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
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"
I am currently running AmeriCanAndroid AOSP HD2 Cyanogen CM7.1 (Gingerbread 2.3.4) 100% HTC-LEO cm base and for some reason I can't give my contacts custom ringtones or choose a custom ringtone. Can anyone help?
richie390 said:
I am currently running AmeriCanAndroid AOSP HD2 Cyanogen CM7.1 (Gingerbread 2.3.4) 100% HTC-LEO cm base and for some reason I can't give my contacts custom ringtones or choose a custom ringtone. Can anyone help?
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i have the same problem some help?
Use a root explorer, copy an mp3 or any sound extension file then go to a folder called Media, open it & select the folder which you need to past in it for example, notification, ringtones etc. That's it
I think the media folder is inside SYSTEM folder.
hi thanks . But even if i do this remains the same soud-ringtone
the only<<solution>> tha i found is to make a backup with rom manager and then to restore.
PS so the ringtone is changed but if i want to change again i must do the same procedure!!!!!!!!!!!
Download app called ringdroid.
It can save any mp3 or anything as recognized ringtone, notification etc...
Quick way to do.
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