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How Do you put ringtones on your Mytouch 4g?

Ive tried emailing myself ringtones but my phone tells me I do not have the right format. Can someone please tell me the correct format and how can I put my own ringtones I created, from my comp, to my My touch 4g??

Make a directory on your sdcard named "/media/audio/ringtones" and put all of your ringtones in there. Then go to sounds on your phone and look for them. It may take a second for the phone to update them so check again if they aren't there.
Also, when you plug your phone into your computer and it sets itself up as a disk drive the phone will revert to a stock ringtone until you unplug it. It can't read the sdcard to use the ringtone while it is plugged in and used as a disk drive.

Is it possible to copy the ringtone on the SD card and paste it in the system/media/ringtone to make it a default one?
So that way when you do plug the phone into the computer it won't default to stock ringtone?

nguyendqh said:
Is it possible to copy the ringtone on the SD card and paste it in the system/media/ringtone to make it a default one?
So that way when you do plug the phone into the computer it won't default to stock ringtone?
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You will have to be rooted in order to do that, and have something like Root Explorer to copy a file into /system.

Rooted, yes. It works fine after reboot. The plus side is media room won't discover those sounds. Any sound on the sd card no matter which folder you put it in (unless it's hidden), android system will show them in media app.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

I simply added a folder on my SD card and named it 'Ringtones'. I use an app called Rings Extended and use that as the default app to search and assign ringtones.
Root is NOT required to do it this way.
If you want to set your phone to default to 'Charge' when you plug it in and not 'Disk drive', just go to settings>connect to pc>default connection type>choose what default you want.
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Go to audiko.net on ur phone and download whatever u want. They all end up in your downloads folder, u can jus go move them later when Ur at home or stationary. I usually move them right after I download them to my ringtones folder(that I created of course), keeps things organized.
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grankin01 said:
Make a directory on your sdcard named "/media/audio/ringtones" and put all of your ringtones in there. Then go to sounds on your phone and look for them. It may take a second for the phone to update them so check again if they aren't there.
Also, when you plug your phone into your computer and it sets itself up as a disk drive the phone will revert to a stock ringtone until you unplug it. It can't read the sdcard to use the ringtone while it is plugged in and used as a disk drive.
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thanks alot. this fixed the problem for me.

ringtones for mytouch4g
Videotonez is really cool and works on the mytouch4g and its free

dweezy108 said:
thanks alot. this fixed the problem for me.
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no prob glad it worked

Alternatively, you can also make a folder in your sd card named media/audio/ringtones.. That works for me...
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Ok so you're screwed if ya wanna put a ringtone in the phone memory without rooting, right?
Just learning the android ropes now, coming from WinMo it's just so hard to believe that the phone storage is SO cut off from the user. I can see "locking" the system files/folders but since when you plug in to the pc you can't browse the card without cutting it off from the phone just seems silly. I do love my My Touch4G but I'm just spoiled on having access to ALL files.

amdlite2 said:
Ok so you're screwed if ya wanna put a ringtone in the phone memory without rooting, right?
Just learning the android ropes now, coming from WinMo it's just so hard to believe that the phone storage is SO cut off from the user. I can see "locking" the system files/folders but since when you plug in to the pc you can't browse the card without cutting it off from the phone just seems silly. I do love my My Touch4G but I'm just spoiled on having access to ALL files.
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All phones with an external sd card function this way. An sd can only be mounted to one device at a time; either your phone or to a computer. Unless you have a phone with two sd drives, ie. Galaxy S, you have to live with it.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

If you use handcent for messaging, you dont need to create folders to use the ringtones.

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If you use handcent for messaging, you dont need to create folders to use the ringtones.
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Actually, you can assign any sound file on your sd card as a ringtone no matter where it is, with or without handcent. The folder directory is just to make sounds show up in the system's sounds settings. You can also assign ringtones through the music player.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G

XfooYen said:
All phones with an external sd card function this way. An sd can only be mounted to one device at a time; either your phone or to a computer. Unless you have a phone with two sd drives, ie. Galaxy S, you have to live with it.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
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That's my point, I wish I had access to the default ringers folder like the HD2 did, so when the card is "in use" via usb to my pc I would always have the same tones as when it wasn't plugged in to the pc

I do love the MTG4 but DAMN the locking you out of the simple basics...

[USB PORT] Would this be possible?

I am considering getting a Xoom when they become available in the UK, to replace my laptop when travelling, however my music collection on my portable hard drive is 41Gb, and I would like to play some of this via Xoom.
I know I probably would not use all of the 41Gb of music all the time, but sometimes I get an urge to listen to an obscure song, so would there be anyway I could connect my External Hard Drive to the USB port on the Xoom? Or would this be totally impossible?
Stew

I do not have the wiring/cords in my office for this but do at home, I will give it a try this evening. Seems certain they would have to build the capability into the OS, so who knows.

Almost certainly no. Even if the port can be a USB host, android is not setup to deal with external non SD storage.
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Not yet, but it should be when the sd card update goes live. You should check the motorola support forums where this has been directly covered by the moto dev responsible for said usb port.

So what are the USB Ports for on the Speaker Dock for?
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https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/329075

Not entirely true. The Gtab port can be used as a USB host and I have no problem plugging in a flash drive. The atrix (with the lapdock) can also use USB host ports with external storage. There are hit and miss results with external drives, but that has more to do with power than anything else.
Bauxite said:
Almost certainly no. Even if the port can be a USB host, android is not setup to deal with external non SD storage.
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familiarstranger said:
Not entirely true. The Gtab port can be used as a USB host and I have no problem plugging in a flash drive. The atrix (with the lapdock) can also use USB host ports with external storage. There are hit and miss results with external drives, but that has more to do with power than anything else.
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Motorol...1218305636450&skuId=1946179&st=xoom&cp=1&lp=1
Note: Optical drive not included
Compatible with optional external recordable CD/DVD drives (not included).

familiarstranger said:
Bauxite said:
Almost certainly no. Even if the port can be a USB host, android is not setup to deal with external non SD storage.
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Not entirely true. The Gtab port can be used as a USB host and I have no problem plugging in a flash drive.
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Completely agree. I definitely used USB drives on my G-Tablet. Haven't tried on my Adam yet, but I assume it's the same.

I would love to see Android burning DVDs. Take a quick video with your digital camera. Plus the camera into the zoom, edit it with the movie editor app, burn to disk.
Torrent a Linux bootable CD IMG burn to disk and fix a friends broken computer.
With the Tegra 3 quadcores on the horizon, bluetooth keyboard compatibility and this I see less and less reason for most people to need a laptop.
Morkai Almandragon said:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Motorol...1218305636450&skuId=1946179&st=xoom&cp=1&lp=1
Note: Optical drive not included
Compatible with optional external recordable CD/DVD drives (not included).
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I was told that it will support portable blue ray players through the USB. If its available at this time is another question, the only way to know is for someone to try.
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RadDudeTommy said:
I was told that it will support portable blue ray players through the USB. If its available at this time is another question, the only way to know is for someone to try.
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Whoever told you that was trying to make a sale.

Nexus S, a Mac, and Bluetooth.

Why is it so hard for my Mac, or my NS, or visa versa, to swap files back and forth via bluetooth? Music files are fine, but .apk's or what have you do not transfer smoothy and it really agitates me, expecially when I'm charging. Any ideas on how to make any file type transferrable?
Z

No idea but bluetooth file transfer? Who's got that kind of time in 2011, amirite?

tatwamasi said:
No idea but bluetooth file transfer? Who's got that kind of time in 2011, amirite?
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nournot
transferring a tiny little .apk file thats 75.5kbs via bluetooth is much much faster than busting out the USB cord, enabling USB Mass Driver, waiting for it to pop up, and then dragging and dropping. I'm not transferring my whole music library over to my phone via bluetooth
Think dude, and post replies that'll help in the future. lolzpwnd

just use dropbox and astro - works like a charm for me

phi303 said:
just use dropbox and astro - works like a charm for me
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+1 (but I use Linda instead of Astro). I used to use bluetooth, but dropbox really is loads better. Give it a shot if you haven't before.
Having said that, I've consistently had issues BT transferring files with my Mac, even way back when I was on WM6. It just never plays nice :/

I could never transfer apks using bluetooth on mac...used to be able to transfer folders containing items before but not anymore. Now I just use it to transfer individual stuff.
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as all the people said already
just get your free 2GB Dropbox account and transfer files instantly over WiFi
it's so fast, so simple, and so easy
ages of messing around with the USB / BT is long gone, with all the free cloud services now in days
ztm.000 said:
nournot
transferring a tiny little .apk file thats 75.5kbs via bluetooth is much much faster than busting out the USB cord, enabling USB Mass Driver, waiting for it to pop up, and then dragging and dropping. I'm not transferring my whole music library over to my phone via bluetooth
Think dude, and post replies that'll help in the future. lolzpwnd
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+1 to the dropbox idea. I use it all the time to get stuff between computers, different phones, different partitions etc.

So, I like this dropbox idea, but have never tried it. What are your guys' experiences on it? And how do I acquire it? Is it a market app?
Z

yes available on the market
but you need to setup your account first on the website
there's a link in my siggy
Click here to get your 2 GB FREE!
cloud storage
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Another Dropbox fan here, although I also use sshdroid (ssh server) and transfer stuff with sftp using cyberduck on the mac when i need to.

[Q] Full sized USB and dslr camera?

Anyone try attaching a camera via the full sized USB, I would hope the iconia would act like host for the camera. I would love to carry it around in my camera bag to review shots.
I would be hooking up with a Nikon 3100d, so if someone has the two and hasnt stuck them together, try it! My tablet purchase depends on you...

You could always plug in a USB memory card reader into the USB port to review shots from the camera's memory card.
I've copied some ~10Mb JPGs from a Canon 5DMk2 onto the tablet and they open up fine in the default image viewer program. I doubt there is any form of RAW support though so it may mean shooting in JPG+RAW from now on if you want to open them on the tablet.

dhruvmp said:
Anyone try attaching a camera via the full sized USB, I would hope the iconia would act like host for the camera. I would love to carry it around in my camera bag to review shots.
I would be hooking up with a Nikon 3100d, so if someone has the two and hasnt stuck them together, try it! My tablet purchase depends on you...
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If I can remember, tomorrow I will hook my 5dII up and see how it works.
I connected up my 5DII and it didn't even register that it was done on either device. My old (broken) Archos A43 worked, but they coded much more robust USB host features. Hopefully ACER can catch up.

dhruvmp said:
Anyone try attaching a camera via the full sized USB, I would hope the iconia would act like host for the camera. I would love to carry it around in my camera bag to review shots.
I would be hooking up with a Nikon 3100d, so if someone has the two and hasnt stuck them together, try it! My tablet purchase depends on you...
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I have tried to connect a Canon 450d. It didnt work.
Maybe I missed somthing.

Connected to a Nex-5 and had no issues with Photos.
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i am very interested in this feature also.
by default the camera, any camera, when plugged in should immediately be seen by the Acer as a USB storage device and you should be able to pull off the images.
i have a 5D Mark II and 50D and would really lover to be able to pull off images, not as a whole set but individual files.
unlike the ipad where you have to copy the entire memory card to the ipad which is a complete cluster frack if you ask me.
i almost bought the Acer last night but lack of knowledge about camera connections stopped me.

I tried with my D70s. Works PERFECTLY.
except the photos were in .NEF not .JPEG.
As you are also a nikon user, do sth like RAW+BASIC or RAW+FINE to mitigate this

I plugged in a Nikon d3000 on loan to me. It worked perfectly. I was able to browse to the cameras memory, or pull it up in the gallery.
Would be awesome if I could use it as a capture device.
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Not strictly a dslr, but my olympus e-pl2 has no problems being recognised.

Works, hooked up my d3100. You pick the pics you don't want imported.
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This was taken from the Cape Cod Canal.

My old Sony a100 DSLR works fine. Well, jpgs that is.
Of course I only shoot RAW so kind of useless unless I shoot RAW+JPG.

usb compact flash card reader
My Minolta uses compact flash. I have a USB card reader for CF. My Acer a500 will not read the card.

I have a Canon EOS 1000D camera. When connected to my tab I simply don't know how to see the picatues taken. When inserting a sticky I can see the contents in the folder usb_devices but with the camera, how does this work?

I'm running the galaxy rom and I hooked up my girlfriends old camera and the average recognized it and opened gallery to view them.
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I connected my Cannon 60d through usb and galler gallery automatically fired-up and displayed the contents of my camera. I must say this is really a very neat feature.

I might be stating the obvious, but since I didn't see it mentioned in any of the posts so far- Make sure the USB connection settings in the camera is set to "Mass Storage" so that the Tablet will see the camera as basically an external HD.
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...unlike the ipad where you have to copy the entire memory card to the ipad which is a complete cluster frack if you ask me....
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Just a quick comment regarding the part of v_lestat's post above, I own both the Iconia and iPAd2 and love both for mostly different reasons.
I don't know what or how you tried to transfer images from your camera/SD card to the iPad. I assume, that if you did try, you used Apple's 'Camera Connection Kit' to connect the camera to iPad. This loads an Import window when your camera or SD card is plugged in and from here, just tap each picture you want to transfer after they load in the import window and click the 'Import' button, which is next to the 'Import All' button (you can click the Import All button without tap-selecting any images first and the iPad will import every pic on the card that hasn't been imported yet).
Any image on the card that has already been transfered to the iPad using this method will have a green checkmark on it, in the corner, and will not be reimported. Images that were sync'd into a folder on the iPad, but are still on the card/camera can be imported again.
I hope this clears up your confusion and for anyone else that was wondering about importing pix to the iPad as well, and that it wasn't too OT for an Android tablet forum, lol...
Cheers!

Best I recall off the top of my head, the camera needs to support either USB Mass Storage (acting as a USB drive, Mass Storage Class) or MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) connectivity.

Olympus Pen E-PL1
I hook mine up to my tablet anytime I want to dump pics. I'm using the Picasso ROM and all I have to do is mount my camera as an external USB hard drive and it's good to go. Gallery lets me pick and choose what photos I want.

Is it possible to use the Iconia to copy images from a MicroSDHC card to an external USB Hard Drive? I'm thinking of using this to tablet to take to trips without having to lug around a full laptop and just copying files from my camera to a small hard drive. Does anyone do this already? Will the Acer Iconia allow this or should I look towards another solution?

gammaRascal said:
My old Sony a100 DSLR works fine. Well, jpgs that is.
Of course I only shoot RAW so kind of useless unless I shoot RAW+JPG.
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use RawDroid to view RAW images. It's still in development, but for simply looking at your RAW files, works like a charm.
Also works for Nikons if I recall.

Fix:Enable Windows Explorer thumbnails by removing MTP permanently GS3(screenshots)

Hi guys.
I inadvertently found this out by mistake when I have been trying to get my damn phone to even connect in Windows 7 64bit. Man it's been giving me the sh!ts.
I will quote my post from another thread on the forum. And see the evidence in the screenshot below.
It turns out that we don't even need MTP drivers to do any sort of transfer in Windows. What a load of bollocks we have all been fed.
My device manager shows no trace of MTP anywhere now (thankfully) and my Phone appears as a portable device like it should.
Enjoy and Merry Christmas
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Ok guys,
just updated to 4.3 and have had no end of issues with this MTP problem. I have searched for weeks for an answer and nothing worked that was suggested. I think I have done like 10 - 20 factory resets on this F%#*ing thing, and it was never the phone's problem in the first place, definitely a Windows problem in my case.
I tried a combo of things for my last try right this very minute and I have success.
I searched for the MTP driver in the registry. Note: Make a backup....I didn't I f*%#ing hate this piece of sh!t so I went ahead and deleted it. You can do as you please though, I am mighty angry so I didn't care.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{EEC5AD98-8080-425F-922A-DABF3DE3F69A}
Instead of looking for upper filters I removed it totally
I had to change permissions on that object to do so, then inside permissions take ownership and tick child keys and subkeys
Uncheck inherit from parent
If it pops up a dialog pops up choose add from the options
You will have to do this for several tabs in this permissions of the registry. Once you delete this, unplug your phone and plug it back in again. You will get the warning of failed MTP drivers as I did.
Now go to Device Manager and instead of uninstalling the failed MTP driver yellow Icon, this time scroll down a little further to another section that says ADB Device. (See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error1.png)Now click uninstall on that driver, check the box that says "Would you like to delete this driver" click yes. Let it remove.
When it is removed a Windows pop up Warning appears telling you you need to reboot. Don't reboot. ignore it. Look down at the system Tray and you will see your little installing driver swirly thing doing it's business for once.
When it finishes, Open explorer and you will notice another thing different. Your device will be sitting in My Computer, however it will have a new Icon and it will now say Portable Device and NOT the device name like GT-I9305 in my case (See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error2.png)
At this point I clicked on it anyway cause it obviously registered something, right?
Yoooou beauty!!!!!!!!! Hoooraaaaaaah Merry Christmas too me! Merry Christmas too me!!!!
What you will notice however is that the name that you thought disappeared is still there as the device label when you check in the address bar See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error3.png
Edit: By the way, the device name I just noticed now corresponds to the name that is put in as the name of the device when you are in the setup wizard when you first boot up; unlike before it retained the same device name as 4.1.2 just plain GT-I9305 and no full device name, I called mine James' GT-I9305
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Guys..... you are not going to believe this!!!!
Check it out. I now have Explorer enabled thumbnails. Man MTP was pissing me off for months when I first got this thing. Do you know how debilitating this is when you don't know what image is what saved on your SDcard. Man it's frustrating.
Hope your guys like this solution it works well :victory::victory::victory:
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Some other benefits I am just noticing is that I can now transfer files with the screen completely locked. No need to have the device stay away for 10-20min. Transfer speeds are now super fast and no more pop up errors asking if I still want to transfer the file even if the device doesn't recognise this format. All that BS is gone.
You can now permanently organise your files like you would in Windows Explorer. No more track title, Track number and Rating [email protected] in the attributes section either.
All right click explorer context menus are standard menus.
I will take more screenshots later
I am a very happy camper now

I now no longer have ANY drivers what so ever try to load in the taskbar when i connect my phone. My phone is available instantly. I can also copy multiple files at the same time into different parts of my SDcard and not get the 'Device is busy' error.
More and more things to suggest that MTP is a crock of sh!t that Micro$oft and $am$ung want us to believe to support DRM. Thats what all this is about, it's got nothing to do with what ever BS they have fed us.
Man what a revelation.
I have figured out why this has all happened to each and everyone of us. When we pug in our devices, Windows detects that it is an MTP device, Remember all those Galaxy S2 users out there where we used to have UMS Mass storage and then a few updates came and we were forced to go MTP again. Well that is only programatically in the Android interface telling Windows we need to have an MTP driver.....BEFORE Googles ADB driver can be loaded. Once the MTP device is flagged, MTP drivers are loaded and different ADB driver is loaded instead of the Google one....the one that enables all the traditional Windows Explorer like functions on the device. Nothings changed is what I am saying, only our belief that we NEED to run MTP drivers.
Removing the registry entry for the whole MTP driver meant that it can no longer be called to load no matter what. At least it is failing for a reason I say. Now the second part where you are asked to reboot to unload the driver.....that part there is a complete lie told to our faces. What that is is a white lie. A lie we believe most of the time. What it means is that yes we need to reboot to unload and reload "their drivers" and we click yes, because the Google ADB driver never gets to finish installing. Clicking no allowed the original proper driver to load and register. Once registered, I now no longer am asked to install any sort of drivers. When ever I plug in my phone it works straight away. Ever waited impatiently for 10min for the MTP driver to load? Yeah well not anymore. Force unload it, get rid of it, seyonara forever MTP!!!

Don't you loose access to the system internal card?

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Don't you loose access to the system internal card?
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Good question.. James can you access both memory card and phone sd in windows explorer when mtp is gone ?

btemtd said:
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Good question.. James can you access both memory card and phone sd in windows explorer when mtp is gone ?
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Surely can. I can actually access both even faster than ever before.
Why would I loose connection to the device internal storage? Has this been an issue for other people before?