This is driving me insane at the moment! I went into the system/media/audio folder and removed and added some sounds to the alarm, notification, and ringtone folders. Set all the permissions cortectly. The sounds were working fine for a while, but now when I go into Ringtones and Notifications settings within Sound settings, none of the sounds are showing up, not even the stock sounds that I didn't remove.
I've double checked the permissions, wiped the Dalvik Cache and Cache, fixed sll permissions with TWRP, still no sounds. The Ringtones setting gives an option to add ringtones, and I can individually add sounds in the system/media/audio/ringtones folder, but I don't want to have to do that for all of them, and this also displays the ".mp3" part of the filename rather than just the name of the sound, which I don't like.
This worked on my E4GT and I assume it should work on the G4... anybody have any idea on how I can fix this? Thanks!
I had a zip of the stock system sounds stored on my ExtSD card. I unzipped it and copied back into the system. Then the system was finding the sounds again I thought... but when I deleted the unzipped folder of sounds from my ExtSD, all the sounds disappeared again. For some reason, my system is no longer finding the sounds in the system folder...
Well, in my ongoing effort to solve this myself, I put the just the stock sounds back into the system, and after rebooting they are recognized again. Can they not be changed in the GS4? I'm going to try just removing the ones I don't want and see if that sticks...
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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
Update: Nevermind, just decided to update my ROM and the sounds work fine. Thank you!
I replaced the lock, unlock, and low battery sound with louder versions of the stock sounds from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768701 and my phone ended up not playing the sounds at all anymore. I backed up the sounds from the system/media/audio/ui/ and copied them to sdcard. I then deleted the sounds from the system folder, pasted the louder stock sounds in there, reboot, and none of the sounds work. So I pasted the backed up stock sounds back into the system folder. The rest of the System UI sounds work though. I'm on Paranoid Android and I used ES File Explorer if that info helps.
Is there any way to fix this?
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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I installed a Walkman port that turned out to be nonfunctional, and since I was stupid and didn't make a backup before, I had to remove it manually, but I must have deleted something that was related to the Music app, because now it crashes when I try to open it. Can someone be nice enough to extract some files from the stock kitkat rom the following folders so I can check out which files I'm missing?
The stuff that I must have accidentally deleted was in one of the following folders:
system/etc/permissions
system/etc/surround_sound
sustem/framerwork (something with "sony" in the filename)
system/lib
system/soundfx
Alternatively I'd like to know if there is any way to extract these folders from the odin flashable firmware file I downloaded so I can restore these folders without having to reflash everything. There is a system.ext4 in the tar file but I can't seem to find a way to open it.
And finally, is there some way to troubleshoot what's making the app crash? It's probably missing a file, is there some way to tell which one?
Reflashing the firmware is a last resort because I already customized a lot on this phone and I don't feel like doing all of that again.
Update: I half-fixed it by deleting Dalvik Cache a few times. Now the app works but I don't see the notification with music controls anymore. Instead there's a notification that says "Music is running. Tap for more info or to stop the app", and if I tap it it brings me to the app info screen where I can force stop, clear data, etc. Also I click "play" and the music doesn't play anymore, it stays stuck at 00:00.
What's up with that?
My phone is rooted, I can successfully write to /System/media/audio/ui. I have created my own .ogg files. They play on the phones media player just fine. Once I place them into the /System/media/audio/ui directory they no longer can be played. What might I be doing wrong. I am trying to change the water drop sound when pressing the back button. I realize I can turn it off, but I want to actually change it.
I would also like to note that when I move the .ogg files out of the /System/media/audio/ui directory they begin to be playable again.
They have the exact same name including capitol letters, the same permissions, and still not working after a reboot? Can you play the files with the stock music player?
LeftyGR said:
They have the exact same name including capitol letters, the same permissions, and still not working after a reboot? Can you play the files with the stock music player?
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I can play the files until I move them into the system directory. While they are in the system directory they will not play. When I move them back into other directories they play. They do have the same names. Permissions I didn't think to check or look into. I will have to check the permissions of the files I am creating.
Permissions were the issue. I changed the permissions and now everything works. Thank you.
AMCJUNGLE said:
Permissions were the issue. I changed the permissions and now everything works. Thank you.
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One sound I can't seem to find is the unlock sound. I see the unlock.ogg but that doesn't seem to be the actual sound that is being used to unlock my Note 3. I've listened to all the system sounds yet can't seem to find it.