Im not sure If Im just not that smart... but one day I needed to charge my dash, It synced up at work when I plugged in the mini usb, and the next thing I know, I lost my ringtone I picked out, and I dont see a folder anywhere named ringtone or anything like it. I have a custom kavana rom posted here, and its been great. Can I just make another folder for my ringtones somewhere? Where is supposed to be?? What would it be named?? Please help! Thanks!
I always put my ringtones in the folder named "My Documents" on the phone memory.
I always put all my rings/phone sounds that I am currently using in the \Application Data\Sounds directory. Also, every ROM I ever used has this directory and when you want to set a sound/ring they are always in the drop down list in Settings->Sounds. Then delete the stuff im not using any more or move it to the storage card, to free up device storage.
What I do is put them on a folder on my storage card, use the audio manager to copy whichever I want to my ringtones folder on the device, so if something happens, like how vbittnv lost his folder, I'll still will have them on my storage card, and you don't want to fill the device's storage with unecessary stuff.
roloracer said:
and you don't want to fill the device's storage with unecessary stuff.
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I consider my ringtone necessary
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I consider my ringtones necessary
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Yes but to keep down storage on device memory being used up, you can just keep your sms tones on root of storage and with the ringtones i use music to which is stored on storage card and just like roloracer use AudioManager "only thing used for"to copy them to \My Documents\My Ringtones then delete the old one in the folder.
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Yes but to keep down storage on device memory being used up, you can just keep your sms tones on root of storage and with the ringtones i use music to which is stored on storage card and just like roloracer use AudioManager "only thing used for"to copy them to \My Documents\My Ringtones then delete the old one in the folder.
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Couldn't have said it better myself, I only keep a small amount of ringtones on my phone's memory, the rest on my card.
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Yes but to keep down storage on device memory being used up, you can just keep your sms tones on root of storage and with the ringtones i use music to which is stored on storage card and just like roloracer use AudioManager "only thing used for"to copy them to \My Documents\My Ringtones then delete the old one in the folder.
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Yea, I only have one ringtone on my phones storage at a time. The rest of my junk is on my SDHC.
I just looked at my original post and I can see why you guys are saying what you are. I meant something different. I meant all my current sounds that are being used are on device storage. And like I said, the rest of the junk I have is on my SDHC.
If you create a folder on your storage card called My Ringtones there is no need to store them in device memory. It must be Root so it would be /Storage Card/My Ringtones
Works with every ROM I have ever used
mini sd card best place to keep all music ringtones videos, well true if you want to add a ringtone to a contect or song as one, it has to be on the main memory so thay say not true, just dont make a ringtone file and just let them run free on sd card this well alow them to be added to any of your contacts or sound apps for your phone, works for me, ringtones on a file on your sd card well run on main ringtone sounds and for myfaves contacts only out of file on sd card well work with all,
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Hello,
I've bought a storage SD card.
I wish to move the "My documents" folder to this card.
I 've created a "My documents" folder on the SD card, and moved the files BUT the new folder does not replace the original one, and exploring My Pocket PC/My documents leads me to the empty old folder.
Is there a way to improve ?
More generally, what's the best practices when equiped with a SD Card ?
Thanks,
Jean-Jacques
You can create a shortcut on the root of your device's memory ( \ ) and make that shortcut point to "\Storage card\My Documents"
Most programs require you to point the path to your SD card yourself under options. i.e. Notes, you'll need to choose Tools>Options and pick "save to storage card". And in your storage card, make sure there's no file with name like ignore_my_doc or similar, or it will save to your SD's root instead of your 'my documents' folder.
How do you create the shortcut on \ to point to the storage card?
I have moved my documents to the storage card, but I still have an empty my documents on the \ .
Can't seem to figure out how to create the shortcut link.
In Notes, I have set it under options to point to the SD card.
Use Resco Explorer or Total Commander to create the shortcut.
Total Commander is great & its free. Get it from here (http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm)
Turns out I had Total Commander and just didn't know how to make a shortcut. Figured that out.
Now I have a file My Documents.lnk in \, and a My Documents on \ that is empty (I delete it and reboot and it keeps coming back), and a file called Old My Documents in \ that only has a dir called Templates in it. I can't delete the Old dir or the Template dir, no matter how I try. (I had renamed the orignal My Documents to Old My Documents after copying the folder to the storage card).
Is this making sense? Thanks for your help.
Using Total Commander, click on the folder you want to create the shortcut for, then from the File menu, choose >>>>> then Create shortcut.. It will ask you for the destination location of the shortcut. Click ok.
I really don't know what's that Old My Documents folder.
Anyone knows a solution for this plz ? :roll:
Maybe you need a registry hack.
Thanks, I did figure out how to make the shortcut, but I just can't get rid of the old docs directory and it keeps creating a new my docs dir at \.
And although there is a shortcut in \ to \Storage Card\My Documents, the Notes don't sync with the SD card.
I have changed the option in Notes to look at \Storage Card\My Documents
Very Weird.
The built-in notes program is very dummy!
I stopped using it; because I found a much better one : PhatPad
By the way, storing notes on the storage card is really risky!
Did you hear about the well know SD card wipe problem?
It happens to a lot of people here in this forum..!
I had experienced that SD issue...but it was always backed up so it was just a pain in the arse. Once I upgraded to 2003SE, knock on my wooden head, it hasn't happened again.
I'll try the subsitute program. Thanks...this is all very strange.
PhatPad is really the best notes program ever 8)
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Sorry about that...but I would also like to move My Documents...I'd like to put mine in 'Storage' (the built in Storage on the BA)
I've tried exporting the reg and replacing \My Documents with \Storage\My Documents...and then reimporting.
Some things now save in \Storage\My Documents...but...
* I can't get rid of the templates folder
* My Documents keeps comming back!
I have moved My Documents to the SD card.
I made the registry change pointing it to the SD card as well.
But I still get the My Documents dir coming back to the Main Memory every reset.
After reading more on this, and seeing the risks involved, I am now rethinking whether moving the docs to the storage card is such a good idea.
Malicious Microsoft?
Given the ability of some people to easily hack our computers, the only safe way of having documents on our PCs would be to create them on removeable media while off-line and remove it before going on-line again. Does Microsoft have a vested interest in making it so hard for users to do this and so easy for people to hack its products?
It is not rocket science (or even computer science) to request insertion of a "Documents" SD card if not present. It could also optionally automatically eject the SD card when all files on it were closed.
I did search, but may be I missed it.
Is it possible to move the complete 'my documents' folder to the SDHC card?
So it will free up memory and make it possible to put more files in that folder and sub folders?
Thanks for your reply.
Greetings,
Patrick Schouten
The Netherlands
Not sure if I understood you correctly...
There's nothing stopping you from storing your files on your storage card rather than the My Documents folder in main memory. And you're allowed to move files around as you please...
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Not sure if I understood you correctly...
There's nothing stopping you from storing your files on your storage card rather than the My Documents folder in main memory. And you're allowed to move files around as you please...
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No, that was not what I mend.
Some programs are saving files and go by default to the 'my documents' folder.
I would like to have this default folder on my storage card. So I suspect I have to tweak some registry settings to point all 'my document' paths to the storage card.
I was just wondering if there is some application, easy tweak or cab that will help me to change all these paths in de registry.
Is there any way of using your own music or sound files for your notification sounds? Im running on 2.2.2 retail and have yet to root my defy! I can use my own music as ringtones but not as notification alerts! Thanks in advance guys, any help with this will be very much appreciated
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Create /notifications folder on root of SD card. Likewise /ringtones if you like. Any mp3 or ogg vorbis file will then appear in the sounds menu.
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Create /notifications folder on root of SD card. Likewise /ringtones if you like. Any mp3 or ogg vorbis file will then appear in the sounds menu.
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Bloody Hell....................you sir are a bloody genius. Is that all I need to do?? I'll ty it. Thanks
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Create /notifications folder on root of SD card. Likewise /ringtones if you like. Any mp3 or ogg vorbis file will then appear in the sounds menu.
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It worked a treat thanks. However, I have bought a new 4gb HC micro sd card and wanted to transfer all my ringtones and sms alert tones. I created both a Ringtone and a notification folder and added my stuff. But only the ringtons appear on my phone, not the notications. What have a I done wrong? is it because Im now using a 4gb HC card? Why do the ringtones appear on my phone but not the notification?? When I browse my phone and the sd card, I can see both folders Help
On my SD card there appeared at some stage a folder called "Notifications"; try the exact name.
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On my SD card there appeared at some stage a folder called "Notifications"; try the exact name.
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Firstly, I created both a Ringtones and a Notification folders for both my ringtones and sms alert tones. At first, I could only see my ringtones on the actual device. I then did a reboot and restored my device to factory settings, I then took my sd card out and formatted that. I created my folders again and this time, I could now see and use both my ringtones and notifications in my phone. However when I try to add new ones, getting to me phone through Moto helper, the new additions do not show up in my device, even though when I browse my phone's sd card, I can see them through Motorola MTP interface. is there any way to fix this? Has anyone else had the same problem?? Help
I used the settings in my Note 2 to format my 32GB microsd card. when i view it in windows explorer, the only folder that has been created is the LOST.DIR. should it be creating a folder structure?
on my BlackBerry, whenever my card was formatted, the device would create the folder structure for music, videos, pictures, etc. I've already removed and reinserted the microsd card. Am I missing something?
you're missing the question and answer section
Thanks, I just checked there but still couldn't find my answer. Can't see a way to delete this thread, only edit, so if anyone is able to help out, it'd be appreciated.
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Thanks, I just checked there but still couldn't find my answer. Can't see a way to delete this thread, only edit, so if anyone is able to help out, it'd be appreciated.
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Test, take some pictures and store to sd card (change options in camera app) to see if it creates it then
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Test, take some pictures and store to sd card (change options in camera app) to see if it creates it then
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Thanks....that worked for the camera! I tried launching the music player and video player, but no other folders are created.
Problems is, is that I have media to restore to the card but not sure if i should create the folders manually or what.
The reson i formatted it, is cause i took it straight from my Z10 to my Note 2 and wanted to clean up the folder structure. remove data, format, restore into new android folder structure. but didn't really work out
I haven't seen this topic discussed here on the M8 Q&A so I applogize if this has been answered.
I just got my M8 yesterday and didn't want to transfer everything over using HTC's transfer tool (going from and HTC Vivid) as I used my Vivid for 2 years and it was kind of cluttered.
Anyway, I copied all my stuff off my old phone and save it on my PC. I moved all the stuff I wanted using Windows Explorer to my M8. A ringtones folder showed up in Windows Explorer under my M8's internal storage so I copied my ringtones I wanted to that folder. They don't show up under setting/personalize. I used root browser to copy the files to system/media/audio/ringtones but the operation failed (I think it's because I'm not rooted). This is the folder that I see the HTC default ringtones in. If I press the + in personalize/ringtones to add new ringtones it takes me to the music folders. I moved the ringtones from the first location into a folder in my music folder named ringtones. They still didn't show up until I removed the .nomedia file. I was able to add them to the list and I assigned them to the contacts I wanted. I don't want to see the ringtones when playing music so I placed the .nomedia file back in the folder. After doing that the ringtones don't show up anymore. What am I doing wrong or can anyone help with this. Really don't want to root at this point.
Thanks
No one knows?
Guess I'll have to root.
I am rooted and still confused. I always thought you could put ringtones, notifications, and alarms under media-->audio on your SD Card (or user storage in this case)—OR create a separate folder for each: ringtones, alarms, notifications on the root of user storage.
But none of these show up in my lists in personalize or under settings-->sound. I don't want to add all of these custom ringtones I've made to the system partition under system/media/audio/ringtones which is where the ringtones that do show up under "sound" or "personalize" actually reside.
What's up with this... Further, a few months ago before some updates, this was working just fine.
have you rebooted? itll show up once you reboot
No.... That's not it. I have been using HTC phones for 5 years. I know how the ringtones/sounds work. This is something else.
If I and maybe the individual who initially created this post above are the only two, then it's just something wonky with the set up.
Could someone just verify it for me?
Take an .mp3 or an .ogg file from your Windows or Linux desktop (I am just going through the steps that once worked perfectly, but now don't work at all), and throw it into Dropbox. Then download it from Dropbox, and stick it into your /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones folder.... Then reboot.
If you see that file when you are in Settings or elsewhere when you are selecting a ringtone, then it's totally my problem. I have not deleted anything from stock, but I have disabled a lot (but things I wouldn't expect to affect ringtones)...so that could be it.
Also, I had disabled CarrierIQ using a bash script that worked quite nicely...But now am wondering if that could have caused it.
All I know is that in the first few weeks of October, I could put any .mp3, .flac, or .ogg file in the above mentioned folder, and after a restart they were all there.
I am also concerned that maybe the 4.4.4 update might have changed something.
Anyway...whoever can help, I very much appreciate it!
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I read this a couple of other places, but I guess this happens some times with certain folders on your SD Card or personal storage.
Sometimes just deleting and recreating the folder will go the trick. This didn't work for me.
So the next solution is to connect to your laptop, confirm everything is working correctly (HTC Sync needs to be installed which is a nuisance). But then I simply copied my media folder from the phone to my Windows desktop.... And then deleted it in the phone. Then I created an empty folder called "media" on the phone... Then copied the contents of the media folder in my Windows desktop, to the media folder I just created, and then, unplugged.
After reboot, all my ringtones, alarms, and notifications were in the list to choose from.