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ringtone

How do you set music from your library as a ringtone????
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I just set mine from poweramp.
maybe some file explorers will let you too, not sure.

brooklyn718941 said:
How do you set music from your library as a ringtone????
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I use Tone Picker from Play... (starting to get used to that name)

Unless you use a third party app or custom ROM with additional options, I think the only way to do it is to save the song(s) you want to use in the Ringtones folder on your phone. That's where I always save my custom ringtones, and they always show up in the list to pick from when selecting a ringtone in the settings.

brooklyn718941 said:
How do you set music from your library as a ringtone????
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Can just use one of many 3rd party apps. Or simply connect to a computer and drag-n-drop the files into the "Ringtones" folder.

Low Battery Notification Sound

Is there any way to disable or atleast change the sound for the low battery notification? It's very effective at getting my attention but it's incredibly obnoxious. And seems to be so much louder than the rest of the phone.
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dberend said:
Is there any way to disable or atleast change the sound for the low battery notification? It's very effective at getting my attention but it's incredibly obnoxious. And seems to be so much louder than the rest of the phone.
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Its in the system/media/audio/ui folder. TW_Low_Battery.ogg. You could rename another one of the sounds and replace or make a silent ogg file and replace.
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here it is sir! if ur device is rooted u will do this step.
first download "Root Browser" on playstore.
second,download a mp3 converter to ur windows pc.
then edit the .mp3 file u have chosen to change ur low bat notif to "LowBattery.ogg"
then convert the mp3 file to .ogg file.
plug ur phone to pc and paste it in ur phones sdcard
then go to Root Browser the one u've downloaded earlier in it u should find this system/media/audio/ui folder/LowBattery.ogg
select LowBattery.ogg (the original file)move it where u can remember
then go to ur phone's sdcard (still on ur Root Browser) cut and paste the one u have converted at the system/media/audio/ui folder.
then thats it. voila
mine has Jarvis on iron man,saying "you are now running on emergency backup power sir" haha
hope this one helped u.

darby0925 said:
mine has Jarvis on iron man,saying "you are now running on emergency backup power sir" haha
hope this one helped u.
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Okay dude, you have gotta share that !
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hlxanthus said:
Okay dude, you have gotta share that !
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just download that tone "jarvis_lowbat.mp3" at zedge
then follow the steps above man..thanks :good:

If you're looking for a good converter, VLC media player works very well for stuff like this. It's cross platform and it will play any file worth playing.

as i pasted the new *.ogg file, it says operation failed... what should i do now?? thanks.. ^_^

Peter025 said:
as i pasted the new *.ogg file, it says operation failed... what should i do now?? thanks.. ^_^
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Make sure you have root level write permissions.

I converted the .mp3 to .ogg, deleted the original, then pasted the new renamed file to the correct folder, but I'm getting silence. Any ideas?
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derkjervis said:
I converted the .mp3 to .ogg, deleted the original, then pasted the new renamed file to the correct folder, but I'm getting silence. Any ideas?
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Also I did this all from my phone instead of using my PC. Would that have any bearing on the issue?

Whatsapp Audio

Hi
is there way to make Google play music not pick up whatsapp audio , get a lot of them and music player keeps picking them its annoying T_T.

berz said:
Hi
is there way to make Google play music not pick up whatsapp audio , get a lot of them and music player keeps picking them its annoying T_T.
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Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
Then profit.
Cheers!
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el_charlie said:
Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
Then profit.
Cheers!
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Will this mean that whatsapp notifications won't have any audio ever?
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tobynexus said:
Will this mean that whatsapp notifications won't have any audio ever?
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No, you'll still be able to play the audios from within whatsapp.
They won't appear in the music player, though. That's what you want.
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file? how?
el_charlie said:
Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
How to create file in galaxy s4. I know I can create folder. but don't see any option for creating a file.
HOW?
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Thnx

pulseps said:
el_charlie said:
Put a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp audio folder and reboot.
How to create file in galaxy s4. I know I can create folder. but don't see any option for creating a file.
HOW?
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Try to download file manager app like ES File Explorer or Astro. You should find a create file option there.
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thanks
@el_charlie Thanks man.. I was getting annoyed with this problem for quite some time now.. ur advice helped. thanks.. cheers

Strange behavior while pouring musics to my Galaxy Nexus

If you asked me this looks very odd. But when I attempt to copy some music albums from my PC down to my Galaxy Nexus, something strange happens. No matter what I do all the musics get moved to the root of the Music folder although they are originally stored in separate folders.
I even tried to copy the files into a very different folder completely apart from the default Music folder but the same thing happens every time.
I wonder why is this happening?
I'm using an Ubuntu powered box.

NoobSibot said:
If you asked me this looks very odd. But when I attempt to copy some music albums from my PC down to my Galaxy Nexus, something strange happens. No matter what I do all the musics get moved to the root of the Music folder although they are originally stored in separate folders.
I even tried to copy the files into a very different folder completely apart from the default Music folder but the same thing happens every time.
I wonder why is this happening?
I'm using an Ubuntu powered box.
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Are you using the MTP protocol for copying?

Petrovski80 said:
Are you using the MTP protocol for copying?
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Yes I do.

NoobSibot said:
Yes I do.
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MTP is known for it's buggy implementation. I recommend using adb for file transfers (see the link in my signature).

Petrovski80 said:
MTP is known for it's buggy implementation. I recommend using adb for file transfers (see the link in my signature).
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It doesn't really seem like a bug to me. It's more like someone's put it there intentionally.
Thanks anyway. Seems I have to dig deeper for answers. :good:

Why don't you just sync your music files with your WMP to your phone? It's always working perfect for me. Regards
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teddy_irish said:
Why don't you just sync your music files with your WMP to your phone? It's always working perfect for me. Regards
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Because WMP supposedly doesn't run very well on Ubuntu.

teddy_irish said:
Why don't you just sync your music files with your WMP to your phone? It's always working perfect for me. Regards
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Petrovski80 is right. WMP is not currently an option on ubuntu. I guess I just have to stick with command line for now.

Music - Please Help before I beat myself to death with industrial grade aluminum

So, apparently none of the stock music players give any option to add local files/folders?
WHAT THE **** is the reason for this? Have to purchase every track from HTC or Google play to listen on my device?
Added songs to device in standard mp3 format. Can not figure out anyway to play them without downloading some ****ty third party file manager, navigating through the cluster **** android folder tree and selecting them each time I want to play.
Please help before I dig out my UT starcom PPC because it's more user friendly than the 'best phone you can buy'
I hope I'm a total noob idiot and there is something preposterously easy I missed. Please help.
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I put it in the /sdcard/music folder and it's detected automatically... Though I don't think it even needs to be in that folder for Android to detect it. Not sure where you're going wrong.
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What format files are you putting on the phone?
My Sprint version finds all my local music (in MP3 format) on the SD card fine with both Google Music and HTC Music Apps.

I just created a 'music' directory on my sd card and filled it up. I have a mix of mp3 and flac in there. Music player found it and played.... you don't have to buy from Google.
For that sh** you want Apple.

bigjodaflo said:
So, apparently none of the stock music players give any option to add local files/folders?
WHAT THE **** is the reason for this? Have to purchase every track from HTC or Google play to listen on my device?
Added songs to device in standard mp3 format. Can not figure out anyway to play them without downloading some ****ty third party file manager, navigating through the cluster **** android folder tree and selecting them each time I want to play.
Please help before I dig out my UT starcom PPC because it's more user friendly than the 'best phone you can buy'
I hope I'm a total noob idiot and there is something preposterously easy I missed. Please help.
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How did you add them? If you are using a wireless transfer like ftp or one of the apps out there, it may not work. Let me know how you added and i'll tell you how to fix.

Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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Fixed. Thanks. There is something wrong with my folder tree. Will only recognize files if they are in /music. Problem is that third party 'file manager' can't read the storage on my phone properly, created/displaying 3 to 4 copies of diff folders, sd cards (im only using internal storage), etc. Had to try 4 diff /music folders to find the right one.
Is there a native file Explorer that I missed? I've noticed that some programs are in the phone without having icons in launcher. 'Voice recorder' is one. I can open it with google now voice, but it shows up nowhere in my launchers.
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bigjodaflo said:
Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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Simply use a file manager and move everything you downloaded to another directory and move it back. When you extracted the files, the system never implemented them like if you were to transfer using windows or aft on a mac or htc sync. The system doesn't actually know they are there. If this does not work, dowload that rar on your computer and manually move music to the device, it will pick them up automatically

bigjodaflo said:
Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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What format are the music files in?
Are you sure you actually extracted them?
I wouldn't keep music in "Downloads" that seems like an awkward place to keep it and might be treated specially.
I consider downloads a "Temp" folder that I can wipe any time because it fills up with junk over time.
Also are you rooted? There are issues of 3rd party apps accessing the external SD Card.
You may have two /downloads one on external SD card and one on internal SD card.
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Simply use a file manager and move everything you downloaded to another directory and move it back. When you extracted the files, the system never implemented them like if you were to transfer using windows or aft on a mac or htc sync. The system doesn't actually know they are there. If this does not work, dowload that rar on your computer and manually move music to the device, it will pick them up automatically
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That's nonsense. That sounds like you never really extracted them. And when you "copy" them you are actually extracting them.
Once extracted they should be EXACTLY like you copied them there. If you are doing it right.
Some compression formats and browsers make it look like they are extracted, but they are not. You are just browsing within the RAR or ZIP file.
You need to explicitly "Extract" to somewhere else.
The best test is. Delete the RAR file. If you still see the files then they are extracted and no need to copy them back and forth.
But again. I think downloads is a bad place to keep your music.

Still ridiculous to not allow me to manage my own library.
Let Apple dumb it down for everyone. We aren't buying their products for a reason, and this is it.
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They were definitely extracted and moved to several locations. Each time (before I found the 'correct /music) I could use a file manager to force open them in a media player, but they were never added to the library until copied into the magic music folder.
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Thanks again for all the help. XDAers = $$
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You can get poweramp if you want to manually manage directories. There is no magic music folder btw, stock app picks up any folder but i'm glad you got it working.

If you do get PowerAmp, make sure you untick everything except your Music folder (under Settings>Folders & Library), or you'll have ringtones and notifications show up, too.