I have extracted some of the notification and ringtones that I like from other JB builds to use in CNA 3.6.6 and placed them in system/media/audio/notifications or system/media/audio/ringtones as appropriate. I have also set permissions to rw-r--r-- on the files I added.
My question is what else do I need to do so they show up on the list where I actually choose what tone I want to use. The only ones that are visible on the list are the ones that came standard with CNA 3.6.6.
All files are in ogg format and after doing the above steps they do not stick after a reboot. What has happened is after reboot they are not listed or, if they are, they will dissappear. I discovered this after setting them and then missing calls after a while. When this happened I checked in the sound settings and the tone listed was either "unkown" or a number was there instead of the tone I selected. This happens with apps that are part of the ROM and with third party apps. This issue does not happen if I stick with the stock choices. I also did not experience this with Froyo or GB builds, only with ICS and JB.
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Make a 'Notifications' and 'Ringtones' folder on the root of your SD card. Place the files there, reboot.
That is where I moved them from for the same reason. I was thinking having them in /system/media/audio/notifications or /ringtones would fix it. I'll give it a shot and see.
FernBch said:
That is where I moved them from for the same reason. I was thinking having them in /system/media/audio/notifications or /ringtones would fix it. I'll give it a shot and see.
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Thought id just throw it out there as a last resort. Third party apps sometimes will do the trick. Been using this one for some time now. Give it a go if need be and see if it helps.
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Try going into the music player and re-scanning your library. That or go into your storage section and allow it to re-scan there.
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I did this ^^^ and put the tones back on the SD card as Acvice suggested and it is working fine again. Thanks for the suggestions!!
For those who are curious, I found a better fix for this.
I have bounced around a little recently (CM7, AOKP, Liquid Smooth) and I came back to CNA 3.6.6. Well, I had to copy and paste some ringtones and notification tones into the ROM again so I could have the ones I really like.
So, I did the following:
Copy and paste the ones I wanted into /system/media/audio/notifications or system/media//audio/ringtones as needed.
Change permissions to rw-r--r--
Now, at this point they did not show up in the list when I went to choose them until after reboot. BUT, would disappear and reappear at random. When they disappeared my phone would not ring audibly because it "lost" the associated ringtone or notification tone.
So, I place them in the root of the sd card and I could choose them from there. But doing this had problems, too. If you connect to a pc the sd card would not be accessible by the phone. So what happens? The phone doesn't ring audibly because it "lost" the association to the ringtone on the sd card and I would have to go into settings and choose it again. It was getting to be a headache.
This time, I made a discovery. Using root explorer, I changed ownership on the newly transplanted ringtones. The new setting is as follows:
Owner: 0-root
Group: 0-root.
The old setting were system 1015 and sd card. Under the new ownership everything works perfect so far. I can connect to pc via usb, reboot, or whatever and the assigned sound setting stays put.
Hope this helps anyone who has had the sane issue!
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2 Questions.
1. How can i install ringtones and use the default app to show them all? (I usually use astro to set a mp3 to a ringtone, but I found a rom with a bunch I liked that were not in the Rom I am using currently) I like using the default selector.
2. How can I pull the ringtones out of another rom?
ty
I removed default ringtones by using ES file manager in the market (make sure to go to settings and allow root permission a well as read/write) once you have the app and open it and back out of the sd card root into OS , select system folder then media, in there is notifications and ringtones and whatnot. Now that you know where to put the ringtones just copy and paste them there.
Now I'm a noob so there may be an easier better way but worked for me ha ha.
Oh and ringdroid app from the market works well in trimming them. I usually make tones then put them in as system defaults.
Sorry can't help with question two
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2 Questions.
1. How can i install ringtones and use the default app to show them all? (I usually use astro to set a mp3 to a ringtone, but I found a rom with a bunch I liked that were not in the Rom I am using currently) I like using the default selector.
2. How can I pull the ringtones out of another rom?
ty
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Zedge ringtones app from the market. It is free. The best part is you can change your ringtones with the default HTC ringtone chooser. Also if you happen to change your ROMs it is saved to the SD card and after you install a rom after a full wipe, you can still pick the downloaded ringtones from the HTC ringtone chooser. Yes Ill say it again, even after a full wipe and flashing a new rom on your phone
Ringdroid will do the same actually, I don't know why I said all that lol, I was caught up on how I delete the lame default ones
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ok, so if they are in system/media I can pull them from the rom and drop em on SD.
thanks guys
there is no need for an app to install ringtones and notification sounds to your phone.
simply create a folder in the root of your sdcard called media. In the media folder create another folder called audio. Then in that folder make 2 folders, one called notifications and another called ringtones. once those are created put a ringtone or notification sound in the corresponding folder and once you eject it the ringtone/notification sound will be available in the ringtone/notification list.
your folder tree should be as follows
sdcard
|---------media
|-----------|-------audio
|---------------------|-------notifications
|---------------------|------------|-------notification.mp3
|---------------------|-------ringtones
|---------------------|------------|-------ringtone.mp3
Are there any requirements for ringtones I might make? Mp3 vs OGG, length, etc?
I have found that after placing an mp3 in my system\media\audio I have too reboot before the phone will recognize it.
TheAtheistReverend said:
Are there any requirements for ringtones I might make? Mp3 vs OGG, length, etc?
I have found that after placing an mp3 in my system\media\audio I have too reboot before the phone will recognize it.
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I put them on my SD card under a folder called "ringtones".
I been playing around with the ringtone/notification/alarms folders (especially since rooting)
They can be placed anywhere on the SD card (I still use the >Media\*** tree for orginization purposes). I have yet to find a time/size limit, except for what I prefer they sound like.
I prefer the MP3 format for rintones/notifications/alarms, because rather than the file name, they will show the tagged Title as the tone name. So you can call the tone "ringer1.mp3" but in the (I use Windows) properties, you can setr the title to "The Wife's Custom Ringtone", and android will display it as "The Wife's Custom Ringtone" (just examples off the top of my head. I'm not that lame)
I just mount ther phone to the computer, drag and drop the tones to the proper folder, unmount the phone, go to the selector, and voila there they are.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer help with this. I've had my Atrix since launch and there's been about 4 times now (all seemingly after i've hooked the phone to computer with either phone portal, windows sync, or mass storage) where the assigned ringtones for contacts and even my regular ringtone has been changed or reassigned to some random song from my library. I don't know if there's something to hooking it up and it messes with the memory that juggles the ringtones/songs or what. Does anyone else have this problem and if so, has it been addressed/fixed? Thanks in advance for any help offered.
I have the exact same issue and have been posting about it on the Motorola forum as well. Over there the Motorola folks ask you questions and try to get a fix out to everyone, so please check it out if you haven't already.
My issue has happened a lot morethan yours it seems, however, I use extra batteries, so the phone reboots more often.
This is what I posted over there a little while ago:
Internal phone storage keeps disappearing
The "Disappearing ringtones" discussion was closed and merged with this one, but my issue is not the same as the internal memory being wiped.
My files are still on the card and internal memory, but the contacts, alarms, messaging, calendar, etc apps can't remember the tones I set.
I have copied the files to the following locations with the same issue recurring:
/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/system/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard-ext/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
/sdcard-ext/media/audio/(alarms, notifications and ringtones)
Even after moving them with RootExporer to the "non-mountable" storage (/system) they are still reassigning and setting to "unknown".
Possibly related issue. The playlists I create with MixZing, winAmp, and astro are empty are the phone reboots.
Occasionally I get the "no files" error when I check the mounted card in file manager, but if I manualy unmount and remount the card, they are still there.
I keep missing calls, texts and having my alarms "silent". This is getting frustrating. I bought the Atrix on launch day so I need to exchange NOW if that is what is needed.
Other than the above and the losing data connection issue, I LOVE THIS PHONE
Yeah, i've placed my ringtones (all .m4a format) on both the internal/external memory slots and for some reason, when it gets hooked up i'm in the same boat you are...very frustrating i've missed calls and messages as well. surprising that no one from Moto has a resolution for it...
I've run into the same problem, and was planning on moving 'em into the /system/media folder...but it sounds like that won't fix it. Drats.
I've had this issue as well. The random song problem seems to only affect contacts I have set up with a custom tone. No telling what song/sound will play for which contact. Otherwise it has simply changed my default ringtone to a particular mp3 that then becomes the default tone. Really weird.
I do still have the issue with the files in the /system folder, but much less. So I would try them there to lessen the problem. Westill need a complete fix though.
This issue is still a problem. There are even some apps that can't see the files on the internal card or external card. Even after the OTA update this problem is driving me crazy.
I think you dont hear about this issue more because some people dont connect there phone to the computer or remove the battery often. It seems to be a problem with reading the info off the card when it is remounted. On my captivate when I remounted the card it would always scan the card. This phone doesn't.
Any ideas.
Yeah I had this problem too. Was the only thing, and I mean the only thing I didn't like about this phone. I found the only way to fix it is to root the phone and move your personal ringtones to the '/system/media/audio/ringtones' folder using Root Explorer (you can buy it oin the market. Great app BTW). This solved all my problems. I know it's not "right" but it works great. Now I have zero problems with this phone.
-joe-
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Raindance said:
Yeah I had this problem too. Was the only thing, and I mean the only thing I didn't like about this phone. I found the only way to fix it is to root the phone and move your personal ringtones to the '/system/media/audio/ringtones' folder using Root Explorer (you can buy it oin the market. Great app BTW). This solved all my problems. I know it's not "right" but it works great. Now I have zero problems with this phone.
-joe-
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I rooted, and purchased Root Explorer, but I can not seem to move anything to the Systems folder as it is a read only folder?... What am I doing wrong?
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t2ohio said:
I rooted, and purchased Root Explorer, but I can not seem to move anything to the Systems folder as it is a read only folder?... What am I doing wrong?
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In Root Explorer, at the top, hit the R/W button.
Ive mounted to the computer often, resboot every day, pull battery every now and then.. I dont have this problem. Ever try Ringdroid?
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
omik47 said:
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.
mwdan said:
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. :/
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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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!
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
gpz1100 said:
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?
Durmelo said:
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