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Hello,
Sorry if this is basic stuff, but I can't figure out how to use a user-made wav file as a notification, for example for sms or new email. I can only use my wavs for incoming calls...
Regards,
FAS
Drop the wav file into the windows folder of the xda. Then go to 'sounds & notifications' and choose your wav for incoming sms etc.
DT
yes, that's what I also expected it to be like, but no, it does not work for me.. have you tried it??
Fred
Just to confirm - I also don't get any wav file options other than the ones in ROM (on 3.14.13ENG, radio 4.08 ).
Is this another Misrosoft "Our regression testers were unable to spot this because they tripped over their big shoes and their car fell apart again" or has it always been so in other ROM versions?
My ROM is 3.14.13 ENG and all I did was copy my wav file into the \Windows folder using the Cut & Paste facilities in File Explorer.
Once the file was there I went to
Start > Settings > Sounds & Notifications > Notifications
The drop-down selector shows all files in the \Windows folder that have a .wav extension, so I can use my wav for any event in the list, including "Inbox: New SMS message"
That's bizarre. I really don't get any additional wave files. I thought it might be a particular file stopping the rest from loading, but I removed all other wave files except the default ones in ROM and added the 'old phone' from the ringtone pack: it still failed to show any except the defaults.
'Scuse me already if this is insulting, but you're not relying on the 'Add ring tone' feature are you?
The system can search all memory and find any wavs and then use them as ring tones where ever they are in the file system, but Sounds&Notifications can only see the wavs that are physically stored in the \Windows folder in the filesystem.
Don't worry, no offence taken. Yep they're in the \windows folder.
OK, now we're moving away from XDA specifics, but what about the file format?
You said you'd made them yourself. I'm wondering if the XDA does anything to check for valid content rather than just listing all files with a .wav extension. I'm thinking if yours are not plain vanilla .wav format the XDA might be rejecting them and not adding them to the drop-down list.
Can you tap on the file in File Explorer and hear it play OK?
AHA! Got it!
It's an O2/MS 'Lets give the task of creating the new PPC ROM to the cleaning staff' problem.
Basically, the wave files contained in the PPC Ringtones pack from Microsoft have been incorporated into this ROM release.
Unfortunately (for reasons only known to the developers and their keepers) they were copied with a space after the filename, before the extension, e.g. "OldPhone .wav"
Some lame code in the list populate must trim the filename, then look for it again, and skip the file.
So the - assumedly perfectly formatted - Ringtone pack wave files I was looking for just don't show up.
Simply create a copy of them without the space, and they show up fine.
P.S. Everything you read in Dilbert cartoons is 100% true.
Ahaa.... Funny thing... it's the easiest things that become the most difficult problems...
THANKS!!
don't quite understand
HI
Read with interests all the postings on this thread.
Could someone tell me how the ringtones work? I believe the wav files are in the windows directory and when you "add ringtones", where do the files go to? I can see a Rings folder inside the windows directory; is it where the added ringtone wav files go to?
I couldn't quite understand the previous thread on leaving a space before the extension. Is it necessary to have wav files like this before the xda recognises as a proper wav file?
Thanks
Vic
I think the .wav files found and selected get added to some registry setting maybe (guessing) as I didn't find any copies made when I did it.
It's decidedly not necessary to have spaces in the file name - that's what trips it up! the space effectively ends one file name, so with "foo .wav" the file system would be looking for a file called foo (no extension) and another file called (empty) with an extension of .wav :?
As a thanks for all who replied:
Here is a great wav for incoming sms:
grab the second to last one, stworf.wav
http://68.8.131.184:6000/WAV's/files/StarTrek/StarTrek.htm
(not my page, seems a bit unstable tonight)
Fred
Hey !
I've searched the web as well as the forum but i didn't find any solution and it seems i'm not the only one wanting to do that.
Is it possible to see hidden folders of internal sdcard through MTP ?
I really talk about hidden folder like ".android_secure", not the photos that aren't yet scanned by the media scanner service.
In my windows environment i already set the view all hidden files/folders as well as view system files.
If i have to change folders permissions through terminal what are the correct permissions i should put ?
Thanks for the help !!
Am i the only having that problem ?
Do you guys see the hidden folders through mtp connexion ?
If you'd bother reading a bit before asking questions, you might have the answer already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
MTP and PTP specifically overcome this issue by making the unit of managed storage a local file rather than an entire (possibly very large) unit of mass storage at the block level. In this way, MTP works like a transactional file system - either the entire file is written/read or nothing.
More or less, it is designed to keep hidden what should be hidden stick to USB storage or FTP/SCP.
PS: can't believe we're using a transfer protocol designed by Microsoft in a Linux-based system mastered by Google. The horror, the pain... no wonder it doesn't work on my Mac!
VAXXi said:
If you'd bother reading a bit before asking questions, you might have the answer already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
MTP and PTP specifically overcome this issue by making the unit of managed storage a local file rather than an entire (possibly very large) unit of mass storage at the block level. In this way, MTP works like a transactional file system - either the entire file is written/read or nothing.
More or less, it is designed to keep hidden what should be hidden stick to USB storage or FTP/SCP.
PS: can't believe we're using a transfer protocol designed by Microsoft in a Linux-based system mastered by Google. The horror, the pain... no wonder it doesn't work on my Mac!
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Thx for the link ! I knew what mtp is but its always good to refresh things up
I read the whole article and unfortunately it doesn't answer my question.
I understood that its the same for all of us meaning that we are not able to see hidden folders.
But the main question is if there is a way to bypass this behavior ? Where is this defined exactly ?
It seems according to the article that its not on the file permission layer ? Should it be at partition level ? How can mtp know what to share with the host ?
It's not a "behaviour" per se, but more/less a database. Remember that media scanner program which wakes up every time you change something on your SD card, be it internal or external ? it simply keeps a "database" of files which are presented to the MTP client (your computer) and hides away the phone's internal folders which are not supposed to be seen by the end-user.
Theoretically, this is done in order to have the iPhone-like behaviour: seeing the entire device memory as one big unified storage which you can fill as you want (no more of those partition size limitations which brought us the app2sd hacks). In my opinion, it's more or less just a small step done in order to "secure" phones for DRM protected content.
Studios and media companies require devices to have such measures of protection in order to allow you to sell media content (like movies, books, etc) and since Google wants to push its business further with the Play Store, it needs to cave in to the studios' demands. In the future, it will probably even become illegal (DMCA-style) for me to give you the information below
Back to the technical part of our show now.
At the first boot in the life of the device, Media Scanner will look under /system/media and index everything there. After that, it will scan everything under /mnt/sdcard (hence your external SD card too, if you have one, as it's mounted under /mnt/sdcard/external_sd). On some devices, you have an "internal.db" file and one "external-123xyz.db" file; that's a unique ID of the SD card which was scanned. The idea here is you might have 2-3 SD cards which you swap often, and it's not nice to do a full rescan each time you change the SD card. These databases are in /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media (on my phone, there is only one "external.db" for example).
So what you're looking for is a way to populate this database with all the files found by the Media Scanner. But Media Scanner doesn't want you to see the hidden folders you mentioned above. So, you get an application which doesn't ignore them, like Rescan SD Card! or SDrescan.
Happy now ?
Thank you very much i really enjoyed reading the explanation as it answers completely my questions and it makes sense !
Ill give a try to the apps but i'm also curious to investigate on those files
Cheers
PS. Is this a disguised way to support non open source protocols ?
Well, you could poke around inside the database with sqlite if you want. But don't really see what's so interesting about them.
It is just another protocol which is supported, which happens to be designed by Microsoft (and probably licensed/paid by Google to be used in Android). I understand the technical explanation behind this decision, but I'm also wary that someday UMS will be disabled by default and enabling it will disable content purchasing for that device (just like having a rooted phone now disables some "sensitive" apps, like banking and online TV).
As a system admin its interesting to know whats happening on my system
As a hobby its interesting for my personal knowledge
And from a development point of view it gives me some ideas for maybe future apps
You say that its just another protocol which is supported but to my understanding there are not so many of them ! So i would say that Google was kind of forced to use the MTP method, first from a hardware point of view and second to be compliant with the rest of the world.
Is there any other protocol that could suite their needs ? Since USB mass storage is not usable on some devices and MTP is well spead.
.HiddenAndroid folders in Win - Here Yesterday, Gone Tomorrow
<Win 7 and GN2>
What's curious and a bit frustrating to me is that, yesterday, when I mounted my device ALL of the hidden (.folders and .files) were visible and searchable. Today, when I went to explore some more, all are gone. I understand that I can use a 3rd party app, just can't figure out why it was visible yesterday and not today.
Hmmph
Did you ever resolve this issue? I really hate MTP for several reasons but this is one of the reasons why! I need to back up all my directories on the SDCard because some apps store them as hidden files in hidden directories. Furthermore, I came across the Play Store bug that requires me to delete a "temp.asec" file in the ".android_secure" directory, but of course it is not visible.
In a post further up it was suggested to use a "Rescan" app to force the DB to include hidden files/directories, but I have tried no less than 4 of these apps, and all they do is trigger the built-in android media scan, which is the problem in the first place!
So has anyone ever been able to access hidden files and directories using MTP?
EDIT: I have an HTC phone that actually shows hidden files and directories, so they have obviously implemented their own media scan. The problem I am currently having is on a Samsung phone (Epic 4G touch)
It may depend on the implementation. For example, using stock rom for the phone doesn't show some files and folders, for example folders starting with dot. But if you use Neatrom Lite it will show all files and folders.
Flash forward about 6 years and Samsung still does not show hidden folders/files when viewing the phone contents in Windows File Explorer, but HTC does.
The reason this is still a problem for me, is that I want to backup the contents of a particular directory (WhatsApp) which contains some hidden folders, so I can restore it anytime on a new phone or the same phone.
I recently switched from HTC to Samsung and alas, it seems the problem with this implementation still exists. Anyone found a workaround to this to allow File Explorer to see the hidden folders?
Update: It appears that hidden .nomedia files (and probably others) appear under regular folders, so the problem is limited to hidden folders themselves
Does anyone know where the notes & bookmarks are stored (within the android file system) Customer service has been 0 help. They just keep saying that there's no cloud based backup system so I can't back it up.... The files are stored on my device SOMEWHERE so there has to be a way to back them up. It kills me to think that I could lose all the notes I took through the 10+ books I've bought.
jpf566 said:
Does anyone know where the notes & bookmarks are stored (within the android file system) Customer service has been 0 help. They just keep saying that there's no cloud based backup system so I can't back it up.... The files are stored on my device SOMEWHERE so there has to be a way to back them up. It kills me to think that I could lose all the notes I took through the 10+ books I've bought.
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I know this is old, but in case anyone comes across this thread as I did looking for an answer:
It's stored on the SD card, at /Audible/* where * = some proprietary number .aax. Most files in this folder are <1mb, so it should be easy to spot the one which ones are books. Unfortunately it isn't possible to identify which is which.
MattKneale said:
I know this is old, but in case anyone comes across this thread as I did looking for an answer:
It's stored on the SD card, at /Audible/* where * = some proprietary number .aax. Most files in this folder are <1mb, so it should be easy to spot the one which ones are books. Unfortunately it isn't possible to identify which is which.
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For me *.aax files were stored at /Android/data/com.audible.application/files
Hi all,
Today I found something really weird on my Android powered phone (Galaxy Note + CM 10.1) - on my external sd card is hidden folder ".faces" in which i found a lot of (really, A LOT OF, approximately 4 thousands) files with no extensions (I mean, only simple file names - for example "346"). When I tried to open it, I figured out that these file was an image, more precisely a part of my private photos taken with my phone. Really, it's very strange for me - why I have folder with ~4k photos of faces cut out from my PRIVATE photo albums? For what? I mean, it's just sick... Why android (Google...) does something like this?
any answers?
Any answers on this?
sinedoOo said:
Hi all
Today I found something really weird on my Android powered phone (Galaxy Note + CM 10.1) - on my external sd card is hidden folder ".faces" in which i found a lot of (really, A LOT OF, approximately 4 thousands) files with no extensions (I mean, only simple file names - for example "346"). When I tried to open it, I figured out that these file was an image, more precisely a part of my private photos taken with my phone. Really, it's very strange for me - why I have folder with ~4k photos of faces cut out from my PRIVATE photo albums? For what? I mean, it's just sick... Why android (Google...) does something like this?
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sinedoOo said:
Hi all,
Today I found something really weird on my Android powered phone (Galaxy Note + CM 10.1) - on my external sd card is hidden folder ".faces" in which i found a lot of (really, A LOT OF, approximately 4 thousands) files with no extensions (I mean, only simple file names - for example "346"). When I tried to open it, I figured out that these file was an image, more precisely a part of my private photos taken with my phone. Really, it's very strange for me - why I have folder with ~4k photos of faces cut out from my PRIVATE photo albums? For what? I mean, it's just sick... Why android (Google...) does something like this?
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Certain apps will keep data on the SD card in cases where a kit of room is needed. The period in front denotes a hidden folder. In my case, I have an ".aptoide" and a ".nogapps" folder for those respective apps. If I had to guess, ".face" folder is keeping data from your camera, which may be set up to use facial detection to focus. Try turning off facial detection, delete that folder and take a few photos with people in them. See if the faces show in that folder again.
Oops, seem to have cross posted due to having two tabs open, cant make sense of the changed layout!
Mods please feel free to delete this thread if no one has answered!
Hi all!
An oldie but a goldie!
I've changed from S6 32g, to S6Eedge 64g since I was running out of space.
Now I need to transfer 4000 photos (sorted by date) to the new phone. A direct copy from PC converts all the created dates to the current date (ie when transfer is done) which as you can imagine screws everything up royally!
Ive tried and failed in many many many ways including:
Samsung Smart Switch
FTP
Syncing programs from pc to phone
ADB push
WEBdav
Hail marys, and praying to every god out there
They all bugger up the dates...........
The ONLY ONLY way Ive found out that works is by zipping up the original files, transferring to new phone, and unzipping locally with Total Commander. ONLY Total Commander seems to be able to unzip and preserve the dates, all the other file managers and extracting programs (I tried 10-15) out there can NOT manage this. Total Commander probably works cuz im rooted, and it can use this.
HOWEVER this only worked with smaller directories, but my main pics folder is a 8 gig compressed zip, and when I try the same way Total Commander only manages to unzip the same 700 files and stops (anyone else come across this limitation?). So the only way I can manage is to zip up the original files in 7-8 different zip files and unzip locally individually, which is a big hassle.
Ive googled many threads on this problem, most of them were unresolved and some solutions refer to previous android versions or software and dont work anymore.
I'm hoping that you all dont spend four days setting up a new phone everytime ( home screen and app settings is a whole different drama! Thank you Titanium backup! iOS really has the jump on Andoird when it comes to changing phones...)
The only thing I can think of which I havent tried yet is USB OTG, since I dont have the cable. Anyone can confirm whether this method keeps the dates unchnaged?
So in your experience, whats the best way of doing this? How do you guys do it?
To be honest for 4 thousand photos swapping back and forth between devices you are better off using a could storage. Especially if you want to minimise the risk of loosing them all if something goes wrong. All zip folders will extract with the original date it. You could try and torrent you DCIM folder and language download it to your computer. Torrents download with their file dates intact.
Thanks for your reply!
IMHO this cloud thing is actually whats causing so many of the problems in hardware design these days in general.
Why is it so hard for companies to realise that when you are two floors underground, or roaming or even in middle of central london, net connection is not guaranteed......
Let alone the speed, convenience, security issues etc etc etc
As to the loss risk, I back them up on my home pcs regularly with a sync application, which ironically enough works perfectly well thank god!
So for me cloud is a no go....
As to your other suggestion, sounds great
Can I torrent just on the local net? ie direct from phone to pc?
Any apps you can reccomend? will save me trawling through a hundred crap apps in GPlay.
Thanks again for your time, its appreciated!
PS re what you said about all zips extracting correctly. Can you try on your device? Zip up a few small old files on your pc, transfer the zip to phone, extract there, and check the dates.
All except one of the ones I have tried do it, as mentioned above.
PPS Gave your torrent suggestion a go, no joy. All the transferred files had the new date ;-(.
I tried the the utorrent android app...
Update and for future help for people who will come across this issue.
I managed it!
I used Total Commander on the phone through the LAN plugin function, to access my backup folder on the pc, select all files and copy to local phone directory.
You need to initiate the copy from the PHONE on Total Commander, ie pull the files onto the phone, dont copy them by drag and drop from PC.
It took a while but it was done!
Dates and timestamps all preserved and correct!