD card, and so on. The weirdest part of my experience is that, I have done that, and it had initially worked, but now it no longer does!
I can't figure out what has changed. I did experiment with changing the cluster size of my SD card from 32KB to 4KB since the last time it had worked, but I've since changed it back to 4KB (suspecting that might be the reason), but that didn't fix the problem.
Here's the other strange part of what I'm seeing:
I launch Astro
I navigate to an audio file on my SD card
I tap-and-hold, and pick "Music Options"
The "Set as Ringtone" option is enabled". "Nice", you'd think. "Just set your ringtone that way." But hold on, we're not done yet!
I then copy and paste this audio file to create a duplicate copy under a different name right in the same folder
I tap-and-hold the new copy and select Music Options. The "Set as Ringtone" option now shows up as disabled for this file!
What the...? The files are identical in everythine but name (which only has a "2" added at the end)!!! Can anyone give me even a remotely plausible explanation of this? Does anyone here know what the unmentioned criteria are for an audio file to be considered a valid ringtone?
It didn't end there. I tried going around the problem by installing Tone Picker. That allowed me to set the phone ringtone to the audio file I want without too much hassle. I also set in Tone Picker the notification ringtone used for my calendar appointments. No such luck, though! The phone ringtone works fine, but none of the audio files that I've tried so far for setting as the notification sound via Tone Picker worked. I hear no sound when the notification is shown. It works perfectly fine if I revert the notification sound to an Android system sound by bypassing Tone Picker.
Anybody got a clue?
Oh, and I'm using my Xperia X10 unrooted, with firmware build number R2BA026 in the USA with AT&T. (But it's not an AT&T branded device.)
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The custom notification sounds have suddenly started working, too. And what I've done differently is... nothing. The only thing I've done additionally is connect my phone via USB to my laptop, which promptly sounded the custom notification sound. That reminded me that I made a mistake, since I didn't want that sound as the default notification sound, but just for calendar notifications. So, after fixing the default notification back to what it used to be and setting the calendar notification to my desired custom sound (just for the heck of it) one more time, this time it happened to work. Hah! That's cute. Now I have no idea why it now works or what was ever wrong!...
I suppose I'll have to try the switch to 4KB clusters again, to understand if it had anything to do with starting these issues--otherwise I'll be wasting something like 30% of the capacity of my 16GB SD card if I stay with 32KB clusters (a lot of cached map tiles...).
I realize I'm dancing to my own fiddle here, but I thought I should add this, too, for the benefit of anyone else who might experience similar issues and come across this thread, because I've never seen this being discussed about audio files in Android when used for ringtones and notifications:
I came across one more clue after my last posting. I happened to be fiddling around with the Mediascape app. I tested tapping the audio file (WAV) I wanted to use as my custom calendar notification sound. It brought up the file for playback but displayed a temporary pop-up message saying "No license. File skipped." Now, I'm not sure if it was saying this about the file I intended to select, because I believe I was actually picking the "Unknown" artist selection, and there might have been some other audio file(s) on the SD card that was assumed to belong to artist "Unknown" as well, to which that message might have applied. In any case, it required a second tap on the "Play" button for it to play the file. (It then played fine, which doesn't make sense if the app really thought it was unlicensed. But never mind.) Meanwhile, the second copy of that same audio file, also showing up in Mediascape as an artist "Unknown" track, played back fine with a single tap and no pop-up about any missing license.
Leaving aside for a moment the question whether that message about the missing license meant what I thought it might have meant, this clued me in to the possibility, in general, that the mysterious selectiveness of Astro in disabling and enabling the "Set as Ringtone" option (and my root cause of not being able to see some MP3 files in the selection list when picking audio files for ringtones/notifications in Android's system menus) may have to do with some perceived license issue related to the files. It shouldn't, actually, because both audio files are homecooked audio files I've put together in an audio editor. But, apparently, Android may be paranoid enough to "assume the worst" about audio files with no licensing info and treat them as unlicensed. That might be the unspoken criterion, to which I was referring earlier, for an audio file to be considered valid for use as a ringtone, etc. (or for playback in general, naturally).
At least, that will be my operating assumption going forward. If anyone happens to see this "monolog" and has a better idea, they should feel free to chime in...
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after i install mummy droid custom jelly bean rom everything is working fine but i cant set my customize ringtone and sms tone plzzz guys help mee
Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer help with this. I've had my Atrix since launch and there's been about 4 times now (all seemingly after i've hooked the phone to computer with either phone portal, windows sync, or mass storage) where the assigned ringtones for contacts and even my regular ringtone has been changed or reassigned to some random song from my library. I don't know if there's something to hooking it up and it messes with the memory that juggles the ringtones/songs or what. Does anyone else have this problem and if so, has it been addressed/fixed? Thanks in advance for any help offered.
I have the exact same issue and have been posting about it on the Motorola forum as well. Over there the Motorola folks ask you questions and try to get a fix out to everyone, so please check it out if you haven't already.
My issue has happened a lot morethan yours it seems, however, I use extra batteries, so the phone reboots more often.
This is what I posted over there a little while ago:
Internal phone storage keeps disappearing
The "Disappearing ringtones" discussion was closed and merged with this one, but my issue is not the same as the internal memory being wiped.
My files are still on the card and internal memory, but the contacts, alarms, messaging, calendar, etc apps can't remember the tones I set.
I have copied the files to the following locations with the same issue recurring:
/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/system/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard-ext/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard-ext/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
Even after moving them with RootExporer to the "non-mountable" storage (/system) they are still reassigning and setting to "unknown".
Possibly related issue. The playlists I create with MixZing, winAmp, and astro are empty are the phone reboots.
Occasionally I get the "no files" error when I check the mounted card in file manager, but if I manualy unmount and remount the card, they are still there.
I keep missing calls, texts and having my alarms "silent". This is getting frustrating. I bought the Atrix on launch day so I need to exchange NOW if that is what is needed.
Other than the above and the losing data connection issue, I LOVE THIS PHONE
Yeah, i've placed my ringtones (all .m4a format) on both the internal/external memory slots and for some reason, when it gets hooked up i'm in the same boat you are...very frustrating i've missed calls and messages as well. surprising that no one from Moto has a resolution for it...
I've run into the same problem, and was planning on moving 'em into the /system/media folder...but it sounds like that won't fix it. Drats.
I've had this issue as well. The random song problem seems to only affect contacts I have set up with a custom tone. No telling what song/sound will play for which contact. Otherwise it has simply changed my default ringtone to a particular mp3 that then becomes the default tone. Really weird.
I do still have the issue with the files in the /system folder, but much less. So I would try them there to lessen the problem. Westill need a complete fix though.
This issue is still a problem. There are even some apps that can't see the files on the internal card or external card. Even after the OTA update this problem is driving me crazy.
I think you dont hear about this issue more because some people dont connect there phone to the computer or remove the battery often. It seems to be a problem with reading the info off the card when it is remounted. On my captivate when I remounted the card it would always scan the card. This phone doesn't.
Any ideas.
Yeah I had this problem too. Was the only thing, and I mean the only thing I didn't like about this phone. I found the only way to fix it is to root the phone and move your personal ringtones to the '/system/media/audio/ringtones' folder using Root Explorer (you can buy it oin the market. Great app BTW). This solved all my problems. I know it's not "right" but it works great. Now I have zero problems with this phone.
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Yeah I had this problem too. Was the only thing, and I mean the only thing I didn't like about this phone. I found the only way to fix it is to root the phone and move your personal ringtones to the '/system/media/audio/ringtones' folder using Root Explorer (you can buy it oin the market. Great app BTW). This solved all my problems. I know it's not "right" but it works great. Now I have zero problems with this phone.
-joe-
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I rooted, and purchased Root Explorer, but I can not seem to move anything to the Systems folder as it is a read only folder?... What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
t2ohio said:
I rooted, and purchased Root Explorer, but I can not seem to move anything to the Systems folder as it is a read only folder?... What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
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In Root Explorer, at the top, hit the R/W button.
Ive mounted to the computer often, resboot every day, pull battery every now and then.. I dont have this problem. Ever try Ringdroid?
Anyone know of a fix for the ringtones/notification tones not sticking on GSB? I've had this problem since CM added "profiles". Just flashed v2.6 last night and haven't had a phone call yet to see if it persists.
Edit...Don't answer......I went a little crazy and built up my post count so I could post my question on the GSB thread..
sorry but i'm just gonna use this thread i started to boost my post count so i can post my question on the GSB thread.
I don't like this 10 post thing
there has been so many times I've had something to say but couldn't because I didn't have enough posts
three more posts....almost there
two more posts.....I think I can
last one wow I did it.....I think
one more for good measure
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one more for good measure
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Well, I'll give you credit. It's better than posting useless things in other and/or dead threads!
Bumping this for Posts, And to find out if you ever got that ringtone thing figured out?
I've been having problems with this ever since I installed GSB, and am about at my wits end.
I've tried the following:
Set with Handcent, Group ringtone, and Contact Group Manager.
Convert all to .ogg format and then same as above.
Push all the ogg files to /system/media/audio/ringtones and chmod 644 on all
AND set with the previous methods, as well as individually with both android system and Handcent picker.
Ive also disabled DSP manager, but that didnt' seem to affect it. neither did full wipes/reinstall.
I even backed up the SD card, did a 3 pass overwrite in windows, and then formatted it in recovery, mounted USB, copied the files, flashed fresh 3.2, gapps, and cache2cache and rebooted completely fresh, and pushed all the ogg files back to system and they still don't stick.
mwdan said:
I've tried the following:
Set with Handcent, Group ringtone, and Contact Group Manager.
Convert all to .ogg format and then same as above.
Push all the ogg files to /system/media/audio/ringtones and chmod 644 on all
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Rather than doing that, just put them in the SD card in a folder called /ringtones or /audio/ringtones or /media/audio/ringtones (you get the picture, I hope). Don't bother with chmod. What happens then?
That doesn't work either. That's where I started from, with the media/audio/ringtone folder on my sd card, and it worked fine there on every other rom I've used until I started using GSB.
If I could get this ringtone thing worked out, it'd be perfect. I hate having to look at the phone to see who's calling.
I may have figured this out. I noticed it wastaking a long time to "wake up" when the phone rang so I played with the clock setting and had to drop it down to 710 from 748, bit it seems to be working so far.
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That didn't work. Worked fine yesterday,but today it just plays the default ringtone for all calls.
This is getting really irritating.
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Still not working right. I can't figure this out for the life of me. I've been having this problem since v2.9 of GSB, and it's continuing right up to the new 3.4 ODEx version.
Last weekend I reformatted the SD card, wiped the phone, and put a fresh install of XtrSense 5.01 on and the ringtones worked fine, so I wiped the sd card again, and installed the brand new version of GSB when it was released, and the second call i recieved went to the default ringtone :/
well, this makes 10 posts, so I can go ask the man himself now.
You're not the only one having this issue, and I too believe I started noticing it around the time that the profiles were introduced into CM....
I don't know what it could be. I've tried removing profiles, converting everything to .ogg and sticking it in the system/media/audio/(ringtones/alarms/notifications) folders, freezing DSP, Overclocking, underclocking.
actually alarms and notifications work fine, its just ringtones. :/
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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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?
Swyped from my Galaxy SII
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.
Hey guys, I'm kind of stumped on an issue I've been having for the past week. First of all, I have a Photon which is stock, still on 2.3.4, and is not rooted. Last week, I gave my HTC Hero to my girlfriend for her birthday (yes it's old, but she's still on a rumor 2). I'd been primarily using the Hero and an 8 GB sd card in it as a media player to plug into my car stereo. Before I gave my girlfriend the Hero, I swapped out the 8 GB card for a 1 GB card I had laying around and instead put the 8 GB card into my Photon. The next day I noticed something strange happening. My notification ringtone was messing up. When the phone went to notify me of a text (it also happens with emails and other notifications), it would play a split second of the intro of a Brooks & Dunn song I happened to have on my sd card. After awhile of being annoyed by it, I decided I didn't like that song so much after all and just deleted it, hoping that would fix the problem. However, it did not. Today, I noticed it started doing the same thing with another song in the Brooks & Dunn folder on my sd card. I've tried changing the notification ringtone, rebooting the phone. Didn't work. My question is, why would it be doing this? Why is it trying to read from the Brooks & Dunn folder for a second before it plays the desired ringtone? It is obviously related to the sd card somehow because that is the only thing that had changed when it started doing this. If you guys have any insight as to why my phone is doing this, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I forgot to mention. If needed, I can provide what apps I have installed as well as my folder hierarchy if that helps. Thanks.
1st and eazy-est try a factory reset.
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