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Notification Sounds

I downloaded an app called RingsExtender which allows you to choose sounds other than the default sounds ("Look At Me", "Captain's Log", etc) for your notification sounds for GMail, SMS, Google Talk, etc. However, I was wondering, does anyone know a good website or anywhere where I can find notification sounds as .mp3s or .wavs?

apantek said:
I downloaded an app called RingsExtender which allows you to choose sounds other than the default sounds ("Look At Me", "Captain's Log", etc) for your notification sounds for GMail, SMS, Google Talk, etc. However, I was wondering, does anyone know a good website or anywhere where I can find notification sounds as .mp3s or .wavs?
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just look around. google wavs. i personally download mario sound effect. i really like the yoshi sound

I need an app like that but I can't fnd it. anybody got the apk?

I used that app before until I've realized (read somewhere on the forum) that all you need to do is put sound files into notifications or ringtones folder on your SD card and then they will appear in the list of sounds when you choose new sound for apps.
As for sounds just Google it -- there are plenty of sound resources on the web.

Ringdroid will allow you to cut a piece of an MP3 and save it as a notification or ring. Is that what you're looking for?

do they have to be in .ogg format to work? andexplorer won't let me copy/paste wavs or mp3 into the system folders.

I also have a question on this( sort of)
Where can I get the default ringtones? I think they got removed on cyanogens roms.. but I actually liked some of them. Help? Or pm me. Thanks!

Sorry double post

http://www.zedge.net/
Hands down the best ringtone site Ive come across.
Free , LOTS to choose from , and seems to have a userbase uploading some unique ones.

phatmanxxl said:
do they have to be in .ogg format to work? andexplorer won't let me copy/paste wavs or mp3 into the system folders.
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just make the following directory structure using your computer on the fat32 partition and put the mp3 files there...
/audio/ringtones
/audio/notifications
roadrunnerx7 said:
I also have a question on this( sort of)
Where can I get the default ringtones? I think they got removed on cyanogens roms.. but I actually liked some of them. Help? Or pm me. Thanks!
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There is a link to Audio Resources in the first post of the cyanogen stable rom thread. That contains everything removed plus more.

thanks for the help!

Fingerlickin said:
just make the following directory structure using your computer on the fat32 partition and put the mp3 files there...
/audio/ringtones
/audio/notifications
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I gave you the wrong info here it is actually..
media/audio/ringtones
media/audio/notifications

I keep my notification sounds on my ext3 partition, because the phone can still acess them when the fat32 partition is mounted in your computer.
All you have to do is push the media folder to /system/sd although I did make to make all the folders manually, only took a couple of minutes though, and the sounds show up on the phone just like they would on the fat32 partition.

No ringtones for incoming calls froyo 2.2

Cant seem to get a ringtone for incoming calls, thought I remembered seeing something about it but couldnt find it
Using the newest froyo 2.2 build on HD2
Any help would be lovely
Thanks

Alternative solution would be to select a music a (from Music folder) do a "long press". Then, this music could be selected as your "Ring tone".
Hope it helps.

when I do that I only get: Open, Open With, Send to, Cut, Copy, Shortcut, Delete, Rename and Properties..
oh and it did not work from the settings menu, only thing to choose there was quiet mode.

Zarmaka said:
Cant seem to get a ringtone for incoming calls, thought I remembered seeing something about it but couldnt find it
Using the newest froyo 2.2 build on HD2
Any help would be lovely
Thanks
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copy and paste this link into your internet browser http://gamesquare.co.uk/media.zip ,then unzip it, place the media folder under your root of sdcard (for example, sdcard/media)

Zedge
I use a program called Zedge from the marketplace. It allows you to search for ringtones and wallpapers. Once you download a ringtone, it will be selectable in the sound options.

zedge worked awesomely Thanks they even had the ringtone I wanted

waichai said:
copy and paste this link into your internet browser http://gamesquare.co.uk/media.zip ,then unzip it, place the media folder under your root of sdcard (for example, sdcard/media)
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NOTE:
reading is an art copy&paste of the URL is really neccessary, otherwise IT WILL NOT WORK.

Just wanted to say thankyou for adding another thread in the development section.

No ring tones
i have tried to download ringtones, and i get ,.
""error ringtone can not run unless you have an Sd card inserted....""
what am i doing or not doing that is causing this>
i loaded android , it runs fine, apps , etc, just wont ring for incoming calls.
i even can hear the sounds from apps.
Help?!

Where is the ringtone directory?

Where are the ringtones (stock) located at? There are a few in there that I have but my wife doesn't and she wants it. I have a custom rom but I imagine the directory location is the same.

System/media/audio/ringtones
Sent from my fully armed and operational frozen Epic using XDA App

as you might already know, you can also add a folder on your sdcard (same directory naming as above, but replace system with sdcard) and it'll register those as well-- easier to add and remove regardless of rom switching.

Is Google down?

Looks like it's back up now.

digging up an old thread since my question is related: When i go to choose a ringtone(say for instance in text messages) it brings up some ringtones that are no longer on my phone that i know of. they were installed from zedge which i dont use anymore. I dont see these particular files when browsing System/media/audio/ringtones nor are they on the sdcard. How can i clean this up?
Thanks.

nyr35blue said:
digging up an old thread since my question is related: When i go to choose a ringtone(say for instance in text messages) it brings up some ringtones that are no longer on my phone that i know of. they were installed from zedge which i dont use anymore. I dont see these particular files when browsing System/media/audio/ringtones nor are they on the sdcard. How can i clean this up?
Thanks.
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My guess is that Zedge saved it onto your SD card in a different folder.
My Source

RandomKing said:
My guess is that Zedge saved it onto your SD card in a different folder.
My Source
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yeah i checked all over that too, thanks.
edit: all of a sudden the fake files are no longer there. strange. lol. maybe something refreshed when it did a scan, who knows.

decalex said:
as you might already know, you can also add a folder on your sdcard (same directory naming as above, but replace system with sdcard) and it'll register those as well-- easier to add and remove regardless of rom switching.
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That would be awesome if I works
I always just added them to system/.../...
Ill test this eventually
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

Custom Watch Faces for Motoactv watch

To make a custom watch face you need to create your own images, an xml file to document the face layout, and a thumbnail image.
The main folder is in /system/clockfaces and stores your pngs and homeclock.xml file. You can either reuse pngs from other watch faces, edit existing ones, or create new ones from scratch.
The thumbnails are stored in /system/clockthumbnails/"color"thumbnails/"clockface_name".png. For instance /system/clockthumbnails/bluethumbnails/Disks.png
The homeclock.xml file has a predefined layout and all you need to do is fill it out. This is very much a trial and error process until you learn the x/y coordinate grid of the screen. I have attached a template xml file for you to use below. Remember to change the file format from txt to xml; I cant upload xml files. You can open the file in any text editor. The file has two main sections, a clock section and a live data section that displays your metrics. Leave settings blank if you do not want them enabled. I am still exploring all the possible settings so if you find any problems or discover any new commands please share.
When I get home I will zip up the watch faces I made and upload them. If you have any requests for custom faces just upload the pngs and I will make them for you.

This looks great so far I will keep checking back.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda app-developers app

camaro1173 said:
This looks great so far I will keep checking back.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda app-developers app
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Subscribed to thead, very excited to see what you've got cooking here

Any chance you can post what you have done so far? Even just one new face would be amazing. I REALLY want to see some custom faces on this thing.

I have not forgotten about this, just distracted trying to get search to work and if possible, although highly unlikely, port google offline voice search from JB. It would be nice if I could just speak and not have to worry about using a tiny keyboard.

Dumb question but I can't view that folder when I plug my Motoactv in. (PC) what am I doing wrong? I'll def create some cool watch faces and post them here once I get this going.

Ke1evraTi said:
I have not forgotten about this, just distracted trying to get search to work and if possible, although highly unlikely, port google offline voice search from JB. It would be nice if I could just speak and not have to worry about using a tiny keyboard.
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wow that would be unreal! hope you are able to port voice to text over from JB. Thanks so much for your hard work!

lordscipio said:
wow that would be unreal! hope you are able to port voice to text over from JB. Thanks so much for your hard work!
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Dont get your hopes up. People are having a hard enough time trying to port this to 4.0. Early feedback seems to suggest that it is really baked in to the core of the OS but we will see. If a working ICS port pops up I will give it a shot.

BlueArchAngel said:
Dumb question but I can't view that folder when I plug my Motoactv in. (PC) what am I doing wrong? I'll def create some cool watch faces and post them here once I get this going.
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The files are on the watch itself, not on the sd card. You can either use a root browser and copy the files from /system to the sd card, use adb to pull the files, or just download a zipped rom and extracting. If you go to the motoactv wiki page and download ClearD's rom you can just unzip files and grab the watch faces from /system.

I followed the XML and successfully changed the clock face, but the font style still cannot be changed. In the XML it states <font> is the tag to describe the font style but I believed it's not. Any idea? Any help would be appreciated . Thx!

NEED CUSTOM WATCH FACES.... NEED
lol sorry bro, so excited. I'll take anything you have.

chanwinghoi said:
I followed the XML and successfully changed the clock face, but the font style still cannot be changed. In the XML it states <font> is the tag to describe the font style but I believed it's not. Any idea? Any help would be appreciated . Thx!
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I need some more info. What are you trying to change (Hours, Minutes, Cal, Steps, etc)? What font are you using? Is it in your font library?

Is there anyway to take the files you are creating and put them on the "ClockFaces" folder that is on the same drive it saves the mp3s and everything?
My point is because I see there's this clockfaces folder and right now I don't want to root my watch. If it's possible to load from there, I'd ask you guys a template so I can make some more faces and distribute over here...
Thanks

xnes said:
Is there anyway to take the files you are creating and put them on the "ClockFaces" folder that is on the same drive it saves the mp3s and everything?
My point is because I see there's this clockfaces folder and right now I don't want to root my watch. If it's possible to load from there, I'd ask you guys a template so I can make some more faces and distribute over here...
Thanks
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I saw the folder too but never tried anything. I actually got rid of my macbook pro two weeks ago and my samsung series 9 does not arrive until tomorrow so its been hard for me to get anything done. Hopefully I will try to get something up tomorrow but no promises.

I'm messing with the clockfaces folder now and trying to put my own and add extra folders and I'm not getting anywhere
I'll mess with it a little more later today. But seems like they don't want to show up unfortunately :/
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

WinDroidGuy said:
I'm messing with the clockfaces folder now and trying to put my own and add extra folders and I'm not getting anywhere
I'll mess with it a little more later today. But seems like they don't want to show up unfortunately :/
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
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You need to have a clock face and a thumbnail for anything to show up.

Ke1evraTi said:
You need to have a clock face and a thumbnail for anything to show up.
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I'm not rooted yet, so I was just trying to mess with it without root.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

WinDroidGuy said:
I'm not rooted yet, so I was just trying to mess with it without root.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
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I understand. I'm at work so I cant pull up the contents of the sd card. Those the clockfaces folder on the sd card have a subfolder for thumbnails?

Ke1evraTi said:
I understand. I'm at work so I cant pull up the contents of the sd card. Those the clockfaces folder on the sd card have a subfolder for thumbnails?
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The clockfaces folder on the sdcard is just that, a folder and nothing is inside it

I just quickly made this so dont expect it to be pretty. Unzip CMClock and put it in the clockfaces folder. The CMClock.png goes in /clockthumbnails/bluethumbnails. Try creating these subfolders on the sd card and let me know if it works.
You should set your watch to use the blue/ice theme. You may also have to enable 24hr time; I have not tested it with 12hr time.

Ringtone and notification change in S4

Hello
I want to add custom notification sound for my S4, I have them in mp3 format
I put these files in media\audio\notifications and it didn't show in the list
I tried also in \Notifications and they didn't also!!
each time i try a reboot to make it rescan for the new media but still no luck!
is there is a working way for this to add my tones? I tried zedge and it works but I can't add my tones to it..
I think about convert the files to .ogg and put them in system/media but this will only work for rooted phones and I guess there is another solution for that much easier!
thanks

romeo26222 said:
Hello
I want to add custom notification sound for my S4, I have them in mp3 format
I put these files in media\audio\notifications and it didn't show in the list
I tried also in \Notifications and they didn't also!!
each time i try a reboot to make it rescan for the new media but still no luck!
is there is a working way for this to add my tones? I tried zedge and it works but I can't add my tones to it..
I think about convert the files to .ogg and put them in system/media but this will only work for rooted phones and I guess there is another solution for that much easier!
thanks
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Hi,
Try putting a folder on the root of your sd card, and call it "Notifications".
Put your mp3's in there and try again.

thanks for reply
I already tried that and wrote this on the OP,and it doesn't work too!!
and for ringtones I add them to ringtones folder and the tones never show up until I reboot the phone!
Using zedge and Ringtone maker adds the notifications and I found them instantly
maybe there is something in these apps makes the phone rescan media or what, the thing is I have a nexus 7 and once I add mp3 file to notification folder I find it in the list instantly!!
thanks

romeo26222 said:
thanks for reply
I already tried that and wrote this on the OP,and it doesn't work too!!
and for ringtones I add them to ringtones folder and the tones never show up until I reboot the phone!
Using zedge and Ringtone maker adds the notifications and I found them instantly
maybe there is something in these apps makes the phone rescan media or what, the thing is I have a nexus 7 and once I add mp3 file to notification folder I find it in the list instantly!!
thanks
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If you push the mp3 notifs to the Notification folder, you would definitely have to reboot for it to take effect
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Ok, then its normal to reboot to see the tone, I was thinking there is something wrong with me as this is not the case on my nexus 7 tablet.
thanks

I have the solution!!
I had the exactly the same problem with my S4(i9500). I've searched across the web to get a solution but in the end I've found it on my own.
> Install ES file explore
> clear defaults for Media Storage(default android sound picker). ( you may not need to do this)
> go to sound settings then notifications (or message settings then select ringtone whatever u want to change)
> you should see a dialog like complete action using : ES file explorer, Media storage, zedge (if u have it)
> choose ES and hit Just once(so you won't have to clear defaults every time)
> navigate to sound file u want and hit it.
I hope this helps.

LoL, I have the solution.
Now let's get back to reality, how to get media store to list all the sounds i downloaded from the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895636
Anyone with at least the smallest noodle knows to chose es file explorer to be able to chose one sound at a time to Add. So how to get all the sounds to list from media storage :angel:
No one knows

romeo26222 said:
Hello
I want to add custom notification sound for my S4, I have them in mp3 format
I put these files in media\audio\notifications and it didn't show in the list
I tried also in \Notifications and they didn't also!!
each time i try a reboot to make it rescan for the new media but still no luck!
is there is a working way for this to add my tones? I tried zedge and it works but I can't add my tones to it..
I think about convert the files to .ogg and put them in system/media but this will only work for rooted phones and I guess there is another solution for that much easier!
thanks
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Yeah it has one way. U can put the mp3 files in the folder u want, this isnt important. Follow this steps:
1. Go to Apps, Settings, My device, Sound, Ringtones
2. Look for button "Add"
3. Add the sounds u want one by one
4. When u have them in that list, click OK
5. Now u can go Default notification sound
6. Select the one u need added manually b4
7. Enjoy ur new notification sound! I hope it helped ya :highfive:

LoL., even the basic of n00bs knows to use es file explorer to add one sound at a time, although what about when you have 1500 of them from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895636
No one knows how to have these new sounds automatically show up, settings , sounds , media storage. Well maybe someone knows how and just never said a word because it's confidential and they Could possible be reprimanded big time, lol