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muting

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

[Q] htc aria doesn't ring on incoming calls - cyanogen 7rc

this thread i guess should be on the cyanogen developer thread, but i'm a noob & can't bost there.
there's a few similar threads for different phones & different OS'es including windows mobile, but not for the aria. closest to what i'm seeing is this htc diamond thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=461809&page=2
alas, the phone will ring (&vibrate) for a brief second on the 1st incoming call after a reboot. thereafter, it does not ring at all. i was on cyanogen 6 when i noticed this, and upgraded to 7rc thinking that the system wipe / os-change would cure the ailment. it didn't.
originally i noticed this when playing with custom ringtones, but at least once custom tones were tried, no ring even with the htc/cyanogen ringtones.
at the tail of the thread i quoted someone says:
"copy ringtone to music in phone memory..and one thing only the cut edited mp3 can play.. i think.. mine now ok.."
but that's a bit vague. music? means the directory that has your mp3's? really, the phone memory? or the sdCard? besides this sounds like a workaround - all the tones that show up on the selection screen should work.
who's seeing this? anyone found a cure?

zdoe said:
this thread i guess should be on the cyanogen developer thread, but i'm a noob & can't bost there.
there's a few similar threads for different phones & different OS'es including windows mobile, but not for the aria. closest to what i'm seeing is this htc diamond thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=461809&page=2
alas, the phone will ring (&vibrate) for a brief second on the 1st incoming call after a reboot. thereafter, it does not ring at all. i was on cyanogen 6 when i noticed this, and upgraded to 7rc thinking that the system wipe / os-change would cure the ailment. it didn't.
originally i noticed this when playing with custom ringtones, but at least once custom tones were tried, no ring even with the htc/cyanogen ringtones.
at the tail of the thread i quoted someone says:
"copy ringtone to music in phone memory..and one thing only the cut edited mp3 can play.. i think.. mine now ok.."
but that's a bit vague. music? means the directory that has your mp3's? really, the phone memory? or the sdCard? besides this sounds like a workaround - all the tones that show up on the selection screen should work.
who's seeing this? anyone found a cure?
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firstly, no, this doesn't belong in the developer section. you put it in the right section.
secondly, have you tried copying your ringtones to your internal memory (i.e. NOT sdcard)?
thirdly, can you play music? is it possible that it's a hardware issue (i.e. speaker)?

zervic - thanks for picking up this thread.
1stly - ok, great.
2ndly - what's the path in the internal memory for ringtones? the pre-built ones i assume are there and the symptoms are the same, so not sure if this will help.
3rdly - yes, music plays fine, or the ringtones play fine if i'm on the ringtone selector screen.

zdoe said:
zervic - thanks for picking up this thread.
1stly - ok, great.
2ndly - what's the path in the internal memory for ringtones? the pre-built ones i assume are there and the symptoms are the same, so not sure if this will help.
3rdly - yes, music plays fine, or the ringtones play fine if i'm on the ringtone selector screen.
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not sure of the path off the top of my head, you'll need root explorer to be able to see anything "outside" of your sdcard. check the root of your sd card for a media folder or something like that...that's kind of odd that music would play fine but not your ringtone when you're getting a call.

i do hv root explorer, but so far have not found the ringtone path - i looked around a bit there.
also, the status bar is flashing a muted speaker icon when the line stops ringing, though not during when it should be ringing.
i suspect that some setting is awry. could be one of the apps that manipulates the ringing, or remnants thereof. but i did already try to remove all 'of them while trouble-shooting this.

just to wrap up this thread: i went to the nightly builds, version 12 now, i think. yes, wiping all the data/caches.
instead of restoring my titanium backups in one go like i did going to RC1, i'm now doing it one by one.
so far the phone is still ringing. i guess we'll never know what caused it not to in the first place.

Strange ringtone observation

Hi,
i rooted my Neo lately (based on 2.3.2 Gingerbreak and OTA to latest 368) and removed the junk (facebook related stuff, the golf game etc). All works well and the device works nice and smooth.
One strange thing I noticed is the ringtone and notification sound selection. I also removed quite a few ringtones I don't like and only kept 10 sound each for ringtones, notification and alarm. The system partition has more space free too so those ogg files are really gone. The funny thing is that the selection list now has every sound 2 or 3 times (and not once each) and even those that were removed are still there and playing. And that is AFTER a full wipe.
Any idea where they are coming from? I mean its working well and once set up I really don't bother how that list looks. But it quite funny that the device still sees and plays sounds that were completely removed from those directories.
Or does the system notice the backup directories of the same name on the sd card?

Have you tried to reboot your phone and see if the ringtones and notification sounds are still there? Because when I add/remove those things, I have to reboot my Arc to see the changes.

The device is actually seeing the backup folders on the SD card. After I zipped those an deleted the ogg files on the card, they were gone in the list too after a reboot. So as long as you have folders like 'ringtone' oder 'notification' on the card, the ogg files in there will be in the list too.

[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..

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.