Can anyone please tell me where to copy Alarms, Ringtones and Notification tones on the GS4 Internal memory?
On my GS3 I always put them on the Internal memory under "media\audio" with subfolders for "ringtones", "alarms", and "notifications". After a reboot the phone detected them fine.
But of course, when I copy them to the same location on the GS4 the phone does not see them, even after a reboot.
I used to just leave them on the sdcard, but I won't do that anymore because if you remove the sdcard at some point, all your custom set tones get reverted back to defaults.
dezzo77 said:
Can anyone please tell me where to copy Alarms, Ringtones and Notification tones on the GS4 Internal memory?
On my GS3 I always put them on the Internal memory under "media\audio" with subfolders for "ringtones", "alarms", and "notifications". After a reboot the phone detected them fine.
But of course, when I copy them to the same location on the GS4 the phone does not see them, even after a reboot.
I used to just leave them on the sdcard, but I won't do that anymore because if you remove the sdcard at some point, all your custom set tones get reverted back to defaults.
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What type of file do you use? And what ROM?
Cause I do exactly what you did - and have everything working.
I finally got it working.
I deleted the files and copied them again and restarted the phone a few times, and they showed up.
Annoying that it didn't just work the first time, even though I did the identical procedure!
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hello,
please help..
my ringtones and notifications change. Not even to the same ones every time its just completely random what they change to....
please help.
When does it happen? Does it happen right after you had it hooked up to your computer? If so are you "safely removing the USB" device from windows? And letting the phone mount all the internal memory and storage??
it's a known issue and will happen at random for custom ringtones placed on either the internal SD or external SD. quite annoying and it seems like it's an general Android thing. The only surefire way to fix it is to root and place your custom ringtones/notifications in /system/media/audio/ringtones and /system/media/audio/notifications . Use adb to move the files or get Root Explorer to move the files from your phone.
TKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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after a search I was not able to find a solution very quickly.
Completely stock phone... just replaced today due to the original not always receiving my touch input.
I have a few ringtones and notifications that I have used for all my phones... if anything else is used I just don't hear it; I simply think it is not my phone. In the past all I have done is create two folders, "notifications" and "ringtones" with the mp3 files contained within. It has been long enough that I do not remember if I left these folders on "sdcard2", moved them to "sdcard", or to the phones internal storage.
I have the folders containing the mp3's on "sdcard2" and "sdcard"... whenever I try to move it to internal storage (system > media > audio > notifications) I get an error that states I cannot do that... and still no option for these ringtones or notifications when attempting to alter the settings under profile > sounds.
I am using File Expert while attempting to perform this task.
What has changed... or am I doing something wrong??
JNeutron said:
Please forgive if this is covered...
after a search I was not able to find a solution very quickly.
Completely stock phone... just replaced today due to the original not always receiving my touch input.
I have a few ringtones and notifications that I have used for all my phones... if anything else is used I just don't hear it; I simply think it is not my phone. In the past all I have done is create two folders, "notifications" and "ringtones" with the mp3 files contained within. It has been long enough that I do not remember if I left these folders on "sdcard2", moved them to "sdcard", or to the phones internal storage.
I have the folders containing the mp3's on "sdcard2" and "sdcard"... whenever I try to move it to internal storage (system > media > audio > notifications) I get an error that states I cannot do that... and still no option for these ringtones or notifications when attempting to alter the settings under profile > sounds.
I am using File Expert while attempting to perform this task.
What has changed... or am I doing something wrong??
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You should root your phone and make sure to mount your internal memory or external sdcard as r/w or read/write. I personally use root explorer as its a rock solid file explorer that allows you to set r/o read only or r/w read/write quite easily.
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You should root your phone and make sure to mount your internal memory or external sdcard as r/w or read/write. I personally use root explorer as its a rock solid file explorer that allows you to set r/o read only or r/w read/write quite easily.
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I am not comfortable rooting my phone.
I have done this in the past (with my last EVO LTE even) without rooting... I should be able to do it again.
Thanks for the suggestion.... it is appreciated.
I installed an app called "Zedge" and it seems to have worked around the issue... I have ringtones and notifications that sound similar to what I am used to.
I am still puzzled as to why folders on the SD card labeled "notifications" and "ringtones" all of sudden are not recognized...
Regarding Android Jelly Bean version and my Verizon S4 (sch-i545)...
I know that the native folder location for ringtones, alerts, and notifications is at /system/media/audio
But, where can I create a folder on the sdcard (or ext_sdcard) to add my own ringtones?
I've created and moved mp3's into the following folder structures, rebooted and still don't see them when I try to add new ringtones:
\sdcard\media\audio\ringtones
\sdcard\media\ringtones
\sdcard\ringtones
None of the 3 above folder structures work. Anyone have an idea or do I have to move mp3 files into the /system location?
The stock ringtones are in /system/media/audio/ringtones ... I've been putting my files there but you need root explorer
\mnt\extSdCard\Alarms
\mnt\extSdCard\Notifications
\mnt\extSdCard\Ringtones
Those are 3 folders that work off of the external SD Card. Obviously if you're just looking for a place for a ringtone and don't care about alarms or notifications then just disregard the first 2.
I prefer the external SD Card so that my custom sounds can be carried over between ROM installations without a backup.
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\mnt\extSdCard\Alarms
\mnt\extSdCard\Notifications
\mnt\extSdCard\Ringtones
Those are 3 folders that work off of the external SD Card. Obviously if you're just looking for a place for a ringtone and don't care about alarms or notifications then just disregard the first 2.
I prefer the external SD Card so that my custom sounds can be carried over between ROM installations without a backup.
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So I discovered what you responded above at the same time.
My problem was that I kept looking at the extSdCard as an external SD card. Therefore I was trying everything at the \mnt\sdcard level
When I finally stumbled onto the fact that if I put the files in the respective folders on the folder structure you listed above, then it works.
Again, my confusion is that I thought everthing needed to be placed at the root of scard.
Seems weird to me but I think the S4 looks at the external SD card as "sd card"
marklyn said:
So I discovered what you responded above at the same time.
My problem was that I kept looking at the extSdCard as an external SD card. Therefore I was trying everything at the \mnt\sdcard level
When I finally stumbled onto the fact that if I put the files in the respective folders on the folder structure you listed above, then it works.
Again, my confusion is that I thought everthing needed to be placed at the root of scard.
Seems weird to me but I think the S4 looks at the external SD card as "sd card"
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I think that TW on the S4 does something funky with what it calls sdcard where it's actually an emulated partition rather than a true file path like on other phones or variations of Android. Whenever you pull up default storage locations of app data and the like, it always shows up as something like: /storage/emulated/0...
For me, extSdCard is definitely my 64GB SD card that I put in myself. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can take it from here. This is my first Android phone from Samsung, and by extension my first experience with TW.
I noticed the same thing (storage/emulated/0/ ) confused the crap out of me at first. I would download files and had no idea where they ended up.
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I think that TW on the S4 does something funky with what it calls sdcard where it's actually an emulated partition rather than a true file path like on other phones or variations of Android. Whenever you pull up default storage locations of app data and the like, it always shows up as something like: /storage/emulated/0...
For me, extSdCard is definitely my 64GB SD card that I put in myself. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can take it from here. This is my first Android phone from Samsung, and by extension my first experience with TW.
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Yeah, I've been trying to research the SDcard vs. ExtSDcard differences. It seems to me like it's different from what I remember. I'd also appreciate any insight anyone has on this. I totally am not (yet) getting the emulated partition. When I go hunt for stuff, I use root explorer to go to \mnt\sdcard and don't start with the emulated partition. There doesn't seem to be much explanation out there so far as I can tell.
I've recently installed 4.2.2 on my Xperia Z (build number 10.3.A.0.423) stock with full root and dual recovery using NUT's instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2337433. Everything went fine and I'd been using it a few days until today when I noticed all the files/folders on my internal sd had been moved from 'emulated/0' to 'emulated/0/0', and a whole new set of folders had been created in 'emulated/0'. I decided to move all files and folders from /0/0 to /0 as this was where all new files were being stored since I installed the new firmware. Everything was still ok at this point. I then connected my phone to my Windows laptop and noticed that the folder 'sdcard/storage' was showing as literally empty in the file explorer. All my other files were visible in the /0 folder so I deleted the /storage folder (it was showing as empty). I then noticed that the location of the files on my phone did not correspond with where they were showing in Windows explorer (When I added a test file on my phone to 'emulated' it appeared in 'sdcard/0/legacy' (or something similar) in Windows - basically a right mess!). I then noticed I'd cleared my internal SD card completely, so rebooted to CWM to restore my backup from a few days ago. The backup should have been on the EXTERNAL SD but CWM was saying no backup found. So I then rebooted and noticed that both INTERNAL and EXTERNAL SD's were completely wiped, other than a few essential files that Android had added to the Internal. I talking GB's of photos, music, videos etc.
I know I'm not going to them all back but I just want to know what happened so I never do it again. Why did the file locations not correspond with Windows? Why did an 'empty' folder turn out to be the one with everything in? And why was my external SD (which held all my personal files!)wiped when at no point did I ever edit anything in this??
Very confused, I'd be grateful if anyone could shed some light on this....
First off I have a droid bionic running Cyanogenmod 10.1.x, which is the ICS version of Android. Since switching to this phone and installing from scratch three versions of Cyanogenmod 10.1.1, 10.1.2, and 10.1.3, I have had a problem with my custom ringtones disappearing when the SDCard is mounted as USB or on a phone reboot. Originally I had them on the external SD card in Media/Audio/Ringtones and Notifications. Then I moved them on the the Internal SD card, then I moved them into a folder on the root SDCard\Ringtones and Notifications, both on the internal and external SD Card. I even tried to copy the ringtones to the System\Media\Audio\Ringtones and Notifications but every time I reboot the phone the files disappear so apparently there is a step or two I don't understand in order to copy files onto the phone itself.
I have searched around in vain as I have not seen any solution to this problem, but have seen many users from many different phone carries and manufacturers having this problem. Again my problem specifically is that custom ringtones get replaced with unknown or in some cases a random number. When I get a phone call, text, or other notification they just remain silent as the ringtone 71999 or some other random number does not exist. Anybody know what causes this and how to fix/prevent it from happening in the future? The problem is pretty annoying.
Thanks
Ryan