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.
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Anyone sure if this machine supports MP3 ringtone?
I have tried to copy MP3 files to Device/Window/Rings, but when i try to call my Universal, the ringtone changed it back to window default automatically.
Pls advice.
Mark
I just went to an MP3 file and set it to my ringtone and it works fine!
WM5 does support mp3 ringtones. You can have these stored in the root of the cd card and the phone app will pick em up. However, because the sd card does not activate the sd card when the device comes out of hibernation, on wake up, it will resort back to the default tone.....
You can copy the file to \windows\rings folder so that it is available all the time however, this will take up alot of storage memory.
My advice would be to chop the song down to around 20 seconds, then cknvert this to a 64k WMA file.
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
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
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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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I installed the beta Winamp player for Android and I am loving it, its the best player I have used yet.
However I ran into an issue with it. By default Winamp has a setting to automatically mount your SD card when you connect to a USB port. This is useful to use the syncing capability of Winamp with the desktop version(it also can do WiFi sync). This option can be turned off so the SD does not mount for sharing, and I have turned it off. It had created an issue with my notification sounds.
If you are using a non-standard notification sound file that is located on the SD card, it becomes unaccessible when the SD is mounted. The default alert sound for calls and notifications when the sound file is not available is very likely the most annoying sound I have heard my phone make. It is a repeating loud beep that seems to never end until there is user acknowledgement of the notification.
TL;DR So my question is, where can I put my custom notification sounds on the internal memory so the phone can access them when the SD card is mounted?
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I installed the beta Winamp player for Android and I am loving it, its the best player I have used yet.
However I ran into an issue with it. By default Winamp has a setting to automatically mount your SD card when you connect to a USB port. This is useful to use the syncing capability of Winamp with the desktop version(it also can do WiFi sync). This option can be turned off so the SD does not mount for sharing, and I have turned it off. It had created an issue with my notification sounds.
If you are using a non-standard notification sound file that is located on the SD card, it becomes unaccessible when the SD is mounted. The default alert sound for calls and notifications when the sound file is not available is very likely the most annoying sound I have heard my phone make. It is a repeating loud beep that seems to never end until there is user acknowledgement of the notification.
TL;DR So my question is, where can I put my custom notification sounds on the internal memory so the phone can access them when the SD card is mounted?
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I think you can push it to /system/media/audio/
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I think you can push it to /system/media/audio/
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How can you push the file there - I tried Astro with no success...
You'll have to use adb...something like adb push c:\wherethefileis\file.ext /system/media/file.ext
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hi, i have a Nexus build on sd which workings great when left alone.
but i still have to use window 6 sometimes for old progs.
when i restart into android (clrcad/haret) i sometimes lost the ringtones and alarm sounds and had to reset them.
now, i can see the stock sounds in the folders in system/media/audio but cannot select them in the sound settings (i could before) i can only see the few that i copied there myself. they all play fine with music player.
if i copy the same sounds (oggs) to the sdcard under media/audio/ i can select them and they work?????
any ideas?