I can't seem to be able to copy any music file into the alarm file .
I want to use my own music file to wake up in the morning .
If someone knows how ?
Many thanx
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I would also like to know the answer... on other forum I read that for Desire, you have to create a media folder, create audio folder in it and then inside audio folder you have to create 3 folders - ringtones, alarms and notifications. Then put some files into these, and after restart, new sounds should appear in the settings. I tried this on Wildfire but it does not work for me I can change a ringtone for calls, but no succes with alarms and message/notifications
anyone knows??
Folder named "alarms" in the SD card.
It could be that you need to put alarm in the filename.
You can use Zedge. A ringtone and wallpaper app. Most of the sounds arent good but some are better than HTC's. You can find it on market
Great, works, thanks It just took a little while for sounds to show up
I am using Zedge - great app
Eureka!
Put your ringtones to /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones (if doesn't exist create)
Put your notifications to /sdcard/media/audio/notifications (if doesn't exist create)
Put your alarms to /sdcard/media/audio/alarms (if doesn't exist create)
It is simple, isn't it?
zephyri-xr said:
Eureka!
Put your ringtones to /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones (if doesn't exist create)
Put your notifications to /sdcard/media/audio/notifications (if doesn't exist create)
Put your alarms to /sdcard/media/audio/alarms (if doesn't exist create)
It is simple, isn't it?
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Works like a charm!!! Thanks a lot...
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I see there are nice ringtones (f.e. alien) possible.
But when I look to assign them on a SMS text message, I only get system tones. How can I use the existing tones or even add a wave of my own?
Oh, would it be possible also to have increasing ringtone volume and vibrate at once? That's very handy, because now I get a full volume tone, and it's scary, trust me
And vibrate is handy, when it's in your pocket...
My previous GSM phones had that option...Ah nostalgy
Put tones in Windows folder to see them in the list
where can I find the original system ringtones ?
any idea anyone?
its there... in windows folder..
What do you mean ... "it's there. In windows folder." Could you be more specific as I cant find it.
You have to convert it first to wav, then copy it to your xda Window directory ... then go to sound & notification and just look for it 8)
pactim,
the default notification sounds (WAV files ONLY) can be found in the /Windows folder. If you want to add more sounds to the drop down list in the Sounds & Notifications screen copy your new WAV files in THIS SAME FOLDER (i.e. /Windows).
Thanks guys
Thanks for your patience guys. Have worked it out now.
Sorry KTA,
I can't find the ringtones like Terestial, roaring guitar etc,... in the windows folder.
The only wav I find there is the only one I've put there.
Are you shure they aren't in an other location???
Yes they are in the Windows folder. I just checked again now.
Ok, I did a fast search and not sure what I am missing. I have some ring tones that I want to use and converted them to .wma, but have no idea what to do with them. I dumped them in the windows folder, but that did not work. What am I missing? Chad
All you have to do is copy the (I assume MP3) to a folder under my docs called Ring Tones then they'll show up in the settings under "phone." Just select the one you want and you're good to go. Enjoy.
Well I just tried that and I still do not see them. I tried the my documents on the storage card and on the rom. Am I missing somthing? Chad
Not too hard to do. copy the file into the file "ring" this will be in the windows folder on your device. Once there you should see it in the list for your ringtones.
chadman said:
Well I just tried that and I still do not see them. I tried the my documents on the storage card and on the rom. Am I missing somthing? Chad
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What I do is copy any ringtone such as MP3 or WMA into the Sounds folder inside the Application Data folder in the root and it works.
Also if you want to assign special sounds such as Alarm sounds or music you can copy WAV files into the WINDOWS folder in the root directory and they will appear when you try to assign an Alarm sound.
Another thing that might interest you guys is that you can even assign special slide out sounds with a program that I will provide to you guys, but it must be in WAV format. ( you can always just crop a song and save it as WAV. That is what I do * editing program not available here)
Hope this answered your questions
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What I do is copy any ringtone such as MP3 or WMA into the Sounds folder inside the Application Data folder in the root and it works.
Also if you want to assign special sounds such as Alarm sounds or music you can copy WAV files into the WINDOWS folder in the root directory and they will appear when you try to assign an Alarm sound.
Another thing that might interest you guys is that you can even assign special slide out sounds with a program that I will provide to you guys, but it must be in WAV format. ( you can always just crop a song and save it as WAV. That is what I do * editing program not available here)
Hope this answered your questions
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That worked great! Thanks, Chad
I've been making ringtones ever since I had my first blackberry, but I want to change notification ringers.
Unfortunately, the cyanogen build only has one notification build and I need at least 3 I prefer separate sounds for sms, email and system.
p.s. I don't know how to use ADB.
Just make a directory on your sd card named media, make one in there called audio, and then you can make ringtones - alarms- and notifications, so it would be like this
/sdcard/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
put your audio in those, there is a link to the stock audio resources in Cyanogen's thread.
Create a folder in your SD card named "media",
inside media make a folder "audio",
inside audio make a folder for "alarms" "music" "notification" and "ringtones"
just put your tones and music and the following folders and you should be set.
Hope this helps!
Oh sweet, I thought notifications were locked down or something, this is awesome news. Thanks
Or just use ringdroid and it will do everything for you.
I have copied all my ringstones into the preset "\My Documents\My ringtones"-folder.
They only shove up when using Touchflow to set the ringtone. If I want to change alarm / SMS I can only chose the predfined ones. Am I just being retarded, or are is it not possible :S?
I've run into that same issue with mine. Cooked ROM came with no ringtones, so I transfered ringtones fine and they work. Depends on your ROM and registry/ folder location settings. Someone may beat me to it but here's my found solution:
1. Make sure the file is in .wav format.
2. When phone is synced to computer browse to Device\Windows folder
3. Drop the .wave file you want set as a sound notification into your Device's windows folder and voala, that should do it.
kols said:
I have copied all my ringstones into the preset "\My Documents\My ringtones"-folder.
They only shove up when using Touchflow to set the ringtone. If I want to change alarm / SMS I can only chose the predfined ones. Am I just being retarded, or are is it not possible :S?
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I save my ring tones on \windows\rings and is working perfectly, try it.
Where do I find this folder?
Only got "Application Data", "ConnMgr", "Documents and Settings", "MUSIC", "My Documents", "Programfiler"
Can I manually create it, or should I connect in other ways? Using the USB-cabel and just browsing in explorer...
* Nm; found it on the phone explorer. Guess it's not accessible from the computer
About the Windows-folder..
It got thousand!! of files named *****-manila..
What are they..? They make the windows-folder kinda slow to load..
kols said:
Where do I find this folder?
Only got "Application Data", "ConnMgr", "Documents and Settings", "MUSIC", "My Documents", "Programfiler"
Can I manually create it, or should I connect in other ways? Using the USB-cabel and just browsing in explorer...
* Nm; found it on the phone explorer. Guess it's not accessible from the computer
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No, the device "windows" folder is perfectly viewable in Windows Explorer. You just have to make sure to untick the box in "folder options" under the control panel that says "hid protected system windows folders and files" - after doing that you will be able to see the Windows folder on the device. Simple tweak really. Enjoy.
That's exactly it
Edit: Apologize for double post, but this is at two different forum members.
Kols,
That's exactly it, the "windows" folder in the device with A LOT of files which does take about a minute to load is where you drop the .wav files. So just sit back and let the Windows folder populate in windows explorer, then copy and paste or drag and drop your sounds for Notifications into the folder. You will then be able to see those files when, for example, changing your SMS tone. Cheers!
kols said:
Where do I find this folder?
Only got "Application Data", "ConnMgr", "Documents and Settings", "MUSIC", "My Documents", "Programfiler"
Can I manually create it, or should I connect in other ways? Using the USB-cabel and just browsing in explorer...
* Nm; found it on the phone explorer. Guess it's not accessible from the computer
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kols said:
About the Windows-folder..
It got thousand!! of files named *****-manila..
What are they..? They make the windows-folder kinda slow to load..
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Wow, so all this kinda sucks and everything.
My ****ing 10 year old t68i had easier options for adding sound and ****.
Ok, copying to the Windows-folder do work, but what when I one to delete any of them? All at once? Impossible. Since you can't delete the preset files, you have to delete them one by one.. THANK GOD! And I love the list of useless pisspoor preset tunes! They are great space-wasters!
Does anybody know of any programs to convert from mp3 to wav / wma? Tried a few, and they works occasionally, but if the file is longer than X-sec, it all get high-pitched and super-fast.
Why are you not able to use mp3s for alarm and sms? I KNOW IT KNOWS HOW, IT DOES WHENEVER MY PHONE RINGS!!
Sorry, but I was really expecting better... by far..
How it really works:
1. Copy mp3's (for use with ringtones, reminders, SMS, MMS, e-Mail, etc. EXCEPT alarmclock tones) to "application data\sounds".
2. Copy alarmclock sounds as .wav to windows (to convert mp3 > wav use lame encoder). MP3 files won't work.
3. If not used delete all sounds in "windows\rings" (to have a smaller list).
Ok well all your complaints reside in the downside list of owning a Windows Mobile phone. I mean sure everything doesn't work spic and spam as we users would like it to, but we can only do so much to force things to work and Microsoft not make it any easier.
Yes, you are right on having to delete YOUR tones one by one and watching out for tones that are preset and therefore write-protected as a system file. The preset SMS tones aren't too bad, of course opinion differs by person. My complaints don't exist with sounds though as all preset SMS tones take up less than 100kb each and with over 300mb onboard storage space not including a Micro SDHC card -I'd say I have plenty of space.
Program to convert to .wav? Sure, use Dbpoweramp Free. It's lightweight and easy. Program to trim .wav or .mp3 files? Audacity works great.
It's an OS quirk that calls for Notification (non-ringer) tones to be in .wav format. If there is a reg tweak to change that, I don't know of it as much as I've learned about WinMo.
S-Line said:
How it really works:
1. Copy mp3's (for use with ringtones, reminders, SMS, MMS, e-Mail, etc. EXCEPT alarmclock tones) to "application data\sounds".
2. Copy alarmclock sounds as .wav to windows (to convert mp3 > wav use lame encoder). MP3 files won't work.
3. If not used delete all sounds in "windows\rings" (to have a smaller list).
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Thank you so much! "application data\sounds" did the trick!
As for the alarmclock, I guess I just need try a few more convertors :\
Is there a techincal reason why they won't let you delete predefined stuff?
I'f you have to get deep down and do some hacking any way, who are they to say "Maybe you don't know what you are doing, so we won't let you! You probably do, but we don't care.."
For sms you can use mp3 files, putting them in folder: My device\My documents (don't use other folder inside "My documents").
fighter7139 said:
For sms you can use mp3 files, putting them in folder: My device\My documents (don't use other folder inside "My documents").
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Simple use "application data\sounds" for all mp3-files, and "windows" for alarmclock-files (must be .wav). Mydocs and win\ringtones won't work with every ROM.
To have a better overview I always name ringtones files "R-<filename>" and alerts A-<filename>".
Like my new Incredible compared to my BB Storm, but I'm missing a few things.
While I can add MP3's as ring tones, I can't figure out
Create two folders on your SD card. One named ringtones and another named notifications (for text sounds). Once you copy files to those folders they will show up in the list.
KB Smoka said:
Create two folders on your SD card. One named ringtones and another named notifications (for text sounds). Once you copy files to those folders they will show up in the list.
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For whatever reason this never would work for me. So what I did was create a folder on the root of my SD called media. Inside media created folders called ringtones and notifications. I then converted the MP3 or whatever format the media was in to M4A using the latest beta of Audacity (awesome app). Tossed the converted media into the appropriate folder, and voila, I can has sounds.
This may seem a little convoluted to some people, but it works for me.
download ringdroid from the market, allows you to pick the portion of the mp3 you want, and you can set it as alarm, notification, or ringer
KB Smoka said:
Create two folders on your SD card. One named ringtones and another named notifications (for text sounds). Once you copy files to those folders they will show up in the list.
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Actually, there should be three folders, and they should all be on the root of the SD card. The two you mentioned, plus one called alarms. These three folders will let the various sounds you load only show for the correct applications.
For instance, put a sound called alarm1 in the alarms folder and it will only be selectable as a alarm for various clock apps. However, put the same sound in notifications instead, and it will only be available to apps that use a notification alert, like calendars.
The other advantage to using these three folders is that it keeps the sounds from showing up in media player apps. I can't tell you how annoying it was to have my music playing randomly and then an alarm sound would play. Then I'm checking my phone to see what it is trying to remind me about only to discover that darned thing played in my media rotation.
StirCwazy said:
For whatever reason this never would work for me. So what I did was create a folder on the root of my SD called media. Inside media created folders called ringtones and notifications. I then converted the MP3 or whatever format the media was in to M4A using the latest beta of Audacity (awesome app). Tossed the converted media into the appropriate folder, and voila, I can has sounds.
This may seem a little convoluted to some people, but it works for me.
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Are the sounds showing up in the "songs" your media player lists?
I would recommend creating these folders under /emmc in place of /sdcard that way if the SD Card is removed your custom ring-tones/notifications will still work....
here is the folder structure that I am using:
/emmc/Media/Audio/Alarms
/emmc/Media/Audio/Notifications
/emmc/Media/Audio/Ringtones
Mixzing media player, if you use that, also allows you to set mp3's as ringtones.
rcicu said:
I would recommend creating these folders under /emmc in place of /sdcard that way if the SD Card is removed your custom ring-tones/notifications will still work....
here is the folder structure that I am using:
/emmc/Media/Audio/Alarms
/emmc/Media/Audio/Notifications
/emmc/Media/Audio/Ringtones
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I like this idea.....
Is there anything out there I can use to view these "system" folders on my PC? When I look at the phone on my computer I only see a couple folders.
I just use zedge app and let it do all the work.
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rcicu said:
here is the folder structure that I am using:
/emmc/Media/Audio/Alarms
/emmc/Media/Audio/Notifications
/emmc/Media/Audio/Ringtones
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Wouldn't the ringtones/notification sounds come up in the music player then?
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dali137 said:
Wouldn't the ringtones/notification sounds come up in the music player then?
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What I have noticed it that sound files in any of those 3 folders won't show up in my music player whether they are on the phone or the sdcard. If you put a sound file in the media folder it will show up, but nothing in the 3 sub folders will.
I haven't tried putting them anywhere else but I think it's safe to assume that folders named Alarms, Notifications, and Ringtones are ignored.
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