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Default Ringtone Doesn't Stay Set After Reboot

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.

Registry edits get reverted after reset

Does anybody know why this happens:
Whenever I change registry (for example HKCU\Control Panel\SIP\..), after reboot it gets reverted to original value.
I used Total Commnader. Roms I tried: 2.17 (qtek) and 2.24 (cingular).
Help appreciated.
Thanks.

after changing your registry, be sure to save the changes by a soft reset. To do this, do NOT poke the reset hole with your stylus, but rather shut the device down with the on/off button. Hold it for 5 secs untill the warning pops up. By resetting this way, your device uses the 5 secs untill the screen pops-up to write the registry to the ROM. If you soft reset immediately with your stylus after chaning the registry, the device has not enough time to write the changes to the ROM. Therefore, after a quick soft reset with your stylus changes might not be saved and the registry remains unchanged.

Problems with Registry settings
I also have problems with Registry settings. For instance some values seems to change back after a turn off/on (power button). Does anyone have a good doc/link that explains which Registry settings that actually can be changed by CAB-files and stay changed ?
Just to mention - on an SP5 (sorry for this in Wizard/K-JAM) I had a CAB-file that changed the Contacts soft-button into starting a 3rd party application. This only changed when an incomming call/phone application was started..a little confused about that

My ringtones are seriously messed up (Possibly a registry problem)

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.

Stop lefthanders turning off the phone ringer

I am left handed and I keep accidentaly turning of the telephone's ringer volume control, and thus missing incoming calls. As I earn my living by answering my telephone I needed to find a simple way to stop this happening.
Here is how:
load a registry editor like PHM Registry Editor from: http://www.phm.lu/Products/Smartphone/RegEdit/
Then go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\VolumeOverlay
Click on "DefaultPage" and change the value from 1 to 0 (zero)
click on OK and close the registry editor and do a soft reset.
Now if you press on the volume control by accident or on purpose the System Volume appears first, so the worst thing you can do by accident is turn off the system sounds. The phone sound is now the second option and is more difficult to turn off accidentaly.
Hope that helps someone.
Sam

Thanks.
As lefthanded user it overcomed me often.
Works fine,
Hans

Annoying sound when dialing ... (HD2)

Hello,
I have this weird problem on my phone... every time when I dial a number I get a sound from my device (HD2) ... it only stops when it`s put in Silent or Vibrate Profile.
The tone is not when I press the keys for dialing the number, it comes when after I have dialed the number with the keypad, I press the Talk Button.
The key tones are put to OFF mode, but that doesn`t help ...
Any suggestions ?

Yeah i have the same trouble, i dont like the dial tones, there ws an answer here on the forum somewhere, but it did not work for me, anybody have a clue?

Found the solution to my problem ....
Use a program like Total Commander to access the phone registry and go to :
[\Windows\HTCTone] . Then delete the .wav file witch is in that folder.
Hope that fix your problem, it did fix mine !

And how can you set the key tone to off?

Start
- Settings
-- Menu (at bottom right)
--- All Settings
---- Personal
----- Phone
------ Keypad, select Off
Press tick on top right.

Pefect thanks, why dont they just put all the sound options in one menu damnit, what a bizzare OS