Ringtone for a contact - Galaxy S I9000 General

I know I am possibly overlooking this, but with my iPhone I was able to assign a ringtone to a specific contact. Is there anyway I can get that setup on the Galaxy S?

I must confess I didn't try before and it took me some time to find it ( not so much time actually but I am surprised to have less possibility than the iphone)
On the iphone you had easily the possibility to set one ringtone by person ( it was not that easy to get a ringtone )
In the samsung you can set a ringtone by group.
So you could create a group per person to get one ringtone per person
On my side I will just put my wife in a group and set the ringtone from Jaws movie

Ok, that is kind of complicated ;-)
another question to ringtones... Maybe I just didn't find it. But how can I set a mp3 as a ringtone. If I try to select a ringtone it only shows me the shipped ones. Or do I have to copy the mp3 to the folder where the shipped ones are stored (and that would be?)?
Thanks, Kai

This is indeed complicated
For the first question, SGS allows setting ringtone to both contacts and groups. However, they will only work with ringtones created in the phone. They will not work with ringtones synced over from Google or outlook. In order to assign ringtones to these contacts, you need to
1. Create a contact in your phone and assign the ringtone
2. Link the contact to your synced contact
For assigning MP3 as ringtones, you can try ringdroid. Alternative is to copy to /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones.

Seifer1975 said:
This is indeed complicated
For the first question, SGS allows setting ringtone to both contacts and groups. However, they will only work with ringtones created in the phone. They will not work with ringtones synced over from Google or outlook. In order to assign ringtones to these contacts, you need to
1. Create a contact in your phone and assign the ringtone
2. Link the contact to your synced contact
For assigning MP3 as ringtones, you can try ringdroid. Alternative is to copy to /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones.
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I have assigned MP3 ringtones individually just by doing a long hold on the contact, choosing Edit, and then touching Ring tone, and choosing sound. I can then choose my MP3 that is stored anywhere on the phone, even on the external SD.
For individual SMS tones, I use SMSPopUp, very customisable.

I have been trying to assign ringtones to a particular contact but cannot achieve this. I know there is an options under Contact - menu - Edit, but nothing. I get some strange message that ' I cannot edit SNS...'. I'm thinking this have something to do with facebook, as my contacts are synced with facebook. Does this have an effect on having to assign different ringtones to contacts?

I have also a problem with individual ringtones each contact.
If I use the standard app in SGS, i am able to set a ind. ringtone for a contact. But I want to use a app like touchdown or roadsync for do my mail stuff. And I dont like to have contacts in more than one place so I habe all my contact in my outlook. I set the sgs that only the contacts in my business mail client are shown and I cant set a individual ringtone. Is ther no possibility for do that without copying contacts to the phone? No app? Cant belive that this is not? On handcent sms I can set ringtones per contact, no matter where its saved.
Thanks for replying!

To be able to assign a ringtone to a contact, it has to be stored in the phone. It doesn't work for contacts synced from Facebook or Gmail. Just create a duplicate contact on your phone, assign a ringtone to it and link them together.
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App

Really no alternative?
I dont want to see the contacts twice in the phonebook.

You can link them together so you'll only see one.
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App

Ok thanks
Now I have to find out how i can copy s contact to the phone

Hi there
I'm running touchdown 2.0 on my sgs and there is a function to copy all contacts from touchdown account to the phone book on the phone. I did that, touchdown is processing all contacts, but if i go contacts an put the settings to see only the contact located in the phone, I dont see any contact. Are they not copied or is my phonebook corrupt? How can I find out where contacts are located, which folder in the system, i.e. with root explorer?
Thanks in advance for helping

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phone contacts mixed up with email contacts

I can't find an easy way to display my list of people I phone (about 110) without it being mixed in with all my contacts that Outlook has gathered from email (1766). I can call them up via SIM manager but it takes about 30 seconds to build the list .... and I'm not sure whether people I add in here are reflected in my Contacts and vice versa. I'm sure there's a market for an app that manages email and phone numbers separately
Mike
why ?
i moved all my sim contacts to outlook as soon as i got the xda
havent had any reason what so ever to have any on the sim
Two reasons really:
Searching through a huge list while driving is much more difficult than it used to be on my ordinary cellphone with just 100 plus entries, and secondly MS Voice Command (I think) has to build a database for all 1700 outlook contact entries - I think this might be why it's misbehaving.
...... but I don't see anyone else complaining about this, so maybe I'm just working in some weird way
Mike
Create a sub folder in outlook, and move all your email contacts to that folder, then of course you'll need to tell outlook, through the options, the location of the new folder to use for your email address book.
Then leave all your phone contacts in the default contact folder, and this is the one active sync uses when syncing.
This is all due to a limitation in Active Sync whereby you can't specify the folder to be used for syncing, even though, of all things, Nokia PC Suite will do this, whilst microsoft's own solution WON'T.
The other alternative some use, is to use CATEGORIES.
By tagging all your phone contacts with a category label, say for example phone, then you CAN set up activesync so that when it syncs, ONLY contacts of a certain Category are synced.
Hope this helps fit your problem.
Hey .... both of those suggestions sound good. I will experiment. Am I right in thinking though, that I then won't have any email addresses at all in my XDA2. I guess I can live with this, as I'm generally only replying to emails with the XDA2
Mike
the way i do it is to have a category in outlook; i use the category of peronal which is out of the box outlook and then in active sync you have the option of synching only people in a categoy. i have outlook 2003
mikesands said:
Hey .... both of those suggestions sound good. I will experiment. Am I right in thinking though, that I then won't have any email addresses at all in my XDA2. I guess I can live with this, as I'm generally only replying to emails with the XDA2
Mike
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Er that depends.
Now I'm not sure what your original question meant?
The follow up implies that you do want Email address contacts on the XDA2.
So in simple terms, either you do want them, or you dont.
If you want a more prescriptive choice, let me know a bit more detail of what you are hoping to acheive, and I will let you know if there is a way or a workaround for it....
If only SOME contact records containing an Email address are needed by you on the XDA2, then just also tick them as a "Phone Contact" in the Category field, and these will then sync accross if you use Categories as the method.
Let me know exactly waht you mean...
actually your summary of what I want is pretty spot on. A few email addresses and ALL my phone contacts on the XDA. All my email addresses on the PC (I don't really care about the telephone numbers being on the PC). I followed your advice - but didn't think it through properly. I deleted all my contacts on the XDA, then set active sync on the PC to synchronise only the contacts I'd marked as phone contacts. Of course when it sync'd it decided to wipe out ALL the contacts on the PC. No matter - I have a backup - but incidentally I found that with just the 118 contacts from my SIM card loaded into the XDA, both Voice Command and Fonix were dramatically imroved.
Mike
If you open contacts, and then tap on the w, m, h, or e, you will see the available contact details for each person. Just set it to display what you want and it will be remembered between syncs.
IE. Joe Bloggs with a mobile (m), e-mail (e) or work phone (w), home phone (h). If you want the mobile phone number displayed, tap on the letter and choose M.
Cheerio
Howard

Ringtones per contact lost after Outlook sync

I'm having a problem with ringtones ...
When I assign ringtone to a contact, everything is fine, until I syncronize with Outlook.
After that individual ringtones per contact get lost and on incoming call I have default ringtone.
Does anyone have same problem ?
How to get around it ?
Can someone help ? My ringtones are in \Windows\Rings directory and they are wma files
If that makes any difference
Well, I guess once you sync your contacts with outlook, you'd definately lose your ring tones!
For now, try not to sync your contacts, unless that's why you sync in the first place...
I've posted something similar on here with regards to losing information when syncing between phone and outlook.
Only suggestion would be is to only change the contact info on your phone and not outlook and to ensure that under the conflict settings, phone wins over PC.
In ActiveSync I have an option that for "Contacts" if there is a conflict - Phone data wins. But still ... same problem.
And what is interesting too, is that when I had HTC Wizard with WM6.0 (never tried WM6.1), my ringtones were OK even after full resync
Strange indeed. Pass on that one!

Ringtones by groups

Is there a way to asign ringtones by groups? Like I have my coworkers assigned in gmail (web) contacts, I can view by groups, but I really can't see a way to asign one ring for all of them, I have tried many of the 3party apps, but still no luck..
Anyone have any insight?

Custom ringtone for exchange (corporate) contacts?

Custom ringtone for exchange (corporate) contacts?
Does anybody know how to do this? (option for ringtone does not appear for corporate contacts - zedge does not work either with them)
what do you mean by corporate contacts... as long as contacts are stored in phone vs set to google. there should be an edit option which has a ringtone selection.
These are contacts that are stored in an exchange server (or synchronized therewith). When I edit them, the title "corporate" appears on top (along with my corporate email address). No setting of ringtone is possible. I do not want to store them in the phone because I have proper sync with my exchange server.
Thanks,
E.

Corporate contact specific ringtones

I've been trying to figure out how to add custom ringtones to certain contacts and no matter what I do, I haven't been able to find the option. Then I looked at one of my two contacts synced to my Google account, and there was the option. So it would seem for some reason, "corporate" contacts synced with my Exchange server can't be assigned indivdual ringtones. Does anyone happen to know why, and if there's any way to make it work?

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