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??? Cant Change Ringtone ???

right i had my ringtone set as something personal that i wanted - though i cant even remember how i did that as it was an option somewhere that moved the song its self anyway for some reason i cant use my own ringtones any more - every time that i try to select one it saves but then i open it again and its selected the last ringtone there is some windowsmobile one which i dont want
is it something that i have done?
how do i fix it?
could it be an application that i have used? i added the media player "Nitrogen" could that have affected it?
the apps i have installed:
TomTom Navigator
Southampton Navigator Map
Spb Mobile Shell 3, Weather, Keyboard, time, TV
Dusk comm mgr & misc
VolDeus MS3Config
Fingerkeyboard
HDTweak
changescreen
Nigrogen
could any of these affected it?

Right it seems that Nitrogen isnt the culprit as i uninstalled it and i still cant change ringtone back to what i had it as. i am also missing the option when holding down on a music file to set that as the ringtone i have no idea what i have done but im desperate need of some help

right i might be getting a bit closer - the Touch HD seems to think that all my audio files that i have on my memory card are windows files could this have something to do with it? and i keep coming back to Nitrogen i remember during the installation that it gave me a box to tick for MP3 now, which i ticked could that have something to do with this?

Not sure what you've done to lose the option in file explorer but a workaround is to copy the song/sound you want to the 'My Ringtones' folder which is located in the 'My Documents' folder.
You should then be able to go to the sounds settings and choose your song as a ringtone.
Good luck...

Dizzle said:
Not sure what you've done to lose the option in file explorer but a workaround is to copy the song/sound you want to the 'My Ringtones' folder which is located in the 'My Documents' folder.
You should then be able to go to the sounds settings and choose your song as a ringtone.
Good luck...
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nope i have tried that as well. it wont let me use it from there either - i have them there i can select them it just wont use that song when the phone rings. i just copied a song over from my computer and even that didnt work - still goes back to one from the computer - im running out of ideas maybe im going to be forced to do a hard reset as a soft reset didnt do anything
right its fixed - it took a hard reset though

it happened to me as well
open nitrogen mp3 player
click options--- then settings---- then file associations
and clear the box for use nitrogen to open mp3 files
that causes the problem, i hope it works for you too.

[Q] HELP! Duplicate music!

I use Cubed music player mainly for my music, but today I found that all of my music tracks were duplicated (or triplicated, if that is a word!). I checked with the connected music player as well, and even there there were multiple listings. However, only one track will play.
I then moved all the tracks to my HDD but the listings were still there, and wouldn't play. I tried to search for playlists but could not find any. Also, if I delete any (fake) file using the connected player, the main track gets automatically deleted from the SD.
I could transfer all the files again to my HDD and delete all the files using the connected player, but then I have to do this for hundreds of songs as I can delete only one file at once. I searched and found this to be quite common problem, but there were no solutions! Can anyone please help me with this? I am going bonkers!

Getty going into settings-applications, manage applications, then select' media storage' and clear data.

Thanks but no thanks I went to manage applications settings screen but there was no 'media storage' to clear data. Is there anything else that I can try?

Should have said to make sure you look in the 'all' tab in manage applications, the default view is only ' downloaded'.

There are no tabs at all in the screen!! I am running on stock eclair.

All Hope Is Lost.
abhi.eternal said:
There are no tabs at all in the screen!! I am running on stock eclair.
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The same problem happened to me, I even got so desperate I deleted all of my music in my SD card, but the crappy Connect Music Player doesn't give you an option to at least scan your library, right?
This happened to me when I tried using WinAMP on my phone, I guess there's something wrong with using 3rd party apps. -shrug-
I tried a lot of "scan media" apps from the market, but none of them worked for me. Check those out, maybe that can work for you.
In the end, I did a factory reset and that solved my problem.

abhi.eternal said:
There are no tabs at all in the screen!! I am running on stock eclair.
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Use the app button, first on the left.
Sent from my MB525

@psixda: Which app button? There is no app button! Is it possible for you to help me with some screenshots?
@Zinshin: I want to avoid that path if I can

If you don't have a way to see all your applications in 'manage applications', I think you have a problem or you have gone into a different menu.

Problem Solved!
@superfastmonkey: Thanks for all your help, but sadly it did not work as I am still looking for that tab! However, I found a solution:
I had another MicroSD card which I swapped in the current one. Voila, the dummy playlist was not there. But when I inserted the original card, it came back. So the problem is with the card, right? I simply backed up all the folders to my HDD and formatted the card. (NOTE: The copied size was different; I guess there was some problem in the card as hidden files options was checked). Anyways, after formatting, I copied everything back and lo and behold, everything works fine and I won't go insane anymore over this!

If you have Eclair, in manage aplications there are no tabs.
You have to push the menu button (bottom-left, obviously), and there must be an option like "view" or something similar. In there should be "All".
"Media Storage" could be written in your language. In my spanish phone, it is "Almacenamiento de medios".
Good luck!

tensan said:
If you have Eclair, in manage aplications there are no tabs.
You have to push the menu button (bottom-left, obviously), and there must be an option like "view" or something similar. In there should be "All".
"Media Storage" could be written in your language. In my spanish phone, it is "Almacenamiento de medios".
Good luck!
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Nah.. it's not there. If I hold down the menu button, I get two options:
1. Sort
- by size
- a to z
2. Filter
- All
- Running
- Downloaded
Anyways, does not matter now. As I said, problem solved
EDIT: Now it struck me.. All!!

Galaxy Nexus Ringtones/Notification location

Update - I apologize for the post. I know what happened, or I think I do. I cleared the "Media Storage" data app the previous day in order to get rid of some empty folders I had deleted from my gallery app. I am guessing this also cleared the audio media settings as well. Not sure about the Ringtone and Notification folders on my SD card or how they got there but perhaps after clearing the media data everything audio switched to pointing at those folders (?).
I deleted the SD card folders and rebooted. Sometimes the simplistic of solutions...
Anyways, the apps now point back to the correct audio locations.
Hi,
Had something odd occur yesterday, I noticed my text messages no longer had a ringtone when incoming. So I checked the settings and sure enough it was set to silent, but the reason was because I no longer had any other ringtones, just silent and Google Hangouts ringtone.
I had not even used my phone up to that point yesterday so I have no idea how this happened.
Anyways, I see that the folders Ringtones and Notifications in my SD card root were empty so I look online, find the Nexus Ringtones and add them back. Now I have the ringtones to select in my sound settings for apps.
However, my download of the ringtones also had sounds for the UI folder and when looking to see where that folder goes, cause I don't see it in my SD root, I realize that they all go in /system/media/audio and that all the sounds are in fact in those folders.
So, does anyone have any idea why the ringtone and notification settings for apps didn't find the folder? Or, where I can look to find how to point them back to the correct location.
Thanks for any help or ideas. I have no clue what happened.
Stock Verizon Galaxy Nexus. Not rooted.

Personal ringtone issues

I've flashed mimicry 1.5 ROM. But it has this little bug. When set personal ringtone of a contact sometimes it plays on call, sometimes play default ringtone. I google it but can't find solution. I never had this problem with my stock ROM (2.3.3). Any ideas?

ive noticed this on various roms as well, it would be rather annoying if it were a bigger deal to me but i just stopped using ringtones allocated to one person. the fix would be take that sound from the sdcard and install it directly itno the system ringtones
easiest way may be a file explorer like root explorer, but you could use terminal or adb or various other methods as well

demkantor said:
ive noticed this on various roms as well, it would be rather annoying if it were a bigger deal to me but i just stopped using ringtones allocated to one person. the fix would be take that sound from the sdcard and install it directly itno the system ringtones
easiest way may be a file explorer like root explorer, but you could use terminal or adb or various other methods as well
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This was 1st thing i've did after flash, also i've tried this:
JETSGS2 said:
Okay, so here it is...
Same exact thing has happened to my wife's phone, but not mine. We even went to the store and tried a brand new phone and same thing! But...We just figured it out! Okay, so here we go...
Edit: If you are not a user of Google contacts, then do not do the merge described below because this will overwrite your phone contacts with your google contacts. Only do this step if all your Google contacts are up to date and include all contacts in your phone.
From within your computer, go to your Google contacts, the is a "My Contacts" label. At the bottom, there is an "Other" label. Somewhere in there are duplicates, so the phone doesn't know which to assign the cutom ringtone to. Go through and clean up all Google contacts, plus add the "My Contacts" to any contact that doesn't have it. Then delete any from the "other" list and any doubles in the contacts. Then, on your phone, open contacts and go to menu-more-settings-save new contacts to, and select Google. (Trust me on this one...PLASE DO THIS.) Then go to contacts, menu, and select Merge with Google. (You may lose contacts that you've put in your phone from your phone, but this is the only time this will happen.) From this point on, anything done in the Google contacts will instantly update in your phone and vise-versa, but more importantly, your ringtones should work when assigned to individual contacts.
If that doesn't work, let me know, there is one other thing to try. Good Luck!
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It is important to now that this bug appear from time to time. Also i've tried to use app as contacts and phone replacement but unfortunately it using contact & contacts storage and it's a little bit useless

What i did so far and it doesn't work:
Formatted phone numbers without dashes and spaces
Tried to store contacts locally and to google contacts
Tried to convert all of my ringtones to the *.ogg for minimizing resource needed
Tried 3rd party app
I'm open for suggestions. From other thread i realize the problem may be is this little lag that appear from time to time

Custom SMS Tone for Contact Groups?

I know the answer to this isn't Note 7-specific, but since the problem is on that device this made the most sense. Just bought a Note 7, coming fresh from an old Note 3 with Android 5, and I've noticed a startling number of features have been removed. Most I can live without, but one that's bothering me is that I can't set a custom SMS tone for contact groups. Ringtone yes, but not message alert like I could with Android 5.
Is there a way to do this that I'm just somehow missing or did they actually remove this from the OS?
EDIT: also, unlike Android 5, I can't set a custom alert sound in Facebook Messenger using one of my own MP3s, since the app doesn't seem to see them (just the stock Android sounds). I've tried moving them from my phone to the SD card and back again, to no avail; every other app can seem to read them just fine, but not this one. The same app version on the Note 3 (which was not rooted mind you) had no problems, and near as I can figure everything is installed correctly. Any suggestions?

Try to create "notifications" and "ringtones" folder on the root of your internal memory (not your SD card) and put all of your corresponding MP3 in it. Now you will see them. Hope it can help.

tnpir4002 said:
I know the answer to this isn't Note 7-specific, but since the problem is on that device this made the most sense. Just bought a Note 7, coming fresh from an old Note 3 with Android 5, and I've noticed a startling number of features have been removed. Most I can live without, but one that's bothering me is that I can't set a custom SMS tone for contact groups. Ringtone yes, but not message alert like I could with Android 5.
Is there a way to do this that I'm just somehow missing or did they actually remove this from the OS?
EDIT: also, unlike Android 5, I can't set a custom alert sound in Facebook Messenger using one of my own MP3s, since the app doesn't seem to see them (just the stock Android sounds). I've tried moving them from my phone to the SD card and back again, to no avail; every other app can seem to read them just fine, but not this one. The same app version on the Note 3 (which was not rooted mind you) had no problems, and near as I can figure everything is installed correctly. Any suggestions?
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i would also like an answer to this. worked great on note edge but not on note 7

Lo Xa said:
Try to create "notifications" and "ringtones" folder on the root of your internal memory (not your SD card) and put all of your corresponding MP3 in it. Now you will see them. Hope it can help.
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Tried that...as I said, every other app besides Facebook Messenger sees them. No matter where I store them, the only thing that Messenger sees is the stock Android sounds. It does list my default notification sound, though--which is one of my custom tones--but when I tap that it doesn't play it. It's almost like Messenger doesn't have permissions on the actual Notifications folder, but I don't know how to give them without rooting.