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[HOW-TO] Delete and Change Stock Ringtone/Notification/Alarm/UI

For those who want to delete annoying ringtone or alarm sounds from stock one, here is a simple solution to change it
You need : Root Explorer / Root Browser
1. Go to root.
2. Open system/media/audio
3. (See, there are 4 folders : alarm, notification, ringtone, and ui) Choose folder that you want.
4. If you don't like the sound from that folder, just delete it. If you want to give your own sound, just copy it to the folder that you chose. But i recommend your sound file type is ogg vorbis. You can download Audacity from (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) to helps you convert the sound file
5. (Important) If you choose ui folder and want to change the system sound, don't forget to change your new sound's name like the old one!
5. Done!
After that, if you have problem about ringtone loop, see my thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446787
please press THANKS button if this post helped you

Can it be done without root?
I have a new GT i9100G which is not rooted and as of this time I do not wish to void the warranty. So, my question is, can this be done without rooting my device? If not, will using Odin to root the device (flashing a kernel) set the counter to 1, and if so, how do I reset it without a jig?
PS. I hope I am not posting this in the wrong place and apologize if I am.

wow thanks for this simple guide, been lookin for this
+1 mate

amasiam said:
I have a new GT i9100G which is not rooted and as of this time I do not wish to void the warranty. So, my question is, can this be done without rooting my device? If not, will using Odin to root the device (flashing a kernel) set the counter to 1, and if so, how do I reset it without a jig?
PS. I hope I am not posting this in the wrong place and apologize if I am.
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no,it needs root.

Still visible in the menu...
Thanks a lot for the guide bro!
I got another question. I removed all those annoying sounds I never used and never will, the way you showed, but when I open the alarm menu or ringtone menu, they are still visible.
How do I remove them from there too? I wiped cache and Dalvik cache, but they are still there although there are only 3 alarm sounds left, the list of sounds in the alarm menu is still the same...

A really simple thing to do.
I wonder why people fail at times..
Anyways, Good Guide. Will help lots of people.

thankx for it was got bore with that old sound

a.fontenele said:
Thanks a lot for the guide bro!
I got another question. I removed all those annoying sounds I never used and never will, the way you showed, but when I open the alarm menu or ringtone menu, they are still visible.
How do I remove them from there too? I wiped cache and Dalvik cache, but they are still there although there are only 3 alarm sounds left, the list of sounds in the alarm menu is still the same...
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Never mind... Problem solved... In the beginning, even after deleting the sounds I didn't want, they were still visible in the menus. If I selected them they would be mute of course... Today, somehow they disappeared from the menus as welI don't know if out was due to my constant rom modding or what. It beats me...

a.fontenele said:
Never mind... Problem solved... In the beginning, even after deleting the sounds I didn't want, they were still visible in the menus. If I selected them they would be mute of course... Today, somehow they disappeared from the menus as welI don't know if out was due to my constant rom modding or what. It beats me...
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Once you are done with removing/adding the ring tone, restart your phone. It will update the new list.

a.fontenele said:
Never mind... Problem solved... In the beginning, even after deleting the sounds I didn't want, they were still visible in the menus. If I selected them they would be mute of course... Today, somehow they disappeared from the menus as welI don't know if out was due to my constant rom modding or what. It beats me...
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the way to update the ringtone list is just restart your phone, or you could edit the ROM zip file first, before you flash it in your phone.

Got root
evil_penguin said:
no,it needs root.
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Thanks for answering my post. Using SU-BB installer, I was able to get root without changing the counter (I hope) so now I can use your method to get rid of the sounds I never use and do not like.

I've added sounds to the notification folder earlier but the notification volume is much lower than what the original volume of those tones. Any way to fix it ?
Sent from my GT-S5830 using xda premium

boosting your audio signal.
Venomous Viper 119 said:
I've added sounds to the notification folder earlier but the notification volume is much lower than what the original volume of those tones. Any way to fix it ?
Sent from my GT-S5830 using xda premium
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Use Audacity: It's free, and open source!
If your GT-S5830 has only one speaker (mono), you can, if your audio is stereo, create a mono track which should help somewhat. Audacity>new>open your file> tracks> stereo to mono. You can also use audacity to boost the db of the of the audio signal (take care not to cause clipping). Audacity>effect>amplify.
Hope this helps.

amasiam said:
Use Audacity: It's free, and open source!
If your GT-S5830 has only one speaker (mono), you can, if your audio is stereo, create a mono track which should help somewhat. Audacity>new>open your file> tracks> stereo to mono. You can also use audacity to boost the db of the of the audio signal (take care not to cause clipping). Audacity>effect>amplify.
Hope this helps.
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Will try it out... Thanks a lot ..!
Sent from my GT-S5830 using xda premium

persistent irritating original ringtone!
My friend, please help me out. I have a problem with my rooted Huawei mediapad s7-931u device. i dont know why whenever i use/ install hisuit driver, the ringtone of the device gets back to its original (irritating!) one. off course, the name of the ringtone in my device is the one I have chosen, but that does not ring and the original one is played. I have tried to not use hisuit but still when i install a new app or use Superuser app, the ringtone changes to its original one!!!
you know what's funny! i looked all four audio folders to find that ... sound but it wasnt in any of them to be DELETED or what.
Please help me out! it's really going on my nerves now!
by the way, i forgot to make a ROM back up! oops. actually i tried but i couldnt. please tell me what to do.
Thanks a million.

I want to replace the water drop sound

I am tired of the bloop Everytime I click on the screen. I want to change it and am not positive the exact method.
I know I need to replace the system file with another file of the same name and file type, but I'm not sure what the hell the name of the file is.
Can someone please help me on this one
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/system/media/audio/UI/Lock.ogg
Or just uncheck it in sounds under settings.

psykhotic said:
/system/media/audio/UI/Lock.ogg
Or just uncheck it in sounds under settings.
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so if I was to replace that file with one of the exact same name the new sound would play with almost every touch
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

ironlood said:
so if I was to replace that file with one of the exact same name the new sound would play with almost every touch
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
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Make sure the sound file you are going to use is in OGG format or it wont work, here is a link that will show you how to this without downloading any sound changing software. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873289&highlight=ogg

psykhotic said:
/system/media/audio/UI/Lock.ogg
Or just uncheck it in sounds under settings.
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That's the right directory but you want effecttick.ogg not lock.ogg.
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elesbb said:
That's the right directory but you want effecttick.ogg not lock.ogg.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
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After this I wanted to confirm for myself( just a curiosity thing ) and found something very intresting. I removed each file 1 at a time and rebooted, only to find out that the sound was still there. Could my RootExplorer be going wacky ? Or could those files have nothing to do with the lock sound ?

saldebot said:
After this I wanted to confirm for myself( just a curiosity thing ) and found something very intresting. I removed each file 1 at a time and rebooted, only to find out that the sound was still there. Could my RootExplorer be going wacky ? Or could those files have nothing to do with the lock sound ?
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Don't delete them. Just rename to Effect_Tick.ogg.off. it works for me for getting rid of the camera sounds. But I know for sure that effect tick is the touch sounds. I've made a couple themes for myself.
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elesbb said:
That's the right directory but you want effecttick.ogg not lock.ogg.
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Play the sounds.... lock is the water.

See...

psykhotic said:
See...
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I'm on cm10. The op said when tapping the screen. That's effect tick. He didn't say when locking the device. Unless they are speaking of the tapping sound on the lock screen.
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saldebot said:
After this I wanted to confirm for myself( just a curiosity thing ) and found something very intresting. I removed each file 1 at a time and rebooted, only to find out that the sound was still there. Could my RootExplorer be going wacky ? Or could those files have nothing to do with the lock sound ?
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Make sure that your file explorer is setting the /system folder as writable. Even if you have access to root folder of your phone, the /system folder is usually read only. Goes without saying you need root access to your device.

OK I think OP means TAP on the screen. Click on to me meant turning the screen on and off. There are two ways, untick the box or rename the file.

OK I think OP means TAP on the screen. Click on to me meant turning the screen on and off. There are two ways, untick the box or rename the file.

psykhotic said:
OK I think OP means TAP on the screen. Click on to me meant turning the screen on and off. There are two ways, untick the box or rename the file.
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From what I took, he wants to change it not get rid of it. But I'm with you, I'm all confused now as to what sound they do not like -.- lol
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

No no no
This post intrigued me so I tried it myself... I wanted to change the obnoxious "boop" to the tick from an aosp JB ROM and I found that All 3 of these files must be changed or else you'll still get that dang "boop":
/system/media/audio/ui/Effect_Tick.ogg (Actually, I really don't think this is necessary because I accidentally deleted this file entirely without replacement and have still achieved the same results, but if it makes you feel comfortable...)
PLUS
/system/media/audio/ui/S_HW_Touch.ogg (This is the sound for the "back" and "menu" keys on the bottom of the phone)
AND ALSO
/system/media/audio/ui/TW_Touch.ogg (This is the MAIN file that changes the sound on every touch made on the touchscreen)
Hope this helps!
And oh yeah... DEFINITELY make sure you're using a root-capable file explorer with "/System/" mounted as RW and make sure permissions are set to "rw-r-r" when you're done. And reboot for new sounds to take effect.

jpolidori11 said:
This post intrigued me so I tried it myself... I wanted to change the obnoxious "boop" to the tick from an aosp JB ROM and I found that All 3 of these files must be changed or else you'll still get that dang "boop":
/system/media/audio/ui/Effect_Tick.ogg (Actually, I really don't think this is necessary because I accidentally deleted this file entirely without replacement and have still achieved the same results, but if it makes you feel comfortable...)
PLUS
/system/media/audio/ui/S_HW_Touch.ogg (This is the sound for the "back" and "menu" keys on the bottom of the phone)
AND ALSO
/system/media/audio/ui/TW_Touch.ogg (This is the MAIN file that changes the sound on every touch made on the touchscreen)
Hope this helps!
And oh yeah... DEFINITELY make sure you're using a root-capable file explorer with "/System/" mounted as RW and make sure permissions are set to "rw-r-r" when you're done. And reboot for new sounds to take effect.
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what about the dialpad?? it has the water sounds too!

I'm sure the keyboard has one too. So there may be a ton of files lol. I always disable keytones and what not as soon as I touch an electronic device. They drive me nuts. It'd be a fun prank to replace the bloop with the camera click tho

jpolidori11 said:
This post intrigued me so I tried it myself... I wanted to change the obnoxious "boop" to the tick from an aosp JB ROM and I found that All 3 of these files must be changed or else you'll still get that dang "boop":
/system/media/audio/ui/Effect_Tick.ogg (Actually, I really don't think this is necessary because I accidentally deleted this file entirely without replacement and have still achieved the same results, but if it makes you feel comfortable...)
PLUS
/system/media/audio/ui/S_HW_Touch.ogg (This is the sound for the "back" and "menu" keys on the bottom of the phone)
AND ALSO
/system/media/audio/ui/TW_Touch.ogg (This is the MAIN file that changes the sound on every touch made on the touchscreen)
Hope this helps!
And oh yeah... DEFINITELY make sure you're using a root-capable file explorer with "/System/" mounted as RW and make sure permissions are set to "rw-r-r" when you're done. And reboot for new sounds to take effect.
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I was tinkering around in the sounds and found out that this works really easy.
Unfortunately the effects are not immediately noticible, it requires a reboot to have the system sounds replaced.
Also another big thing is that if you want to keep your phones original sounds just rename the file TW_Touch.ogg.off or .Bak all you need to do is add something to the end that makes the file null by the phone and it can always be changed back to reinstate the stock sound
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

chadster214 said:
what about the dialpad?? it has the water sounds too!
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This helped me SO much! Ty all! I was stuck on this for like 2 days lol.

Annoying "boot sound" turn it off!! BOOT ANIMATIONS FOUND HERE!

HAVE TO BE ROOTED. IF the power on sound is annoying to you as to me I changed it off...I will provide a screenshot I used root explorer to rename the file and put a "y" at the end of the file....and the touch sound is little annoying hearing raindrops everywhere so i did the same method. .....
TO change these as something you wish copy a sound over change permissions and rename to what it once was...ONCE YOUR DONE REBOOT;;;
SCREENSHOT shows where files are located for your convenience. ...hope this helps :thumbup:
BOOT ANIMATIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE:::
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683013

You don't have to change the touch sound, as there is already an option in settings to disable it.

Roundabouts said:
You don't have to change the touch sound, as there is already an option in settings to disable it.
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Not for boot sound...plus this way you can change to whatever boot sound or click touch sounds you wish...
Everyone knows you can disable touch
Sounds

Roundabouts said:
You don't have to change the touch sound, as there is already an option in settings to disable it.
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Why is it when someone post useful info that people can use someone comes and tells people not to do what was told or shown. I bet later somewhere we are gonna see you ask about sounds files and wish gave you insight on how to change sound files and where they are . Just learn and stop always commenting against what contributors say.

works like a charm thanks!

wish777 said:
Not for boot sound...plus this way you can change to whatever boot sound or click touch sounds you wish...
Everyone knows you can disable touch
Sounds
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Ah, sorry. Didn't realize that was your intent.
truth77 said:
Why is it when someone post useful info that people can use someone comes and tells people not to do what was told or shown. I bet later somewhere we are gonna see you ask about sounds files and wish gave you insight on how to change sound files and where they are . Just learn and stop always commenting against what contributors say.
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I'm not sure how you got that from my post. I was replying in regards to "the touch sound is little annoying hearing raindrops everywhere so i did the same method." I assumed that he didn't realize that the option to turn it off was there. What was wrong with saying that this step is not necessary? I was not being confrontational.

Roundabouts said:
Ah, sorry. Didn't realize that was your intent.
I'm not sure how you got that from my post. I was replying in regards to "the touch sound is little annoying hearing raindrops everywhere so i did the same method." I assumed that he didn't realize that the option to turn it off was there. What was wrong with saying that this step is not necessary? I was not being confrontational.
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Its ok roundabouts.....I been around a while..I always try to help others ive been around a while before xda.. Its no hard feeling bro...Im here to learn and help just the rest of you.. :thumbup:

Changed my boot sound to the warning siren from Silent Hill. Easy since you pointed it out, thanks. Another mod to play with...

9wire said:
Changed my boot sound to the warning siren from Silent Hill. Easy since you pointed it out, thanks. Another mod to play with...
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Silent hill....thats awesome..lmao

Ill post boot animations once I firgure out where everyrhing is located...

Thank you for this info!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2

wish777 said:
Silent hill....thats awesome..lmao
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Here it is, rename poweron.ogg to .bak, paste this in, set permissions, reboot.
http://www.filedropper.com/poweron
Silent Hill boot sound. Anybody can use, rehost, whatever.

9wire said:
Here it is, rename poweron.ogg to .bak, paste this in, set permissions, reboot.
http://www.filedropper.com/poweron
Silent Hill boot sound. Anybody can use, rehost, whatever.
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That is sick I love that horn lol tks. Good to see you here 9wire.

truth77 said:
That is sick I love that horn lol tks. Good to see you here 9wire.
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Lock screen mods??? (Tapping fingers...)

Fladhed the multi window rom, it has a power off sound too, here's what I'm using...
http://www.filedropper.com/poweroff

9wire said:
Here it is, rename poweron.ogg to .bak, paste this in, set permissions, reboot.
http://www.filedropper.com/poweron
Silent Hill boot sound. Anybody can use, rehost, whatever.
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lol..thats slick man thank you:good:

9wire said:
Lock screen mods??? (Tapping fingers...)
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I had them and they were nice but was off center a little so I never released it. Didn't want nit pickers lol. I owe ya one.

I was poking around in my res folders, but realized I don't have a lockscreen button. Maybe somebody will come up with an alternative to the waves thingy.

wish777 said:
lol..thats slick man thank you:good:
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How would I go about changing the animation? I don't like it. Especially att's. I tried running the boot animation program that comes up on google play. It says I need busy box. I downloaded that, but not sure what to do.

kryptonx said:
How would I go about changing the animation? I don't like it. Especially att's. I tried running the boot animation program that comes up on google play. It says I need busy box. I downloaded that, but not sure what to do.
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Am gathered some yesterday. .I have college late..ill try to post some..ill make another thread

looking for a 100% working solution >> to the annoying water sound ?

looking for a 100% working solution >> to the annoying water sound ?
on the dialer keypad ? especially!
also looking for a regular sound to the lock screen etc
anyone changed successfully this annoying sounds
.

yaronAD said:
looking for a 100% working solution >> to the annoying water sound ?
on the dialer keypad ? especially!
also looking for a regular sound to the lock screen etc
anyone changed successfully this annoying sounds
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There's a menu in Settings called Sounds. In there' you can enable/disable sounds as you like.

Re: looking for a 100% working solution >> to the annoying water sound ?
Any way to CHANGE the sound to normal key tones?
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app

iPTPenguin said:
There's a menu in Settings called Sounds. In there' you can enable/disable sounds as you like.
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not to enable/disable to change the sounds to regular 4.0.4 sounds
any one ? please ?

yaronAD said:
looking for a 100% working solution >> to the annoying water sound ?
on the dialer keypad ? especially!
also looking for a regular sound to the lock screen etc
anyone changed successfully this annoying sounds
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I get you man! It almost drove crazy! and yes the sounds in question are located in /system/media/audio/ui/
I change 2 files : S_HW_Touch.ogg and TW_Touch.ogg with 2 files I picked from AOSP 4.2, set the permissions correctly and reboot ... voila , no more water-drops .
For the dialer you need to rename/remove/or replace Dialer_new.ogg in the same directory.

Androssama said:
I get you man! It almost drove crazy! and yes the sounds in question are located in /system/media/audio/ui/
I change 2 files : S_HW_Touch.ogg and TW_Touch.ogg with 2 files I picked from AOSP 4.2, set the permissions correctly and reboot ... voila , no more water-drops .
For the dialer you need to rename/remove/or replace Dialer_new.ogg in the same directory.
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I replaced it = Dialer_new.ogg with other file/sound>>>>>>and it didn't help!.....the other two did changed
Only the dialer stays with the water sound
Any one?

I would love to know how to do it as well. The key tones on the dialer are very important to have certain sound, for some visually impaired people using this phone it really helps to listen to the key sound when pressing numbers to confirm right number has been pressed. Anybody at Samsung reads this forum? Can you please put back regular telephone dial sounds? What was wrong with the sound? This device is a telephone, right? If anybody can help me I would donate him. Thanx.

yaronAD said:
I replaced it = Dialer_new.ogg with other file/sound>>>>>>and it didn't help!.....the other two did changed
Only the dialer stays with the water sound
Any one?
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Since changing the other sounds worked for me, I assumed it would be the same for the dialer. I was wrong, I apologize.

No one? Come guys (and girls?)...I changed all 3 .ogg files as well, but unfortunately the Dialer sound is still the terrible water sound...although I can't find a SINGLE file on my phone anymore which IS that sound...so where does the phone find that sound/file????? Aaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhh!!!
This is spooky...or is it an encrypted file just to tease us?
Thanks,
ChaosDM

Can someone post the alternative files please? ?
thanks to Androssama for the files.
the files are here for the needy.
btw, the dialer sound is not annoying as it is a bit different now that the other sounds are changed to better ones.
you have to change the mount from R/O to R/W in the root explorer. & make a backup of the old files just in case. then copy paste the new files overwriting the old ones. change back the permission from R/W to R/O, reboot & enjoy.

lrcquest said:
Can someone post the alternative files please? ?
thanks to Androssama for the files.
the files are here for the needy.
btw, the dialer sound is not annoying as it is a bit different now that the other sounds are changed to better ones.
you have to change the mount from R/O to R/W in the root explorer. & make a backup of the old files just in case. then copy paste the new files overwriting the old ones. change back the permission from R/W to R/O, reboot & enjoy.
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Being rooted, w/ Note 2 and using root explorer, I changed to R/W, replaced Dialer_New.ogg, S_HW_Touch.ogg, and TW_Touch.ogg, changed permissions on them taking Write off, back to R/O mode, rebooted, and still dialer has drop sounds... Not getting this, am I missing something?
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Being rooted, w/ Note 2 and using root explorer, I changed to R/W, replaced Dialer_New.ogg, S_HW_Touch.ogg, and TW_Touch.ogg, changed permissions on them taking Write off, back to R/O mode, rebooted, and still dialer has drop sounds... Not getting this, am I missing something?

yaronAD said:
I replaced it = Dialer_new.ogg with other file/sound>>>>>>and it didn't help!.....the other two did changed
Only the dialer stays with the water sound
Any one?
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Did you try renaming the new sound file to Dialer_New.ogg?

I know it's been a long time but i just found this and wanted to share it with you guys:
lthung said:
SecContacts.apk\res\raw\touch.ogg
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Now after unzipping the apk the ogg file is there, it should be the one as it sounds like the dialer. I tried all the stupid tricks I know (replacing it with another file and zipping back the whole thing, renaming it to apk since apk files are just fancy zips => didn't work. Tried embedding it in a flashable vrtheme zip file since those decompile, mod and recompile the apk => didn't work.) I don't know how to properly decompile an apk and since everyone is using a different ROM it'll be difficult to post requests.

I've been able to change the touch sounds from water drop to click which was pretty straight forward however the keypad dialler 'spelling"
was located in a different place than otherwise noted on the forum.
The dialler touch sounds were located in a different place than the touch wiz sounds. and it was one file not broken down into 1 2 3 ect.
This is for 4.1.2 i9100.
So I put it into the to hard to do basket and just left it. Sure you can use a app dialler but I like stock.
Wouldn't you think that someone as big as Samsung would allow you to make a simple sound change just by going to settings - sound.
Good luck.

gazman100 said:
The dialler touch sounds were located in a different place than the touch wiz sounds. and it was one file not broken down into 1 2 3 ect.
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I've been looking all over for this sound file (it's not Dialer_New.ogg in System/Media/Audio/UI)
I would be happy to replace the dialer sound with just a single touch tone sound I already have but can't locate the file.
(EDIT) - nevermind - now I understand the post above indicates that the file is located inside SecContacts.apk
SecContacts.apk\res\raw\touch.ogg
Does anyone know where to find the above file? I searched in Root Explorer from the top level (Root) but didn't find it.
Thanks

HOW TO: Disable Camera Shutter Sound (Root)

I was getting tired of hearing the camera shutter sound when taking photos, so I dug around the file system and found two audio files that are the shutter sound. I renamed these, rebooted, and everything is working great. Let me know if this does or doesn't work for you!
Before you get started, you need to be rooted for this method.
Step 1:
Use a root-capable file browser of your choice (I prefer SolidExplorer) and navigate to /system/media/audio/ui
Step 2:
Locate cam_snap_0.ogg and camera.click.ogg and rename the file extensions to .OLD, as seen below.
Step 3:
Reboot, then test

Alternatively, (non-root) you can set your phone to vibrate or silent mode and it wont make the shutter sound.

Mystikalrush said:
Alternatively, (non-root) you can set your phone to vibrate or silent mode and it wont make the shutter sound.
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Agree, why not just set your phone to silent mode.

spencergates928 said:
Agree, why not just set your phone to silent mode.
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Not all of us keep our phone on silent all the time, and most of us don't want to think about turning the volume down every time we take a picture. If we never care to have the shutter sound, why not just disable it completely?

what does the .OLD do to the file? just out of curiosity.

Phurkus said:
what does the .OLD do to the file? just out of curiosity.
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It onyl changes the name. It does not affect the contents of the file in anyway. It will fail a HASH check though so revert it back in order to do an update to another OS if you are stock.

Phurkus said:
what does the .OLD do to the file? just out of curiosity.
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It allows you to keep the original so you can revert back if anything happens, or you no longer want the mod.
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thnx!

Worked like a charm!

You can also use G4 tweaksbox to do the same thing plus a whole lot more.

Spookymyo said:
You can also use G4 tweaksbox to do the same thing plus a whole lot more.
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This was before Xposed came out for the G4, not everyone wants to use Xposed as it hurts battery life, and some people prefer the simple approach.

geoff5093 said:
This was before Xposed came out for the G4, not everyone wants to use Xposed as it hurts battery life, and some people prefer the simple approach.
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I understand. But xposed has such a negligible impact on battery as I doesn't matter. And the tweaksbox is as simple as it gets; one button disables the sound and can turn it back on.

geoff5093 said:
I was getting tired of hearing the camera shutter sound when taking photos, so I dug around the file system and found two audio files that are the shutter sound. I renamed these, rebooted, and everything is working great. Let me know if this does or doesn't work for you!
Before you get started, you need to be rooted for this method.
Step 1:
Use a root-capable file browser of your choice (I prefer SolidExplorer) and navigate to /system/media/audio/ui
Step 2:
Locate cam_snap_0.ogg and camera.click.ogg and rename the file extensions to .OLD, as seen below.
Step 3:
Reboot, then test
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What about the video recording and stop sounds?

Birkesuss said:
What about the video recording and stop sounds?
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G4 tweaksbox can disable those too.

Spookymyo said:
G4 tweaksbox can disable those too.
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I'm currently experiencing issues with the tweaksbox box due to the license error...

Birkesuss said:
I'm currently experiencing issues with the tweaksbox box due to the license error...
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For the unlocker? Send an email to the Dev.

Spookymyo said:
For the unlocker? Send an email to the Dev.
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I did, but no luck. Seems like he ignored me...

geoff5093 said:
This was before Xposed came out for the G4, not everyone wants to use Xposed as it hurts battery life, and some people prefer the simple approach.
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You still have your G4 or are you just sticking around to be helpful?

hoodieNation said:
You still have your G4 or are you just sticking around to be helpful?
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Just hanging around, I have a 6P now.

thanks for this! for some reason Tasker doesn't recognize when the Camera is started so the Silent method is weak... and while G4 TweaksBox would be nice, I'm also having issues getting the unlocker to work. Emailed dev and am waiting for a response...
EDIT: looks like renaming doesn't work for me... interesting...
EDIT2: created silent versions of the two files and now... we have silence!