Does anyone know if there is a registry edit, or anything to move the alarm, alerts, etc from its default location of the "\windows" directory and move it to the SD card as we have for Ringtones, Pictures, Videos, and My Documents? If not move the default location, point to an additional location?
I was searching the registry as best as I could but didnt find anything that points to this location, and I was wondering if I was missing it, or if there was a way to move it. It would save quite a bit of space not having to add tones to a limited amount of phone space that we have already.
bump anyone? been doing searches but cant find anything about it here or google. just about what format it has to be in.
This is the location they use if you download and install sound packs from Microsoft:
My Device \ Application data \ Sounds
It is not reliable to put ringtones and alert sounds on memory card - if the phone is in Disk Drive mode attached to the computer, the card is not accessible to the phone, so if you get a phone call during that time your phone won't be able to use your custom ringtone and it resets to using the default ringtone and you'll need to reconfigure to your choice afterwards.
But if you insist on placing them on storage card, you can place ringtones here: My Device \ Storage card \ My documents \ My ringtones
and alert sounds here: My Device \ Storage card (this also works for ringtones)
Thanx Mesquire, I am not overly worried about it defaulting back, cause it doesnt. The HTC for ring tones also looks on the memory card. I dont use disk mode so no worries there. I use to have my ringtones in the directory \storage card But I also didnt like it was messy, so I tried something that works. U can add your ringtones to \my device\storage card\my ringtones and it will pick it up and add it to the list of ringtones. You can also do this with" My Music, My Videos, and I think My Pictures, not sure of the last since all mine sit in the dcim folder.
But I will try and see if I move all the alerts to the main directory of the storage card if it will work, if it does, then it will do for now.
I just checked My Device \ Application data \ Sounds and there seems nothing there probably normal.
Yes, it is normal. My Device\Application data\Sounds is an empty folder until you start to populate it
Is there a setting to change the alarm and alert and rings location from the windows folder? Or putting them into the main sd card directory is fine? I see that Alert, Alarm, and Ring are either .wav or .wma files, would it be safe to assume that if I cut all these files and put them into the main directory of the sd card windows will see them? I know you might think I'm nuts, but there is already limited space on the phone as it is, by adding mp3's or ringtones or other media files it would in essence use up what little space is there. I already only have 171mb of space on the phone, and by computer standards I know the more files a system has to wade thru the slower it becomes.
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Hi
Can anyone tell me how to change the default locations for things such as pictures, album, emails etc, I want it to be on my Storage Card
Thanks
Tim
if you can it's in the registry you can access that using total commander
but it's not always a good idea since you can pull the sd card
and prgrams get mighty upset if their storage is pulled
also sd cards are disabled while the device is off so
ring tones and other storage that programs may have to access while running in the background while the device is off would fail
Registry
I have downloaded a registry tool, but what is the key for these settings?
Tim
i dont know
you can try to search this forum
or
you can try to surf the registry and look for something which fit
pls somebody should help me explain how to change the dir of my ringtone to mp3 either using my phone memory or storage card.
i have an 02 xda with processor arm sa1110, 63.20mb and version 3.0.12039
pls help somebody. the windows ringtone is really freakin me out.
Ok fella, take a deep breath. The ringtone will not hurt you, though it is a bit annoying.
If you want to set a different ring-tone copy the file you want (mp3 or WMA) to \windows\rings or \My Documents or the root of your SD card (\Storage card).
Then go to Start->Settings>Sounds and notifications.
In the list select 'Incoming call' then browse for the proper sound for that event.
It is not recommended to keep ring-tones on SD card because it is disconnected during standby so you may still get the default ring because the file is not accessible right away.
You can also assign individual ring-tones to your contacts simply by selecting the desired file in the proper field when creating or editing a contact.
re help
Thanx a lot but it's still the same.
I did all you said but still the same thing.
From the drop down box in settings/sounds & notifications/incoming call, my selected ringtone (wma or mp3) is not even showing for me to select it.
Is there something am doing wrong? Pls help
what about programs add ring tone ?
Hi, I want to change my tilt 2's sms notification sound into a MP3 file on my TF card. I copied it to my documents- my ringtone, and windows- rings, and even set up a folder called my ringtone on TF card. However, when I select new text message- there is no new file in the drop list. What should I do?
It wont work that way, unfortunately.
WAV format dropped directly in windows folder will though.
sorry for short answer but Christmas morn.
also will work out of root directory on storage card--
hi there,
There's something that's bugging me lately.
With any music player (stock, meridian, ecc) when i go to "all songs" (or i think it's called "tracks" on stock player) it only shows a half dozen files, as opposed to the 400 there should have been.
Funny thing is that when i explore with those music players inside the folders, the files are all there and magically from that point on, they appear in the "all songs" section and they play fine, but looking better, when i explore the sd card, it says "refresh to scan media" under each previously invisible file.
Every time i reboot the phone those files became invisible again and it's kinda annoying... anybody has some ideas?
Is there any difference in the music files? What format are they in? Maybe the scanner doesn't scan certain formats automatically. Just a guess though.
thank you for the answer, however, the issue disappeared. Don't know if that's what healed my phone, however i went exploring with ESfile explorer and found a rather useles file called "nomedia" with no extension and no format which appeared in the music folder. After that everything went back to normal.
I forgot to say that i recently bought a 16gg class 4 sd card and almost thought to call for a replacement... but things are working now!
pelly_jelly said:
thank you for the answer, however, the issue disappeared. Don't know if that's what healed my phone, however i went exploring with ESfile explorer and found a rather useles file called "nomedia" with no extension and no format which appeared in the music folder. After that everything went back to normal.
I forgot to say that i recently bought a 16gg class 4 sd card and almost thought to call for a replacement... but things are working now!
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.nomedia files are there to tell the default android media scanner to ignore that folder. It's used so sound and picture files from apps and games don't show up in media players. That was were your problem was
Update - I apologize for the post. I know what happened, or I think I do. I cleared the "Media Storage" data app the previous day in order to get rid of some empty folders I had deleted from my gallery app. I am guessing this also cleared the audio media settings as well. Not sure about the Ringtone and Notification folders on my SD card or how they got there but perhaps after clearing the media data everything audio switched to pointing at those folders (?).
I deleted the SD card folders and rebooted. Sometimes the simplistic of solutions...
Anyways, the apps now point back to the correct audio locations.
Hi,
Had something odd occur yesterday, I noticed my text messages no longer had a ringtone when incoming. So I checked the settings and sure enough it was set to silent, but the reason was because I no longer had any other ringtones, just silent and Google Hangouts ringtone.
I had not even used my phone up to that point yesterday so I have no idea how this happened.
Anyways, I see that the folders Ringtones and Notifications in my SD card root were empty so I look online, find the Nexus Ringtones and add them back. Now I have the ringtones to select in my sound settings for apps.
However, my download of the ringtones also had sounds for the UI folder and when looking to see where that folder goes, cause I don't see it in my SD root, I realize that they all go in /system/media/audio and that all the sounds are in fact in those folders.
So, does anyone have any idea why the ringtone and notification settings for apps didn't find the folder? Or, where I can look to find how to point them back to the correct location.
Thanks for any help or ideas. I have no clue what happened.
Stock Verizon Galaxy Nexus. Not rooted.