I've tried and tried and I just can't set my own sounds . I've searched xda and my problem and [non-successful] results are exactly as described in this [closed] thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40583172&postcount=5 BUT the solution in the very next post (and other suggestions) aren't working for me.
I put two sound files onto my One by installing ES File Explorer and copying the files from a server on my home network. The files got onto that server via ESFE directly from my old phone.
I put the mp3 I want to use as a default ringtone into /sdcard/Ringtones. The built-in Android sound picker doesn't show it, so I used ESFE to select it and I did break the default sound picker, just as described in that post, but the ringtone wasn't actually changed (i.e., I was still stuck with the default "AT&T Firefly" ringtone). I had to rename/delete the mp3 in order to fix the Android sound picker. Before I found that thread, I did a factory reset to fix it.
I want to use the other file (a wav) for Google Talk "new messages". I put that file in /sdcard/Notifications and Google Talk did not display it in the list of choices. I created /sdcard/media/audio/notifications and put it in there, too, as well as in each level of that folder tree (/sdcard/media and /sdcard/media/audio). Still no luck.
I'm singling out the Phone ringtone and Google Talk, but no apps see either of the files (I'm only using the built-in sound picker at this point). Apps DO list all of the built-in sounds (Aero, Ao, Aqua, etc. for ringtones, Almond, Azure, Capri, etc. for notifications) and I CAN pick from those, but I don't want to.
I'm running unrooted 100% out-of-the-box stock AT&T 4.1.2 with Sense 5.0. Please don't tell me to root, use another launcher, etc.; I've happily done that on my previous phones and will eventually get there with this one, but I'm not there yet. Maybe after there's an "official" 4.2, but that's another conversation and not a good answer.
I rebooted the phone after every copypaste.
I renamed the files so they were one, 6-letter word (no spaces or non-alpha characters).
I made sure the filenames were all lower case.
Both of these files will play via Amazon MP3, ES Media Player, Google Play Music, and Music on the One.
Both of these files worked as ringtone and notification on my previous phone, a rooted TMO MyTouch 4G running Android Revolution v7.04.
I am stumped and frustrated and have no idea what my phone is trying to tell me with these built-in AT&T mellow yoga-esque windchime noises, which I hate. I want my own sounds.
Are you guys not having this problem? Do I have to use some other specific file format (m4a? ogg?)? Do my mp3 and wav have to be a certain bitrate or something? Is there some other, special place I'm supposed to drop my files? How are you all doing this?
I just use Zedge from the play store. Free massive crowd source database, no need to root.
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SOLUTION
Got it working. You HAVE to copy your own sounds via USB. Full text of solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40660425&postcount=9 from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40660425#post40660425
Another vote for Zedge
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Hi,
i pulled the deskclock.apk file from CM5 for N1 zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623496) and installed it from the phone with no issues at all (extracted to pc, moved to phone, then launched from folder). however, i can't seem to change the settings -- i get a force close. same thing happens when i click on the music icon, but i assume its looking for the stock music player instead of TW music. that one doesn't concern me much.
do i need another app to configure? is it possible to manually edit a file?
i am unrooted, if that helps. (just waiting for samsung distribution of froyo this month...).
thanks!
I also get force close..
in case this helps someone else, i found that "Alarm Clock Plus V2" gives all the functionality and looks of the stock deskclock.apk, but actually works well (on the Vibrant) and has more functionality.
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Hi,
i pulled the deskclock.apk file from CM5 for N1 zip (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623496) and installed it from the phone with no issues at all (extracted to pc, moved to phone, then launched from folder). however, i can't seem to change the settings -- i get a force close. same thing happens when i click on the music icon, but i assume its looking for the stock music player instead of TW music. that one doesn't concern me much.
do i need another app to configure? is it possible to manually edit a file?
i am unrooted, if that helps. (just waiting for samsung distribution of froyo this month...).
thanks!
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My guess is there is a dependency missing. Another app that deskclock uses. Try grabbing the Clock.apk from cm5 and try again.
Try going to market and look for Samsung. The galaxy version of the desk clock is there.
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thanks guys. i think i'll stick with alarm clock plusV2 for now though -- does everything i want.
rel500, i downloaded that app before and, although i like it overall, the night mode is way too bright for me. it also doesn't seem to stay on while plugged in, which is a little annoying. thanks for the suggestion though.
The app is dependent upon the stock music apk that is on the CM builds, it is looking for that for the settings to be changed and also to open up the music player portion, you can set the alarm but that is it, unless you go to the hybrid build, which has the needed music player, or if you know what you are doing you can replace it yourself. But be aware that many of the touchwiz features are dependent upon each other. So know what your are doing before you break it.
Did they pull the desk clock from the market not showing up on mine
I wish I could put this question in a more thought provocative way... but the problems very simple and random:
I've been running the latest evil fascination rom on inmuts -50uv kernel for over a week now with spectacular results in every aspect of the rom. (honestly one of the most satisfying rom packages imo) *with outstanding battery life I might add*
The weird: when I first set up the phone, I assigned on of the standard android notification sounds for my text messages. A day or two ago, it changed on its own and when I went back to the settings, the only two options I got were "silent and facebook pop"... (*note: I don't even have Facebook app installed and have not a long time ago.. I just use the browser)
This same problem occurred in my default Clock app as well and so now the only sound option I am able to assign for any of my alarms is "silent' ...irony kills me
Any ideas as to what might be going on? I use custom ringtones but I have never made a custom notification folder on my sdcard so whatever must be clashing/happening might be internal.
Taking a blind guess, but I'm guessing the facebook app created the notification folder on your sdcard where the "facebook pop" resides. And for a different reason you probably have a ".nomedia" file in your system/media folder. Delete that file to regain your original sounds.
Resolved!
Thank you so much, that did do the trick. Both the .nomedia file as well as the facebook sound file that was creeping around in the system/media directory.
It would be nice to know how it decided to revert the settings on its own...
Glad it worked. I had the same issue when upgrading to the latest evil fascination rom using the latest patch.
Don't know why it happened but was an easy fix
Hi, I've got a new phone recently, and I'd like to turn my old HTC legend into a mp3 player.
I'd like to completely remove Android and just make it a file manager similar to an iPod Classic, so I can play audio and video files.
I want the file manager to be the ONLY program on the phone, exept being able to take pictures (althogh the last is optional)
How do you do that/anything similar?
Thank you.
Ummmm that's not going to happen, android is the operating system that is which makes everything work on the phone, if you could some how manage to "only" have a file manager installed, how you going to play the music? You would need a music player too, the music player isn't going to work cause none of the hardware will be working because you need the os to make it work.....
Best thing you can do is if its not rooted, either use the complicated root methods on xda or unlock the bootloader with the htcdev.com method and the s-off recovery for clockwork mod and flash a rooted rom then you remove the sim card and use it that way, apparantly there is a setting in the build.prop file that will let you do this it is
keyguard.no_require_sim=?
True or false
True means you need sim card
False means you don't need sim card.
I haven't actually tried this as yet so can't confirm if it actually works.
Edit:- just tried this for you, those settings didn't make any difference when I restarted my phone it didn't stop me from booting and using my phone, only thing missing network access.
Btw what you see on an iPod is only a user interface, there is still an embedded operating system beneath what you see on the surface...
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Yes I understand that, but how do you remove everything that isnt a file manager and media player and change the UI to only be the file manager.
By that I mean, when I launch the phone, I come directly to the file manager, no logo, no launcher.
What you are wanting to do might, and I emphasis might be possible but I'd suggest its going to be pretty complicated.
You will also not be able to do this if you remove android compleatly
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It's not important to me wether or not it's an android.
I'm sure you can install some other lighter OS instead
Ranger told you already, but here is ANOTHER confirmartion: NO, you NEED Android.
But you can root the phone and delete all not-important-APK's (Apps!) such as facebook/twitter/flickr and stuff. You can get a simpler launcher from the market. Then delete vending.apk from /system/app/ (vending.apk = Android Market) and some Sense UI files maybe??
Install ADW Launcher, Poweramp and your file manager of choice.
Configure ADW to only show shortcuts to Poweramp, the camera and your filemanager. It'll still have tons of apps installed, and all the potential that comes with having the rest on your system, but to you it'd look pretty much like nothing but an mp3 player.
Don't see why you want to get rid of Android - it'd be like removing iOS from an iPod touch, and by the sounds of it you haven't exactly rooted and messed around with this before?
Hello,
recently I have bought two devices HTC Desire X.
As those are first smartphones for my wife and myself we had made investigation and finally have chosen your device, it's really lovely and performing so far great. I'm impressed and really like them.
But we have faced several issues mentioned below and I'm looking for your support here, because those issues are really shame for such a great device and HTC name..
1. The biggest and serious issue we have faced is the white/hiss noise when we are on the call with another person. One of devices has higher level of noise than the other, but in both cases the noise is too much for a such device. Much cheaper and many other devices doesn't have such a noise. I've checked with other devices and other HTC devices as well as in internet and seems like a general problem with many of HTC devices. Many people complaining from the same noise which seems available at different level on different HTC phones, also available when listening to music.
I really hope it's a software issue, but seems more like HW one.
I've check HTC Desire HD - has a noise maybe a bit lower bit it's there, checked pretty old Samsung i5500 or something, but again android device and guess what it's not there or at very low level.
So it seems like it's not general android phone issue.
Even more, as I said on one of our DX is lower than the other, and it happened they have different ROM and being prepared for different operators and country.
The one with more noise is for Orange CH version 1.14.65.1, the other with lower noise got updated to 1.14.118.1 as it seems for T-Mobile PL.
Although it's more like a HW issue which is a real shame, I'm wondering whether it could be somehow related to different ROM version or it's been just a matter of luck.
I've wrote to HTC Support as well and will see.
2.. Calendar snooze function doesn't work as expected. When a calendar reminder appear and choose snooze in most cases the snooze is actually deleted and alarm will no longer remind again. It seems like a HTC general issue for more than a year, real shame.
In addition I have another question, how many times and at what interval the reminder would remind if we don't dismiss or snooze the event?
3. Bluetooth - although the phone has more than 1GB available memory for user application, we are not able to receive files via Bluetooth due to lack of SD card. Is there any fix or configuration, which would allow us receive files without SD card?
This seems to be a general Android issue fixed in 4.1, shame again.
So we have to try workarounds now, input SD card, take the files and then copy them to internal phone memory to be able to release the SD card, which leads to next finding.
4. The is no file browser included, so any good one to recommend from android store.
5. If I'd like to load on the phone my files for notifications and ringtones, how should I do it, and where should I place them in phone memory.
6. Battery notification for low battery level with a sound appear only once. Is there any way to configure low battery level notification with sound alarm more than once?
Again seems like general android stuff.
7. Sound profile - we are unable to find suitable sound profiles and easy activation. What I mean is to have few profiles with different ring tones and behavior, e.g. for a meeting to have vibration and beep once, and of course fast and easy way to switch the profiles. Is there such solution available?
Again seems like general android stuff.
8. It's a bit strange but on one of the phones Keyboard layout is qwertz not qwerty, any help how I can have a standard qwerty layout for English keyboard?
9. I've found two strange stuff in Contacts/people application
- first one is inability to add/change/set a given contact/person phone number to mobile type if already exist one of mobile type.
- second one even more strange, we can't find how we can assign a ring tone to contact group
10. Do you have or recommend any other software either PC or device Android different than HTC Sync, which does support wireless connection like Bluetooth to computer as HTC Sync seems to work only with cable connection /shame again/. Additionally what application can be used to make a backup of my phone - like contacts, calendar and so on , which may keep all formting like which one is the primary phone number for a given person if he/she has more than one number.
11. Both phones display colors are different, like they have different color temperature set, any way to fix it and can it be due to different ROMs?
12. I've noticed different indication for network connectivity, when both phones are at the same place and same carrier, one shows 3G+ while the other H.
- can it be due to different ROMs?
- is there any difference between H and 3G+?
13. Is it possible to take the ROM from one of the phones and load it to the other, so both of them would be identical and how?
I do really hope some of you can help us, because it's a real shame for such a great device with such issues, which are actually basic functionality for simple phones since 10 years and it's disappointing. Anyway I do believe there should be a solution as some of the issues seems application stuff which is HTC specific and doesn't exist in other android phones as Samsung.
The surprising funny and disappointing part of this is that is supposed to be smartphone, so may be makes our life easier, while with such a issues it turn into adventure and it behave like a tamagotchi game to look after all the time instead.
Thank you very much in advance
Most of the stuff you wrote are not issues.
3. Go to Settings/Storage/App storage location settings and set Phone storage for Bluetooth.
4. ES File Explorer.
5. Make folder named Ringtones on phone storage or SD card, put melodies inside and phone will see them. Do the same for Alarms and Notifications.
6. When battery level drops under 15% it gives you more than one notification sound, but not in the same time frame.
7. Here you can find additional HTC widgets, there's a profile widget it can set Ringing/Vibrate/Fully silent profiles. Also there's an app called Widgetsiod in Play Store.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2064891
8. Go to settings/language&keyboard/HTC sense input and set English for keyboard selection, I'm not sure if that will help but try. Also choose English for phone language.
9. No way to set ringtones to groups, only contacts. And only one type for a number, but you can set other as many times as you want.
10. HTC Sync Manager, not HTC Sync-it won't work. Sync Manager works only wit cable. There's an app called Moborobo or 91 PC Suite which works with wireless, but app page in application will make your PC antivirus go crazy. It will also install some Market App on your phone to some Chinese app market I recommend you to uninstall it as soon as Moborobo installs it on your phone after first connection.
11. It's because of rom. You can't take rom from one and put it to another, you can root both phones and install the same custom rom on both. You have the Index with a lot of useful stuff in my signature.
12. Again because of rom. 3G+ and H (HSPA) means the same.
13. I already gave you the answer in 11.
I hope I helped.
4. Total Commander
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10. Try with Kies Air app from the play store... It's made by Samsung, but works with all devices.
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nlooooo said:
Most of the stuff you wrote are not issues.
3. Go to Settings/Storage/App storage location settings and set Phone storage for Bluetooth.
4. ES File Explorer.
5. Make folder named Ringtones on phone storage or SD card, put melodies inside and phone will see them. Do the same for Alarms and Notifications.
6. When battery level drops under 15% it gives you more than one notification sound, but not in the same time frame.
7. Here you can find additional HTC widgets, there's a profile widget it can set Ringing/Vibrate/Fully silent profiles. Also there's an app called Widgetsiod in Play Store.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2064891
8. Go to settings/language&keyboard/HTC sense input and set English for keyboard selection, I'm not sure if that will help but try. Also choose English for phone language.
9. No way to set ringtones to groups, only contacts. And only one type for a number, but you can set other as many times as you want.
10. HTC Sync Manager, not HTC Sync-it won't work. Sync Manager works only wit cable. There's an app called Moborobo or 91 PC Suite which works with wireless, but app page in application will make your PC antivirus go crazy. It will also install some Market App on your phone to some Chinese app market I recommend you to uninstall it as soon as Moborobo installs it on your phone after first connection.
11. It's because of rom. You can't take rom from one and put it to another, you can root both phones and install the same custom rom on both. You have the Index with a lot of useful stuff in my signature.
12. Again because of rom. 3G+ and H (HSPA) means the same.
13. I already gave you the answer in 11.
I hope I helped.
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3. Does not work as the setting Storage/App storage location is greyed out due to lack of SD card. So still getting the error not able to receive files via BT because there is no SD card. I'll try with pug the card in and set the settings, then get out the card and see.
8. That's what I have done, but doesn't help, even English keyboard and localization are with qwertz layout, that's due to phone is fow Swiss and localization is showed as English(Switzerland). Maybe I should find another locale in the marker or re-flash the phone with another stock image.
9. It's real shame, that's maybe the most important feature and reason to group the contacts at all.
13. OK, still not know to me what's the problem with that as both are stock images. Or any way to change the CID and finally have both phones at the same level.
Changing of CID is possible only if you s-off your phone cause it's stored on radio partition. For now there is no way to s-off it.
nlooooo said:
Changing of CID is possible only if you s-off your phone cause it's stored on radio partition. For now there is no way to s-off it.
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OK I see.
I just checked and my phones are ORANG216 on 1.14 no update, and T-MOB101 1.18 updated. So any way I can unlock, root ... so on to have unbranded and use RUU_PROTO_U_ICS_40A_HTC_Europe_1.18.401.1_Radio_10.21.40.06U_1.10.40.23_release
or have both as T-MOB101 1.18 , unbranded is preferred of course, but at least have updates on the first one, as Orange Switzerland are quite conservative and have no updates while T-Mobile had.
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9. This seems to be a limitation of people application used in HTC. In Samsung devices both available, I'm wondering whether I can get new or replace current application and use those features.
It's strange but you may have more than one mobile phone per contact but you can't set it from the phone itself. If you get your contacts from another phone or from google you may have more than one mobile phone. Strange and illogical isn't it
radkol said:
9. I've found two strange stuff in Contacts/people application
- first one is inability to add/change/set a given contact/person phone number to mobile type if already exist one of mobile type.
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9. [...] And only one type for a number, but you can set other as many times as you want.
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radkol said:
9. This seems to be a limitation of people application used in HTC. In Samsung devices both available, I'm wondering whether I can get new or replace current application and use those features.
It's strange but you may have more than one mobile phone per contact but you can't set it from the phone itself. If you get your contacts from another phone or from google you may have more than one mobile phone. Strange and illogical isn't it
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Try to move you contacts to Google, not phone memory, this way you can put multiple mobile phones. What you described happens only for contacts stored in phone memory.
Call screen is awesome but most people would just hang up right after they hear "Hi, the person you're calling is using a screening service...". So I figured out a way to customize screen call greetings and other built-in screen call audios. Please follow these steps:
1. Make sure your Pixel is rooted since you will have to modify app data inside the /data/data directory. Also make sure call screen is activated on your phone as this ensures that all audio files are already downloaded before we proceed to next steps.
2. Use any root explorer -- in my case solid explorer, to navigate to /data/data/com.google.android.dialer/cache/incall_audio_files directory.
3. You can see two folders. one contains audio files for female voices (suffixed with "_f"), the other one has audio files for male voices(suffixed with "_d"). Open folder of your choice (male/female voice) and you will find a list of audio files. Locate the ones you are interested in and replaced them with your own voice. I used "Audio Recorder" from F-droid to do the recording. The default audio files that Google used for call screen are in opus format so you might want to record your own voice in this format as well. After that just give it the same name as the audio file you want to replace and use any root explore to replace it. If you look at the attachment, I only replaced the file audio for greetings ("Hi, the person...").
I tested this on my Pixel 3 XL with Phone apps from version 27.0.225048436 to 29.0.232527399. I believe it should work on all phones that have call screen enabled including but not limited to Pixel 3, Pixel 3XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel and Pixel XL. That being said, your mileage may vary.
UPDATE1:
For version 29 and above, audio files are now located under "/data/data/com.google.android.dialer/files/superpacks/call_screen_audio_messages". To quickly locate which audio file to replace, open "/data/data/com.google.android.dialer/files/superpacks/manifests/call-screen-audio-messages-1" and you can find the map between audio file name and its corresponding call screen audio transcript. See second attachment.
is there a demo u can show us?
Oneplus 7 Pro running OOS 11.0.1.1 and Google Phone 70.05.40
I worked on this for a few hours tonight and made some progress but didn't quite get there. I can get the audio files replaced (no easy feat on A11...) but the google phone app appears to be downloading and replacing my edited file at startup.
I set the permissions back to that of the original (chmod 600) and set the owner/group back (chown u0_a228: u0_a228) to what the original file was. I think this is where things are going wrong. If I don't set the permissions back the assistant will answer the call, but the caller hears nothing. Set permissions, reboot, and it downloads the default audio file at app launch again. I have only set all permissions and owner/group back to default, I've not yet tried any combinations.
The call_screen_audio_messages-10 file in manifests has urls that point to a .zip that it extracts. I'm going to try breaking this url, or point it to a .zip of my edited audio file. Another thing I noticed is the manifest file has the md5 sum of the corresponding audio file. Replacing that sum with the sum of my edited audio file made no difference though. For tonight I'm burnt out. Any suggestions are very welcomed!
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Oneplus 7 Pro running OOS 11.0.1.1 and Google Phone 70.05.40
I worked on this for a few hours tonight and made some progress but didn't quite get there. I can get the audio files replaced (no easy feat on A11...) but the google phone app appears to be downloading and replacing my edited file at startup.
I set the permissions back to that of the original (chmod 600) and set the owner/group back (chown u0_a228: u0_a228) to what the original file was. I think this is where things are going wrong. If I don't set the permissions back the assistant will answer the call, but the caller hears nothing. Set permissions, reboot, and it downloads the default audio file at app launch again. I have only set all permissions and owner/group back to default, I've not yet tried any combinations.
The call_screen_audio_messages-10 file in manifests has urls that point to a .zip that it extracts. I'm going to try breaking this url, or point it to a .zip of my edited audio file. Another thing I noticed is the manifest file has the md5 sum of the corresponding audio file. Replacing that sum with the sum of my edited audio file made no difference though. For tonight I'm burnt out. Any suggestions are very welcomed!
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any progress lol ? i'm trying to figure it out as well
Unfortunately no. After a week of using it I began having huge battery drain. 100% to 25% in 4 hours kind of drain. I removed everything related.