How to Change Ringtone for Individual Contact

[Longstone]

Just jumped back to Android after a decade of Windows phone (be patient) and I'm trying to change the ringtone for one of my contacts but when I find and edit their contact information the Ringtone ID is grey'd out and I can't edit it. What am I missing?

So I dug all through the settings and found Sound & Notification. When it went in there I found an option for Ringtone ID. No idea what it does other than allows me to set ringtones for Contacts, Favorites or Everyone. When I disabled it I was then able to provide custom ringtones for my contacts.

So can someone explain the concept of Ringtone ID to me? Is this an LG V10 thing or is it similar across the android ecosystem?

 

[RogMoore]

Go to contacts and open it, you will find the ringtone settings for an individual contacts.

 

[Android enquiry]

Go to contacts and open it, you will find the ringtone settings for an yh individual contacts.

Obviously, you did not read the post. The poster wrote that that feature was greyed out. Ergo, the purpose of the post was to find out how to do this if that function is greyed out.

Anyone?
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[onnad]

Obviously, you did not read the post. The poster wrote that that feature was greyed out. Ergo, the purpose of the post was to find out how to do this if that function is greyed out.

Anyone?
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http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g4/537075-problems-assigning-ringtones-contacts.html

It's for the G4 but I would think it would be the same basic idea. It sounds like a ringtone id could be turned on..

 

[Adam Frix]

Just jumped back to Android after a decade of Windows phone (be patient) and I'm trying to change the ringtone for one of my contacts but when I find and edit their contact information the Ringtone ID is grey'd out and I can't edit it. What am I missing?

So I dug all through the settings and found Sound & Notification. When it went in there I found an option for Ringtone ID. No idea what it does other than allows me to set ringtones for Contacts, Favorites or Everyone. When I disabled it I was then able to provide custom ringtones for my contacts.

So can someone explain the concept of Ringtone ID to me? Is this an LG V10 thing or is it similar across the android ecosystem?

That setting will randomly set different ringtones for different contacts.

Therefore, if you want to do that yourself, you must turn that feature off--as you discovered.