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Help Needed: Ringtones and IE Favorites

Can the Universal Play mp3 or wma files as ringtones thru the standard contacts application? I see where to assign ringtone but my wma tones are not shown. I placed them in a folder in the mydocuments folder in the internal memory. Do they need to go into a different folder? Or do I have to use a third party application?
Also, in WM5 I dont see a Windows folder when I select Explore thru active synch. In WM2003 inside of the Windows folder I had a Favorites folder. I am looking for this folder to copy and paste a few links I saved on my PC from my Jam.
Thank you for your help!
Darrin

RESOLVED
Sorry, I figured it out. Ill leave the post just in case someone else runs into this problem. I had my file settings to not show hidden files. Changing that to show all files I now have the Windows folder. The ringtones go into the windows\rings folder and under windows there is the folder for favorites.
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If you have MP3 or WMV files go to the option of the file u we be able to set that file as ring tone... Windows automatically copy that file in to Ring folder and shows u in ring tone list for u from Phone.

How to Add Ringtone?

I tried to add a ringtone from Start - Settings - Sounds - Add Ringtone; but I don't see any music files in the list and there is no option to browse. Only a dropdown folder list is there.
Please guide.
Thanks.

Tap and hold music file in file explorer, choose "set as" (not sure about translation) and choose what event you want to assign it to.

Or you may copy the ringtone files into the folder \My Documents on the storage card. Then they will be found.

Prydplante said:
Or you may copy the ringtone files into the folder \My Documents on the storage card. Then they will be found.
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This is a good way, always works.

Thank you all.

Installing ringtones

For the life of me i cant figure how to install ringtones! can anyone help me please?

create a folder, named 'Ringtones', in your microSD card, and put your music files in there.
The phone only read and extract ringtones from that particular folder =D

loneLEE said:
create a folder, named 'Ringtones', in your microSD card, and put your music files in there.
The phone only read and extract ringtones from that particular folder =D
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what about alarm clock ringtones
can i do the same or shall i create another folder?!

You can also set them through Mediascape. Just press options once a track OS selected and you will now have the option to set as ringtone.

Baggyb said:
You can also set them through Mediascape. Just press options once a track OS selected and you will now have the option to set as ringtone.
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Yep, once you set as a ringtone it will always be available on your list after that so you can switch back and forth without having to open the folder again.
P.S. you can put them in any folder you want to, you don't have to name it "ringtones"

[Q] ringtones files in android song list...how to seperate?

Does anyone know how to remove or seperate ringtone/media files from music list in android? I have like over 1000 songs in the list and there are about 400 or more media files from ringtone/media folder and game folder like H.A.W.K... anyhelp is appreciate it..

myowin said:
Does anyone know how to remove or seperate ringtone/media files from music list in android? I have like over 1000 songs in the list and there are about 400 or more media files from ringtone/media folder and game folder like H.A.W.K... anyhelp is appreciate it..
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1. On your computer, open Notepad or any other text editor
2. Save the blank file as “.nomedia”
Make sure that the Save as type is set as “All Files” instead of “Text documents”
3. Copy that file to the folder on your SD card containing audio files you don’t want to show up.
(Example: If you want to block CoPilot sound files from coming up, place the .nomedia file in the sdcard/copilot folder)
4. Reboot your phone and the files should no longer be viewable

sk0o said:
1. On your computer, open Notepad or any other text editor
2. Save the blank file as “.nomedia”
Make sure that the Save as type is set as “All Files” instead of “Text documents”
3. Copy that file to the folder on your SD card containing audio files you don’t want to show up.
(Example: If you want to block CoPilot sound files from coming up, place the .nomedia file in the sdcard/copilot folder)
4. Reboot your phone and the files should no longer be viewable
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absolutely brilliant, I've been looking for this answer for ages!
However, there is one thing it doesn't stop for me: I have a folder called Android/cache which is autocreated on reboot (I'm assuming), and my .nomedia file get's deleted with each reboot from that folder. This folder holds all the notifications/ringtones etc that come from HTC Hub. Anyone else experiencing this? Obviously this only really applies to the Desire HD builds.

It works also with graphic files. Great!!!

Now does that .nomedia file need to be placed in the particular folder the image is in or does it work by plaing in the parent folder. I ask because my album art shows up in the gallery and I have roughly 1000 songs, it would be way too much to have to place in each song folder lol

chrisrj28 said:
Now does that .nomedia file need to be placed in the particular folder the image is in or does it work by plaing in the parent folder. I ask because my album art shows up in the gallery and I have roughly 1000 songs, it would be way too much to have to place in each song folder lol
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yeah, it needs to be in every folder you want to "hide" it doesn't affect child folders.

Reno_79 said:
absolutely brilliant, I've been looking for this answer for ages!
However, there is one thing it doesn't stop for me: I have a folder called Android/cache which is autocreated on reboot (I'm assuming), and my .nomedia file get's deleted with each reboot from that folder. This folder holds all the notifications/ringtones etc that come from HTC Hub. Anyone else experiencing this? Obviously this only really applies to the Desire HD builds.
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Put one in the Android/root/cache folder, and it'll get copied back on reboot.

Dang, is there an option to copy one file to all folders? lol

jamesjf said:
Put one in the Android/root/cache folder, and it'll get copied back on reboot.
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I had that idea already lol, for some reason after a reboot tho the file disappears and the cache folder get's emptied then refilled with my notifications but no .nomedia (like a complete refresh but without the file I put in). not a major problem just a bit annoying.

Worked like a charm. Thanks Much Sk0o.

How do you add custom ringtones from files placed on phone?

I can't seem to open any app that will let me search for files, and they don't show up in the "music" folder that I get when I try to press the + in the ringtones folder.

noahjk said:
I can't seem to open any app that will let me search for files, and they don't show up in the "music" folder that I get when I try to press the + in the ringtones folder.
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I moved the files I wanted to use as ringtones into the Ringtones folder. (It's possible I actually wound up creating that folder as well, but I don't recall now.) I don't believe I've had issues with any app not letting me navigate to that folder to set a ringtone if the contents of that folder did not show up by default.

There are three files on the internal \ sdcard: Alarms, Notifications and Ringtones. These are empty on initial setup. You can put files in those folders and they will then appear in the drop-down list in the dialogues for setting, respectively, Alarms, Notifications and Ringtones.