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.
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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.
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Just got my Retail Note4. Cant wait for the smart guys and gals to figure out how to root it. In the mean time I was trying to figure a way to put a recorded sound in the notifications folder so I can use it as my default notification. First you have to activate the developer option, which is not turned on from the factory. Go to settings, about phone, and quickly tap 4 or 5 times on the "Build number". This turns on the developer option in Settings. You can then turn on the Dev Option and scroll down to USB debugging.
When I plugged the phone into my old windows XP desktop it took about 3 minutes to show up as a device on the Computer screen. I opened the device labeled, Samsung-SM-N910V. The phone option populates the folders in the phone memory to your computer.
I had already recorded the sound I wanted so there was a "Voice Recorder" folder. I opened that and my sound was there. I right clicked and copied the sound. Go to Media, Audio, Notifications. When you open notifications you can paste the copied sound there. I went to the notifications sound folder on the phone and surprised myself that the sound was there. I thought I was going to have to wait for root to do this. If there is an easier way I was unable to find it when I searched. Now if I can get rid of all the ads I will really like this phone.
Create a "mirrored" folder on your external SD card and place your sounds there...your system will find it. This way is really easy.
[extSdCard/media/audio]...in the audio folder make the following folders: [alarms , notifications , ringtones]
Place the sounds you want to be used in the correct sub-folders. Your system will find them....similar methods have worked for me all the way back to Windows Mobile 5....lol.
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Thanks. I knew there had to be an easier way to do this. I know just enough to be dangerous. Had to send my note 2 out for a heart transplant when I turned it into stone. Think I will return to it if it gets back in time so I can return this 4. The ads are killing me.
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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.
Coming from a Nexus5 I wanted to bring across more ringtones/alarms and notification sounds from that device to my new OnePlus 3.
So I got them all from my Nexus 5 and moved them to my OP3.
I couldn't find where the default ones reside, so googled and read (somewhere - don't know where) that they can be added to Internal Storage/Alarms, Internal Storage/Notifications and Internal Storage/Ringtones.
After doing so I've noticed that if I then pick a default (shipped) notification (not one of my imported ones) no sound plays when it should. Although within settings where you pick notifications the full combined list of default and custom notification sounds show.
So it seems that the Internal Storage/Notifications is completely overriding the default location when a notification should be played...
Has anybody else found this?
Could someone else test and back me up on this theory?
Does anybody know the location of the default directories for alarms/notifications and ringtones?
Thanks for any assistance!
Okay, so to update this myself, in case anybody else is having this issue... it isn't what i described above.
Not sure what it is, but for some reason having thought I fixed it yesterday by removing the notification sounds as mentioned above I noticed notifications had stopped again, today.
Then I noticed when I go to "settings > sound & notification > Default notification ringtone" and change the ringtone i don't hear the tone same being played as a sample....
After (and it took me ages to find this) modifying the ringer volume in sounds & notifications the notifications started sounding again.
So... what is causing it (I can't do this each time). For some reason my phone seems to auto switch to priority each night... yes, this shouldn't happen because OnePlus have implemented the slider functionality instead. But it seems to be happening and I think this might be causing the issues.
Why? Maybe because when I set my OP3 up I used NFC to migrate everything from my Nexus 5. Could this have also migrated my priority nighttime downtime settings, which are getting set at night and not unset in the morning?
Not sure if anybody else is interested, but I'll keep an eye on this and report back, in case I'm not alone...
Yes, this is the problem indeed. You should set it up as a new phone.
[I always do this even between flashes on the same phone... Yeah, I know it takes a lot of time]
I put my mp3 in /sdcard/media/audio/notifications folder but It doesn't appear
this happens since the OP3 and OP3T
and it seems they are not going to enable that change, this request has been asked many times and no answer about this
the main question is why? because it seems like a basic task
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if you're rooted put them in system/media/audio/ringtone or system/media/audio/notifications otherwise, for now, there's no other solution.
I've had this the unlocked P6P for over a month. All my uploaded sounds and music disappeared about 10 days after upload.
I use a collection of sounds for alarms, notifications, and ringtones for my prior Pixels (2XL, 3XL, and 5). I also upload my MP3s onto the phone. I place them under folders in "Internal Storage" on the P6P: Alarms, Music, Notifications, Ringtones.
All of the uploads disappear after about 10 days.
I have to transfer everything back on to the phone and set all my sound settings and reconstitute my play list Every. Single. Time.
My prior Pixels never did anything like this. The Pixel 5 was on Android 12 before I traded it in and did not exhibit this behavior.
FYI: I set up the phone as "fresh" upon receipt, where I did not transfer my old phone to the new.
Any ideas of what's causing this?
I haven't had this issue in the nearly two months I've had the phone. With the exception of the time I truly accidentally wiped my phone several weeks back, all the 400 GB of FLAC music, plus my custom ringtones I've dragged with me from phone to phone since my old flip-phone. I've only utilized the Music and Ringtones folders.
I have three different music apps I access my music files with, depending on exactly how I want to play them.
I have no idea what to suggest as could be the issue. My only thought was ".nomedia" files, but that wouldn't actually get rid of the files, just make them invisible to the Android media scanner, so I expect you've already ruled that out and that the files were truly gone. I hope you figure it out, and that someone else has some ideas to give you.
Edit: Another thought - you don't have any app installed designed to automatically clear space on your phone, I hope.
To be clear, you haven't unlocked the bootloader, disabled verity and verification, and/or rooted, correct? (so we can rule out a root app doing it)
No problems here, either. I use what I am used to for ringtones, notifications, and alarm. I've never had to reinstall them. Sounds like a real pain.
I'm not rooted and all apps are from the App Store (not side loaded).
Originally I thought it was BitDefender antivirus -- it was on the P5, too -- and I uninstalled it.
I'm downloading the sounds etc. from OneDrive: maybe it's a Microsoft issue similar to the Teams emergency call debacle? But it's weird that everything disappears around the 10 day mark.
I'll try and install everything using a computer rather than the cloud.
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I'm not rooted and all apps are from the App Store (not side loaded).
Originally I thought it was BitDefender antivirus -- it was on the P5, too -- and I uninstalled it.
I'm downloading the sounds etc. from OneDrive: maybe it's a Microsoft issue similar to the Teams emergency call debacle? But it's weird that everything disappears around the 10 day mark.
I'll try and install everything using a computer rather than the cloud.
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As far as I know, unless you're using a third-party solution to sync, none of the actual cloud-provider Android apps like Microsoft OneDrive sync with the internal storage - as you know, you have to manually trigger downloads from OneDrive on Android, so I doubt if it's a OneDrive problem, but I'm certainly curious if you'll be able to track the problem down.
I use X-plore File Manager's built-in capability to display several cloud providers as if they're just additional drives available to copy from and to, including Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. I used to have my Ringtones in OneDrive but now I have them in Google Drive.
When I'm copying bulk (long hours-worth of copying files) of music, I copy them from a MicroSD card plugged into a USB-C dongle; otherwise, I copy new stuff straight from my computer.
Please update us about your results or if you have any other news.
Most of my alarms, notifications, and ringtones disappeared again. But my music files are untouched (for now). I transferred the files from my PC.
My sounds worked yesterday.
The last time the sounds disappeared, I manually turned on Do Not Disturb. I also schedule DND at night. This day, I forgot to turn off the manual DND before my scheduled DND. So I temporarily removed my night DND schedule, turned off DND, then turned on my DND schedule. My sounds and music disappeared the next morning.
Today, most of my sounds disappeared (except music) after the scheduled DND. At first I thought it was because was .ogg files, but the phone is deleting .mp3 too.
I am going to remove my DND schedule to see if this is the reason for losing my sounds.
sunNsnow said:
Most of my alarms, notifications, and ringtones disappeared again. But my music files are untouched (for now). I transferred the files from my PC.
My sounds worked yesterday.
The last time the sounds disappeared, I manually turned on Do Not Disturb. I also schedule DND at night. This day, I forgot to turn off the manual DND before my scheduled DND. So I temporarily removed my night DND schedule, turned off DND, then turned on my DND schedule. My sounds and music disappeared the next morning.
Today, most of my sounds disappeared (except music) after the scheduled DND. At first I thought it was because was .ogg files, but the phone is deleting .mp3 too.
I am going to remove my DND schedule to see if this is the reason for losing my sounds.
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Very strange. I use both scheduled and manual DnD all the time and I still haven't had this issue. Still worth investigating and eliminating or confirming that as a possibility on your end though, since there's no other obvious solution.
I would suggest a factory reset if you run out of ideas, or might be worth waiting until the big mega (late) January update whenever that comes to see if that fixes it.