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Hi. Im having a problem with my T-mobile MDA but using a cingular sim. Using prepaid account. I want it to go all silent, so when i use it in class, theres no sound.
I've turned the volume to off but whenever I send a text message theres a sound that plays right after it sends. I have turned all the sound in the settings/sounds and notifications folder and unchecked all of the boxes in the sound and notifications tab. right after that i tried sending a text message again. Again, I get this message from cingular telling me how much money i still got on my account, and it plays a sound along with it. I found out that its the "Notify" sound. so I went back to the notifications tab and selected every single event to play a different sound. After that I tried to check again and sent a text message... and the sound still plays.
've done all I try that I would know of but i cant seem to make that sound disappear. maybe someone can find out a way to fix this? maybe something to edit in the registry? Thanks much!
Bryan

I believe the only way to accomplish what you want would be to replace the notify sound with an empty sound file. I'm not entirely sure where the file is located, but I believe it was in the Windows folder somewhere.
Check this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42022&highlight=disable+system+sounds

hmmm i tried what they said... and its weird the sound now turned into a small beep but still audible. i tried overwriting notify.wav with a no sound file and but it now changed into a beep. kinda hard not to get noticed specially when the whole class is quiet. im starting to have doubts with my phone. cant even go on full silent mode.

Did you replace it with:
A) simply a 0-byte text file renamed to a .wav
B) an actual .wav file complete with headers and such?
The reason I ask is because I assume if the system tries to play the file described as "A)" it will beep because it is missing the headers and isn't actually a valid .wav

i tried doing different stuff
1. making a wav file out of a text document and just renaming the file extension.
2. making a wav file with no sound using a sound recorder.
there are some things that i noticed. when i changed "notify.wav" by overwriting it with a wav file with the same name from my desktop, the sound produced changed into "Voicbeep.wav". i figured that it can only play sounds from the windows folder that cant be deleted.
so the only thing i was able to do was pick one of the wav files thats originally in the windows folder that made the least attention catching, and short, (ones that cant be deleted), copied it to my desktop. then renamed it to Voicbeep.wav since it was the sound being played ever since i messed with notify.wav. its less annoying now... but still audible.
sucks that this phone cant be turned fully silent.

Unfortunately, I'm not on prepaid so I can't reproduce your situation and try to fix it on my phone.
Good luck man, I know how it can be when a small thing that should be so easy to fix just won't go away.

its alright. at least something was done to remedy the situation. i appreciate it much aron7awol. thanks a lot

hurrah! i was able to fix it! well to anybody who gets any problems with sounds that play even if the phone is in mute mode and if that sound is found in the windows folder follow these steps to get rid of it.
things you'll need:
total commander
a no sound wav file
lets say the file i want to turn off is: notify.wav
steps:
1. on your computer rename the wav file to the name of the file you want to replace or turn silent. (this case notify.wav)
2. transfer the notify.wav into any folder in your phone
3. use total commander to transfer the file in the windows folder.
(in the thread thats previously posted, it all ends here)
4. using total commander, select the file and select properties.
5. check the system box. (i think this was the only thing unmentioned) but oh well... i think this would work good for any other system file that you want to erase
*if you dont check the system box, it will find a different system wav file to play instead*
voila! sound is replaced and wont play again

nice one mate....worked for me

[BUG] Ringtone Keeps Changing

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

ikon8 said:
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.

ikon8 said:
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?

[Q] Ringtones in memory not found by Android, files exist

As title says, I am suddenly unable to set any ringtone, notification, etc on my ICS Android (HD2).
The files are there (in phone memory - \system\media\ringtones), the phone is rooted and the file permissions are fine.
But yet the ringtones do not appear in the respective lists in Settings.
Powering off does not seem to help.
Any ideas?

copy from other rom
copy from other roms ring tones to your file

Thx, but that doesn't make any sense to me.
I already have my ringtone files on my PC and I could easily re-upload them in the proper folder on the Android. But when I do so, they still do not appear...Used to work fine...

Anyone? Thx

Same pb
Hello,
I am having almost the same problem.
Sometimes impossible to find the rings while they are still on the phone.
Often, the system is in read / open and not read / write, after a reboot or two, everything falls into place.
But I do not know whence can this problem.
Good luck and tell us if you find
Franky

try an app like ring tone maker.
works like a charm for finding files and using them for rings/notifications etc
am using American Android Rom and ring tone maker to set the rings

Such programs usually store their ringtone files on the SD Card, which is not what I am looking for.
I want my files loaded from the memory - and they are already there and worked before, that's what pisses me off..

All notifications and ringtones broken; showing as random #s

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.

custom sounds for notifications?

Hi,
I've tried following online instructions for adding custom notification sounds, which say to copy the sound file to storage>emulated>notifications, and then selecting the sound via settings>[app of interest]. But when trying to use the custom sound for the messages app, the new sound doesn't appear in the list, and I can't find a way to select any other custom sound.
Can anyone help with this?
Thanks...

restart the phone or use some app for media data base refresh
of the top of my head SD scanner or something like this is the name of the app
just search play store for Media data base scanner or rescan

Thanks for the tip. I've rebooted, and downloaded/run SD Scanner, with no joy. The file I'm trying to use is in mp3 format; is that a problem?
FWIW, the problem S10 is my wife's phone. I used the recommended process last night to add the same mp3 file to my ancient Nexus 6P, and in a strange sequence of events, it didn't 'take' last night when we checked, but when I got my 1st text this morning, the notification sound had changed to the new sound.
The S10's available sounds under 'general notifications'>'sound' include a category of 'custom', which has 'Facebook Pop' as its only entry, but I can't find any way to access the 'custom' category to add a file to it.
Again, thanks for any assistance.

rv7charlie said:
Thanks for the tip. I've rebooted, and downloaded/run SD Scanner, with no joy. The file I'm trying to use is in mp3 format; is that a problem?
FWIW, the problem S10 is my wife's phone. I used the recommended process last night to add the same mp3 file to my ancient Nexus 6P, and in a strange sequence of events, it didn't 'take' last night when we checked, but when I got my 1st text this morning, the notification sound had changed to the new sound.
The S10's available sounds under 'general notifications'>'sound' include a category of 'custom', which has 'Facebook Pop' as its only entry, but I can't find any way to access the 'custom' category to add a file to it.
Again, thanks for any assistance.
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hmmm just to be clear you added mp3 to Notification folder (the default one) and i wont show up in app when trying to change the sound or it wont show up in samsung's notification sound selection? (also try adding the sound to ringtones folder)
also you could try converting the sound to *.OGG see if that does the trick?

Correct. Added to Notification folder, but file name doesn't show up it the selection list for messages app sounds, nor any of the general 'sounds and vibration' subcategories. I'll try to convert the file to .ogg format and retry.
Thanks; will post my results.

rv7charlie said:
Correct. Added to Notification folder, but file name doesn't show up it the selection list for messages app sounds, nor any of the general 'sounds and vibration' subcategories. I'll try to convert the file to .ogg format and retry.
Thanks; will post my results.
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Converted to .ogg, added to notifications, ringtones, and the just-noticed 'sounds' folder. I can now see the file under 'settings'> 'sounds and vibration'>'ringtone' in the 'custom' category. I can change the ringtone to the new file. But it does *not* appear anywhere in the settings>notification sound section, nor as an option when going down the menu tree for the messages app notifications. The ringtone category also includes multiple other custom audio files, but the notification sound category has only that 'facebook pop' file under the custom category.

OK, I tried multiple other things, and in the process, discovered (via a file explorer app that I'm comfortable with) that there's a folder under storage>emulated> called 'mobile content'. In *that* folder are folders with the same names as under the 'emulated' parent folder: data, dcim, download, notifications, ringtones, sounds, etc.
So.... I copied the files to notifications, ringtones, and sounds, and now the desired file shows up in the messages list. And, we now get the desired sound as a messages notification.
Thanks for the help, and a heads-up to the next person that has to deal with this. The phone had a hard reset before being gifted to my wife from her son. We used Samsung's transfer app to move her data/apps from her Samsung S8+ to this phone, and we haven't created any new folders beyond those created by Samsung.
Again, thanks for the help; without the new ideas I'd never have dug that deep into the directory tree on the phone.
Charlie

Followup:
Apparently you can get a messages 'notification' (for what?) that's different from a 'new messages' 'notification'.
Duh. Nothing I've found online about the Samsung s10 mentions this.