I have downloaded some new notification sounds, but can't find them in Personalize > sounds to allocate them as email and text notifications. I'm sure I'm being dim - can someone please tell me how I can do this? Ta!
there in ur download folder on ur sd card, move them to notifaction folder to use them
could be in music. not a guarantee, because i downloaded a ringtone from at&t which never appeared anywhere, but something else i downloaded through the play store ended up in my music player, which actually seems logical, since the player has the capacity to create a ringtone.
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Can I use MP3s for alarms and SMS tones.
I thought these kind of features where standard on modern smart phones?
Or is there an app for that
i think theres a special app for that i have seen it somewhere on the cyrket website
dj kav said:
Can I use MP3s for alarms and SMS tones.
I thought these kind of features where standard on modern smart phones?
Or is there an app for that
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Have you tried setting it as a ringtone within the music app? Then from there you might be able to choose it in the alarms and notifications?
make a folder on your SD card (the root of it) called "Notifications" and "Ringtones" then copy your ringtones into one and notifications (SMS and Alarms) into the other. Then they appear in the menus. I had to google about to find this myself!
Alternatively you can set it through the music application!
You need to create specific folders on the SD. I have alarms on the SD root for my alarm tone and notifications for my message tone!
evildead4eva said:
make a folder on your SD card (the root of it) called "Notifications" and "Ringtones" then copy your ringtones into one and notifications (SMS and Alarms) into the other. Then they appear in the menus. I had to google about to find this myself!
Alternatively you can set it through the music application!
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/sdcard
/sdcard/Media
/sdcard/Media/Notifications
/sdcard/Media/Ringtones
/sdcard/Media/Alarms
That is how I have it setup so I only have one folder in the sdcard root for all of my alarms, notifications and ringtones.
Mine are set as...
/sdcard
/sdcard/Media
/sdcard/Notifications
/sdcard/Ringtones
/sdcard/Alarms
Thx, I will give it a go
Why can't they make things simple these days
SOrry to jump in, but cant someone just run over what i may be doing wrong.
On my SD Card i have the following folder setup :
sdcard/
sdcard/media
sdcard/media/audio
sdcard/media/notifications
sdcard/media/alarms
sdcard/media/ringtones
and within the notifications folder i have put an MP3.
BUT it doesnt show up in SETTINGS > SOUND & DISPLAY > NOTIFICATION SOUND
Nor does it show up in ChompSMS or SMSPopup.
I have alos tried to create the folders in the root, with no luck.
I know im beign blind, what am i missing.
Nice one, was wondering how to do this.
hot-fuzz I have the exact same set-up as you, works perfectly for me.
Have you tried with a different audio file?
Just download 'Ringdroid' from the marketplace and you can edit your mp3's in the fly and gives you the option to save as tone/notification etc..
OK, sorted it.
The file will only show up if i put ".mp3" at the end of the file, otherwise it doesnt show up.
Thanks for the headsup on Ringdroid, might give that a bash.
I had some problems but at last it is working with the format
sdcard/
sdcard/media
sdcard/media/audio
sdcard/media/notifications
sdcard/media/alarms
sdcard/media/ringtones
I noticed there was a similar layout in the phone's ROM
system/
system/media
system/media/audio
system/media/notifications
system/media/alarms
system/media/ringtones
system/media/ui
There was some Facebook mp4 file in that ringtones folder.
Can anyone tell me how i can put my personal ringtone in the phones memory so it appears in their ringtone list?
Also the same with text message notifications?
I'm having a problem where if I select my own mp3 ringtone, it will play the last mp3 i've been listening to as my ringtone as opposed to the actual ringtone i want.
Thanks
I have mine stored in /sdcard/Media/audio/ringtones
ringtones go in /system/media/audio/ringtones/ ive not tried adding my own but i suppose you could either add them to the rom .zip before flashing or push them to that location using adb
Look for "Android System Information" in the Market.
Install and open it, then look under the system tab, and expand/open the environment section.
You will get to see a list of the folder variables where the system looks for media.
In case a Cooker has changed something specific, these should show the right location.
So I have a few customer ring tones that I transfered over from my EVO 4G. They are in the Mp3 format and I am able to set the ring tone on an individual level, but I cant set it as a default ringtone.
So how does one set a customer ringtone that is an MP3 as the default ringtone?
Notifications as while?
Much Obliged for all of your help in advance.
Go to settings, then sound. You'll be able to set phone ringtone as well as notification ringtone.
I should have said that I have already tried that. There is no option that lets me pick the sounds that are on my SD card.
For example when I go into my contacts list and go to ringtone, there is three options, Default Ringtone, Select sounds from My Files and Phone Ringtone.
Now when I go to Sounds it just gives me a bunch of generic sound files. Nothing from my selection.
you just move the sound file to the /media folder using any file manager app. Then it should show up in the list of sounds when you set your ringtone. The same steps can be done for notification sounds. If you're confused, there's plenty of youtube video tutorials showing you step by step information.
I do it this all the time, I create custom ringtones with Audacity (cut out the chorus and fade the track in and out so it sounds cleaner). Right now I have the Jetsons door bell as my notification sound
Just a wild guess that you didn't put your custom ringtones in the proper file location on your SD card.
You need to create a folder called "media" (no quotes). Inside that folder create a folder called "audio". Inside that folder create 3 separate folders called "alarms", "notifications" and "ringtones".
Place your custom ringtones in the ringtones folder, reboot (not sure if that's necessary) and your customs will show up.
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Thanks alot guys. That was exactly my problem, I did not have the media folder.
Wasn't exactly sure where it should have gone so I used ringdroid to create another Ringtone and it place the media folder along with the Ringtone folder on my SD card.
Always amazes me how simple a problem can be resolved if you have one price of information.
Thanks again. You are the best.
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Mship said:
Thanks alot guys. That was exactly my problem, I did not have the media folder.
Wasn't exactly sure where it should have gone so I used ringdroid to create another Ringtone and it place the media folder along with the Ringtone folder on my SD card.
Always amazes me how simple a problem can be resolved if you have one price of information.
Thanks again. You are the best.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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DO I have to have the same ringtones on all the folders so I can place custom ringtones in say text email etc..?
thanks
if not where are the text ringtones located at? I did a search by name and nothing came up though I have ring tones to choose from
thank you again
You can always download RINGDROID from the market. It lets you "trim" your mp3's and set them as default/contact ring tone or notification.
So far that is the best way I found to work in my phone.
Hello,
I'm trying to add some of my ringtones to the G3, and can't get the phone to use them. As usual with previous phones, I just copy some mp3 in my Ringtones folder, but they don't appear in the ringtones settings. In the settings I can add a new ringtone, but it tries to get it from my library, and I don't want them in there as they're not actual songs.
Is there something I don't get? How do you guys use custom ringtones?
I could probably add them to my library, then add them as ringtones, then remove them from the library, but that seems tedious and I'm not even sure that would work.
(PS: I'm not rooted yet, I'll wait a few weeks to have a good feel about the stock rom before I go into serious tweaking)
Protagoras said:
Hello,
I'm trying to add some of my ringtones to the G3, and can't get the phone to use them. As usual with previous phones, I just copy some mp3 in my Ringtones folder, but they don't appear in the ringtones settings. In the settings I can add a new ringtone, but it tries to get it from my library, and I don't want them in there as they're not actual songs.
Is there something I don't get? How do you guys use custom ringtones?
I could probably add them to my library, then add them as ringtones, then remove them from the library, but that seems tedious and I'm not even sure that would work.
(PS: I'm not rooted yet, I'll wait a few weeks to have a good feel about the stock rom before I go into serious tweaking)
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I was surprised to see this issue as well--I'm not sure why LG would intentionally not allow additional ringtones (and notifications).
I'm rooted, and what I ended up doing was copying the ogg files into /system/media/audio/ringtones. Even then, the new ones took a while to show up in the ringtone list--I assume a media scan was needed.
I have noticed, however, that new notifications and ringtones downloaded through Zedge do appear in the list.
On my d850 I can add custom ringtones, I didn't even have to copy them into my ringtones folder. I hit add in sound>ringtone and it finds all media on my sdcard... Even mp4 videos
eelton said:
I was surprised to see this issue as well--I'm not sure why LG would intentionally not allow additional ringtones (and notifications).
I'm rooted, and what I ended up doing was copying the ogg files into /system/media/audio/ringtones. Even then, the new ones took a while to show up in the ringtone list--I assume a media scan was needed.
I have noticed, however, that new notifications and ringtones downloaded through Zedge do appear in the list.
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Actually you're right, the ringtones I had manually copies into the ringtone folder did eventually appear in the list. I guess as you said a media rescan was needed.
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Actually you're right, the ringtones I had manually copies into the ringtone folder did eventually appear in the list. I guess as you said a media rescan was needed.
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Hey,
I fixed this issue on my phone by going to Settings -> General (if you have "tab view" on) -> Apps -> All -> Media Storage and then clearing the data by clicking on the "Clear data" button. After that, I simply rebooted my phone and all of my ringtones and notification sounds appear in my apps (e.g. Hangouts, Google Play Music, Contacts, etc).
There are apps on Google Play that is suppose to do this for you; however, the first three that I tried force close on me so, I went this route.
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Hey,
I fixed this issue on my phone by going to Settings -> General (if you have "tab view" on) -> Apps -> All -> Media Storage and then clearing the data by clicking on the "Clear data" button. After that, I simply rebooted my phone and all of my ringtones and notification sounds appear in my apps (e.g. Hangouts, Google Play Music, Contacts, etc).
There are apps on Google Play that is suppose to do this for you; however, the first three that I tried force close on me so, I went this route.
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Using this method erased the cache completely and left me initially with an empty list of sounds/ringtones/notifications so I was a bit startled, but the returned a few seconds after.
However, the only sounds I can get working are .ogg files, .mp3 do not show up in the lists.
Time to get rootin' I guess but haven't found a root-method yet as I've been so ignorant to install all LG OTA updates and now I'm at software version V20h-EUR-XX.
Actually, having said that, there is a "+" in the top right corner which does see the .mp3 files and enables me to select them.
Sweet. It's worked. Thanks
Wow, this is maddening! I've read a lot of threads about ringtones and sounds but none seem to acknowledge what is happening on my VS986 11a phone. I have put custom notification and ringtone files in the appropriate system folders. In fact, I put the same files in both ringtones and notifications folders. The files appear there and will show up when I try to change the notification sound for a specific app. I can select and hear them as ringtones but not as notification sounds. When you select one of the custom sounds for an app, it plays the system default sound, Crystal.
I initially put them in as mp3 files. I noticed that all system sounds are ogg files, so I changed them to ogg. Still no joy. When I play the files from the system folder with SE Music Player, the files play just fine. They simply won't play as app notification sounds. What gives?