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HTC Excalibur WM 6 constant beeps

Hello i need help. i have no messages but about every hour my HTC excalibur with windows mobile 6 makes a beep, please help

ahronzombi said:
Hello i need help. i have no messages but about every hour my HTC excalibur with windows mobile 6 makes a beep, please help
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this is still a huge problem. its giving m random beeps. i just upgraded the firmware and i still have the problem

I know it's late, but for anyone else experiencing this I believe I found the fix from another forum.
you replace the Default.wav file in the /Windows with a silent wav file.
I copied it to my computer, had to uncheck the read-only setting then opened in soundrecorder. it sure enough is that horrible beep. play it then select "delete before current position" Save it and replace.
haven't heard a beep yet

screamphilling said:
I know it's late, but for anyone else experiencing this I believe I found the fix from another forum.
you replace the Default.wav file in the /Windows with a silent wav file.
I copied it to my computer, had to uncheck the read-only setting then opened in soundrecorder. it sure enough is that horrible beep. play it then select "delete before current position" Save it and replace.
haven't heard a beep yet
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You healed the fever but did not cure the disease... check your appointments, alarms to see if is one of them that is causing it. You stopped the sound from playing, but whatever is causing the beeps is still there.
Try a hard-reset and do not sync with your PC for 2 or three hours. Also, do not install any app and let us know further.
Regards.

sounds like low bat issue or a missed message a missed text or mms or email that has not been looked at can cause it to send a reminder every 15 mins if you have that turned on. the one thing i had to do was open every email in the phone i had one not read and beep beep beep.
now your power might be high but if the battery is failing like mine i get the beeps at 50% because the bat is crap and at less then 50 shuts off.

is your phone on wifi?
if it has wifi enabled it'll beep everytime it searches out a new connection

those sound like logical answers but my phone had none of those symptoms....
I checked everything I could possibly think of. The people on the forum where i found that "fix" seemed to be just as baffled and nobody ever really came to any conclusion.
someone suggested searching the registry for instances of that .wav file and removing them but that didn't seem to help either
blanking the wav seems to be the only remedy for that annoying noise you're gonna find if you do happen to have this problem

How do you fix boot animation audio sync issue?

Okay. I"m using the boot animation that has the little droid that waves and while he waves, you hear an R2D2 like sound on each wave and then the robotic "Droid." Only thing is, I switched ROMs to try our Fresh ROM.
So, after I noticed that the boot animation was in a different place (/system/audio) and the audio file was named different (android_audio.mp3), I moved the android boot animation there and renamed it's audio accordingly.
So now the droid animation boots properly. Only thing is the sound is a bit off sync and you don't hear the first R2D2 like beeps until the second wave is nearly over.
It would be easy enough for me to pull the mp3 into a sound editor and remove about 1-2 seconds of silence from the beginning to get it to where it runs in sync with the animation. But, before I bother, is there some script file I can tweak that impacts the timing of the boot up animation? This would be handy to know because even though it only takes a minute or 2 to edit the audio, it's even quicker to edit a config file if one exists.

Does anyone have an answer?

Hey there,
I got here by searching for the solution to a similar problem on my Motorola Razr (retail GSM, EU) with Android 4.0.4. Perhaps this solution to my problem works for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28726345#post28726345
The files and folders may have other names as you already stated above. Perhaps your problem is not this one. But perhaps it my work, since you also use a Droid-animation...
Good luck!

notification sound

My notification sound for text messages is not working i've tried all of the s3 suggestions and none of them work, or the button that the s3 has isn't on the note 2

Sorry for dragging up an old thread, but I just got my Note II and found this while looking my self. I figured out how to do it while looking for a folder that was mentioned on a thread for the same thing but for the HTC One V. Put the sound file inside of this folder, /storage/sdcard0/Notifications. And to answer the question that I'm sure will come up, no I don't have an sd card in right now, that is the name of the internal storage.

USB connected sounds

Hi,
just installed Maximus 3 rom for my M8 dual sim and noticed that the usb connected sound is the camera click
and its REALLY LOUD
i just know that is going to cause problems in the office if i have to charge it. its embarrassing now just sitting at home...
does anyone know where the settings are for the usb connect/disconnect sounds?
thanks.

hmm, nobody?
any apps out there to change the sound then?
otherwise i will have to remove the camera click sound from audio

Use a root explorer like ES File Explorer, go to system/media/audio/ui and see if there is a file that matches with the "unwanted" USB connection sound. If you find it, rename it (such as adding .bak to the end), and see if that helps.
I'm not on Maximum, and not sure if that is where the particular sound is stored. But its worth a try, anyway.

hmm, i was hoping for something a bit more scientific
renamed /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg and at least its stopped people looking round when i plug the phone in
thanks anyway...

gazzacbr said:
hmm, i was hoping for something a bit more scientific
renamed /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg and at least its stopped people looking round when i plug the phone in
thanks anyway...
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Interesting, I haven't messed around with a huge number of custom ROMs, but I've never used one that played a sound when connecting USB.
I was thinking (hoping) there was a sound file more specific to the USB connection; as I assume that renaming the camera click also disables the actual camera shutter sound when taking photos in the stock camera app. Not ideal I suppose; but on the other hand the camera shutter noise isn't really all that necessary.
There must be something in the ROM that points to that sound file when connecting to USB. But I can't think of what, or how to change it.

what i have noticed in the past (previous HD2) is that my Alarm Clock Plus will sometimes lose the alarm settings. i think its when i change the alarm tone and happen to pick a sound file on the sd card.
(i usually would have the sound file on the external card first before copying it to the phone)
if i remove the card the alarm will not work even if i have the same named file on the phone, it will show a number instead of the alarm sound and not play.
maybe its similar and somehow the usb connection is linked to the file but not by name.
this is annoying me now, not knowing how to solve what should be a simple problem
EDIT: ok, so found this on modaco:
Adjustment : build.prop ........... find local\system
Add: new line under #Additional: persist.adb.notify=0
To edit build.prop, you need to be rooted .
which i havnt tried yet but i am sure it would work.
i dont want to actually disable the sound, just change it to something that isnt camera_click...

Bumping my own thread, but it happened again. the sound went away before when the camera 'click' file was deleted.
Now the usb disconnect sound changed to 'Mum' which is nice enough but goes on really long.
Once again, its gone away by deleting that file. Which is not ideal.
Anyone have any better solution? I have heard different sounds on custom roms before on my old HD2 so the file name or link must be in a data file somewhere?
I still don't know what caused it to happen again anyway.

How to set message alert sound to user mp3 file

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.