I'm one of those people who had an MP3 association problem with ringtones after I installed a 3rd party MP3 player. I took the proper steps to correct the file associations and got the device working with the proper ringtones. My contacts who have personalized ringtones all work and work after the device reboots; however, my phone's deafult ringtone won't stay after reboot. I have it set to OldPhone; however, after a restart the device always put it back to Windows Default ring. Any ideas what's causing this?
If you are used to do registry tweaks change it here HKCU\control panel\soundcategories\ring\defaultsound
put the name of your preferred default sound there
Or take a look in HKCU\control panel\sounds\ringtone0\sound
when you change the phones ringtone in settings\phone the change should appear here.
Bump.
Even after a hard reset this problem is happening again. I've even tried changing the settings directly with a Reg editor but they don't stick. Any help/solution? I hate the default t-mobile jingle.
makisupa said:
Bump.
Even after a hard reset this problem is happening again. I've even tried changing the settings directly with a Reg editor but they don't stick. Any help/solution? I hate the default t-mobile jingle.
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Should have been fixed after a hard reset - you must somehow have a corrupted rom - take it back to t-mobile or flash with original (keeps warranty) or new rom.
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I have a problem with my Qtek S200... after a soft reset, it seems to forget that a specific ringtone was set... if I go to phone options, I see my ringtone... but if click OK, it changes to Windows Default... I have to change it back to the correct ringtone...
After a soft reset, if I do not go in phone options to set my ringtone, my phone will not ring (no sound) if it's power save mode...
what can be the problem?!?
I have the 2.3.1 lzsw rom...
I Have A Tmobile Wing, I Have Already Changed The Splash Screen But I Know It Has To Be A Way To Change The Startup Sound Just Like I Changed The Splash Screen. What File Format Does It Have To Be In And What Do I Call It? Also If There A Size Limit On The Sound Byte?
anybody??
look for a sound called startup or some thing like this in \windows folder..or u can use Audio Boot ( a s/w)
Change Start-up Sound
First you have to have a Registry program like Resco.
Find or create a .wav file and copy it into your windows directory with whatever name you want, just remember exactly what you called it.
Open your Registry program and got to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
HTC
Startup Animation
The bottom two should be Volumn and WAVfile
If there is already something there just change the string to your file name. If nothing there you will have to add as follows.
Choose WAVfile Name = Wavfile and string = \Windows\yourfilenamehere.wav
Choose Volumen Dword data =4555 and Base= dec
Click Done and Exit Perform soft reset and watch and listen. I'm no Pro, but that should be correct. Let me know.
Edit- I double checked the setup in my device TILT and this is what I had.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\StartupAnimation]
"Volumn"=dword:000003E8
"WAVFile"="\Windows\YourFileNameHere.wav"
"Enabled"=dword:00000001
"GIFFile"="\Windows\animated.gif"
"Priority"=dword:000000C8
worked great, thanks. also i say the tmobile startup wall paper, i can change that the same exact way i changed my splash screen and just edit the registry value correct?
T-Mobile Start screen
If you are refering to the very first Boot screen then NO. You have to flash that with RUU like you do a ROM. The animated.gif file and the
welcomehead.96.png are easily done. You just have to name them as above and use Resco File Explorer to drop into Windows directory and overwrite the original file. If you want to keep the old file and not overwrite just rename it by adding a "2" after the file name that way you know which one is which. That way you can just rename it again to the original if you want to put it back. Glad to actually help someone, Kevin
Been experimenting a bit with this as well...
Works all fine but I just don't understand the "Volumn" registry value. On my Hermes, it was set to 9 by default, giving a pretty loud startup sound. On my Kaiser I set it to 4555 now before I could even hear it, and still it's pretty silent. Both are running WM 6.1.
Any logic behind this? (except maybe that a Kaiser isn't a Hermes )
You can use Schap's adv config, didn't work for me on my Touch, maybe it will work for you. But, I manually changed the sound. It's either startup.wav or silent.wav.
Works half now
Some sounds are played okay, but I tried the Diamond startup sound and that one just makes a strange noise instead of the real sound... Works fine when playing it in Media Player
I'll just keep messing with it some more
I was setting things in the registry yesterday (On my Cingular-branded 8125, aka the Wizard/HTC P4300), and my BT stopped working. And it wouldn't connect via IR, USB, or anything else, either. So I cleared the storage and installed everything back, and put everything back where it was. Then, I app unlocked it and changed five other registry keys (To make it keep CABs after installing, remove the SMS sent notification, change my ringtone directory from \windows\ to \Windows\Rings\ [which worked before], to change my camera sound to \windows\Canon EF Shutter Sound.wav, and to reassign the Contacts softkey to PocketCM). Now, it shows two copies of all of the default ringtones in Start > Settings > Sounds & Alerts and Start > Settings > Phone. Also, when I go to File Explorer and go to \Windows\Rings\ to set an .mp3 file as my ringtone, it says that it was copied to \Windows\Rings\ and set as my ringtone. But when my phone actually rings, it plays the wrong file. So what registry keys or files do I need to move/copy/edit/delete/create to fix this? The police siren it set itself to is starting to get annoying...
*Pasted from this thread over at Brighthand.
ok, this may be a dumb question, but did you go in under settings, and set it to the ringtone that you want?
Yup. I set it in Sounds & Alerts and under Phone in the Start > Settings menu. Then I also tried setting HKCU>ControlPanel>Sounds>RingTone0>SavedSound to "\Windows\Rings\[name of my ringtone, ends in .mp3]" Without the quotes and a real file in place of the statement enclosed in brackets. I also set the same value to "">Sound. And it still plays a random ringtone from \Windows\. If I use File Explorer to set my ringtone from \Windows\Rings\, it sets the same value for the same file, but for some strange reason it plays an entirely different .mp3 (also in \Windows\Rings\) when it actually rings. So what the crap is up with my ringtones?!? It's weird.
It's fixed! I had to delete HKCU>Control Panel>Sounds>Sound, restart, delete every ringtone that appeared in Start > Settings > Phone, change the ringtone directory in the registry, then restart. Now it shows all of the sound files in the root of my card. I'll have to remember this for the next time my ringtones mess up.
registry problem
Here I have a good recommend for you: Tuneup360 and Norton system work, but the latter one is a little bit difficult. For the beginners, Tuneup360 is a good choice.
Hi,
Managed to set MP3 as ringtones using two different methods:
1. Via music player, long press and then 'Set As'
2. Using applications, called shartones and another one called ringtone.
Immediately after I create/save the ringtone I can see it is the list and I can choose it.
I used shartones application, edited an MP3 20 sec, saved as ringtone.
The ringtone was added to the list OK, the file WAS created in \sdcard\media\audio\ringtones\ and the file is still there after the restart, but doesn't appear in the ringtones list anymore...
When i add or move files into this directory it is useless and I can't see them on the list.
As if when I add a ringtone it is added to the database but entries are deleted when the phone starts up again...
After I turn off the phone and on again, all the ringtones are gone and none is in the list, the ringtone which is set is a default one from the original ringtones.
Does anyone have any clue for me where to look for a solution or find what goes wrong?
Thanks,
Ofer
I've set custom ringtones, notifications and alarms via settings and at least twice the SGS has lost or scrambled them (I'm not sure if it's related to me playing around with alternate launchers).
Anyway, I remember the exact same thing happening on my Nexus One and Eclair, so I think this is a basic Eclair bug rather than SGS specific.
I'm not sure how to replicate the issue, but it definitely can happen.
Hi,
did uninstall the launcherPro and restarted, I just go through same scenario again and again after each restart...
The files are piled in the ringtones directory but none appears in the ringtones list after restart.
Is there an editor that I can change file attribute, E.g. 'ringtone=Y'? (assuming there is such attribute to be set for a file?! )
Then maybe it will be picked properly to the list.
Guys any idea?
Help please.
Ofer
I just signed up with Verizon and got the sgs5 running 4.4.4 kitkat. I change the default ringtone in settings>sounds or in the phone app in settings>call>...and it keeps it for 3-8 hours then changes it to a song that is on my sd card. Has anyone heard of this before? I have been working with Samsung to no avail. I suppose I could take the sd card out and see what happens. I did install a new sms messaging app...Textra. I guess I could uninstall and see if that changes things but wondered if that wasn't the reason. Thanks
Yes, I had it happen at times before.
I'm stock and use handcent sms and a few other apps that give you the choice of having that app have unique ringtones, while everything else uses what's in the system settings sounds.
I tried copying ringtones to the internal, but still persisted. For me there was a simple fix (I wanted the mp3 ringtones I had made myself ) to use my custom ringtones from the sound settings menu.
First, I setup my custom ringtones in the system sound menu settings.
Second, from the app (in my case one was handcent) I choose the option in there to select ringtones and I chose the system picker as the default "picker" instead of the app as default app. Then - when choosing which sound to play - rather than "default", I choose the same costum ringtone I setup previously in the system menus.
I noticed that initially if I had picked only "default" and had thay specific app as the default app to do the task, my ringtones would often reset to the true system default.
Anyhow, hope that makes sense. It works for me & I'm no longer scratching my head as to why in the heck my ringtones/notification sound reset all the time - they're fine now and remain how I selected them to work.
Sent from my primary sender for sending.