separate ring/text tones per individual contact - Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hey guys,
very new to the android platform, i have been an iPhone user for the last 8 years now, this is my very first android device... started to realize that apple hasn't innovated much in the last few years... anyway, enjoying my new nexus 5x so far but wanted to know if there was a way I can create a custom text tone for an individual contact. not only text but a different custom ringtone as well? so basically a single contact can have their own ring and text tones
Thanks in advance!

@lilfarlee it's kind of buried. When you are on the contact edit screen tap the menu overflow button (top left, three stacked dots). There is an option in this menu to Set Ringtone.
You should be able to set a personalized notification tone for your messaging contacts within your messaging app.
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Not groups.
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There is a third party app
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Hi, I've got my Galaxy S for 3 days now and can't figure out how to change the notification tone for calendar reminders.
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olympicchicken said:
Hi, I've got my Galaxy S for 3 days now and can't figure out how to change the notification tone for calendar reminders.
Searching the net and this forum did not bring me really further (there is supposed to be a "more" under settings but it is just not shown for me).
Thank you for your help and sorry if it's a dumb question it is my first Android after years of HTC WM.
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1) On SDkard make a new map called; media.
2) Open media and make a new map called; audio.
3) Open audio and make two maps, notifications and ringtones
Inside the map of notifications attach your personal mp3.
Finished
thank you for your instructions. which i followed. but still can't choose a tone from the menu options in the calendar just the overall notification tone.
I have the same problem (I have started another thread for this a few days ago)...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714948
Yeah I was interested in changing some of the default tones as well, such as the battery low tone.
The program Calendar Snooze lets me choose an alternative tone for reminders BUT additionally to the original tone (but still better than nothing).
There is a hint screen in Calendar Snooze saying that one should disable the default alert in the calendar to exclusively use the one chosen by yourself - what of course I can't do.
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And yes I read something about reaching the "more" option in the calendar by using hw keyboard or trackball both not available for us.
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Really? Clearly Android is in need of some 'Mobile Phone' settings.
This was one of my 1st gripes and the way round for me is to use 3rd part apps
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2. Install Handscent SMS and set it to play what ever sound when you get a SMS
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Try looking in the apps themself rather than in settings!
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Regards,
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Yikes... Every mobile phone since like 1982 has been able to change this in one place. I knew I was going to have a few problems with android but wow.
Is there an official place to submit enhancement (20 years ago) requests to the android development team?
couchpotato7 said:
Yikes... Every mobile phone since like 1882 has been able to change this in one place. I knew I was going to have a few problems with android but wow.
Is there an official place to submit enhancement (20 years ago) requests to the android development team?
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You rather miss the point. Since Android allows all sorts of new applications, with all sorts of potentially new notifications, there is no way you can have a "one stop shop" for notifications.
I have 4 email accounts setup in Gmail, and each of them has a different notification sound. It would be very hard to achieve this if notification sounds were handled centrally.
Regards,
Dave
And if you don't change the sound in an app it uses the default one as set in the 'Sound' settings in the menu, under 'Notification sound'

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scroll down to "Stack your notifications"
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Well that's a real bummer
So theoretically a dev could implement notifications that don't stack. I wonder if someone would be interested in modding the GMail app in this way?

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