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ADB Pushed Ringtone Problem.

Hello all,
I was wondering what causes a rooted Android phone to not use custom contact ringtones?
The ringtones I've assigned to my contacts have been pushed ( with adb push command ) to the phone's system memory, and I can see them in there using Root Explorer ( File Manager ). This only seems to happen when I use a task manager like Advanced Task Manager to End All.. uh... stuff running, I guess.
Is there a process or something that I can put on the exclude list to stop it from cutting off my custom ringers if that's the problem?
Oddly enough, even if I do End All of anything, my microSD card still uses my default ringtone on the phone, though, just the default ringtone, not even the custom contacts set from there work.
Here's a bit more info on what apps I normally use and phone info:
Advanced Task Manager
CacheMate
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Software: 2.27.651.5 ( Rooted )

Vvh said:
Hello all,
I was wondering what causes a rooted Android phone to not use custom contact ringtones?
The ringtones I've assigned to my contacts have been pushed ( with adb push command ) to the phone's system memory, and I can see them in there using Root Explorer ( File Manager ). This only seems to happen when I use a task manager like Advanced Task Manager to End All.. uh... stuff running, I guess.
Is there a process or something that I can put on the exclude list to stop it from cutting off my custom ringers if that's the problem?
Oddly enough, even if I do End All of anything, my microSD card still uses my default ringtone on the phone, though, just the default ringtone, not even the custom contacts set from there work.
Here's a bit more info on what apps I normally use and phone info:
Advanced Task Manager
CacheMate
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Software: 2.27.651.5 ( Rooted )
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So, first of all, did you push the custom ringers to /system/media/audio/ringtones/? (FYI, you know you can just put u'r custom ringtones to u'r SD card under /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones/ and you won't have to waste system space...) aside from that fact, you need to make sure u've pushed u'r ringtones to the system/media/audio/ringtones/ directory in the phone. Once you've done that, you shouldn't have any problems accessing them via android's native ringtone selector.

Thank you for the reply Androidious.
Yes, I pushed the ringtones correctly to /system/media/audio/ringtones/. Accessing them isn't the problem though, it's simply that there's a process that controls ringtones, and I'm trying to figure out which it is so I can put it on an exclude list from my Task Manager.
Here's a list of processes that run when my phone is turned on and everything is working:
Sprint Navigation
People
com.smithmicro.DM
Maps
IM
IM
Htc Checkin Service
Sprint Updater
Meebo IM
Updater
Note Me
CacheMate
Messages
Voicemail
Gmail
Settings
Is it possible that the People process controls ringtones?

[Q] Move ringtones to internal memory

Hello, I would like to move my ringtones to the internal memory because I've noticed that since I started using Swap, It delays the ringtone from starting. This is what I observed, Randomly the ringtone starts after 2 or 3 vibrates, other times its not at all and uses the stock beeping ringtone (I guess since the SD is being used, it cant go in it and get the ringtone) So bottom line, My ringtones take a few seconds to ring after a few vibrates. I already know that I have to convert them to .ogg, but does anyone know another way to make the system pull up the ringtone faster?

I would like to know that myself. Im sick of having my default ringtone going when i selected a custom one for one of my contacts. whats the best settings for the ogg files too as this may be helpful to us both

Krician said:
Hello, I would like to move my ringtones to the internal memory because I've noticed that since I started using Swap, It delays the ringtone from starting. This is what I observed, Randomly the ringtone starts after 2 or 3 vibrates, other times its not at all and uses the stock beeping ringtone (I guess since the SD is being used, it cant go in it and get the ringtone) So bottom line, My ringtones take a few seconds to ring after a few vibrates. I already know that I have to convert them to .ogg, but does anyone know another way to make the system pull up the ringtone faster?
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traumatism said:
I would like to know that myself. Im sick of having my default ringtone going when i selected a custom one for one of my contacts. whats the best settings for the ogg files too as this may be helpful to us both
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Alright... So you wanna do this, here is what you will need:
*ADB Installed and working
*Root Manager of some sort
*Format Factory -This is freeware, so it's not warez.
1st, Download and install Format Factory. This is the program I use for everything. If you have one of your own preference, it can be substituded.
**Do a custom install, as this will try to install adbars otherwise. (You have been warned.)
2nd, Open Format Factory and click "All to OGG".
3rd, Select your ringtones and click "ok". On the next screen, click "Start"
4th, Open your Root Explorer program, I use Android Commander
5th, With your Root Explorer program, navigate to your newly created OGG files (normally found in Documents/FFOutput on your PC) in the Root Explorer.
6th, Move these files to /system/media/*** on your phone. And you are done.
Please note: ""***" represents the respective folders. i.e. "ringtones", "notifications", etc.
Hope this helped you. Click "thanks" if it did. - Any questions, ask.
EDIT: DO NOT change the OGG settings in Format Factory. They work fine at default. Once you get used to, and comfortable with doing this, then play with the settings to get your desired file size and quality.

I tried doing what you said, but although I successfully managed to push the files, they still don't appear in the ringtone/notifications menu

SleeperService said:
I tried doing what you said, but although I successfully managed to push the files, they still don't appear in the ringtone/notifications menu
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did you make sure the phone looked for new media, or restart ya phone? i had to do it with mine

I was going to say that I had checked the phone after restart and they still weren't showing up - but I double checked again and now they are. Thanks! I'm not sure how to check for new media, though - is there a procedure for this?

Been trying this using ES File Explorer but keeping getting a message that paste failed. Any ideas where i'm going wrong.
I have S-Off and root

you can try this, it a little easier if you have the tools but yoo have to reflash the rom so be sure to backup your apps, contacts blah blah blah...
1. unzip the 'rom.zip' file, open the folder and look for the system/media/audio folder
2. now you can add & remove ringtones, notifications, alarm sounds that you want or dont want...
3. zip the rom file back up
4. sign it with an auto sign program... (very simple to use)
5. flash rom and enjoy your customizations
6. restore your backed up contacts and apps...
(you can also remove some unwanted stock apps to save space, be sure not too remove system required apps though lol)

Cheers Idrifta, ended up getting it to work using Root Explorer.

o nice!!! haha good to know... better than my method lol

The following worked for me.. Check this
I followed a link and it worked for me on jfltetmo running on cm11-m9 and having twrp v2.8.4.0. I explained the steps in my answer here: How to install a ringtone into internal memory?. All the credit for the steps go to villo-2.

[AUDIO] Ringtones, Notifications, and Alarms

Here is a collection of alarms, notifications, and ringtones collected from stock and various roms. This is a CWM flashable zip. If you enjoy this, remember to thank the devs here. I just made a collection from their work. If anyone has other audio from other devices they want added just let me know and I'll recompile.
List:
Captivate Stock
Atrix Stock
Armani Stock
Andromeda
Cognition
Continuum
Dragon
Phoenix
Serendipity
Twingerbread
Talking Notifications
and others I may have forgotten.
Now converted to Edify! These are flashable from the newer CWM.
Grab them from my signature

Red_81 said:
If anyone has other audio from other devices they want added just let me know and I'll recompile.
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I don't have the audio, but it would be beyond awesome to have the audio from the original Nokia 5100 :]
Anyone know of a site that has audio from old phones?

mipakr said:
I don't have the audio, but it would be beyond awesome to have the audio from the original Nokia 5100 :]
Anyone know of a site that has audio from old phones?
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I found an online MIDI converter, converted them to wav, and then over to ogg. I've attached a CWM flashable zip to this post with the 5100 ringers. I can't stress enough about doing a backup before you apply this as I haven't tested it yet.

Red_81 said:
I found an online MIDI converter, converted them to wav, and then over to ogg. I've attached a CWM flashable zip to this post with the 5100 ringers. I can't stress enough about doing a backup before you apply this as I haven't tested it yet.
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For those that don't want to CWM flash you can extract the files and place them manually.

KonaZXIII said:
For those that don't want to CWM flash you can extract the files and place them manually.
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Yep, that is also possible for those who don't want to let it automatically place the files for them or who want to pick and choose the tones they want.

I updated the original post with my corrected Audio file (removed duplicates) and included a link to download the stock Captivate tones as well.
Enjoy!

Great package! I flashed without any issues, but I am seeing duplicates of some of the files. If I look in the directory where they are with Astro, I am only seeing single copies of some of the files.
Any ideas? How can I clean this up?
Thanks for posting these BTW!!
--Matt

mattsternc said:
Great package! I flashed without any issues, but I am seeing duplicates of some of the files. If I look in the directory where they are with Astro, I am only seeing single copies of some of the files.
Any ideas? How can I clean this up?
Thanks for posting these BTW!!
--Matt
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Try another reboot. If that doesn't work then go into settings --> applications --> manage applications --> all --> media container. Force a stop and clear data. Reboot. That should force another fresh media scan with no cached data.
What duplicates were you seeing? That way I can along double check my source files.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

A couple of questions... if we don't want all of them, can we just delete the unwanted ones out of the zip before flashing?
Also, if we should want to just direct load them onto the phone (assume that is possible?), where should they be put?
Related to direct loading, there seems to be beaucoup file manager apps; anybody tried a bunch and find a clear winner?

movrshakr said:
A couple of questions... if we don't want all of them, can we just delete the unwanted ones out of the zip before flashing?
Also, if we should want to just direct load them onto the phone (assume that is possible?), where should they be put?
Related to direct loading, there seems to be beaucoup file manager apps; anybody tried a bunch and find a clear winner?
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1. If you delete the ones you don't want then it won't be flashable through CWM
2. You can direct load them to /system/media/audio/ and then notifications or ringtones or alarms
3. I use root explorer
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

You can also make a dir on your SD card internal or ext like this.
/media/audio/notifications or ringtones or alarms
and they will be seen and you can set them as ringtone/notification/alarms just like you can with the build in system ones

Red_81 said:
Try another reboot. If that doesn't work then go into settings --> applications --> manage applications --> all --> media container. Force a stop and clear data. Reboot. That should force another fresh media scan with no cached data.
What duplicates were you seeing? That way I can along double check my source files.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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I tried what you suggested and I'm still seeing the dupes. As a data point, I was using whatever came stock with Cog 4.0 (clean flash from stock) and Cog 4.2.2 (upgrade over top of 4.0). Not sure if there were dupes before, but confident there were not.
Here is a list of the dupes:
AT&T Tone
ATT Tone (this one is lower volume .... going to try and delete via Astro)
Bird Loop
Bollywood
Calypso Steel
Classic Bell
Digital Phone
The floor
Gutta tone
Luminescence
Noisy one (Noisey one .... spelling difference, but same tone)
Popple Tone
Pure Tone
Samsung Tune
Single Tone
Winter
As I said before, I only see one file in the list when I look in the directory with Astro.
Let me know if there is anything else you need!!
Thanks for looking at this as well!
--Matt
P.S. -- I also just noticed that there are dupes for the notification tones now as well. I'll reply back here with a list in a little bit.

mattsternc said:
I tried what you suggested and I'm still seeing the dupes. As a data point, I was using whatever came stock with Cog 4.0 (clean flash from stock) and Cog 4.2.2 (upgrade over top of 4.0). Not sure if there were dupes before, but confident there were not.
Here is a list of the dupes:
AT&T Tone
ATT Tone (this one is lower volume .... going to try and delete via Astro)
Bird Loop
Bollywood
Calypso Steel
Classic Bell
Digital Phone
The floor
Gutta tone
Luminescence
Noisy one (Noisey one .... spelling difference, but same tone)
Popple Tone
Pure Tone
Samsung Tune
Single Tone
Winter
As I said before, I only see one file in the list when I look in the directory with Astro.
Let me know if there is anything else you need!!
Thanks for looking at this as well!
--Matt
P.S. -- I also just noticed that there are dupes for the notification tones now as well. I'll reply back here with a list in a little bit.
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How large is the zip file you downloaded? I think you might have one of the older ones.

Red_81 said:
How large is the zip file you downloaded? I think you might have one of the older ones.
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The file that I downloaded is 27.49mb (28,823,899 bytes). Is that an older one?
--Matt

Nope. That's the most current one. I'll do a little more research and see if I can find out why you're getting duplicates.
Did you run the CWM version or did you extract them to a folder on your sd card?
Also try deleting the data/cache from the media storage and then another reboot.

Red_81 said:
Nope. That's the most current one. I'll do a little more research and see if I can find out why you're getting duplicates.
Did you run the CWM version or did you extract them to a folder on your sd card?
Also try deleting the data/cache from the media storage and then another reboot.
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I ran the CWM version. I tried the deleting data/cache again and had the same result (no change).
--Matt

Make sure you're doing both media storage and media container then followed by a reboot
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

You also may want to check for an extra media/audio folder structure
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Pmac25 said:
You can also make a dir on your SD card internal or ext like this.
/media/audio/notifications or ringtones or alarms
and they will be seen and you can set them as ringtone/notification/alarms just like you can with the build in system ones
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If you do this, will the media player see them as "music" and include them in the "playable things" inside the media player app?

movrshakr said:
If you do this, will the media player see them as "music" and include them in the "playable things" inside the media player app?
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I notice my Ringtones created by Ringdroid do show up and they are in a folder like that.
You can exclude media by directory by adding a file to that directory called .nomedia

[Q] ok trying to delete stock ringtones has got me stumped

Here's the deal....I went to system\media\audio\ringtones and deleted every stock ringtone....sense im running safestrap I also deleted from\preinstall.....rebooted but they are still in the ringtone list and still work....I don't understand how that's possible.... so I used mp3 download and deleted one from there to see if that would work and Bam its gone from the list.....but deleting them 1 by 1, having to scroll all the way back down to where I left off every time one is deleted would be a waste of my time not to mention drive me to possibly commit suicide.....both system\media\audio\ringtones folders are empty....Why in the hell are they still in the ringtone list and still frickin working.......

Try in the /mnt/sdcard/android/.....
That may be just notifications in that folder.. don't remember.

neilrl79 said:
I had this happen to me a build or two ago, after some searching I found that I some how had a folder on sdcard with all the ringtones in it as well as them being in system media. After deleting the sdcard folder the duplicates disappeared. Hope that helps.
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Sounds like this user found a solution.

Custom Message Tone

Hey guys
So I have copied 2 custom sound files to my phone 1 for the ringtone and one for messages, they both show up and work fine when browsing via the ringtone selection menu however when trying to select either from the messages selection window they are not there ?
any ideas ?

You need to put new sounds in to right directory. Use root explorer.... For messages - system/media/audio/notification
Restart phone and new tones will be added to the list.

djembey said:
You need to put new sounds in to right directory. Use root explorer.... For messages - system/media/audio/notification
Restart phone and new tones will be added to the list.
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it would seem that directory is read only, do I need to be rooted ?

Yes and No....
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Works for me
Maggot82 said:
Hey guys
So I have copied 2 custom sound files to my phone 1 for the ringtone and one for messages, they both show up and work fine when browsing via the ringtone selection menu however when trying to select either from the messages selection window they are not there ?
any ideas ?
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If you don't have just do a new folder it works,
/sdcard/Notifications
it will work as well for alarms and ringtones in COSTUM room with no root, it will work as well if you create in exsdcard...

Yeah, you're right, I'm always rooted and totally forgot about this. Thanks.