Weird one which has only come on in the last few days and I haven't installed anything that might have affected things.
Phone is set to "Ring" with a built-in ring tone (Old-Phone2) but when it doesn't ring when a call comes in. It wakes up, S2U2 shows the CallerID but it doesn't ring.
I have gone through sounds and notifications and it is set to "Phone, Incoming Call", "Ring", "Ring-OldPhone2", the speaker is on as I can hear other events. So, I set "Phone, Incoming Call", "Ring and Vibrate" and "OldPhone2" and it vibrates but no ringing.
Text messages and new email messages work but the ringing doesn't.
Is there anything else or anywhere else I should be looking to find out what might have caused this.
Stuff I have installed:
TomTom
SBSH Touch Calendar
PocketPlayer 4.0
HD Tweak
Diamond TF3D config
IContact
TCPMP
WAD2
Mobile TFL
psShutXP
SIP Change
SPB Weather
Plus some other stuff.
Thanks in advance
Anyone?
Please. I don't want to do a hard-reset and reinstall of everything
Thanks
this happens to when my hd fell from 3 feet to the concrete ground and the only way to get sound back was when i hard reset it.
Okay, this I think is because something has changed the association for .wma or .mp3 from Windows Media. This happens to a lot of us and I've never found a good solution. There are a couple of workarounds though.
First, set your default ringtone to a .wav file. That'll work, though if you reset you may need to re-associate that file to the default ringtone. Second, spring for something like Ringo which lets you assign ringtones to specific contacts. This will have a default setting which can in fact be assigned to a .wma or .mp3 file. It'll cost money though, unless there's a free one that I don't know about.
It's a really unbelievably annoying and stupid flaw in the design of the system. One learns to live with them.
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this happens to when my hd fell from 3 feet to the concrete ground and the only way to get sound back was when i hard reset it.
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This may have been the problem as I dropped it last week.
bugs88 said:
Okay, this I think is because something has changed the association for .wma or .mp3 from Windows Media. This happens to a lot of us and I've never found a good solution. There are a couple of workarounds though.
First, set your default ringtone to a .wav file. That'll work, though if you reset you may need to re-associate that file to the default ringtone. Second, spring for something like Ringo which lets you assign ringtones to specific contacts. This will have a default setting which can in fact be assigned to a .wma or .mp3 file. It'll cost money though, unless there's a free one that I don't know about.
It's a really unbelievably annoying and stupid flaw in the design of the system. One learns to live with them.
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The phone is set to a default .wav file and it still doesn't work.
Bummer, looks like a hard-reset.
Thanks
I have the same issue here. Just fall down from the car holder to center stack. Now even wav file for ringtone and alarm is not working.
Can the software or setting issue relate to the fall? Or this is the hardware problem??
If we do the SPB restore the setting or hard reset, can it be solved?
If you are using MSVC disable notification for incoming call. It causes the behaviour you described - all sounds work except incoming ringtone.
I had to hard-reset and then I re-installed one of Dutty's ROMs and it works a treat now. Can't work out why a drop should produce a software issue.
Regards
For Touch HD, try this! It solves at least for me now .
If you have HD tweak try to set the 'Ringtone' function in 'Call' to
'Vibrate and Ring', that's it. I never change this before but it switch to 'Vibrate only' for some reason.
Dunno after changing of the ringtone song in Windows mobile menu 'setting' to another, then it turn-off the sound even you select the 'Vibrate and Ring'
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Rom version 1.2 Rocks, but I cant set ringtones using PhonExt via either contact or category settings......I've made sure the country code is correct and tried numbers with UK country code and without..... Can anyone help
Make sure your PhoneExt is running and you haven't accidentally closed it. You will see a little mobile phone on the extreme right of the Today screen Taskbar. You can click this icon and add Category (Group) Ring tones, or you can go directly to your Contacts, select a contact by holding down the stylus on the name and choose 'Set Ring Tone' in the menu that pops up.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, just check and its definatley running, any more ideas ?
Thanks again
No further ideas, I'm afraid. When all else fails, RTFM! :wink:
http://phonext.oabsoftware.nl/body-manual.htm
It seems you have to put the wav file inside the \windows\ringtone folder to get it works.
thanks everyone still no joy and even read the manual ! any more ideas !
Hope this story helps. I have ROM 1.1 and couldn't get PhonExt to ring the way I wanted. I discovered tonight that the .wav files should be <100k otherwise it doesn't ring. Perhaps bigger files take too long to load???
......just discovered that this is not true....it still doesn't work. If the files are too big though, the ring is not previewed when assigned to a category or contact.
PhoneExt
I am having the same problem with the ringtones as they don't want to work for the people calling. Guess I'm gonna end up switching to different program for rings until it's figured out what's causing it not to work. I haven't tried the less than 100k thing but will today.
Hi all, does anyone know if it is possible to assign a different ringtone for different groups, like "VIP" or "family" is this possible, or is there a third party application that can do this?
Photo contact pro
http://www.pocketx.net/products/photocontactspro_ppc/
i was about to ask a similar question, however mine is that I would like to assign a different tone for some peoples SMS messages. I havent tried it yet but i dont think photo contact pro will do this ?? anyone know of another prog
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i was about to ask a similar question, however mine is that I would like to assign a different tone for some peoples SMS messages. I havent tried it yet but i dont think photo contact pro will do this ?? anyone know of another prog
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Thats a feature I am also looking for - but no luck so far. All the different programs that I found can do is:
1. Change ringtone per person/group
2. Full Screen Picture ID of caller
But none allows me to change the SMS tone per person/group. I am going to write to the authors of PhotoContacts PRO if they will add this feature to their program.
i just had a google and it appears 'Ringo mobile' may do it. I'm going to try it now and i'll report back.
http://www.electricpocket.com/products/ringo-mobile.html
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i just had a google and it appears 'Ringo mobile' may do it. I'm going to try it now and i'll report back.
http://www.electricpocket.com/products/ringo-mobile.html
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Cool! This sounds promising - let us know what you found out.
Couldn't wait - I gave it a try myself 8) So far it seems to work pretty well. At least I could test the ringtone part - all my friends are still sleeping so it'll be a while for my SMS Test :wink:
Nice thing is that I switched off the ringtone manager in Photocontacts PRO and Ringo takes that part now and Photocontacts shows the caller full screen picture. But I guess I will be getting rid of Photocontacts once Ringo performs solid and without problems, the tone is more important than a picture to me - or I need a lightweight fullscreen picture id program...
i gave it a shot too, i havent had a sms off anyone yet either but seemed to be able to set the tones per contact ok. My only worry is intergrating it with phonealarm, as that app takes over the tones too. I've set the default sms tone to 'system' in pA, hopefully that will let ringo take over.
So far I am really amazed by this Ringo Mobile. It works ( for ringtones ) like a charm. Hopefully my friends will be up soon so I can test out the SMS Part of it.
Now I really want to get rid of PhotoContacts PRO, since its such a memory monster - do you know of any other fullscreen picture ID caller software? AFAIR there is a freeware but I am not sure of its name
i just got my friend to text me and it works perfectly
Good news!
I got some mini-bad news though - there is a bug in Ringo - when a person calls you are not able to use the volume slider to turn of the ringtone. This bug is already reported in the yahoo group of ringo.
So hopefully this will be fixed soon since I don't want to hit the IGNORE button ( since the person calling then knows I ignored them ).
The official statement regarding this problem:
This is a side effect of Ringo Mobile volume being the system volume
not the ringer volume (although we respect the ringer volume at the
point of the notification). However we do intend to add this ringer
mute facility in a future release.
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Just found out about another Ringtone/SMS Tone Tool - its really tiny and FREEWARE!
MortRING
http://www.sto-helit.de/modules/wmpdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=8&lid=66
Haven't tried it yet - but it does sound like it does the same thing as Ringo - but for free.
MortRing works great on my SPV M3000 Wish that I could hide the icon on the traybar though :roll:
I also hope that there will be support for sounds on SD-Card instead of on the device. That way I will be able to attach a SMS/ring tone to every contact and not just a few 8)
DREAMBOXER said:
Just found out about another Ringtone/SMS Tone Tool - its really tiny and FREEWARE!
MortRING
http://www.sto-helit.de/modules/wmpdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=8&lid=66
Haven't tried it yet - but it does sound like it does the same thing as Ringo - but for free.
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Unfortunately, MortRING has issues with WM 5.0. On most WM 5.0 devices (including my US T-Mobile MDA), it does not recognize the caller ID and reports all calls as "unknown caller". I spent about 3 weeks researching this, and Ringo is the best that I have found (best = works great, and not overly expensive).
agree with the previous post...when i upgraded my xda2 to wm2005 it had some issues with mortring (i used the .97 version). sometimes the caller id would malfunction...at times the phone would ring but there was no sound...doing a soft reset would solve the problem but eventually the bugs would come back.
now i'm using a mio a701 and still mortring has some issues....
Hi Forum,
I tried finding some report of a similar situation in here, but I couldn't find anything. So, here it comes:
Some days ago, my TyTN started by itself to use an ugly sound as its ringtone, one really annoying and not even the Windows Default, although that's exactly what it says in the ringtone selection field.
I constantly change it to one of my likeing ('OldPhone', to be precise), it theoretically keeps it even after soft-resets, but every time a call comes in I hear, again, the same ugly sound and then the ringtone has reverted to 'Windows Default' -although it doesn't sound like that, more like a metal-scraping noise
Perhaps related, but I wouldn't really know, may be the previous installation of Phone Profiles v. 1.2.1, an excellent freeware little utility. But I uninstalled it, in case it was the one causing the problem, and the situation remains the same.
I suppose I could 'fix' it with a hard-reset, but I'd prefer not having to go through this and I am starting to get really annoyed -especially when the phone rings!
Any ideas/suggestions? Even better, any solutions?
Thanking all in advance,
-Sotiris.
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I constantly change it to one of my likeing ('OldPhone', to be precise), it theoretically keeps it even after soft-resets, but every time a call comes in I hear, again, the same ugly sound and then the ringtone has reverted to 'Windows Default' -although it doesn't sound like that, more like a metal-scraping noise
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did you change music file associations recently to some 3rd party application? this bug is unresolved ever since WM5 AKU1 (i've had that with Wizard as well) - i.e. when you change *.mp3 file association to GSPlayer instead of default WMP, and then set mp3 file as ringtone, 'Windows Default' will always ring when incoming call comes. my solution was to convert ringtones into .wma file type, which is still associated with WMP and works as ringtone as well...
Thanks for your reply eva_d,
Well, I certainly did, but don't know if it's related, since 'OldPhone' is a WMA file. But, then again, maybe the .wma associations have changed as well?
BTW, while going through the registry settings in hope of finding something relevant, I did find that what I was hearing wasn't 'metal scraping', but just the 'doring.wav' in very high volume
Changed the setting in 'HKLM\Software\HTC\Phone\AlertingTone' to my preffered 'OldPhone.wma', rebooted, to no luck though...
And this ugly 'doring.wav' is still heard like metal scraping when loud. Of course, I could always rename my preffered tone to 'doring.wav', but this is almost as ugly a solution as the metal scraping
-s.
I have some mp3 files in my storage card.
I am aware of software line mRing , Ringo etc. but is it possible to use mp3 files as ringtone from Storage card WITHOUT using 3rd party software ?
Any registry settings to change the ringtone folder from main memory to storage card ?
also, whether or not the above is possible, what is the best mp3 ringtone solution WITH software ?
thanks...
Well I just realized something. But is this normal ?
If I put the mp3 files in the root directory or in a 1st level directory, I can see them in Ringo sotware and but I can't see them in default contact ringtone selection.
If I put them in a 2nd level directory I can't see them from Ringo and default ringtone selection screen.
If I put the files in root directory I can see them both in Ringo and default ringtone selection screen.
is this normal ?
If you search the forum, you'd find that you've found the answer to your question. Now if you need an explanation of the solution rather than the solution itself, please contact Microsoft.
hi,
so you mean it's normal behaviour ?
I don't need an explanation of the solution.
what I want is to be sure that I'm not doing something incorrect or I don't miss something.
btw, I had searched the forum before opening this thread. There are so many threads about mp3 ringtones.
mrmrmrmr said:
hi,
so you mean it's normal behaviour ?
I don't need an explanation of the solution.
what I want is to be sure that I'm not doing something incorrect or I don't miss something.
btw, I had searched the forum before opening this thread. There are so many threads about mp3 ringtones.
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Yes, and I'd be cautious anyway. Having ring tones especially anything not in a vanilla wmv or similar format can slow up time it takes for your phone to start ringing. In addition storing the file on storage card makes this delay even worse and finally can cause phone to crash on incoming call. Not saying this will happen to you but if it does you'll know why. Once you have it set up test out delay until first ring and response time from off/sleep.
Mike
well, I decided to use "mring" as ringtone manager on my Hermes.
I would just pay for this great application but I found a problem with Hermes.
If I use mring , I can't connect to my GPRS connection after disconnecting.
To re-connect to GPRS I need to reboot the Hermes.
This means I just have "one" time connection to GPRS (for each reboot of the device)
If I uninstall mring, this problem disappears and I can connect to GPRS each time I try.
So ,I think there is a conflict with mring and GPRS connections.
Can anyone confirm this ? Does this work for anyone ?
What else can I use as an alternative to "mring" ?
hey guys, I am really desperatly looking for ringtone managing software.
please advise...
You can also put them in "\storage card\My Documents\" and they'll show up in the default ringtone manager but as mikechannon said, it takes a while for the ringtones to load. Like it'll say incoming call, then ring 2 seconds or so later.
What i do is i put all my ringtones in "\Storage Card\My Documents\My Music\Ringtones\" and then just copy the one i want as a ringtone to "\Windows\Rings\" and when i want to change it, i'll remove the one i have there and replace it with another one i want.
well, that's a nice idea but mring was also adding features as "ringtone to contact/category/know caller/unknown caller" , "sms to contact/category/know caller/unknown caller"
it also has "vip" settings for contacts marked as vip and it has profile support like (discreet/loud/normal...)
I am also looking for such features which the OS itself does not include.
so I am still looking for alternatives to mring.
any idea ?
Hello!
I'm using a Treo PRO by Palm and run into a small problem...
maybe some can help...
I cannont activate my own mp3 ringtone...I tried in two ways:
1. went to my storage card and with a long tap on the short menu I've choosen 'set as ringtone'..doesn't work
2. trough the 'sounds¬ification' menu, 'notifications' choosen an 'event' known caller and set my ringtone..but it doesn't work..
The phone doesn't make a sound for incoming call, tryed it from fixed and mobile network, no message of incoming call, I only see a little ear phone near the signal icone...and after that I get a message 'cprog.exe' ??
any idea what that may be?
thank you for your help..
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Hello!
I'm using a Treo PRO by Palm and run into a small problem...
maybe some can help...
I cannont activate my own mp3 ringtone...I tried in two ways:
1. went to my storage card and with a long tap on the short menu I've choosen 'set as ringtone'..doesn't work
2. trough the 'sounds¬ification' menu, 'notifications' choosen an 'event' known caller and set my ringtone..but it doesn't work..
The phone doesn't make a sound for incoming call, tryed it from fixed and mobile network, no message of incoming call, I only see a little ear phone near the signal icone...and after that I get a message 'cprog.exe' ??
any idea what that may be?
..
thank you for your help..
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Where is your file located? If it is not in the My Ringtones folder you will need to place it there and then select it...
It wont read it off of the storage card for some odd reason
Hy...
I've copied the file in My Ringtones, and when I check in Sounds&Notifications-Manage it's there..so it's in phone memory...I still get the same error...
That should have done the trick. It could be something odd happening with that particular song.
I would try a bunch of different ones to eliminate that possibility. All you have to do is have the song in the "My Ringtones" folder and select it in sounds and it should work.
MP3s as ringtones work on my Treo Pro...
Are you using a long MP3....in other words over 30 seconds in length? I have cut my MP3s to 30 seconds.
By the way, Microsoft provides 79 free ringtones (some are short for SMS, etc. alerts). (Microsoft and free are rarely used in the same sentence.) Cut and paste and go to:
http://www.treoprotricks.com/post/2...r-your-Windows-Mobile-PDA-and-Smartphone.aspx
And there is indeed a completely free MP3 ringtone download site:
http://www.zedge.net/
Listen to the download before you actually download. (My name there is MaxLaw843 if you like the blues or Scottish music....search for me.)
Hy guys,
GOT IT!..
I cut the mp3 song to exactly 18 seconds...I also have another three songs in that 'My Ringtones' folder, and the same problem occurs..but, I tested it againd and found out that three of my melodies work and two don't..
three that work are complete songs..and two that don't are cut..but they work when played in wmplayer in the phone ??
any idea maybe??
tnx for your time
three melodies that work are at 128kbps and two that don't are at 198kpbs...
how can i change kbps?