i read, for incoming call then we can change this registry:
"Directory" of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring.
then we can move all the ringtones to any directory we want
the question is, how about SMS notification ring?? i want to use the same ringtone for SMS (my own .wav) is it possible? and which registry i have to change so xda will look at those directory in SDcard instead of "\windows" ?
thx alot!!!!!!!!!!
AFAIK, there's nothing you can do about it. SMS notifications are handled exactly like all other Windows notifications (like AS connect/disconnect, new mail, start menu sounds, ...). I think the \Windows path is fixed in the system.
Besides, you shouldn't set a directory on a storage card for ringtones. If a call comes in during standby, the storage card might not work, and thus the device will remain silent.
I have my ringtone on storage card. If it doesn't get picked up, the tone reverts to windows default ring.
i had succesfuly move all my phone ringtone (for incoming call notification) to my SDcard. just move all of them then change the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring
Directory="\Storage Card\My own special Ringtone" (or whatever )
but how about sms notification???? can some1 give me the registry address for this? thx again...
i think that maybe it's hardcoded
as ringtones are a part of cellphone stuff
and other sounds like sms is a part of the pda sounds
prob the same reason why only ringtones can be wma
and normal rings need be wav
also i'm not really sure why it is you need to change that reg setting
i just go into the program called add ringtones
when it starts it load all valid files on my pda and storage
and the ones i check
will be available as ring tones when i go into the phonesettings
thats how i got the ring tone i use now because i fell over it in there
and it came with some demo of everqust and was the sound of a skeleton's attack or something
sorry for my ignorance, anyone can help me where and how can i can i change the registry to set my ringtones from storage instead of main memory?
get a registry editor
go to this reg
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring.
edit the value
"Directory" to point to where you want the files
if you want to have personalized sms tones all you have to do is record(or save as) the sound/file to .wav format then move it to your windows directory on your PPC.
Then all you have to do is goto >settings>sounds & notifications..notifications tab then chose the event you want to change and select the new .wav e.g. myown.wav file for sms its "messaging: new text msg." the file size is usually around 30k so its not really goin to affect your PPC performance...
if you want to have a selection just save them all on your SD card somewhere and move them to windows dir when you feel like a change and delete the old if memory is really worrying you.
a reg edit for storage of sms tones is really not needed
ps the same could be said of ringrones except they are usually bigger in file size, and you would put them in widows\rings directory instead
but then again i rarely change my tones
Speedn
thanks bro.. i've done it....
@ yankee:
in my experience, its useless to change the registry.. even we change iit, the ringtone will be set back to the default , right??? no solution for this, until now... the "guru" said, that because the sdcard too slow, so when a call coming in, xda "cant" find those ringtone in the sdcard so it takes any (the default).. bad luck.....
@rudegar and speedn:
the reason for that registry editing is: we want to keep for ex. 200 ringtones in SDCARD, not in windows folder this way, we dont have to do "right click-use as ringtone " which mean tell the xda to save it from sdcard to win folder. we cant fit those 200ringtones inside the RAM, right??
but somehow, like i said above, this method doenst work
@erwinsie,
I did not point the registry to the storage card, I pointed it to the internal storage of the phone and its working fine with me. I have not tried using the storage card
\Storage\Ringtones
I am using XDA IIi
@yankee...
well.. u lucky to have 128 ram... but i still hope that someday some1 can show me how to store (and use directly) my ringtones collections from SDCARD. mini only has 64 ram
sorry to misunderstand u..
Tried the 'save mail to storage card' cab from SurrealNetworks, and it doesn't work for WM6 on the Dash. I checked the registry, and the updates were made by the cab. Does anyone know if there are different entries needed?
Or has anyone had any luck getting this to work?
Sucks wasting 20mb on my work email on the device and not the card...
dboone21 said:
Tried the 'save mail to storage card' cab from SurrealNetworks, and it doesn't work for WM6 on the Dash. I checked the registry, and the updates were made by the cab. Does anyone know if there are different entries needed?
Or has anyone had any luck getting this to work?
Sucks wasting 20mb on my work email on the device and not the card...
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The Key in WM6 is:
HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings
add "PropertyPath" value="\Storage Card\Mail" datatype="string"
Or wherever on the card you want it stored.
I found this by activating the save attachments to Storage Card option, then searching the registry for the key, once I found that location above, I added the PropertyPath value for the storage card location in the same key.
Reboot and it should be good...but you will probably have the issue maybe with it creating a Storage Card folder upon reboot because many devices the mail starts before the storage card. If that is the case, take your SD card out, rename the Storage Card folder to Storage Card.bak, shut down the device. Put SD card in, reboot, and leave the .bak folder there forever.
At least that is what works on the Wizard to get mail on the SD card. Now I have 2000+ emails and attachments on my storage card, no issues across reboots, working fine.
Good luck any problems, report back..
Does the AttachPath also work here? Think that would be even more useful.
jnmarshall said:
Does the AttachPath also work here? Think that would be even more useful.
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Yes, you can move attachments through the options in the interface to the storage card. That is how I found the new location of the mail on the SD path is by searching the registry after the tweak as I mentioned above.
Looks like it works on the Dash!
techlogik said:
The Key in WM6 is:
HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings
add "PropertyPath" value="\Storage Card\Mail" datatype="string"
Or wherever on the card you want it stored.
I found this by activating the save attachments to Storage Card option, then searching the registry for the key, once I found that location above, I added the PropertyPath value for the storage card location in the same key.
Reboot and it should be good...but you will probably have the issue maybe with it creating a Storage Card folder upon reboot because many devices the mail starts before the storage card. If that is the case, take your SD card out, rename the Storage Card folder to Storage Card.bak, shut down the device. Put SD card in, reboot, and leave the .bak folder there forever.
At least that is what works on the Wizard to get mail on the SD card. Now I have 2000+ emails and attachments on my storage card, no issues across reboots, working fine.
Good luck any problems, report back..
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Seems to be working!! Thanks!
How Can I Find This Path?
HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings
i cant find this one? should i creacte this HKML? this folder i cant find it in FILE EXPLORER in mt dash.. thanks help me out here pls thanks
hklm is a registry folder... you will need a registry editor to modify it.
thanks i got it...
disable tmobileblue homescreen
How can i change this default homescreen everytime i restart my dash it keep changing the homescreen?
techlogik said:
The Key in WM6 is:
HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings
add "PropertyPath" value="\Storage Card\Mail" datatype="string"
Or wherever on the card you want it stored.
I found this by activating the save attachments to Storage Card option, then searching the registry for the key, once I found that location above, I added the PropertyPath value for the storage card location in the same key.
Reboot and it should be good...but you will probably have the issue maybe with it creating a Storage Card folder upon reboot because many devices the mail starts before the storage card. If that is the case, take your SD card out, rename the Storage Card folder to Storage Card.bak, shut down the device. Put SD card in, reboot, and leave the .bak folder there forever.
At least that is what works on the Wizard to get mail on the SD card. Now I have 2000+ emails and attachments on my storage card, no issues across reboots, working fine.
Good luck any problems, report back..
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actually I had to add also key "AttachPath" with value "\Storage Card\Mail\Attachments" without quotas.
I did it on HP514 Voice messenger with WM6. The main issue was actually to rename "storage card" on "storage card.bak" and taking card out and reboote. After I started again when I saw new folder "Mail" created on Storage Card I was happy as a kid. I just moved with file explorer all *.att to attachment folder and all *.mpb to Mail folder from \Windows\Messaging. Then I opened Outlook and everything was there as nothing happened. All stored on memory card, damm so goooood. I like you guys,
Ceslo
You made my day, man, thaks.
Ceslo
Saving Mail to Storage card on Smartphone Edition/WM6 Standard
Hi, i am new to reg edit on WM devices, what are the exact values i need to put in to make this happen, any screenshots????. Given todays storage capabilites, this is a huge mistake by Microsoft considering its a standard setting, i have had 4 work colleagues with S620s or S710s all run out of phone memory, Microsoft were not helpful at all
Many thx,
Rich
Thank you thank you thank you
Oye, man, I was going nuts trying to figure out why the HKCU\...\MAPI modification wouldn't work and FINALLY found your post. It's all good now. I guess the moral of the story is don't assume WM5 and WM6 are the same. Uh, duh?
techlogik said:
I found this by activating the save attachments to Storage Card option
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Hi,
Where is this "save attachments to storage card" option found in the settings?
-John
"Access is Denied"
Does anyone know why I would get a "Access is Denied" message when I try to add a value to the HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings hive?
I'm trying to edit the registry on an HTC S710.
Cheers,
Geoff.
mtn_lion said:
Oye, man, I was going nuts trying to figure out why the HKCU\...\MAPI modification wouldn't work and FINALLY found your post. It's all good now. I guess the moral of the story is don't assume WM5 and WM6 are the same. Uh, duh?
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What Registry editor did you use?
Hi Guys,
after doing the tweak and rebooting i had a folder named Storage Card and my real card renamed to Store Card2. Guess the system created the path as the card was not available early enough. Caused a lot of error messages..
any suggestions?
ceslovic said:
actually I had to add also key "AttachPath" with value "\Storage Card\Mail\Attachments" without quotas.
I did it on HP514 Voice messenger with WM6. The main issue was actually to rename "storage card" on "storage card.bak" and taking card out and reboote. After I started again when I saw new folder "Mail" created on Storage Card I was happy as a kid. I just moved with file explorer all *.att to attachment folder and all *.mpb to Mail folder from \Windows\Messaging. Then I opened Outlook and everything was there as nothing happened. All stored on memory card, damm so goooood. I like you guys,
Ceslo
You made my day, man, thaks.
Ceslo
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Hi guys, I tried the adding property path but faced problem.
I'm using Samsung i600 and mobile registry editor. When i try to add the string it says access is denied (error setting value). Really appreciate if someone can give me a step by step guide as I'm not familiar with registry editting. i.e What to put in the value name and value data fields.
Thanks.
Azril
I have HTC (8925(Tilt) and after doing the tweak and rebooting my card renamed to Store Card2.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Does anyone know how to do this with BBConnect mail files? I really need to move my bb mail files
doing the storagecard.bak thing doesnt work...??
New here (and to WM for that matter - had Symbian).
So ive read all over the place about trying to change the mail to the SD. here is my situation (similar to a few here):
changed the relevant reg keys
on reboot i get the "storage card2" phenomena
tried the .bak but to no avail
so ive seen people say "take messaging out of today screen" and that windows live if installed will also make trouble. Notice i only use the pop3/IMAP default client (and no exchange and such).
questions:
how do i take the messaging out of today?
if i dont use the LIve just have it installed is that an issue (and if so..what do i do
assuming i take out messaging from today - i will need to make some softkey take me there - how is that done for my device
I use an HTC Cavalier (S630)
p.s - i saw someone just solved the issue by doing the following after reboot - take out SD, delete storage card folder, put sd back in and voila...but that is too low tech. can i write some sort of batch file that will dismount the SD, delete that folder and remount? after all i reboot only occasinally
I am very sure that WM5 can use mp3 files stored in storage card as ringtone, with no additional software and no registry tweak
The situation is, in my device (HTC Trinity), the drop box of ringtones does show the name of a song which is stored in the storage card and it works very well.
WM5 seems have a link redirected to the mp3 (a shortcut?)
but I have no idea why this happen. What I only did (related to ringtones) are
1, I installed Inesoft address book 1.68, few weeks later, uninstalled it.
2, I copied the song file to \Application\Sounds, few days later, removed it. (\Application\Sounds is empty now)
Then, I found this special "shortcut" to the mp3 file
I tried to find out which file in my device is the "shortcut", but found nothing. So strange it is. (and no relevant pointer in the registry also)
Anybody have idea how this happen? Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=273959&highlight=ring+sd
I installed Microsoft Compact NET Framework 3.5
And
Then I installed Call Surprise 1.21.
My phone does not ring my mp3!
And when I install the test software, it says the names of my MP3's have been found.
Here is what I put in the first box (search in folders box):
/Storage Card/Application Data/Call Surprise/
The above directory is absolutely correct. It does not like like this:
/Storage Card/Application Data/Call Surprise
And it does not look like this
/Storage Card /Application Data /Call Surprise/
What am I doing wrong!???????????????????????
And what the heck is the exclude these box? Is this where I put a list of unwanted sub directories?
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poetryrocksalot said:
I installed Microsoft Compact NET Framework 3.5
And
Then I installed Call Surprise 1.21.
My phone does not ring my mp3!
And when I install the test software, it says the names of my MP3's have been found.
Here is what I put in the first box (search in folders box):
/Storage Card/Application Data/Call Surprise/
The above directory is absolutely correct. It does not like like this:
/Storage Card/Application Data/Call Surprise
And it does not look like this
/Storage Card /Application Data /Call Surprise/
What am I doing wrong!???????????????????????
And what the heck is the exclude these box? Is this where I put a list of unwanted sub directories?
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search in folders box = try pointing to- \Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones
Put your ring tones you want to ring in there.
The exclude these box is if you have all of your mp3's in the specified folder and don't want Call surprise to play certain mp3's such as allert sounds - or some very soft music which you wouldn't hear as a ring tone. You would probably point to it like this in exclude box
\Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones\"name of mp3"
hotrod101 said:
search in folders box = try pointing to- \Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones
Put your ring tones you want to ring in there.
The exclude these box is if you have all of your mp3's in the specified folder and don't want Call surprise to play certain mp3's such as allert sounds - or some very soft music which you wouldn't hear as a ring tone. You would probably point to it like this in exclude box
\Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones\"name of mp3"
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I will try that soon, I will update on this
Hello, call surprise does not work at all! What the heck?
Can someone please tell me how to make it work. I thought it works on Xperia X1A?
when you open file explorer find where your normal ringtones are stored. Try pointing to that folder first to see if call surprise will randomize those rintones. Then find exactly where you have your other mp3's you want used as ringtones and point directly to that. Do not try excluding anything yet. Just point to these and test.
hotrod101 said:
when you open file explorer find where your normal ringtones are stored. Try pointing to that folder first to see if call surprise will randomize those rintones. Then find exactly where you have your other mp3's you want used as ringtones and point directly to that. Do not try excluding anything yet. Just point to these and test.
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Hey Hotrod! It finally worked!
The first problem was that I used / instead of \
There is also another problem where sometimes I don't get call surprise to work.
How do I change it to Staorage Card is my first question...
Manually editing the registry entry doesn't work, nor does changing the attributes of the files in question.
Up until now, although I have many ringtones on my htc Touch GSM, it can only see three of them. Some are hidden but no matter what I do, it only ever sees the three files in Windows.
Any thought? I've trawled the wibbly-wobbly-web and have come up blank.
Thanks,
the problem is when suspended storage is turn off
and when it ring storage is not available so if it was to get
it's ring-tones there it would not work
SKTools gives you the option to set the ringtone's folders.
you can choose whatever folder you like... works like a charm
nir36 said:
SKTools gives you the option to set the ringtone's folders.
you can choose whatever folder you like... works like a charm
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Great, thanks
my pleasure.