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Photo & ringtone-assigning features don't work on XDA II

Hi All!!
I was wondering if someone could help with this problem which is really frustrating me:
My new XDA IIi comes equipped with a standard photo- and ringtone-assigning features, but when I use this feature to assign photos and ringtones to contacts, it doesn’t work, and instead, it goes back to the default ringtone (selected in: Sounds and Notifications) with no photo.
FYI, my ringrones are in: \Windows\Rings\, and my photos are in: \My Documents\My Pictures\
Please help!!!

Bump!!

Is it losing the settings that you have made or just ignoring them, if it is just ignoring them have you checked that you don't have two versions of the contact on you r device? i.e. one on your sim card and one from Outlook?

irblinx said:
Is it losing the settings that you have made or just ignoring them, if it is just ignoring them have you checked that you don't have two versions of the contact on you r device? i.e. one on your sim card and one from Outlook?
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Yes, I do have two versions of the contacts both in my SIM card and a replica in my phone memory (not Outlook), but what does that have to do with ignoring the settings? They both have same photo and ringtone assignments.

messaging contacts in SIM

hey everyone
i'm new to this forum, have read around and found alot of useful info about the tytn.
but there are two issues i havent seen anyone talk about on this or may be its just me.
first, i cant seem to find an option to text message contacts that are saved in my SIM. Can you not message contacts in your SIM? or am i doing something wrong here?
Secondly, how do i set my ringtone as the alarm tone as well? because the sounds for alarm are too short and i need someting that will play for a while.
can anyone help me out with these ? any help will be appreciated. Thank You in advance

For the alarm tone, you need to copy a .wav file to the WINDOWS folder of you device. It should then show up in the drop down menu on the alarm page.
Unfortunately, you can only use .wav files and not .mp3. I've also noticed that files larger than 30kb wont play which means the tones would be short.

oh ok.. i tried to put .mp3 file in the windows because i noticed the alarm tones are there but i did not see it when i was setting the alarm so i guess it should be .wav and no more than 30kb i guess?
thanx alot.. going to try that
is there a way set different tones for receiving a text message and different tone for receiving a call? i did not see an option for that
also about text messaging.. i cant see an option of texting a contact if they're saved in my sim.. is there a way around it?
thank you for your help

anyone....?

tos_84 said:
hey everyone
i'm new to this forum, have read around and found alot of useful info about the tytn.
but there are two issues i havent seen anyone talk about on this or may be its just me.
first, i cant seem to find an option to text message contacts that are saved in my SIM. Can you not message contacts in your SIM? or am i doing something wrong here?
Secondly, how do i set my ringtone as the alarm tone as well? because the sounds for alarm are too short and i need someting that will play for a while.
can anyone help me out with these ? any help will be appreciated. Thank You in advance
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when you open contacts and select a sim contact it asks you do either to make a call or send a text

koayt47 said:
For the alarm tone, you need to copy a .wav file to the WINDOWS folder of you device. It should then show up in the drop down menu on the alarm page.
Unfortunately, you can only use .wav files and not .mp3. I've also noticed that files larger than 30kb wont play which means the tones would be short.
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thanx for the info.. i put a .wav file into windows folder and the size was 798kb and it worked
figured out everythin except messaging sim contacts..
i go in contacts.. there are no contacts so i go into menu .. sim manager.. and go into menu .. no option of text messaging.. i even keep the scroll wheel pressed on a contact and only options are to edit, delete or call.. etc but no text messaging.. so i'm guessing the contacts have to saved on the phone !?

You're not the only one, I had the same Issue with my SIM contacts and text messaging also
Spent HOURS on the phone arguing with the iMate Support Helpdesk guys who all use the same stock-standard response "Have you soft-reset? Try a hard reset? I know you say you've done it but do it now while Im on the phone? Didnt work? I dont know then?"
Problem no longer exists with WM6, I also made a thread on a local forum:
http://pressf1.co.nz/showthread.php?t=86250
Unfortunately I dont think they're about to start patching WM5 for us, so I figured it was time to go back to WM6 again (Using Schaps 4.30 this time), and so far so good... pics up my SIM contacts fine in messagins now!

thats a releif .. thanx!!
so i guess i'l b upgrading to a different rom soon enough

SMS Ringtones

i wonder if there is a way to add more ringtones for SMS? because i can only use my mp3's or other sound effects for calls.
thanks!

boomshine said:
i wonder if there is a way to add more ringtones for SMS? because i can only use my mp3's or other sound effects for calls.
thanks!
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Buy or Download Ringo Pro or Lite, I use it for my SMS tones so i know if its worth goin to my phone or not haha.

Add a 'notifications' folder to your memory card.
Copy the tones you want to the folder.
They should then be visible in email, calendar, sms tone settings.

@CodeMonkey
at first i put 'Notifications' but didn't worked out, LOL i thought my magic wont have any problems recognizing 'Notifications' and 'notifications'
it needed to be all small letters to work AND ALSO the 'notifications' folder must be inside the 'Music' folder of your card.
Thanks alot CodeMonkey you ARE my HERO =p
btw i can't forward messages sent to me to my other friends,
also there is no inbox, outbox,sent messages etc.
SMS in magic is like a chat...

Thanks heaps, was just trying to figure out how to do this!! Didn;t need to put notifications in music though, just straight on the sdcard and it worked a charm.
Thanks!

boomshine said:
btw i can't forward messages sent to me to my other friends,
also there is no inbox, outbox,sent messages etc.
SMS in magic is like a chat...
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Open your message and do a long press, this will bring up the menu to forward your messages. This applies to the stock Message app and chompSMS.

@aniriand
my bad dude, yes you it also works even if the folder is not inside the 'Music' folder
@BigRD
Thanks dude for that one oh men im really loving this phone

Note that you can do the same for alarm tones with a folder called alarms (on the root of the card) and ringtones (with a folder called ringtones).

download rings extended from the market... it easy to use

@whitechocolate
i dont have android market on my phone, just slideme
and i think making folders is better than installing apps
@CodeMonkey thanks for that another useful info ^_^

were not allowed to post warez on here but hopefully i can do this...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ringdroid.apk+rapidshare
its a free app so shouldnt be deleted

How to have own ringtones for each contact

I got the samsung today n I'm loving it but I cant put a specific ringtone for each contact does anyone know how to do that?i knew how to do it on the g1 but this phone is different....btw love the swype on the vibrant
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for some reason it was overlooked fortunately there's an app for that
ringo
plus the lite version includes assigning tones to SMS from contacts as well

this is how you do it
this was not over looked!!! all you have to do is for the contacts that you want to have custom ringtones for.. you create another contact for them on the phone memory and then you tie that one to the google one. with the contact that is saved on the phone memory you then now set a custom ringtone for them....
enjoy!!!

xsilvercivicx said:
this was not over looked!!! all you have to do is for the contacts that you want to have custom ringtones for.. you create another contact for them on the phone memory and then you tie that one to the google one. with the contact that is saved on the phone memory you then now set a custom ringtone for them....
enjoy!!!
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Let us be very clear on this. What you describe is a workaround. The basic functionality has been overlooked or neglected.
If you do the workaround you describe your phone contacts do not get backed up to your Google contact list. This is, IMO, unacceptable.

yeah it's stupid.... however using an app like ringroid works.

about the contact ringtones
Hello everybody, im knew to Android, and i was puzzled also about the personal contact ringtones. i just tryed the ringo app and it works perfectly no issues, thanks guys for the info.

Thanks for the thread, I've been struggling with this for about 2 hours on my Galaxy S. So far this is the only issue I've found with the phone. Anybody want to buy a G1?

Ringdroid works too.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

troy9749 said:
Thanks for the thread, I've been struggling with this for about 2 hours on my Galaxy S. So far this is the only issue I've found with the phone. Anybody want to buy a G1?
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How much? PM me if it's <$100.
-bZj

Personal ringtones

Does anyone know hoe tot add personal ringtones tot contacts on Android 4.4.4 (Galaxy Note 4)?
I Tried the usual way but this doesn't work. I've got no options whatsoever @ my contacts
Sent from my GT-N7100 using XDA Free mobile app

Install extended ringtones, this will give you an aditional option when assigning ringtones