i downloaded a ringtone off the internet but i cant set it as my ringtone cant someone tell me where to do it
I'm new to WM so I'll try my best to describe what i've done. You can copy the file to the "My Ringtones" folder on your device and then change the setting in the program>>settings>>phone.
To hijack this thread a bit, but also may be related to a question you might have. How can I use custom SMS tones. I've placed .wave and .mp3 files in both "My Ringtones" and \Windows\Rings folder. But still the only sounds available on the drop down menu are the default ones.
vexingv said:
To hijack this thread a bit, but also may be related to a question you might have. How can I use custom SMS tones. I've placed .wave and .mp3 files in both "My Ringtones" and \Windows\Rings folder. But still the only sounds available on the drop down menu are the default ones.
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Put the tones directly on your SD card (not in any folder) and it should find them. Worked for me.
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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.
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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.
So I have an mp3 ringtone that is in the download folder on the internal memory. Where does it need to be placed so the device sees it and I can use it as a ringtone?
1. Open MyFiles
2. Browse to /sdcard/media/audio/. Create a folder in that folder called ringtones.
3. Move your MP3 to it. I think there may be a limit of 300kb for ringtones. I remember getting a warning when I was transferring the full song from my PC directly to that folder.
4. From the home screen press menu and go to Settings > Sound and display > Voice call ringtone. Your mp3 will show up as one of the choices on the menu.
Install the Astro file manager
Browse to the .mp3
Touch and hold on the .mp3
Select Music
Select Set as Ringtone
Tried the first method, and didn't see em showing up and stumbled into the one I posted fiddling around with trying to move the files around with Astro.
Better yet, put your ringtones, alarms, notifications into the following folders that way, only these certain sounds appear in those certain lists, so it doesn't clutter up the list:
\notifications\
\alarms\
\ringtones\
The above was actually written in the manual of the very first Android, the T-Mobile G1, and works on all Androids...
I used the ringdroid app to set a custom ringtone and text/email alert. I'll have to give the folder method a shot; it seems much simpler than opening an app and trimming the files from the phone every time you want a custom ringtone!
If you use the ringdroid/rings extended method, it will chop the song and copy it and make its own file, thus taking up space.
nxt said:
Better yet, put your ringtones, alarms, notifications into the following folders that way, only these certain sounds appear in those certain lists, so it doesn't clutter up the list:
\notifications\
\alarms\
\ringtones\
The above was actually written in the manual of the very first Android, the T-Mobile G1, and works on all Androids...
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So, just create these folders at the root level of the sdcard and they'll automatically show up in the correct lists of sounds?
I hope this is the right area to ask, and i apologize if not.
I just went from 1.5 (Magic) to 2.2 (Desire) and man, the first thing i noticed is how crappy the Froyo ringtones are! I really want my regular old 1.5 ringtones, but im not sure where to look.
Is there a 1.5 ringtone dump anywhere? Or can i download them from somewhere?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548432
These appear to be from the Hero rather than the Magic, but would they be what you're after?
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Yea those are the ring tones, thanks!
But android 1.5 (and possible above) was weird, in that the default ringtones could only be selected by choosing default. therefore, the ringtone im looking for isnt in that group
can anyone help?
if you're asking how to get them to work on your phone all you have to do is make a folder called media on your sdcard. In the media folder make another folder called audio and place yet another folder called ringtones and notifications. just place your ringtones and notification sounds in their respective folders.
Geo411m said:
if you're asking how to get them to work on your phone all you have to do is make a folder called media on your sdcard. In the media folder make another folder called audio and place yet another folder called ringtones and notifications. just place your ringtones and notification sounds in their respective folders.
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No that i know how to do.
Im asking for the default ringtones from android 1.5 Apparently, theyre not stored in /system/media. In that directory are all the optional ringtones.
When selecting ringtones, you can choose from the list, or select default. The default ringtone is NOT found on that list and therefore NOT in system/media as far as I know
Anyone know whaat I'm talking about here? Lol
zoltrix said:
... I really want my regular old 1.5 ringtones, but im not sure where to look ...
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You may want to download the original zipped ROM from HTC.
Looky here:
http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s3
Download the 'Recovery Image' for Android™ 1.5 (make sure the MD5 checksum matches).
Extract and do whatcha want
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
If you don't know how, I was able to do it for you (so i was bored).
notifications
Beat_Box_Android.ogg
CaffeineSnake.ogg
DearDeer.ogg
DontPanic.ogg
F1_MissedCall.ogg
F1_New_MMS.ogg
F1_New_SMS.ogg
Heaven.ogg
Highwire.ogg
KzurbSonar.ogg
OnTheHunt.ogg
TaDa.ogg
Tinkerbell.ogg
Voila.ogg
ringtones
BeatPlucker.ogg
BentleyDubs.ogg
BirdLoop.ogg
CaribbeanIce.ogg
CrazyDream.ogg
CurveBall.ogg
DreamTheme.ogg
EtherShake.ogg
FriendlyGhost.ogg
GameOverGuitar.ogg
Growl.ogg
InsertCoin.ogg
LoopyLounge.ogg
LoveFlute.ogg
MidEvilJaunt.ogg
MildlyAlarming.ogg
NewPlayer.ogg
Noises1.ogg
Noises2.ogg
Noises3.ogg
OrganDub.ogg
Ring_Classic_02.ogg
Ring_Digital_02.ogg
Ring_Synth_02.ogg
Ring_Synth_04.ogg
RomancingTheTone.ogg
SitarVsSitar.ogg
SpringyJalopy.ogg
Terminated.ogg
TwirlAway.ogg
VeryAlarmed.ogg
World.ogg
http://www.mediafire.com/?rl86f5pn8tolouu
audio.zip = 1,621KB
I hope that's what you were looking for?!
Since beginning my foray into android at cupcake, some tones do NOT show in the list of available notifications and ringtones. Ive placed the sounds and folders of sounds on the usb storage in folders named accordingly. I also tried putting the same folders/files into the /system/media/ringtones and /media/notifications folder to no avail.
Theyre either in the .ogg format, .mp3, I think there are even a couple of .wav files...some of which are available, some are not.
Why might this happen? Is there a solution other than converting the sounds that I dont have listed? Thank you...
EDIT: Hmmm...is it a file size issue?
Create a folder called "media" on the root of your sdcard. Then in that folder make another folder called "audio". Now in the audio folder make two more folders, "notifications" & "ringtones". Now put your tones in the correct folder.
Reboot and they should now be available to you via sounds in settings
snandlal said:
Create a folder called "media" on the root of your sdcard. Then in that folder make another folder called "audio". Now in the audio folder make two more folders, "notifications" & "ringtones". Now put your tones in the correct folder.
Reboot and they should now be available to you via sounds in settings
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It's an issue of certain files not showing. I'll try this method regardless. Thanks for your input.
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Ok. Sorry
Wipe dalvik after adding files in media folder.
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Two ideas:
1. Download and run an sd card media scan app.
But much more likely
2. Using the PC, edit the properties of the files so that the Title field is filled in.
Hi friends I got ICS update (Official) in India on 11th Sep ....Everything is fine but not able to set custom ringtone...screen shot below
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Hi friends I got ICS update (Official) in India on 11th Sep ....Everything is fine but not able to set custom ringtone...screen shot below
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What did you do to get the custom ringtone..
I mean I have copied a Nexus S rigntone to the notifications folder and I am able to use it a ringtone, this is the usual way of setting a custom ringtone.. have you done this??
Put ringotones in''ringtones'' folder
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Copy your custom ringtone mp3 to sdcard/media/audio/ringtones directory. Once the sdcard is scanned for media, the file will appear in your available ringtone list.
kousik said:
Copy your custom ringtone mp3 to sdcard/media/audio/ringtones directory. Once the sdcard is scanned for media, the file will appear in your available ringtone list.
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Thanks friend.... this worked for me thank you a lot
kousik said:
Copy your custom ringtone mp3 to sdcard/media/audio/ringtones directory. Once the sdcard is scanned for media, the file will appear in your available ringtone list.
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I stumbled on this thread/post after searching on the internet. The above solution that you have mentioned did not work for me. I do not have a ringtones folder under sdcard/media/audio directory,just the notifications folder. I copied my ringtones files to this notifications folder and restarted the phone. That did not work. Next I created a ringtone folder under sdcard/media/audio and pasted the tones under this folder.
I restarted the phone again and checked... that also did not work.
Am I missing something here? Please help.
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Thanks,
M
MadhaviJ said:
I stumbled on this thread/post after searching on the internet. The above solution that you have mentioned did not work for me. I do not have a ringtones folder under sdcard/media/audio directory,just the notifications folder. I copied my ringtones files to this notifications folder and restarted the phone. That did not work. Next I created a ringtone folder under sdcard/media/audio and pasted the tones under this folder.
I restarted the phone again and checked... that also did not work.
Am I missing something here? Please help.
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I create my own ringtones in the .ogg format rather than MP3s. Then, I place them in /system/media/audio/ringtones or /system/media/audio/notifications, change permissions to rw-r--r--, change owner and group to 0-root and reboot. It has worked for me every time. I also remove all the existing ringtones and notifications because I never use them, but I don't think that's necessary to make it work.
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I create my own ringtones in the .ogg format rather than MP3s. Then, I place them in /system/media/audio/ringtones or /system/media/audio/notifications, change permissions to rw-r--r--, change owner and group to 0-root and reboot. It has worked for me every time. I also remove all the existing ringtones and notifications because I never use them, but I don't think that's necessary to make it work.
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Create own ringtones & save as .ogg format, appreciate if you can advise more to achieve this. Also we do have a qhd wallpapers thread specific to A2, any leads to some really cool ringtones & notifications site? I usually go t to zedge on web & d/l mp3's. Got the Matrix phone ringtone currently
RAD7 said:
Create own ringtones & save as .ogg format, appreciate if you can advise more to achieve this. Also we do have a qhd wallpapers thread specific to A2, any leads to some really cool ringtones & notifications site? I usually go t to zedge on web & d/l mp3's. Got the Matrix phone ringtone currently
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I started to reply here, but decided to make a tutorial in the general section here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2205151
Thanks for asking and giving me an idea for how I can contribute to this community. :thumbup:
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Why guys do so much work to put it in ringtones folder.
Just open any mp3 or any ringtone in music player press menu key and there is option set as ringtone.... Simple
pritkudale said:
Why guys do so much work to put it in ringtones folder.
Just open any mp3 or any ringtone in music player press menu key and there is option set as ringtone.... Simple
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Personal preference. You like your way, I like mine. It's not all that much work and doesn't really take much time. Also, when my phone is connected to my PC, the ringtones are still usable since they aren't on the SD card.
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