Edit: Fixed.
- Sound files were corrupted.
- Duplicates in list from sd card.
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I copied over all the system sounds I downloaded online (when I flashed to Generic UK, not as many were available as stock).
Now, when I select any, there are mostly duplicates of 2, and none of them play at all.
I have root, and I copied them over/replaced in system/media/audio
Even after deleting them, they show up under ringtones, and play nothing except a generic ring tone, and play nothing under notifications (silence).
Wow, this really sucks.. although they seem to work if I manually convert the .ogg sounds to .mp3 and then pick it from the music player.. not ideal.
Have you given them correct permissions? Are the names the same?
Looks like I fixed it, the ones I originally downloaded were corrupt.
However, the duplicate listings still appear.
I'm relieved, either way.
Edit: The duplicates are there because they are on my sd card.. ugh, I'm an idiot. Fixed.
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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 selected a couple of tracks to be used for ringtone and notification. The tracks were hangouts_videocall.ogg and hangouts_message.ogg. They worked for a while, then both the ringtone and the notification reverted to the defaults. I checked the settings and they were both "unknown", and the tracks were no longer available. I'm not sure what happened that caused the change, but it might have been related to disabling some bloatware. I downloaded the full set of ringtones and notifications to see if I somehow deleted the tracks by accident. The two tracks are not in the list. I installed es file explorer and started looking around the file system. (My phone is not rooted.) I found the folder /system/media/audio where ringtones, notifications, etc. are located. The tracks in the directories are exactly the same as the ones I downloaded, and they don't include the two tracks I had previously set. Hmm... However, after searching around, I found the two "missing" tracks were inside /sdcard/ringtones. I found this strange, since my phone doesn't even have an SD card. What's also strange is that the tracks mysteriously reappeared on the list of available ringtones and notifications. I reset them and they are working again. While I was looking around the file system, I found another track called over_the-horizon.mp3 in /system/hidden/internal_sdcard/samsung/music. This track doesn't seem to be visible using any of the media players, so I can't help but wonder why it's there. There is an ogg version of the same track in /system/media/audio/ringtones. Anyone have an explanation for this? Is there a hidden internal SD card in the GS5? If so, why? If someone who has a file explore installed would see if their phone is the same as mine, I'd really appreciate it.
Any thoughts on this?
First let me start by saying I'm by no means new to sgs phones this is my fourth.
I collected it Friday rooted it in the car park within the first minute, remapped the keys (what were they thinking with the menu thing) within the first hour etc etc
So all that said I am a little embarrassed by this.
I can't seem to set mp3's as default ringtones or notification tones.
I have copied the files into both the ringtones and notifications folders.
They are the same mp3 files I have used for all my sgs phones and they all play in the default music player but only one appears in the music lists. I can select this as a default but have no idea why that appears in the lists and none of the others do and I have no idea why. I've looked at files sizes, permissions, id3 tags everything I can think of to determine the difference between that file and the others.
I've tried various selection options but anything other than the default media selector appears to work but at the final stage the tone is selected as silent.
Funny thing is I can individually select them on a per contact basis but this would take forever. Even the usually reliable group ringtone app has let me down
I even tried copying the files into the system/media folders still no dice
Any ideas anyone?
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curioct said:
First let me start by saying I'm by no means new to sgs phones this is my fourth.
I collected it Friday rooted it in the car park within the first minute, remapped the keys (what were they thinking with the menu thing) within the first hour etc etc
So all that said I am a little embarrassed by this.
I can't seem to set mp3's as default ringtones or notification tones.
I have copied the files into both the ringtones and notifications folders.
They are the same mp3 files I have used for all my sgs phones and they all play in the default music player but only one appears in the music lists. I can select this as a default but have no idea why that appears in the lists and none of the others do and I have no idea why. I've looked at files sizes, permissions, id3 tags everything I can think of to determine the difference between that file and the others.
I've tried various selection options but anything other than the default media selector appears to work but at the final stage the tone is selected as silent.
Funny thing is I can individually select them on a per contact basis but this would take forever. Even the usually reliable group ringtone app has let me down
I even tried copying the files into the system/media folders still no dice
Any ideas anyone?
Sent from my SM-G900F using XDA Free mobile app
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Set them using estrong's File Explorer. When you have the mp3 long press and do "set as". That will cover your ringtone. Then when you go to pick the notification pick "estrong's" instead of Android system.
Yeah that didnt work, no matter what I did I couldnt get them to be recognised by the internal music player and therefore they were not selectable. Still have no idea why.
However I managed to redownload the ones I wanted the most and use the new versions so I am guessing something in my ringtones folder has some level of corruption or something along those lines
but the workaround is working so no major hassle just a tad annoying not knowing what the issue actually is
Maybe its because of the length of them. I'm using MP3 for all my tones. But I cut out 30-35 seconds for ringtones, usually my favourite part of a song... My text tones are from CM/Carbon..
This was on shipping firmware, the OTA update and any custom ROM I've been on. At first I put them in their respective directory on the internal storage, but now on custom ROM I just have a custom flash able zip to put them in the proper system folders..
Edit: this method may allow them to show in the settings menu. That's where I like my ringtones showing..
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Essentialers,
I'm a newbie and I just made the switch from iPhone to Android. I read a whole lot about the Essential phone and sure enough, everything checks out right. I installed all the apps/updates etc and I thought I was good to go except when I got stuck with transferring my ringtones over to the Essential phone. I transferred my .mp4 from my mac via the android file transfer over to the "Ringtones" folder on my device. But I can't seem to find the ringtones on my phone at all. How do I make sure that Settings > Sounds has the recent ringtones that I added?
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Essentialers,
I'm a newbie and I just made the switch from iPhone to Android. I read a whole lot about the Essential phone and sure enough, everything checks out right. I installed all the apps/updates etc and I thought I was good to go except when I got stuck with transferring my ringtones over to the Essential phone. I transferred my .mp4 from my mac via the android file transfer over to the "Ringtones" folder on my device. But I can't seem to find the ringtones on my phone at all. How do I make sure that Settings > Sounds has the recent ringtones that I added?
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I see you mentioned mp4, but you need mp3 files. I have few ringtones that I copied to ringtones folder and never had any issues and all of them show up.
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I see you mentioned mp4, but you need mp3 files. I have few ringtones that I copied to ringtones folder and never had any issues and all of them show up.
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Thank you. Just corrected them and now I can see the ringtones.
Just wanted to see if anyone had run into this before on the Pure Edition (stock 7.0 rom) or any other device, for that matter. The phone finds ~99% of all music, but fails to get the length or title of a handful of tracks (music app just displays the file name as the name of the song instead of the actual encoded title). There is also a ring/notification tone that refuses to show up on the list of available sound effects for notifications and ringers. I could be wrong, but I assume that these are caused by the same underlying problem.
So far, I have tried using the Media Rescan app (even pointed it toward the specific directories in question) and also an app that places/removes a .nomedia file in troublesome directories. A few months ago, I even attempted to completely wipe data for the application that that does the actual media scanning. This succeeded at wiping out my alarm sound effect preferences, but the media scanning problem remained exactly the same.
For the notification noise, I also tried placing it in a "ringtones" and "notifications" folder on both the SD card and internal storage. Tried various combinations of the .nomedia file in the folder as well. There was no change.
There aren't any commonalities that I can see in the files that aren't being picked up (some mp3 and some flac). I have the same music and ringers on my other phone, and it doesn't have any trouble with even a single one of them, so, unless Android got magically better at parsing media between 7.0 and 10, something is cobbed up on my specific device.
At this point, I'm considering doing a hard reset, unless anyone can think of anything else that I could try. Any ideas?