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[Q] Clock app on Slim ICS 3.3

So I found that the clock app is different, coming from Mosaic 9 and I like the style of it, although one of my problems is that I can't seem to make the alarm sound a song on my phone. Anyway to get a custom alarm in that im missing?
On a similarly related note, I installed a TW Clock or something (can't quite remember the name, looking for the link) but the option to use a custom alarm doesn't work if anyone knows whats going on, although the OP said everything works besides the note that says the time to alarm.
the error it gives me: App package com.sec.android.app.myfiles not found
okay im stupid, im assuming this is because I dont have My Files installed anymore or it doesnt come with Slim ICS, trying to restore the app with titanium backup... any other suggestions?
heres the exact one I DL'd: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558337
Thanks!

Agree, wondering how to get custom alarm sound to display in choices for this clock.

I figured it out. For some reason I couldn't get files to save from the phone but when hooking it up to my computer, I was able to copy files into the ringtones folder. The songs now show up as choices for the alarm ringtone.

kinda tedious, but hey, not that much work.... I *think* setting something as ur ringtone from poweramp should work too if i remember correctly then.
Thanks!

Problems with the Sense 5 music app

I used the HTC Sync Manager to get all my music on my phone. But I can't seem to find them on here. Does it do some ridiculous thing like iOS does and makes it all this one file and its inaccessible?
I want to edit some things on the file like naming and what not but can't find the files to edit/replace.
The Sense music app is very nice but it also cuts off the names of a few bands. Like a band named Dream on, Dreamer is now just "Dream on" but if i play one of the songs from an album, the info at the top does show the correct name. Makes it sort of irritating. Does anyone know how to fix that also?
I think the app is just a mess. It downloads album artwork that should already be there because it is in itunes, and it cant even get the right image. :/ Any way to fix that also?
I feel like its just better to through all my files in to sdcard/music and call it a day. Especially if I can't get the Sense 5 music app to behave like it should. Shame to have to stop using the most elegant music app ive ever seen if I can't get this stuff fixed.

xXxG0dzRAgexXx said:
I used the HTC Sync Manager to get all my music on my phone. But I can't seem to find them on here. Does it do some ridiculous thing like iOS does and makes it all this one file and its inaccessible?
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Are you talking about the individual tracks? If so, what on earth gave you the idea that iOS has all the tracks stored in one file? iOS doesn't use the actual track titles, but stores them individually in a multitude of folders.
Anyway, on my One, I found the music tracks in Device>Explorer>My Library>Music. Are you rooted?
And greetings from Upper Marlboro.

Napoleon_PhoneApart said:
Are you talking about the individual tracks? If so, what on earth gave you the idea that iOS has all the tracks stored in one file? iOS doesn't use the actual track titles, but stores them individually in a multitude of folders.
Anyway, on my One, I found the music tracks in Device>Explorer>My Library>Music. Are you rooted?
And greetings from Upper Marlboro.
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iOS does store them as one file. Being apart of the jailbreaking community I know how it works sort of. Which is why it was so hard for us to get music in to the music app on iOS took a long time but we got it. You may be right though on that its not just one file but more. They aren't useable files though, but im pretty sure its just one file. It's not like that on your computer of course. I have all those files which im debating if i should just throw them in the music folder.
No im not rooted. Never rooted before since this is my first android phone and im scared to death. :x 3 years of jailbreaking means nothing when rooting. Gotta keep this device for 2 years or I'll be going back to an iPhone 4. I plan on rooting it but not for the next few weeks.

xXxG0dzRAgexXx said:
iOS does store them as one file. Being apart of the jailbreaking community I know how it works sort of. Which is why it was so hard for us to get music in to the music app on iOS took a long time but we got it. You may be right though on that its not just one file but more. They aren't useable files though, but im pretty sure its just one file. It's not like that on your computer of course. I have all those files which im debating if i should just throw them in the music folder.
No im not rooted. Never rooted before since this is my first android phone and im scared to death. :x 3 years of jailbreaking means nothing when rooting. Gotta keep this device for 2 years or I'll be going back to an iPhone 4. I plan on rooting it but not for the next few weeks.
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I've been a jailbreaker since the first one came out and know the iOS file system well. Maybe we're discussing separate things, but:

Napoleon_PhoneApart said:
I've been a jailbreaker since the first one came out and know the iOS file system well. Maybe we're discussing separate things, but:
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Wow. o_o just saw it for my self. I guess when i read the one article before gremlin came out i mistook it for saying the audio files were bundled in to one large file that only the music app was able to process. That was a long time ago. Wonder why it was so immensely hard for developers to get music in to the app. Must be other hoops they have to jump through. Also all my MP3 files are renamed with 4 random capital letters so its not perfectly untouched.
Also I found where the music is located. Surprised I hadn't looked here yet. its at SD Card/Mobile/Music/C/Users/*Username*/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music
Seems like it just takes location of music which would be C/User and so forth and puts that in to Mobile/Music. Sorta of dumb but thats whatever. DIdn't find anyway to fix my issues though. Guess I'll switch to NexMusic or NowPlaying for music. Gonna miss the UI of the Sense music app though. :/

Double entries question

Hello, i tried several ICS rom which i like bettet then the JB ones, but i see that with all ICS roms i have the same problem of double entries with all the sounds files like alarm, ringtone and notifications.
for example: i have a ringtone called sea breaze and it is showing twice in the ringtone list when i want to change the ringtone in settings->sound->phone ringtone.
the same happens with my alarms and notifications.
i cant seem to work this one out, can anyone suggest a solution for this problem?
Thanks for the help
Sol

cookiepuppy said:
Hello, i tried several ICS rom which i like bettet then the JB ones, but i see that with all ICS roms i have the same problem of double entries with all the sounds files like alarm, ringtone and notifications.
for example: i have a ringtone called sea breaze and it is showing twice in the ringtone list when i want to change the ringtone in settings->sound->phone ringtone.
the same happens with my alarms and notifications.
i cant seem to work this one out, can anyone suggest a solution for this problem?
Thanks for the help
Sol
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clear mediastorage.apk data and cache
reboot

The Tox said:
clear mediastorage.apk data and cache
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I tried it and no go. Few of the ringtone seems to apear three times. I tried deleting android/data storage and media folders as well and still nothing.
I think this thing is getting on my nerves.
Can it be something to do with ringtone files themselves??? i took those files from JB version and copied them to my device. I noticed that my old ringtones appear only once, but those i took from jellybean appear twice, maybe this cause the duplicates??
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cookiepuppy said:
I tried it and no go. Few of the ringtone seems to apear three times. I tried deleting android/data storage and media folders as well and still nothing.
I think this thing is getting on my nerves.
Can it be something to do with ringtone files themselves??? i took those files from JB version and copied them to my device. I noticed that my old ringtones appear only once, but those i took from jellybean appear twice, maybe this cause the duplicates??
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delete all ringtones from system media audio ringtones , reboot , move ringtones to folder again , reboot and check again

But there is no prob with copy/paste or something in the file manager you use??? and you don`t have copied the files so sdcard or something ...
the sounds are only available in the folder "system" and no where else ...
Works the 2nd idea of "The Tox" ???
cookiepuppy said:
Hello, i tried several ICS rom which i like bettet then the JB ones, but i see that with all ICS roms i have the same problem of double entries with all the sounds files like alarm, ringtone and notifications.
for example: i have a ringtone called sea breaze and it is showing twice in the ringtone list when i want to change the ringtone in settings->sound->phone ringtone.
the same happens with my alarms and notifications.
i cant seem to work this one out, can anyone suggest a solution for this problem?
Thanks for the help
Sol
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The sounds were only on internal sdcard. But I think I solved it by moving all the sounds to system/media. And change permissions of the files.
On other ICS roms it didn't matter if I leave my new sounds on internal sd , as long as I don't keep the same ones as in system/media folder.
On this rom I had to try anything even tho the sounds i added were not the same as the original from the rom sounds and were only placed on internal SD.
Never mind that. Thanks for your help guys. This problem I think is solved. I will try the same trick on alarms swell and report the results.
Thanks guys
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Okay thx for Info!
Only for me as an info: Could the permission be the problem ??? Not only the moving to system/media???
cookiepuppy said:
The sounds were only on internal sdcard. But I think I solved it by moving all the sounds to system/media. And change permissions of the files.
On other ICS roms it didn't matter if I leave my new sounds on internal sd , as long as I don't keep the same ones as in system/media folder.
On this rom I had to try anything even tho the sounds i added were not the same as the original from the rom sounds and were only placed on internal SD.
Never mind that. Thanks for your help guys. This problem I think is solved. I will try the same trick on alarms swell and report the results.
Thanks guys
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freakymod2120 said:
Okay thx for Info!
Only for me as an info: Could the permission be the problem ??? Not only the moving to system/media???
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i really dont know, i tried so many things to solve the problem, so im not sure if the permission had any effect or not, the only thing i do know is that the ringtones now are ok, but the alarm still appear with duplicated files.
since i moving my home to a different city and im packing and a bit busy, so i dont have much time in the next few days to test this again. so for now until friday night i wont be able to play with that thing again and test what maybe the solution.

Okay so when you have time for testing, i`m interested in some infos, when available ...:good:
cookiepuppy said:
i really dont know, i tried so many things to solve the problem, so im not sure if the permission had any effect or not, the only thing i do know is that the ringtones now are ok, but the alarm still appear with duplicated files.
since i moving my home to a different city and im packing and a bit busy, so i dont have much time in the next few days to test this again. so for now until friday night i wont be able to play with that thing again and test what maybe the solution.
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Getting the 'Click' to work again.

Yes, I know that the filename is "Effect_Tick.ogg" located in /system/media/audio/ui. I also know that the 'setting' is in "Settings -> Sound and notification -> Other sounds". But for some reason, it just will not play.
Yeah, I like to hear that click when I press things on my phone(s). So much so, that I have kept the old ICS sound around to write it to my other phones since.
I'll try to make this short. I had my old Nexus 6 go into a bootloop about a year ago so I restored it with a factory flash and then re-rooted it and flashed my favorite Rom, Pure Nexus 5.1.1. It (the click) had worked before, but I do not know why it stopped working. There were other problems still on my phone so I finally bought a new one and flashed it to this ROM. I used MyBackupPro to restore my apps as I do not care for some of the newer version of apps that I use. I was also trying to flash the TBO market on my phone as well. When first I flashed my phone, the click was working, but somewhere along the line it stopped. If I use root explorer and go to the file's location and press on it, it will play just fine. So I'm just not sure what's up.
I did get a big hint. I installed "FP Click sound changer". Within that app, when I press on "Effect_Tick.ogg" I get the following message:
"java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.media.MediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(int)' on a null object reference"
This leads me to believe that is is something inside of framework-res.apk or systemui.apk or something like that. I didn't see enough in build.prop to make me think it would be in there. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

The error you're getting with FP Click Sound Changer is because the app likely isn't properly initialized. Meaning a change in Android between when the app was last updated and now has broken the app. The error has nothing to do with either of the .APK files you mentioned. If I recall correctly, neither system app deals with media to begin with.
The most obvious question here is whether you have tried a new copy of the audio file, even if it appears to work perfectly. If you have done that and are still having issues, one of your apps that you are using is causing the problem. You're going to have to do some troubleshooting to resolve this, namely starting with a blank slate and reinstalling apps one at a time until you find the one that causes the problem. Before you protest, any answers without you attempting some troubleshooting on your own are merely guesses made off of inadequate data.

Thank you for the reply, however my ROM was 'cooked' up on Sept 2015 and FP Click Sound changer was released/updated on Dec 26 2015, so what you suggest cannot be the cause. Besides, it only throws the error on Effect_Tick.ogg and no other system sound. And yes, I do have fresh copy of the file from ICS days.
But you are correct, if nobody knows which system app would throw that error message, then I know a fresh start is in order.

On this forum, many people have updated their N6 to more up-to-date versions of Android than the version you had. However, I wouldn't have provided that answer had you told us which version of Android you were running in the first place as well as the fact you built it yourself.
In any event, I hope your fresh start works out for you. You may also want to consider building a newer version of AOSP for yourself as well.

Thank you again for the reply, however:
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However, I wouldn't have provided that answer had you told us which version of Android you were running in the first place as well as the fact you built it yourself.
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teddyearp said:
I had my old Nexus 6 go into a bootloop about a year ago so I restored it with a factory flash and then re-rooted it and flashed my favorite Rom, Pure Nexus 5.1.1. <snip>
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I am trying to do a Google search on the error message itself as well.

I missed that in your post. Oops.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
I missed that in your post. Oops.
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Well, I certainly meant no offence. Some years back, I used to to help folks out with their Android phones/problems and would at times be about the same way as you. Many times the details were not there. However equally so sometimes, the OP did provide the answers but the others that would chime in did not seem to read all of them.
With that said, I was thinking about rewording my question to perhaps ask if anyone knew which system apps on Android 5.1.1 would call for Effect_Tick.ogg so I could try to find where it had been set to 'null', but I stumbled across my solution after all. File permissions. So for any readers:
Yes, using ES Explorer, I copied again my good Effect_Tick.ogg to /system/media/audio/ui and it still didn't work except in music player. So I thought since ES would allow me to see and change file permissions, let me take a look. Sure enough, the file permissions for Effect_Tick.ogg were different than all the other sounds in that location. It was set to rw,rw and group sdcard,s. All the others were rw,r,r and group root. Changed to match the others and problem solved. :highfive:
Thanks very much again for trying to help, at least someone (you) did and that does mean a lot to me on such an old(ish) device since as you said, many have moved on and/or flashed much newer versions of Android to the N6. :good::good:

I'm glad you solved your problem. Even better, you came back to tell us about it.
Too many find the solution and don't say anything.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
<snip>Too many find the solution and don't say anything.
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How well I remember that fact.

Can't use custom notification sounds

Hi all,
I use a couple of apps that I use custom notification sounds for. However, when I test or get a notification on said app, the Note 9 "seizes" the notification and plays the default notification. IOW, my custom setting has no affect. So I miss the event in question. Happens on multiple apps, so I know it's the phone.
This thing is amazing, once I got other things straightened out. It really is the Star Trek tricorder. ?
Any ideas? Help much appreciated!
Rich

Bumping this... anyone?

Try a reboot. Should work after the first reboot when you add custom sounds so I doubt it is a legit fix. Something else must be going on.

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Try a reboot. Should work after the first reboot when you add custom sounds so I doubt it is a legit fix. Something else must be going on.
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Been there done that... no change

Have you tried deleting your ringtones or sounds and pasting them back in folder? I'm just throwing mud at the wall here. Once I paste in the folder if it doesn't work right away a reboot let's the OS see it. Is it regular mp3 or ogg format also?

@rbiter said:
Have you tried deleting your ringtones or sounds and pasting them back in folder? I'm just throwing mud at the wall here. Once I paste in the folder if it doesn't work right away a reboot let's the OS see it. Is it regular mp3 or ogg format also?
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They're ogg format. Tried everything you said. I put custom notification sounds in 0/notifications and it works fine on every other device I own, reboot or not so I know it's in the phone or Oreo. The app (Space Launch Now) lets me set any notification sound I want and has a test button. When I do the test or get a notification the phone won't see the custom sound and plays the default notification anyway, after several reboots also.

This YouTube video is for Note 8 But its the same procure for the Note 9
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I Am Having the Same Issue!
Hi Rich, I’ve had the exact same problem and have spent likely 10-20 hours trying to get this to work over months worth of time. I started with Android Pie (9) and Samsung UI 1.0, and had the issue. Recently, I hard-reset my phone, and installed Android 10.0 and UI 2.0, and nothing has been fixed. Also, I exchanged my phone when I first noticed the issue under the old operating system, and both phones are experiencing the same issue!
I select customs sounds for some apps (under Notifications), but they will not sound. Samsung/android takes over the notification and plays the default sound. I have a newer Note10+, on T-Mobile. In fact, yesterday I was working with a senior tech support person at T-Mobile, and we tried everything. He had a Note10+ there, tried changing to the custom sound, and his device also did not work, did not change it to the custom sound!
Just wondering if you ever got this to work, or have you found any workarounds? I would really, really appreciate your response!
Thanks, Dave

I had this exact same issue. I had to strip all of the tags from the mp3 files and put them in the 'notifications' or 'ringtones' folders. Once I did that, they appeared in the built-in media picker and also worked when using esExplorer to set the ringtone or notification.