So, if you're like me, you can't stand the "feature" that has the ringtone start out silently then increase to normal volume. After searching around, I found a mod that will remove the increasing ringtone and play at full volume from the get-go. This thread for the Moto Z Play has a solution that works perfectly for the E4 (and I would imagine any Moto series phone).
The mod involves one of the following: editing the file, renaming the file (.bak), or deleting the file. The file in particular is:
audio_ext_spkr.conf. It is located in /system/etc. I simply copied the file to my SD Card (in case there was a problem), then deleted audio_ext_spkr.conf from /system/etc, and rebooted.
Now, there is no more increasing ringtone! I couldn't be happier.
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So, if you're like me, you can't stand the "feature".
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Exactly like you and despised that “feature” as well. Worked like a charm thanks!
thanks worked on my E4 plus couldn't stand that ascending ringtone I see Motorola has a problem with this on many phones
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I'm having some unusual problems using custom audio files as ringtones and notifications. I've looked through a lot of existing discussions about this, but none of them seem to fully match the issues I'm experiencing.
Most questions about setting custom MP3 ringtones and notifications are replied by descriptions of how a set of "notifications" and "ringtones" folders should be created on your SD card, and so on. The weirdest part of my experience is that, I have done that, and it had initially worked, but now it no longer does!
I can't figure out what has changed. I did experiment with changing the cluster size of my SD card from 32KB to 4KB since the last time it had worked, but I've since changed it back to 4KB (suspecting that might be the reason), but that didn't fix the problem.
Here's the other strange part of what I'm seeing:
I launch Astro
I navigate to an audio file on my SD card
I tap-and-hold, and pick "Music Options"
The "Set as Ringtone" option is enabled". "Nice", you'd think. "Just set your ringtone that way." But hold on, we're not done yet!
I then copy and paste this audio file to create a duplicate copy under a different name right in the same folder
I tap-and-hold the new copy and select Music Options. The "Set as Ringtone" option now shows up as disabled for this file!
What the...? The files are identical in everythine but name (which only has a "2" added at the end)!!! Can anyone give me even a remotely plausible explanation of this? Does anyone here know what the unmentioned criteria are for an audio file to be considered a valid ringtone?
It didn't end there. I tried going around the problem by installing Tone Picker. That allowed me to set the phone ringtone to the audio file I want without too much hassle. I also set in Tone Picker the notification ringtone used for my calendar appointments. No such luck, though! The phone ringtone works fine, but none of the audio files that I've tried so far for setting as the notification sound via Tone Picker worked. I hear no sound when the notification is shown. It works perfectly fine if I revert the notification sound to an Android system sound by bypassing Tone Picker.
Anybody got a clue?
Oh, and I'm using my Xperia X10 unrooted, with firmware build number R2BA026 in the USA with AT&T. (But it's not an AT&T branded device.)
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The custom notification sounds have suddenly started working, too. And what I've done differently is... nothing. The only thing I've done additionally is connect my phone via USB to my laptop, which promptly sounded the custom notification sound. That reminded me that I made a mistake, since I didn't want that sound as the default notification sound, but just for calendar notifications. So, after fixing the default notification back to what it used to be and setting the calendar notification to my desired custom sound (just for the heck of it) one more time, this time it happened to work. Hah! That's cute. Now I have no idea why it now works or what was ever wrong!...
I suppose I'll have to try the switch to 4KB clusters again, to understand if it had anything to do with starting these issues--otherwise I'll be wasting something like 30% of the capacity of my 16GB SD card if I stay with 32KB clusters (a lot of cached map tiles...).
I realize I'm dancing to my own fiddle here, but I thought I should add this, too, for the benefit of anyone else who might experience similar issues and come across this thread, because I've never seen this being discussed about audio files in Android when used for ringtones and notifications:
I came across one more clue after my last posting. I happened to be fiddling around with the Mediascape app. I tested tapping the audio file (WAV) I wanted to use as my custom calendar notification sound. It brought up the file for playback but displayed a temporary pop-up message saying "No license. File skipped." Now, I'm not sure if it was saying this about the file I intended to select, because I believe I was actually picking the "Unknown" artist selection, and there might have been some other audio file(s) on the SD card that was assumed to belong to artist "Unknown" as well, to which that message might have applied. In any case, it required a second tap on the "Play" button for it to play the file. (It then played fine, which doesn't make sense if the app really thought it was unlicensed. But never mind.) Meanwhile, the second copy of that same audio file, also showing up in Mediascape as an artist "Unknown" track, played back fine with a single tap and no pop-up about any missing license.
Leaving aside for a moment the question whether that message about the missing license meant what I thought it might have meant, this clued me in to the possibility, in general, that the mysterious selectiveness of Astro in disabling and enabling the "Set as Ringtone" option (and my root cause of not being able to see some MP3 files in the selection list when picking audio files for ringtones/notifications in Android's system menus) may have to do with some perceived license issue related to the files. It shouldn't, actually, because both audio files are homecooked audio files I've put together in an audio editor. But, apparently, Android may be paranoid enough to "assume the worst" about audio files with no licensing info and treat them as unlicensed. That might be the unspoken criterion, to which I was referring earlier, for an audio file to be considered valid for use as a ringtone, etc. (or for playback in general, naturally).
At least, that will be my operating assumption going forward. If anyone happens to see this "monolog" and has a better idea, they should feel free to chime in...
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after i install mummy droid custom jelly bean rom everything is working fine but i cant set my customize ringtone and sms tone plzzz guys help mee
I currently have my ringtone mp3 file on the root folder of my SD card. It works fine with one really annoying problem.
When I am listening to my music, the shows up in the music player and plays.
Is there any way I can stop this without creating playlists every time I chance or add new songs? I like to just go into my music player and play all.
I have tried to look for the subdirectory where the stock ringtones are so I can just add it to that, but I have not had any luck.
Hopefully someone can help me solve this annoying issue. Thanks.
On your sd card there should be a folder called media open it add a folder called Ringtones put your Ringtones In it should help also you can another one called music for your music If you want instead of having all your music on the root of your sd card but it's up to you
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pgill34 said:
On your sd card there should be a folder called media open it add a folder called Ringtones put your Ringtones In it should help also you can another one called music for your music If you want instead of having all your music on the root of your sd card but it's up to you
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I kept opening that file and saw a file in there called notifications which only had a facebook notification tone. I put my ringtones there but it didn't work.
Since the forum was down yesterday, I googled my problem and found that you can just create a folder called "ringtones" (all lower case) and it worked.
But I am going to try to move that folder into the media folder so I can keep my sd card somewhat organized.
thanks for the help.
That's cool I was trying to tell you that but I guess I wasn't clear enough but at any rate you got it. So no big deal. Anyway no problem.
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I kept opening that file and saw a file in there called notifications which only had a facebook notification tone. I put my ringtones there but it didn't work.
Since the forum was down yesterday, I googled my problem and found that you can just create a folder called "ringtones" (all lower case) and it worked.
But I am going to try to move that folder into the media folder so I can keep my sd card somewhat organized.
thanks for the help.
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I tried just creating a folder named 'ringtones' and it didn't work for me. I then created a 'media' folder and put the 'ringtones' folder in it. It still didn't work. I turned the phone off and rebooted. Still can't find the ringtone.
BTW - the ringtone is a 'shortened' mp3 that I have used on several windows phones for years. I'm not hearing my phone ring cuz I don't recognize the ringtone!
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I read somewhere else on this forum that someone had to remove and reinsert their battery to get the ringtones to work. I tried that. There was my ringtone -- however the phone had decided to give it the name 'track 30'. Have no idea where that would have come from...this was never downloaded as a track off an album and it did have it's own file name.
This is a new AT&T Aria (my first Android). So far I'm not sure I like it. it was much easier to browse the phone, load files, etc. with Windows Mobile/ActiveSync'. And I miss MyMobiler.
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I tried just creating a folder named 'ringtones' and it didn't work for me. I then created a 'media' folder and put the 'ringtones' folder in it. It still didn't work. I turned the phone off and rebooted. Still can't find the ringtone.
BTW - the ringtone is a 'shortened' mp3 that I have used on several windows phones for years. I'm not hearing my phone ring cuz I don't recognize the ringtone!
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I read somewhere else on this forum that someone had to remove and reinsert their battery to get the ringtones to work. I tried that. There was my ringtone -- however the phone had decided to give it the name 'track 30'. Have no idea where that would have come from...this was never downloaded as a track off an album and it did have it's own file name.
This is a new AT&T Aria (my first Android). So far I'm not sure I like it. it was much easier to browse the phone, load files, etc. with Windows Mobile/ActiveSync'. And I miss MyMobiler.
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IMO comparing your experience on android to a windows phone doesn't really suit the perquisites for a comparison. It'd be like comparing your experience on windows 7 to the latest version of Ubuntu or some other Linux distro. Oh wait, Linux (android) vs windows mobile (windows) that's wut you're doing isn't it? Android is awesome in my opinion once you get used to it. And I came from a blackberry. Totally incomparable, but in the long run I love android so much more than BB.
Anyone know of a fix for the ringtones/notification tones not sticking on GSB? I've had this problem since CM added "profiles". Just flashed v2.6 last night and haven't had a phone call yet to see if it persists.
Edit...Don't answer......I went a little crazy and built up my post count so I could post my question on the GSB thread..
sorry but i'm just gonna use this thread i started to boost my post count so i can post my question on the GSB thread.
I don't like this 10 post thing
there has been so many times I've had something to say but couldn't because I didn't have enough posts
three more posts....almost there
two more posts.....I think I can
last one wow I did it.....I think
one more for good measure
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Well, I'll give you credit. It's better than posting useless things in other and/or dead threads!
Bumping this for Posts, And to find out if you ever got that ringtone thing figured out?
I've been having problems with this ever since I installed GSB, and am about at my wits end.
I've tried the following:
Set with Handcent, Group ringtone, and Contact Group Manager.
Convert all to .ogg format and then same as above.
Push all the ogg files to /system/media/audio/ringtones and chmod 644 on all
AND set with the previous methods, as well as individually with both android system and Handcent picker.
Ive also disabled DSP manager, but that didnt' seem to affect it. neither did full wipes/reinstall.
I even backed up the SD card, did a 3 pass overwrite in windows, and then formatted it in recovery, mounted USB, copied the files, flashed fresh 3.2, gapps, and cache2cache and rebooted completely fresh, and pushed all the ogg files back to system and they still don't stick.
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I've tried the following:
Set with Handcent, Group ringtone, and Contact Group Manager.
Convert all to .ogg format and then same as above.
Push all the ogg files to /system/media/audio/ringtones and chmod 644 on all
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Rather than doing that, just put them in the SD card in a folder called /ringtones or /audio/ringtones or /media/audio/ringtones (you get the picture, I hope). Don't bother with chmod. What happens then?
That doesn't work either. That's where I started from, with the media/audio/ringtone folder on my sd card, and it worked fine there on every other rom I've used until I started using GSB.
If I could get this ringtone thing worked out, it'd be perfect. I hate having to look at the phone to see who's calling.
I may have figured this out. I noticed it wastaking a long time to "wake up" when the phone rang so I played with the clock setting and had to drop it down to 710 from 748, bit it seems to be working so far.
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That didn't work. Worked fine yesterday,but today it just plays the default ringtone for all calls.
This is getting really irritating.
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Still not working right. I can't figure this out for the life of me. I've been having this problem since v2.9 of GSB, and it's continuing right up to the new 3.4 ODEx version.
Last weekend I reformatted the SD card, wiped the phone, and put a fresh install of XtrSense 5.01 on and the ringtones worked fine, so I wiped the sd card again, and installed the brand new version of GSB when it was released, and the second call i recieved went to the default ringtone :/
well, this makes 10 posts, so I can go ask the man himself now.
You're not the only one having this issue, and I too believe I started noticing it around the time that the profiles were introduced into CM....
I don't know what it could be. I've tried removing profiles, converting everything to .ogg and sticking it in the system/media/audio/(ringtones/alarms/notifications) folders, freezing DSP, Overclocking, underclocking.
actually alarms and notifications work fine, its just ringtones. :/
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?
Swyped from my Galaxy SII
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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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