It seems that every time I flash or update new ROM, even if I fully wipe, I get duplicated sounds and ringtones when choosing a ringtone or notification sound. Yet my media sounds folder only has one copy and so does zedge. Anyone has any clue on how to fix that?
I got it figured out.
It turns out Android looks everywhere for sounds and ringtones. I did a full search with root explorer and found duplicates. Just deleted and then wiped cache in recovery and reboot.
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I'm trying to use a custom ringtone in CM10.0, android 4.1.2. On my previous ICS phone, i just placed the ringtone in "/sdcard/Ringtone" (the internal sd card partition). It worked forever. In addition to this, i had two custom alarms. I placed them in "/sdcard/Alarms" (internal) and they worked flawlessly. No issues whatsoever.
I tried the exact same setup on CM10 on my phone, and nothing. Rebooted. Nothing. Tried other folders, like "/sdcard/media/audio/notifications". Nothing.
None of my ringtones (and even alarms) show up in my menus when i try to select the default ringtone under "sounds" in settings.
Any ideas???
i use something called "signalcheck pro" on my phone and it placed two "custom notifications" in the "notifications" directory on my internal sdcard. they were called "chimes_sc.mp3" and "venture_sc.mp3". my custom alarms and ringtone are also MP3s.
the "chimes" and "venture" notification appeared in the notifications list when i go into sound settings. so, having a working model to work from, i moved them to a network file server. i didn't modify the 1s and 0s of them in any way. after removing them, they disappeared from the "notifications" list. this makes sense.
when i moved them back to the exact same "notifications" directory, they DIDN'T SHOW BACK UP.
THIS MAKES NO SENSE. I REBOOTED AND THEY STILL DIDN'T COME BACK.
THAT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL
Angry Black Man said:
I'm trying to use a custom ringtone in CM10.0, android 4.1.2. On my previous ICS phone, i just placed the ringtone in "/sdcard/Ringtone" (the internal sd card partition). It worked forever. In addition to this, i had two custom alarms. I placed them in "/sdcard/Alarms" (internal) and they worked flawlessly. No issues whatsoever.
I tried the exact same setup on CM10 on my phone, and nothing. Rebooted. Nothing. Tried other folders, like "/sdcard/media/audio/notifications". Nothing.
None of my ringtones (and even alarms) show up in my menus when i try to select the default ringtone under "sounds" in settings.
Any ideas???
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Using Root Explorer, try to copy your ringtone mp3 file to /system/media/audio/ringtone. And alarm mp3 file to /system/media/audio/alarm. And don't forget to change the following files to right permission (rw-r--r--). It would be better if you remove 1 or 2 ogg files from that folder. Then reboot your device and see what happen.
Do it with your own risk. And I hope you have backup before doing this modify
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This is a new problem... i originally deleted the settings for media storage after reading that that would get rid of the 3 times my ringtones were showing up in my selection list (when they only exist in one location.... i tried to make sure they werent duplicating themselves, the first 2 were silent and the 3rd was the real file.). so deleting that got rid of the 3 times thing, and i thought i had it licked. but every reboot, my phone forgets my ringtone setting... when i go to repick it, its not in the list, only the factory ones are.
Now, i *know* there is the work around of putting the one i want to use on the internal memory.... but thats kinda not the point... id like this to work properly. as it should. as it did before i reflashed. i reflashed the exact same rom and am using the exact same SD card.
upon googling and reading advice, i put a new folder on my sd card called media, and within there, ringtones, and notifications. (the site i read also recommended making one for alarms but i never use my phone as an alarm, ever. and the very rare time i will ill just pick a factory sound). As of right now, every reboot, i have to move the ringtone i want to use out from that folder, and then put it back in, causing media scanner to re-run, which then finally, once that is done, allows it to show up in the list along with the factory default choices.... but doing this every reboot just to have the sound i want is a ROYAL pain......... before i reflashed, it would forget what i had chosen on occasion, but at least then i could just go into the list and reselect it before... it didnt forget it existed, but only that i had chosen it. at the time that was a royal pain.... but now, id take that over whats been going on.
before reflashing i had a folder called "sounds" that it was able to see, all the time.... i had left it the same... but when my phone couldnt see that anymore, i looked for other ways of making it work.
Not sure if this is related but i have on occasion (2 or 3 times now) had my gallery forget about ALL of my pictures on external (whcih is where i keep all of them). deleting gallery data at least fixes that, and that doesnt happen every reboot either.
and before anyone asks, there is no ".nomedia" file in with my ringtones, or in with any of my pictures.
advice anyone??
anyone?? Ive already tried everything google-able
So today i did that, i used to delete my media storage on my old device without any problem but today after i did that all ring tones are gone! Also the songs i had in internal storage are gone, i don't care about them but i want my ringtones back. The alarm was silent even the sound was the highest one.
I rebooted my phone but nothing got back, please don't tell me to factory reset. Any solution ?
karedo said:
So today i did that, i used to delete my media storage on my old device without any problem but today after i did that all ring tones are gone! Also the songs i had in internal storage are gone, i don't care about them but i want my ringtones back. The alarm was silent even the sound was the highest one.
I rebooted my phone but nothing got back, please don't tell me to factory reset. Any solution ?
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Factory reset won't help as you deleted the original files , flashing stock rom is a must
Well i will leave this post for people like me who needs help in this situation, everything went back after a time maybe 10 minutes after i turned my mobile off then on .. everything was automatically back to normal, just wait for it don't annoy ur self .. so no need for any reset cuz phone doesn't delete those files.
I have several custom "Ringtones" and "Notifications" files inside these folders and they would always be included on the list of available sounds whenever I wanted to select one as a default. Suddenly they are all mysteriously missing on any of the lists.
I thought perhaps I denied a permission somewhere that is preventing my Pixel from seeing them, but I combed through everything. I went into Settings - Apps - Reset app preferences, but that didn't fix it. Toggling on a few more permissions for storage didn't fix it either. I rebooted after everything and still no change. I also checked the permissions on both of these folders and they're correct. I even defrosted everything I previously froze in Titanium Backup.
Odd thing, they were all working just a few weeks ago and I can't for the life of me figure out what changed aside from the 7.1.2 update.
Does anyone have any idea what may have happened or where else I can look? It's not worth the bother of a factory reset, but I sure would like to have Pink Floyd back.
SOLVED: Well good grief, all I did was delete the files and then copy them back in. Now they're all showing up like they should.
Hi people from XDA,
today i tried a few things with my S7 running resurrection Rom with Android 9, which resultet in a boot loop. I tried using unofficial xposed framework and some recommended modules. This Problem got solved with a factory wipe inside my recovery.
After the wipe, i obviously had to setup my system again.
Then it happened: a constant ringing sound was heard, sounding more like a ringtone. I tried killing all background apps and playing around with the sound settings, but nothing worked. I rebootet the phone and it seemed to have solved the problem, until it started again after some time. I checked for malicious apps and all kinds of settings, including do not disturb and other stuff.
What I did find out, was the fact, that the tone was linked to the ringing volume slider/setting.
I would appreciate any help, but nothing like turning off the sound. I want to know the source and reason for it to happen.
I have some new information. The tone is played, when i have unread messages in my status bar. After opening all the messages from the bar, the tone stops. Sometimes its buggy, then it continues until there are new messages that I need to read to make it stop.
Edit: I found the "name" of the tone. i didn't find it under ringtones nor notifications, but under wake up sounds. The name was Argon, but there were two Argon Sounds, which is weird i guess. the lower one sounds more minimalistic and the upper one is the one im currently having problems with. It sounds longer and more like a "happy" tune.
ceiber said:
I have some new information. The tone is played, when i have unread messages in my status bar. After opening all the messages from the bar, the tone stops. Sometimes its buggy, then it continues until there are new messages that I need to read to make it stop.
Edit: I found the "name" of the tone. i didn't find it under ringtones nor notifications, but under wake up sounds. The name was Argon, but there were two Argon Sounds, which is weird i guess. the lower one sounds more minimalistic and the upper one is the one im currently having problems with. It sounds longer and more like a "happy" tune.
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OK so just delete it from system directory.
Such a simplistic idea! Thanks. Didn't thought of that. I'll try it.
ceiber said:
Such a simplistic idea! Thanks. Didn't thought of that. I'll try it.
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Tried it, but it made some interesting things with my phone. Although the file was from alarm sounds, notifications suddenly had "19" listed as a set sound, which was actually nothing. I changed it to "none" and waited for notifications to test it. I think it worked, but i cant remember, because i had some unrelated (or maybe related?) issues. My magisk manager stated, it had no magisk installed, meaning i didnt have root anymore. I tried to reinstall magisk, but that made my device reboot after a specific time after every boot. Right now i'm trying to fix my Rom. Feels bad.
Edit: Rom works perfect again. Deleted the sound file again and it seems to work.
For now my Problem got solved by deleting Argon from the alarms folder.
If I get any more errors, I'll post them.
I'm very thankful for your answer and I hope my explanation of my problem was not problematic.