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I got my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 on 7-26-13. It is awesome, but I have noticed one problem. About every 2 days or so the sounds automatically reset back to system defaults. It is only my sounds, no other settings or options, but it all my sounds: Ringtones, Notifications, Alarms. They change from the custom ones back to "default ringtone".
All of my sounds and ringtones are stored on my external SD card. I restart my phone if not everyday then every-other day.
This has happened about 3 times since I got the phone and is very annoying. I called T-Mobile and they said this is a first time hearing of this issue and reccomended I do a Master Reset. I really want to avoid the master as much as possible. Usually I go to bed at night, plug my phone in to charge and when I wake up the sounds have been reset.
It is almost as if the SD card is unmounting then remounting itself while the phone is powered on. I dont think that is happening I just wanted to use it as an example of what is actually happening.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Curtis.
The SD cards on these phones are notoriously flaky but usually not the stock ones... still. If you're rooted you can replace (or add to) the ring tones on the internal storage.
What's the status of your S4 regarding bone stock, Root, ROM etc.?
What additional if any apps have you installed from the playstore, etc?
What extsdcard card is installed?
As mentioned previously, sd cards can be corrupt, defective, etc. If you feel this may be the issue as you described, insert another card to rule the card in or our as the cause.
I am also on an S4, the sprint flavor, and have the exact problem as above. I understand the concept of moving the ring tones / notifications from the SD card to the internal storage, which will require root. Can someone please direct me to the correct location on the internal storage? Also once I have moved them, should I remove the folder from the SD card?
Thanks
Hey there, long time lurker first time posting,
Just a quick question to see if any of you guys know where to find something.
Recently installed the BeanStalk 4.4 ROM onto my N7105 LTE. All is fine and dandy except when connecting/disconnecting a USB cable, I get this really annoying sound that loops over and over until I drag down the notification bar.
I've checked literally every sound option and for the fun of it checked all the others too - can I find it? Nope.
I had a quick search on here and found someone experiencing a similar issue on an S3 with a solution to navigate to system/media/audio/ui/ and delete/rename Charger_Connection.ogg
This file doesn't appear in that folder on my Note, I had a look at all the other file names contained in there and tried renaming the dock sounds and wireless charging (long shot, I know) but they still don't work.
Now to the question; how do you stop this sound? I don't mind having to dive into the file system to change/delete a file. I'm hoping I've just been a little bit of a silly and missed a setting somewhere
Just creating this thread to start a list of small things that I've noticed on the the phone to date.Maybe sometime has answers or similar issues but has found a workaround.
1.Pre Order SD card. Lots of people having issues with this one, send like it needs to be formatted on a pc before it can be recognized?
2. Bluetooth : the phone doesn't seem to like changing broth sources. It won't auto connect to the most recent device and I found that I had to turn it'd my car Bluetooth when connecting to my headphones as the phone kept trying to connect to the car. Bit of a pain. Anyone else have this?
3. Oppo Swype: I had moved to swiftkey on the S3 but seeing as it's pre-installed I gave it another shot. I just found it that if you go to themes you can get a smaller keyboard and move it to your preferred side.nice.
4. Couldn't find the setting to get apps in alphabetical order. TIP: It's located in Settings - Main Screen, then select the icon to the right of where it says Oppo Launcher. Maybe it's just me but this seems like a weird place to have it...?
Separate items for ColorOs 2.0: Recognising that this is still a Beta so my own fault if I'm using it
1. Auto-brightness is a bit touchy, seems to get confused quite a bit.
2. Double-tap to wake hangs from time to time, and has resulted in 2 forced restarts today. Which is annoying
3. Gestures in general are a but more sluggish on 2.0
4. There seems to be a one-handed mode in 2.0 but I've only ever been able to get it to work accidentally and could never repeat the trick.
5. There also should be a multi-window option but I have no clue where it is, so put this one down as it's not too easy to find some of the settings.
Anyone else find anything annoying and get it fixed?
I can't seem to get Google Keyboard to stick as default between reboots on latest stable version...
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I can't seem to get Google Keyboard to stick as default between reboots on latest stable version...
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I'm using Swype at the moment so am not sure about the G keyboard. But I have always had the same problem across multiple ROMS. I just came from OmniRom on the S3 and it would often just randomly revert to google keyboard from swiftkey which was my default choice (so basically the reverse of your problem) Not sure it this is a common issue for Android?
ColorOs 2.0
Just wanted to call out that the Oppo recovery and Back up functions work very well. Flashed to ColorO2 2.0 beta and everything worked without a problem. A good sign!
I've experienced the Bluetooth switching pains as well. With my car and headphones both stored it works fine for my car but gives me fits connecting to the headphones where I have to delete my car to make it work reliably.
I've problem too with bluetooth. I can connect to my car (toyota radio BT) but no sound on the car speakers.
The music player starts automatiquely when the phone connect the car radio but no sound.
It's a problem for me because previously I use very often the music player with my Galaxy S3 in my car.
Do you have an idea to corect this issue ?
moumoune27 said:
I've problem too with bluetooth. I can connect to my car (toyota radio BT) but no sound on the car speakers.
The music player starts automatiquely when the phone connect the car radio but no sound.
It's a problem for me because previously I use very often the music player with my Galaxy S3 in my car.
Do you have an idea to corect this issue ?
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Have you checked in the settings that Phone and Media audio is set to 'on'? I know that my one had to be changed manually the first time. Also are you on ColorOS 2.0 or the current stable version (can't remember the number), maybe an update will resolve the issue for you?
You can find the beta 2.0 here:
http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/find-7-coloros-2-0-0i-beta.11926/
Thanks xenOphon for your answer
I use colorOS v.1.2.0i (french version)
Media audio is on in BT settings (but I can't find "Phone" in settings) .
Do you think that ColorOS beta2.0 is stable enough (thanks for the link) ?
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Thanks xenOphon for your answer
I use colorOS v.1.2.0i (french version)
Media audio is on in BT settings (but I can't find "Phone" in settings) .
Do you think that ColorOS beta2.0 is stable enough (thanks for the link) ?
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No problem
My own BT has the options Phone and Media, maybe this is just my one, not sure to be honest?
As for ColorOS 2.0 it is stable and runs smoothly for the most part but there are one or two issue that I just added to the original post. Having said that the bluetooth connections are now working better than before. Not sure if that is related to 2.0 though!
Ok, thank you for your help
I think I'll try version 2.0
One thing that annoys me is when I'm scrolling up to read past text messages and it hits the point where it has to "load" the next bunch it goes all the way back to the last one sent in that conversation. I then have to scroll all the way back up again. Not a super huge problem but annoying when it happens. Does this with a couple other things I think but I can't recall what. I know scrolling through my music library would kill the SD card that came with the phone, that's annoying but SD issues have been discussed already.
Tapped out on my beastly OPPO Find 7a
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One thing that annoys me is when I'm scrolling up to read past text messages and it hits the point where it has to "load" the next bunch it goes all the way back to the last one sent in that conversation. I then have to scroll all the way back up again. Not a super huge problem but annoying when it happens. Does this with a couple other things I think but I can't recall what. I know scrolling through my music library would kill the SD card that came with the phone, that's annoying but SD issues have been discussed already.
Tapped out on my beastly OPPO Find 7a
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the sms app in general is not the greatest. this has been the only real negative worth mentioning. the app is laggy. bad enough that Hangouts is the sms of choice at the moment. i wonder if that issue will be worked out in the coming updates.
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the sms app in general is not the greatest. this has been the only real negative worth mentioning. the app is laggy. bad enough that Hangouts is the sms of choice at the moment. i wonder if that issue will be worked out in the coming updates.
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Also finding that it doesn't let me save my received MMS pictures unless I use the stock picture app instead of my usual QuickPic
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I've had this issue with multiple phones and ROM's. The only way I found to fix it was to either freeze the one that is the issue or delete it completely.
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The only annoyance I have found so far is that even on the lowest volume setting the notifications are still really loud!
Okay so I got a response from Oppostyle
Original MSG. Yes it's vague but I'm so used to tech support from anyone going down a checklist that I gave up going into any detail on the initial encounter because I always get asked what I've already answered.
The 32 gig SD card continues to randomly disappear/unmount from the phone. I have the exact model but in it is a 16gb instead and it works fine without any problems. What are my option on getting the supplied 32 GB replaced/exchanged?
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting OppoStyle.com customer support.
I'm sorry to hear about the issue you're experiencing with your microSD card.
Could you please try format the SD card on your PC or laptop by using an SD card reader?
You could also follow this simple troubleshoot procedure and advise the result:
1. Insert the SD card into the card slot.
2. Turn on the phone.
3. Go to settings - > storage. The phone should recognize the volume of the card.
4. Select "erase USB storage"; if this is not possible, please take a screenshot (Press "Power Button" + "Volume down" at the same time).
5. If step 4 is successful, please try to copy larger files to the card and see if it's readable. If it doesn't, please take a screenshot once again.
5. Go into Camera app. Navigate to settings -> Storage and change the storage to SD card, then try to create a Full HD video (around 3 minutes long), then try to play it on your phone to see if it's working properly.
Please let us know if this steps works for you or if this doesn't, please attach all the mentioned screenshots for us to have a look.
Looking forward for your response, have a great day.
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Best Regards,
OppoStyle Customer Delight Team
and my response that I'm about to send them
Support,
I've formatted the card multiple times in both fat32 and NTFS in different allocation sizes as well. I've already already formatted it via the phone as well. I can do all of the things mentioned in your trouble shooting no problem. The problem arises when I try to do multiple things concerning the SD card. For example I can not listen to music stored on the card and take a picture that is saved onto the card, when I do the card "disappears"/unmounts from the phone. I can play music, but if I scroll through my music library while listening to music the card disappears. If I'm taking a picture or listening to music and Titanium backup begins to run backing up my apps, the card disappears. Anytime the card is accessed twice it fails. I know it's the card because my 16 gig I can do all of these things without problem with it. I've tried my 16gig card formatted to fa32 and NTFS and it works on either file structure just fine. It also takes multiple restarts at times for the card to show back up in the phone.
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The only annoyance I have found so far is that even on the lowest volume setting the notifications are still really loud!
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It's okay, changing the settings in MaxxAudio makes the difference
It works !!!! Finally, I installed another music player (PlayerPro) and now I have sound on the car's speakers !! So I think there is a problem with the native music player.
Well oppostyle is sending me another SD card. Hopefully it's still the Sandisk Ultra 32gb and not the slow one they have listed on their site. Either way it'll be nice to have the extra space that actually works correctly. I'm surprised by the fairly quick response and turn around time.
Side note
Looks like AT&T didn't like me telling them their low level tech support sucks in the short survey they sent me after doing a support chat via their website. Got a call yesterday from a private number, which I never pick up, so they left a voice mail saying they wanted to do a follow up. Probably nothing will come of it unless they want to magically add the Find 7a to their database or activate my sim for another phone on their network that does LTE. I guess I'll find out when they call back later today. This doesn't work I'll see if I can convince one of the store people to let me activate my sim card on a display model.
moumoune27 said:
It works !!!! Finally, I installed another music player (PlayerPro) and now I have sound on the car's speakers !! So I think there is a problem with the native music player.
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Happy days, that would have been unfortunate if you weren't able to listen to music in the car.
Just got my Retail Note4. Cant wait for the smart guys and gals to figure out how to root it. In the mean time I was trying to figure a way to put a recorded sound in the notifications folder so I can use it as my default notification. First you have to activate the developer option, which is not turned on from the factory. Go to settings, about phone, and quickly tap 4 or 5 times on the "Build number". This turns on the developer option in Settings. You can then turn on the Dev Option and scroll down to USB debugging.
When I plugged the phone into my old windows XP desktop it took about 3 minutes to show up as a device on the Computer screen. I opened the device labeled, Samsung-SM-N910V. The phone option populates the folders in the phone memory to your computer.
I had already recorded the sound I wanted so there was a "Voice Recorder" folder. I opened that and my sound was there. I right clicked and copied the sound. Go to Media, Audio, Notifications. When you open notifications you can paste the copied sound there. I went to the notifications sound folder on the phone and surprised myself that the sound was there. I thought I was going to have to wait for root to do this. If there is an easier way I was unable to find it when I searched. Now if I can get rid of all the ads I will really like this phone.
Create a "mirrored" folder on your external SD card and place your sounds there...your system will find it. This way is really easy.
[extSdCard/media/audio]...in the audio folder make the following folders: [alarms , notifications , ringtones]
Place the sounds you want to be used in the correct sub-folders. Your system will find them....similar methods have worked for me all the way back to Windows Mobile 5....lol.
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Thanks. I knew there had to be an easier way to do this. I know just enough to be dangerous. Had to send my note 2 out for a heart transplant when I turned it into stone. Think I will return to it if it gets back in time so I can return this 4. The ads are killing me.
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Hi - I've got an inexpensive Android One phone in which I can easily set the message alert sound to one of my mp3 sound files. I would like to do the same thing to my much more expensive Pixel 3a XL, and I cannot figure out how to do this. The Pixel 3a XL has many already installed notification sounds, but nowhere can I find where I can set my own alert sound. Surely this phone can do what my inexpensive Android One can. Can someone please help.
Thanks in advance.
Go into the app and open it's options, notifications, sounds. In the resulting menu select my sounds and your local notification tones will be there. You need to of course have the notification sound on the phone and you must grant the app permission to access storage so that it can use it.
Could Still Use Some Help
Hi krabman
First of all, thank you for trying to help me with my problem concerning assigning a custom music file to my message notification. It is appreciated.
However, either I am missing something (quite possible) or we have different OS software. When I open the messaging app, go to settings, notifications and sounds, I am faced with six different menu selections, each containing about a dozen different notification sounds. These menus are labeled: My Sounds, Pixel Sounds, Classical harmonies, Minimal Melodies, Reality Bytes and Retro Riffs.
But nowhere can I find any place in which I can assign my own music file. So if you (or anyone else) has any ideas, I would appreciate them. I know that this is not really a big deal, but for some reason it is to me and will affect whether I buy one another one of these phones. Thanks Again.
Avroarrow201 said:
Hi krabman
First of all, thank you for trying to help me with my problem concerning assigning a custom music file to my message notification. It is appreciated.
However, either I am missing something (quite possible) or we have different OS software. When I open the messaging app, go to settings, notifications and sounds, I am faced with six different menu selections, each containing about a dozen different notification sounds. These menus are labeled: My Sounds, Pixel Sounds, Classical harmonies, Minimal Melodies, Reality Bytes and Retro Riffs.
But nowhere can I find any place in which I can assign my own music file. So if you (or anyone else) has any ideas, I would appreciate them. I know that this is not really a big deal, but for some reason it is to me and will affect whether I buy one another one of these phones. Thanks Again.
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My Sounds will display files in a few different folders, like Notifications and Ringtones, you should place your sounds there. If you want something from somewhere else, try using an alternative file manager like Solid Explorer and it will be an option when you try select a sound... It will allow to see files in most of the phone, like Downloads and Music.
Create a folder called 'audio' in the root of your SD card (internal only in the case of this phone)
Within that folder create three subfolders: ringtones, notifications, alarms
Place your files in the appropriate folders, and they should show up. Notification sounds will show under "My Sounds" in this case.
My media should find any media that isn't behind a .nomedia flag. However the fellow above is correct in that it is much easier to back up and restore if you use the ringtones, notifications, and alarms folders which are already on the root of your drive to store your tones.
You do not have a different OS or software, make sure you have the media downloaded, store it as described, select it as described, make sure your specific app has storage permissions, and it will work. Not might, will.
Edit, if you're trying to use a full song as a ringtone those may be getting filtered out depending on your settings, cant help you with fixing that; not because I don't know how but because it's incredibly irritating when people somehow think that everyone wants to listen to their entire 3 minute ringtone because they're so awesome.
Finally; Success!
I put the mp3 file I wanted to be used for messaging notification into the internal memory\notifications folder and it then appeared in the messaging\setting\notifications\My Sounds listings. I then enabled the radio button and pressed (the incredibly small) Save button. I thought that I was home free, but when tested it still used the default messaging notification sound. I then went to the OS\Settings\Sounds\Notifications\Advanced and saw that despite having changed the messaging sound from the app, it still listed the default one. Once I changed it there, Bingo! It works. So what I’ve learn:
1) That custom sounds on a Pixel are chosen from the My Sounds menu.
2) The in order to get your sound there it must be in the proper folder, such as internal memory\notifications or internal memory\ringtones.
3) That simply setting this custom sound on the actual application may not be enough, that it also may need to be set at the OS level.
I am a long time Windows phone user (and sad this is coming to an end) so this is my first Android phone. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped me fix this problem. I could not have done it without your help.
Thanks again.
Jim
Avroarrow201 said:
I put the mp3 file I wanted to be used for messaging notification into the internal memory\notifications folder and it then appeared in the messaging\setting\notifications\My Sounds listings. I then enabled the radio button and pressed (the incredibly small) Save button. I thought that I was home free, but when tested it still used the default messaging notification sound. I then went to the OS\Settings\Sounds\Notifications\Advanced and saw that despite having changed the messaging sound from the app, it still listed the default one. Once I changed it there, Bingo! It works. So what I’ve learn:
1) That custom sounds on a Pixel are chosen from the My Sounds menu.
2) The in order to get your sound there it must be in the proper folder, such as internal memory\notifications or internal memory\ringtones.
3) That simply setting this custom sound on the actual application may not be enough, that it also may need to be set at the OS level.
I am a long time Windows phone user (and sad this is coming to an end) so this is my first Android phone. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped me fix this problem. I could not have done it without your help.
Thanks again.
Jim
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BTW, if you install Solid Explorer, or any other app that can register as a file selection app (most file managers can) you can select it as an option to pick the tone, then browse to any file on the phone and it will apply and work (just tested it with a random MP3 in a random folder with the .nomedia tag). So the limitation here is the built in Sounds picker app.