anyone know where the ringtones are stored on this thing? i did the media thing on my SD card like on hte incredible, but it's not picking them up.
actually wait.
it's partitioned or something? in ES file manager it shows SDCARD1 and SDCARD 2....wtf? the stuff i transferred from my PC was put on to 1...but 2 is what the phone reads from...wtf
I created a folder on the main sdcard called ringtones and placed the ringtones I wanted in it. You create a folder called notifications for the notifications tones you want. They show up in sounds after that.
my bad, i copied stuff to HTC Storage which is the phones built in haha ugh! i thought i went to sd card!! i'm a tard.
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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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tilt4life2 said:
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.
cinnamon327 said:
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!
Update:
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.
I recently went from a BB to a droid and I want the ringtones and text sounds that are on my SD card to be put on my droid. But I cant find them when I try to set a ringtone.
Any ideas?
Also, I want to find a way to take them off (or copy them) to the phone so I can send them as MMS to friends too.
Im not sure how to do either of these so any and all help would be great!
thanks!
If you store any MP3 files that you want as ringtones in a folder called /ringtones and any notifications in a folder called /notifications anywhere on your SD card, they will show up in the list of notifications or ringtones. So, you could have folders called ringtones and notifications on the SD card, or you could organize them into /media/ringtones and /media/notifications - any way that you get separate folders called notifications and/or ringtones will work.
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If you store any MP3 files that you want as ringtones in a folder called /ringtones and any notifications in a folder called /notifications anywhere on your SD card, they will show up in the list of notifications or ringtones. So, you could have folders called ringtones and notifications on the SD card, or you could organize them into /media/ringtones and /media/notifications - any way that you get separate folders called notifications and/or ringtones will work.
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I have made a My Documents folder and seperated them into Ringtones and Alerts but when I go to select them, I dont have the option to find them, I can only use Zedge, Music, or Default.
I want to be able to go into that file and select them myself. And also send them to someone else (non smart phone user)
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I have made a My Documents folder and seperated them into Ringtones and Alerts but when I go to select them, I dont have the option to find them, I can only use Zedge, Music, or Default.
I want to be able to go into that file and select them myself. And also send them to someone else (non smart phone user)
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Linux (what Android is based on) is case sensitive and you would have to create two separate folders. One called ringtones and one called notifications. As he said, other than that, you're free to organize them however you wish, but those folder names themselves have to be like that.
If I'm wrong about this, somebody shoot me.
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Linux (what Android is based on) is case sensitive and you would have to create two separate folders. One called ringtones and one called notifications. As he said, other than that, you're free to organize them however you wish, but those folder names themselves have to be like that.
If I'm wrong about this, somebody shoot me.
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Again, this is what I have always done, and it has worked with every ROM.
To the OP, if you have a folder on your SD card called My Documents, create two folders inside that folder - Ringtones and Notifications - and move the ones that you want for each into those folders, or copy into both if you want them for both. Use those exact names, including the plural. As for case sensitivity, I don't think it matters, as I just looked at my SD card and my two folders are called Ringtones and notifications - so it seems to be case-insensitive.
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Again, this is what I have always done, and it has worked with every ROM.
To the OP, if you have a folder on your SD card called My Documents, create two folders inside that folder - Ringtones and Notifications - and move the ones that you want for each into those folders, or copy into both if you want them for both. Use those exact names, including the plural. As for case sensitivity, I don't think it matters, as I just looked at my SD card and my two folders are called Ringtones and notifications - so it seems to be case-insensitive.
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Thanks for letting me know about the case insensitivity in this case, pun intended. To quote someone else recently addressed to me "I learn something new every day."
Okay so I have a feeling there is a simple fix bit I've tried everything I know on how to fix this. I have ringtones on my memory card that was working find on my Evo 4G and now that I have my 3D it will not let me set them as a ringtone. It doesn't even show up in the list of ringtones like it used too. I can play them in the file explorer that I have but it the option to apply as ringtones doesn't work. the files are .ogg
I have it set up Luke this
SD Card - media - notifications
It has always worked like this since I had my G1 I don't know what has changed. I haven't done the OTA.
If they are .ogg files u may have to place em in the proper folder...
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I just made sure that ringtones were in the ringtones folder, notifications in notifications folder, all under the sdcard - media - audio folder. That seemed to work for me. My custom alarms are the same, in the alarms folder.
Just thought I would post that i fixed the issue. For some weird reason I had to format my memory card and put everything back on it so my phone would recognize the folders I had created.
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Ok so i the first time i installed AOPK 6 on the x2 i had a whole bucnh of glitches, call drop offs, and such. I had the sd and internal in the correct place though such as my Dx was. I know the DX2 now calls it sd and sd ext. making the rading of sd and ext a little of. In this running of the glitchy askp i had the correct sd placement.
SO i had to do a wip and reinstall of aopk and now the phone is in correct working order no wonkiness but now due to the X2 i have the sd and sd ext problem. I have all my pics, music and such on the sd and the x2 would read any of my pics.
I know Nitro with his eclipse build had installed a flip flop for the X2 tio work "correctly"
I found this post and it seems this is the one he used as well. Has anyone used it and has it worked properly or caused problems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229294
I want to say it'll work because the file in DZK's ICS is identical but the AOPK's has stuff that I haven't seen before. See if you can get ahold of a dev.
I pm'd craylike gollum but just wondering if anyone knows. Is there any other way to make the dx2 read the SD card correctly without the flip flop.
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I pm'd craylike gollum but just wondering if anyone knows. Is there any other way to make the dx2 read the SD card correctly without the flip flop.
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Honestly have no idea what you're even trying to say. The DX2 reads the SD card just fine. The SD Flip-Flop wasn't there because it was required, it was there for people to switch between sdcard and sdcard-ext for their internal and external storage. If it's a problem with the folders being mounted it's most likely because of a bad vold.fstab file. That is what defines where the storage is and should be mounted to on the phone. Talk to the dev and have them make sure that they have the correct one.
Not sure i need the flip flop but this is what is happening. Im running aokp 6 and wheni try to acces my photos thru gallery or when changing wallpapers they dont show up. Same thing for music or downloaded ringtones. Under root explorer in the EMMC it shows the regular android stuff..android_secure and such. Under SD it shows all my saved apps, music, photos and everything else. IUnder SD-Ext it is completely empty.
Now i just just Downloaded 2 photos from the browser on the phone. They were stored in my download folder with roughly 90 other photos that were previouslt there. When i access the gallery it come up w those 2 photos but not the other 90. They are saved in the same exact place on the SD card but only the new 2 show up. Also when connecting the USB on the computer i have my E drive showing my ext sd card (16G) and the F drive showing my SD int (4G). Previously on my x or x2 w Eclipse 2.3 it would show the E drive as my internal memory w 4gigs and my F drive with my removable 16 gigs. Just trying to figure out how to get my phone to recognize the photos thru gallery and wallpaper and music thru the music player which it wont do right now
In AOKP, CM, and PA, the internal memory is /mnt/emmc (linked to /emmc) and the sdcard is /mnt/sdcard (linked to /sdcard) so that the apps can read what is in the folders. This is an AOSP controlled thing which is why I made it do that.
As far as them not showing up, it's probably a problem with the media scanner service not scanning the directories properly. I think (don't quote me on this though) that you can force media scanner to rescan the folders by going into the Dev Tools app on the AOSP based ROMs and going to media or multimedia, or something related to that. Honestly, I can't remember.
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So I am kinda sick of this deal where I reboot the phone for whichever reason and all the ringtones and notifications go back to default. I have some of these in my sd card at the media/audio then a notification ringtone and alarm folder. After some researching they seems the problem is having those in the external card and the card might be mounting too late. So the fix is to move them to the /system/media/audio folder in their appropriate folder. I did taht and after the reboot the files moved to the /system/media/audio folder and were rename with the prefix that described them. for example, if I had a rigtone named "dust in the wind.mp3" now it is named. "ringtone_dust in the wind.mp3". This phone is rooted and I used ES file explorer to move them...
So the question is:
Is that the correct folder?
Why the moved out of their folders and why the rename?
What do I need to do next?
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ics 4.0.4. Stock...
So I am kinda sick of this deal where I reboot the phone for whichever reason and all the ringtones and notifications go back to default. I have some of these in my sd card at the media/audio then a notification ringtone and alarm folder. After some researching they seems the problem is having those in the external card and the card might be mounting too late. So the fix is to move them to the /system/media/audio folder in their appropriate folder. I did taht and after the reboot the files moved to the /system/media/audio folder and were rename with the prefix that described them. for example, if I had a rigtone named "dust in the wind.mp3" now it is named. "ringtone_dust in the wind.mp3". This phone is rooted and I used ES file explorer to move them...
So the question is:
Is that the correct folder?
Why the moved out of their folders and why the rename?
What do I need to do next?
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Seems that in ES File Explorer the "Move To" and the "CUT" are not the same thing... I deleted all the files I moved and this time used the Cut instead of Move to and used Copy instead of Copy to (for those ringtones that were part of an music album) and it all stored correctly and stayed in place after multiple reboots. However... The phone and system went back to defaults one more time...
Am I the only one having this problem?
Quick update. During the research I have done they mention profile apps. my profile management app was changing my ringtones back to default. I made a few changes and will come back if it is not the fix but I'm confident it is. Sorry about the monologue but maybe this migth help someone. In short for the specific contact ringtones the problem was solved when I moved the files to the /system/media/audio folder (root required) and the profile app was changing the phone and system main ringtones. If you don't have root it seems that for some users just moving the ringtones from the external card to the phone folders has been enough.
Those files are so small. Why bother moving them to the sd card? You really shouldn't move system stuff to gain a few kb's of space you can't use anyway. Whatever space you empty doesn't become available to you anyway.
I didn't move any system files to the sd card. Those ringtones were there since my blackberry times.
Ringtone/Notification resetting all the time
I have been having this issue for a long time. I have a rooted i717 and factory ICS upgrade. I don't tweak out my phone with roms and things like that. Only customization I do outside the phone customizing is using Tasker for a handful of things.
I thought my ringtone/notifications were resetting after I rebooted...and after testing it wasn't the case. I thought that after I charged my phone the items would reset...not the case after a few tests.
I also found all my sounds would have multiple instances when I try to choose a ringtone or notification. Always the first instance would not play a sound and then the second instance would play the sound.
Even my photos and vids would have multiple instances.
What I found to be the case...These ringtones/notifications reset whenever I let my battery run totally dead so the phone shuts itself off. I plug it in to recharge and find the reset happens. To try a fix I have been plugging my phone in to recharge before the battery hits 0% and the resets have not happened since. The duplication of sounds and images haven't happened since either.
Just my observation...give that a try if you are still having problems.
What I'm bugged about is why isn't there a simple config file that holds all this info and won't forget if the battery goes to 0%?!
I have 2 batteries, I drain one all the way until swapping usually, I have badger had any sound reset itself.
Not sure if you guys read all the replies but the issue was solved. It was a profile aftermarket app changing the tones back.
Thanks!