Alarm sounds? - Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
I want to use my own alarm sound, but where do I have to copy it?
My previous phone picked up sounds from the Alarms folder on my sdcard, but the Idol does not. It only shows the default alarm sounds and I can choose music.
I think this is the problem with the clokc app, because I can choose my own ringtones in the settings.

You have to place your files in the folder /system/media/audio/alarms, root is needed and media files are .mp3 .ogg.

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Music tracks as ringtone?

hi
how can i select music tracks as the ringtone please? When i go into options, notifications and alerts the sample tracks appear in the list but my own music i've put on the phone isn't there? Also could someone tell me how i can get the alerts etc as loud and as easy to recognise as possible as i keep missing calls etc. i've put all volumes up to max and turned vibration on whilst ringing .. anything else i can do?
thanks
Mitch92uK said:
hi
How can I select music tracks as the ringtone please? When I go into options, notifications and alerts the sample tracks appear in the list but my own music I've put on the phone isn't there?
thanks
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Put the mp3's on your storage card or drop them in the windows folder in file explorer, check sounds & notifications and your music should appear under the ringtone tab
Use the "File Explorer", go to your musicfile and tap and hold on it, and you can set it as ringtone
tarroyo said:
Put the mp3's on your storage card or drop them in the windows folder in file explorer, check sounds & notifications and your music should appear under the ringtone tab
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To use an mp3 as a ringtone you need to drop the files into My Documents/My Ringtones
For alert sounds use the windows folder.
I was having the same issue but does this mean the ringtones that i have on my SD card will be taking memory space from the device. I dont want to use my device memory for my music and ringtones. I found out that i can just add them directly to my Storage Card, but if i add them to a folder within the Storage Card, once i go to select a tone from the drop list it wont show any of my custom ringtones.
I've probably held down on a music track and seen "Add as Ringtone" probably a million time but when I read the initial question there was no chance in hell I would have even thought of it.
Thanks for reminding me.
I have the Touch Pro for Verizon and it has an MP3 Trimmer app. You can use this app to import an mp3 and trim it to the part of the song that you want, and set it as a ringtone.
bruin_84 said:
I was having the same issue but does this mean the ringtones that i have on my SD card will be taking memory space from the device. I dont want to use my device memory for my music and ringtones. I found out that i can just add them directly to my Storage Card, but if i add them to a folder within the Storage Card, once i go to select a tone from the drop list it wont show any of my custom ringtones.
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You can put your ringtones in a folder on your micro SD card, I have mine in: \Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones
and they show up in "Sounds & Notifications"
But just as mrvanx stated above, you have to put them in: \Windows to have them show up for alerts, like new text messages.
I also use Audacity to trim my music files for ringtones, it works great.

Custom mp3s as alarm tone

I have some mp3s songs that I want to use as my alarm tone? How can I go about accomplishing this? Thanks!
i've got an htc touch diamond and the only way that i got it right was to copy tones to the device windows root folder in a .wav format.alarm tones won't work with mp3 unless you use klaxon
I use the alarm from SPB Time - you can choose mp3 as your alarm tone and it can be located anywhere in the device (main memory, storage card...)
Just love SPB time. all the timers and alarms get me hot!
I was dumping them in the /windows directory then I realized that the phone was finding them in the main memory card directory too.

Removing ringtones from Samsung media player

I've added some custom ringtones to the ringtones folder, but it's also showing up in my media player and it's annoying. Is there a way to fix this?
xiaoali said:
I've added some custom ringtones to the ringtones folder, but it's also showing up in my media player and it's annoying. Is there a way to fix this?
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I just change the tags for artist and album to ringtone. At least it keeps them grouped together.
I just came across this from androidforums.com, posted by user keredini.
Get a File Manager (like Astro), mount the drives to your windows machine, or use the 'My Files' application to do the following:
Remember you have your internal SD card (the 16GB one that comes with the phone, it is located in the file system on the phone as \sdcard), and your external (removable) SD card that you provided (it is located in the file system on the phone as \sdcard\sd)
you need to create a folder on the internal SD card for your ringtones.
Create the following directory:
\sdcard\media\audio\ringtones
more than likely there will be a notifications folder in the same place, just create the new folder there. Move all your ringtones into that folder. Once the file(s) are moved, media scanner should run.
From there the ringtones will no longer show in the default media player (mine were also removed from cubed which is the player i use), but are still accessible when selecting 'Phone Ringtone' when assigning ringtones.
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Sounds like the solution we were all looking for. Thanks to the OP!
Edit: I just tried it out, looks like it didn't work for me
I put mine in sdcard\media\ringtones and Music Player doesn't see them.
xiaoali said:
i've added some custom ringtones to the ringtones folder, but it's also showing up in my media player and it's annoying. Is there a way to fix this?
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this worked for me!!!
backup the ringtone >
open music player and delete it from there >
convert ringtone to .wav (not .ogg) >
transfer it to phone >
you may need to open a file explorer and
manually open each sound to get them
to register in menus
reset your ringtones and notifications
***don't forget to reset sms notification
via: Messaging > menu > settings >
select ringtone
All I did was copy one of my nomedia files to my ringtones folder and they don't show in media player. With extended rings it doesn't interfer with setting it as a ringtone
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[Q] Android custom ringtones, notifications & alarms in one directory?

Is there a way in Android 2.3.4 to have one directory where you put all your custom music into, and the content is shown in each phone ringtone, notification and alarm menus?
Normally you would have to create the following three folders:
/sdcard/Ringtones
/sdcard/Notifications
/sdcard/Alarms
...and this way the music will appear in respective menus. But since I have my music collection in one directory, I want the content to be shown in each of the phone music menus (ringtones, notifications & alarms) without copying the same music collection to three different folders. That's a waste of space because I can use same music tune as a ringtone, but also for alarm clock and for calendar, so why should I copy the music file in three different folders?
So I just wanted to know if there is a one special folder I can copy my music, and they would appear in all of the three type of functions?
Fihlvein said:
Is there a way in Android 2.3.4 to have one directory where you put all your custom music into, and the content is shown in each phone ringtone, notification and alarm menus?
Normally you would have to create the following three folders:
/sdcard/Ringtones
/sdcard/Notifications
/sdcard/Alarms
...and this way the music will appear in respective menus. But since I have my music collection in one directory, I want the content to be shown in each of the phone music menus (ringtones, notifications & alarms) without copying the same music collection to three different folders. That's a waste of space because I can use same music tune as a ringtone, but also for alarm clock and for calendar, so why should I copy the music file in three different folders?
So I just wanted to know if there is a one special folder I can copy my music, and they would appear in all of the three type of functions?
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you can do folders like this
/sdcard/audio/ringtones
/sdcard/audio/notification
/sdcard/audio/alarms

How does Android detect custom ringtones / notifications? It doesn't seem consistent!

Hi,
I recently got a new phone (S22 Ultra) and was moving over my notifications and ringtones from my old phone (Oneplus 9). I noticed some weird behaviors in how Android detects Ringtones / Notifications so I thought I'd ask here.
First of all, when I moved everything, I moved them under one folder, /sdcard/backups/audio, and a folder for ringtones / notifications. When I opened the ringtone picker, all of my ringtones where there except the .wav and .mp3 ones, all the .ogg ringtones were present, such as Rhythm by OnePlus. So I selected it as my ringtone and it worked fine. Then I went to change the SMS sound and found that all of my notifications, even .wav and .mp3 are present, and as well as my mp3/wav ringtones, which is weird since this is a Notification area and not a ringtone area.
I then proceeded to move the audio files from /sdcard/backups to their respective folders, /sdcard/Ringtones and /sdcard/Notifications, but I wanted to separate them so I created a folder for Cyanogen, folder for Oneplus9, and a folder for my own music ringtones. Now when I go to select the ringtones, all of my ringtons from Custom and Cyanogen folders are present, even mp3/wav, but not a single OnePlus Ringtone or notification is there, which is weird. So I deleted the folder, and copied them again, but they were not there. So I converted them to wav and back to ogg, and they were there again. Then I proceeded to change the notifications, and surprisingly the OnePlus notifications where not there (Free, Meet... etc). So I again, converted them to wav and back to ogg, and they're there again. I decided to make a copy of the folders and put them under /sdcard/backups/audio again, and now the Sound Picker is detecting 2 of every .ogg file, so I have the OnePlus ringtone Rhythm twice, the notification Free twice and so on.
So I thought it was a Samsung bug, and I experimented with my OnePlus 9 and to my surprise there was a similar behavior. If I add a song, then move it to another folder, then the song is no longer detected as a ringtone no matter where I place it unless I place it back in the same folder I originally added it to.
What is exactly going on here? Is there some sort of hash that is being done to map an audio file to a specific location, so if the location is changed it just ignores it? Or what is exactly going on here?
Android 11 on OP9 and 12 on S22U.

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