[Q] Ringtones folder on sdcard is not seen by the device - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a trouble adding a new folder with custom ringtones on the sdcard. The device doesn't show these ringtones in system ringtone chooser whatever I do. However, on older firmwares I didn't have any problems with this, the device showed these ringtones right after I restarted the phone. Recently I full wiped and flashed MEA stock rom from the scratch, and now I can't make the device show my custom ringtones in the system menu. Adding the ringtones to System/media/audio/ringtones folder works, but I would like to have a separate folder with custom ringtones on the sdcard, so that I don't have to put them in system ringtones folder after each rom change.
Does anybody has a solution to this?

Abu-khulzat said:
I have a trouble adding a new folder with custom ringtones on the sdcard. The device doesn't show these ringtones in system ringtone chooser whatever I do. However, on older firmwares I didn't have any problems with this, the device showed these ringtones right after I restarted the phone. Recently I full wiped and flashed MEA stock rom from the scratch, and now I can't make the device show my custom ringtones in the system menu. Adding the ringtones to System/media/audio/ringtones folder works, but I would like to have a separate folder with custom ringtones on the sdcard, so that I don't have to put them in system ringtones folder after each rom change.
Does anybody has a solution to this?
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Hi,
Try Media Scanner

Media scanner didn't help. The system does see the files if i want to add them manually one by one. But the files won't appear in the menu automatically as they used to do before.
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Im new here but I read somewhere that a .nomedia file may me stored in a folder and mediascanner for images,music,video will skip this folder. View hidden files and folders in your folder browser so you can see dot files and see if this file is in the ringtones folder. if yes then delete it.
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Try putting a "ringtones" folder in sd card and put your ringtones in there. Then try to see if it shows up.

The previous answer was almost correct.
In your SD Card create a folder with the name "media", inside create 3 folders: "Notifications", "Ringtones" and "Alarms". By doing that your device automatically will recognize every file an list it in the right place.

Actually, I have all those folders on the sdcard. As I said, just before flashing mea Rom with full wipe, these folders were recognized and the all my ringtones were in system sound selection menu. But after flashing, whatever I do, I can't make them appear there. I only have to add them manually one by one. I think there is something changed in mea update that doesn't let you add new ringtones. However, the hangouts app created ringtones folder and two files are there and the are in the system sound selection menu. But if I add couple of my ringtones to that folder
, they don't show up after restarting the phone. The same ringtones, when put into the system/media/audio/ringtones folder using root explorer, appear in the system with no issue.
So as said, there might be some change since Mea Rom that is not letting adding new ringtones.
What do you think?
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Seems very hectic for you buddy.
try this if possible.
Go to Setting-> applications-> All-> Search for Media storage-> Clear the data & Stop it (force Close). Again start this service.
Reboot the device in Recovery ( If you are rooted) then clear only dalvik cache.
Now, it will take 15 min to scan your device media.
Remember, your all Ringtones setting will be lost in this case.

Man, thanks a lot! This really worked and none of the audio settings were lost.
I am just curious, why this could happen? Maybe it's because I restored my system from Titanium backup, and media storage was there. In Mea rom there might be some changes to media storage so there was some conflict. Is it right?
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Actually some of the settings were lost, like alarm etc. But not a big deal, thanks man
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Abu-khulzat said:
Man, thanks a lot! This really worked and none of the audio settings were lost.
I am just curious, why this could happen? Maybe it's because I restored my system from Titanium backup, and media storage was there. In Mea rom there might be some changes to media storage so there was some conflict. Is it right?
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yes buddy. when u restored the data using TB,it restore the media storage too .
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[Audio] [4/6/10] Audio Repository

This is a collection of audio files from several ROMs from several phones, including:
CDMA Hero - 1.5
CDMA Hero - AOSP 2.1
CDMA Hero - Sense 2.1
Motorola Stock
Samsung Stock
There are almost 200 different sounds in this collection! Tons of variety!
Also note that this frees up some space in your /system partition! Always a good thing!
Copy the .zip posted and flash it just like any other update.zip. This will delete your current system/media/audio folders (with the exception of ui) and place the repository on your sdcard. BE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH SPACE ON YOUR SDCARD BEFORE FLASHING THIS!
Updates:
Included additional sounds from here
Created an update.zip to automagically delete current system files
Download
Gregalous said:
IThe .zip posted contains a folder called media. To use the sounds, unzip the attached file to your tools folder and from ADB:
Code:
adb remount
adb push media /system/media/
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There is no need to put the files in /system/
You can make a /media folder on the SD card and it works the same... *AND* the files won't get hosed with every ROM reflash.
x99percent said:
There is no need to put the files in /system/
You can make a /media folder on the SD card and it works the same... *AND* the files won't get hosed with every ROM reflash.
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I tried that first but then all the files show up in your Music player. I also tried putting a .nomedia file in the folder but then they didn't show up at all.
This is the only way I've found that works completely.
Dont put it in your system folder. Create a /media/audio/notifications or /media/audio/ringtones folder on your sdcard. My ringtones and notifications are seen in these folders.
Gregalous said:
I have created a collection of notifications, ringtones, alarms, and general UI sounds from every ROM that I have ever used (1.5, 1.6 and 2.1 w/ & w/o Sense) all into one folder. This gives you a huge amount of choices for ringtones, notification sounds, etc.
The .zip posted contains a folder called media. To use the sounds, unzip the attached file to your tools folder and from ADB:
Code:
adb remount
adb push media /system/media/
Give it just a second (as there are quite a few of them) and when it's done copying it will tell you. Reboot once finished.
I did not do an update.zip because quite honestly it's much faster and easier to do it through ADB.
Enjoy
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There is no zip posted .......... if you want to email it to me I would be happy to host it for you.
david279 said:
Dont put it in your system folder. Create a /media/audio/notifications or /media/audio/ringtones folder on your sdcard. My ringtones and notifications are seen in these folders.
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Again, the reason I put those instructions up is because when I had tried putting it on my sdcard, the files would show up in the music player.
Besides, you can use the files however you want, I'm not forcing anyone to put them into /system, that was just my recommendation.
rockcrawler said:
There is no zip posted .......... if you want to email it to me I would be happy to host it for you.
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Woops! Fixed now, thatnks for pointing that out!
system has some limited space thats why i would recommend not putting it there.
Gregalous said:
I tried that first but then all the files show up in your Music player. I also tried putting a .nomedia file in the folder but then they didn't show up at all.
This is the only way I've found that works completely.
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Im sorry but i tried to do it your way and you're right they don't show in the music app but i cant find them anywhere on the phone.
PS: I know how to push files and it did
ktynchy1 said:
Im sorry but i tried to do it your way and you're right they don't show in the music app but i cant find them anywhere on the phone.
PS: I know how to push files and it did
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You went to phone ringtone/notification ringtone and there wasn't anything there? If done correctly there should be a very long list to choose from.
Did you reboot after pushing?
Ok so after further testing, it turns out that the only files that show up in the music player are the UI sounds. So I just deleted those (since they're all the same in all the ROMs I'm pretty sure, plus no one really cares about those) and now it works just perfectly when you put in your sdcard.
I humbly admit that I was wrong This should work better now, especially for those that were worried about using up /system space.
First post edited with new directions and .zip.
awesome! Thanks so much for making this! After RMing the media files from the system I gained like 20mb's that can be utilized in running apps and such. You're the man!
I tried installing this by putting them on the sdcard, and all of the sounds show up on the list, but everyone option I chose plays the same song on my sdcard :|
Ideas?
did you RM the system files? Mine works fine.
alexthearmo said:
did you RM the system files? Mine works fine.
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Ya I did, and then I my phone would freeze when anything tried to notify me, and it woudn't mount my sd card :| Good thing i have a sdcard slot in my computer, i had to remove the files and rewrite them to my sdcard. Then it started working. No idea why, but its working
I merged your folder with the original media folder and rebooted but they do not show up...??
in case anyone is having trouble with this, there is a very clear post on how to do this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5936137&postcount=3236
Updated, nearly 200 sounds in this package now
Now in update.zip format, super easy!
Cool thanks... Will give it a try...
Thanks for posting this.

File management?

How do you access the hard disk/storage card from the device? I can't figure it out for the life of me.
Thanks!
you need to download an app from the market, i use ASTRO
Cool...thanks...I appreciate it.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
Astro is normally the file manager of choice for Android users (non-rooted, at least).
OI file manager is another popular one, and it even adds an option in your email app so that you can attach any file.
I have both, I recommend you do the same.
sccafun said:
Cool...thanks...I appreciate it.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
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I use Astro as well, but I have used Linda Manager in the past and that was pretty decent, but it's been a while since I used it.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I hope this helps other new Android users.
What about for the internal memory?
What about for the internal memory?
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internal is located in /emmc
the sdcard is /sdcard
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deekjx said:
internal is located in /emmc
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Thanks I had no idea, it looks like a folder in my file browser so I couldn't be sure that was it.
astro is nice because it has a built in ftp client that supports sftp. that's my favorite part of it. just installed oi for email. pretty excited about being able attach any files now instead of only pictures
EDIT: forgot to say thanks thanks!!
And EStrongs is good if you want to do network shares (and supports samba).
It has ftp too. Not sure about secure ftp though, I havent installed Estrongs on my Incredible and never thought to try secure ftp on my Droid.
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Thanks I had no idea, it looks like a folder in my file browser so I couldn't be sure that was it.
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I was in the same boat. Thanks a bunch.
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I was in the same boat. Thanks a bunch.
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Me too Thanks
Using Astro, I cannot copy/paste/move ringtones into the media/ringtones folder on the phone's hard disk....has anyone noticed this? Is there another program that will allow you to do this?
sccafun said:
Using Astro, I cannot copy/paste/move ringtones into the media/ringtones folder on the phone's hard disk....has anyone noticed this? Is there another program that will allow you to do this?
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On the sdcard or the emmc folder?
I have no problem with either. I just used Astro and went into the emmc folder and created a "ringtones" folder and copied and pasted one of my ringtones into it.
Where exactly are you copying from and pasting to? If you put the ringtones into a folder on the emmc or sdcard the phone will see them.
Ringtones go in a folder called "ringtones", notifications in "notifications" and alarms in "alarms". That's all you need to do to get them to show in the list of available sounds.
Thanks for responding….my ringtones are on my SD card…I'm was trying to copy/paste or move the ringtones from there into the system/media/audio/ringtones directory.
Ah-ha, I see… you can't move the files directly from your SD card to the system directory, you have to place the ringtones in the emmc directory first….well, that's different…I'm used to Win Mo….love Total Commander…..
Ok, really..I'm not a dunce…I was able to move the files from my sd card to the emmc folder, but I cannot move to the ringtones directory from the path listed above…. :-?
sccafun said:
Thanks for responding….my ringtones are on my SD card…I'm was trying to copy/paste or move the ringtones from there into the system/media/audio/ringtones directory.
Ah-ha, I see… you can't move the files directly from your SD card to the system directory, you have to place the ringtones in the emmc directory first….well, that's different…I'm used to Win Mo….love Total Commander…..
Ok, really..I'm not a dunce…I was able to move the files from my sd card to the emmc folder, but I cannot move to the ringtones directory from the path listed above…. :-?
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There is no reason or need to put them on the "system". I suspect we need to root to do that. But the phone will use your ringtones whether they are in the system folder, the sdcard, or the emmc. It is the name of the folder that matters. Just name them like I mentioned and they'll show up in all the right places.
On my Incredible, I can only select the default ringtones from the system/media/audio/ringtones directory. The device will not recognize ringtones from anywhere else when trying to assign ringtones for my contacts, or for the device in general.... so as is, I can only select the default ringtones, or buy new ones....ha,ha...yeah, right....I'll send the device back first....
sccafun said:
On my Incredible, I can only select the default ringtones from the system/media/audio/ringtones directory. The device will not recognize ringtones from anywhere else when trying to assign ringtones for my contacts, or for the device in general.... so as is, I can only select the default ringtones, or buy new ones....ha,ha...yeah, right....I'll send the device back first....
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Either you are doing something wrong or your phone is broken. Or maybe you are using a bad/incompatible file for a ringtone?
Do this for me.
Create a folder on your sdcard called "ringtones". Put it on the root of your sdcard and name it EXACTLY like that (without the quotes, of course). Place your mp3 ringtone in there. It will then show up as an option for your phone's main ringtone. Use a known good ringtone if you are having issues.
Now, that ringtone will not show up for notifications or alarms. You have to also create a folder called "alarms" and "notifications" and put the ringtones in there as well.
This works 100% for me and my Incredible (it was the same on the Droid and Devour as well - those are the only Android devices I have so far).
Ok, renaming the folder to "Ringtones" worked. Like I said, I'm not a dunce or new to PPC/smartphones...however, I am new to Android....with WM you don't have to jump through these hoops just to get the device to recognize the sound files, or to move files from one directory to another. Thanks for your help again, I hope this helps other new Droid users!

[Q] Duplicate entries in ringtone list. How to fix?

Iced Glacier has several missing ringtones and notification tones. The sounds are shown in the ringtone list, but selecting one will play a default tone or the last selected working ringtone. If one of these ringtones is selected, the phone may not play sound when receiving a call or notification. I just had to correct this issue for my GF's phone, as she was complaining gmail would not play sounds when she got an email notification.
I located the missing ringtones in a different ROM, placed them on the SD Card and then moved them to the correct locations using Root Explorer. After a reboot I now have duplicate entries for those ringtones. Why would they show up twice? The best I can figure is that there is a master file list of the ringtone files somewhere, that is why the list had entries that did not correspond to an actual file. Adding the files to the system folder causes the new files to appear in the list, but they are not identical in some way to the file properties in the master file list, therefor are treated as a separate file.
So the question is, how do we fix this? I have had issues where re-flashing the ROM did not correct the list, I had to restore an old nandroid of stock, then flashed Iced again. I want to keep the sounds in place, but without the duplicate entries. Is it critical? No, just annoying.
Any ideas?
No ideas guys?
Hi,
I had the same problem on MB525 - Motorola Defy running CyanogenMod 7.
I tried removing all content from media/ringtones to bring it back and produce a list with only one ofeach tone. It didn't work either.
Then it dawned on me that the system scanned the whole memory card and internal phone memory for the .ogg ringtones. I had backups of previous ROM installations' on the mmc and they were showing up, thus giving me those annoying repeated tones on the ringtone selection list.
So I zipped all backup folders to keep them from being detected and problem solved for ringtones, alarm tones and notification tones.
There is probably some string on the ogg files tag that causes them to be listed as ringtones.
Cheers!
André
Sent from my MB525 CM7
If they are still on your girl's mmc you have to zip, remove or hide these ringtone files from system scan. The system looks even on the mmc for files with some tag that classify them as rongtone files.
This was my conclusion. Experiment erasing all but one of them from the mmc and you'll see the only one remaining will still show twice while the others' duplicates disappeared.
Also you have to reboot after erasing them from mmc so that the system rescans on bootup and updates the ringtone selection list.
Phew, hope this helps!!
André
Sent from my MB525 CM7

[Q] (Q).how to customize ringtones in android 2.3.3?

hey guys!.i've installed hyperdroid nand rom GBX V8.0.it's pretty fast and stable.but i can't really copy files into phone memory from my sd card,just to a cutomized ring tone.every time i try to move or copy a song to the ringtones folder,it shows that it cannot be moved.can any one help?.thanks in advance!
Hi there,u go to market and do a search for ringtone maker it's free,with the program u can cut and do all the stuff and it saves it in the ringtones folder .
enjoy
richiegopal said:
hey guys!.i've installed hyperdroid nand rom GBX V8.0.it's pretty fast and stable.but i can't really copy files into phone memory from my sd card,just to a cutomized ring tone.every time i try to move or copy a song to the ringtones folder,it shows that it cannot be moved.can any one help?.thanks in advance!
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Try an application like RingDroid.
thanks guys it really worked!!..
You just need to create a folder on your sd card called "media". The create a folder inside this called "ringtones".
Then put your custom ringtones in there and reboot. Now they will show in the ringtones list...no need to install any other app or copy the files each time you flash a new ROM.
Same thing for notifications, just add a "notifications" folder inside the media folder.
the_scotsman said:
You just need to create a folder on your sd card called "media". The create a folder inside this called "ringtones".
Then put your custom ringtones in there and reboot. Now they will show in the ringtones list...no need to install any other app or copy the files each time you flash a new ROM.
Same thing for notifications, just add a "notifications" folder inside the media folder.
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this didn't work for me.. i'm running mdj cyanogenmod 7 2.6
well i did some googling and i found out that for me (android 2.3.2) i had to create those 2 folders (ringtones & notifications) to the root of my sd card and not in a folder called media
i hope this helped you out
XthelordinatorX said:
well i did some googling and i found out that for me (android 2.3.2) i had to create those 2 folders (ringtones & notifications) to the root of my sd card and not in a folder called media
i hope this helped you out
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That's strange, because I use Gingerbread, and mine are inside the media folder...I've used this method for a long time, even when I was using MDJ's early builds...
Oh wee, as long as it's working for you now
the_scotsman said:
You just need to create a folder on your sd card called "media". The create a folder inside this called "ringtones".
Then put your custom ringtones in there and reboot. Now they will show in the ringtones list...no need to install any other app or copy the files each time you flash a new ROM.
Same thing for notifications, just add a "notifications" folder inside the media folder.
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Thanks,,works perfect
XthelordinatorX said:
well i did some googling and i found out that for me (android 2.3.2) i had to create those 2 folders (ringtones & notifications) to the root of my sd card and not in a folder called media
i hope this helped you out
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Same here for CM7 2.3.3
XthelordinatorX said:
well i did some googling and i found out that for me (android 2.3.2) i had to create those 2 folders (ringtones & notifications) to the root of my sd card and not in a folder called media
i hope this helped you out
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Hi.
I have not done any googlings, but just created three folders, ringtones, notifications and alarms in media folder and this is perfectly working. Each ringtone in every folder corresponds ringtones lists in settings. I did not even rebooted my phone.
I tried a while ago to get my custom rigtones and notifications to show up and play, to no avail, until I saw "The_Scotsman" post, I used an app called Rings Extended. It worked well but as of yesterday I have uninstalled it. I am running Gingerbread, CM7, ver. 2.3.7. Thanks goes out to the community and a special thanks to "The Scotsman"

Rooted N7 custom ringtone help

Hi since I rooted my N7, I wanted to customize it more by adding custom ringtones, I put the ringtones in /system/media/audio/notifications & in /system/media/audio/ringtones with the help of ES File Explorer, but the ringtone files don't play(By don't play I mean I can select the ringtone from the apps settings and it shows up in the list of default ringtones but it doesn't make any sound). I've rebooted my N7 but still nothing. How do I solve this problem?
I should also mention that the ringtones are in ogg format and the names are as follows
Facebook Pop.ogg
Gmail Voice Call.ogg
Google Voice Ding.ogg
Hangout Ding.ogg
They do play with vlc on windows and with play music on N7. but just not when selected with the app or in ES File Explorer.
Oh I forgot to mention they do show up when selecting a notification/ringtone.
Any help will be most appreciated thanking in advance.
Should I clear some sort of cache? I read somewhere if you clear the system cache it solves the problem. But I don't know how to clear it from where.
Can somebody advice me on how to go about this? I've searched the forum and I can't seem to find any information on this subject, I know its would have been asked/discussed before.
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The standard place for adding custom tones are /sdcard/Alarms, /sdcard/Notifications and /sdcard/Ringtones
I'd put them in there, then they are available irrespective of what ROM you install.
As to your specific problem - check that you set the permission on the files properly when you copied them to /system/media
Sent from my Nexus 7
BillGoss said:
The standard place for adding custom tones are /sdcard/Alarms, /sdcard/Notifications and /sdcard/Ringtones
I'd put them in there, then they are available irrespective of what ROM you install.
As to your specific problem - check that you set the permission on the files properly when you copied them to /system/media
Sent from my Nexus 7
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Thanks thats exactly what the problem was, I figured it out before reading your reply, but I really appreciate that you replied.
For anybody who is having this sort of problem this is what you need to have selected for permissions
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