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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

Changing the startup/shutdown media

I would like to change the startup and shutdown image and audio for the Vibrant. Does anyone know who to do this?
Thank you.

Yeah I have to plug in headphones or cover the phone when rebooting. I hate the loud shutdown/startup.

I'm pretty sure you have to root the phone first because those files are stored on the phone's internal storage which is protected normally. I really hate those sounds... I can deal with the silly T-Mobile crap...

Any progress on this?

Well it was easy enough to find the shutdown audio file,
(/system/media/audio/ui/Shutdown_128.ogg)
but I'm still looking for the startup audio file (which seems louder I think). I'll confess that I haven't really tried as I don't have much time. Anyways, you first need to root the phone (easy, and it's on this forum), then I REALLY recommend downloading Root Explorer. You can find it on the market. It costs 2.50 Euros I believe, but it's well worth it. SuperUser will ask you for permission for "Root Explorer" have permission. Just say yes. Anyways, navigate to the location above and just delete the Shutdown_128.ogg file and that's it! No more annoying shutdown song. Someone look for the start up one too cuz I don't like it. Also, the t-mo animations during startup and shutdown are located at "/system/media/video/shutdown". They are all .png files and there are about 14 or so of them, and I don't know how the phone handles them so back them up before you mess with them.
On another note, since you already have "Root Explorer" installed, it would be cool to choose your own ringtones from the available "Ringtones" options in the settings, right? To do this, just navigate to "/system/media/audio/ringtones" and delete all the crappy ringtones from there and replace with your own edited mp3 ringtones. Same goes for the notifications in the notification folder.
Still not sure how to make the phone stop playing ringtones low at first, then loud. But like I said...no time.
UPDATE
Found it. It's in "/system/etc". It's called "PowerOn.wav". Just move or delete it.

Shut up the stupid
Alternatively, if you are a haptic-only or a no touch input feedback user you could go to:
Settings->Sound & Display->System volume
...and turn it all the way down.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732311

The startup file is in \etc\PowerOn.wav
Just rename it to something else (e.g. PowerOn.wav.bak), and you won't get the startup sound.
There is also a thread in the Vibrant Dev forum about completely removing the shutdown graphic. All this is easy if you're rooted.

Adding System Ringtones?

Backstory: I sometimes leave my phone charging in Mass Storage mode on my computer. Which means phone can't access the SD card. This causes it to revert back to some sort of default ringtone.
I want to add a ringtone to the system partition so that this doesn't happen.
Just adding it to /system/media/audio/ringtones isn't enough- it looks like there's an xml file somewhere that gives a listing of it. Anyone know what it is?

Here's a longshot, I'm still pretty novice with most of this, but:
what if you add the file to the path above, then edit the build.prop - ro.config.ringtone=DroidRollin.ogg to point to your ringtone.

Well, that's 80% a solution. I'd like to be able to select it from a menu though or something, so I can change 'em.

[Q] Completely replace S_Whistle.ogg (S5 SM-G900F Lollipop)

Hi;
In 4.4.2 I had replaced /system/media/S_Whistle.ogg with a different .ogg file that played a different sound.
In 5.0 I can replace this file but that damn whistle sound still plays.
I have made sure the permissions are fine. In Snapchat and Airdroid (the apps I notice still whistle) I have cleared the cache.
Is there a new location in Lollipop where notification sounds are stored?
I have, naturally, changed the default notification sound in Android Settings, but this only changes half the sounds.
Please help me get rid of that horrible whistle sound.

Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum for more relevant answers.
Stand by
Good luck

Hi;
Turns out the way to do it is to make a notification sound with .OGG format and select it via the 'Notification ringtone' menu, and make sure it's on an external SD card.
The way it was before (presumably because it was an MP3 file) I was sometimes getting the custom sound and sometimes getting the whistle, which was annoying.
Either way, I fixed it, so this thread can be closed.

How to manage the notification sounds in android

hi there,
I wonder if there is a way (might be!!) to manage the notification sounds in my device: Note 4 / running on MM6.0.1
- The drop sound is a desaster, and I want to delete it definitely!
- Would like to have full control on "notification" sounds which I partially do but mainly on the " system "sounds
- the phone keyboard
- the opening & locking the screen,
Wonder where is hidden this water drop soud file in the system..!!
Seems there are different (a bunch of) versions of water sound files in the system, and I want to destroy all of them!!
Thank you for your help....

If your phone is rooted, you can find all of them in system/media/audio. You can delete the audio files that you dont like if you want.

Yes rooted.
I added there some sound files that I want to use, and I am using them for some apps..
Added them before rooting..
But the water sound files are not there...
The sounds used by the sysstem sd be hidden somewhere else..

I think it's the TW_Touch.ogg file in system/media/audio/ui.