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Upgrading Memory = custom notification issue

Upgraded memory card on hero from stock 2gb (unknown class) to a 16gb class2 card.
Connected Hero via usb - transfered off all files (including copilot maps and custom notifications/ringtones/music etc).
Replaced memory card - connected up and transfered all files back to new memory card and rebooted phone to make sure all widgets/apps initialised properly.
At first everything seemed to be ok - pretty much tested everything that touches the memory card - game saves, copilot, music, photos, video playback is acceptable (some slight jitters with other open apps or many widgets open - recommend making a blank/video playback home profile to counter this and killing apps down), pdf viewer.
However, the fun started when I received my first text message (I had SD notifications option set to on and had picked my custom notification sound). Instead of hearing my notification one of the bundled stock tunes (Colette - Push) played instead as the notification sound IN FULL !!! and couldn't find any way to stop it.
I am assuming this music file is the very first file listed in internal memory therefore if any problems with custom notifications it will play this instead (for a full 4mins or so)!!
So is this an issue with the read time of the memory card? An intermittant memory card (everything seems ok - been using the phone as mp3 player and not noticed any problems with audio and/or video playback) ? Or a bug in software somewhere?
I might try a wipe/reformat in the device and see if that works - any other suggestions?

Ringtones are less picky, but for Custom Notifications and alarms, I've found the fone doesn't accept them unless they are stored on the SD card with the same folder heirachy as on the device
Make a folder called media and inside create one called audio and inside THAT create ringtones, alarms, notifications
Put the stuff you want for each in its respective folder
paths should be sd/media/audio/alarms sd/media/audio/notifications and sd/media/audio/ringtones
Like I say, I've found ringtones are fine left anywhere on the SD, but Alarms and notification sounds need to be in those folders.
Also, when you put them in, you may need to restart for them to show up in a list for apps like alarm clock etc.
Daisy xxx

I think I had the same issue - after changing the card, first text I got resulted in the phone playing a random tune from my mp3 folder. Re-selecting the notification sorted it.

I had already created the directories for media\audio\notifications (and alarms and ringtones).
I have reformatted the card, recreated media\audio\notifications and placed a single mp3 notification file. Enabled SD notifications and selected the file as default notification.
Tested and works ok.
Filled the rest of the media card with music/video etc
Received a text after all of that and it played a music track from \mp3 folder instead of the notification sound !!! after testing now - doesn't matter if i try to use a stock notification it will always use the same track for every text i receive !!!
what the hell is going on ?
reboots/reselecting the notification/enabling or disabling SD notifications - doesn't matter it always plays the mp3 track all 4mins and 22 secs for every text !!!

I had something similar.
When i had sd card notifications ticked, it began playing random tunes whenever i plugged into the computer.
turned that off and it stopped.
as for getting my ringotnes and notifications to appear, i have folders on the root of the SD card, one called ringtones, and one called notifications
no capitals in the names at all.
straight away after i did that, the files appeared in the selection lists. I didn't even have to restart.
Did the same on a colleague's magic and they showed up immediately, but on my other colleague's orange hero, it didn't work.
If you have a t-mobile one, just do the two folders on the root, and turn sd card notifications off.
you'll get the sounds available, without the random noises.

hey guys, i dont know if people are still suffering from this problem but i found a way to solve it.
It seems to happen when you either, format your SD/get a new one or apply a custom ROM. It doesnt seem to make a difference to ringtones.
Use Dayzee's file directories information and then go into settings>sound & display and select your notification tone as normal, turn SD tones OFF. Now go into your message inbox and press MENU then go to SETTINGS and scroll down to the bottom and go to SELECT SOUND.
Match the sound to the one you picked in the normal sound & display settings menu and problem should be solved

Ringtone issue

I'm brand new to Android, so forgive me if this is actually a basic thing to fix. In the stock music player I set one of the tunes I put on the external SD card as the ringtone for voice calls. I've noticed that every time I disconnect the phone from my PC after it has been connected (mass storage mode)via USB, the phone performs an update scan of the external SD card, and my tune is no longer the default ringtone. Is this an Android thing or something to do with the Samsung's software?
Is there a more permanent way of setting a music file as your ringtone without having to set it up again every time you've connected to a PC?
All my music is encoded as eaac+ in .m4a files

it'll be a software thing.
if you use 3rd party software to keep your mp3 as a default ring tone it wont go away
ringo pro or something like that, i forgot the name

Custom Notification Sounds

I'm trying to set my own notification sounds for txt messages. After moving the ogg audio files to my sdcard, they show up in es file explorer and I can even select them and they play, but they don't show up in my music list or the settings/notification sound list.
I tried adding a folder on the sd card called "notifications", tried putting the files in the media/audio/notifications folder (with the facebook pop notification), tried changing the files from ogg to mp3, nothing works.
I also tried RingDroid and Rings Extender, and those don't work either, the audio files don't even show up in the lists.
Am I missing something here?
I'm running dd2.7 btw.

Do the sounds show up in your music app along with your other music? Did you try restarting your phone? It's really strange that even after converting to mp3 you can't navigate to it other than through ES. As a kind of lame workaround, if you have ASTRO installed, you can use Rings Extender to select ASTRO and from there navigate to your file.

Nope, they don't show up in the regular music list. I did reboot a few times and that didn't work.
The files are .ogg's I pulled from the Froyo build. Shouldn't matter though, since even converted to mp3 they still don't show up.
I'll try the Astro workaround. Seems like a pain just for a simple txt message tone

username182 said:
Nope, they don't show up in the regular music list. I did reboot a few times and that didn't work.
The files are .ogg's I pulled from the Froyo build. Shouldn't matter though, since even converted to mp3 they still don't show up.
I'll try the Astro workaround. Seems like a pain just for a simple txt message tone
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create a folder in /sdcard called media
in media create audio
in audio create notifications and ringtones
You should end up with:
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
I can't remember if you have to reboot after you put you sounds in the proper folders but they should now appear under ringtones or notificaitons.

I saw you tried this but this works fine for me. I have several mp3s in ringtones and I just downloaded a new notification 2 days ago and stuck it in there and I am now using it as my corporate email notificaion. I am using the new froyo builds if that helps any.

You should already have a system/media/audio/notifications/ file on your phone. Just move them from your SD card there. I used android commander on my PC. And reboot. They should be there
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losing ringtone after usb mounting.

Ive been using my phone connected to usb for listening to music on car stereo it unmounts storage to do that. But when i unplug i never get my ringtone back it plays a random song in my music folder unless i go back and change ringtone manually and when i do theres not one selected. Anyone seen or have solution? it shocked me the other day ringing with explicit lyrics lol.

i had a similar problem with my Galaxy S. after having it connected to my PC in usb mass storage mode, i would lose my custom ringtone EVERYTIME after disconnecting. bloody annoying and i was kinda hoping this wouldnt be a issue with the Atrix. but anyways how i fixed it with the galaxy S was after unmounting from USB the key was to not to forget to run the Media Scanner. i used a app called rescan media ROOT from the android market to do this. you can also reboot to kick in the media scanner but that is a pain. HTH, i dont know if any of this is relevant to the Atrix. i will hopefully find out tomorrow when mine arrives

I'm going to take a guess here, since I have a WinMo and not an Android phone, but when you do anything that mounts the SD card or internal storage, nothing else can mount it, so the system has to unmount it. So on my phone if I mount the SD card to copy some files, I can't listen to music using the phone's music player if that music is also on the SD card.
tl;dr - if the ringtone was on the SD card, the system has to change it when the SD card is mounted by something else.

Has this problem been solved or just forgotten. It is very annoying. I am running Gingerblur 4.5 on a rooted Atrix and I have this same problem where the USB notification seems to pick a random song to play upon connection instead of the default ringer tone. The only way I have found to stop it is to delete the song from my SD card, reboot, then paste the song back to my SD card. WTF? There has to be a better solution. On the same note; where is the default tone? You know... its the default ringer tone that plays when no sound is selected. ie. set a ringtone then delete that file and the phone picks the default tone, but it isn't identified in the Sound menu.
Thanks!

na just forgotten havent figured it out. Just havent been hooking my phone up to anything but charger recently.

I ended up getting it around it....
I copy the custom ring tones and sounds I want to use straight to the system/media/audio folder.
You need to be rooted to do this.
I use file explorer and change the permissions from RO to RW so I can copy in the audio files. I then change them back to RW.

ill have to try that then. thanks

Why hasn't Google implemented a fix for this? How hard can it be?
Its the most annoying thing, and one feature of Android I don't like.
My N900 would dismount its storage when plugged into usb, but this was never a problem as it converted the MP3 ringtone chosen into a shortened WAV file and stored it locally.

I remounted the /system directory read/write and copied the files there:
#mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system
Then copy your ringtones to /system/media/audio
*edit just noticed someone else did this. This is a different way to do it.

Music Player that will access external card?

The movie players I have can all be pointed to external card but the music app does not have that option. Is there a good music app that I can direct to the external sd card?

peejayw said:
The movie players I have can all be pointed to external card but the music app does not have that option. Is there a good music app that I can direct to the external sd card?
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I use PowerAmp and really like it.

peejayw said:
The movie players I have can all be pointed to external card but the music app does not have that option. Is there a good music app that I can direct to the external sd card?
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I second the other - PowerAmp is great, however Google's "Music" app will definitely find and use music on the external SD Card. I had a problem for a bit and had to reformat my card in my desktop - after that it worked perfectly.

OK, I will try reformatting, whats best,FAT or FAT32?

I'd like to second the Google Music app. I use it and have all my tunes on my SD card. No issues.
I don't recall formatting it. iirc, I plugged it into the tab, rebooted, accessed it and it seemed to see it fine - removed it, moved some music to it from the desktop - plugged it back into the tab, rebooted and everything was fine.

Re-booting did the trick.

Either that or download SCRESCAN from the market and run it. It will refresh the SDcard. quicker than restarting if you tend to remove your SD card frequently.

Winamp works great for me.

google music is good, I just can't figure out how to trigger a refresh. It seems to eventually. Also, I plugged in an ipod with rockbox (looks like a hard drive) and eventually after several minutes it found that too.

willyampz said:
google music is good, I just can't figure out how to trigger a refresh. It seems to eventually. Also, I plugged in an ipod with rockbox (looks like a hard drive) and eventually after several minutes it found that too.
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Thing about it is that it uses the MediaScanner service - like most apps do - to locate files. For some reason the MediaScanner wouldn't scan my particular card until I reformatted it, but as others mentioned a reboot, a media rescan app from the market or sometimes simply insert / remove your card again will trigger the scanner to work.

i use lithium, not free, but hey if you play games i like the fact that you can set lithium up to play from 1 directory so you can skip the annoying game sounds