Been missing calls lately, never heard them. Went to settings/sounds¬ifications and under phone ringtone is says "unknown ringtone". When I select it, instead of showing me the stock ringtones, it asks if I want to use ES Explorer or Amazon something or other. I selected ES Explorer and it sent me to the directory. I looked in media//audio/notifications and the only thing there is facebook_ringtone_pop.m4a. I am not rooted and running stock Lollipop 5.1.
So where are my ringtones? If they are gone, how did that happen?
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Hi,
I'm having the hardest time trying to figure out how to use my music as a custom ringtone for my text notifications on my Samsung Galaxy S I9000.....
Can someone please help me?
Well you could use this app http://www.appbrain.com/app/ringdroid/com.ringdroid
OR the way I do it is just put files directly into the directory using root explorer *must be rooted* The path is system/media/audio/notifications
Text as SMS? Open text messages app and press menu,then select settings and scroll to ringtone.
You need musics in those directories as explained above.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
thanks...the funny thing is, i had ringdroid all along but didn't realize it had that option....(lame, i know)
but i think i like the root explorer way since i usually make my ringtones on my computer..
Hi
I've been experiencing a weird problem with 681 firmware.
When I turn on my phone from charging I noticed my ringtone is reverting back to default (I'm only assuming it's the default tone because it's sony's notification and ringtone) and it's displaying the ringtone's I originally set as 'Unknown Ringtone'
I'm using ES File Explorer to set the notification and ringtone because Sony's sound picker doesn't read from the SD Card.
I'm on LB and non-rooted.
nichiyoubi said:
Hi
I've been experiencing a weird problem with 681 firmware.
When I turn on my phone from charging I noticed my ringtone is reverting back to default (I'm only assuming it's the default tone because it's sony's notification and ringtone) and it's displaying the ringtone's I originally set as 'Unknown Ringtone'
I'm using ES File Explorer to set the notification and ringtone because Sony's sound picker doesn't read from the SD Card.
I'm on LB and non-rooted.
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I can pick music out of my sd card flawlessly in 4.4.2
Are you using any sony's sound picker or are you using another app to do that for you?
Edit: I think I got it. It seems that clearing the app data for ES file explorer does the trick. I've retrieved my apps via backup since upgrading to KK so I think I'll need to clear the data of every app to make sure it functions properly in KK
I also had this same issue.
Clearing the ES File Explorer data under apps changed nothing, so I had to uninstall ES File Explorer and then restart the phone before I was able to change ring tones once again.
Thanks for the pointer to get it working again.
Usb mtp / msc???
Are you charging using the regular charger or a usb cable connected to a computer?
the USB connection is most probably MSC, i.e. as a mass storage device. which is why the ringtones are reverting to the default ones since when usb is connected, the sd card no longer be read by the phone.
change usb mode to MTP, and see the difference! ooh, and check if smart connect has any events set for the charger connect / disconnect events as well...
On Lollipop, I created a folder and shoved all of my ringtones and text tones into it; which is what I sourced from when changing notification sounds. Since I upgraded to marshmallow, it appears defaults and whatnot changed. I didn't notice it at first since as far as my ringtone goes, the system was picking it up just fine and Textra is using one of my sounds--not the correct one, but I chalked that up to some stuff not being saved by smart switch when I backed up before the update--but other apps, like Voxer, are using default sounds when I had them all set up previously as not using default sounds.
"No big deal" I thought, since I could just go into various settings and direct them. However, the folder I created isn't showing up for anything other than for the ringtone; even trying to choose a system wide text/email tone from the settings app isn't picking it up the folder when there was no issue in the past. Am I missing something?
I'm using XtreStoLite if this happens to be a custom rom issue rather than settings being moved around in Marshmallow in general.
I have three folders: Ringtones, Notifications, and Alarms. I can confirm that all of my apps can see and use those folders and I've got all of my apps using my customized ringtones.
I'm using the De-odexed stock ROM on mine.
TrunkleBob said:
I have three folders: Ringtones, Notifications, and Alarms. I can confirm that all of my apps can see and use those folders and I've got all of my apps using my customized ringtones.
I'm using the De-odexed stock ROM on mine.
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Wierd. I guess it might be an issue with my backup being messed up. Thanks for letting me know that this isn't a 6.0 issue.
Ok, so I don't know what caused the issue, but updating to the latest version of the ROM and factory wiping cleared up the issue. However, I was adjusting the notification tones for my app, and instead of hitting my file manager, I hit "media storage" on accident. And now, not only am I prevented from having the option pop up in the app, I lack the option to choose in any app and all previously adjusted apps have had their notification sounds set to the system default.
Is there any way to reset this without wiping my phone and starting over again? I can't seem to find anything in system settings or app settings.
editisregard, I found the solution.
Hi, I have a issue. I went to a site that was supposed to tell me more about a phone#. A reverse look up of sorts. Well I got attacked by chinese or the US government posing as chinese or something. I keep getting some chinese letters, then more chinese letters. Then after the wording I get 643ms/number103 and so on. So every time it pops up starts with chinese letters then a different number every time. I have tried every antivirus/anti-malware that's on google play with none of them finding anything and the Pop ups still coming up. They come up on the bottom third of the screen and in blue. Sorta like the small pop up that comes up and says Press back one more time to exit etc. Anyone ever have this sorta issue or know a way to fix it?
factory reset?
I guess ES File explorer was the cause. Weird thing though didn't seem to happen until after going to the one site online. I got rid of ES and it hasn't come up since. Sucks I liked that file manager it had root options.
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I guess ES File explorer was the cause. Weird thing though didn't seem to happen until after going to the one site online. I got rid of ES and it hasn't come up since. Sucks I liked that file manager it had root options.
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I too was very disappointed with the recent updates to ES File Explorer. I've since moved on and use FX explorer now.
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just get an app killer app, and never allow push notifications from websites, ES is rock solid
I haven't changed the ringtone for my calls or notifications since the T-Mobile update to Android 10. Earlier this week I went to change my default notification & kept getting the error "wrong file type, please choose again". It did this for every mp3 sound I selected & they all worked prior so I know there isn't anything wrong with the file. I then tried the same with the default ringtone & got the same error. I can play the mp3 with no issues through an mp3 player app. The only sound format that appears to be working for notifications & ringtones is if I use a wave file. Has anyone else seen this occurring on their phone?
You can try clearing the cache of the phone. There are apps that can do that. Aside from that.... backup your data, calls, and everything in Samsung Cloud. And reset phone. Then see if it still does it. If after a reset it still does it I would reflash it with the newest stock ROM.
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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.