Hi guys, I have a problem with my 6p that been bothering me for a while now. Whenever I change the ringtone on the phone to a Zedge tone or one of the defaults that came with the phone, it always resets to "KeypressReturn" within 2 days. When someone calls, the phone only vibrates which cause me to miss a lot of calls. I saw a similar post on AC by a person experiencing nearly the same issue but there was no viable solution mentioned.
Please help!
make sure that whatever app your using to set the ringtone has adequate permissions. IE it has access to storage.
I had already given Zedge has access to storage as per the advice in the AC forum. Also the Settings app has no permissions listed.
I just wanted to report back that this matter has been resolved. It was actually me that reset the ringtone to KeyPressReturn all the time. I have been using some customized shortcuts for volume from the AudioManager app for a few years now. Apparently, the developer made an enhancement to the application by allowing a user to change his/her ringtone and alert notification via the shortcuts. Since, I don't read the change notes for every single app I upgrade I was unaware that the ringtone option exists and the default was KeypressReturn. I modified my shortcuts and tested each one of them while going back and checking what it was set to in Settings. It been almost a full day now and my ringtone has not been reset. Thanks everyone for your time and suggestions!
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Normally when I receive an email or a text message. WM5 allows me to get a sound alarm and a visual pop up notification. The problem is that the sound only happens once on initial receiving of the message. And if I am not around the device I would miss the sound alarm. And if I dont open up the device to see if any messages are there I would not read them for a long period. The light flashing is not covering my needs.
What I would like to do is..
When initial message received ( text or email only , not phone ) from a particular sender, have the device play the standard receiving sound, then assuming I missed the initial arriving alarms every 5 minutes after receiving the message play a another ( different WAV ) to say message received but not yet opened or viewed. This reminder alarm would stop one either opening of message or by myself turning it off.
Or can one do this in WM5 that I have not yet worked out.
Any ideas
Should have done more searching on google
I found this little tool : http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.htm
Looks goog, can any one pass comments on it.
Pocket Max Alarm is a good tool for alarms, reminders or waking up to your choice of music as your alarm sound.
However, I dont believe it affects phone related sounds. Therefore I would suggest your best option may be to play around in Settings > Sounds and Notifications. Perhaps try the flashing light option? It seems to be a professional way of letting you know you have something to look at on your phone.
Anyway just a suggestion hope something works out.
Digs said:
Should have done more searching on google
I found this little tool : http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.htm
Looks goog, can any one pass comments on it.
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This product does exactly what it sounds it should do.
It provides profiles so you can store all settings vol,sound,backlight etc
and provides repeating alarms for "phone notifications" ie sms/mms/email/missed/voice calls etc.
It does not alter the normal notification sounds like calender or task alarms for that you need their other product called alarm today (i think its called)
Matt
Yep your exactly right I was thinking of Alarm today. My bad, problem solved thread and case closed.
My M5000 rings alarmonly once, can I change in somewhere to repeat? so far didn't find place. In my Tornado I found this place.
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My M5000 rings alarmonly once, can I change in somewhere to repeat? so far didn't find place. In my Tornado I found this place.
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start-settings-system-clock & alarm then tap on the bell and select repeat sound
Selected
Still don´t repeat
mmm... strange...
I remember I saw a thread regarding a nice program in Dev & hack section
Try a search with "alarm"
Hope it helps,
Is there a way to stop the "fade in" in the beginning of the ringtone. I do not like it's implementation. It is kind of too fast and the effect is annoying. I see no option for this anywhere.
Seeking how to stop the increasing ringtone too
I also have the same problem (actually not a problem, just dun want it)
I find all the setting in phone but no way out
any suggest?
If you set an mp3 as the ring tone, does it still do it, I don't think mine does :/
yes, I edit a mp3 in PC and copy in i9000 then set as ring-tone, I still behave the same, sad.......
have the same problem
it was on my omnia i900 too. The modding community managed to tweak it away, so its only a matter of time before you can get a small tweak to turn it off.
But I believe that Samsung made this a feature (i read it somewhere long ago) in that sometimes people have just finished a call and the phone is still next to the ear, they might receive another call (with the phone still next to their ear), with the fade in feature, the ringtone wont blast into the persons ear which can cause damage, instead it starts off low volume and then increases, allowing time for the phone to move away from the ear.
hope that made sense
i like it how it is, what is so bad about the volume up per ring?
at most after the 4th ring it goes to voice mail, it doesn't get that annoying
its not really a problem indeed, but I will notice a call when I at street after the ring-tone finish fade-ing, it may be the 2tnd or 3th ring of the person who call in, after I pick the phone out of my bag and looking the information who call in, it may be the 4th or 5th ring then that person may think it is no body to answer or the system make it goes to voicemail............I miss the call...........
AllGamer said:
i like it how it is, what is so bad about the volume up per ring?
at most after the 4th ring it goes to voice mail, it doesn't get that annoying
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Like most things it's called choice. I prefer no increasing ring as well.
I'd like this gone too! The fading ringtone is irritating
This also is a problem to me.
I don't understand why Samsung doesn't make this an option for us to turn the feature on or off, not to mention configurable fade-in time.
The problem is here since, I don't know, i900, perhaps?
I would also like to see this disabled. Hopefully someone will find out how to do it soon!!
Sorry to bump this thread, but I'd really like this problem solved also. Obviously there's no clear option to change this, however does anyone know where we can start looking? (ie. certain config files or similar for rooted users.)
There's still no solution?
any update on this?
have you tried 3rd party ring tones apps
those have its own way of playing sounds when a calls comes in, some replaces the stock features.
try ring extend and ringo plus and many many more
android market is full of it
AllGamer said:
have you tried 3rd party ring tones apps
those have its own way of playing sounds when a calls comes in, some replaces the stock features.
try ring extend and ringo plus and many many more
android market is full of it
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Thanks AllGamer, but I've tried many apps including Rings Extended, Ringo Lite and Zedge, but they just replace the ringtone picker. No matter which app I use, I always get increasing volume for incoming calls.
P.S.: I noticed something funny: I selected a ringtone from DoubleTwist playlist using Rings Extended. When I got an incoming call, I listened to a "hidden ringtone" which is similar to the digital phone ringtone. Probably Rings Extended failed to pick a mp3 from DoubleTwist and my phone used a "fallback ringtone" (such as the Nokia Tune when you remove an sd card with your ringtone). I think it's called "832" but I can't find it anywhere!
Sigh the increasing ringer is pretty lame.
Should be optional.
still no fix huh...
Check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=759537
Hi, today my HD2 started to behave oddly - when receiving a call the screen wakes up as normal but no sound nor vibration (as preset) comes with it. The same goes for any other alert - SMS, e-mail...When I try to change the tones of any alert the common preview while selecting doesn't cannot be heard. Even worse, when I tried to play any music from my library with Windows Media Player it started to skip quickly from song to song without playing a note, stopped at the end of the playlist. When I tried TCPMP it work without any problem - music and video.
Any suggestion before I will be forced to proceed to the next logical step - Hard Reset? BTW I am on stock ROM 1.66.479.2 (76641)WWE, I didn't install anything new recently nor have beeb experimenting with any SW.
Thank you in advance.
ive had issues with sounds when setting the system temp locations to a location that doest exist (experimenting with a ramdisk, but i suspect the pricipal would be teh same). maybe some kind of system temp location corruption?
hunt down all you can find on clearing temp locations. start uninstalling apps one by one,
(personally id backup and go for a straight hard reset for the hour it takes to be fully fundtional again vs the hours spent fault finding.)
I think I have your fix ...
I just came across this thread and thought I'd answer immmediately because I, too, have sufferred from this issue in the past. It took me a while to figure out why, but I did. Give me about 5 minutes to collect my information, and then I'll respond again...
Peter
Here it is ...
I have a document that I've prepared in Microsoft Word to store all the handy registry tweaks and solutions to previous problems. Here's the entry for what I believe is your problem:
Sounds or Ringing or Vibration Don’t Work
There MUST be a directory called Volatile here:
Mobile Device\Application Data\Volatile
YOU MUST SOFT RESET AFTER CREATING THIS DIRECTORY
The "Volatile" directory can be empty as long as it's there within the main device Application directory.
Peter
Thank you very much, will share the result
I face to same problem using HD2, thank you. your point is help me to fixed.
Whoa, you just saved me from a hard reset thanks alot Peter.
PETER HTC you are great! Thanx man!
Thanks I fixed it too
Hi all,
Be gentle with me, but I think that after weeks of headbanging, I have stumbled across a fix for the problem of dissapearing ringtones in CM10. This works for me on my International S2 and I belive it accounts for the differing accounts of the problem, Some people have it, others not at all, differing periods before it kicks in etc.
I am on the Codeworx 21 August release from Rom Manager
I was looking through my Locale settings and found that I had some ringtones set for different locations, the files for these are now gone and I deleted the settings in Locale, ever since doing this, I have not had the dreaded 'Unknown Ringtone' problem once, despite trying to force it.
I am no MOD, but I am guessing that when an app changes the ringtone, either tyo a file it cannot find or perhaps at all, CM10 cannot substitute the default ringtoine as other roms do, I did not have a ringtone set in defaults, which may also have been a problem in my situation.
I am guessing that any program which alters your ringtone or notification settings can potentially have the same affect.
Apologies if this has been spotted before, but I have been combing the CM10 threads for weeks and not seen it, and hopefully if it can be confirmed by others, that it needs to be more widely circulated, hence the new thread.
Please post with details if it works for you!
R
Hi
[EDIT] my phone = I9300, OmniRom = latest (with a maximum of google apps disabled/alternatives preferred)
I can't quite figure that one out:
On every single system update, I lose my settings in terms of my custom ringtones, alarms...
I tried 3 different ways:
- I copied them into System/media/audio/ringtones & alarms --> after every update, my custom sound files cannot be found anymore and are therefore not available to select from Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound
- so then I copied them into sdcard/media/audio/ringtones & alarms --> althought they remain there after every update, they are not available from Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound
- so finally I copied them into extSdCard/media/audio/ringtones & alarms with the same effect: althought they are still there after every update, they are not available from Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound
Somehow this looks like a bug to me...
Can someone please explain how I can preserve my custom ringtones after system updates?
Thank you VERY much
beng
How did you copy them? It might be a selinux/permissions problem.
For reference, I haven't had any problem on my Nexus 5 (all internal ext4 with emulated sdcard) with
Code:
[email protected]:/ # ls -lZ /sdcard/Alarms/
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r u:object_r:sdcard_internal:s0 Luminescence.ogg
Code:
/sdcard/Alarms, /sdcard/Ringtones, /sdcard/Notifications
Those are directories especially for custom sounds, which of course will survive ROM updates. Why don't you put them there?
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/sdcard/Alarms, /sdcard/Ringtones, /sdcard/Notifications
Those are directories especially for custom sounds, which of course will survive ROM updates. Why don't you put them there?
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done just that: my custom sounds don't even show up (Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound), nor after a reboot!
honestly this is a major bug as far as I am concerned - I keep missing my phone calls as the ringtone will default to none, makes the whole point about having a mobile pointless!!!
Until you can give steps to repeat, that someone else can repeat, it appears to be a problem that is specific to your phone and configuration. If it were a significant bug, you wouldn't be the only one claiming it was impacting them.
Nothing personal, but unless you can replicate this on a fresh install, without additional software, and document how to repeat it, it likely will never be considered an OmniROM bug. One you can do that, a JIRA is perhaps the right way to raise attention on the issue.
As a note, opening additional threads will more likely get you labeled as whiner than get faster resolution. One is plenty.
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Until you can give steps to repeat, that someone else can repeat, it appears to be a problem that is specific to your phone and configuration. If it were a significant bug, you wouldn't be the only one claiming it was impacting them.
Nothing personal, but unless you can replicate this on a fresh install, without additional software, and document how to repeat it, it likely will never be considered an OmniROM bug. One you can do that, a JIRA is perhaps the right way to raise attention on the issue.
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Hi jeffsf
well I thought the steps were clearly detailed in my initial post?
The custom sounds I would like to set up as custom ringtones / alarms are snippets edited out of full mp3 songs (generally a loop edited out of the intro); If i use the default (boring) sounds provided, I keep my settings.
I first copied my custom snippets into System/media/audio/ringtones & alarms ; this works until I reboot following a new nightly update, my settings are lost; the ringtone is back either to the default one or to none (worse option as I miss my phone calls - I cannot work out a rule as to the default ringtone/none reset, sorry!); my custom sound files cannot be found anymore in the ringtones folder and are therefore not available to select from Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound
My second attempt was then to copy them into sdcard/media/audio/ringtones & alarms ; although they remain there after the reboot following any new nightly update, the settings are lost from Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound.
So my third attempt was to copy the snippets into extSdCard/media/audio/ringtones & alarms but it had the same result: although they are still there after every update, my previous settings are lost and the snippets cannot be selected from Settings > Sound > Phone ringtone & Default alarm sound ...
After all these tests, I am even more confused; I do not know/understand for sure what folders Android uses primarily / secondarily for ringtones / alarms...
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As a note, opening additional threads will more likely get you labeled as whiner than get faster resolution. One is plenty.
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I do get the point! Not my intention to whinge but as explained, there is not much point in having a silent phone!
First I asked a question (support); clearly no working solution can be provided
so I take it to the next level: software correction requirement (indeed JIRA can be the software to use for this - this is actually what I am using at work!)
Or the solution is to choose another rom, shame really...
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Hi jeffsf
well I thought the steps were clearly detailed in my initial post?
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Your observed behavior is clear in your first post, so there is no reason to repeat it. It adds no information by doing so.
The custom sounds I would like to set up as custom ringtones / alarms are snippets edited out of full mp3 songs
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A tiny snippet of new information. But still, you haven't identified what format you are using on the device or how you are copying the files into the directories you are using, only on your source.
clearly no working solution can be provided [...] Or the solution is to choose another rom, shame really...
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Or clearly it isn't a problem with the ROM. If it were a general problem with the ability to set and retain ring tones, there would most likely have been at least one other person who reported similar problems as you.
Unless you can replicate this (a) from a clean install, (b) without other software installed, (c) using a directory intended for the function, (d) clearly identifying how and where you have set the ring tone, and (e) how you updated, it most likely isn't a ROM bug.
GIven that this isn't impacting anyone but you from what I can tell, I would look at your own software, configuration, or use as the most likely cause.
Note also that two people in this thread have already clearly identified directories for these files that do not have the issues you mention.
unsupported audio format?
Hello,
I built omnirom from last sources and I I was in the same situation. My mp3 wasn't recognized anymore (regression? developper choix? I don't know)
Workaround: I converted them into ogg format, and it works like a charm (on my HTC Explorer).
Hi
Hey, for the first time I realise yesterdays nightly (20141030) solved this ongoing issue I had given up on:
it preserved my custom ringtone and alarm and I did not need to reset my ringtone & alarm after the update as I do after EVERY SINGLE update - a pain really!
Please keep it as such - thanks A LOT
cheers
beng
BenG7 said:
Hi
Hey, for the first time I realise yesterdays nightly (20141030) solved this ongoing issue I had given up on:
it preserved my custom ringtone and alarm and I did not need to reset my ringtone & alarm after the update as I do after EVERY SINGLE update - a pain really!
Please keep it as such - thanks A LOT
cheers
beng
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Nothing has been changed that would affect this.
Also, you probably stopped getting responses because your responses were inconsistent. Post 3 provided the standard location where these files should be placed.
In post 4 you claimed exactly that, EXCEPT that in Post 6, none of the directories in post 2 were in your list of things you tried...
In the end it really doesn't matter. Your device is getting dropped with L as it hasn't had a maintainer in months and there is no one to fix I9300 issues.
Entropy512 said:
Nothing has been changed that would affect this.
Also, you probably stopped getting responses because your responses were inconsistent. Post 3 provided the standard location where these files should be placed.
In post 4 you claimed exactly that, EXCEPT that in Post 6, none of the directories in post 2 were in your list of things you tried...
In the end it really doesn't matter. Your device is getting dropped with L as it hasn't had a maintainer in months and there is no one to fix I9300 issues.
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I can only report it works now.
Post 1 were the initial steps I took
I did as advised in post 3 ; this was post 4
Post 6 was only a repeat of post 1, not including steps from post 4, but these were carried out too, to no avail too.
Just forget it now.
Thanks