Back to one of the most simplest things of cell phones but that is often forgotten in the abyss of features that our smart phones have.
What is your ringtone? Is it a built in one? Custom or what?
Also for anyone who didnt know you can make Mp3's and other audio files ringtones by simply putting them in '/media/audio/ringtones' on your SDcard. Then setting them as you usually do.
My ringtone is the Song from the Radio in Portal (Still Alive Samba Version).
Heres a link to it.
Mine's the old fashioned 'Digital Phone' ringtone from the Stock N1 ROM. None of that fancy music or the autotune BS ringtones.
Also, on a sorta related rant, if people let their ringtone songs play while their phone is ringing instead of answering it, maybe you shouldn't have a phone. And don't get me started on ringback tones...
what25 said:
Also, on a sorta related rant, if people let their ringtone songs play while their phone is ringing instead of answering it, maybe you shouldn't have a phone. And don't get me started on ringback tones...
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^this x100
I don't care that you can take an mp3, take your favorite 30 seconds from the song, and chop it up, and make it your ringtone. I don't need to hear the whole whole "BLAME IT ON THE A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-ALCOHOL" chorus, while you wait to pick up your phone. You want to listen to music, put some headphones on, and play music.
And I don't care who it is, if I call you, and hear a ringback tone, I hang up. You can call me back so I don't have to hear Jamie Foxx again just to call you.
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Is there any way to set things up so that for an incoming call the cruise uses a random mp3 or other format ringtone from a folder?
Thanks
AO
Honestly, that sounds truly strange, both litteraly and by figure of speech...
and by that you mean...???
It's unusual, but I think unusual is good. I like it (assuming I've understood it correctly).
I assume the idea is to have a folder with various MP3s in it so that when a call comes in you don't always get the same old ring tone but you get a randomly selected one from the choices in the folder. Is this correct?
The above only seems to be practical (in a human sense) if you have few enough MP3s so that you will recognise the sound each time as one of your random ringtones, it would be a bit strange if you had so many ringtones that you couldn't recognise all of them as being your phone ringing (wouldn't it?).
Out of interest, how many MP3s are you thinking of having in the collection and will they be mostly music clips or other stuff?
- Julian
P.S. Sorry - I have no idea how you would do this.
yes exactly... got a bunch of self-made loops (like 15 or so) and would be real nice if i could listen to a different tune every time my celly rings...
And about concerns, i couldnt recognize if its my phone that rings: What you guys do? Stack dozens of phones? I know where my cruise is, and if some sound type of thing comes from that direction, I just know: Hey, its either spontaneous creation of sound from nothing, or my phone rings...
AO
rockscientist01 said:
And about concerns, i couldnt recognize if its my phone that rings: What you guys do? Stack dozens of phones? I know where my cruise is, and if some sound type of thing comes from that direction, I just know: Hey, its either spontaneous creation of sound from nothing, or my phone rings...
AO
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Interesting. I think you must have much better directional hearing than me. When my phone rings, even with just one ringtone set, I'm usually not sure if it is mine or someone else's. I do keep it in my trouser pocket though so not very close to my ears and I live in the city so I usually have quite a few other people within a few metres of me, especially when I'm on a train or in a bar or something. It's usually the vibrate part of the ringing that gets my attention before the ringtone does. I'd actually do better with your idea, 15 ringtones unique to me would be better than one that isn't very unique to me.
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rockscientist01 said:
and by that you mean...???
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julianL said:
I'm usually not sure if it is mine or someone else's.
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Just what I mean, what's the use of multiple ringtones, you have to recognize your own when in public areas, and fast, as most people start finding ringtones annyoing...
rockscientist01 said:
yes exactly... got a bunch of self-made loops (like 15 or so) and would be real nice if i could listen to a different tune every time my celly rings...
And about concerns, i couldnt recognize if its my phone that rings: What you guys do? Stack dozens of phones? I know where my cruise is, and if some sound type of thing comes from that direction, I just know: Hey, its either spontaneous creation of sound from nothing, or my phone rings...
AO
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Well, you can assign different MP3 ringtones for each of your contact.
Hi,
I have noticed that my phone takes a while to ring if I phone it from another terminal. However, if I have set it to "vibration", it rings much quicker.
Can this be due to the size of the mp3 I use as a rington? I am using a 2.13MB stereo 192 kbps. I am thinking of transforming it to a mono file with lower bitrate, but I have not tested it yet.
¿Do you think this can help? I have also heard that some people have had problems missing calls, due to the time the phone takes to ring. Maybe it is because of this...
Thanks a lot.
Hey boy
I dealt with this problem and I decided that it's better for the OS that the sound file is uncompressed. So the best format that you can set as a ringtone is the plain WAV format. You can convert a some mp3 music loop, not the whole song, to WAV and set it as your phone call ringtone.
But listen: I have found out that there is an interesting thing if you want to hear ALL your call and misscalls: in the Sounds and Notifications section you have an entry that says "Phone: lost call" or something like that. Look for it and choose to play a short sound, for example. This way, even if the phone call is too short to produce any sound, it always plays the sound.
I hope this helps
Thanks for the tip about the notifications for the missed calls. I'll do that.
I am at work now, but I will do some testing with other mp3 formats and with wav files, of course. Thanks again for that tip. Should I use any special format for the wav file (mono, estereo, bits per channel) or would anyone work? Which one is the most common?
Thanks!
Is there a player out there that will pause only for phone calls? When I had a hero, the player worked great...would only pause for phone calls or if I was using navigator and a new turn was coming up. Since getting an Evo, the player pauses for everything, often times, I can't even tell what caused the pause in the music, just something that hit the processor I suppose.
I dont have a suggestion, but totally agree with you. I wish all music apps would allow us to have settings for Notifications, Phone Calls, Navigations, etc. It is sadly overlooked on all the media players that I have tried so far.
If you went to download a music player and then saw it say "controls phone,data,mms,internet,sd card, and had root. Most people would be worried fo ssecurity to download such an app. Its not attractive when an app practicaly needs ur entire phone open to use.
Voodoo sound has a Mod to disable all those notifications if I'm not mistaken.
I don't guess anyone has had this problem but me. I'm running Eaglesblood 2.3.7. I've checked the settings for sound and the preferences in google voice and the cyanogenmod settings and can't figure this out.
When my phone rings it never rings with my selected ringtone. It rings with a ringtone I used to use months ago. And when I miss a call, the phone plays an mp3 of a song I have that I have probably only listened to once. And it plays that song to completion unless I mute the volume, and steals the audio focus so if I'm playing some other video when it happens, I can't hear the audio until the song finishes playing.
I tried clearing data on the dialer app, which causes the app to flash and then play the missed call song. I delete the two offending songs and the phone seems to be trying to play them because now I have no ringtone at all. All I can do is use talking caller id from the app market.
Anyone ever heard of this?
Is it possible to make a ringtone (like the buzzer alarm) that gets progressively louder? The idea behind this would be, that people wouldn't have to install third party alarm apps that have this function, yet not be woken up violently every morning.
Couldn't someone just do with any audio-editing program ? I mean, I've changed the volume of whole songs before - had one that would always played much louder than the others so I went in and edited it. Seems like you could do that with any song and just make it louder and louder.
I don't know about the alarm apps - I have never used one. If they let you use any tone you want, it seems like it makes it easier for people to use their favourite sound or song without having to edit or learn how to edit each file individually - and to switch quickly without having to do that all over again.
Personally, I just picked a song I like that starts off gently and gets louder on its own. I know some people need more "annoying" or "harsh" sounds to wake up - to the point of multiple alarms, but I guess I'm glad that I don't need to hear something positively painful in the morning.