I just got this new phone and would like to use the files of my previous phone. Thanks!
On the internal storage, there are folders for each. I copied all of my HTC tones over =P
I left mine on my external card. they work fine.
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Hi, I want to change my tilt 2's sms notification sound into a MP3 file on my TF card. I copied it to my documents- my ringtone, and windows- rings, and even set up a folder called my ringtone on TF card. However, when I select new text message- there is no new file in the drop list. What should I do?
It wont work that way, unfortunately.
WAV format dropped directly in windows folder will though.
sorry for short answer but Christmas morn.
also will work out of root directory on storage card--
Does anyone know if there is a registry edit, or anything to move the alarm, alerts, etc from its default location of the "\windows" directory and move it to the SD card as we have for Ringtones, Pictures, Videos, and My Documents? If not move the default location, point to an additional location?
I was searching the registry as best as I could but didnt find anything that points to this location, and I was wondering if I was missing it, or if there was a way to move it. It would save quite a bit of space not having to add tones to a limited amount of phone space that we have already.
bump anyone? been doing searches but cant find anything about it here or google. just about what format it has to be in.
This is the location they use if you download and install sound packs from Microsoft:
My Device \ Application data \ Sounds
It is not reliable to put ringtones and alert sounds on memory card - if the phone is in Disk Drive mode attached to the computer, the card is not accessible to the phone, so if you get a phone call during that time your phone won't be able to use your custom ringtone and it resets to using the default ringtone and you'll need to reconfigure to your choice afterwards.
But if you insist on placing them on storage card, you can place ringtones here: My Device \ Storage card \ My documents \ My ringtones
and alert sounds here: My Device \ Storage card (this also works for ringtones)
Thanx Mesquire, I am not overly worried about it defaulting back, cause it doesnt. The HTC for ring tones also looks on the memory card. I dont use disk mode so no worries there. I use to have my ringtones in the directory \storage card But I also didnt like it was messy, so I tried something that works. U can add your ringtones to \my device\storage card\my ringtones and it will pick it up and add it to the list of ringtones. You can also do this with" My Music, My Videos, and I think My Pictures, not sure of the last since all mine sit in the dcim folder.
But I will try and see if I move all the alerts to the main directory of the storage card if it will work, if it does, then it will do for now.
I just checked My Device \ Application data \ Sounds and there seems nothing there probably normal.
Yes, it is normal. My Device\Application data\Sounds is an empty folder until you start to populate it
Is there a setting to change the alarm and alert and rings location from the windows folder? Or putting them into the main sd card directory is fine? I see that Alert, Alarm, and Ring are either .wav or .wma files, would it be safe to assume that if I cut all these files and put them into the main directory of the sd card windows will see them? I know you might think I'm nuts, but there is already limited space on the phone as it is, by adding mp3's or ringtones or other media files it would in essence use up what little space is there. I already only have 171mb of space on the phone, and by computer standards I know the more files a system has to wade thru the slower it becomes.
hi there,
There's something that's bugging me lately.
With any music player (stock, meridian, ecc) when i go to "all songs" (or i think it's called "tracks" on stock player) it only shows a half dozen files, as opposed to the 400 there should have been.
Funny thing is that when i explore with those music players inside the folders, the files are all there and magically from that point on, they appear in the "all songs" section and they play fine, but looking better, when i explore the sd card, it says "refresh to scan media" under each previously invisible file.
Every time i reboot the phone those files became invisible again and it's kinda annoying... anybody has some ideas?
Is there any difference in the music files? What format are they in? Maybe the scanner doesn't scan certain formats automatically. Just a guess though.
thank you for the answer, however, the issue disappeared. Don't know if that's what healed my phone, however i went exploring with ESfile explorer and found a rather useles file called "nomedia" with no extension and no format which appeared in the music folder. After that everything went back to normal.
I forgot to say that i recently bought a 16gg class 4 sd card and almost thought to call for a replacement... but things are working now!
pelly_jelly said:
thank you for the answer, however, the issue disappeared. Don't know if that's what healed my phone, however i went exploring with ESfile explorer and found a rather useles file called "nomedia" with no extension and no format which appeared in the music folder. After that everything went back to normal.
I forgot to say that i recently bought a 16gg class 4 sd card and almost thought to call for a replacement... but things are working now!
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.nomedia files are there to tell the default android media scanner to ignore that folder. It's used so sound and picture files from apps and games don't show up in media players. That was were your problem was
1. When looking at my files on my external SD card, whether from a PC or through a file manager, why does my folders keep getting duplicated? The folders simply duplicate, but only one of them has the actual folders.
2. Why do photos on my external SD card keep duplicating. I might start out with 10 photos, then it could double or triple - and they're copies? (music never duplicates)
3. On my internal SD card, why the hell do I randomly lose photos?
I'm on AOKP by the way.
Such good questions. The issue is that
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Hi, wondering if anyone can help. I moved over to an S20. Before doing so, I copied all my whatsapp media/any pics saved on my internal SD off my old s9 onto my pc, and then transferred them back to the new phone. So far all good. All my pics are there. The problem is, when I open the gallery, it takes an age to load them. The same thing when I navigate to the folder in file manager. ok there's over 30k pics, but it shouldn't be an issue if it works fine on the old phone.
I also noticed that the ".thumbnails" folder isn't being created within DCIM, or anywhere for that matter. Not sure if it's linked or not. Anyways, the phone internal storage is a lot quicker than my old s9, so it can't be a speed issue. Any ideas what I can do? Media storage only shows as using 100mb. I was going to try clear the data for Media Storage, but on Android 11 it seems to be greyed out. I tried adb shell pm clear com.android.providers.media but that doesn't do anything
Anything I can try or any recommedations?
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Scope storage? It's so secure... yeah whatever.
I also noticed weirdly that if I take the ad card out, it loads a crap load quicker.