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Notifications Question

Quick question: is it possible to add custom sounds to stock notification panel? By that I mean add a song to the alarm choices... I know how to do this on my X but I'm asking for a friend who is a Evo user TIA
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I'm looking through my system directories right now to figure out where these sound files are located. If I can find them, I bet we can replace them.
EDIT: One easy way is to just drag your MP3 of choice to /media/audio/notifications on your SD card. It will show up in the list of sounds for notifications, so you can set a custom text message or email sound. Still working on the alarm.
EDIT 2: From another thread:
SniperDroid said:
Media>Audio>Alarms Place your MP3 there and you should be good to go.
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Trying it now.
EDIT 3: Yup, that did it. Just make a new folder called "alarms" on your SD card under /media/audio and put your MP3 in there. Thanks, I had been wondering about this as well.

Thanks you fckin RAWK just KNEW I was gonna get flamed for this post on the DROID devices it's pretty simple to add sounds but, I have no knowledge of Evo but wanna help a bigger "n00b" than me if I can
SilverZero said:
I'm looking through my system directories right now to figure out where these sound files are located. If I can find them, I bet we can replace them.
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Just to cover my bases, check my edited post above, it does work.

That's how it's done on DROID basically... So it adds to alarms also on Evo?
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Yes, I put a new MP3 in my new "alarms" folder and it showed up in my alarms options list for a new alarm. I also put one in "notifications" and was able to set it as my default notification sound (texts, voicemail, email, etc). But they are independent of each other - having an MP3 in "notifications" does not put it in the alarms menu.

[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.

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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

Ringtones

So I haven't needed to find a ringtone for a phone in a long time. Typically I can find one I like but all of the ringtones on this phone make me embarrassed to have ring in public. Any suggestions on sites or apps for some standard ringtones?

I like zedge in the market. Its got alot of different ringtones, notification tones and wallpapers. You should be able to find something thats not embarrassing.lol There really are some ****ty ringtones on this phone.
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Chevyboxer said:
So I haven't needed to find a ringtone for a phone in a long time. Typically I can find one I like but all of the ringtones on this phone make me embarrassed to have ring in public. Any suggestions on sites or apps for some standard ringtones?
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Try soundjax.com and search for something you like

I'd recommend ringdroid to create your own from songs you like, or any other sound file

+1 for zedge
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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.

[Q] Ringtones and notification sounds

I don't really like selections of ringtones and notification sounds that come on this device. I found a file containing all the stock Android ringtones and notification sounds, and they are all in the .ogg format like the files on the phone already. After rooting and copying the files over to the media folder the files don't seem to play. I tested the files on my PC and they play fine. Do i have to do any type of conversion to make this work?
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I got the sounds for this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1162919

Did you trying giving them the same permissions as the original ringtones?

malinois16 said:
Did you trying giving them the same permissions as the original ringtones?
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Thanks that did it.

You shouldn't need to convert it. I use ring droid social to edit ringtones from music I have on SD card and DL notifications from websites
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