Here's another program in the style of RingtoneX and Caller-ID.
Magician users might already know it, because I started telling about it here. But I think it's a bit too well hidden there, and I'd like to know if it works on other devices as well...
Ringtones seem to work fine on MDAc with a reasonable number of contacts, while I've got a feedback it doesn't work on an MDA II with over 500 contacts. I don't know whether it's because of the device or the number of contacts, so just try if it works for you, and give me some feedback...
SMS notification sounds should work on all devices, but it might need a soft reset to activate the messaging plug-in. This plug-in can be used by other programmers as well: If you create a registry key with <window title>=<window handle> (as DWord) in HKLM\Software\Mort\SMSNotify\Windows, you'll receive a WM_COPYDATA with a string containing "SMS\n<sender>\n<text>" whenever an SMS comes in...
Oh, btw: As all my other programs, this will remain free, but I gratefully accept PayPal donations to [email protected]...
Hi Mort,
would you be so kind to upload some screenshots of your application? I would like to see, how the program's gui is done.
TIA,
BGK
Here you are...
Don't expect too much, it's been made to work for me, not to look pretty...
The call and sms popups are not modified, i.e. the one of Windows is used. I only replace the registry entry for the ringtone resp. sms notification sound...
Your App is great! Are there any changes to Ver. 0.5?
Bubisch said:
Are there any changes to Ver. 0.5?
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The SMS sound is reset a second after the notification was handled and on exit, so it won't set the most recently used one as default on next startup.
Addionally, there are now three "pseudo" categories for all other numbers: contacts without assigned number (either direct or by category), unknown numbers, and calls with supressed numbers. The sounds for these categories are set to the currently used ones as defaults until the category settings are saved.
Mort, you are just GREAT!
Thanks 8)
It is really amazing specially changin SMS tone :shock: .... Keep it up.... I hope if you could....:
- Include all rings under Windows folder and sub folders cause there is no need to copy all tones in /Windows to /Windows/Rings...
- The ability to set Tones in Storage Card.
- The ability to listen to the Tone before setting it.
- The ability to view the Recent Caller Name not only number...
I will keep testing it and let you know ASAP ... Waiting for your next release , do not be late :wink: ...
alkandery75 said:
It is really amazing specially changin SMS tone :shock:
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In fact, the SMS tone even was more easy to achieve...
- Include all rings under Windows folder and sub folders cause there is no need to copy all tones in /Windows to /Windows/Rings...
- The ability to set Tones in Storage Card.
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Both of this is not possible as such, because the Windows call program doesn't support paths in the used registry values. (That's why RingtoneX copies the files of other folders to \Windows\Rings...)
But can can modify the path for the ringtones in the registry. It's stored in the Value "Directory" of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring. MortRing uses this value, too (because I use \Storage\Ring).
But currently, MortRing will list ALL contained files of this directory, as I didn't want to limit it too much. Thus, setting it to \Windows would make choosing a ringtone taking quite a while...
The ability to listen to the Tone before setting it.
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Currently, all I could do would be opening the file, so it's played by WMP or the "Pictures" application (which also plays MMF, MID, and some other audio codecs...). I don't know of a simple way to play anything but WAV directly in my app.
- The ability to view the Recent Caller Name not only number...
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Technically, that would be no problem, but I think the default "missed calls" list is far better for this. The output's mostly for debugging reasons anyway...
Guys, the most sophisticated gadget I ever had prior to owning the Magician is a Sony Ericsson P800. Judging by how confused I am with the Magician's set message alert tone / ringtone capability as it is now, kindly explain, as you would explain it to a child, how Mort's program works.
Thanks!
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Guys, the most sophisticated gadget I ever had prior to owning the Magician is a Sony Ericsson P800. Judging by how confused I am with the Magician's set message alert tone / ringtone capability as it is now, kindly explain, as you would explain it to a child, how Mort's program works.
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After installation, the program's in the autostart folder. After a soft reset, you'll see a tray icon that looks like a cell phone.
If you tap this icon, a popup menu appears. The most important entries are "Contacts" and "Categories".
In "Categories" you can assign ring- and sms tones to the contact categories. If a contact has multiple categories, the order of the list in this dialog is used. I.e., if a contact has both "Private" and "Friends", it will take the "Friends" settings if it's in the list prior to "Private".
In "Contacts" you can assign ring- and sms tones to single contacts, thus overriding the category settings. The currently used category ringtone (or "*other contacts*") is shown there if no specific contact ringtone is set. To remove a contact ringtone (and this way restoring the category setting), press the fitting "X" button ("X"=remove). It's only activated if a contact ringtone's assigned.
Its really a great program, very simple to use, and not complicated at all 8)
Thanks for the great work, Mort
What you've done is really something cool 8)
Hmmm so after 500 contacts we should start deleting HAHAHHA I think this is not such a big issue and with your skill you'll probably figure it out. So the best of luck Mort. Great App... BTW I am using v0.5d with 445 Contacts
Hey Mort
This is a great program.
I am using it on my XDA Mini and it's so much better than the CallID program that comes with the phone.
Good work.
Mort you are great.
I now use this, MortSaver and MortPlayer!
Whats the latest version of MortSaver by the way?
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Whats the latest version of MortSaver by the way?
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b32.
It now uses the SMS notification of MortRing, which should improve stability in this area a lot...
Mort,
Great idea, and certainly easier to use than Photo Contacts. Only issue I've noticed on my Mini is that MortRing does not show certain people in Contacts list (in MortRing), and the ring tone seems to be incorrect during the call (it uses one a few categories down), whereas it is correct in the Contact list. I have under 300 contacts, but some may have multiple entries, which may cause it to exceed 500 I suppose.
Any fixes?
BTW, you don't by any chance have an offspring named Susan, do you?
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Only issue I've noticed on my Mini is that MortRing does not show certain people in Contacts list (in MortRing),
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That's strage... Are they shown if you "Search" them?
and the ring tone seems to be incorrect during the call (it uses one a few categories down), whereas it is correct in the Contact list.
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If the correct one is shown in the "Recent call" message of MortRing (popup menu), it's probably the timing problem. I don't have a good and working solution for that currently... It seems like the only way would be to kill and restart the system's call program, but that's quite risky - if something goes wrong, you won't notice the call at all...
BTW, you don't by any chance have an offspring named Susan, do you?
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Not in RL...
hey is it possible to update this program so it does not unload itself from memory everytime i launch another program or run a backup (stop processes option is turned off). having to restart the option manually is frustrating.
i have a PDA2K with 30 MB free with Rom 1.40
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hey is it possible to update this program so it does not unload itself from memory everytime i launch another program or run a backup (stop processes option is turned off). having to restart the option manually is frustrating.
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In theory, it shouldn't be stopped as it is. Either something's going wrong on your system, or your free memory is very small...
Are you sure it's really unloaded? Hidden windows aren't shown in most task lists. As long as the tray icon is visible and works, all is fine...
Anyway, here's a version which ignores WM_CLOSE, which should help in most "automatically closed" cases.
It also includes another approach to use lineSetAppPriority. Please tell me whether it works or if you get additional "unknow" entries in the call history again...
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Only issue I've noticed on my Mini is that MortRing does not show certain people in Contacts list (in MortRing),
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That's strage... Are they shown if you "Search" them?
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Yes, they show up in a search, but not in list.
Mort said:
and the ring tone seems to be incorrect during the call (it uses one a few categories down), whereas it is correct in the Contact list.
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If the correct one is shown in the "Recent call" message of MortRing (popup menu), it's probably the timing problem. I don't have a good and working solution for that currently... It seems like the only way would be to kill and restart the system's call program, but that's quite risky - if something goes wrong, you won't notice the call at all...
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No, the recent call list the wrong tone as well. The funny thing is that it's a tone that is use for a totally different category; if it had not been recognised, it would have played a different tune.
I actually meant notification sound. So when I receive a txt fro Bob, my phone will play one sound. When I receive a txt from George, my phone will play a different sound. How do I do that?
Thanks.
[Solved] I downloaded Handcent SMS app for free from the market, it allows you to set different notification sound to different contacts.
simple u go on contacts,click Bob or George.Menu,edit,scroll down to ring tone and choose whatever u want.This doesn't work with imported contacts thou
stevm said:
simple u go on contacts,click Bob or George.Menu,edit,scroll down to ring tone and choose whatever u want.This doesn't work with imported contacts thou
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Thanks for the reply. I have just tried that. But I found out that only works with phone calls, but not receiving SMS.
BTW, what do you mean it doesn't work with imported contacts?
Hey is there a way I can have a diferent ring tone for some event events but not others? Like when I get a text it is the same ring tone as when I set a reminder for something. I would like to have 1 ring tone for text and one for reminders, one for calendar events, one for gtask and so on . . .
Yes it is.
plz give more informations about your phone and rom
Ok within each app like gmail or messages u can pick which notification u wantfor that app, even for every contact, for conctacts i use Go Contacts, fortexts i use go SMS pro, just today i downloaded something that while the phone its ringing the soundu picked for a certain person, it also says the name of the person app its called speaking ring
so basicly what u need is
zedge - download ringtones and notifications, - FREE
Go SMS pro - set up customs SMS notifications to every single contact - FREE
Go contact - custom rintones - FREE
Speaking Ring - A ''computorized'' says the name of the person calling you - FREE
when setting notifications and ringtones, dont use system,use zedge instead
hope that was helpfull. if so thnaks are welcome. wanted to post some stuff on other threads but couldnt untill i have 10 post argggghhh
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Ok within each app like gmail or messages u can pick which notification u wantfor that app, even for every contact, for conctacts i use Go Contacts, fortexts i use go SMS pro, just today i downloaded something that while the phone its ringing the soundu picked for a certain person, it also says the name of the person app its called speaking ring
so basicly what u need is
zedge - download ringtones and notifications, - FREE
Go SMS pro - set up customs SMS notifications to every single contact - FREE
Go contact - custom rintones - FREE
Speaking Ring - A ''computorized'' says the name of the person calling you - FREE
when setting notifications and ringtones, dont use system,use zedge instead
hope that was helpfull. if so thnaks are welcome. wanted to post some stuff on other threads but couldnt untill i have 10 post argggghhh
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free?
aaronisaacm said:
free?
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wow!!
85gallon said:
wow!!
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I mean all apps are free on market
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I mean all apps are free on market
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You had the word "free" with a question mark behind it. Which means you were asking if they were free and the guy had FREE behind every app he suggested. That is why I said wow. Maybe it is a language barrier. Not sure where you are from.
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I am looking for a solution that can help me in setting a custom ring tone for a series of phone numbers. These phone numbers cannot be defined in the phonebook because these are quite large numbers. For example there are 2000 phone numbers within my organization that starts with 4560001 - 4562000. I cannot defin all of these in my phone book, but if someone is calling from any of these numbers I want a custom ringtone to be linked to this.
Can anyone help on this
thanks
sandeep
idea786 said:
I am looking for a solution that can help me in setting a custom ring tone for a series of phone numbers. These phone numbers cannot be defined in the phonebook because these are quite large numbers. For example there are 2000 phone numbers within my organization that starts with 4560001 - 4562000. I cannot defin all of these in my phone book, but if someone is calling from any of these numbers I want a custom ringtone to be linked to this.
Can anyone help on this
thanks
sandeep
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Do you already have the ringtones you are wnating to use if not go to the market and lookup "myxer" it allowes you to make custome ringtones download them and set them as defualt or specific to a contact
I don't think what you want to do is possible.
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i don't think this is possible too... unless you really group your contacts by number maybe?
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i don't think this is possible too... unless you really group your contacts by number maybe?
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I agree you would have to group the contacts to make a specific ringtone for a number of contacts and then group others with another ringtone etc untill it is the way you wanted Myxer will still set the ringtones though and its free
I apologize if this has been asked before - I spent hours googling this with no success.
I have a new Nexus 5 (4.4.2) and I'm still customizing it.
I would like to be able to assign a specific ringtone to an individual contact.
I know how to do it and tried it many times - no dice. No matter what ringtone I assign to a specific contact, the phone always rings with the default ringtone.
I use the stock People app and display Contacts from Microsoft. I did try it with Contacts from Gmail - it changed nothing when it came to the ringtone assignment.
Thank you.
Is the ringtone in MP3 format? I know Android can handle a few other formats natively but you're always safe with a compressed MP3
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Liskrig said:
Is the ringtone in MP3 format? I know Android can handle a few other formats natively but you're always safe with a compressed MP3
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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At this point, I tried it only with the ringtones that come with the phone.
I assign a particular one to a contact, i can see my selection sticks in the contact record, but it rings with the general default ringtone...
BUMP?
Anybody?!
I'm not used to having specific rigntones for my contacts but here is below what I did and it works. I have the stock People and Dialer apps.
1. In People app I choose a contact > Menu > Set ringtone > Multimedia storage > "X" ringtone > OK.
2. That's it.
All my contacts are sync with my GMail account. Did you try with several contacts? What happens if you try with a new contact?
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I'm not used to having specific rigntones for my contacts but here is below what I did and it works. I have the stock People and Dialer apps.
1. In People app I choose a contact > Menu > Set ringtone > Multimedia storage > "X" ringtone > OK.
2. That's it.
All my contacts are sync with my GMail account. Did you try with several contacts? What happens if you try with a new contact?
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I do the above and have had no issues assigning ringtones to contacts (I have two custom ones for my girlfriend and best mate)
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Well, aren't I a goose! I had a think about this and thus a revelation. I don't have Caller ID. In Canada this means that the provider actually goes to the trouble to strip ALL the information that comes down the line - yes, they are vicious here. Therfore, even if I'm called by somebody who IS in my Contacts, all I see is "Unknown".
My heartfelt apologies and thank you for trying to help.
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Well, aren't I a goose! I had a think about this and thus a revelation. I don't have Caller ID. In Canada this means that the provider actually goes to the trouble to strip ALL the information that comes down the line - yes, they are vicious here. Therfore, even if I'm called by somebody who IS in my Contacts, all I see is "Unknown".
My heartfelt apologies and thank you for trying to help.
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i got the same issue and my plan has caller id....
hmm
Oh, no! I'm sorry for you. I suggest you email Google Support - I did and received an answer quickly, not that it solved my problem.
Go here: https://support.google.com/nexus/?hl=en#topic=3415518
and select "Contact us" at top right.
Much luck and please come back here and let us know what happened.