I am rooted and stock ROM in my S4. I have used Root Browser to move ringtones from the \ringtones folder of my extSD to the device itself. I moved them to \system\media\audio\ringtones. The problem is now those ringtones won't play unless I turn up the volume slider for media. Why? At first I thought it was because I had left them as mp3, so I downloaded Media Converter and changed them to ogg. All the other ringtones that came on the phone play fine, and they respond to the ringtones slider and not the media one. Interestingly, when they were on my extSD, the ringtones slider controlled their volume just fine. What's going on?
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Installed 2.3.4 on my HD2. I do have one question:
I cannot find a capability to assign/select separate Ringtones for my contacts as I could do in 2.3.3. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Two tips that I have learned in the past couple of days when moving up from 2.2.
1. If anyone uses a Magic Jack and needs to listen to their voice mail. I have found that WavPlayer (Free) does work to play the voice mails.
2. If you want an easy way to increase the size of your Icons/apps use LCD Density Changer.
Hope these two helps others.
Im using hyperdroid CM7 which uses 2.3.4. I can do it on mine.
Contacts>Click on your preferred contact>Hit Windows Button And Choose Options> Ringtone (Set as default)
DramatikBeats said:
Im using hyperdroid CM7 which uses 2.3.4. I can do it on mine.
Contacts>Click on your preferred contact>Hit Windows Button And Choose Options> Ringtone (Set as default)
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Thanks! Your are right. I was choosing Edit instead of OPTIONS. I do appreciate your help! Give you a 'Thank You'!
no worries mate
Under 2.3.4, you don't see Media for Ringtones, Notifications? Did they move that?
well on my build i can pick between media or stock android sounds. even long pressing on a song in the music app lets me set it as sms or ringtones
DramatikBeats said:
well on my build i can pick between media or stock android sounds. even long pressing on a song in the music app lets me set it as sms or ringtones
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Thanks, that did it as it placed the song in Ringtones.
However, where are Ringtones, Notifications stored? Under other Android OS these were stored under Media. I cannot find a Media folder.
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no worries bro , on my SD card i have a folder called ringtones with 30 sec clips of all the different ringtones I've used. These ringtones ALWAYS appear when I'm picking a notification sound (even when I flash a new rom) so I guess you could try creating a ringtones folder on your SD card and rebooting your phone and see what happens. Hope it helps
DramatikBeats said:
no worries bro , on my SD card i have a folder called ringtones with 30 sec clips of all the different ringtones I've used. These ringtones ALWAYS appear when I'm picking a notification sound (even when I flash a new rom) so I guess you could try creating a ringtones folder on your SD card and rebooting your phone and see what happens. Hope it helps
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I also have two folders on my SD card.
1. I got from a previous version of Android 2.2.2 called Media.
2. I made and call Ringtones where I made ringtones and placed them in there.
However, when I view either one, they both do not contain the music filoe that I put in yesterday using the method you suggested. I used Music player and held down on that song until Select as Ringtone option appeared. I could them see that ringtone song when I wanted to select that ringtone for my SMS. However, I cannot see that specific song in either of the abobe 2 folders: Media and Ringtones.
So, that is why I ask if anyone knows where Ringtones are stored when using 2.3.4.
Again, I do appreciate your time, help and have a great day. Thank you!
Hi everyone.
One thing that I find annoying about this phone is when I install a new game or a couple of android games... all the game sound fx go to the music player library... that makes it so annoying to find songs because these games have so many little sounds that it becomes a mission to find a song.
Is there a way to remove them permenantly or to adjust the settings so no short music files will show up?
Thanx
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place this file in any folder you don't want detected by the music player
.nomedia file
unzip and place file in desired folder
Thank u!...
Will press thanx button when I'm on my comp
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Any ideas on how to stop notifications abd text message sounds while playing music?
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Only thing I can think of is turning down the notification volume. When you use the volume keys, push the gear icon and turn down notifications volume.
oscarthegrouch said:
Only thing I can think of is turning down the notification volume. When you use the volume keys, push the gear icon and turn down notifications volume.
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Thought there maybe another way. Thanks
Another annoying issue
Where can I put ringtones and notifications so they are not picked up by my music player? Didn't have this problem until the MF9 update. I dont see a way to delete the folder out of the music player settings.
shaun0207 said:
Where can I put ringtones and notifications so they are not picked up by my music player? Didn't have this problem until the MF9 update. I dont see a way to delete the folder out of the music player settings.
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I would like to know the same thing
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shaun0207 said:
Where can I put ringtones and notifications so they are not picked up by my music player? Didn't have this problem until the MF9 update. I dont see a way to delete the folder out of the music player settings.
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i keep all my music seperate from my media storage and this is not an issue ( using apollo ) and ive never had this. the stock music player however doesnt care as long as its in a playable format it is going to pick it up. my advice : seperate your music from your ringtones,noticication sounds, and get a music player thats decent. should fix your problem.
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i keep all my music seperate from my media storage and this is not an issue ( using apollo ) and ive never had this. the stock music player however doesnt care as long as its in a playable format it is going to pick it up. my advice : seperate your music from your ringtones,noticication sounds, and get a music player thats decent. should fix your problem.
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yeah the musics is stored separately from my ringtones and notifications, but maybe I do need a new media player
shaun0207 said:
yeah the musics is stored separately from my ringtones and notifications, but maybe I do need a new media player
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its worth a shot.....worst thing that could happen is it does the same thing and your right back where you started. but in my experience with apollo ive never had this issue.
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its worth a shot.....worst thing that could happen is it does the same thing and your right back where you started. but in my experience with apollo ive never had this issue.
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I can't remember if it works for music files but, creating a file and naming it ".nomedia" is supposed to stop Android from indexing that folder.
As for no notifications during music playback, just put your phone in airplane mode... Unless you are streaming music then it won't work.
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I also want to know how to do this. it's very annoying when you listening to music, especially in the car and then a notification comes in and the notification sound take over the music. If only there was a setting or an app for it. Having to remember to turn down notification vol during music playback and then turning back up after you are done playing music can be a hassle.
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?
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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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Hi, I have a Note 3 with latest update 4.4.2 KitKat.
I often transfer music files from my NAS using ES File explorer. I store the music on my SDcard under the folder "Music".
The song does not show up in the stock music player untill i reboot the device or remount my sdcard. There is no hidden .NoMedia files in the folder.
Does anyone have any tips on how to fix this?
As I recall (I haven't used the stock app in years) that's common behavior for it. Stock music player doesn't trigger a media scan.
Try using another app. N7player has an option to set it to auto scan for new music.
My music (on SD) doesn't even show up in the stock app at all. Even though the files have been on that SD since september. N7 can see them just fine, though.
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