Noticed in the last day or two several missed calls - turns out something had caused my phone to lose its ringtone setting - when attempting to reset am presented with only one option under "settings/sound settings/ phone ringtone" , and that is "silent" - same is true under "notification ringtone". Both custom and default multiple ringtones/notification are in their correct default folders (i.e. defaults are in : system/media/audio/ringtones etc) , so I presume its the path that is causing the problem. I am running stock 2.3 rom (rooted) with "voidstab" mod to reverse int. sd/ext.sd. Maybe I could correct the path in a T.A.(J android hacker) if I knew how to! Any help or advice would be much appeciated asap (as my phone - and hence my life - is gonna be pretty quiet until then!) Thanks folks and i love y`all for current and previous help given.:fingers-crossed:
OK -- sorted! - Noticed on booting, usb & sd storage was being "prepared" but not "scanned" , thus neither inbuilt nor custom sounds for ringtones/notifications were being made available hence only silent mode available.
Wasnt long before culprit discovered - "Rescan media . root" which enables : on demand scanning / disabling/ re-enabling . Seems like it had caused the problem which disappeared upon freezing app in TB.. (This app faultless for 2 years, suddenly gives probs eh? Who`d have a smartphone eh? (dont answer that!)
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Hi,
I have an issue with my HTC Desire : I've defined dedicated ringtones for some of my contacts... but I always get the default one when these contacts call me
I guess that I must be missing something but what ?
Thanks in advance for your help !
Phyl
Me too
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UP !
Maybe an application ? But which one ?
This was the case with mine too, but after I turned off the phone and than turned it back on, it was working. I just got this phone for a week now, and this was the first time I switched it off, but still, this thing seems a bit stupid to me.
I'm found root of that problem:
I'm use "Advanced Task Manager" for killing apps. After phone reboot all works perfectly, but after use "kill all apps" feature custom ringtones doesn't work.
So I'm find apps which must be never killed - it's "HTCDialer", so we must just add it to exclude list in our process killer app.
Hello xda community, utter n00bie here, but I have done a lot of reading/searching/researching for quite some time.
Last night finally broke loose and rooted my AT&T i317 Note 2, flashed Scott's Clean ROM 1.5 SE, and Andrey's Perseus kernel for some overclocking.
I was hoping this would get fixed with the new Clean ROM, but it hasn't so that's why I need your guys help.
I searched the forum and found some other ppl having similar (yet different) issues but haven't really found a solution or cause for this issue on the forum.
Things that I've noticed revert back to defaults every time I reboot the phone:
SwiftKey reverts back to stock Samsung keyboard (Extremely annoying.. but I've found on forums that some ppl got around this by "freezing" the Samsung keyboard using Titanium... don't know if that's a solution or a temp fix =/ )
System Options -> Developer Options -> Limit background processes -> goes back to "Standard Limit" from "4 processes at most" I have found by keeping "4 processes at most" keeps my battery alive A LOT longer and does not negatively affect phone's stability. But every time I reboot the phone its annoying how this settings reverts back to the default "Standard Limit" which allows all apps to run in background.
My Camera and Video recorder shortcuts go back to defaults. In Camera Mode, there is an Option "Edit Shortcuts" and you can change Scene Mode, ISO, Metering...well all these go back to defaults when I reboot. Also very annoying.
Anybody know why this is happening? A way to fix this?
Thanks guys
ditto here..
i have the same issue with my droid charge.. camera "review" setting gets checked.. notification goes to "droid" default.. i have to resign in to outlook.. crap.. utter crap..
i haven't found any technical explanation yet.. i'm guessing a wipe and re-rom.
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]
i'm experiencing a complete outage of my (no root) n5x's volume, including alarm clock volume when using text-to-speech (3.9.16). this happens several times a day, usually after about an hour, but could be random, to solve it, i have to force-close tts as well as the MacroDroid app using it.
so, if you select a ringtone in settings you usually hear the tone when you tap on it - when i do so, there's no sound at all, nor if i use the volume slider.
- i use Outloud to speak notifications via tts
- and MacroDroid (or Automate-it) to speak well, things like, when i disable wifi ("wifi deactivated"..), or tells the time when the sun sets, tells time/every 15 mins., etc.
so you might guess it's the apps' fault, but it's not, i also tried automate-it app, and disabled Outloud.
- i tried everything to fix this, like: disabled battery optimization, background processes, notification priority/level, even a factory reset! nothing helped.
- i reported this issues to Google about 15 days ago.
- volume is on in settings, of course..
- (and dnd is off, as well..)
- one strange thing: i can play music using g play music
- it worked on M!
have you experienced the same?
do you have any idea to help? this is so frustrating because i used this all the time on my previous N4, and also on another LG phone, and it always worked.
P.S. I remember to have already had this issue when I used a custom rom on the N4, but don't remember what fixed it, probably used a different rom.
tia.
Google text-to-speech 3.10.10 does not fix it.
It seems to be a Nougat problem, doze or memory.
Issue is fixed on 7.1.1-dp1! :victory:
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.
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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.