How do you use custom notification sounds? I know you can make a song or whatever you ringtone, but I do not see an option of saving it as notification as in new text or email.
kuharious said:
How do you use custom notification sounds? I know you can make a song or whatever you ringtone, but I do not see an option of saving it as notification as in new text or email.
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The easiest way that I know of to dot his is to save the file on your internal memory and then use a file explorer to navigate to media/audio. Inside of that folder there will be folders for ringtones, notifications, and alarms ( if they are not present just create them using those exact names). Copy the sound files you want to use into the appropriate folder and they will appear as selections in the sound selection menus of the various applications. If they don't show up right away, just reboot and they will be there.
I have ES File Explorer installed on my EVO 3D and when I tap to select a sound on the personalization screen it asks if I want to use Android System or ES to choose a sound. With ES you'll be able to search for the file in any folder and it'll be added to the list, avoiding data redundancy (having two of the same file) - yeah I care about it, I'm insane.
PS. You'll need to restart your phone without the SD to get the sound removed from the list.
Although this isn't really an app developed solely for this purpose, I thought I could share it. This icon looks best on AOSP, but I gather it works on all other OEM Skins. This is just an icon, not actual beats audio, and is aimed at AOSP users with DSP Manager.
Instructions:
1. Download an app called "Headset Icon" from the playstore. - Should be the first result.
2. Open the app, and navigate to the settings (wrench in the top right corner).
3. In the first text input line, write "Beats Audio On", and check the first checkbox (something along the lines of show icon when headset is plugged in). Then save.
4. Now exit the app and go to your favourite file explorer. Navigate to /data and create a file called "local.prop" - no quotation marks.
5. In this file, insert "sys.keep_app_1=com.devandroid.headseticon" - no quotations, and save. This will make sure your app does not get killed by any task killer.
6. Reboot your phone and enjoy!
For AOSP users only! (Optional)
1. Go to the settings once again, and in the second line, type in "Touch to Modify".
2. Then, click on "app for notification" and choose DSP Manager or whatever equaliser you use. (Now whenever you tap the icon, you go straight to your equalizer )
3. (CM10.2)Exit out of the app and go to the homescreen. Then go menu>System Settings>Home Screen>Drawer>Hidden Apps and choose Headset Icon. Hides the app from drawer to make it seem more legit.
And there you have it. Beats Audio Icon for AOSP and All OEM Skins!
Screenshots:
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Hi
I just made a simple Tasker lockscreen wallpaper changer for Galaxy S4 i9505 kitkat
Pre-requested :
1. Rooted phone
2. Tasker with Secure Settings
3. wallpaper images in any folder
4. Busy Box free for linux cp command (will explain later)
How-to:
1. Create a folder on SD card with images you want to use for wallpaper. eg /sdcard/downloads/wallpapers where image filenames have naming convention: picture_x.jpg where x is a counter number starting with 1 eg picture_1.jpg, picture_2.jpg etc
2. Create a Tasker profile name eg. "Lockscreen wallpaper", set running time from morning hrs to late evening - thi is time when lockscreen wallpapers will be rotating.
3. Create a Taker task eg "Change Lockscreen wallpaper" containing-following commands:
a) add Variable Randomize with name %PICNO, min 1, max 100. 100 is number of your wallpaper image files.
b) I dont know why Tasker copy file was not able to copy file from wallpaper folder to system lockscreen wallpaper location (even root option was selected) but for this taks I had to use BusyBox cp command which worked ok.
Now wee need to copy our random image to temporary file we gonna use for lockscreen later:
Copy file from /sdcard/downloads/wallpapers/picture_%PICNO.jpg to /sdcard/downloads/wallpapers/temp.jpg
c) add Secure Settings -> Run Command:
cp /sdcard/downloads/wallpapers/temp.jpg /data/data/com.sec.android.gallery3d/files/lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg
check: use root and wait for process
d) add Wait : set to eg 10 minutes (will change your lockscreen every 10 mins)
e) add Goto Action number 1
4 Check it - launch you task , lock phone, unlock it. verify. Remember that changeing wallpaper will work when your phone is unlocked so new lockscreen wallpaper will be shown next time you wake your phone.
Done.
It didn't work for me. Can you send me a screen shot of what yours looks like?
Can anyone confirm that this method works
It worked for me!!!, but the files are stored here:
/data/data/com.sec.android.wallpapercropper2/files/lockscreen_wallpaper.jpg
/data/data/com.sec.android.wallpapercropper2/files/lockscreen_wallpaper_ripple.jpg
both are a copy of the same file, my device in my signature...
Where are the system notification and ringtones stored in Lollipop?
I got a Note 5 (Verizon) yesterday and am trying to locate the system directory where notification and and ringtones are stored..... I'll be danged if the "+" icon disappeared in both notification and ringtone section so I can't add any.....2 different Samsung people playing around in my phone weren't much help....I SHOULD be able to copy a file over and place it in a directory where it would be recognized....but searching for mp3 locates only the files copied over....the horrible news, I've got voice mails for ringtones..apparently smart switcher transferred them over.....I am so annoyed. Can someone have mercy and tell me how to manually install the sounds for both ringtones and notifications.....there is NO OPTION to add in system settings.....as it said earlier, there was a "+" at the bottom right to add new sounds.... I may have chosen "music" to where to add the ringtones.....TIA
Hi guys,
I often see the question howto backup and restore GB Whatsapp...
I faced this problem by swiching in april 2023 to a new phone and restored all there, my chats, my pictures, my videos, just everything!
Its very easy to do this and here is my tutorial...
1 ) On youre old phone open GB Whatsap, tap the 3 dots menu on the top right corner,
then tap on the bottom of the popup menu settings (NOT GB SETTINGS), tap chats, on the bottom of this menu tap Chat-Backup!
2) For the next step start again on the 3 dots menu on the top right corner,
now tap GB Settings (the opposite of the first step), then tap Universal, then Backup and restore, on the top tap Backup WhatsApp data!
3) Now close GB Whatsapp and connect your Phone via USB to your PC with Datatransfer enabled, i use a Windows PC, first time will take a view seconds to install the Drivers (on Windows 10 and 11 automaticly), then open the File Explorer and click on youre device (xiaomi, samsung or whatever), on Linux and OSX it should be allmost similar!
4) Now you will see the SD-Card folder, there you click the Android folder, then media folder, there you will find a folder named com.gbwhatsapp!
Copy this folder wiht all inside to your PC, for example on your Desktop! Be aware the folder can be huge , depending on your chats pictures and videos inside,
my folder was about 5 Gigs and needet about 10 Minutes!!!
4a) Instead of copy to PC you can connect a USB Drive to your phone and copy the folder to it!
5) Now connect your new Phone to PC the same way like before your old phone!
5a) Now connect your new Phone to SD-Card the same way like before your old phone!
6) Now copy back the saved folder to the same folder like before (Android - media, if the media folder dont exists, create it... )
7) Now install GB Whatsapp and open it.
8) ON THIS STEP YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFULLY, DONT TAP THE RED RESTORE BUTTON, INSTEAD TAP THE GREEN BUTTON UNDER THE RED BUTTON called something like AGREE AND CONTIUNE!!!
DONT INSTALL GB WHATSAPP BEFORE YOU COPIED THE BACKUPFOLDER or if you did allready, DONT OPEN IT BEFORE!!!
Enter your Phone Number using the simcard from your old phone (DO NOT USE A NEW SIMCARD/PHONE-NUMBER) and recive your verification Code after verification you will get a message something like found backup, restore? Tap yes, your username will be showed (in my case it was correct) and let it restore...
I think if the username is not correct (like John D. instead of John Doe) the restore will fail so if you make the backup it can be usefull to check your EXACT username just to prevent failtures...
Thats all, after restore everything should work like on your old Phone!
Let's get to the themes!
I really searched all over the internet
there is NO ONE tutorial on how to create your own GB Whatsapp Themes!
Everywhere you will only find "download themes through the app" etc!
However, I found out how to change background images of ready-made themes and that's enough for me personally!
So the themes of mine are existing themes where I just changed the background, in other words, don't thank me but thank those who created the original themes!!!
First, just look for one (or more) original themes where you like the layout, i.e. icons, colors, fonts, etc. regardless of the background image! If you download a theme in the app, you will find it in the Download - FMThemes folder, let's take the Coca Cola theme as an example!
It consists of 3 files:
Coca_Cola.xml
Coca_Cola_homeW.jpg
Coca_Cola_w.jpg
The first file is apparently responsible for the layout already mentioned and is not changed!
I'm not sure about the second one, although it has a .jpg extension, it can't be opened as an image file, so we'll leave that one as well!
The third file is clearly an image file and can be opened as such!
We will now replace this file with an image file of our choice!
To do this, we right-click the file on the PC and go to rename, we copy the marked text (Coca_Cola_w) with another right-click!
Then we find the image file we want to replace the original with, right click on it again and go to rename again and then right click on paste again, this way we make sure the file WILL BE NAMED EXACTLY THE SAME!
That's almost it, now you add your theme (preferably in a separate folder) back to the Download - FMThemes folder on your smartphone (or wherever you want)!
Then you open GB Whatsapp, go to the 3-point menu at the top right - GB Settings Themes - Load theme - look for the folder Download - FM Themes - Coca Cola Theme (or whatever you named the folder where your theme is)
and select the file Coca_Cola.xml from our example! If you then go back to your chat folder you can see your new wallpaper...
Some themes also have 2 working background images, there you can of course change both background images using the method mentioned above!
Presumably the non-working .jpg files mentioned above can also be changed with it, which will probably change the chat overview, but I haven't tested it myself! Feel free to do that and post the result here!
I picked a total of 18 themes and varied each of these 18 themes with about 90 different background images, that's over 1500 variable themes that I've attached in a zip file! I've also included the 18 original themes that were used as a zip file, so you can see for yourself what I've changed! Have fun tinkering...
Ps: My favored Varables are
1
3
6
8
9
10
(see in each Folder) Which variables do you like most?
I have also created some themes with adult content, but for understandable reasons I will NOT post them here, not even via PM!!!
You can basically use any type and size of image as long as it is in .jpg format!
I allso found a animated theme from an other whatsapp mod, maby a older version, the xml file is totally different from the files above and dont work in this version of GB Whatsapp! Is here a coder who maby can translate the code to work in this version of GB Whatsapp!?
Would be great if someone can make this work...