My phone - stock ROM, rooted, faux123 kernel 15tbm - was acting up last night, eating battery and running warm without any apparent rogue apps that I could spot in GSam, so I rebooted to recovery, wiped the cache and Dalvik, and then let it charge. Today, while using it, I noticed my Nexus 7 making the incoming email alert, but the Nexus 4 was silent.
After checking that all the volumes were cranked up, both in Quick Settings and the System>Sound menu, I started investigating my ringtone and notification settings and discovered they were all borked with "unknown ringtone" or a 3-digit code like "531". When I go to select a tone, it wants me to choose from (Android) Media Storage System Sounds, ES Explorer or Handcent SMS. Most of the sounds I was using aren't showing in the Android sounds list and if I use ES there is no preview to see what the file sounds like.
It's been five months since I set it up and I can't remember what exactly I did, but something seems wrong with the selection method. I have unique tones associated with various mail accounts, etc so that I can tell by sound which app pinged and thus know if it's something requiring immediate attention or can wait. I liked the tones my OG EVO 4G had and have copied a folder of ring and notification tones from phone to phone and associated them with the accounts. They're stored in \sdcard\media\audio and then sub-folders there. I used to be able to preview those when selecting but now I can't. Major PITA.
I've never had this happen to any of my phones before and rebooting or running SDrescan hasn't helped. When someone calls, the phone vibrates, but no sound. What to do to fix this and what caused it in the first place? What a bother. TIA.
Do you have a backup of your audio files? If you do try restoring them. Maybe one or more of your audio files got corrupted. A corrupt file can sometimes cause media storage to constantly scan which would explain your battery drain.
After restoring your audio files, wipe cache/dalvik and fix permissions.
jr67 said:
Do you have a backup of your audio files? If you do try restoring them. Maybe one or more of your audio files got corrupted. A corrupt file can sometimes cause media storage to constantly scan which would explain your battery drain.
After restoring your audio files, wipe cache/dalvik and fix permissions.
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Rather than nuking the phone as some suggested - I suspect they're people who do nothing but flash nightlies and never actually use their phones - and reloading/reconfiguring over 170 apps, I just went and redid my ringtones. For some reason, the additional ones became available in the Android Media picker, so it worked out. Weird glitch.
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Hi all, HELP!!!
I have just spent 4 weeks setting up my phone, i have everything just as i want it.
But i noticed today when i received some txt messages it was silent, now when i select any sound for anything, ie events or ringtones its just silent, i hear nothing???.
If i move the volume slider i here the ping sound of the volume changing, so there is sound.
Now, if i go to the all settings menu, and try to assign a sound in the windows menu, when i click on a sound it shuffles through the entire list and stops back where it was in a second, almost like it cant find the sounds or something weird is going on???
Now this happened once before, and i restored using a SPB backup, but this time i have overwritten my backup with this before i realized what had happened.
Whats going on??????
Update, when i select a ringtone from the menu, and select it, when i go back on the menu it says ringtone "none"
???
I'm also having a similar issue with my HD2 (using 1.61 WWE rom).
The phone rings when I receive an incoming call but not when I get a txt. I can select a tone in Settings - Sound & Display - Notification Sounds and it will play the demo. My settings are saved but it just doesn't make a noise when I get a txt.
Any clues, anyone?
No this is different, i have no sounds at all, no ringtones, nothing, its as if they are just not there, the sounds are still in the windows DIR, but something looks different on the DOR layout, im sure the sounds were stored somewhere else too.
If i have to reformat my phone because of this im gonna freak damit, as this is not the first time.
Can anybody upload an image of the root DIR layout, or let me know of the sounds are stored anywhere else but the WIN DIR?
PS Where you get the 1.61 WWE rom?
I found a fix, use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you rebbot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again
I found a fix, use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you reboot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again
Please tell me how to fix this! What do i do once I install MemMaid?
use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you reboot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again
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use mem maid to transfer temp files to the storage card, including sounds, when you reboot, it reverts to main memory but your sounds work again
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Thats what you already said, but I asked HOW!?
Do you mean this program?
http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/
/edit: you are my HERO!! Thanks, it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NP I found it by mistake.
Havent been on android in a long while... and cant remember the process.
BUT how do you change your ringtones to using MP3s. I remember that you are suppose to put it in a certain folder, but which one and where in the directory.
Thanks
they go in:
/sdcard/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/audio/notifications
/sdcard/audio/alarms
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they go in:
/sdcard/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/audio/notifications
/sdcard/audio/alarms
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the problem is ... theres no sdcard/// well i mean audio subfolder
Yes, there is. The storage partition is mounted as /sdcard. Just create the audio subfolder and throw your mp3s in there.
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Yes, there is. The storage partition is mounted as /sdcard. Just create the audio subfolder and throw your mp3s in there.
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thanks... I thought I had to put it in the directory with all the original ringtones.
There's a little trick if you use winamp:
when playing the ringtone, set it as ringtone:
(I have a few humantones with a lot of curse)
Odd ringtone behavior
I've noticed an issue with my custom ringtones: the phone's ringtone resets to a default tone by itself.
I have a few mp3 ringtones and notification tones stored in /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones (and notifications). I will select the ringtone I want in settings, but after a while the phone reverts back to a default ringtone. When I go back to check my settings, none of the custom ringtones are listed. It's as if the phone doesn't see them on the internal SD card.
Most times, a reboot will clear it up; however, there doesn't seem to be any indication as to why my custom ringtone settings are lost.
I'm sure the mp3 files are OK, as I've used them before on a variety of android phones.
Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior? Any ideas what might cause this issue?
Thanks,
Sent from my Nexus S
Do you keep your contacts on the phone, the sim, or synced with Google? That might provide a clue.
I have had this happen before. Usually as a result of unmounting the internal storage. Easiest fix (doesn't take that long) if your rooted is to just adb push them to the rom. You can do it on a stock rooted rom, then do a titanium backup and in the future it will push them to whatever rom your on. But no, to answer your question, I'm not sure what causes it but it's easier to just push them once and forget about them since they take up so little space.
Everything is synched with Google.
I'll try the root and push to rom solution.
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus S
i have the same problem, and everything's synced to Google as well. Every time I mound my SD and unmount it the ringtones get mixed up or reset.
Looks as if the internal sdcard is unmounting automatically. When I lose my ringtones, looks as if I can't launch any apps I've moved over the sdcard. Strange.
Ringtone problem...Changes?
I don't know if i'm just drinking too much or if it's doing it on it's own but does anyone notice that the ringtone changes to a different one every day? I Use my own MP3 and they are no longer than 30 seconds but every day, it will set itself to a different tone....hmmm
I have noticed that I also notice that my SMS tones also change and this has to do if and when I actually connect to the USB and mount the USB.
Same here.
There seems to be a slew of issues with this phone, of which the list seems to grow by the day. It's a huge deterrent.
Is it my imagination, or are there more issues with this release than a typical phone release? It really supports what I believe was a rushed product by Google/Sammy.
i love the phone no doubt but the ringtone thing bugs me a lot. i can never tell when my phone is ringing. i been using the same tone forever.....30 days to return it if purchased at full price....thinking thinking thinking.
I have the same issue. Well issues being reported. I like the phone, for this being my first dive into Android but damn. I think this might be more of a FAIL then the N1.
I'm really thinking of returning it to Best Buy. But what phone to get? Stock Android is awesome and with fast updates it is a toss up.
Anyone else having the issue with wanting to ditch it but yet what other phone on the market will be stock android?
Well at least we all have a few more weeks to think about it.
heard someone say that the 2.3.1 update fixes it
[Q] ringtone folder?
where do i put ringtones on the nexus S? i made a folder under media so its like media>audio>ringtone but for somereason it did not recognize it. where do i put ringtones, notifications, alarms?
Hi,
i rooted my Neo lately (based on 2.3.2 Gingerbreak and OTA to latest 368) and removed the junk (facebook related stuff, the golf game etc). All works well and the device works nice and smooth.
One strange thing I noticed is the ringtone and notification sound selection. I also removed quite a few ringtones I don't like and only kept 10 sound each for ringtones, notification and alarm. The system partition has more space free too so those ogg files are really gone. The funny thing is that the selection list now has every sound 2 or 3 times (and not once each) and even those that were removed are still there and playing. And that is AFTER a full wipe.
Any idea where they are coming from? I mean its working well and once set up I really don't bother how that list looks. But it quite funny that the device still sees and plays sounds that were completely removed from those directories.
Or does the system notice the backup directories of the same name on the sd card?
Have you tried to reboot your phone and see if the ringtones and notification sounds are still there? Because when I add/remove those things, I have to reboot my Arc to see the changes.
The device is actually seeing the backup folders on the SD card. After I zipped those an deleted the ogg files on the card, they were gone in the list too after a reboot. So as long as you have folders like 'ringtone' oder 'notification' on the card, the ogg files in there will be in the list too.
Hey guys,
I've got a Nexus 4 running the latest version of Cyanogenmod.
Every things been fine with the phone until I woke up this morning and found I'd lost my custom ringtone. Also, my photo's wern't showing up in Gallery. I connected my phone up to my PC to see what was what. (Half the time my computer won't open the phone, it just opens up saying '0 items', and I have to un-plug and re-plug in the phone several times before it lets me access the internal storage).
I found that nothing had changed; everything was still on my phone, all my pictures, ringtones etc. I quickly backed them all up to my PC in case the Nexus decided to delete them.
I really don't understand why my phone is doing this. I've put my custom .mp3 ringtone in every audio folder I could find;
Media>Audio>Notifications>Ringtones
Music
Notifications
Ringtones
I've got the song saved in about 8 different locations on the phone, and it still won't recognise it in the ringtones options. I've tried various 'ringtone-setting' apps, but they haven't worked. They told me that my custom ringtone was selected but when the phone rang, it used the default tone.
ALSO, when I tried to put my photos back on my phone (DCIM>Camera) they arn't showing up in my Gallery.
Any one else experience similar problems and knows a solution?
Many thanks
jjl5590 said:
Hey guys,
I've got a Nexus 4 running the latest version of Cyanogenmod.
Every things been fine with the phone until I woke up this morning and found I'd lost my custom ringtone. Also, my photo's wern't showing up in Gallery. I connected my phone up to my PC to see what was what. (Half the time my computer won't open the phone, it just opens up saying '0 items', and I have to un-plug and re-plug in the phone several times before it lets me access the internal storage).
I found that nothing had changed; everything was still on my phone, all my pictures, ringtones etc. I quickly backed them all up to my PC in case the Nexus decided to delete them.
I really don't understand why my phone is doing this. I've put my custom .mp3 ringtone in every audio folder I could find;
Media>Audio>Notifications>Ringtones
Music
Notifications
Ringtones
I've got the song saved in about 8 different locations on the phone, and it still won't recognise it in the ringtones options. I've tried various 'ringtone-setting' apps, but they haven't worked. They told me that my custom ringtone was selected but when the phone rang, it used the default tone.
ALSO, when I tried to put my photos back on my phone (DCIM>Camera) they arn't showing up in my Gallery.
Any one else experience similar problems and knows a solution?
Many thanks
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Use file explorer and start to hunt down a file name ".nomedia" (without quotes), the file explorer need to have "show hidden files" enabled. For your case, most likely there is one placed under /sdcard.
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Use file explorer and start to hunt down a file name ".nomedia" (without quotes), the file explorer need to have "show hidden files" enabled. For your case, most likely there is one placed under /sdcard.
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There isn't a .nomedia file in the root of the storage but there is a NOMEDIA file in the Notifications folder.
Hi,
I wonder if anyone else has this weird issue.
I have a new Galaxy S8 running stock 7.0 (Samsung experience 8.1).
I have a bunch of custom notification and ringtone files in the /sdcard/Notifications and /sdcard/Ringtones folders respectively. All sounds are MP3s with 320Kbps CBR, 48K sampling rate.
I replaced the default ringtone and Default notification sound with the custom ones, just to discover that they are being reverted back to Samsung standard ones ("Over the horizon" ringtone, and "Conga" notification) after some random time.
I have set the custom sounds multiple times over and over by now, rebooted the phone multiple times. Custom notifications are there after reboot, but then they are reverted after some time.
I can't find any rhyme or reason why that would happen.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Anatoli
Move the files to internal storage. Had this issue a few years ago and that was the solution.
Str0ntium said:
Move the files to internal storage. Had this issue a few years ago and that was the solution.
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Thank you for your reply!
The files are already in the internal storage.
I think I found the culprit - sound profile switching app.
Since I migrated from my previous phone, the profiles point to old sound files. So when the profile app tries to switch to a non-existing sound, a default sound is used instead. Arrrggggghhhhhh! The price of having too many apps.
I wonder what other pains this migration will cause.