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Stock 2.2 unlock sound replace?

Can anyone tell me how i can replace the "click" sound for the Unlock screen on the new 2.2 ROM that was leaked? i want to use the Droid sound .ogg file instead of the unlock sound HTC put in.
I tried doing a adb push Unlock.ogg /system/media/audio/ui
but it didn't replace it,
I did it in recovery and it said it went through, but audio is the same
am I missing a command?

NCX Designs said:
Can anyone tell me how i can replace the "click" sound for the Unlock screen on the new 2.2 ROM that was leaked? i want to use the Droid sound .ogg file instead of the unlock sound HTC put in.
I tried doing a adb push Unlock.ogg /system/media/audio/ui
but it didn't replace it,
I did it in recovery and it said it went through, but audio is the same
am I missing a command?
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Did you mount system and data
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hmm, not sure how to so i doubt it

In recovery,go into partitions menu and select mount system mount.data.
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Thanks a bunch! It worked!

NCX Designs said:
Thanks a bunch! It worked!
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Your welcome
Cheers!
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NCX Designs said:
Can anyone tell me how i can replace the "click" sound for the Unlock screen on the new 2.2 ROM that was leaked? i want to use the Droid sound .ogg file instead of the unlock sound HTC put in.
I tried doing a adb push Unlock.ogg /system/media/audio/ui
but it didn't replace it,
I did it in recovery and it said it went through, but audio is the same
am I missing a command?
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mind sharing the file?

There you go, just rename it to Unlock.ogg after you unzip it

NEWB...Please Help
Hey guys,
I know this thread is a bit old but I am new to this stuff and have very little idea about how to do this.
Is there a resource somewhere here that explains the how to's for guys like me?
Or just a noob guide to making my dinc play a different sound when I unlock it.
Thanks so much.

It was explained earlier in the thread. For this update zip method reboot into recovery. Go into mounts/storage mount system and data. Then flash your update zip just make sure to rename the audio file in the zip to the file name mentioned above. Hope that helps.
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sunder74 said:
It was explained earlier in the thread. For this update zip method reboot into recovery. Go into mounts/storage mount system and data. Then flash your update zip just make sure to rename the audio file in the zip to the file name mentioned above. Hope that helps.
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No... that is not a flashable zip. You need to extract the file from the zip, rename it and adb push to its location. If this doesn't make sense, don't bother cuz you can f#ck up your phone...

Can any audio file be used for this? ie: can I rename laser.mp3 to unlock.ogg? Will that work?
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Comicazy said:
Can any audio file be used for this? ie: can I rename laser.mp3 to unlock.ogg? Will that work?
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That will not work, you must convert the file from mp3 to ogg first, use this site to do that
http://media.io/
simply upload your file you want to use, select the format you want to convert to (.ogg for UI audio (ie: unlock sound, alert sound, etc)
before sending to your phone, be sure to rename the audio file to be exactly the same name (including Caps) ie: Unlock.ogg NOT unlock.ogg
I hope this helps, if it does, please click "Thanks"!
The reason for the caps vs lowercase is because this is a Linux operating system, in Linux, the OS see's file names as OS files if there named a certain way, take for example
if you put a folder called Media on your SD card's root, and then have another folder called "Notifications" inside that, the phone will show those files as Notification sounds when selecting them to change
if the folder was called media and not Media, the phone would ignore it If its on the SD card, but if its inside the System folder it won't.
Media>Notifications>Name.ogg <<SD card))
Media>Audio>UI>Name.ogg <<system/media/audio/ui) internal memory
but all the audio files inside the System/Media/Audio/UI folder have caps then lowercase.
Unlock.ogg
Lock.ogg
VideoRecord.ogg
KeypressReturn.ogg
KeypressDelete.ogg
Effect_Tick.ogg
camera_click.ogg
if you rename a file that doesn't exactly match what the system wants, it will not replace the existing one and still use the stock one.
make sense yet? (No Pun intended) lol
do you get it? (the UI folder must be inside the System/Customize/

What you said makes sense. Although I can't seem to get that website to work from my phone. Every time I click convert, I says cannot locate. Do I need to do this from a computer?
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Comicazy said:
What you said makes sense. Although I can't seem to get that website to work from my phone. Every time I click convert, I says cannot locate. Do I need to do this from a computer?
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can't do it on your phone, it uses java and some other sort of code that won't work on a mobile phone.
simply save it to your pc where you know it would be easy to find and then just push it using ADB (make sure you move or save the file inside the tools folder of the sdk if you push it using adb or it adb won't find it

SUCCESS! I was actually able to use a different site using my phone. http://www.online-convert.com/
I then used root explorer to rename and copy the file into the correct system folder. Works great now. My only complaint is that it seems I can't control the volume of the lock/unlock sounds I chose using any of the volume settings. It's always on full blast unless I set to silent or vibrate. Any ideas? Thanks.
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SUCCESS AGAIN!! I did some research and found out you can change the system volume, which controls the lock sounds, via an app called Audio Manager. I just used the free widget version and lowered my system volume by one or two. Works great. I don't personally use the widget portion of the app. Thanks for everyone's help on this. Hope my trials help someone else find the answers they need.
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Comicazy said:
SUCCESS AGAIN!! I did some research and found out you can change the system volume, which controls the lock sounds, via an app called Audio Manager. I just used the free widget version and lowered my system volume by one or two. Works great. I don't personally use the widget portion of the app. Thanks for everyone's help on this. Hope my trials help someone else find the answers they need.
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lol yeah, its media volume is what you want to control the sounds volumes, and you can control this under settings>sound>volume
be carefule with those volume apps they can screw up your speaker, some are designed to send more voltage to your speaker than it can handle making it louder but as an end result can fry your speaker and cause it to crackle or have static

NCX Designs said:
lol yeah, its media volume is what you want to control the sounds volumes, and you can control this under settings>sound>volume
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Actually, media volume does nothing to adjust the lock sounds once you change them. System sounds is what you want to change. Although keep in mind that this also changes the volumes for 'sound on keypress' and 'audible selection' options. I just lowered mine from 7 to 6 and it made a HUGE different in the volume.
NCX Designs said:
be carefule with those volume apps they can screw up your speaker, some are designed to send more voltage to your speaker than it can handle making it louder but as an end result can fry your speaker and cause it to crackle or have static
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That's why I dont use them to make anything louder, but more to individually control each sound. If I want music or something louder, I'll plug my phone into some sort of external system.
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You guys doing this on a stock sense rom? Because i've done the exact same thing and nothing changes on either the unlock screen or the camea shutter.

froyostone with sense no ringtones?

I'm new and tried googling and all for this problem. I installed a custom rom (miri) and froyostone android and for some reason I can't select a ring tone or any other sound setting.
My phone calls work fine and all other sounds do to. What is the reason I can't select a ring tone?
I tried to download the media folder and still nothing.

go to the app store and search for free ringtone programs. install one and pick a ringtone and it should let you pick it then.

nrfitchett4 said:
go to the app store and search for free ringtone programs. install one and pick a ringtone and it should let you pick it then.
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Didn't work.
If I go to sound settings, click on phone ringtone, there's nothing there. I can't select anything either.

The_Biz said:
Didn't work.
If I go to sound settings, click on phone ringtone, there's nothing there. I can't select anything either.
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did you go to the apps store and get a ringtone app?
try the last couple lines of this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7543923&postcount=1

nrfitchett4 said:
did you go to the apps store and get a ringtone app?
try the last couple lines of this post:
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Yea, I got the 1 ringtone I downloaded to show, just not the others. I will try the other option. I'll post back.

sorry, I don't play much with android. Looks too much like ios to me and didn't really have any advantages for what I use the phone for everyday.

That second option did it. I read you had to put the media folder in the root. I didn't know it meant the root of android folder. Thanks for the help. It's much appreciated.

its a folder titled media that you have to put in the android folder when you start it up.

[Q] Did something change with regards to ringtones and notification sounds?

I've got a few .mp3's that I used on my GS2 for ringtones and notification sounds. I can go into my contacts and assign unique ringtones from my Music library but I can't get the standard ringtone and notification sounds to change, these mp3 files don't show in their respective list.
I have them on my internal sd and even copied them to /sdcard/media/audio/notifications with no luck. What am I missing?

Kadin said:
I've got a few .mp3's that I used on my GS2 for ringtones and notification sounds. I can go into my contacts and assign unique ringtones from my Music library but I can't get the standard ringtone and notification sounds to change, these mp3 files don't show in their respective list.
I have them on my internal sd and even copied them to /sdcard/media/audio/notifications with no luck. What am I missing?
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yes its that .ogg format that stops it from popping up in your list of tones......i still have not figured a way to convert to that yet. doesnt look hard though.
should just be a simple converter program and your done, i want to look into this as well so i will keep you posted if i find an easy way to do so....i already tried the obvious change the extention with no luck

I took mine and put them in the "system/media/audio/ringtones". Left the .mp3 and worked great. Hope this helps.

I just have my ringtones (in .mp3) in /sdcard/Ringtones and they show up for default ringtones.
I noticed it showed up after it "scanned for media" but I did this before I rooted and I froze whatever was scanning so that might be something to consider.

TX_Mason said:
I took mine and put them in the "system/media/audio/ringtones". Left the .mp3 and worked great. Hope this helps.
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At first it didn't work but then I figured I might have to do a reboot and that did the trick. Weird that before I didn't have to move them into those directories but that's perfectly fine with me. Appreciate it.
Charsher47 said:
I just have my ringtones (in .mp3) in /sdcard/Ringtones and they show up for default ringtones.
I noticed it showed up after it "scanned for media" but I did this before I rooted and I froze whatever was scanning so that might be something to consider.
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That actually sounds right. I forgot to do that this time around but the above option worked fine as well. Good call...

good call indeed......i had this problem on my infuse, who know all it needed was a reboot

Kadin said:
At first it didn't work but then I figured I might have to do a reboot and that did the trick. Weird that before I didn't have to move them into those directories but that's perfectly fine with me. Appreciate it.
That actually sounds right. I forgot to do that this time around but the above option worked fine as well. Good call...
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SO now you can change the notification ringtone? Because i have Zedge app and have some tones that i hav set up through setting and put as notification ringtone but it still don't change it will whistle everywhere!
If putting the file in media works then i will be fine!

I've found that if you put your ringtones in a folder called "Ringtones" and your notification sounds in a folder called "Notifications" (in /sdcard or /sdcard/external_sd) the phone will allow you to use them for their appropriate purposes. No reboot should be needed either.
You can of course push them into /system/media... if you want though

[Q] changing message tone

Hello,
i can change my ringtone easily but i don't find how i can change my message tone in a ringtone i've downloaded (an mp3 file).
Grtz pepegaber

Settings> personalize> sound> notification
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eyahl said:
Settings> personalize> sound> notification
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I find settings, personalize but then i cant find Sound. I see:
Scene
Skin
Wallpaper
Lock screen
widget
app
shortcut
folder
sound set
ringtone
notification sount
alarm
Thanks for your answer!

Notification sound is what you want
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oke i found it, now i see default notification, message, calendar and email. But now i'm stuck, i don't find how to use a personal sound. All the sounds are from HTC and when i click get more i'm automatically redirected to "notifications from htc hub".
grtz and thanks for the reply

Dude...
Use a file explorer, navigate to your sound files location, long press it and select "use as notification" or something like that. From now on it will be also in your sound list (personalize etc...)
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Use file explorer with root and copy the mp3 you want to system/media/audio/notifications reboot the phone and you will see that your copied file is now there to be selected under default notifications/messages .

pandollar said:
Use file explorer with root and copy the mp3 you want to system/media/audio/notifications reboot the phone and you will see that your copied file is now there to be selected.
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Another way, same result.
@pepegaber:
You are free to try such simple things yourself. with a bit thinking you could have an answer in less than a minute.
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i use es file explorer and when i long press mij .amr file the only options are
open as
cut
copy
rename
delete
move to
copy to
music
select all
shortcut
bookmark
compress
share and properties
if i knew the answer i wouldn't ask the question...
thanks in advance and grtz

thx pandollar,
it worked the way you described it. Now it looks actually pretty stupid but when you're a noob in that kinda stuff...
anyhow thank you guys very much, you made my day!

pepegaber said:
thx pandollar,
it worked the way you described it. Now it looks actually pretty stupid but when you're a noob in that kinda stuff...
anyhow thank you guys very much, you made my day!
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we've all been there, Glad you got it, it seems that different Roms have different ways of doing this

Ringtones showing up in Google music!

This is driving me crazy. Does anyone know how to get rid of the ringtones from Google music without deleting the files from my phone?? Thanks

What folder do you have them in on your Internal Storage?

jsgraphicart said:
What folder do you have them in on your Internal Storage?
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I had them in ringtones. I tried moving them to notifications and it was of no help.

what file extension are you using for your ringtones?

a5pe4 said:
I had them in ringtones. I tried moving them to notifications and it was of no help.
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In my experience, Android always ignored the Ringtones and Notifications folders as music. Maybe you just need to refresh Google Music. Go into the setting and try syncing it

simms22 said:
what file extension are you using for your ringtones?
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Most of them are mp3 or wav. Just tried ogg to no avail. I moved them all back to ringtones from notifications and it actually shows more now...

a5pe4 said:
Most of them are mp3 or wav. Just tried ogg to no avail. I moved them all back to ringtones from notifications and it actually shows more now...
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if you have root, move them to /system/media/

Create a empty file with name ".nomedia" in the same folder as ringtones. It will be not shown in play music

simms22 said:
if you have root, move them to /system/media/
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Thanks! Worked like a charm!

simms22 said:
if you have root, move them to /system/media/
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Only thing is I don't know how to access those notification tones anymore. None of my apps give those tones as an option ugh lol

a5pe4 said:
Only thing is I don't know how to access those notification tones anymore. None of my apps give those tones as an option ugh lol
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Did you reboot after?
#AndroidL

a5pe4 said:
Only thing is I don't know how to access those notification tones anymore. None of my apps give those tones as an option ugh lol
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no no.. dont just stick them into /system/media/, put them in the right category(ringtones, notifications, alarms..) within /system/media/.

simms22 said:
no no.. dont just stick them into /system/media/, put them in the right category(ringtones, notifications, alarms..) within /system/media/.
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To be more specific, its system/media/audio/notifications and system/media/audio/ringtones. And if you put them in there, I believe they NEED to be .ogg files. Change the permissions to match the others in those folders and reboot.

That is the ticket. Change the permissions.
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I just go into play music and select "not interested" on the ringtones, and it takes them right out.