Stumped...Ringtone Assignment - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

K...so am totally stumped with something seemingly so simple. I can't seem to get a ringtone assigned to specific contact. Odd.
For example, I assigned my wife the Angry Birds theme song...yet it still rings as default ringtone.
Someone enlighten me...perhaps I'm an idiot?

How did you assign it? I assigned my wife a ringtone by opening the music app, then long pressing a song, then selecting "set as" , then caller ringtone.

chazglenn3 said:
How did you assign it? I assigned my wife a ringtone by opening the music app, then long pressing a song, then selecting "set as" , then caller ringtone.
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Well...THAT worked. Still odd tho, as normally I could just assign as an option directly through the contact itself. Thanks!

chazglenn3 said:
How did you assign it? I assigned my wife a ringtone by opening the music app, then long pressing a song, then selecting "set as" , then caller ringtone.
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Does that mean Samsung broke Android, and you can't assign a ringtone from inside the contact anymore? That's actually a little annoying...

Bandage said:
K...so am totally stumped with something seemingly so simple. I can't seem to get a ringtone assigned to specific contact. Odd.
For example, I assigned my wife the Angry Birds theme song...yet it still rings as default ringtone.
Someone enlighten me...perhaps I'm an idiot?
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Press a contact.
Press Menu Button, then Edit.
Scroll down and you'll see Ringtone, press the arrow.
If you already have the ringtones on your SD card in the Media file structure, press "Phone Ringtone". If you have the sounds stored someplace else press "..from My Files"

You can do in editing when the contact is selected

Vegasden said:
Press a contact.
Press Menu Button, then Edit.
Scroll down and you'll see Ringtone, press the arrow.
If you already have the ringtones on your SD card in the Media file structure, press "Phone Ringtone". If you have the sounds stored someplace else press "..from My Files"
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ilostmypistons said:
You can do in editing when the contact is selected
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Had already done this...that was my issue. They were assigned, but not working.

I am having a similar ringtone issue. First I have installed handcent. I told it to use handcent as the ringtone pocket. It does not use the handcent ringtone picker. So I copied my ringtones from the external sdcard to the internal one into a folder called media/audio/ringtones. I rebooted the phone and went to pick a ringtone and none of them are showing up. Some of them are ogg files and some are mp3 files. Since I am rooted, I moved them to the/system/media/audio/ringtones folder and they still don't show up. Any ideas what is going on? I am only able to change ringtones from viewing the contact. When I go to menu and select edit, there is no Ringtone item with an arrow beside it.

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Can use custom Notification Sound, but not Ringtone

I copied a group of .wav files that I use for custom rings and txt message sounds and such to my SD card. The files show up as options when I set the "notification" sound, but do not show up when I try to set the phone ringtone. Am I missing something here? Is there a special place I have to copy the files in order to use them as "phone" ringtones?
Just find the file in the music app, open the file you want, hit menu and select "set as ringtone"
Thanks! It's weird that you have to do that in such a roundabout way.
how are you setting them for text message tones?
try Rings Extended app
lets u choose any audio file on your card to set for a ringer or anything else
havent used ring extender, but ringdroid lets you take clips out of your music as well and then save them as whatever type of notification you want.

Silent Ringtone Selected

My Phone seems to have itself stuck with the Ringtone on silent. Every setting says its up. Audio Manager has all the volumes up. Message tones work and so do system / media and alerts. But the ringtone will not make a noise..
When I press the volume up button on the home screen.. it comes up with Silent Ringtone Selected..... Is there any way to get rid of this?
Thanks in advance
Solved....
Just Wipe data + cache
reload ROM and restore all apps back from default and bingo...
I know this may seem over kill but it works and I really need my ringtone on the phone (wife due to go into labour any day soon)
Thanks
Sound Issue
Hello, same problem, NO SOUND.
Which data do i clear? and what cache?
Thanks a great deal
Try fixing it with "AudioManager Widget" from the android market.
nihilist_ said:
Audio Manager has all the volumes up.
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3722 said:
Try fixing it with "AudioManager Widget" from the android market.
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Lol. If people would read, this forum would be so much more usefull.
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Silent Ringtone
I'm actually having this same problem, and it's 2 years later. I believe that I have found the solution though.
I'll start out by saying I got my Droid Pro about a week ago.
I downloaded the "Voice Recorder" app by Mamoru Tokashiki.
I would record audio for ringtones (generally song snippets because I'm too lazy, or stupid, or I like to make more work for myself than downloading the actual ringtones). I would retitled the files (.3gp) and hit "Set as Ringtone." Then if I toggled my volume rocker it would say Silent Ringtone Selected.
I came to these forums and immediately knew that I didn't want to root my phone or do anything like that. So a lot of people suggested it was the software. I ditched the software and downloaded "Tape-a-talk" by Markus Drosser. It records in both .3gp and .wav. I use the .wavs because they sound so much better.
It worked for me once, but then I started getting the same message. It couldn't have been a problem with the software because I ran two different apps. It's something with the way that the android system saves the files.
I tinkered around with a process that is working for me now (it involves a lot of turning on and off which is annoying, so get prepared).
1. Open recording app (I use tape-a-talk) and record your audio. It shouldn't matter the duration (I thought I was getting the silent ringtone error because my files were too long, but that's not the case).
2. Immediately set the recording (labeled with some generic date like 03-19-2012.wav) as your ringtone. Toggle the volume rocker to check if you get the silent ringtone selected. (If you do, then try re-recording as .3gp. If that still doesn't work then this process probably won't work because something else major is wrong with your phone).
3. Turn off the phone.
4. Power back up (30s downtime).
5. Open up Settings>Sounds>Phone Ringtone. If 03-19-2012 is set as your ringtone then you should be pretty okay. Go back to the home page and toggle the volume rocker again to double check.
6. Turn off the phone then power it back up.
7. Go back into your recording app and find the generic file, rename it to what you want.
8. Set the newly titled .wav or .3gp as your ringtone.
9. Toggle the rocker to make sure it saved properly.
10. If it did, then turn your phone off. Turn the phone back on and open Settings>Sounds>Phone Ringtone.
If everything worked it should have your ringtone set and saved with the new file name.
Then you're free to enjoy.
That process works for me.
Some people may still claim it is the software, but in my experience it is a matter of how your phone ends up saving the recorded files.
This information is useless if you're talking about downloading a ringtone, btw.
Hope this helps anyone in the future.
solution
i had the same problem so i searched in every option from settings
so here are the steps...
settings -> sound -> ringtone -> phone ringtone
when you open the "phone ringtone" you will see that your phone is set on "silent". well all you have to do is to choose another ringtone from that list, or, if you want a song from your music player you just set a random ringtone from the list and then go in "music" and set as ringtone your favourite song.
hope it helped ^_^

How to set custom messaging sounds?

Hello,
I've changed my default ringtone for all incoming calls with a louder old phone type ringer. I've never changed sms tones before.
Can I have specific sms tones for specific incoming sources? Eg. all friends on one tone and a special one for my office? None of the tones are loud enough for my environment and I do get a lot of texts from the office and for whatever reason they insist on texting emergency requests instead of calling me.
Thanks
Download Zedge from the market then download notification tones and after you download them and hit the set button in the app you have the option to set that tone for whatever you want.
sent from my GSM Galaxy Nexus
You can hook your phone up to your computer and put any sound you want into the "Notifications" folder. Those will then show up when you go to select them.
You can assign different apps to ring differently, and assign specific contacts a ringtone. Not sure about groups, though...
thephoneguyusa said:
Download Zedge from the market then download notification tones and after you download them and hit the set button in the app you have the option to set that tone for whatever you want.
sent from my GSM Galaxy Nexus
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Thanks - I've installed Zedge, I then went to my phone system options, sound, default notification. If I select zedge, it says there are no tones. Is there a place to load it on my phone from my computer? I don't need any katy perry songs, just a really loud ring or buzzer. I put a custom sound in my internal storage notifications folder - I'd like to make that the default sound for only one sender of texts, everything else could have the default sound.
martonikaj said:
You can hook your phone up to your computer and put any sound you want into the "Notifications" folder. Those will then show up when you go to select them.
You can assign different apps to ring differently, and assign specific contacts a ringtone. Not sure about groups, though...
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Thanks I tried a few different sounds but no matter what I pick when a new text comes in I only get a very quiet ding dong type sound.
boe said:
Thanks I tried a few different sounds but no matter what I pick when a new text comes in I only get a very quiet ding dong type sound.
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So you're saying when you go into Settings > Sounds > Default notification, no matter what you set it to your incoming notification is different? Even with stock sounds?
Have you gone into Messaging > Settings > Choose ringtone, and select "Default ringtone" from the scrolling list. Does it change? It should play the sound when you touch it.
martonikaj said:
So you're saying when you go into Settings > Sounds > Default notification, no matter what you set it to your incoming notification is different? Even with stock sounds?
Have you gone into Messaging > Settings > Choose ringtone, and select "Default ringtone" from the scrolling list. Does it change? It should play the sound when you touch it.
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Yes- no matter what sound I choose even stock sounds - I get a double chime - kind of like ding dong. I'm using full stock Verizon GN. No rooting.
I can change the default ringtone for phone calls.
I did also reboot after changing the default and I still get the ding dong type sound which is not the sound I set for it. The sound it makes is Pollux for incoming SMS messages but I've tried to set it to several others such as even vega or proxima but it always makes the Pollux sound.
I'm going through
- settings
- Sound
- default notification
Is there some place else I should be going to to change the sms incoming text sound?

why is my ringtone reverting to the default?

This is a strange one.
I have uploaded some songs onto my phone's memory (not SD card) and set one of them to be my ringtone for all contacts.
It works OK for a while, and then suddenly when someone calls me, I hear the default ringtone of the device (instead of the one I set)...
Then, when I go to the device's Sound & Notifications settings, I see that the ringtone that's displayed as the selected one is still the one I manually selected, but when i try to play it, it plays the default phone ringtone instead.
I can only get the real song to play after i remove it from the list and re-add it.
Any ideas?
I already turned the Ringtone ID setting off, and I have no SD card installed on the device.
bushaaya said:
This is a strange one.
I have uploaded some songs onto my phone's memory (not SD card) and set one of them to be my ringtone for all contacts.
It works OK for a while, and then suddenly when someone calls me, I hear the default ringtone of the device (instead of the one I set)...
Then, when I go to the device's Sound & Notifications settings, I see that the ringtone that's displayed as the selected one is still the one I manually selected, but when i try to play it, it plays the default phone ringtone instead.
I can only get the real song to play after i remove it from the list and re-add it.
Any ideas?
I already turned the Ringtone ID setting off, and I have no SD card installed on the device.
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try and see if the contact who called you is not a favorite contact(go the contact ticket and you will a star at the top see if he is checked)
lg does diffrent ringtone to favorite contacts...
xzfzx said:
try and see if the contact who called you is not a favorite contact(go the contact ticket and you will a star at the top see if he is checked)
lg does diffrent ringtone to favorite contacts...
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It happened both when saved contacts and unsaved numbers called me.
Thing is that when I go to the Sound & Notifications settings, my selected ringtone now plays the default ringtone instead of the correct song. -:0
My selected ringtone is called "Stone the Crow".
When I go to the Sound & Notifications settings I see that this song is still selected, but when I click to play it, it plays the default device ringtone instead of Stone the Crow...
bushaaya said:
It happened both when saved contacts and unsaved numbers called me.
Thing is that when I go to the Sound & Notifications settings, my selected ringtone now plays the default ringtone instead of the correct song. -:0
My selected ringtone is called "Stone the Crow".
When I go to the Sound & Notifications settings I see that this song is still selected, but when I click to play it, it plays the default device ringtone instead of Stone the Crow...
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well that is really weird i have no clue but maybe...its the format of the song? have you tried another song with another format?
xzfzx said:
well that is really weird i have no clue but maybe...its the format of the song? have you tried another song with another format?
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The songs are standard mp3 format, but I'll give it a shot and notify -
Ok, so I think the issue is solved, following your suggestion.
There are several possible reasons, in case any one else ever has the same issue.
My original files' extensions were in caps (MP3) and were transferred to the phone via Airdroid to the Music folder.
My fix was that i converted my MP3 to a FLAC file and saved it without caps. I also saved the file in the download folder instead of the music folder.
For now it has been over 24 hours without the ringtone being reset, so I'm guessing it was either the MP3 format, the extension or the music folder...
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Ringtones and Notification tones

Hi
Is there any way to import tones from other devices?
I put some inside the Ringtones folder of Internal Storage but I am not able to select them on telephone or Message apps.
Many thanks...and have a nice Christmas
When choosing a tone, at the upper part there is a "+" button, which lets you add any sound you want
winol said:
When choosing a tone, at the upper part there is a "+" button, which lets you add any sound you want
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Yes, it works for phone call ringtone, not for message notification sound.
But many thanks for your help, at least I changed the phone call sound
For sms, you need to go to settings,sounds,notifications, there, all sounds you put in the folder "notification" will be available for choosing

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