Is it possible to change the notification sound to something that is NOT in the list of available sounds that were supplied with the phone?
I can set ringtones easily from my MP3 list, but didn't find a way to set a WAV/MP3 to be my notification sound...
get ringdroid from the market. Should help.
Put the mp3 file on the SD card in the folder:
Android\Media\Audio\Notifications
mount the SD card
Then open SMS app, properties and select the mp3 as ringtone
Ah - simple
Thanks!
is there any way to get a different notification for emails, and a different one for sms?
laughter95 said:
is there any way to get a different notification for emails, and a different one for sms?
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when you open each app (email and messaging) just hit menu>settings and choose the notification ringtone for each there. it can adhere to the default notification as set in the main settings panel, or use its own.
I've tried fixing this and searching a lot of forums. My calendar is playing a sound out of my music library for a notification sound. Problem is that its three minutes long so if I leave my phone somewhere when the alarm rings, its annoying to folks.
I've gone to settings/sound and thats fine. I've gone to calendar/settings/reminder/ringtone and set it to something like teleport, and then tested it by putting an appointment in and it gives me the new ringtone. But everytime I get an appointment synched from Exchange, it deletes this selection and uses the song from my library. The song is NOT shown as a selection in the menu, nothing is shown as selected after I get this notification sound.
I remember noodling around some months ago and finding some way to set custom ringtones for various notifications. I probably selected a/this song for calendar then changed it back, but saved the setting somehow in Titanium, now when I do a restore, I get it back. I've tried rebuilding my data.img completely this way, and still have it. I'm not using ringdroid or ringext or anything like that. I haven't copied this song over into the media folder.
This is driving me crazy! Any ideas?
Slight update, deleted the song and now Calendar uses the default notification sound in Settings/Sounds... But it still removes the selection under Calendar/settings/reminders/ringtone...
A few months ago I moved from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Android. A feature I miss a bunch is the ability to have my scheduled tasks alert me. Using Android the task alert is the text message alert. I have been unable to find a way to make my tasks have a separate alert. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks!
Are you referring to the notification ringtones? because you can change that through the settings in the calander app to make it something different than the default.
Koadic said:
Are you referring to the notification ringtones? because you can change that through the settings in the calander app to make it something different than the default.
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yes that is what I am referring to... however if I change the notification ring tone it changes the text message ring tone.
Tasks
I have all my schedules for work in my phone set up in my calander, since i also came from a Windows phone (Q9C) i was using outlook for all my apts. THere is a exchange program u can use thru google that will link the 2 and bring all your tasks into your new calander on your phone. U can then set each event to alert u a set time before, just like in WINM0b. I set mine up to alert me 1 hour before i work and if the phone is on silent, theres a icon on top left screen telling me theres a event. u can also set up sounds. I hope this helps, and hope the info helps u. I am running Dk28 Froyo and there are some differences, so if some of this makes no sense, thats prob the reason. the program thru google is google calander. seach for it, it works
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When you change it through the calendar app, it only effects notifications from that app, the default notification ringtone will remain the same. Also, you can specify a specific notification ringtone through the messaging app, and gmail as well, and have them all be something different than the default notification ringtone that is set through the main settings->sound menu.
Open up the calendar app, hit the menu button, select settings, then change the ringtone for that app.
All my appointments are through google calender. I am running Froyo (Bonsai MOD). The one hour thing is what I have as well... the issue I am having is my text msg alert seems like it has to be the same as the task alert. I liked having my task alert long(like a ring tone) and I like having a short text msg alert.
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When you change it through the calendar app, it only effects notifications from that app, the default notification ringtone will remain the same. Also, you can specify a specific notification ringtone through the messaging app, and gmail as well, and have them all be something different than the default notification ringtone that is set through the main settings->sound menu.
Open up the calendar app, hit the menu button, select settings, then change the ringtone for that app.
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wow... just wow. I really feel like a noob. It was so simple. Thanks!
You can also DL tone picker from the market. It will give you a few more selections when trying to change notification tones, including the use of music found on your SD card. Just a lil FYI if you're not too big on system tones only.
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You can also DL tone picker from the market. It will give you a few more selections when trying to change notification tones, including the use of music found on your SD card. Just a lil FYI if you're not too big on system tones only.
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Thanks for the heads up however "Select music" is installed by default and will let you do the music from your SD card thing(all my ring tones are there)
You can also just create a directory on your sd card and place your audio files there. On your sd card, create a directory with folders as such
sdcard
|-media
--|-audio
----|-alarms
------|-random.mp3
------|-random.ogg
----|-notifications
------|-another.mp3
------|-another.aac
----|-ringtones
------|-you_get_the_picture.mp3
------|-insert_audio_file_here.wav
The other day I updated my fascinate to the EBO1 modem and froyo rom. Everything seemed to go fine and everything runs fine except my sms tone. It always plays, without fail, a the same random song in my music folder (not one in the notifications folder and it has never been used as a ringtone). No matter what I change it to in the sound settings it still plays that song.
I then changed the name of the song it plays and then it stopped playing it as a notification but it still doesn't allow me to change it off of that song. I checked my contact settings too. Everyone is set to the default ringtone overall and none are in any group.
Is there some other way to change the sms tone other than settings > sound settings > notification ringtone ?
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
Have you tried to change the settings within the app itself? Open mms menu/settings/notification settings.
good day.
That was it! Didn't even think to look their -_-
Strange thing was though, when I opened it up it was set to a android default sound and not set to that random song.
When I was on mm I was able to select custom notifications and ringtones by putting them in my music folder. After upgrading to nougat, they no longer work. I can select one of the custom notifications for an sms recipient and when I select it, it plays the sound, then when I go back to the previous screen under notification sound it says Silent. It does this with all of them. Some are mp3 files and some are ogg. Doesn't matter what the format is. Any way to fix this?
I noticed a similar issue with another app. Set the ringtone then back out of settings. Go back in an see if it updated.
Have you received any SMS to see if it works?
After experimenting I found that the issue was with the Google messenger app and nougat. I installed chomp sms and it keeps the custom notifications.