Hey everyone, I just bought a Galaxy S yesterday and I'm wondering if it's possible to use custom ringtones for notifications/calls?
Thanks in advance
Play the tune you want to use as a tone using stock player, push menu button > Set as > select from the list which action you wish to use the song for.
DARKKRAKEN said:
Play the tune you want to use as a tone using stock player, push menu button > Set as > select from the list which action you wish to use the song for.
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Ah right, no wonder I couldn't find it
Thank you
And if yo want your own notifications for ex. sms/email, make a folder in memory and call it "notifications" and put you mp3 tones in that folder they will appear in the settings
actually, the folder stucture on your internal memory is like this:
system/media/audio/ringtones
/alarms
/notifications
This way the sounds can be selected in the ringtones menu and don't show up in the media player.
daClaus said:
actually, the folder stucture on your internal memory is like this:
system/media/audio/ringtones
/alarms
/notifications
This way the sounds can be selected in the ringtones menu and don't show up in the media player.
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Thanks a loooooot for this
daClaus said:
actually, the folder stucture on your internal memory is like this:
system/media/audio/ringtones
/alarms
/notifications
This way the sounds can be selected in the ringtones menu and don't show up in the media player.
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To get acsess to "system" you must be rooted? because in not rooted phone you cant find this folders, or do I just make the folders in internal memory?
Edit: The phone must be rooted for this. I tried to make this folders in internal memory and the mp3.s dissapeard when u delete this tones in media player. Remember that every one dont have their phones rooted
What do you mean with
omaga said:
I tried to make this folders in internal memory and the mp3.s dissapeard when u delete this tones in media player.
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You don't need access to the system folder on the internal memory, you just add these folders to your internal mass memory (the 6GB partition aka sdcard).
Iirc your phone does not have to be rooted.
Hello everyone, I just tried to add a .mp3 file to system/media/audio/ringtones but it didn't show up as a ringtone option under settings.
I also deleted a few .ogg from that same file but they still show up in settings>sounds>ringtones.
Can anyone confirm that his trick really works with Galaxy S?
c3p9 said:
Hello everyone, I just tried to add a .mp3 file to system/media/audio/ringtones but it didn't show up as a ringtone option under settings.
I also deleted a few .ogg from that same file but they still show up in settings>sounds>ringtones.
Can anyone confirm that his trick really works with Galaxy S?
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Was media scan run again.
doop said:
Was media scan run again.
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That solved the problem doop! Thanks a lot! So the trick works but one has to rescan media.
I used Ringdroid myself, it allows you to even select a specific portion of a track to use in notifications\ringtones etc... Pretty good for a free app.
The only real and best way to use custom ringtones/alarms/notifications is to move them to internal memory in /system/media/* to have them always available, and its also faster.
and you need root for that.
If you store them on sdcard, when phone rings it will be slower doing it, and if the phone just booted up; sdcard is not ready yet, you wont hear startup sound. If you have sdcard mounted, all the sounds alarms notifications saved in sdcard WONT PLAY until you unmount the sdcard.
Yes Android is very LAME.
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Hi. I found a way to make htc album ignore some folders you don't want to see . For example i do not want it to show me all pictures stored in "/Program files".
You just have add values to the registry with the route of the folder you want to ignore in
HKLM/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignore
the problem is that it doesn't work for folders in the Internal Storage, like tom tom map folder ("\Internal storage\Iberia" in my case)
Any help?
Thanks
Does this work for music and videos too?
music???? its about htc album, so i guess pictures and videos, but nothing related to music..
jpresencia said:
music???? its about htc album, so i guess pictures and videos, but nothing related to music..
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If you store album art in the form of jpg's, then the Picture Viewer will display those mixed in with your real photos. Ideally, you would want to exclude the Music folder.
in fact, the music folder is by default excluded in my daimond, but only music folder in main memory.
the problem is that i can not manage to exclude folders in internal storage, it just doesnt work.. if someone manages to exclude folders in internal storage, we will be able to exclude any folder we want..
Don't have a Diamond for myself to try it but worth a try if you haven't already. Have you tried e.g. using "\Iberia" instead of "\Internal storage\Iberia"?
thanks for your answer. yes, i did, but did not work.
also tried "storage card\iberia" and "\%storage card%\iberia
Any update on this?
Would be nice to get rid of unwanted folders in Album...
...If I find something I will post it here...
Any updates?
Really want to hide the tens of game folders on my storage card full of images from the HTC Album.
thx a lot
it is usefull
demonizator said:
Any updates?
Really want to hide the tens of game folders on my storage card full of images from the HTC Album.
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This has been mentioned a few times before.
Connect the diamond to a PC in disk drive mode and use windows explorer to find all image files. Select the ones you don't want to see in album and mark them as hidden. Once the files are all hidden, the folders will no longer appear in Album.
Thanks man,
Stupid me never thought of that.
Davey101 said:
This has been mentioned a few times before.
Connect the diamond to a PC in disk drive mode and use windows explorer to find all image files. Select the ones you don't want to see in album and mark them as hidden. Once the files are all hidden, the folders will no longer appear in Album.
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TY for this info mas now Album folder is usable !
This usually happens when the SD Card has been changed and you've drag and dropped the DCIM folder to the new card. Try renaming the current DCIM folder, then reinsert the card and take a new picture. Copy paste the old 100media folder to the new DCIM folder. Soft reset. Tada!
Have you ever been listening to your Britney Spears, Daft Punk or Tupac and suddenly you start hearing files that aren't music (i.e ringtones, notification sounds, etc.)? I find it pretty annoying that there is no current method to hide these files from the music player, until now.
I would like to give credit to Scheff's Blend for this idea, and after tinkering with the the doom game folder on my memory card, I found a file called ".nomedia". Within that same folder was over 100 sound files for the game doom, BUT my music player was not reading that specific folder.
I figured it had to do something with that ".nomedia" file, and coincidentally it DID.
Instructions:
1) Download and unzip nomedia.zip somewhere onto your computer
2) Inside is a file called .nomedia, copy it into the directory of media files you want to hide
3) Reboot your phone
P.S. This also works for pictures and video files, BUT for newly taken pictures and videos, or music files added, a REBOOT is REQUIRED to hide them again.
WARNING: this completely hides the files from the phone, so they become unusable to any application until the .nomedia file is removed, and the phone is restarted. I know Scheff's Blend found a way to use those files while hiding them, yet I haven't. If anyone wants to help me out, feel free to.
I know a lot of people wanted to know how to do this, so sorry to any mod who notices I double posted, but I just realized I should have put it in this forum section to begin with. Feel free to delete the other thread in the "Dream" section.
Right on.
Another option that works is placing files you want hidden inside of a folder that starts with a period, such as ".hiddenfolder" or ".stuffimhiding"
Files and folders that begin with a period are considered hidden files by the Android OS and do not show up in Gallery or the music app
Thanks man..
was looking for a way to do this..
davidemartindale said:
Right on.
Another option that works is placing files you want hidden inside of a folder that starts with a period, such as ".hiddenfolder" or ".stuffimhiding"
Files and folders that begin with a period are considered hidden files by the Android OS and do not show up in Gallery or the music app
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Thanks, thats good to know. But can they be used by lets say the dialer.apk as a ringtone?
I do the same thing with Astro. Like Dave said, keeping a folder with a dot at the front and anything within won't be read unless opened by Astro or renamed. This may not work for the ringtones, but its quicker than having to reboot if you just want to hide photos, documents, videos, etc.
I have problem where videos in folder w/ .nomedia get deleted at each reboot... Now using Cyan 4.1.11.1... Really weird. Each reboot deletes videos in those folders
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I have problem where videos in folder w/ .nomedia get deleted at each reboot... Now using Cyan 4.1.11.1... Really weird. Each reboot deletes videos in those folders
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i too got that problem so am just using the .folder method to hide the files for now...
Dare{D}evil said:
i too got that problem so am just using the .folder method to hide the files for now...
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Never heard of.. Same thing as with the .nomedia ?
Just create a .folder in the folder ?
TY
Are there any other app where I can choose ringtones in settings>sound>phone ringtone ? like the walkman app? and what kind of permissions do I have to set? I think the skin of the walkman app is outdated and incompatible with ICS themes. Thanks in advance
I can change the ringtones in PowerAmp. Try it. It's the Best music player so far...
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PlayerPro is better. You can use it to change ringtone.
PlayerPro is better than PowerAMP because of its UI and frequent updates. Many people in Android Market says that too.
Hit the THANKS button if I helped!!
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Look at TTPod in android market it's free and it's good as PowerAMP
ringdroid, set ringtone n cut mp3.
lucastan96 said:
PlayerPro is better. You can use it to change ringtone.
PlayerPro is better than PowerAMP because of its UI and frequent updates. Many people in Android Market says that too.
Hit the THANKS button if I helped!!
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I was actually thinking of apps that would allow me to do to choose in settings>sound>phone ringtones (see attachment)
I like it because its a lot easier when I want songs in my SD as my ringtone but also when I want to use them as my alarm ringtone.
Thanks to everyone who replied.
RingDroid, simple to use.
Why go to the trouble of using a application to accomplish something Android can do by itself?
- Create a "Alarms", "Notifications" and "Ringtones" folder on your sdcard.
*Use Root Browser or Root Explorer or whatever filemanager you prefer.
- Copy your Alarm/Notification/Ringtone MP3 or OGG into the respective folder.
Once that's done the files you copied in there will show up in the list of Alarm/Notification/Ringtone sounds.
In case Android doesn't pick it up right away simply reboot.
No need to use an extra software to set a custom Alarm / Notification / Ringtone sound.
@B.Jay I wanted another app to do this because I want the option to choose from my 500+ songs in my SD card. I also don't want to add additional data in my internal memory than what's really necessary. But I guess I'm just stuck with the walkman app Thanks anyways.
With all due respect ...
B.Jay said:
- Create a "Alarms", "Notifications" and "Ringtones" folder on your sdcard.
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albertrono said:
I also don't want to add additional data in my internal memory than what's really necessary.
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I wrote SDCARD - in no way, shape or form I wrote something about cluttering up the internal memory.
Anyway, if you don't have a few Megabyte left on your SDCARD to create the folders and place your custom "sounds" there then it's your choice (seems I'm somewhat spoiled by the 32GB SD I have in my SGS S2).
Sorry I didn't notice about the SD card but then again that would still occupy space on my measly 8GB SD . Anyways, thanks again
B.Jay said:
Why go to the trouble of using a application to accomplish something Android can do by itself?
- Create a "Alarms", "Notifications" and "Ringtones" folder on your sdcard.
*Use Root Browser or Root Explorer or whatever filemanager you prefer.
- Copy your Alarm/Notification/Ringtone MP3 or OGG into the respective folder.
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tqvm, didn't know abt that.
How can I add my own notification sound? I tried to copy one from my Nexus S, and placed it in
sdcard/media/audio/notifications (that's where it was placed on the Nexus S),
but it can't be found in settings on the HTC one. It's an .ogg file and I tried to convert it to mp3 but no difference. Any ideas?
Azure465 said:
How can I add my own notification sound? I tried to copy one from my Nexus S, and placed it in
sdcard/media/audio/notifications (that's where it was placed on the Nexus S),
but it can't be found in settings on the HTC one. It's an .ogg file and I tried to convert it to mp3 but no difference. Any ideas?
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Did you restart the phone? Android only looks for new audio files like that at bootup. The other option is just to create a new folder in the root of your SD card, name it ringtones, put your audio files in there and then restart the phone.
Good luck! :fingers-crossed:
At first I downloaded some sounds through dropbox to my device, and I couldn't get anything to show up in settings, no matter where i put them. So I tried to transfer the sound files through USB-cable from my computer and now everything shows up in ringtone and notification settings. Weird, but at least it works now
Azure465 said:
At first I downloaded some sounds through dropbox to my device, and I couldn't get anything to show up in settings, no matter where i put them. So I tried to transfer the sound files through USB-cable from my computer and now everything shows up in ringtone and notification settings. Weird, but at least it works now
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what i done was download from zedge google play set as notification then it will go in your ringtones
Hello this is my first post. i looked for around an hour and could find anything about my problem.
last night i flashed
BAKED galaxysmtd blackbean-8 and
GappsInverted 20130308
on my samsung galaxy sI9000 everything seems to work fine but a slight problem i encounter there is no app for listening music, and also there is
no sounds for ringtones or notifications at all.
could you please help me with this problem??
thank you in advance
and i apologize for my bad English.
Create 2 folders in internal sd card:
Ringtones
Notifications
Then in each folder put your desired sounds to be used as ringtone or notification. After reboot they will be recognized by the system and can be selected.
Fort the music player, there are many in Play Store.
Sent from my GT-I9000
GrippingSphere said:
Create 2 folders in internal sd card:
Ringtones
Notifications
Then in each folder put your desired sounds to be used as ringtone or notification. After reboot they will be recognized by the system and can be selected.
Fort the music player, there are many in Play Store.
Sent from my GT-I9000
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i will try it as soon as possible and ill write back if it works