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Just got my Hero and I am loving it!
But how do I use my own MP3's as ringtones and notifications?
I keep answering these Q's on the basis that I'm pretty sure the Hero will behave like The Magic as its the closest cousin and also runs Android 1.5 so
Try this - on the root of your SD card you need to make a folder structure the same as on the device itself. Media folder with Audio folder inside. Audio folder with alarms, notifications and ringtones inside.
Media/Audio/alarms
Media/Audio/notifications
Media/Audio/ringtones
and put files you want to use for each of those in there and they *should* then show in the list that comes up for those functions.
I think mp3 are fine for all of those, but alarm and notification seem to be mostly .ogg files so if you have an easy converter, might be worth converting. I think I converted the main one I use for my alarm to ogg using WMP11
And having said all that, simply long holding on a music file will usually allow you to set it as a ringtone, wherever you store it on your SD.
Daisy xx
you are our guru
thats for the info in the threads dazee
we are all learning again with the hero
Hey, cool to feel like an expert for a bit til the wizz kids take over. I'm killing time waiting for my Hero....
Actually, you can find most of these answers in the Sapphire forums or Dream forums as they are mostly Android 1.5 questions rather than device specific. Perhaps the mods should have an Android Forum since loads of stuff is duplicated and triplicated between the three android devices....
and that's only my hundredth post - so really, I'm the noob... LOL
Thanks for the help, but it's not working for me.
I have created Media\Audio\notifications as you suggested and put an MP3 in there, but I dont see it in my notification sounds list.
In what specific way am I being thick!?
For short stuff like alarms and notifications, they might need to be .ogg so you may need to convert for them to show up.
LOL You are a pioneer since most of us don't have a Hero device to try anything as yet
In my settings for the magic I also have a choice in Sound and display to check Sd Card Notifications, and I'm not sure if that's what is needed - and of course - I have a magic not a Hero so it could be totally different...
Right, I got it working. Possibly by enabling those SD Card notifications. I did restart the phone as well. Either way, its working!
Thank you for your efforts in helping!
Oooh restart rings a bell, actually - I recall that possibly was something I had to do on the Magic before the files appeared in the lists!!
Cool. Nice Teamwork If this keeps up I'll have solved all my own potential probs before I even get my Hero
Also confirmed ...
a combination of enabling SD notifications (off by default) creating folder structure exactly as it appears ( case sensitive) and transferring files over and a reboot for good measure - these now appear in ringtone and more importantly under notifications.
filetypes tested - mp3, wav and ogg - all appeared.
Thanks for the advice !
I found that just creating a /notifications folder on the SD card worked fine. Didn't need to reboot or anything.
Dayzee said:
I keep answering these Q's on the basis that I'm pretty sure the Hero will behave like The Magic as its the closest cousin and also runs Android 1.5 so
Try this - on the root of your SD card you need to make a folder structure the same as on the device itself. Media folder with Audio folder inside. Audio folder with alarms, notifications and ringtones inside.
Media/Audio/alarms
Media/Audio/notifications
Media/Audio/ringtones
and put files you want to use for each of those in there and they *should* then show in the list that comes up for those functions.
I think mp3 are fine for all of those, but alarm and notification seem to be mostly .ogg files so if you have an easy converter, might be worth converting. I think I converted the main one I use for my alarm to ogg using WMP11
And having said all that, simply long holding on a music file will usually allow you to set it as a ringtone, wherever you store it on your SD.
Daisy xx
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This worked for me, thanks Dayzee
The Jones said:
Just got my Hero and I am loving it!
But how do I use my own MP3's as ringtones and notifications?
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Search for RingDroid in the Market. It finds all youre mp3's on the sd-card. Then you can open youre fav mp3, shorten it and save it and make it youre ringtone or notification tone
So, another little question, specific to HTC Mail app. Is it possible to change the notification sound for HTC Mail specifically? I havent found a way yet.
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So, another little question, specific to HTC Mail app. Is it possible to change the notification sound for HTC Mail specifically? I havent found a way yet.
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You will find it under settings in the mail application
sixpackbud said:
You will find it under settings in the mail application
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I can select in there whether or not there is a sound at all, but not which specific sound. Unless I am missing something...
Thanks
Thanks Dayzee, your post helped me out!
The Jones - I believe the HTC mail app uses the default Android notification tone you set in the usual place.
Sam
samos69 said:
Thanks Dayzee, your post helped me out!
The Jones - I believe the HTC mail app uses the default Android notification tone you set in the usual place.
Sam
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Hmm, thanks for confirming that. Shame, slightly annoying actually, I want a different sound for incoming work emails. The sound of me not reading them usually!!
I agree that it is odd not to be able to select a custom notification for the HTC email app. In fact all notification events should be grouped together somewhere for control and customisation.
Plenty scope for improvement in that area though.
speaking of sounds, my alarm is horribly low volume, even though i set both ringer and notification sounds to max....ahm, what am i missing?
huh, 2-3h later discovered that when picking out alarm sound, volume rocker is used to set alarm volume....kinda silly to hide it like that :/
I'm really missing a notifications app in general that will allow me to choose loits of different things like colour of light, tune/tone etc for various functions.
There's an app called Missed Call that allows you to choose colour for SMS flashing notification and for missed calls and I think bluetooth but not much else.
Would be FABULOUS to set a few personal contacts to have their own indicator colour
Daisy xxx
Hey all
Like title says everytime I get a text the notification sound plays for like 1 second then goes off.
Had the phone since release day and it hasn't done that before.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Have you enabled Sound+Vibrate? I found that the SMS notification sound was cut to be the length of the vibration - got around it by creating a new, longer vibration (handy feature that).
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Have you enabled Sound+Vibrate? I found that the SMS notification sound was cut to be the length of the vibration - got around it by creating a new, longer vibration (handy feature that).
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Yeah I have got vibration on . . .how do I make a longer vibrate for text message??
Settings > Sound > (Ringtone & notifications) Device vibration > then create a new one. After hitting create, keep pressing the screen to get the length or number of vibrations you want.
same here ...
I'm having the same issue with my new S3. I have created a longer vibration pattern as you suggested, and this seems to fix it for stock notification sounds. But if I try to use one from Zedge for example, it happens again.
I'm going to assume this is a bug they are going to fix the 'inspired by nature' sounds are ok, but I'd like to be able to set my own - with vibrate activated.
Will keep an eye on this thread, and update if I hear anything. Cheers.
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still happening here stock sound or not ... hopefully patched soon :-( .... I was beginning to wonder if it's related to any of the apps I have installed, but unlikely as this happened right after a factory reset with no non stock apps installed .... (**I had imported my SMS history from a backup**)
Ok ... so a little more diggin found this on another forum ...
I figured it out, figured I'd post in case someone else comes looking for the same information.
For me, SMS's were causing this. Specifically the problem occurs when conversations began to get very long. I realised after a friend SMS'd me and it played the sound perfectly fine, but cut off while playing it when my partner SMS'd me.
TL;DR: Caused by long conversation history for whatever reason, delete messages to remove the notification issue.
i deleted the long history between myself and my wife ... and it's working properly
I've the same problem.... You have the sensor move "intelligent notification" enabled or disabled???
I have it turned on, but like I say in my previous post, once i shortened my message history, the problem went away ... I don't know how many messages start causing the problem.
My SMS history retention solution is:
limit thread length on phone to 150 and use SMS Backup+ from market to back up everything. That way when the phone drops a message due to thread size, I still have a backup in my gmail account.
hopefully that's it fixed.
Have you tried the suggestions above?
Yes, I limit to 100 sms, but the problem is not fixed....
Now I turned off the sensor move "intelligent notification", and seems to be fixed...
Please, try and send you feddback...
Thank you....
Not just me then.
I'll try these tips one by one and see what resolves it. I have limited the text history to 100 to start with, lets see.
@marcus46
I don't have the problem anymore, so cant replicate it.
I assume by intelligent notification, you mean 'smart alert' under the 'motion' menu?
Whit 100 sms on phone, the problem is not fixed.... now I try with 50 sms....
It's a bug....
I have the same problem with my notifications. It cuts off the sound, sometimes almost instantely, other times I get all of it.
Will try to turn off smart alert and see if that fixes it.
my suggestion would be to back up and then remove ALL conversation threads. Then test. If it works then re-import you sms history and test again.
At least doing this you will know one way or another if it's related to the sms history on your phone.
.... worked for me, but that's not to say it will work for everyone, may just have been a coincidence, but seems too much of a coincidence to not be related.
Good luck!
Ok, I've found the bug... If i have selected the limits of message and "delete old message", when the conversation is "empty" the sounds cut off.... If I don't selected "delete old message".... It's all ok....
Sorry for my bad english....
Thank you. This has indeed solved the notification issue.
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Thank you. This has indeed solved the notification issue.
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Thanks for your reply. Just for clarity, which solution worked for you?
Untick delete old messages in options. I'm guessing when you hit the limit, a new message triggers delete old message and messes with the notification sound.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using XDA
So your SMS history just grows unchecked? or do you have another way of managing your thread sizes?
Same problem, have you installed lightflow ?
because I think THIS is the problem
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Same problem, have you installed lightflow ?
because I think THIS is the problem
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I don't use Lightflow
[Q] Ringtone notification for email and SMS not working after official At&T 4.03 up
Is anyone else having problems with notification ringtones not working after the ICS update??? You don't realize how much you depend on the notifications when they are not there. I have not been able to find a way to get them working. Thoughts????
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Is anyone else having problems with notification ringtones not working after the ICS update??? You don't realize how much you depend on the notifications when they are not there. I have not been able to find a way to get them working. Thoughts????
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They should be in a folder named "Notifications".
Well, this problem is coming and going.... Sometimes the notifications work, sometimes they don't. I can't figure this out... If the damn phone had wires, you'd think one of them is loose.
Does any one use custom notifcations for their phone and notice that it cuts short? I have the "Cloud" sound from the Galaxy S 2 but I notice it doesn't play the sound completely. I also have the "Gamma" sound from sense and the phone doesn't completely play that either. When I play either of the sounds from the Sound Player app it plays completely but when I receive a new text it cuts the sound short.
i'm having this same issue
Has anyone else at least noticed this? This is very annoying :\
Same issue, my custom notification ringtone would cut off. I posted it on another thread. The only fix is using zedge for now which was recommended by another user.
***The zedge experiment didnt work. Notification ringtones started to cut off. :/
Ok now it's working again. Extremely confused!
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Has anyone tried deleting the threads? Cause I noticed mine doing this too I have the Canadian version but I noticed it only does it for the people I text a lot but with other people it doesn't do this. Let me know if that helps? Maybe using a different launcher with a texting app would be better
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Has anyone tried deleting the threads? Cause I noticed mine doing this too I have the Canadian version but I noticed it only does it for the people I text a lot but with other people it doesn't do this. Let me know if that helps? Maybe using a different launcher with a texting app would be better
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Hey! I think you're on to something. I sent myself a text from my Google voice number and it played the full sound clip. I had my friend text me (I have 200 messages in that thread) and it cut the sound short when I got the text. I wonder what would cause that though...
Same problem here.
Since the update, sending screenshots, or other pics via MMS are incredibly low quality. So much so that you cant read text in the screenshots. Is there a setting or fix for this?
Also, on the old music app, when you would get a new text, it would mute music and play the notification sound. Now, it will the first time you get a text from someone, but if they text back too soon, it doesnt play the notification sounds. Fixes? settings? This is super frustration and makes me slow to reply to some important people.
Thanks!
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Since the update, sending screenshots, or other pics via MMS are incredibly low quality. So much so that you cant read text in the screenshots. Is there a setting or fix for this?
Also, on the old music app, when you would get a new text, it would mute music and play the notification sound. Now, it will the first time you get a text from someone, but if they text back too soon, it doesnt play the notification sounds. Fixes? settings? This is super frustration and makes me slow to reply to some important people.
Thanks!
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are you stock or rooted? in the screenshots, have you tried to send one to yourself to see if the quality is still low? i have no idea about the music app issue. that doesnt happen on mine. you might try to clear the data from the app and then force stop it and reboot. good luck