I have a lot of MP3s and OGGs of Notifications, Alarms and Ringtones. I know about the trick of putting them in the appropriate folders on the SD card, but I'd like to flash them through recovery to make them part of the ROM because every time I connect my phone to the PC, the Sounds settings reverts back to stock default. Could someone tell me how I can either place my my personal audio files into a ROM before flashing it or how to create a flashable ZIP to flash in Recovery that'll put my personal sounds into the phones ROM? Thanks in advance.
wmaudio said:
I have a lot of MP3s and OGGs of Notifications, Alarms and Ringtones. I know about the trick of putting them in the appropriate folders on the SD card, but I'd like to flash them through recovery to make them part of the ROM because every time I connect my phone to the PC, the Sounds settings reverts back to stock default. Could someone tell me how I can either place my my personal audio files into a ROM before flashing it or how to create a flashable ZIP to flash in Recovery that'll put my personal sounds into the phones ROM? Thanks in advance.
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You could try App2Zip its free in the Play Store
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hi.
i usually copy the audio folder that i have found (link is below) to /system/media everytime after i flash a ROM. i do this using android commander.
however, lately, there are many ROMs and i flash new ROMs quite frequently and im not always near my PC.
i dont know how to make flashable update.zip files to flash in recovery.
can someone please make one so that it wil copy the attached folder to /system/media?
thanks nd advance
here is the folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnu7xqtinjh3v11
zidane said:
hi.
i usually copy the audio folder that i have found (link is below) to /system/media everytime after i flash a ROM. i do this using android commander.
however, lately, there are many ROMs and i flash new ROMs quite frequently and im not always near my PC.
i dont know how to make flashable update.zip files to flash in recovery.
can someone please make one so that it wil copy the attached folder to /system/media?
thanks nd advance
here is the folder:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lnu7xqtinjh3v11
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Why not just put them on your sdcard in media folder? I think all roms read from there too as long as the paths are the same (minus the system folder)
Yeah, make the below folders on the sdcard either on the root, or within a folder called media:
notifications
ringtones
alarms
The phone will then present the contents of these when you are selecting one (eg/ the notifications contents will be visable when choosing a message alert).
i am familiar with the media folder on the root of the SD card, however, there are 2 reasons why i dont use it:
1. sometimes, the response is slow, so when someone calls, for a second or 2, the phone lights up with the contact calling but does not ring immediatly.
2. some files get duplicated.
thanks for your quick responses!
zidane said:
1. sometimes, the response is slow, so when someone calls, for a second or 2, the phone lights up with the contact calling but does not ring immediatly.
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Strange, never noticed this happen to me. I've had it play a default ringtone while my sdcard was mounted, but never noticed any kind of delay otherwise.
zidane said:
2. some files get duplicated.
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Good point. I have a similar audio collection on my sdcard but I manually removed the ones that appear in CyaogenMod so they wouldn't duplicate but that could be a pain if switching between roms.
Anyway, here is the update.zip you requested
Crap, just over the 8meg attachment limit even with maximum compression, so here ya go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tsf9252plbggr8x
gIMpSTa said:
Crap, just over the 8meg attachment limit even with maximum compression, so here ya go:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tsf9252plbggr8x
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haha i know! i went through that too!
and thanks so much for this!
After you have read and follow this tutorial, you will be able to do the following:
*Remove ringtones, alarms, and notification tones that you don't use
*Add your own ringtones, alarms, and notification tones that you WILL use
**This is not the same as downloading and using a ringtone from the internet, or wherever. Those methods allow the phone to play the file from your memory card. With this method, we are physically removing or adding directly in the ROM itself.
**Make a backup! I am NOT responsible for ANYTHING that YOU do.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Now, Let's proceed.
Alright... So you wanna do this, here is what you will need:
*ADB Installed and working
*Root Manager of some sort (I use Android Commander)
*Format Factory - This is freeware, so it's not warez.
Step 1. Download and install Format Factory. This is the program I use for everything. If you have one of your own preference, it can be substituted.
IMPORTANT: When installing Format Factory, choose CUSTOM install, and uncheck the toolbar boxes. Otherwise, you are gonna get toolbars installed. You have been warned.
Step 2. Open Format Factory and click "All to OGG", located under the "Audio" tab on the left. (OGG is universal from Android to Android. That's why this is the chosen option. Also, the sound quality is not noticeably different, and uses less space than an MP3)
Step 3. Now a new screen appears. Click "Add File", and navigate to your audio files that you want as ringtones, alarm, etc. Once selected, click "OK"
DO NOT CHANGE THE OGG SETTINGS. DEFAULT SETTINGS WORK FINE
Step 4. Now you should be back at your main window, as if you just started the program. You should now see your selected files listed in the right window of the program. On the top bar, click "Start."
**Once the conversion process is finished, you may close the program. By default, your saved files will go to documents/FFOutput
Step 5. Open your Root Explorer program, I use Android Commander
**In Android Commander, the left window is your PC, the right is your phone
Step 6. With your Root Explorer program, navigate to your newly created OGG files. Once you see them listed, select them. In Android commander, to select a file, you must put a check mark in the box associated with that file.
Step 7. Move these newly selected files to your phone, by clicking the "Copy" button above the left window in Android Commander. In the right window, you will want to make sure that you are within your "/system/media/***" folder, to insure these files are copied to the correct location.
Step 8. Reboot and test.
Please note: "***" represents the respective folders. i.e. "ringtones", "notifications", etc.
If you want to remove audio files that you do not use, just select them, and click "Delete" from within their respective folders, using Android Commander.
**Once they are deleted, if you have no backup, they are gone!
I hope this has helped some of you, who wish to do this. If it has, please click THANKS.
Constructive criticism is always welcome. any questions, just ask.
I would suggest backing up the first first...
adb pull /system/media media-backup
You could replace steps 5-8 with this if you know how to use adb.
From cmd prompt:
adb remount /system
adb push drive:\path\to\folder-with-oggs /system/media/(ringtones/alarms/ui)
adb reboot
Can I just ask what's the advantage of doing this versus using a tone off of your SD card? Seems like a lot of extra work.
designgears said:
I would suggest backing up the first first...
adb pull /system/media media-backup
You could replace steps 5-8 with this if you know how to use adb.
From cmd prompt:
adb remount /system
adb push drive:\path\to\folder-with-oggs /system/media/(ringtones/alarms/ui)
adb reboot
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Got that in the OP, to backup your stuff first. ..And thanks for the command prompt commands. I'll give those a shot.
harlenm said:
Can I just ask what's the advantage of doing this versus using a tone off of your SD card? Seems like a lot of extra work.
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The advantage to doing this is nothing more than getting rid of extra stuff on your phone. Once the files are converted, you can put them aside somewhere and always have them.
This is with the understanding that you already have these ringtones on your memory card... This is a way to get them off your memory card, and on your phone. This in turn keeps your memory card clean.
I personally like this, because the only stuff that is on my phone is what I use, and nothing more. Even programs I don't use, get stripped from whatever ROM I am using.
FUNCTION > FORM
Ty for ya time there TribalartGod.
Works well....AND i have been trying to find something like this android commander.
So double thanks to ya
tribalartgod said:
Got that in the OP, to backup your stuff first. ..And thanks for the command prompt commands. I'll give those a shot.
The advantage to doing this is nothing more than getting rid of extra stuff on your phone. Once the files are converted, you can put them aside somewhere and always have them.
This is with the understanding that you already have these ringtones on your memory card... This is a way to get them off your memory card, and on your phone. This in turn keeps your memory card clean.
I personally like this, because the only stuff that is on my phone is what I use, and nothing more. Even programs I don't use, get stripped from whatever ROM I am using.
FUNCTION > FORM
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android reads your sd card for media just like it does on the system partition.
if you wanna keep your sdcard clean of ringtones/alarms/notifications files
just make a folder on your sd card called media then create the other folders to mimic android's system partition.
so it would be
media/audio/alarms
media/audio/notifications
media/audio/ringtones
that way the media scanner has to do less searching
and if you have small system partitions like older phones this really helps to strip them out the rom and put them on the sd card.
Thx for the info. Works great for my wife's Samsung infuse. I rooted it but for some reason it wont let me set custom ringtones without loading a custom rom. So this method worked great to replace her ringtones on rooted stock rom. Unfortunately there really isn't a solid custom rom for the infuse with what I tested so far.
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Great tut. Ill keep it in mind as I normally just use a zip that drops my ringtones into the proper folder and deletes the ones I don't use. Or use root explorer to delete them if there are new ones not in my list.
Extract ringtones
After reading this i thought i could be able to extract ringtones from any rom from the system/media/ringtones/ but unfortunately i couldnt find any of them there.Where else could they be?
vinayakmt said:
After reading this i thought i could be able to extract ringtones from any rom from the system/media/ringtones/ but unfortunately i couldnt find any of them there.Where else could they be?
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I'm no longer on this device...but what Rom are you trying to pull them from? I can still help. Pm me if need be
LG-P769 - Needs MIUI
I've been wondering how to do this. Now I have only my sd tones as I deleted the ones I didn't like (all of them moslty). Thanks!
Nice!
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Im new to the whole ROM thing for Android and has just flashed a few different ROM's to my Rooted Incredible S.
So my question is, if this is OK:
1) Download a custom ROM
2) Extract it to my PC
3) Remove e.g. "HtcTwitter.apk" or "HtcFacebook.apk" from \system\app\
4) Zip it back together and put it on my SD Card
5) Flash the ROM
Will that work?
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Im new to the whole ROM thing for Android and has just flashed a few different ROM's to my Rooted Incredible S.
So my question is, if this is OK:
1) Download a custom ROM
2) Extract it to my PC
3) Remove e.g. "HtcTwitter.apk" or "HtcFacebook.apk" from \system\app\
4) Zip it back together and put it on my SD Card
5) Flash the ROM
Will that work?
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I think you will have to resign the zip for you to be able to flash it... hopefully someone else can tell you how... kind of hard to research that on my phone
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If you use ClockworkMOD Recovery (I don't know if AMON-RA can) you can turn off sig check.
SO this would work.
DanWilson said:
If you use ClockworkMOD Recovery (I don't know if AMON-RA can) you can turn off sig check.
SO this would work.
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Thanks, il'l try that ;-)
I suppose that some ROMs are signed in the same manner as an .APK, but so far I haven't had any issues with opening a ROM zip file in 7-Zip and deleting what I don't want in there and dragging and dropping in what I do (apps, ringtones, etc.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538020
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537937
search function can be useful sometimes
just updated to skyics base 5 update 14. was resetting up contacts and went to set ringtone and there are none on phone any more. checked skyics thread and it says they are in zmod zip. downloaded file and nothing there pertaining to ringtones either.
herecomestrouble said:
just updated to skyics base 5 update 14. was resetting up contacts and went to set ringtone and there are none on phone any more. checked skyics thread and it says they are in zmod zip. downloaded file and nothing there pertaining to ringtones either.
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lol you must not have read too much of the thread... The last few pages have quite a few posts in regards to it... Just so you know, you should really use the search function otherwise you're gonna get flamed a lot, especially asking a ? like this in the thread...lol
For the sounds you needed to flash the update from your ext sd card not the internal. If you flash from the ext sd it will make a folder with all the sounds. From there you can put the tones you like back into system/media folder. Make sure you don't put them all back as you won't have enough room. Also make sure you use a file explorer that lets you change system to r/w otherwise it won't let you copy the files there... I use es file explorer or smanager... If you don't want to flash that again, which won't do anything really, you can just open the update file and extract the media folder and transfer from there...
Hey, on my G2, I had a zip I flashed that put just about every devices ringtone and notification on my phone. Can someone figure out how we can get that zip on here without recovery. Or if it's amazingly simple, and I'm just stupid , be nice and explain...thanks
big70tom said:
Hey, on my G2, I had a zip I flashed that put just about every devices ringtone and notification on my phone. Can someone figure out how we can get that zip on here without recovery. Or if it's amazingly simple, and I'm just stupid , be nice and explain...thanks
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Can you give the link to that zip file.
Maybe you need to put those ringtone/notification in system/media/audio and in their respective folder.
There is a tethered recovery that you can use to flash it with. I had a similar thing with my S3, had my own sound pack that I flashed with recovery. Tried on my G3 with the tethered recovery and works fine.
Create the following folders on you sdcard "Ringtones" "Notifications". Whatever sounds you put into these folders will show up in the respective list when you try to select the ringtone or notification. As for your flashable zip, just open it with a file editor, search for the folders containing the notification sounds, ringtones and copy them into the folders you just created on your sdcard. This way you don't need root and won't mess up anything in the system folder by accident.
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istinet said:
Create the following folders on you sdcard "Ringtones" "Notifications". Whatever sounds you put into these folders will show up in the respective list when you try to select the ringtone or notification. As for your flashable zip, just open it with a file editor, search for the folders containing the notification sounds, ringtones and copy them into the folders you just created on your sdcard. This way you don't need root and won't mess up anything in the system folder by accident.
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Completely spot-on. Personally I always copy them manually to /system/media but your solution also works fine (don't forget to reboot though, before additional questions will be asked ).
Thank you gentleman