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.
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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.
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Hey there
Forst it was a minor annoyance, but this morning the alarm went off without any sound and I was quite lucky, that the vibration was strong enough to get me out of sleep. But this just can't be.
I use custom sounds for all occasions and I got them in with the special folder structure for android to recognize sounds for the apporpriate actions.
But sometimes (no idea, why) it forgets to select any sound at all. In the list, NONE of the sounds - not even the default ones - is selected. Thus the silent alarm. (Except for the call ringtones, which switches to some boring bell.)
I kinda think that it has something to do with some .nomedia files I placed in various folders (like the ones of games...), but this just can't happen.
Any ideas, how to solve this issue? (Yes, since today it's an issue)
Thanks!
Same here. I think it has to do with the sd unmounting itself problem mentioned elsewhere. No real solution yet. Sux.
Sound Issue
I get this issue also. Approx every 24 hours i lose all Sounds for Ringtone, Alarm, Text and Email.
The only way I can get the phone to make a noise is to use the Hardware volume buttons on the side of the phone.
Even if a do a test Alarm or try to change my ringtone - No Sound.
I use all standard default sounds so no custom ringtones etc.
I have tried resetting my phone back to Factory, removing all task Manager Apps, All non essential Apps.
My workaround is to reboot my phone everynight to ensure the Alarm works in the morning.
This started since the 1.21 OTA update. Roll on 2.2..
I have started a thread for this already but no responses so far. Maybe it is not that common.
Lee.
Never had that problem, for me the only issue with alarm is the impossibility to put the sound/music to increase the volume gently...
Just started having this problem myself in the last few days. Not updated anything and still on stock 1.15 rooted.
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My workaround is to reboot my phone everynight to ensure the Alarm works in the morning.
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I used to have to do this with my WinMo phone. I had hoped a new Android would actually 'work' but no, I have the issue too (although I thought it was something I'd done until I saw this thread!).
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This started since the 1.21 OTA update. Roll on 2.2..
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I'm still on 1.15 so it can't be the update.
I've encountered a strange problem lately. Within the last few days, my music apps seems to start playing on their own. This does not seem to be related to putting in or removing headphones, as I have not used any headphones for quite some time. Rather, it seems to happen after I perform certain functions on the phone.
For example, it happens whenever I use Astro to move or delete a file. Immediately after performing the cut or copy, the music starts. It has also happened after I disable bluetooth and/or turn of the screen.
What's strange is that it is not always the same music player which opens. Sometimes its HTCMusic and sometimes its DoubleTwist. As an experiment, I tried freezing HTCMusic with TitaniumBackup and then installing the AOSP music app from CM6. Same result.
I'm using Calukin's ROM, but have been for several weeks without issue so I don't believe that is the cause.
Any ideas as to what might be going on here?
Bump. Really need help figuring this out. Late last night, my Evo was tucked away for bed in its charger. All of the sudden, the music started blaring again. Nobody touched it. In fact, my family was all asleep when it happened and it woke up my kids. Thinking I'm just going to have to start over with a new ROM if there's no answer.
What's odd is that whenever the music starts, I will open the music app to kill it and the app doesn't know it is playing right away. In other words, the play button is displayed, rather than the pause button. To kill the music, I have to hit play, then pause.
I assume you're not running any tasker profile or other program related to running sound based on a condition?
Have you explored the possibility you have a music-loving ghost living in your home?
There is a bug where sometimes a random song off your memory card gets used for a notification sound, you may want to check those out. Last time I did an OTA update it changed my facebook notification to baby got back and the only way I could get it to stop playing was to mute or reset my phone lol
I don't much care for games or FB stuff but like apps that automate some of the things I do with Android, so I though I would share my favorite and hopefully you will give me some suggestions for others I don't yet know about.
AOKP Backup - Backs up my AOKP settings
RingDimmer - Auto adjust volume on my phone and vibration based on ambient noise.
SmartRotator - App specific rotator utility so that i can manage which apps I can view horizontally and or vertically
Unlock with WiFI - When I am within the range of specific WIFI signals that I picked I do not have to put in my pin to unlock the phone.
Better Wifi on/off - manages when my wifi is on.
SpeakerProximity and SpeakerPhone Ex - I recently started using speakerphone ex and it seems to work better then the other one but basically when I take the phone away from my ear it automatically go into speaker mode when I put it back towards my ear its changes to the headset speaker.
Backup to Gmail - backs up all my text messages to Gmail
Business Calendar - keeps me on schedule
MightyText - allows me to send and receive texts on my computer
ROM Toolbox Pro - lets me tweak all sorts of things
Tasker - automates just about everything
Tasker is probably the number one for me, but I put them in alphabetical order.
Screen Filter - Makes my screen super dim so I can look at it during a movie without lighting up the whole theater... also good for reading in bed.
Splashtop Remote - Can take over my computer wirelessly
SanDisk Memory - Manage the data on my SD and internal SD easily
Ringer Volume - Automatically adjusts the volume of my ringer based on the time of day and day of the week. That way I dont have to remember to turn my ringer volume back up after I get off work... it just adjusts at the time of day that I get off. Also, goes quite automatically for nighttime.
ShareGPS - Can share my GPS signal via bluetooth to other devices
Hide It Pro - Hides photos, movies, apps, etc... so that your kids/friends cant see them when they grab your phone and start looking around.
CacheMate - Clears cache with one touch
Package Buddy - Keeps track of packages you are shipping or are expecting to recieve
SwiftKey 3 - Awesome alternate keyboard
Cerberus - BEST security app. Ever. Can locate your phone via GPS, track it, send messages to whoever finds it, set it to take a picture/screenshot/video of whoever tries to use your phone with the wrong passcode, ring out loud (even when in silent mode) to find it when lost... and many more features. I even have it installed as a system app so that it cannot be deleted.
Dropsync -- I set it up when I'm charging and on wifi to sync certain folders to my Dropbox. Allows me to keep pictures, ebooks, music, synced between computer/phone/tablet, and also allows me to keep my Titanium Backup files synced to the computer in case there's any issues. I even have one folder for my phone and one for my tablet for roms, so I just download on my computer if I'm using it and then it will appear on my phone shortly (or if I download on my phone it will backup to my computer). It allows syncing of any Dropbox folder with any folder on the phone, sdcard, internal, external sd, whatever; there's also one called FolderSync which is incredibly similar that does other services as well (SugarSync, GDrive, Box, etc).
Pure Calendar Widget (Agenda) -- I've used Business Calendar, which is nice, but Pure also has the ability to display Google tasks from a variety of apps (I use GTasks) within your Agenda, combining tasks and calendar entries. Works well with just calendar entries too, of course.
Airdroid -- manage your phone via browser, install apps, copy files/music, take screenshots, a billion other things.
FlightBoard and FlightTrack -- if you ever travel by air, get these, seriously. Never need to see an airport arr/dep screen again, and can track flights mid-air to see where they are.
MediaDog -- manages SABnzbd, SickBeard, CouchPotato (v2), Headphones. If you use any of those, try MediaDog.
Wifi Analyzer -- in-depth scanning of local wifi networks, channels, frequencies, power, etc. Incredibly useful when tweaking wireless or installing, can tell the best channel quickly.
They've been mentioned, but I'll give my votes for Swiftkey and Tasker as well.
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.
Could Still Use Some Help
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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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.
My Pixel 6 Pro has a similar problem ever since the Mar 5 update has been installed. Since then, every phone call I made comes with the non-stop notification tone literally every second. For now, I managed to get around it by enabling the "DND Mode", but it isn't a long-term solution.
Is there a way I can re-apply the same update? or flashing a new one would help?
To be clear, you're saying that you keep getting the notification tone even after answering the call? If so, is it the same as your ringtone?
Is your bootloader unlockable? If so, Official Google Android Flash Tool (OEM Unlocking needs to be toggled on - you may not have to manually unlock the bootloader - the "site" will do that on its own).
It wouldn't surprise me if that doesn't fix the issue, however. Have you tried rebooting? Maybe clear the cache and app data for the Phone app (but then you'd have to re-customize the settings for the phone app to your preferences).
I'm not on the March update, but I also don't receive many phone calls anyway.
that notification tone, during normal time, represents incoming message. It is very short, unlike a ringtone..
Tried rebooting and clearing cache and app data of the Phone app. In fact, that notification could likely come from anything like WhatsApp, Messenger, Twitter...
I noticed that the repeating tones would not happen if the phone is on silent mode. So for now this is my workaround.
Very interesting, and strange. There have been settings in some OEM's phone apps you could enable to get notification tones at regular paces - usually once a minute - while on a phone call, but the issue on yours is only similar since it's constant / every second.
I stick with my recommendation of clearing the app cache and data for the Phone app. I also assume you're using the stock Phone app that Google provides.
In my previous phone (OnePlus 6T), the very same tone happens once in a while, but only at the moment an incoming message arrives. Pretty sure I am not getting a new message every second this time around, and I think it was triggered by apps other than the Phone app. I just noticed that the same symptom showed up when I tried to play video clips from certain apps as well.
And yes, I am using the stock Phone app.
Sounds like a factory reset and only selectively installing and configuring apps, or trying to figure out which app is causing the issue.
If you factory reset, I would first not even restore any apps at all, so you can verify if you have the same problem without any third-party apps installed at first. I would suspect you won't have issues then. And then when you install apps, do it in groups of your most important ones first, maybe at the most 10 at a time, then re-verify each time if you have the same issue or not, then the next batch of app installs. It could be a particular setting in a app as well, so it's possibly merely installing an app might not be enough, so each group of apps you install, make sure and configure them as well.
If you don't factory reset, go the opposite way, uninstall your least important third-party apps and see if the issue disappears. Keep track of which apps you're uninstalling in each group. Keep doing this in reasonably sized groups of apps until you narrow down when the problem stops happening.
Once you find which group of apps being uninstalled keeps the issue from happening, you can reinstall in even smaller batches, among the ones you most recently uninstalled, and eventually find the one causing the issue. In some ways I think it's easier to go the other way around, though, start with a factory reset.
Found the culprit!
Kind of silly: I have installed this app "Internet Speed Meter Lite" when I first started using my P6P, which is for me to monitor my real-time network usage (courtesy of that endless WhatsApp - Google Drive restoring process....). It basically refreshes itself every second and this morning I tried temporarily disabling it, the problem goes away even when the phone is not set to silent mode.
Glad I didn't have to come to the point of factory resetting the device, as I really don't want to go through the WhatsApp restoring process.
Thanks for all the input, much appreciated.