Guys, please direct my old head towards adding custom notifications to text, email etc, that I have on my external SD card in mp3 format. It was easy to add my ring tone as that one had add on the bottom of the page. None of the other notifications have that.
Had no problems with my original Note. Is JB so different? Or did my old head forgot how I did it on GB.
Your help greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
I haven't tried it with files on the external SD but for my notifications (also .mp3) I just put them in a folder called "Notifications" on the internal memory. It may work on the external SD too, I'm not sure.
Yes just create folder on external sd and call it ringtones or notifacations..if that dont work copy ur mp3 to system media then audio copy in there
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I had problems for some reason until I used Ringdroid.
Not sure what - permissions or something?
- Frank
Many thanks for all your replies. After going to my external memory card and finding the relevant mp3 files and ticking them, I did eventually find the copy button. It was then an easy task to paste them in to my notification folder.
Think my problem was to find the copy and paste button/tab in the first place.
Many thanks again.
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Can somebody tell me why I have double ringtones in cm7.3?? How do I get rid of the doubles?? Thanks dudes
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For some reason it may be seeing removed ringtones, or for some reason the files are there twice in the system folder..
Do you have a copy in a media folder on your SD card?
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Thanks for your guys help! Lol I'm such a dork ha I had an unzip file on my SD card and the phone read the media from that too haha
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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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thanq for the help
Greetings:
I have 16 GB of songs in my Micro SD cards located in many directories and sub-directories. Is it possible to search through the Micro SD card for a specific song and delete it from the phone? I am able to use the Google search setting and find the songs but I don't see any options to delete it. I have to pull out the Micro SD plug it into my notebook and delete it using Window explorer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
pwanghk said:
Greetings:
I have 16 GB of songs in my Micro SD cards located in many directories and sub-directories. Is it possible to search through the Micro SD card for a specific song and delete it from the phone? I am able to use the Google search setting and find the songs but I don't see any options to delete it. I have to pull out the Micro SD plug it into my notebook and delete it using Window explorer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Use astro or any other file manager
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Like the above poster said any file manager will do the trick, download from the play store, but chances are you probably have something on your phone ex.
"My files".
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i used file manager and i believe linda manager will work as well.
Just go to the stock music player and long press the song, it will give you the option to delete
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I use root explorer but astro works to and file explorer
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Thank you all for your help.
I try both Astro and ES file manager. I like the fastness and Astro interface but I am unable to find a way to delete the mp3 files after the search result. If I touch and hold the files two options pops up, "Open file" and "Open Directory". As opposed to the easy ES file manager, the interface is so so, the search is not as quick as Astro. But at least the delete option is there. I just need to touch, hold the files and a menu pops up with a "Delete" option.
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Just go to the stock music player and long press the song, it will give you the option to delete
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I have two music player app on my phone. One icon with a headphone which doesn't have a delete option. The other icon is a CD with a music note. This one does have the delete option. However, I think that it just removes from the playlist but not deletes the files. Because I do a search after the deletion and the file is still there.
Use storage analyser, available for free in the market. It scans all storage locations and will order them according to size making it easy to find the largest folders and files. It has a very simple and easy to use interface and allows deleting within. It will be good for deleting those mp3's and also for tracking your storage, so that you don't end up with too much garbage clogging up your sd cards.
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?
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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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Hello everyone..
So I while managing pictures on my SD card, I noticed something that is making dumping/importing pictures to my PC, a nightmare.
I think I have a solution, but the app (MoveToSdcard), is giving the following message: "SD Card shares the same disk with os"
Looking at some of the file/folder structure, I think I know what's happening, but I don't know how to fix without breaking stuff.
What I'm trying to do is move all apps that will every have pictures associated with them, to the SDCard. This will allow me to export (and worry) only pictures from the SDCard and delete them like I normally would with my iPhone.
Anyone know of a way to resolve this or have a suggestion on how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Why do I want to dump my pictures? I put them on a NAS, back them up to various cloud services. I also place my none mobile photo work on this NAS an upload them as well.
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Hello everyone..
So I while managing pictures on my SD card, I noticed something that is making dumping/importing pictures to my PC, a nightmare.
I think I have a solution, but the app (MoveToSdcard), is giving the following message: "SD Card shares the same disk with os"
Looking at some of the file/folder structure, I think I know what's happening, but I don't know how to fix without breaking stuff.
What I'm trying to do is move all apps that will every have pictures associated with them, to the SDCard. This will allow me to export (and worry) only pictures from the SDCard and delete them like I normally would with my iPhone.
Anyone know of a way to resolve this or have a suggestion on how to achieve what I'm trying to do?
Why do I want to dump my pictures? I put them on a NAS, back them up to various cloud services. I also place my none mobile photo work on this NAS an upload them as well.
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I'm having a hard time understanding specifically what you are trying to do. But if the end goal is back up pictures to your NAS then I suggest downloading "Sweet Home! Alfa". It will allow you to select which albums to backup and automatically do it for you based on preference (for example, I have mine setup to do it when I'm connected to my home network and plug my phone in to charge".
You can set it to automatically delete photos off you device once backed up too if you want. Managing albums can be done through the stock gallery app or through a file explorer.
Hope this helps.
BTW, /sdcard actually refers to internal storage. So if you are trying to move apps to /sdcard, that it why you are getting the error. You are telling it to move an app from internal storage to internal storage which doesn't make sense to the app
Hi Artimis! Yea. I'm sorry about how I laid out the thread. Not clear at all. Basically, there are pictures everywhere
I use several apps - Instagram, Photoshop, SquareDroid, Afterfocus, Lapse It, Viva Video, etc. Each one of these apps either place the completed edits/export in their own folder, located in the app's directory, respectively.
When I pull out the SDCard and put it into my machine to dump/export them, not all the pictures are there, because some of the pictures are in their respective app exported folders and those are on the Internal SD.
This now forces me to hunt around and hope I've located all the possible directories and pictures.
If Instead relocate the apps to the SD card, the export folders would also be there, making it one less and easy step to ensure that all possible pictures/directories are accounted for.
Make any sense? Sorry about that.
Now the app you recommended takes it to a whole other level! This is awesome! and it detects new photo directories, created anywhere on the phone or SD card! This more or less solves my whole problem! WOW! Thank you!
As for the whole SD thing, I'm confused. Not a big deal though since all pictures and videos (all big in size) taken using XCam end up on the true SDCard. All the other pictures scattered about are not large in size and I'm not concerned about it. It's just a pain to hunt them down and dump/export them.
This app you suggested though is perfect and solves my problem, and then some!
Thanks Artimis!
wouldn't it be easier to just use Dropbox's import feature or even their auto saving of pictures? Of course letting G+ save them is also a more practical solution, I use both, and would be less time consuming
Yes, I use them as well. They work well. The goal is not to move away from any of them either. The goal is to save them locally to my NAS and at the same time, recover the space back on the device/SDCard.
The program that Artimis recommended takes care of all these issues.
I'm good! Thanks!
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Whenever I try to install apps on to my SD card it says "SDcard share the same disk with os" and won't let me transfer apps.
Tyfighter98 said:
Whenever I try to install apps on to my SD card it says "SDcard share the same disk with os" and won't let me transfer apps.
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Does your phone actually have an sdcard in it (it would show up as something like /external_SD through the file system). As I mentioned before, /sdcard actually refers to the phones internal storage. It is a symlinked directory that emulates an sdcard but is mapped to /data/media.
So you will get this error with an app trying to move something from /data/app to /sdcard because it is actually trying to move it to /data/media/.. which doesn't do any good.
If you do have an actual external sdcard (/external_SD) then the problem could be due to the write protection changes implemented in kit kat. There are threads on how to fix this if you are rooted.
I do I have an SD card in my tablet and I supposedly already did an SD card fix for Kit Kat but I will look into it thanks.
i have micromax canvas juice 2 .... i inserted 16gb sd card but iam not able to move apps to my sd card ..... please help me
So how to make it understand I have to sent it to ad card and read data from there..