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Upgrading Memory = custom notification issue

Upgraded memory card on hero from stock 2gb (unknown class) to a 16gb class2 card.
Connected Hero via usb - transfered off all files (including copilot maps and custom notifications/ringtones/music etc).
Replaced memory card - connected up and transfered all files back to new memory card and rebooted phone to make sure all widgets/apps initialised properly.
At first everything seemed to be ok - pretty much tested everything that touches the memory card - game saves, copilot, music, photos, video playback is acceptable (some slight jitters with other open apps or many widgets open - recommend making a blank/video playback home profile to counter this and killing apps down), pdf viewer.
However, the fun started when I received my first text message (I had SD notifications option set to on and had picked my custom notification sound). Instead of hearing my notification one of the bundled stock tunes (Colette - Push) played instead as the notification sound IN FULL !!! and couldn't find any way to stop it.
I am assuming this music file is the very first file listed in internal memory therefore if any problems with custom notifications it will play this instead (for a full 4mins or so)!!
So is this an issue with the read time of the memory card? An intermittant memory card (everything seems ok - been using the phone as mp3 player and not noticed any problems with audio and/or video playback) ? Or a bug in software somewhere?
I might try a wipe/reformat in the device and see if that works - any other suggestions?

Ringtones are less picky, but for Custom Notifications and alarms, I've found the fone doesn't accept them unless they are stored on the SD card with the same folder heirachy as on the device
Make a folder called media and inside create one called audio and inside THAT create ringtones, alarms, notifications
Put the stuff you want for each in its respective folder
paths should be sd/media/audio/alarms sd/media/audio/notifications and sd/media/audio/ringtones
Like I say, I've found ringtones are fine left anywhere on the SD, but Alarms and notification sounds need to be in those folders.
Also, when you put them in, you may need to restart for them to show up in a list for apps like alarm clock etc.
Daisy xxx

I think I had the same issue - after changing the card, first text I got resulted in the phone playing a random tune from my mp3 folder. Re-selecting the notification sorted it.

I had already created the directories for media\audio\notifications (and alarms and ringtones).
I have reformatted the card, recreated media\audio\notifications and placed a single mp3 notification file. Enabled SD notifications and selected the file as default notification.
Tested and works ok.
Filled the rest of the media card with music/video etc
Received a text after all of that and it played a music track from \mp3 folder instead of the notification sound !!! after testing now - doesn't matter if i try to use a stock notification it will always use the same track for every text i receive !!!
what the hell is going on ?
reboots/reselecting the notification/enabling or disabling SD notifications - doesn't matter it always plays the mp3 track all 4mins and 22 secs for every text !!!

I had something similar.
When i had sd card notifications ticked, it began playing random tunes whenever i plugged into the computer.
turned that off and it stopped.
as for getting my ringotnes and notifications to appear, i have folders on the root of the SD card, one called ringtones, and one called notifications
no capitals in the names at all.
straight away after i did that, the files appeared in the selection lists. I didn't even have to restart.
Did the same on a colleague's magic and they showed up immediately, but on my other colleague's orange hero, it didn't work.
If you have a t-mobile one, just do the two folders on the root, and turn sd card notifications off.
you'll get the sounds available, without the random noises.

hey guys, i dont know if people are still suffering from this problem but i found a way to solve it.
It seems to happen when you either, format your SD/get a new one or apply a custom ROM. It doesnt seem to make a difference to ringtones.
Use Dayzee's file directories information and then go into settings>sound & display and select your notification tone as normal, turn SD tones OFF. Now go into your message inbox and press MENU then go to SETTINGS and scroll down to the bottom and go to SELECT SOUND.
Match the sound to the one you picked in the normal sound & display settings menu and problem should be solved

[Q] Ringtones and notifications

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?

Music Playback Issues

Hi everyone!
I hope there is a fix to this issue as it is very frustrating.
I have a Samsung S4 running Kit Kat. Recently I tried to add new music to my phone through Samsung Kies. After adding the music files, I tried to play them on my phone, but it would always say "Music Playback Error"
After looking around online for tips, I deleted all the songs off my SD card. I then cleared the Data and the cache for both Google Play Music and the Samsung Music Player. I added a few songs again just to see if it would work. This time, the songs play really fast, as if they are on fast forward.
I tried to delete these songs once again, but all the file names had been transformed into numbers and they all begin with a "µ" symbol, and every time I try to delete the files, it says "Delete failed"
I don't know if this is an SD card problem, or what it might be, but any help would be appreciated!
Would I have to root my phone?

kev195 said:
Hi everyone!
I hope there is a fix to this issue as it is very frustrating.
I have a Samsung S4 running Kit Kat. Recently I tried to add new music to my phone through Samsung Kies. After adding the music files, I tried to play them on my phone, but it would always say "Music Playback Error"
After looking around online for tips, I deleted all the songs off my SD card. I then cleared the Data and the cache for both Google Play Music and the Samsung Music Player. I added a few songs again just to see if it would work. This time, the songs play really fast, as if they are on fast forward.
I tried to delete these songs once again, but all the file names had been transformed into numbers and they all begin with a "µ" symbol, and every time I try to delete the files, it says "Delete failed"
I don't know if this is an SD card problem, or what it might be, but any help would be appreciated!
Would I have to root my phone?
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try this:-
1. backup any important file on your sd card
2. format your sd card
3. copy your song through mass storage mode or mtp mode.don't use kies to send file to your phone
4. (optional) check your computer for virus

Poweramp not working properly

Guy I have installed Poweramp yesterday and since then it is showing scanning library. Although no files are seen in album or artist or genre. While songs are seen in all songs only. I tried clearing data and cache. Uninstall and reinstalled. Nothing helped. Please help.

I use poweramp too, but i select my music folder manually instead of scanning all device

g.andi said:
I use poweramp too, but i select my music folder manually instead of scanning all device
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I have done same buddy. Manually selected music folder only. Still it is stuck somewhere in scanning for hours

try using vlc media player for android it supports lot of file extensions for music.

try the alpha or beta builds, they arent in the play store so you have to google for the apk

ben cherian said:
Guy I have installed Poweramp yesterday and since then it is showing scanning library. Although no files are seen in album or artist or genre. While songs are seen in all songs only. I tried clearing data and cache. Uninstall and reinstalled. Nothing helped. Please help.
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I use PowerAmp.
Check your microSD card if that is where your library is.
I haven't had any issues.

try rebooting your phone. I had issues before my replacement that every now and then the android media scanner would stop working and newly added music, ringtones, photos, etc wouldn't show up in the apps or settings until i rebooted the phone. that includes poweramp. it wouldn't' see the new stuff either till reboot. if that's the case maybe a reset would fix the problem. i hadn't had the problem with the replacement phone.

ben cherian said:
Manually selected music folder only. Still it is stuck somewhere in scanning for hours
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Go to settings, apps, show system apps, find media storage, clear cache and data.
Reboot the phone and wait for the background media files indexing process to complete.

themissionimpossible said:
Go to settings, apps, show system apps, find media storage, clear cache and data.
Reboot the phone and wait for the background media files indexing process to complete.
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How to know background media files indexing process is complete ? No notifications shown.
I waited for 3 minutes to let that thing happen in background if it's happening at all. I noticed in same settings the data gone up from 0bytes to 15mb and i guess it's done..
Still Poweramp after doing rescan and waited for 20minutes don't really show a change. Songs are seen under all songs. But empty under artist album etc.
Under folder option it shows something else... Attached pics below

Do you see all your albums listed on the LG music player?

themissionimpossible said:
Do you see all your albums listed on the LG music player?
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Yes of course. That is why am asking.

ben cherian said:
How to know background media files indexing process is complete ? No notifications shown.
I waited for 3 minutes to let that thing happen in background if it's happening at all. I noticed in same settings the data gone up from 0bytes to 15mb and i guess it's done..
Still Poweramp after doing rescan and waited for 20minutes don't really show a change. Songs are seen under all songs. But empty under artist album etc.
Under folder option it shows something else... Attached pics below
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If nothing works, you may want to give the PowerAmp 3.0 Alpha versions a try...
Just my two cents

spatone said:
If nothing works, you may want to give the PowerAmp 3.0 Alpha versions a try...
Just my two cents
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Can you share the link

Media scanner won't find certain music or ringtones

Just wanted to see if anyone had run into this before on the Pure Edition (stock 7.0 rom) or any other device, for that matter. The phone finds ~99% of all music, but fails to get the length or title of a handful of tracks (music app just displays the file name as the name of the song instead of the actual encoded title). There is also a ring/notification tone that refuses to show up on the list of available sound effects for notifications and ringers. I could be wrong, but I assume that these are caused by the same underlying problem.
So far, I have tried using the Media Rescan app (even pointed it toward the specific directories in question) and also an app that places/removes a .nomedia file in troublesome directories. A few months ago, I even attempted to completely wipe data for the application that that does the actual media scanning. This succeeded at wiping out my alarm sound effect preferences, but the media scanning problem remained exactly the same.
For the notification noise, I also tried placing it in a "ringtones" and "notifications" folder on both the SD card and internal storage. Tried various combinations of the .nomedia file in the folder as well. There was no change.
There aren't any commonalities that I can see in the files that aren't being picked up (some mp3 and some flac). I have the same music and ringers on my other phone, and it doesn't have any trouble with even a single one of them, so, unless Android got magically better at parsing media between 7.0 and 10, something is cobbed up on my specific device.
At this point, I'm considering doing a hard reset, unless anyone can think of anything else that I could try. Any ideas?