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Ringtone resets back to 'Windows Default' by itself!

i have put up a small midi ringtone file (originally a Nokia ringtone) onto my JasJar, same ringtone i've used on my PDA2k for a year..
problem is that after sometime, probably a couple calls, the ringtone seems to get reset back to the annoying "Windows Default" ringtone for no apparent reason, and i end going back to the sound & notification settings 2-3 times a day to set it back to my ringtone :\
i did a hard reset, skipped extended rom for trials and ran it for a day, same problem!
after searching for so long i figured this might be something i have to live with..
so i reset my device, installed all my apps and tuned them to my liking..
only to find out that with SPB Pocket Plus, the ringtone sometimes stops playing completely.
for instance, i can see it selected in the sound and notifications, but clicking play on it produces no sound!
the default ringtones on the other hand play just fine...
the only workaround is to softreset the device.
i finally removed SPB pocket plus... and the old problem is back.. Windows Default ringtone keeps getting set as my ring
any tips.. please i'm so frustrated at this point :\

did you put the file in windows\rings ?
i think on storage card it might be a problem.

tried having the ringtone both on /windows/rings and on the SD card, no difference..

Try some other file format other than your MIDI, May be MP3

Look here, maybe this can help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=32576&highlight=

I have the same problem with my JJ... Stop using midi tone ... Hope we will get a fix for this soon :x ...

i saved my self a trouble & changed any ring tone i like to windows default then over written it over the original ring tone but butting it in a cab file :lol:

i saved my self a trouble & changed any ring tone i like to windows default then over written it over the original ring tone but butting it in a cab file :lol:

Rabia said:
i saved my self a trouble & changed any ring tone i like to windows default then over written it over the original ring tone but butting it in a cab file :lol:
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I checked the above thread, and I did indeed have a different entry under the 'saved' registry entry. CHanged it and keen to see if this solved things.

OK, I have some progress on this.
When ur phone changes (ie goes wrong), go to phone/options and try playing any of the ringtones. Most fail with something like "file is possibly corrupt". Now, the ones that fail are WMA files, and the ones that work are WAV. That's why the phone is reverting; it's failing to play WMA's and is defaulting to a working ringtone (which is a good strategy - I guess...).
This aligns with other threads on mp3 ringtones; if you lose the WMPlayer assocition with mp3's, they then fail as ringtones. So, it seems that the Uni is losing it's WMA association - until u reboot. Now we know this it feels solvable:
- We need to know why WMA's are losing association
- Else we need to convert our ringtones to WAV's.

That's y for all other notifications also wav is the only option for us.

thanks for this theory... i still have this problem despite changing the registry...i will try having wav as ringtone.. thanks!

SMS Ringtone Possible to have As MP3

I've searched the forum and found the correct place to select my message alerts however is it possible to select my own mp3 as a sms ringtone. i tried it but with no luck :x
Thanks

Although I've only barely looked into this, I could not get MP3 files working as "notifications" only ringtones. I even tried doing the old WAV-RIFF header on an MP3 file to see whether that worked, nope. In fact, I've tried all sorts of different WAV formats and none of the compressed ones (IMA/MS ADPCM etc) work, only plain old PCW uncompressed WAVs. WMA etc etc I've also tried, no avail, only WAV and MID files will show on the list and only uncompressed WAVs will play.
However, you can use mono instead of stereo and also drop sample rate to 22khz without any major loss of quality (considering the playback device ).
Basically, MIDI and WAV files in the \Windows\ dir of your Wizard are where the files are picked from for the drop down in notifications. If you add a standard MID or WAV to yours they will show in the list next time you access it (no reset required, just close and re-open notifications).
Whether notifications only support MIDI + WAV I've no idea, ultimately I just convert whatever sounds I need to a mono, 22khz, 16bit, PCM WAV, these end up more than small enough to not cause any lag and work perfectly as long as the sampel you're working with isn't too long.
If you only have the MP3 files and have no clue about what I'm saying then you need to do some reading possibly and grab a tool to convert your MP3's back to WAV.
Something like "CDEx" which is free and can recompress your MP3's directly to WAVs (configurable) will do fine and I've tested it at PCM/Uncompressed/22khz and the output WAVs work fine.
GL.

nice one mate, will give it a go

thanks Vap, worked through what you said and now have got my desired sms ringtone. thanks once again

Anyone tried Ringo Mobile 1.26?
Not only can you have mp3 sms tones but you can store them on your sd card.
I haven't tried it because I don't know how well it will go along with Phone Profiles which I also use, but I'm tempted to try.
Check it out on Handango

Phone Alarm
Phone Alarm from pocketmax.net works really fine has other great features too.

Kull: Tried it out and PA also plays mp3:s for text messages. Phone Alarm was really in awesome program. It's got a few bugs but it seems to be updated quite often. Thanks for the tip!

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Phone Alarm from pocketmax.net works really fine has other great features too.
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I've tried to use PhoneAlarm, but when I've got it installed, it makes my Wi-Fi "unavailable"
Any ideas???
(Gigabyte g-Smart i128)

I don't have any issues with the wifi but I know there are some. This will be fixed by v 1.6 due any time now.

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kull said:
Phone Alarm from pocketmax.net works really fine has other great features too.
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I've tried to use PhoneAlarm, but when I've got it installed, it makes my Wi-Fi "unavailable"
Any ideas???
(Gigabyte g-Smart i128)
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Haven't tried WiFi yet... busy getting a fix on the tones... ver 1.55 (beta) works fine with WAV tones.

Convert mp3 into ringtones using CDEx
Vap said:
While using CDEx to convert mp3 files to ringtones it is really important to follow Vap's advice. One will fail if one uses the standard setting for MP3->WAV conversion available in the program.
Here is what worked for my Charmer.
With a CDEx version 1.51 : go to Options, Settings, choose "Encoder" tab, in "Encoder" field choose "Windows MP3 Codec", in "Codec bitrate selection" choose "24 kBit/s, 22 050 Hz, mono" and you should be fine
Thanks Vap
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Arrgh - Alarm Woes :(

Morning All,
I'm new to the forum (well posting) but have been reading the wealth of information on here for the past few weeks - this site is an awesome resource, I've learnt so much!
Anyway, I've had my Mini-S (wizard) a week now, and am mostly happy and impressed by it. I guess my main (few) annoyances are WM5 related, rather that with the device itself.
Anyway, I always use my phone as an alarm clock. I wanted to play an MP3 as the tone, so have converted one to wav, and saved in the windows directory.
I've set up my alarm schedule, for all weekdays at 6.30. Then click on the little bell icon and set the 'play sound' to my wav file, 'repeat sound' is unticked, 'flash light' is ticked, and vibrate is unticked.
But, for the past two mornings, all I get is the device sounding the standard notification alert tone, and popping up a message box for my alarm. Luckily my wife was awake this morning when it went off - as the tiny alert tone would never have woken me up.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong - I can't think what else I need to set for it to play that wav file????
Cheers all,
Paul

How is the wav file encoded? That may make a difference. Maybe you're using too high a bitrate. If you feel like buying a program, SPBTime is what I use, and it lets me specify MP3's as ringtones. Great prog. Only thing that'd make it better is if it supported WMA, but c'est la vie.

WAV file...
I assume that you can play the wav file thru media player on your device?
How big is the wav file?
Charlie Grillo

Hmm, I don't think the encoding or bitrate is a problem, as I can play the wav file fine, and when I select it in 'play sound' it plays just fine.
I also converted an mp3 clip to wav to use as an mms/sms message alert - and that works fine too.
My problem is not with assigning mp3's as ringtones, it's just with the blumin' alarm functionality in WM5. :evil:
Perhaps I should try a seperat alarm prog? Any suggestions....
It just bugs me that such a simple function should work without problems....

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cgrillo said:
I assume that you can play the wav file thru media player on your device?
How big is the wav file?
Charlie Grillo
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Hi Mate, yep - can play it fine.
It's <1MB I believe....

I've given up on Windows Mobile alarms about 2 years ago. I highly recommend this program which is ingeniously named Alarm Clock. And best of all, its freeware!

I also use my phone (Vario II / HTC Tytn) as my alarm clock but found that I couldn't get on very well with the standard WM5 alarms (I am very difficult to wake and need a heavy duty loud and constantly repeating alarm ... with snooze function ).
Instead of using WM5 alarms, I downloaded a freeware audio player named Mortplayer (Click here to go to Developers site) and it works brilliantly. It has lots of functions like increasing volume alarm, run playlist or particular file, snooze function at your own definable intervals etc.. really good little free program.

fone_fanatic said:
I've given up on Windows Mobile alarms about 2 years ago. I highly recommend this program which is ingeniously named Alarm Clock. And best of all, its freeware!
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Thanks - I'll give it a try

Installed and works a treat
Cheers all...

Magician lost ring tones .wav .mp3

Hello all
I seem to have lost the ability to use any kind of sound file (.wav .mp3) except .wma as ring tones or notifications on my Magiciam
They will however play in the media player
It’s as if I have lost the file extension association
Any ideas would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Towinguk…

towinguk said:
Hello all
I seem to have lost the ability to use any kind of sound file (.wav .mp3) except .wma as ring tones or notifications on my Magiciam
They will however play in the media player
It’s as if I have lost the file extension association
Any ideas would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Towinguk…
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hi did u remove any program lately? a media player sort maybe? coz' if u had n u did not de-associate the wav or mp3 file type that u have associated on the program that u removed this might cause your current situation or maybe its the other way round, u might have installed some media program n u have associated the wav of mp3 file type n requested it allow the player to be the default player for those file types

Hello
Thanks for your help
I have not removed any programs but did a hard reset about a month ago but did not run the extended rom ( just picked the cabs that I wanted ,smart dialer ect from the rom) I did it like this last time I hard reset and did have all sound files , so now I am thinking that perhaps there is a cab or rom file that will do the sound function ???
Thanks again
john

actually i myself did the same thing meaning picked smart dialer and some other cabs from the extended rom and not all of them and had no problem with the sound one time i just left it blank and used it that way for almost a week without installing any of the files from the extended rom without having any sound problems so i can be pretty sure it has nothing to do with that
just try doing a hard reset again and see if that works or maybe try installing a media player it might work

Found the answer looks like I had switched it off but not obvious
Its in start \settings\sounds&notification
enable sounds for needs a tick in programs

some issues

well i got this xda ii mini in german and replaced it by english rom, i think successfully but i still have some problems, for ex. i cannot add mp3 or anything else as my incoming call tone, just widnows default and ring, but i can add my mp3's as a message tone. then i would like to see battery life on first screen, i don't want to enter every time in settings. and i must add that in settings> system i DON?T have icon add sound

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well i got this xda ii mini in german and replaced it by english rom, i think successfully but i still have some problems, for ex. i cannot add mp3 or anything else as my incoming call tone, just widnows default and ring, but i can add my mp3's as a message tone. then i would like to see battery life on first screen, i don't want to enter every time in settings. and i must add that in settings> system i DON?T have icon add sound
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Hi toxic,
Official support was not built in the ROMs so you have to use an extended software to attain it. Try SetMp3AsRingtone. You can also manually copy your MP3 ringtones to Windows/Rings folder. Then you can select them from the Sounds & Notifications.
Try installing SPB PocketPlus. It comes with a whole range of functions and displays.
Cheers!!

nirmit said:
Hi toxic,
Official support was not built in the ROMs so you have to use an extended software to attain it. Try SetMp3AsRingtone. You can also manually copy your MP3 ringtones to Windows/Rings folder. Then you can select them from the Sounds & Notifications.
Try installing SPB PocketPlus. It comes with a whole range of functions and displays.
Cheers!!
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I agree with this, but there is one more way to set mp3 for ringtone. Probably you will install some programs for playing mp3 music (Pocket Music or some other), but the key is in setting which program will associate that *.mp3 extension, if u allow some program (different than Windows Media Player) to automatically play this files, it will make u trouble when set the mp3 for ringtone, it won't ring, not any sound at all! So be carefull when choose file types in any program for multimedia file types (*.avi, *.mpg, *.mp3, *.wma ...) the best is to not associate them at all with any other program except WMP. This will work 100%!
Cheers to all!!

Thanks iwans for the addition.

u can try phone alarm too for mp3