I had done probably one or two too many dirty flashes, so this morning I decided to go ahead and flash and wipe data/cache. The performance increase is pretty noticeable so I'm glad I did it.
I've got about everything back the way I had it and went back to begin setting my sound profiles back up. At first, I went to set my phone ringtone setting and it wouldn't play. I found the problem was that it had kept my old profiles and found a post on XDA developers that said to delete and recreate them. So I did that and now the phone ringtone selector works perfectly.
However, now I'm going in and trying to set the notification sounds. Setting them works flawlessly (in that when the application has a notification, the correct sound plays) but there's no preview (when the list is open and I select the sound from the list- it won't play). I have set one and tested a notification from the app group and it works, but I was hoping to change some and can't listen to them.
I've cleared both caches and run fix permissions hoping for something easy but no go.
Any ideas?
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Hello everyone. Thanks for all the great help over the years. My settings app crashes whenever I click (tap, touch whatever) the sounds settings category. When I setup my phone Google automatically loaded the "Rings Extended" app which I used to use on my old phone, but doesn't support ICS yet. It worked for a few days, but would never save my ringtone and notification sound settings. Now it just reports that "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped" whenever I try to go into the Sound option. Any ideas what I can do to fix it? FWIW the phone is unlocked and rooted, but still on the stock image.
Any hope for this problem? Are the configuration settings for sounds stored in a text file somewhere that I could change manually?
Same here!
I had this problem a little while ago and I'm trying to remember the circumstances and how I resolved it. Iirc, it happened after I used rings extended to set a ring tone, causing my sounds setting to crash. What I think I ended up doing was using ES explorer to select one of the standard tones as the ring tone and that fixed the crashing.
Hope this works for you.
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Well I seemed to have worked around the issue. I installed a sound profile app from the market then used it to change the ring and notification tones. After a reboot for good measure the sound settings are working again. Hope this works for you too.
About a month ago I screwed up my phone and had to LGNPST it for the first time. I'm not even sure if this is the moment this problem appeared but it may have been the start of something. Before that, I was running a JB CM build with a GPS lock issue that I never got around to fix and decided to fix it before I flashed a Kit Kat rom. That lead to a bad stock-based flash which then lead to the LGNPST fix. I then flashed to a different stock-based rom, updated PRL and obtained a GPS lock, then flashed a few different roms before settling on the offical CM 11 rom.
Somewhere after the LGNPST I ran into problems with the sound volume settings being completely ignored and this issue appears across multiple roms. I'll have the settings set to silent and it'll still play some odd sound whenever I receive an sms. When I try to change the sounds, nothing plays when I am previewing the sounds and if I select one the settings will crash. The ringtone files do exist in /media/audio/ringtones and they play correctly in Apollo. I have also downloaded Zedge and used it for setting the sounds inside the settings screen and it does not play the sound when previewing and crashes when I select a sound. Setting the ringtone inside of the actual Zedge application does work for the notification ringtone, but does not work with phone ringtone (it does appear to be changed in settings, but no sound is played during calls). Furthermore, when I attempt to set the sound in Hangouts for either SMS or regular hangout messages, it does not change from "Silent" but does not show any crash messages or anything.
In a possibly related note, every time I flash a new rom it will get stuck on activation until I just skip it. However, data services work completely fine. I have no problems with making calls, 3G/LTE, sending and receiving sms including pictures.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Dammit. I'm a long time lurker on xda and I should know better. This post was meant for the sprint troubleshooting section. I decided to try searching this side to see if the issue was experienced/resolved here and forgot to switch back for posting. Can an awesome mod possibly move this to the sprint troubleshooting section?
I just installed the 5.01 Lollipop update on my Note 4. After the update the Notification sound is the default sound. I have changed it to another sound on my SD card and it plays fine, but when the notification comes in it still plays the old tone. Any ideas? I have tried changing it on the messaging app and in the sounds/notifications menu to no avail. I have also verified the tone is available on the SD card in a folder called Notifications and is playable.
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I just installed the 5.01 Lollipop update on my Note 4. After the update the Notification sound is the default sound. I have changed it to another sound on my SD card and it plays fine, but when the notification comes in it still plays the old tone. Any ideas? I have tried changing it on the messaging app and in the sounds/notifications menu to no avail. I have also verified the tone is available on the SD card in a folder called Notifications and is playable.
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I have the same problem. Must be a bug. I had to individually change the notification tone for each app..
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I have the same problem. Must be a bug. I had to individually change the notification tone for each app..
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Have already tried changing it for email and text messaging with the default messaging app. Even with the sound settings in the apps it still doesnt change.
I haven't tried to change the email app yet but I did change the message app and it did work. I had to select the actual tone I want to use. Using the default setting for some reason doesn't work.
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I haven't tried to change the email app yet but I did change the message app and it did work. I had to select the actual tone I want to use. Using the default setting for some reason doesn't work.
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I have tried using the default setting and manually selecting the tone I want in the email app and the messages app with no luck.
Works on mine. Maybe a pain but I'd try doing a factory reset. Could be cause of a difference in the two file systems (kit Kat & lollipop) . I've noticed you can do just a reset of the phone with out wiping data. Might wanna even try that.
Before doing a reset, try booting into recovery and clearing cache partition first. Do this a few times with a reboot after each one.
Good Luck
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I was experiencing this same issue after upgrading my Note 4 to Lollipop yesterday. I tried changing the Android notification default to another sound and then back, I tried changing the sound through the Message+ app's settings and then back, but nothing seemed to work.
What eventually worked was going into Samsung's Messages app, setting it to be my default SMS app, changing the notification sound (through Messages app's settings) to something other than what it was on and then back to my desired sound, and finally switching my default SMS app back to Message+. It now seems to be working properly.
Hope this helps others.
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I just installed the 5.01 Lollipop update on my Note 4. After the update the Notification sound is the default sound. I have changed it to another sound on my SD card and it plays fine, but when the notification comes in it still plays the old tone. Any ideas? I have tried changing it on the messaging app and in the sounds/notifications menu to no avail. I have also verified the tone is available on the SD card in a folder called Notifications and is playable.
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Im having the same exact issue!
Coming from a Nexus5 I wanted to bring across more ringtones/alarms and notification sounds from that device to my new OnePlus 3.
So I got them all from my Nexus 5 and moved them to my OP3.
I couldn't find where the default ones reside, so googled and read (somewhere - don't know where) that they can be added to Internal Storage/Alarms, Internal Storage/Notifications and Internal Storage/Ringtones.
After doing so I've noticed that if I then pick a default (shipped) notification (not one of my imported ones) no sound plays when it should. Although within settings where you pick notifications the full combined list of default and custom notification sounds show.
So it seems that the Internal Storage/Notifications is completely overriding the default location when a notification should be played...
Has anybody else found this?
Could someone else test and back me up on this theory?
Does anybody know the location of the default directories for alarms/notifications and ringtones?
Thanks for any assistance!
Okay, so to update this myself, in case anybody else is having this issue... it isn't what i described above.
Not sure what it is, but for some reason having thought I fixed it yesterday by removing the notification sounds as mentioned above I noticed notifications had stopped again, today.
Then I noticed when I go to "settings > sound & notification > Default notification ringtone" and change the ringtone i don't hear the tone same being played as a sample....
After (and it took me ages to find this) modifying the ringer volume in sounds & notifications the notifications started sounding again.
So... what is causing it (I can't do this each time). For some reason my phone seems to auto switch to priority each night... yes, this shouldn't happen because OnePlus have implemented the slider functionality instead. But it seems to be happening and I think this might be causing the issues.
Why? Maybe because when I set my OP3 up I used NFC to migrate everything from my Nexus 5. Could this have also migrated my priority nighttime downtime settings, which are getting set at night and not unset in the morning?
Not sure if anybody else is interested, but I'll keep an eye on this and report back, in case I'm not alone...
Yes, this is the problem indeed. You should set it up as a new phone.
[I always do this even between flashes on the same phone... Yeah, I know it takes a lot of time]
Hi all,
Hoping someone brighter than me can figure this sound issue out.
THE PROBLEM:
Half of my sounds don't work, rendering my phone useless in the current state. As the title says, Ring, Notification, & Alarm sounds do not work. You know, as in the important stuff that makes your phone, a phone? And makes you wake up in the morning? None of these respective sliders under Sound & Vibration settings make any noise when making adjustments. By contrast, my Media and Call volume sliders DO make noise when adjusting. And sure enough, once on a phone call, I hear things just fine (Call). And YouTube, Spotify, et al. (Media) also work just fine.
Because some sounds work but others don't, this has to be a software issue, right? This would be easy if it was hardware and 0% of sounds worked, but nope, it's partial.
BACKGROUND:
This pixel 3 xl is relatively new to me, but has ran A10 and A11 with a few different ROMs with 100% of sound working flawlessly. But out of nowhere, sounds suddenly stopped working correctly as described above. And it didn't occur immediately or shortly after a new rom flash or update or anything like that. Just stopped working, months into a well-running ROM.
I've tried a couple different ROMs now to fix the issue from a completely clean install (/format data + flash latest google factory image as 1st step) but none have fixed the issue. Specifically, pixeldust (A11) and evolutionX (A11) were my latest troubleshooting attempts with no avail. Pixeldust was the ROM that was formerly working and then after months of 100% sounds working, suddenly stopped.
It's odd that searching throughout the ROM threads that no one else seems to be having this issue. Again, this would be easy if it was a hardware failure. But that doesn't explain how it works for Youtube/Spotify but not for other things, so it has to be software.... I think?
I figured I'd start a thread here rather than start posting in each and every ROM I've tried to troubleshoot this. Thank you!
This might not be relevant because I'm using stock Android on a Pixel 4a but my notifications have gone silent and this report was the only similar search result I found. I tried changing the notification tone and none of them played a short snippet so I'm wondering if the problem is there.
I have not found a solution for this issue.
One thing I noticed recently is that when I'm on a call using the regular "earpiece" or whatever it's called (which works fine), if I switch to speaker phone, I can't hear anything. I have to switch back to the non-speaker ear mode and I can hear the call again.
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This might not be relevant because I'm using stock Android on a Pixel 4a but my notifications have gone silent and this report was the only similar search result I found. I tried changing the notification tone and none of them played a short snippet so I'm wondering if the problem is there.
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I have not found a solution for this issue.
One thing I noticed recently is that when I'm on a call using the regular "earpiece" or whatever it's called (which works fine), if I switch to speaker phone, I can't hear anything. I have to switch back to the non-speaker ear mode and I can hear the call again.
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I think I may have finally found the solution!! Sometimes it's the simple things in life that work, rather than reflashing a billion different ways that finally gets things working again.
In this case, I simply cleared the cache and storage for the 'Sounds' apps under Settings -> Apps & notifications -> See all apps -> Click 3 dots in upper right corner -> Show system. Then, I deleted cache and storage for TWO apps, both called 'Sounds' with 2 different icons. I'm not sure which is the system app and which is not nor do I know if clearing only one of them was necessary, but this is what has worked for me and has survived several restarts thus far. Good luck!