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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Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.
I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time
/sdcard/ringtones
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones
etc, same for notifications
No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?
This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!
Thanks.
raduque said:
Havin a real weird problem with my music player, need some help.
I've put my ringtones and notifications in all the different locations that the media player is supposed to ignore, though not all at the same time
/sdcard/ringtones
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/ringtones
/sdcard/sd/media/ringtones
etc, same for notifications
No matter where I place them, though the media player still is picking them up. I would put a .nomedia in the folder, but prevents them from showing in the ringtone/notification lists in Settings.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? I first noticed this behavior after rooting, but would just installing SU and busybox really cause music player to read these folders that are supposedly hidden to it?
This is driving me nuts when I'm listening to music and suddenly my ringtone starts playing and I think I'm getting a call!
Thanks.
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this problem has been driving me nuts too. but you putting it into words just gave me an idea, try the no media thing, so it prevents them from showing up in the settings lists, but then try going "oldschool" (lol) and using rings extended from the market. it was an app first released for the g1 to see and select ringtones on the sd card that the settings lists weren't picking up.
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where exactly did you put the .nomedia? and what kind of file was it? or was it the name of a file or folder?
i'm down to help figure this one out ucz this music player is starting to piss me off with it's badass look yet completely lacking in options.
ps: another good feature of the stock android music player was that if you hit the context menu while a song was playing, it had a "delete" option. this was great for someone like me who dumped tons of new music i just wanted to have on the phone, and when i party shuffled, i could be like, "WTF is this unworthy for mobile listening sh!t? *delete". haha miss that option so...
yep...this is bugging me too...i just download a game and all the SFX shows on my albums list...and the ringtones that i have download from zedge...however a easy solution for me is was creating playlists...i really like this phone and it getting better and better...specially now that i found out that there's a equalizer in the music player...excellent.
Hopefully there will be solutions for this little bugs...i'm still keeping my phone the way it is.
Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.
I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.
I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
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Playlists works too, except I have like 3gb of music on my card, it takes a long time to go through and individually add all the songs to a playlist.
I found out that the music player ignores .mid files, so I just renamed all my .mp3 files to .mid. Phone still picks them up for use as ringtones/notifications.
I tried both a .nomedia file (just create a new file on your computer named whatever.nomedia, copy it to your phone and use Astro or Files to rename it to .nomedia) and naming the folder .media, but in both cases none of the ringtone files showed up in the ringtones list.
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thanks for the .mid tip. hoping something more substantial comes up, as i have tons of my own ringtones i made haha. let's keep on this as it could be included in a custom rom hopefully
I'm trying to set my own notification sounds for txt messages. After moving the ogg audio files to my sdcard, they show up in es file explorer and I can even select them and they play, but they don't show up in my music list or the settings/notification sound list.
I tried adding a folder on the sd card called "notifications", tried putting the files in the media/audio/notifications folder (with the facebook pop notification), tried changing the files from ogg to mp3, nothing works.
I also tried RingDroid and Rings Extender, and those don't work either, the audio files don't even show up in the lists.
Am I missing something here?
I'm running dd2.7 btw.
Do the sounds show up in your music app along with your other music? Did you try restarting your phone? It's really strange that even after converting to mp3 you can't navigate to it other than through ES. As a kind of lame workaround, if you have ASTRO installed, you can use Rings Extender to select ASTRO and from there navigate to your file.
Nope, they don't show up in the regular music list. I did reboot a few times and that didn't work.
The files are .ogg's I pulled from the Froyo build. Shouldn't matter though, since even converted to mp3 they still don't show up.
I'll try the Astro workaround. Seems like a pain just for a simple txt message tone
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Nope, they don't show up in the regular music list. I did reboot a few times and that didn't work.
The files are .ogg's I pulled from the Froyo build. Shouldn't matter though, since even converted to mp3 they still don't show up.
I'll try the Astro workaround. Seems like a pain just for a simple txt message tone
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create a folder in /sdcard called media
in media create audio
in audio create notifications and ringtones
You should end up with:
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
I can't remember if you have to reboot after you put you sounds in the proper folders but they should now appear under ringtones or notificaitons.
I saw you tried this but this works fine for me. I have several mp3s in ringtones and I just downloaded a new notification 2 days ago and stuck it in there and I am now using it as my corporate email notificaion. I am using the new froyo builds if that helps any.
You should already have a system/media/audio/notifications/ file on your phone. Just move them from your SD card there. I used android commander on my PC. And reboot. They should be there
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I make my own ringtones and I have been moving my files around a lot recutting the songs for my new phone since it supports higher bitrates.
In doing this, I there are now "ghost" entries in the Android System ringtone picker. The song titles are there, but when you tap on them, it plays the default phone ring sound. This happens anytime I move, rename, or remove a file. I now have several songs listed in there as many as four times because I keep changing my folder hierarchy (I'm very organized).
Is there some way to refresh the ringtone list so the phone can see what files no longer exist and remove their entries.
Also, the "ghost" entries are not still set as contact ringers.
Are they there after a reboot?
Yes. They show up after a reboot still.
All the custom ringtone listings disappear if the SD card is unmounted, but they all reappear once the card is remounted.
*EDIT*
An app called RingDroid (I think it's for editing files) still had the files listed and after deleting them from the program, they no longer show up in the Android picker. Odd little glitch.
I have this same problem on my Samsung Galaxy Centura on Straight talk and I do NOT have RingDroid installed. Anyone else run into a fix?
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
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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.
Gave you a 'Thank You.'
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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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!
I selected a couple of tracks to be used for ringtone and notification. The tracks were hangouts_videocall.ogg and hangouts_message.ogg. They worked for a while, then both the ringtone and the notification reverted to the defaults. I checked the settings and they were both "unknown", and the tracks were no longer available. I'm not sure what happened that caused the change, but it might have been related to disabling some bloatware. I downloaded the full set of ringtones and notifications to see if I somehow deleted the tracks by accident. The two tracks are not in the list. I installed es file explorer and started looking around the file system. (My phone is not rooted.) I found the folder /system/media/audio where ringtones, notifications, etc. are located. The tracks in the directories are exactly the same as the ones I downloaded, and they don't include the two tracks I had previously set. Hmm... However, after searching around, I found the two "missing" tracks were inside /sdcard/ringtones. I found this strange, since my phone doesn't even have an SD card. What's also strange is that the tracks mysteriously reappeared on the list of available ringtones and notifications. I reset them and they are working again. While I was looking around the file system, I found another track called over_the-horizon.mp3 in /system/hidden/internal_sdcard/samsung/music. This track doesn't seem to be visible using any of the media players, so I can't help but wonder why it's there. There is an ogg version of the same track in /system/media/audio/ringtones. Anyone have an explanation for this? Is there a hidden internal SD card in the GS5? If so, why? If someone who has a file explore installed would see if their phone is the same as mine, I'd really appreciate it.
Any thoughts on this?