I have always used custom ringtones/notification sounds, but for some reason when I change them they stay for about a day then revert to the stock Verizon sounds.
Any ideas why our how I can get the custom sounds to stay? Never had a problem on any other Android phone.
Same thing here
sanscritt said:
I have always used custom ringtones/notification sounds, but for some reason when I change them they stay for about a day then revert to the stock Verizon sounds.
Any ideas why our how I can get the custom sounds to stay? Never had a problem on any other Android phone.
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I am having the same problem
That happened to me when I had the ringtones on an external sdcard that occasionally dismounted on its own. Are you moving the ringtones to the internal sdcard?
I have moved my ringtone from the extsd to the internal sd and will see what happens.I will update later.
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Weird thing I've noticed: I've been using the Erebos theme, flashing it over both Axura and Bionix. After flashing (so, with a fresh system), I've copied a few mp3 files from my system to my phone. I've played them via the music player, and then I've set them for my notifications (a song for my ringtone, a sound effect for my SMS. Both as mp3 sounds).
After a day or so, though, my system stops recognizing them as valid audio files. First, the ringtone defaults to silent because it's set to the MP3 but the system no longer recognizes the file. After I've noticed that, I've gone into the music player, which informs me that it no longer recognizes the file.
After some troubleshooting, it appears that setting the phone to silent is what has caused it. I've done that via the dropdown menu the lock screen. The system seems to re-recognize the files after a reboot, but not after simply going from silent to not-silent.
Anyone else ever heard of this? Is there any work around? The idea of rebooting my phone after I put it on silent is kind of irritating...
Never had this issue, and I've gone through this same process before. Has it only occured on new ROMs? (If they're not already) have you tried placing on your internal SD card?
If placing on your internal SD card, it may be a problem with your external SD.
treleung said:
Never had this issue, and I've gone through this same process before. Has it only occured on new ROMs? (If they're not already) have you tried placing on your internal SD card?
If placing on your internal SD card, it may be a problem with your external SD.
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Those are the only two roms I've used. Might have to try a third, I guess. I've actually not been using an external SD lately. Not even a card in the slot. Maybe I should try one in there, see if that fixes it.
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Those are the only two roms I've used. Might have to try a third, I guess. I've actually not been using an external SD lately. Not even a card in the slot. Maybe I should try one in there, see if that fixes it.
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Tried using a 16gb sd card today, but didn't notice a difference. Any guidance? Change roms? Different kernel?
Oddly enough, I have had the same issue, and I'm really glad you posted this thread, as my troubleshooting didn't get as far as isolating to putting my phone on silent. I will definitely try to leave it off of silent for a few days and see if that makes a difference.
I had this problem with KB5 released by Samsung, then had the same problem using Trigger, which is built off of KB5. It's possible that it is a bug in KB5, but obviously, not many people seem to be hitting it, so who knows...
Edit - just noticed that you had the same problems with Bionix and Axura, which I don't think are KB5, so there goes my theory...
I am also having the same exact problem. I am using bionix 1.3.2. I have Odin'd back to stock and re-installed but that didn't solve my problem. I believe this also causes other functions to stop working, like you tube. Therefore, many people have this same problem but have been putting it under many topics. Does anyone know a solution to this?
has to be a hardware issue i have tried 8 diff roms and have never had a problem
nhorn1983 said:
has to be a hardware issue i have tried 8 diff roms and have never had a problem
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I would hardly say it HAS to be hardware. It could be any range of other software related things, such as settings we use or apps we have installed.
Here are the things that make it seem NOT hardware related-
-Rebooting fixes it. That doesn't eliminate hardware, but it's evidence against it.
-It seems to impact local audio files whether they are system sounds, or MP3s stored on any on-board storage, which doesn't seem like a hardware issue.
-It also impacts streamed audio, since when I'm in the bug state, it impacts amazon cloud player, pandora AND youtube.
I would say it's possibly hardware in that "anything's possible" sort of way, but I think it's more likely to be software. That is not to say it's the particular ROMs or kernels we're running - more likely the way we have some settings set or apps configured, etc.
As mentioned in the title. The contact specific ringtone used to work with 2.2. Then I got the OTA to 2.3.4, rooted my Atrix 4g. Now no matter what ringtone I assign to the contact, it always plays the default ringtone. Anyone can help me with this?
Didn't notice it until I read this post. My custom ringtones that I set in 2.2 still work but I cannot seem to change them. Where is the setting in 2.3? I've been looking in edit, contact but don't see it. Is this feature even in 2.3?
Edit: Nevermind found the setting under menu, options when viewing the contact. They seem to be working fine.
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Didn't notice it until I read this post. My custom ringtones that I set in 2.2 still work but I cannot seem to change them. Where is the setting in 2.3? I've been looking in edit, contact but don't see it. Is this feature even in 2.3?
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it's been moved in 2.3.x , took me a while to search on how to do this.
Go to contacts, select a contact, hit the menu button and select options, there will be a ringtone section there.
edit: nm you found it .
OP, where are the assigned ringtones stored? internal/external memory or in /system/media/audio/ringtones?
Thanks for the reply.
My ringtones are stored on the external SD card. I can assign the ringtones, but it doesn't work, really frustrating ...
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it's been moved in 2.3.x , took me a while to search on how to do this.
Go to contacts, select a contact, hit the menu button and select options, there will be a ringtone section there.
edit: nm you found it .
OP, where are the assigned ringtones stored? internal/external memory or in /system/media/audio/ringtones?
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You could try moving the files (not copy) to the internal sd memory. However, its a known general Android issue (at least with 2.2.2) where assigned ringtones switch to the default ring or a random ringtone whenever the external/internal memory is unmounted (power off your phone, plug into your computer) and then mounted again. Very frustrating. The only surefire fix that I know of is to root and move the ringtones into /system/media/audio/ringtones . I did this soon after I got my Atrix. No more lost ringtone assignments.
Before moving my ringtones to /system, I think once my phone ringtone switched to a google voicemail wav file...that was interesting .
Much appreciate, I will try it out
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You could try moving the files (not copy) to the internal sd memory. However, its a known general Android issue (at least with 2.2.2) where assigned ringtones switch to the default ring or a random ringtone whenever the external/internal memory is unmounted (power off your phone, plug into your computer) and then mounted again. Very frustrating. The only surefire fix that I know of is to root and move the ringtones into /system/media/audio/ringtones . I did this soon after I got my Atrix. No more lost ringtone assignments.
Before moving my ringtones to /system, I think once my phone ringtone switched to a google voicemail wav file...that was interesting .
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Grrrrrr..... copied to /system/media/audio/ringtones, still doesn't work... help ... :'(
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Much appreciate, I will try it out
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That's strange, do the sound files play properly? You mentioned you had them before the update so I would think the files themselves would be ok.
Yes, they play properly. Another thing I found out is that when I choose sound for the alarm clock, I can no longer choose "Music". When I click on "Music", the pop up dialog only shows OK and Cancel buttons. It used to display all the music files I have available on both internal and external SD cards.
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That's strange, do the sound files play properly? You mentioned you had them before the update so I would think the files themselves would be ok.
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Ok I'm stumped . If all else fails...factory reset? Not fun, I know.
Aww... maybe I just have to do that. Thanks for your help
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Ok I'm stumped . If all else fails...factory reset? Not fun, I know.
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jbhbs said:
Thanks for the reply.
My ringtones are stored on the external SD card. I can assign the ringtones, but it doesn't work, really frustrating ...
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hi mate, what did you root your atrix with, mine was rooted with gingerbreak when i had 2.2.2 installed but i upgraded to 2.3.4 today and now i cant root it. thanx
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jbhbs said:
As mentioned in the title. The contact specific ringtone used to work with 2.2. Then I got the OTA to 2.3.4, rooted my Atrix 4g. Now no matter what ringtone I assign to the contact, it always plays the default ringtone. Anyone can help me with this?
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hi mate, what did you root your atrix with, mine was rooted with gingerbreak when i had 2.2.2 installed but i upgraded to 2.3.4 today and now i cant root it. thanx
Anybody had a problem where all ringtones were gone from the phone?
SD card is fine, ringtones are there, I even copied in some new ones.. But when I try to choose a ringtone from settings, it only shows "Silent".
Funny thing is, it actually HAS a ringtone, some dumb music playing, but I can't pick anything else.
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Anybody had a problem where all ringtones were gone from the phone?
SD card is fine, ringtones are there, I even copied in some new ones.. But when I try to choose a ringtone from settings, it only shows "Silent".
Funny thing is, it actually HAS a ringtone, some dumb music playing, but I can't pick anything else.
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Sounds like something has gone pretty badly wrong there. Personally I'd just flash my existing ROM again without wiping. You shouldn't lose anything (Bar any themes/mods set) and it should *hopefully* be fixed.
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Sounds like something has gone pretty badly wrong there. Personally I'd just flash my existing ROM again without wiping. You shouldn't lose anything (Bar any themes/mods set) and it should *hopefully* be fixed.
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Yeah this ROM I'm running has been nothing but trouble.
Not gonna name it.
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 :/
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?
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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.