I've Googled and searched XDA but I've not found an answer to my question (maybe I'm asking the wrong question).
So I get a bunch of customer notification sounds and ringers, and I assign them all. Then my SD card spontaneously ejects itself, or I take it out on purpose or something, or I change handsets, and I lose all those sound settings. Is there a way prevent my phone from forgetting my custom ringers? Or my custom notification sounds? Like a Theme maybe, but for sounds instead of visual elements?
TIA,
Joe
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I have found a weird bug that I can't seem to find reported anywhere else. I'm fully stock, fully updated, rocking a custom tone, but that's just an audio file so that probably doesn't matter. I did, though, delete it, redownload it, switch to defaults, everything along those lines before stumbling on one last guess.
Okay, here's the bug. The notification tone gives only an extremely short portion of the notification before going silent.
Solution - and tested - The person you're getting that messed up tone from has reached it's limit of text messages stored on your phone. Simply delete the text messages and you're golden.
Theory: Educated guess here, I think the phone receives the text, sets off the notification process, then does the deleting process. When the deleting process is triggered it stops the tone. Having less than maximum texts gives a full notification.
I actually had 2 people on my phone at full messages, both of them were getting partial tones. Now they are, one at a time deleting the texts, receiving texts and giving full notification alerts.
funny that i found this thread and my phone just started doing it, will delete the txt and reply back with confirmation
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but this issue was kinda already covered in Q&A...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804949&highlight=cut+short
Vorfidus said:
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but this issue was kinda already covered in Q&A...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804949&highlight=cut+short
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No buzz kill here, I couldn't find the solution myself so I'm glad there is one... now I go to read that thread.
On second thought... since I came up with the exact same solution, it' smuch the opposite of a buzz kill, it makes me happy to have figured out the actual and correct thing.
Then in that case, glad I could help!
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The best solution I found was to put the ringtone as a silent one for msging and use tasker to play your notification sound whenever a msg is received.
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Other than "switch it off" which i don't wish to do,
is there any way of change the annoying Facebook notification "ding" on a windows computer, like you can on an android phone?
On a phone you can select your choice of notification sound.
Don't understand why this ability was never thought of for laptops/computers?
Windows just gives the option to have it on (with default "ding") or switch it off.
Where does it sit on a coputer? It's not part of system-sound set up, i've tried that. Surely if there are ways of changing your Windows 7 start up sound, someobody somewhere must know who to do this?
Surely there's a regedit or resource-hacker solution
Stephen
.... and still nobody seems to be able to answer this.
Even Mark Zuckerberg has given an excited rhetoric speech which included How to switch off "annoying" Facebook ding in IOS
.... *** SO*** he recognises it's annoying !!!!
How is it so difficult that he can't get his software experts to amend the software so we can """"change the ding sound"""" to an alternative sound.
that's ALL we are asking. NOT to switch it off as he was so excitedly going on about.
We WANT the notification alert, but just like other systems like Android, the ability to CHANGE IT !!!!
Is that TOO MUCH to ask ???? !!!!!
STOP trying to over-whelm us with up'n'coming flashy new (marketing) developments and correct old issues that should have been easily rectified ages ago!
Maybe someone else can help me with this.
Every so often during the day I keep getting a random notification sound with no visual as to what it is. The sound is 5 tones going in a descending pattern and sounds metallic. I do not have NFC turned on nor the facebook app. I checked all my apps and sounds. I even read a lot of threads else where and tried everyone's suggestion. Still does it. I searched my phone for *.ogg and *.wav files. Nothing.
I do have a wallet case but since NFC is off its not that. I've never heard this sound before. It only started a few days ago and I've have this phone for over a month. FYI I'm running the Hola launcher and omni swipe if that helps. Any suggestions?
I am thinking to uninstall ALL my apps and see if it still does it, but I really dont want to have to do that if I can avoid it.:silly:
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Anyone?
Maybe it's the louncher. .. trai with the touchwiz
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It's not the launcher. It doesn't matter.
This is why I hardly ask anything here. No one cares.
If your not a popular member you never get a reply.
I'll just ask my questions elsewhere where people actually care about you.
Are you using googles smartlock feature? When I first started using it I was receiving this weird notification which sounds like what you're talking about. It don't do it no more for some reason but man was it so annoying not knowing what the heck your phone is trying to tell you.
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Hey there.
I have been checking back on this topic for a while because my wife's Note Edge is having the same exact problem. I even reached out to Samsung Mobile Support and they can't even figure out what it is. All they did was tinker with the sound settings and asked me if it was fixed. I have tried disabling all possible notifications from all possible apps. The only thing left is to do a factory reset it seems. Any luck on your end?
VGMStudios said:
It's not the launcher. It doesn't matter.
This is why I hardly ask anything here. No one cares.
If your not a popular member you never get a reply.
I'll just ask my questions elsewhere where people actually care about you.
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Well that's not a pessimistic attitude or anything whatsoever! lol. Here's the thing... It might help to try and remember that nobody is on here getting paid to spend their time answering your questions all day long, so unfortunately it's inevitable that there will be times when people might just have to figure their problems out on their own or just be forced to wait until someone responds.. no matter how "popular" they might be.
This entire community wouldn't exist if weren't for all of the people on here who have been and are willing to spend their own free time sharing their knowledge with and helping others, so it's pretty ridiculous to sit there and act like it's a personal assault whenever nobody answers your question right away! From my experience on here people (including myself) are always more than willing to help out whenever they can (as long as the people are willing to help themselves too), but since nobody is getting paid people need to realize that it's more of a "self help" type of community than anything.
There are literally mountains of freely available information for people to search through to try to find their answers with, and with enough determination and persistence 99% of the time people could answer their own questions without ever even having to ask. So I'm definitely not trying to be rude or anything but it's just all in how you look at it.. because when people come here expecting to be handed all of the answers then they're most likely going to be disappointed and upset, but when you come here looking to help yourself instead you'd be surprised how much of a difference it makes and how rarely you'll have to ask any questions.
Anyway I'll try helping with some suggestions below since they're having the same problem too..
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Hey there.
I have been checking back on this topic for a while because my wife's Note Edge is having the same exact problem. I even reached out to Samsung Mobile Support and they can't even figure out what it is. All they did was tinker with the sound settings and asked me if it was fixed. I have tried disabling all possible notifications from all possible apps. The only thing left is to do a factory reset it seems. Any luck on your end?
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Ok I've actually had a similar problem in the past and I can't guarantee anything but hopefully this might help..
In my situation it turned out being "profiles" that I didn't realize were turned on, and they were causing rogue and unknown sounds to happen because they were overriding my ringer and media volume settings based on the time of day it was. So all I had to do was turn off the profiles and it solved the problem, but it depends on the rom that you're on as to whether or not profiles like that are even an option.
If not another thing I'd recommend doing (and I'm obviously not sure what all you've tried so I'm just trying to cover the bases just in case) is to get a root explorer (as long as you're rooted.. if not I'm honestly not sure what to tell ya) and navigate to the root folder .. then go to "system/media", and inside there should be a folders called ui, notification, and ringtones.. and this where all of the default notification sounds are located. I would go through and listen to each one of them (they should be .ogg files) and see if you can find a match to the one you're hearing, and if you do then you can just rename that file .bak instead of .ogg and that should stop it from playing randomly (basically a bandaid type fix).
If it's not any of the system sounds then you've basically narrowed it down to where it's most likely an app that's making the sound. If that's the case then what I'd do is go into Titanium Backup and filter it to only show "user apps" and then have it sort them by the date which they were installed, and then I'd just start going down the list looking for apps I've installed that could possibly be making the sound.. that way even if you have a general idea around when the problem started happening you can match that time frame up with apps that were installed around that time to narrow down your search (if that makes sense anyway).
Anyway that's what I would do to start at least and hopefully it helps!
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heh. I have an idea. You know those crappy applications on the edge? Some of them are games. I remember i used to have this issue with the memory one. Remove them from the edge. No root required. Just remove the panels from the panel configurator.
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Maybe someone else can help me with this.
Every so often during the day I keep getting a random notification sound with no visual as to what it is. The sound is 5 tones going in a descending pattern and sounds metallic. I do not have NFC turned on nor the facebook app. I checked all my apps and sounds. I even read a lot of threads else where and tried everyone's suggestion. Still does it. I searched my phone for *.ogg and *.wav files. Nothing.
I do have a wallet case but since NFC is off its not that. I've never heard this sound before. It only started a few days ago and I've have this phone for over a month. FYI I'm running the Hola launcher and omni swipe if that helps. Any suggestions?
I am thinking to uninstall ALL my apps and see if it still does it, but I really dont want to have to do that if I can avoid it.:silly:
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Not sure if this is gonna help you or not. But yesterday I started to getbthe same metallic noises, I only recall 1 change to my settings and that was installing the live wallpaper on the lock screen to show me pictures based in weather and such. And since then every hour or so it makes the sound. Try to find out if you did the same thing.
Random notification sound
I am having a similar problem which has been widely reported but none of the suggested fixes are working for me. The notification tone keeps sounding in a seemingly random way. There is no notification to match the tone. This is not just a beep or random noise. It is the default notification tone. (Skyline for completeness). This happens maybe 5 or 6 times in 24 hours. It has been happening for about 10 days.
I am running Android 8.0.0 (Samsung Experience version 9) on a Galaxy S8. The phone is not rooted.
I have turned off all notifications individually.
I have turned off notifications for the phone.
I have turned off notification reminders (it was never on).
I have turned off NFC and bluetooth.
I have checked under Accessibility settings.
I have uninstalled every app installed in the last 3 weeks.
I can reproduce the NFC and credit card issue but that is a single beep and not what I am talking about.
I have installed 3 different notification log readers (NS Notification, Notif log notification history and Notification Log). None of them show any activity at the times when I am getting the spurious tone.
When I re-enable notifications for Texts, Messenger and WhatsApp, I still receive these as normal.
I recently got a new dual band router and thought maybe the tone was the phone jumping from 2.4 to the 5 Ghz band or vice-versa. It wasn't. I thought it might be the phone jumping from telecoms provider to WiFi. Tested that too and that's not it.
Next step is a factory reset which I am trying to avoid.
I know this is bringing problems to the table, not solutions but this is really bugging me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi all
I'm new to the forum and have just got my first Android phone, a SGS7 and was wondering if you could help me. I've searched around for a resolution but not found one and it's probably a simple nube thing that I just don't get but...
When I go to change the ringtone, an option pops up "Complete action using" then presents the option of either Solid Explorer or Media Storage. I'm tempted to press on Media Storage and see what happens. However, I still don't know where the ringtone files reside on the phone. Are they stored in Media Storage?
This same thing happened when I first got the phone and I fixed it with "Reset Settings" but I really don't want to start over and have to do that, now the phone is all set up with apps etc. Surely the OS should know where the ringtones are, it found them before and I haven't made any changes by putting my own ringtones on the phone, so I don't get why the situation has changed. Any Ideas please?
Thanks a lot
K
Krelekio said:
Hi all
I'm new to the forum and have just got my first Android phone, a SGS7 and was wondering if you could help me. I've searched around for a resolution but not found one and it's probably a simple nube thing that I just don't get but...
When I go to change the ringtone, an option pops up "Complete action using" then presents the option of either Solid Explorer or Media Storage. I'm tempted to press on Media Storage and see what happens. However, I still don't know where the ringtone files reside on the phone. Are they stored in Media Storage?
This same thing happened when I first got the phone and I fixed it with "Reset Settings" but I really don't want to start over and have to do that, now the phone is all set up with apps etc. Surely the OS should know where the ringtones are, it found them before and I haven't made any changes by putting my own ringtones on the phone, so I don't get why the situation has changed. Any Ideas please?
Thanks a lot
K
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OK, answered my own question. I chose the Media Storage option and all the default ringtones appeared again. So, no longer a problem. Last time this happened, I chose the wrong option (i.e. I chose Solid explorer) and was unable to access the ringtones until I did a "factory data reset" which is why I was asking for advice. I know all this sounds like a dumb waste of time but I still don't know what the **** Media Storage is, or where exactly the default ringtones lurk. But hey, this is my first Android and I will get to the bottom of it all eventually : - )
So, I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the notification sound per app? Everything leads to the sounds settings which only seems to let you pick ONE sound for ALL notifications (with the exception of those that come with their own). What am I missing here? Am I just blind lol? I swear I can do this on my tab s7 (it's out for screen repair so I can't check for sure).
Let me know if I'm missing something here.
Bonus points: how can I make the sounds settings see Google sounds? I installed the app, but they don't show. I'm sure there is probably an extra step I'm missing.
Thanks!
Nevermind, I figured it out. Just have to dig deeper into the notifications in the app info..