Is there anyway to easily extend an audio notification or make it repeat without downloading a spam filled app? Obviously you should be able to copy a longer audio file to the notification folder but it still only plays the first few seconds of the file.
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miketamm said:
Is there anyway to easily extend an audio notification or make it repeat without downloading a spam filled app? Obviously you should be able to copy a longer audio file to the notification folder but it still only plays the first few seconds of the file.
Thanks
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I just copied a 30 second ringtone into sdcard/notifications (an ogg file), rebooted so the phone would see it and allow me to select it, sent myself a text, and all 30 seconds of it played as a notification.
I copied a mp3 in the folder. I'll try again and reboot it. Maybe I need to convert to different audio format. I'll keep you post thanks for reply.
henrybravo said:
I just copied a 30 second ringtone into sdcard/notifications (an ogg file), rebooted so the phone would see it and allow me to select it, sent myself a text, and all 30 seconds of it played as a notification.
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A reboot did the trick. Thanks
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I can't find out for the life of my to change it to my custom ringtone. I dragged the MP3 to my phone via Kies and I can play the file, but I have no idea how to change it. The only phone I have experience with is the BlackBerry and its very simple. Could someone help? Thanks
If you have root, you could try copying the ringtone to /system/media/audio/ringtones/
or easier way................
Create a folder on your sdcard (internal) called Ringtones (with s)
Place mp3 inside folder
Go to phone settings/sounds/Phone Ringtone.............
Edit: Forgot to mention 2nd method won't work if sdcard is unmounted from phone (ie. mass storage mode with PC)
/sdcard/ringtones
For ringtones (they will then be setable like normal)
/sdcard/alarms
For alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
For notifications
veyka said:
/sdcard/ringtones
For ringtones (they will then be setable like normal)
/sdcard/alarms
For alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
For notifications
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Already answered post above yours.......
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Erm..why to go that far?
1) Just open the Song from File Explorer or anything.
2) In media player press Menu button, there you will have option "Set As"
sumitpathak said:
Erm..why to go that far?
1) Just open the Song from File Explorer or anything.
2) In media player press Menu button, there you will have option "Set As"
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Something so simple
Edit: But still, the advantage of putting in system/media/audio/ringtone is that you can unmount the sdcard (internal or external) from phone and your ringtone will still work!
Don't forget to reboot and then or will show up on the list.
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NguyenAdam said:
I can't find out for the life of my to change it to my custom ringtone. I dragged the MP3 to my phone via Kies and I can play the file, but I have no idea how to change it. The only phone I have experience with is the BlackBerry and its very simple. Could someone help? Thanks
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I'm not sure of all the complicated solutions here. But can't you just use a ring tone maker from market? I use "ringtone maker pro free".
Go to settings and change it under the sounds menu
The best way I change my ringtone is I go into settings sound then choose your phone ringtone or notification tones
If you want to add the songs to your phone and don't have a sd card then install Kies on your computer and plug in the usb cable and it will come up as another device click on that and drag the files into the sounds folder.
I'd say downloading a ringtone app is the sure-fire solution. Just search "ringtones" in the market app and you'll find a number of apps. Then you can either edit your songs into ringtones or just use the readymade ringtones. GL
I downloaded few ringtones but whenever I try to set it, i never found that ringtones in the list.
What should I do? Do I need to trsf that ringtone to any other folder to make it visible from the available ringtone list?
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hello.
create on sdcard directory media, subdirectory audio and two subdirectories notifications - message and ringtones - incoming call. all
if i remember well just putting the ringtone on the phone does the trick, but if you want to keep the tones organized connect the phone to a pc and make the folder.
and in any music app it should appear (and atleast on the stock android one) you can select any piece as a ringtone and notificatio ntone, you can always go to settings > sound iirc, and do it from there
you can also use zedge and download the tones from it
No I think borisenko007 is right. It has to go under the media folder. At least that's what I did and only the tones I put there show up. I put it on the phone memory, not on the external sd card.
naaaah... just download this app... handcent from the market is really cool
Both options from post 1 & 2 works option 1 would be a standard lay out.
borisenko007 said:
hello.
create on sdcard directory media, subdirectory audio and two subdirectories notifications - message and ringtones - incoming call. all
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Thanks a lot. Its working
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big thanks ive been looking for a solution for msg tones for ages great thread helped so much
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.
Sent from my iPhone with the bigger GeeBees.
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 :/
So, according to Nokia's support page:
On the start screen, swipe left, tap Settings > ringtones+sounds, select the type of ringtone or alert you want to change, and select the sound. If you have an mp3 file of a song on your PC, you can make it your ringtone. Connect your phone to your PC, and use the file manager of your PC to move the song you want to use as ringtone to the ringtone folder in your phone. To set the song as your ringtone, in the ringtones+sounds view, tap Ringtone, and under Custom, tap the song. You can use a song as your ringtone if it's not protected with digital rights management (DRM), and it’s smaller than 30 MB. Your PC must have Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8.
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I've looked but can't seem to find the "custom" option. I'm new to WP so any help is greatly appreciated.
You can drag any MP3 to the "ringtones" folder (on your computer) and it will appear at the top of the list and you can set it as the ringtone.
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You can drag any MP3 to the "ringtones" folder (on your computer) and it will appear at the top of the list and you can set it as the ringtone.
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Thanks crawlgsx but that's exactly what I did. The problem is that they don't show up in the list.
SOLVED!
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The genre MUST be set as RINGTONE. Never had to do that on iPhones or Androids, but meh. As long as I know what I must do in advance.
Ah interesting! I guess the ones I picked must have been marked that already (I copied them from my S3 (zedge downloads)).
Ahhh thanks for this, was trying to figure out why it wouldn't work.
Ended up converting to 5 different formats before I ran across this.
Seems like this works for ringtones but not for txt / email alerts, any idea if those can be changed ?
the genre must be ringtone??? i don't think i would ever have known this if not for this thread!!! hahaha... thx a lot!!!
Kova225 said:
Ahhh thanks for this, was trying to figure out why it wouldn't work.
Ended up converting to 5 different formats before I ran across this.
Seems like this works for ringtones but not for txt / email alerts, any idea if those can be changed ?
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I have yet to find any way to set your own custom SMS tones, one of my few annoyances with the phone.
Awesome! I'm glad I was able to help my fellow XDA-ers. Now if we can just figure out the custom text tones...
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The genre MUST be set as RINGTONE. Never had to do that on iPhones or Androids, but meh. As long as I know what I must do in advance.
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I got my phone yesterday and I transferred the files I had on my Android to the Ringtones folder on this phone. I had read this post before i got the phone and i only changed one of the file to a Ringtone genre and another to Ringtones, i left the other as they were. The are all showing up as ringtones that i can select for phone calls. I don't think it's the genre that makes a difference. it might be the length of the ringtone. all my ringtones i edited to be under 25 seconds or so.
IIRC they only have to be under 30mb in size, length should be irrelevant as far as I understood it?
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I got my phone yesterday and I transferred the files I had on my Android to the Ringtones folder on this phone. I had read this post before i got the phone and i only changed one of the file to a Ringtone genre and another to Ringtones, i left the other as they were. The are all showing up as ringtones that i can select for phone calls. I don't think it's the genre that makes a difference. it might be the length of the ringtone. all my ringtones i edited to be under 25 seconds or so.
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That's strange. Oh well, glad it worked for you. I did the same thing as you but they wouldn't work. Changing the genre was recommended by Nokia and that worked for me.
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I'm having the same problem on my phone. How do you change the genre?
I thought the genre thing was only in WP7. One could use Zune or (I believe) Windows Media Player to change the genre.
We should be free of this in WP8.
One thing I noticed is that the tones don't start showing up in the list of available ringtones on the phone until you disconnect the phone from the PC -- and not immediately after first being dragged into the ringtones folder. I suspect the phone does some housekeeping when unplugged from the PC.
None of that worked for me. Does it matter was Windows OS you're using? I have XP on my computer.
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SOLVED.
I switched to my Windows 7 computer. When I dragged the files into the ringtone folder, they were MP4 files and it had to convert them to WMA or MP3 first. After it converted them, it worked great. I decided to download the Windows Phone App on that computer, but it failed the installation for some reason. Now, I have to figure out what's going on with it now.
Has anyone had any luck changing or adding more "alert tones" for mms, text, email, etc. I would actually buy an app or pay for a way to do this. Any leads?
As the A7 is a bit stubborn on putting custom ringtones to be notified in the 'ringtone' department of your phone instead of showing them under the 'global' tab MUSIC, i did some testing to put custom ringtones, notifications and alarms on my A7 properly (root necessary).
non-root :
Perhaps you noticed already putting a ringtone in your phones storage or sd-card makes it only visible in the general 'music' tab(as far as i know). To surch your ringtone out of your 1000 music files had to make you convert the name of your ringtone adding a # symbol or something else to find it between the mass...
In fact when you put f.e. a ringtone in Ringtones folder of your internal storage it makes the ringtone visible in BLUE under your 'music' tab.
When you add a ringtone under a folder like ringtones you created on your SD card it makes the ringtone visible in BLACK under your 'music' tab.
rooted :
For me this was not an option to 'search' my ringstones and other stuff under a general music tab. Instead i wanted them to be visible on the right place as it should be. As you know you have to be rooted to put ringtones (...) in system/media/audio/ringtones...BUT as i never had to put ringtones in SYSTEM before this time there was a little problem : in SYSTEM they did play in my explorer but they didn't play when i had to select them under the 'ringtone' tab when f.e. selecting a specific ringtone for your phone. They just gave a 'faulty' tone....
It took me a while before i saw that all the A7 files under ringtones (e.o) are rw-r-r- and mine were rw-rw-:cyclops:
On my other phones this never gave me a problem because i could just put any ringtones in a folder of my sd-card. Here it's different and not-user-friendly.
So, solution is very obvious, just use Root Explorer and change permissions of your ringtones to rw-r-r
You can select them all togheter and change them. (In Solid explorer f.e. you can only change one at a time. Therefore i recommend Root Explorer.)
After that they are visible and playable under 'ringtones' tab (...)
I just wanted to share this for rooted (and non-rooted) users when they encounter some problems to import ringtones (...) in system
I have another solution (non-root).
1. record something in the built-in recorder app
2. convert your ringtone in the same audio format (wav) using something like fre:ac (free audio converter)
3. replace the recorded file in internal storage/records with your ringtone
4. use the recorder app to rename the file, you can test your replaced file here
5. select your ringtone in settings in the recording tab
No need for the above.
Just drop the mp3 into the internal storage/records folder. It'll show up under the recordings tab in the selector.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69221212&postcount=8
gpz1100 said:
No need for the above.
Just drop the mp3 into the internal storage/records folder. It'll show up under the recordings tab in the selector.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69221212&postcount=8
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Of course you can mate :silly:
But, some people, like me, don't want them.to show up in records folder. Ringtones are supposed to be in the right folder, like with other phones, and not under record folder. But if you're happy with this that's OK :good:
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Of course you can mate :silly:
But, some people, like me, don't want them.to show up in records folder. Ringtones are supposed to be in the right folder, like with other phones, and not under record folder. But if you're happy with this that's OK :good:
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I can honestly count on one finger how many times I've recorded something on a phone within the last year. So records folder is good enough for now for custom media sounds. Messing with the /system will cause issues when doing a firmware update. In fact, if you ever need to reflash the /system, anything you've put in it will be gone. This way /system stays intact.
Maybe they'll get this sorted in the next update.
gpz1100 said:
I can honestly count on one finger how many times I've recorded something on a phone within the last year. So records folder is good enough for now for custom media sounds. Messing with the /system will cause issues when doing a firmware update. In fact, if you ever need to reflash the /system, anything you've put in it will be gone. This way /system stays intact.
Maybe they'll get this sorted in the next update.
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Glad you mentioned it : maybe they'll get this...
I hope so but I don't think so. It's just the way ZTE thinks....
Of course you can as for now put your rings and other stuff in records but that's not the way it should be. Records are records, ringtones are...
As for messing up a phone when you put some rings etc in your system is a little bit exaggerated no That's just the way I like it. To exploit my phone.
And when I should loose my ringtones when reflashing a rom of some kind, I can put those back in a minute. Just import my favorites from Google Drive and basta. 1minute of work.
But... as you mentioned it : hope they will fix this...
Can someone please send me the stock sounds?
Durmelo said:
Can someone please send me the stock sounds?
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Here you are : the A2017 G - SYSTEM STOCK SOUNDS
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298967887