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Phone no longer plays any ring

At some point recently, my WM6 phone stopped playing its ringtone (normal WM6 ringtone sound, haven't changed it). If I go into Settings->Sounds & Notifications and check the Phone: Incoming Call sound, it is correct and plays. If I check in Settings->Phone and check the sound, it is correct and plays. But it doesn't play when I actually get a call. Changing the ring tone to something else doesn't help either. Anyone have any idea how this can be fixed, other than a hard reset (soft reset doesn't work)?

hi
this happened to me wayyyy back when i still had my xda2. although i'm pretty sure wm se2003 and wm2006 are completely different =)...what happened was i installed an app that's causing the conflict. i forgot which app was causing this problem but after i uninstalled it, did a soft reset and the ringtones came back. for your case, you might want to check if you installed recent apps. if yes, perhaps one of them is causing this. i think it's mostly the old applications that affect the system. example, installing an app made for se2003 devices.
or, is your bluetooth on? it's possible that all sound is being rerouted to the headset. i think it's a bug for a lot of devices.
hope that helps.
cheers

Robson said:
what happened was i installed an app that's causing the conflict. i forgot which app was causing this problem but after i uninstalled it, did a soft reset and the ringtones came back.
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Thanks for the reply.
Fring is the application in this instance (I wanted to use Skype over my 3G connection, but the Skype client itself is a no-go, unless you go back to an old version that only outputs via the speakerphone). As far as I can tell this happened after installing it.
Problem is, after uninstalling Fring and doing a soft reset, the problem remains. I figured maybe the issue is a registry setting or the like, but have no idea where. So I turn to all you knowledgeable people in the hope that the answer isn't "do a hard reset." :-|

Lost ringtones (most of them)

I noticed the problem when someone tried to call me. My phone would just vibrate and not ring. It took me awhile to narrow down the problem. It seems only the first few ringtones in the list (Alarm-****) are the only ones that work anymore. The rest are still listed but when i try to test them, they don't play. Anyone know where the default ringtones are stored or how to fix this issue? If not, I'll just have to hard reset.

issue fixed. I had selected to associate all the audio file types to my pocketmusic application. I unassociated all the file types and now it works again.

[Q] My Contact List Reset?!

Woke up today, went to my call history and noticed that it didn't list any names. Instead it had everyones phone number. When I clicked a number to dial, it showed their name. So I reset the phone, numbers still showed. I cleared the list, and dialed a new person. Everything back to normal.
Then, when trying to call someone later on today, I noticed something else. All the links that I had made (Live + Facebook contact) were unlinked.
Anyone have a clue why this happened, or has anyone else experienced it? I hate having to relink everyone again.

Glad to know I'm not the only one that had this happen
Went thru the same process of rebooting & pulled the battery
The call history just mysteriously lost all association to the names?
New calls are showing up ok
I'm guessing that some AT&T system reset is the culprit

bmazloum said:
All the links that I had made (Live + Facebook contact) were unlinked.
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+1 on this bit.
I've noticed that very occasionally those contacts whose name doesn't exactly match their Facebook accounts become unlinked and I have to re-link them. I have no idea why that happens and have never been able to attribute a cause.

Although not the same, I am having a problem with my contact pics on the People tile on the homescreen. It looks as though all the pics I added myself are showing up as blue squares , Facebook pics are showing up ok. When I go into my contact list all pics show up correctly.

This happened to me too once, I figured it was just a bug... That and the call history being delayed at times... Calls won't show up for a few minutes randomly... Had only happened about two or three times.

I had the same problem last night, too.
I guess that it is the problem came from Hotmail server. It was corrupt when syncing and then all my contacts were reset and sync again. It made Live contacts and linked-facebook contacts unlink...
Cmon MS, hotmail must be stable like rock or user will have this problem again

HAd same Problem
Just about a hour ago all my contacts unlinked and i als lost all my home screen contacts they just vannished from my home screen.

Did not encounter this issue but I do agree MS should improve the live mail service...
At least make contact editing as good as gmail...

i also encountered this waking up this morning.

Are any of you guys using Micro-SD cards? That could possibly be the cause of the problem

i am on a trophy, so yes, it's built into the phone with a micro SD. given the amount of people who all experienced this at about the same time, i would say it would be something to do with the server.

Oscardog777 said:
Are any of you guys using Micro-SD cards? That could possibly be the cause of the problem
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I have the phone over a month and not having this problem so far until yesterday... So I dont think it is the SD Card problem...
/I have a HD7

About 2 minutes after my first post I noticed that this exact problem had happened to me (my gf had called, and in the call history it simply listed her number and not her name). I remembered that last night while configuring my email settings, under my windows live account it said "not synced" or something like that. Naturally, I did a long press and hit "sync." When it synced, it must have for some reason set everything back to default. This was probably the cause of my problem; I agree it must be some sort of Hotmail/Windows Live sync issue.

Happened to me too, 4x already. My Samsung Focus Windows Live contact becomes unlinked with my previously linked facebook contacts everytime i will sync in hotmail tile. I am annoyed as I have to linked my facebook contact with windows live contacts everytime. Do you have any idea why is this so?

Could someone send this feedback to MS?... Cause my English is not good enough...

I'm on the Omnia 7, bought it especially not to have microSD problems. And seeing how it all happened in this past day, it's gotta be a Windows Live problem. Unless we all installed the same person
It's kinda freaky, Microsoft being in total control, they could just brick all our phones overnight while we sleep.

Throw my hat in the ring too...all contacts in calls list appear as phone number and all contacts/facebook links unlinked. Not too big of a deal but kinda weird.

Happened to me too over the weekend. HD7 with original SD card. Lost my contact tiles from my start screen, lost all links between contacts and facebook friends where the names weren't the same.
If this happens again I'm going to change all my contact names to match the facebook names so they match themselves up, because doing it manually is a pain.

Casey_boy said:
+1 on this bit.
I've noticed that very occasionally those contacts whose name doesn't exactly match their Facebook accounts become unlinked and I have to re-link them. I have no idea why that happens and have never been able to attribute a cause.
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I had exactly the same problem for the first time yesterday. Weird.

Add me to the list. Also emails I deleted on my Hotmail inbox are still showing up on the phone.

MT4GS not remembering ringtones

So for a few weeks now, my phone has been unable to remember the ringtone I set for either SMS or phone calls. every time I set it it works, but as soon as I reboot the phone or unmount the sd card then remount, it forgets both tones and picks one of the songs on my sd card as the new tone.
I first noticed it after I was having some problems with btunes (my preferred music app) crashing, so I decided to clear the cache and data in Media Storage from the "Manage applications" menu. I learned to do this from the developer of another music app I had problems with, and thought it was worth a try.
ever since then, i've had the problem. I don't know why. To be fair, I MIGHT have had the problem before that, since I had only had the phone for 2 weeks at that point and didn't pay attention to it due to finals, so I wasn't doing much rebooting, and anyway the ringer volume was probably off the whole time. My memory is fuzzy about the ringtones working before that point. It was definitely happening before I rooted though, so I know that's not the problem.
anyway, help? on a side note, it always seems to automatically pick the same 2 songs for the 2 replacement ringers once I reboot. I'm not sure why, especially since they're not in the media/audio folder anywhere, and don't show up as potential ringtones when you look in any "pick ringtone" menu.

If you are rooted I would say reboot into recovery and clear dalvik-cache.
Sounds like that's where a setting is hiding.

I had this problem too when I was on Bulletproof 1.0, then when I switched to 1.1 it stopped. I don't think it was necessarily rom related, but maybe something to do with the wiping when changing roms.

I've had my (rooted stock ROM) MT4GS forget its notification settings a couple times - for me they usually stay set for a while, but after some time and/or reboots will come back wrong (not always the same wrong either- a few times it has picked notifications from my music folder, other times from the default sounds).
The problem seemed to start after I put another Android device (CM partition on my Touchpad) on my Google account, so I've been operating under the assumption that it is some kind of bug with settings synchronization. Unfortunately, it isn't very repeatable so I've never pinned the behavior down exactly.
I don't know if the issues are related, but gathering information on similar problems will hopefully let someone zero in on the issue.

the settings sync issue is worth checking, especially since I still have my Transform Ultra that I sometimes have turned on at home on wifi. I checked it, and the ringers were set on something else, So I matched them to the MT4GS and we'll see what happens.
I'm not sure that's the culprit, though, since this only happens when I restart the phone or re-mount the card. seems like settings sync wouldn't be an issue there, though I may be wrong.

I have the same issue with MT4GS and mines is certainly not rooted yet. The phone is only a couple weeks old. But its annoying. Sometimes I don't even have to reboot, sometimes it randomly just happens. IDK what to think of it.

I always shut off settings sync during setup and this used to happen to me.
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blackknightavalon said:
I always shut off settings sync during setup and this used to happen to me.
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You mena the initial setup of the phone? and how did you stop it?

Yeah its the google "backup my device" crap malfunctioning. Its dumb because what do u want it to backup? Texts, logs... What does it backup? Apps and bullcrap. If u want to start over, y can't I install apps individually? Or just give me the lists of crap ur gonna reinstall on my phone and let me select what I want....
Anyways, turn it off, reboot, sync, before nandroid/rom flashing and then don't use it on fresh install.
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Falkner09 said:
You mena the initial setup of the phone? and how did you stop it?
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See Etrick's post right under yours.
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ok, so what you're saying is, google's sync system is flawed so it periodically screws up the ringer settings on my phone, by attempting to "correct" them to the server information? why doesn't it just upload the knew info of the correct ringtone when I deliberately change it?

Falkner09 said:
ok, so what you're saying is, google's sync system is flawed so it periodically screws up the ringer settings on my phone, by attempting to "correct" them to the server information? why doesn't it just upload the knew info of the correct ringtone when I deliberately change it?
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That's what she said... PRECISELY what I don't understand. It seems as though everythings good, you've set your phone up after a fresh install, and everytime you make changes it syncs and instead of uploading the new stuff, it downloads the old. It may be something we are doing wrong by hacking our phones and some setting somewhere is missing or a simple kernel command is confusing it or who knows... Maybe its google's fault... All I know is, its annoying. It should get rid of your issue.
On a side note, there may be some settings for this hidden in some settings you can only find via pc. Like buried in google voice or plus or chrome or some now defunct google product you can no longer log into... Perhaps some digging there. I've found little to no documentation on the phone end...
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hmmm, well it can't be hacking, because this was happening before I had the phone hacked. also, oddly enough, I also have a different off line phone as a spare that's on the same android version, 2.3.4, yet does not have this problem. of course, that one's stock Android, not infected with Sense.....

Falkner09 said:
hmmm, well it can't be hacking, because this was happening before I had the phone hacked. also, oddly enough, I also have a different off line phone as a spare that's on the same android version, 2.3.4, yet does not have this problem. of course, that one's stock Android, not infected with Sense.....
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Well... If it happened prior to hacking, then it's not google backup. So go with other possibilities... Phone is hosed... Sd card hosed... (Have u tried selecting various tones on card or in your system media folder within your phone?)... Or is that other phone ever on? Could be going back to that sync issue. Turn it on and then see if its connecting to wifi and syncing. Which ringtone r u stuck on?
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My phone started doing this after I swapped SD cards with a larger one. I just had to go in, change it to something else, then change it back. Been working fine since.

dialer app voicemail storage

i never used the visual voicemail feature before i got my pixel, so it's new to me and i hope this isn't a dumb question that's been answered a million times, but i did searching both on xda-developers and on google and couldn't find an answer.
basically, i switched from verizon to fi the other day and was surprised to see that my all of verizon voicemails stuck around in the dialer app. this seems to me to suggest that they're stored somewhere on the phone itself. before that happened, i figured it was reaching out to verizon every time i played one. problem with this is, since they're on the device now, i figure i'll also probably lose them if i do factory data reset or flash PN on there (which i'd like to do).
so my questions are, where on the device are the recordings stored, and is there a way i can back them up and restore them? may seem silly, but i actually have some voicemails going as far back as february of 2007 (it told me they'd be saved for 21 days but they're still there a full 10 years later!), including some from a friend who passed away a few years ago. of course, i figured they'd vanish when i switched services so this is really all a bonus, but since it seems like there should be a way to preserve them...

needletothebar said:
i never used the visual voicemail feature before i got my pixel, so it's new to me and i hope this isn't a dumb question that's been answered a million times, but i did searching both on xda-developers and on google and couldn't find an answer.
basically, i switched from verizon to fi the other day and was surprised to see that my all of verizon voicemails stuck around in the dialer app. this seems to me to suggest that they're stored somewhere on the phone itself. before that happened, i figured it was reaching out to verizon every time i played one. problem with this is, since they're on the device now, i figure i'll also probably lose them if i do factory data reset or flash PN on there (which i'd like to do).
so my questions are, where on the device are the recordings stored, and is there a way i can back them up and restore them? may seem silly, but i actually have some voicemails going as far back as february of 2007 (it told me they'd be saved for 21 days but they're still there a full 10 years later!), including some from a friend who passed away a few years ago. of course, i figured they'd vanish when i switched services so this is really all a bonus, but since it seems like there should be a way to preserve them...
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I have a Verizon Pixel and voicemails are stored at Verizon. I still have a voicemail from a friend from 2015 that comes back after every factory reset, new ROM, even going from a Nexus 6 to the Pixel.

strange! so how am i accessing them after switching to a Project Fi SIM card? are you using the visual voicemail feature where they show up in the dialer app?

could it be that the google cloud backup stuff has them stored and that's what's bringing them back for you?

I know I am a little late but I have the answer. I am presuming you mean a hard copy file of the actual voicemail ? As long as you see it there. its really simple
Open the voicemail menu in the dialer app. Expand the voicemail in question , and simply use the send to feature at the bottom and it will export an .amr file to the place of your choice!
PROFIT!