Ridiculous Ringer! - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've always used Standard 3 as my ringtone on all of my previous Android phones. I'd love to keep using it on my MyTouch 4G, but this phone seems to treat ringtones with great disrespect. There are no pauses between rings! It just rings incredibly fast, to the point of being extremely irritating. What the hell is up with this and how can I fix it? Thanks.

A couple of questions...
1. Do you still have the old phone?
2. Is the old phone rooted?
3. If yes to both, have you tried copying the old phone's ringtone to your SD card then to your MT4G?
I would try that. It might seem like a lot to do, but it might work out for you. If you have, then I'm sorry to have wasted your time.. LOL
Good luck.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I'm perma-rooted on Glacier and using the old SD card that I had in my Nexus. No dice. Just rings and rings with no break between them. Incredibly annoying. So, for now, I just switched to a different ringtone until I have the time to edit the one I like on my PC and add a second or two of silence to it.

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phone takes 3 ring b4 allerting me?

whats the crack?
if i ring my vario now, when its in standby, on the phone im using to call it, it conects and rings 3 times before the vario jumps into life and allerts me, giving me about 5 -10secs to answer b4 it diverts to voicemail?
its only recently started to do this??
mines done that from the start...doesnt really bother me, as i dont get many calls
i think i read on hear some one had found the registry settings to keep it 'powered up' in standby mode so it would ring immediatley, however the battery life sucked...
its causing me to miss alot of calls, really need to sort it
are your ring tones on your sd card? I read that that might be the problem.
yep they are, hmm will transfer it to the phone and see if that helps
after a few decades searching:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42674
my ring tone was on the phone not the card
cheers minty, i had searched but couldnt find anything usefull, will give that a try , looks promising
yeah...the search function is a pig!
good luck, like i said...your battery life may change
ring dam loud but still about 15/20 seconds before the phone makes a noise, it switch on after about 10second then rings 10 later!
still aint sorted it?
miss call constantly due to this the phone rings for 30 seconds, but starts to ring 20 seconds after the person calling gets the ringing tone?
Hi Fil,
Do you have PocketZenPhone or a similar profile app installed?
cieplowski said:
Hi Fil,
Do you have PocketZenPhone or a similar profile app installed?
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no pocket zen install, tho i dont know what that or similar is!
is that something i need? or something thats causing the problem?
Using Molski's 2.26 rom my Qtek 9100 rings with no delay at all, witout any modification. So if you don't mind flashing your Wizard, give it a try!
Hi,
Not something you need to solve the problem, just that some of these profile switching apps can cause a delay in the phone rinnging.
By profile application I mean a program that allows you to have several different settings and switch between them to change volume, ringtone, set to vibrate etc...
Thanks.
may try a new rom then, as the phones filled with crap anyways, could do with a clean out :lol:
fil said:
may try a new rom then, as the phones filled with crap anyways, could do with a clean out :lol:
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It's a standard thing regarding PPC's, though as has been said before you can change the registry, but battery will suffer (SLIGHTLY)
If you don't want to, you can download Tweaks2k2, which has a fix to stop the 3sec delay, from www.tweaks2k2.com. There you will get a trial version which works for three goes...
Only takes one go to tick the box and restart your PPC though, and problem fixed.
Best Regards
NICE ONE and just like that its sorted
looks like that tweaks is a good tool! and at $10.85 or £5.72 ish worthy of a purchace 8)
fil said:
NICE ONE and just like that its sorted
looks like that tweaks is a good tool! and at $10.85 or £5.72 ish worthy of a purchace 8)
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Very worthy, it's always being updated, and has some great features

Phone won't properly switch from vibrate to sound

at&t 8525 owner, here.
So, I've had this issue for a little while now after I flashed Shadow TE ROM. But it's continued since then... so here's the issue:
I go into work and turn the phone onto vibrate. After I leave work, I switch back to sound on (ring & vibrate). Even though the icon shows the sound is back on, it's not. It only vibrates. It acts as if the speaker is still asleep.
So for awhile I'd have to reset my phone every day to get it working again until I realized I can go into sound settings / notifications and I find that the phone's jumped back to the default ringtone and more than that, I have to literally push PLAY to test the sound in order for the speaker to "wake up" if you will. Then the phone's fine until the next day.
Ok so back to present:
I got fed up and thought it was Shadow TE. So I flashed CRC's v9.2 ROM. Still had the same speaker issue! I was advised to flash a shipped rom.... which I did.... and flashed CRC's v11. Issue still remains.
I've searched the board and could only find one other person make mention of this a couple years ago and no one ever addressed it. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd appreciate it greatly.
Same problem here with a custom Titan ROM. Installed the same software as every other ROM that I've used so the problem must be in the ROM somewhere.
nonegiven said:
Same problem here with a custom Titan ROM. Installed the same software as every other ROM that I've used so the problem must be in the ROM somewhere.
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Could be... but why does no one else seem to have this issue? Wouldn't there be tons of people replying here?
I did find that instead of switching it to vibe when I arrive at work, I switch it to silent... and SOMETIMES when I go back to Sound it works ok for a few hours but then it goes back to silent without warning so I miss calls and texts a lot. Might as well force the sound back on through Notifications Menu anyway. I'm SO getting away from Windows Mobile ASAP.
As soon as the Blackberry Bold is released here in the US, I'm buying it.... unless something about it disappoints me, in which case I'll settle for the iPhone 3G. The Bold can't come soon enough.
Who would like to claim this Hermes when I'm through with it? What are you willing to pay?
Try making sure that your ringers are in the windows\rings folder. Saw it somewhere else and it seems to be working.
nonegiven said:
Try making sure that your ringers are in the windows\rings folder. Saw it somewhere else and it seems to be working.
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Hmm... I tried putting them in, like, 4 places... but none of them seemed to be that location. I'm doing it now and I'll test tomorrow. Thanks for the tip.... i hope it works.
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Hmm... I tried putting them in, like, 4 places... but none of them seemed to be that location. I'm doing it now and I'll test tomorrow. Thanks for the tip.... i hope it works.
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Sorry to report that this didn't help.
C'mon AT&T... release the Bold.... let's get this thing released already...
cozbaldwin said:
Sorry to report that this didn't help.
C'mon AT&T... release the Bold.... let's get this thing released already...
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Don't know what to tell you then. Make sure you're not running any 3rd party software.

no ringtones work after installing any droid 2.1 roms

okay been digging around and haven't come up with anything on my issue. went out and got a new hero after driving over my old hero...i know dumb move but could happen to anyone really. anyways here is what i got....damages new rom 2.08.1 but i have tried wiping like 20 times and even tried installing old 1.5 and doing a few ruu's anyways no luck. any ringtone stock or custom do not seem to work i even turned off the silent when picked up...any thoughts would be great.
thanks
~Micro
sent from my HERO 200...hero=pwned
I am getting this problem as well,
also if my ring tone does manage to ring it occurs in the last 2 seconds or so of the call.
same rom, etc.
do you guys have media folders set up correctly on your sd cards?
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do you guys have media folders set up correctly on your sd cards?
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ya i went in and made the media files through adb and moved all my ringtones with the cat command and no luck...like i said i have ran countless ruu's and tried 1.5 roms with same issue now...i have even tried swapping sd cards as well...this issue just has me stumped.
I get this problem on DamageControl as well. Actually it occurs on ALL sprint leak based roms. The Eris roms work fine and my ringtone initiates almost immediately.
well got some good news i just ruued and then flashed purehero rom and it seems to be work for a while now ill test it further and see what the change is when i get back from work.

Sound falling away & lags

Hey all,
I experience laggy sounds in the alarms & more worse phone not ringing at all on my Trophy.
Are there people experiencing the same, and what can I do to solve this.
Best regards Kid from NL Jonguhh
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kidkreole said:
Hey all,
I experience laggy sounds in the alarms & more worse phone not ringing at all on my Trophy.
Are there people experiencing the same, and what can I do to solve this.
Best regards Kid from NL Jonguhh
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Mine is fine... alarms, phone ring, games and even the ocasional music played thru the speakers.
Might be time to get your phone exchanged for a new one.
I get the sound lagging problem too, but only seems to be when I get an email, and although mostly when its in my pocket, occasionally it happens when its sat on the desk.
Instead of it going dododo, its more like do....do..do. Sometimes its worse than other times. If it did it with every sound I would know its the phone knackered, but only on emails and not all of the time?
Tarquin76 said:
I get the sound lagging problem too, but only seems to be when I get an email, and although mostly when its in my pocket, occasionally it happens when its sat on the desk.
Instead of it going dododo, its more like do....do..do. Sometimes its worse than other times. If it did it with every sound I would know its the phone knackered, but only on emails and not all of the time?
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Same here...
I get the same issue... it's a bit irritating since I really like the email alert sound.
I've read the trophy comes with a slow SD card. I bet it's got to read the remainder of that slightly longer sound file off the card half way through playing it which is why it lags.
I don't know if this is a new issue since NODO, since I didn't really use the phone much before upgrading it
AceofSpades25 said:
I don't know if this is a new issue since NODO, since I didn't really use the phone much before upgrading it
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Never did it on mine before the update......

memory card number 6 has died

The Desire HD has got to be the best phone I have ever had, however I have now lost six memory cards to it.
I am running on the 1.32 version, as I've not upgraded the firmware since hearing some of the horror stories. I'm running the stock rom, and I'm always very careful when connecting my phone to the PC or removing the memory card (I.e I always make sure I unmount it first, etc).
I'd lost five memory cards when they came up saying it had been unexpectedly removed. There didn't seem to be a pattern. I returned the phone and got a new one after the third card, since last night I've now lost another three the same way.
The strange thing is that my friend also bought the same phone, two months after me, and has had the same problem (although has only lost two so far).
Does anyone know what else might be causing this? Any software that might be causing it? I've noticed that one or two of them have died shortly after I've taken a picture or video (like last night, for example).
I have tried to restore the memory cards by trying them in a PC, but it won't even let me format them to start over again.
I love this phone to bits, but I can't keep losing memory cards like this. There must be some reason for it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Wow that is crazy! I've had the phone for around 3 and a half months and I'm still rocking the 8GB that came with the phone. If it's software related flashing a newer rom could fix it.
I would suggest a custom rom since I've been pretty much running LeeDroid a few weeks after I got the phone and recently switched to CM7 and I never had this issue.
Flashing is pretty much straight forward, the chances of bricking are ... well I haven't heard of someone bricking a DHD. If you just follow the steps it won't take long and if you don't
read up enough the worst that could happen is a headache
Also, what kind of sd cards were you using? Brand/Size/Class?
I lost my 8gb card which came with my DHD the other day too. That was my first loss since I got the phone in October last year. The card can't be read on any other device either.
If it is software related then I would like to know so I can try to do something about it.
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noisy_lightning said:
I lost my 8gb card which came with my DHD the other day too. That was my first loss since I got the phone in October last year. The card can't be read on any other device either.
If it is software related then I would like to know so I can try to do something about it.
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What are you guys doing with the cards? Is this happen during normal usage with the card inside the phone? Or after removing the card from the phone and use it somewhere else?
bye
sven
ErOR22 said:
Wow that is crazy! I've had the phone for around 3 and a half months and I'm still rocking the 8GB that came with the phone. If it's software related flashing a newer rom could fix it.
I would suggest a custom rom since I've been pretty much running LeeDroid a few weeks after I got the phone and recently switched to CM7 and I never had this issue.
Flashing is pretty much straight forward, the chances of bricking are ... well I haven't heard of someone bricking a DHD. If you just follow the steps it won't take long and if you don't
read up enough the worst that could happen is a headache
Also, what kind of sd cards were you using? Brand/Size/Class?
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Sounds like flashing a custom ROM might be an idea. I have used a mixture of Samsung and Sandisk cards, all have been 8GB.
noisy_lightning said:
I lost my 8gb card which came with my DHD the other day too. That was my first loss since I got the phone in October last year. The card can't be read on any other device either.
If it is software related then I would like to know so I can try to do something about it.
Sent from my Desire HD
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I'd also be interested to know what, if any, software could be causing this.
Sven424 said:
What are you guys doing with the cards? Is this happen during normal usage with the card inside the phone? Or after removing the card from the phone and use it somewhere else?
bye
sven
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With both me and my friend, the cards have been in the phone all the time. The only time I've tried to remove it was to see if I could recover the files on a PC.
Also, like I said, a few times it seems to have occurred after taking a video or picture. In fact the second time I had one die, it seemed to be one particular HD video causing it, and once I had deleted the file by going through the PC, the memory card worked fine again.
s32bauer said:
Also, like I said, a few times it seems to have occurred after taking a video or picture. In fact the second time I had one die, it seemed to be one particular HD video causing it, and once I had deleted the file by going through the PC, the memory card worked fine again.
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The same thing happened to me. (mp3 instead of video) Android seems to be pretty picky about corrupt or somehow malformed files I guess.
Sort of leaves me wondering where I go from here.
Even if I replace the memory card, I'm on edge the whole time as to whether it's just going to die on me again!
Where did you get the memory cards?
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Most premium memory cards these days, come with 5yr minimum guarantee try returning one of your dead cards to the manufacturer and see what they say? Personally I have never had an issue with my card and had a DHD from november but I have run custom ROM's (mainly CM) since root was achieved.
Ive had the DHD since the first week of uk release, im 3 cards down myself
No dead SD Cards here.
2 months on stock, 4 on custom roms
Tapatalked with Tapatalk from my Desire HD using Tapatalk.
s32bauer said:
With both me and my friend, the cards have been in the phone all the time. The only time I've tried to remove it was to see if I could recover the files on a PC.
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Same until the card died in my phone it has never been taken out by me, it arrived with the card in the phone on arrival and till last week its stayed there.
I have no idea what went wrong, I went to sleep after using it the night before. I woke up and the phone was sat at the sim pin prompt (so obviously failed in some form over night) when I checked my SMS later in the day they were all gone so I tried to restore from SMS Restore and it failed to find the file on the SD card. When I looked into it more I realised the card was dead.
Tried it on my laptop and work PC, AND my HD Camcorder and it does not register in any of them, its as if the controller on board the card has died rather than it corrupting the data on it.
Cant say I am impressed at the moment, I have the notification bug for SMS, it keeps removing the SMS database, failed to lock onto WiFi in some occasions unless I disable then enable wifi, and now its destroyed a microSD card. Think I shall be off back to an iphone next.
Hi
Have any of you having SD Problems, tried booting to Recovery> Fix Permissions, or used Rom Manager> Fix Permissions.
Take Care
TheQuest
Had mine for 5 month now, and still using the original SD. No problems.
Mine has now chewed through two memory cards however I have come to expect random things from my desire
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I've had my memory cards from various places. I had the one that came with the original handset, and then when I had my phone replaced HTC gave me another one with it.
Since then I've also purchased the rest from stores, and even two of them were the more expensive higher quality ones. All gone.
I have noticed this morning that I am able to access the card through my PC. The first three times I put it in, I got a message saying that it couldn't access it, and would need to format it. The fourth time I put it in, it's opened everything as normal. When I put it back in my phone, it comes up preparing SD card, and then a few seconds later says it's unexpectedly removed again.
Those that haven't had card issues, are you running a custom rom? If so, what do you think the best choice would be, and would it affect the normal day to day operation with things like use of the Android Market, etc?
My phone is stock and no customization.
Not sure what the correct route would be as the cards have been destroyed by our devices so would this be covered under card warranty?
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