I have some custom ringtones that I've used on each of my last 3 or 4 phones and was wondering how I would get them into the right folder so that I could utilize them on my newest toy, which I received yesterday. I actually emailed them to myself this morning, so they're in my download folder.
I typically assign my 12 most frequent phone callers their own ringtones, which are song snippets that match them perfectly.
Anyway, any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Plug the phone into the USB on your desktop and switch themode on the phone from Charging to Gile transfer.
Copy them into the Ringtones folder/directory in main storage (/storage/emulated/0/Ringtones).
bkrickles said:
I have some custom ringtones that I've used on each of my last 3 or 4 phones and was wondering how I would get them into the right folder so that I could utilize them on my newest toy, which I received yesterday. I actually emailed them to myself this morning, so they're in my download folder.
I typically assign my 12 most frequent phone callers their own ringtones, which are song snippets that match them perfectly.
Anyway, any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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There are folders under \root\sdcard for "Notifications" and "Ringtones" that you can plop your files in to. Once you put them there they'll show in the list of available sounds for either when you go about the normal process of setting up sounds for the various functions.
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Is this an MTP issue, ICS issue, or just a GNex issue?
What I mean is, I would copy or move files around in the GNex, and it won't reflect the changes when connected to a PC. Vice versa.
Also, I just copied a few MP3 files into my /sdcard/Notifications folder, but the GNex is not recognizing any of them! If I copy them into the /sdcard/Ringtones folder, it will show up, but only after a while. However, that's for phone ringtones and not notifications. I need a relatively long and loud tone for my text messages and calendar alerts.
Anyone else experiencing this? Oh how I wish my SGSII has AWS so I can use that on T-Mobile (recently switched from AT&T).
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.
Hello,
I have a lovely little facebook 'pop' m4a, whch I happily used on my Note 1 as a notification sound.
I can't get my Note II to recognize it at all.
I see Four (!!) 'Facebook pop' entries in the 'Default Notification' select box.
None of them play any sound.
I can manually play the m4a and it sounds so it's not corrupted.
I used 'catlog' and see some of them looking random directories that don't exist. (i.e. /sdcard/extSdCard/blha/blah/).
Why is it looking there?
I've tried copying it to a bunch of random directories. Or does m4a just not work?
- Frank
Ringdroid to the rescue.
I had it save it as a notification tone and that worked great.
ChodTheWacko said:
Hello,
I have a lovely little facebook 'pop' m4a, whch I happily used on my Note 1 as a notification sound.
I can't get my Note II to recognize it at all.
I see Four (!!) 'Facebook pop' entries in the 'Default Notification' select box.
None of them play any sound.
I can manually play the m4a and it sounds so it's not corrupted.
I used 'catlog' and see some of them looking random directories that don't exist. (i.e. /sdcard/extSdCard/blha/blah/).
Why is it looking there?
I've tried copying it to a bunch of random directories. Or does m4a just not work?
- Frank
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Use ZEDGE from playstore.
The facebook pop notification is there. Download and set it.
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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.
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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.
So I copied the contents of my old phone to my new pixel XL. I had custom tones for my contacts, emails, etc, and they all defaulted to silent tones. Any idea why? How to prevent it from happening next time?
Did you transfer the contents via the cord directly connecting the two phones and the transfer program built into the Pixel XL? I transferred via that method from one Google device to another (Nexus 6P to Pixel XL) and it didn't go all that smoothly. Some stuff copied fine and other stuff didn't.
Not knowing anything about the source of your custom tones or how you transferred from your old phone to the Pixel will make it hard for anyone to help you. Providing more info might be a good idea.
Well I transferred everything through USB to my computer from my old phone. Then I transferred everything to my pixel using the same method. They are just mp3 files I made and have used for ages. It could be that I merged the folders as I copied them, maybe