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[Q] notifers- tones

The sprint lady said I can dw a app that let's me set different tones I don't always want 2 look at the phone 2 c what I have, on my old bb I had tones set 4 everything lol, and if I could set the volumn sometimes I can't hear them or hey r to loud depending on the tone wats a good app? thanks guys!!!

I don't understand what your saying.
Use periods and actual words.
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Just create this directory on the sdcard: /sdcard/media/notifications/ then put any music file you want in there and it'll be a notification tone. Same for ringtones, just make another folder called ringtones instead of notifcations. Also, download the app called ringdroid, and you can copy bits of a song as a tone.
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zanderman112 said:
Just create this directory on the sdcard: /sdcard/media/notifications/ then put any music file you want in there and it'll be a notification tone. Same for ringtones, just make another folder called ringtones instead of notifcations. Also, download the app called ringdroid, and you can copy bits of a song as a tone.
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lol sounds good but how do i go about on creating the directory? After that can i set different tones for tst and emails or will i need to create different directories? Thanks man!

Nabisco_12 said:
lol sounds good but how do i go about on creating the directory? After that can i set different tones for tst and emails or will i need to create different directories? Thanks man!
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Each email account, under settings just put in the notification sound. Do the same for everything that has notifications. You can pick phone sounds or ringrtones.

All notifications can be used with everything. The same tonesare available for text, emal, facebook, etc. Use a pc, or download astro file manager to create the directories
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kennyglass123 said:
Each email account, under settings just put in the notification sound. Do the same for everything that has notifications. You can pick phone sounds or ringrtones.
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I looked under the settings I didn't c anything about my email accounts, can u direct m a little more sorry man I'm just not computer or cell master lol, thank you

Nabisco_12 said:
I looked under the settings I didn't c anything about my email accounts, can u direct m a little more sorry man I'm just not computer or cell master lol, thank you
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go to gmail or what ever email app you're using and go to the settings and select the ringtone you want.

Nabisco_12 said:
The sprint lady said I can dw a app that let's me set different tones I don't always want 2 look at the phone 2 c what I have, on my old bb I had tones set 4 everything lol, and if I could set the volumn sometimes I can't hear them or hey r to loud depending on the tone wats a good app? thanks guys!!!
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I personaly use "ringtone maker mp3" from the market. It let's you load music files from ur SD card and edit them to ur liking and save them as either notification/ringtones. After u have saved some ringtones/notification tones, just go to ur contacts, chose a contact and under "edit" u should see a "set ringtone" botton to select a ringtone for that contact. Don't think u can adjust the volume for every custom set contact ringtone, it'll use ur default ringtone/notification volume level. Hope this helps somehow
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sweet thanks guys i will give it a try and let you know lol if i get it. Thanks again!

No problem man. Let us know how it goes for u
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i finally tried that mp3 maker and it is very cool, now i dont know what happened but on my tone that i edited it now has a glitch sound in a few places, whats up with that? also on a side note on my blackberry i had a bunch of tones for notifiers, how do i get them on the epic, i mean they r there but when i go to set a notifier it just gives me a list of factory sounds....
thanks guys!

Question on custom ringers

Hello,
I'm still new to Android.
1. Can you tell me how to load a custom ringtone on this phone?
2. On my old WM phone I could set it to Vibrate 1st then ring so I could reach for my phone before it made noise (and disturb others) if I felt it vibrate. Is there any way to make this happen?

boe said:
Hello,
I'm still new to Android.
1. Can you tell me how to load a custom ringtone on this phone?
2. On my old WM phone I could set it to Vibrate 1st then ring so I could reach for my phone before it made noise (and disturb others) if I felt it vibrate. Is there any way to make this happen?
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Look for an app called Ringdroid. You can trim and make any music on your phone a ringtone or notification...real easy to do.

alnova1 said:
Look for an app called Ringdroid. You can trim and make any music on your phone a ringtone or notification...real easy to do.
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Thanks - if i already have a ringtone (wav file for WM) I can't just load that to a directory on the phone?

I have a couple cool ringtones I've accumulated over the years that I'd like to get into my phone... They are mp3 format and I'm sorta lost as to how to load them in also.
Dont need any editing etc; just need to know how to make them show up in the ringtone list!

Its easier if you already have a ringtone that doesn't need editing to still use Ringdroid. Just open it up in the app and just save it like it is.

boe said:
Thanks - if i already have a ringtone (wav file for WM) I can't just load that to a directory on the phone?
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If its on your computer load it on your phone through Kies air. If you dont know what Kies is open the app on your phone and it will tell you what to type on your desktop. I think you'll get once you see

On the root of your SD card, create a folder called media, then create a folder inside that called audio. Inside the audio folder, you can create "alarms" "ringtones" and "notifications" folders. Then put whatever audio files you'd like in these respective folders. Reboot and the sounds should show up in the default selection list. Mine are all in mp3 format, I don't know if it would recognize wav files or not.
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MoMatt said:
On the root of your SD card, create a folder called media, then create a folder inside that called audio. Inside the audio folder, you can create "alarms" "ringtones" and "notifications" folders. Then put whatever audio files you'd like in these respective folders. Reboot and the sounds should show up in the default selection list. Mine are all in mp3 format, I don't know if it would recognize wav files or not.
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Thanks. I did as you said - didn't even have to reboot the phone.
Perfect!

Right on! Glad it works.
This is the first question I had when I got my Hero running Android 1.5, glad to hear it has persisted to gingerbread.
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Any way to set it to vibrate first then ring? Basically I'd like the first ring to be a vibrate instead and then go to ring. It was handy on my old Vogue. I could leave it on ring but if I felt the vibration I could use my BT before people were annoyed by my ringer. It made sure I was covered in case I didn't feel the vibrate but it also made it more polite for people around me.

boe said:
Any way to set it to vibrate first then ring? Basically I'd like the first ring to be a vibrate instead and then go to ring. It was handy on my old Vogue. I could leave it on ring but if I felt the vibration I could use my BT before people were annoyed by my ringer. It made sure I was covered in case I didn't feel the vibrate but it also made it more polite for people around me.
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No setting that I'm aware of. To hack it you could create a ringtone that is silence for 5 or 10 or 3 secods at the beginning, then comes in with sound. Kind of a pain and would work only for that specific ringtone, but it would work.

[Q] Custom Notifications not showing up?

I searched but haven't seen anyone posting this question specifically for the GNexus.
I copied 2 MP3 files into the /sdcard/Notifications folder and it does not show up in the Notification sounds picker. I noticed that hangout_ringtone.m4a is there, and that works.
When I rename or delete the Notifications folder, it comes back, along with the hangout_ringtone.m4a folder.
Does the file need to be in mpa format? I thought it works with MP3 as well.
Please advise. Thanks.

naddie said:
I searched but haven't seen anyone posting this question specifically for the GNexus.
I copied 2 MP3 files into the /sdcard/Notifications folder and it does not show up in the Notification sounds picker. I noticed that hangout_ringtone.m4a is there, and that works.
When I rename or delete the Notifications folder, it comes back, along with the hangout_ringtone.m4a folder.
Does the file need to be in mpa format? I thought it works with MP3 as well.
Please advise. Thanks.
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Ringtones must be placed at media-audio-notifications
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Herman76 said:
Ringtones must be placed at media-audio-notifications
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Thanks, but that didn't work either.

naddie said:
Thanks, but that didn't work either.
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Ringtones have to be put into the "Ringtones" folder
Notifications have to be put into the "Notifications" folder
If it still does not show up, just reboot your phone, and im pretty sure it will be there.
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If that does not work and you are rooted, just rename your mp3 to .ogg (ex. xxxx.ogg) and move it to /system/media/audio/notifications and reboot your phone. This will definitely work.

I understand that Ringtones need to be in the Ringtones folder, and Notifications go into the Notifications folder.
Still not recognizing them. I was stock 4.0.2 (Maguro, yakju), but decided to try a different ROM because stock was laggy. I'm now on AOKP build 21 (4.0.3). Nice ROM except for the pink unicorn.
Still the same problem though. It does not recognize anything in:
/sdcard/Notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/Notifications
However, it works in /sdcard/Ringtones except that I can't pick any custom "ringtones" as notification sounds for my calendar alerts and text message notification sound. It's specifically for the VoIP and phone call ringtones.
What the heck is going on here?

naddie said:
I searched but haven't seen anyone posting this question specifically for the GNexus.
I copied 2 MP3 files into the /sdcard/Notifications folder and it does not show up in the Notification sounds picker. I noticed that hangout_ringtone.m4a is there, and that works.
When I rename or delete the Notifications folder, it comes back, along with the hangout_ringtone.m4a folder.
Does the file need to be in mpa format? I thought it works with MP3 as well.
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Worked for me just fine dragging+dropping 2 different MP3s into Notifications and 1 into Ringtones. Stock 4.0.2 and OSX.

[Q] Hiding ringtones and voicemail from music player

I added some ringtones to the phone and when I use the music player, it's picking them up and playing them. Anyway to hide these? I also had a voicemail play too. That was bizarre. I had an older phone on Froyo and tried .nomedia but then the ringtone wouldn't work. Will it work on Gingerbread? Thanks!

I have my music and videos on my external SD card... and my internal stuff like ringtones on the internal SD card. That does the trick for me although I don't use the Music and Video apps that come with the phone.

Very simple. Create an empty file and name it ".nomedia" and put it in the directory that you want to hide. It will also hide any folders within that folder. For example, I put the .nomedia file in the root directory of the internal SD card. Rebooted the phone and ran gallery and everything on that card was invisible. It just tells the program to not scan here and anything deeper. It works for audio files too.

oscarthegrouch said:
Very simple. Create an empty file and name it ".nomedia" and put it in the directory that you want to hide. It will also hide any folders within that folder. For example, I put the .nomedia file in the root directory of the internal SD card. Rebooted the phone and ran gallery and everything on that card was invisible. It just tells the program to not scan here and anything deeper. It works for audio files too.
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Thanks but when I tried that on Froyo, it hid the files so completely that I couldn't even choose them as ringtones! Is that fixed on GB?

frankquattrone said:
I added some ringtones to the phone and when I use the music player, it's picking them up and playing them. Anyway to hide these? I also had a voicemail play too. That was bizarre. I had an older phone on Froyo and tried .nomedia but then the ringtone wouldn't work. Will it work on Gingerbread? Thanks!
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Find the ringtones and move them to the media folder. Place the ringtones in the correct folder in media. There's 3 folders in that one folder ringtones, notifications, and record. Make sure you place them in the correct one. For example if you put a ringtone in the notification folder when you try to set ringtone it won't be in the list of ringtones but in the notification list and would only be available to be set as a notification. Hope that helps!
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RayTrue04 said:
Find the ringtones and move them to the media folder. Place the ringtones in the correct folder in media. There's 3 folders in that one folder ringtones, notifications, and record. Make sure you place them in the correct one. For example if you put a ringtone in the notification folder when you try to set ringtone it won't be in the list of ringtones but in the notification list and would only be available to be set as a notification. Hope that helps!
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100% correct. Way Togo Ray. Was just going to answer but ya beat me to it.
move off root of sd.

RayTrue04 said:
Find the ringtones and move them to the media folder. Place the ringtones in the correct folder in media. There's 3 folders in that one folder ringtones, notifications, and record. Make sure you place them in the correct one. For example if you put a ringtone in the notification folder when you try to set ringtone it won't be in the list of ringtones but in the notification list and would only be available to be set as a notification. Hope that helps!
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Thanks! That's brilliant. So easy too. Worked great. I didn't have those folders so had to create them. Would have been nice if Android would automatically create them so you know where to put stuff. Or did it and I deleted them?

Indrid Cole said:
100% correct. Way Togo Ray. Was just going to answer but ya beat me to it.
move off root of sd.
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No prob lol
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frankquattrone said:
Thanks! That's brilliant. So easy too. Worked great. I didn't have those folders so had to create them. Would have been nice if Android would automatically create them so you know where to put stuff. Or did it and I deleted them?
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More than likely you deleted it. Its automatically created by Android
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+1
thanq for the help

Is there a way to make my own ringtone/text message sound?

Ideally I'd like to change my ringtone to a song and I'd like to make my text message notification the brief piano intro to outkast's roses. Is there any easy way to go about doing this?
Thanks!

in your sd card there are folders called 'Notifications' and 'Ringtones.' put the respective sound files (they should be in m4a format) where they belong. reboot and they should appear in the settings under sound.
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Btonic said:
Ideally I'd like to change my ringtone to a song and I'd like to make my text message notification the brief piano intro to outkast's roses. Is there any easy way to go about doing this?
Thanks!
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if you have the .mp3 file i suggest using ringdroid then edit the music file to where you want it to start and stop :good:

Ringoid
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Zedge maybe has what your looking for.
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MP3 ringtone maker works great for me. It's free, lets you search and download songs within the app and has a great editor for cropping in/out points. What more could you ask for?

if you need the ringtone to repeat, I believe it has to be in ogg format and you need to add a parameter to it in the id3tags to tell it to repeat. I did this on my ex's Galaxy Nexus S. I am sure there is more info on this in the general section of the android forums.
Here is a link to the topic I was talking about:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22551348&postcount=2

I've always used audacity on my pc to make the ringtone, then copy over to ringtones/notifications folder

BYOBret said:
I've always used audacity on my pc to make the ringtone, then copy over to ringtones/notifications folder
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but did you use the ogg format and add the metadata???? I know this works as I used it for the opening bars of Linkin Parks Numb for my ex and it works awesome.