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?
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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.
I've tried my best with the search tool and google. But I cant find anything regarding my problem, thus I'm asking here (I keep finding questions from people who want random ringtone apps etc)
My phone has begun to randomly change my sounds for incoming calls, notifications etc. I usually note that it happen when someone calls and all of a sudden a random sound is played instead of the one I selected.
I've investigated a bit and found out that if I change the incoming call sound then just wait a hour or so. Then when I go back into settings again another sound is shown. And no, I haven't had the phone connected to my PC or anything like that (which I understand blocks the SD card and prevent sounds from the SD to play while connected). The sound change happens no matter how I set the sounds (via settings or via Sense/Personalize).
This just started to happen out of the blue. I've tried a full wipe of the phone while on ARHD 6.1.2. The problem was still there, did another full wipe and upgraded to ARHD 6.3.1, and its still there.
Did you try another ROM then ARHD (Such as MIUI for example) to see if it's still happening?
I havent had the time yet. But I will try. Though the problem began after a few month on ARHD 6.1.2, so my first thought was that it might not be the ROMs fault. But then again I could be wrong, will try another ROM and come back with my findings.
And I just found someone else with a similar problem; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21541054&postcount=62550
I've started getting this problem on a stock ROM after the latest OTA. Very annoying...
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?
Since Wileyfox migrated from CyanogenMod to plain Android they have allowed a really annoying bug to creep in: SMS alerts are played at full volume in the earpiece during an active voice call.
Apart from being super annoying it might be dangerous in some cases as depending on the volume of the chosen tone, it might damage someones hearing.
Our device is running the stock 7.1.2 ROM which is the first release in which we noticed it.
In previous release, and almost every other device we can think of, the SMS alert during a voice call is either a simple pip or nothing at all.
Are you affected by this too? Have you found a solution (apart from a custom ROM or new phone)?
There seems no way around this in the phone setup and it seems to us that WF need to fix it. If you agree then please take a look at this FB post and vote it up - it may be we can get an update issued:-
https://www.facebook.com/officialwileyfox/posts/1872330073078309
Thanks for reading.
SOLUTION: SMS Alert during voicecall.
For anyone interested we have found a solution: Replace the stock messaging app with Google Messages.
This can be downloaded from Play Store here:-
Google Messages
It seems the stock messaging app somehow gets around or ignores the "Override Do Not Disturb" setting as shown in the attached screenshot.
Hope this helps. :good:
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.
xdateddybear said:
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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ManImCool said:
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!