Notification sounds

[skgruz]

I am still pretty new to android OS. I have been playing around with my wifes Droid Incredible and I recently purchased the Fascinate. We are both coming from Blackberries.
I transfered all of the pictures, vidoes, music and ringtones from our blackberries to the PC and put them in folders in the same name. Once we got my wifes Incredible I transferred all of the folders over to her memory card and everything showed up where it should be.
I then hooked up my Fascinate and transfered my media to the device. The pictures and music showed up just fine in the music player. The problem I am running into is my saved ringtones is showing up in Music Player s well. The other problem i am having is the ringtones show up also to adjust for the phone ringtone but not in the notification ringtones.
So my two questions are is there a way to organize media on the memory card to have the music player only recognize music and not ringtones? Second is there a way to have ringtones show up for notifcation ringtones and not just phone ringtone?

 

[skgruz]

Please help

 

[SOTK]

I've been wondering the same things. It's annoying having the ring tones in the music player. I love this new phone in many ways but gotta say blackberry sure did a better job at media organization and sound profile customization.

 

[F34R]

What folders do you have everything in...?

 

[TSX05]

looking for this same answer! the notifications tones are horrible and yes even my old BB Storm 1 did much better at tones for personalizations for each type of item, Phone tone, email tone, SMS/MMS tone.

someone plese help us figure this out.

I've come to the conclusion this phone is great for video and picture and web browsing but horrible at really drilling down for personalizations.

 

[Kevin Gossett]

On my SD card is a folder named "media" which has a sub-folder titled "audio" which has another sub-folder titled "notifications". I can't remember if I added these folders myself or if they were already there, but that is where I have my custom notification sounds.

 

[skgruz]

On my SD card I have folders for pictures, videos, music and ringtones. I created them on my PC and when i connected to device with the USB cable I copied them over.

 

[SOTK]

Moving your ringtones to the media>notifications directory doesn't prevent the ringtones from being dumped in with your songs unfortunately.

 

[skgruz]

Moving your ringtones to the media>notifications directory doesn't prevent the ringtones from being dumped in with your songs unfortunately.

so is there a notification directory that you can save the ringtones in?
that way you can pick both notifaction ringtones and phone rintones.

 

[Adiliyo]

so is there a notification directory that you can save the ringtones in?
that way you can pick both notifaction ringtones and phone rintones.

in the same manner as the notifications folder, create one called ringtones in the same place (media) and it will pick up the files in there as well.


as far as choosing a seperate ring tone for sms/mms, email, gmail, etc most of the time you have to go into the specific apps settings to change their ringtone, and whatever you don't customize will fall back to the default ringtone that is set in the phone settings.


to keep the music player from finding these files, you can try placing a .nomedia file in the folder with the ringtones in it.

i'm not sure if that will keep them from showing up in the ringtone selection panel though, but it's worth a shot

 

[skgruz]

One question how do you create a .nomedia file?

I will test it out to see if this will prevent the ringtones from showing up in the media player.

 

[Adiliyo]

what i usually do is make a blank file in notepad, then rename it to ".nomedia"

i think they can be made in astro too.

basically it's just a blank file with that filename

 

[TSX05]

the only workaround I have found is to download the sms app Handcent. once downloaded it give you the option to pick system music for notifications. I now have my galaxy s setup like my old BB storm with three different tones for the three different types of notifications. phone has ringtone, sms has its own notification sound and then another different sound for emails.

only issue is then you have two sms apps on the phone. I havent figured out yet how to only have to answer one of them. but for now its a tradeoff i'm willing to have to get the correct sounds where I want them.

 

[Adiliyo]

the only workaround I have found is to download the sms app Handcent. once downloaded it give you the option to pick system music for notifications. I now have my galaxy s setup like my old BB storm with three different tones for the three different types of notifications. phone has ringtone, sms has its own notification sound and then another different sound for emails.

only issue is then you have two sms apps on the phone. I havent figured out yet how to only have to answer one of them. but for now its a tradeoff i'm willing to have to get the correct sounds where I want them.

open the stock app, click menu, settings, and then uncheck notifications.

now only handcent will have an alert

 

[skgruz]

I was able to get my ringtones setup for sms and email notifications by copying my the files from my ringtone folder into media>audio>notifications
I then also put my ringtone folder into media>audio

I tried the option of using the .nomedia file and that corrected the issue for not showing up in the media player but then it would not show up for either ringtones or notifications

 

[curley]

I just created a folder in my SD card as "notifications" "ringtones"
I never put anything into the "media" folder. I also use Mixzing for music and it does not pick up any of these Ringtones or notifications.

 

[Adiliyo]

I just created a folder in my SD card as "notifications" "ringtones"
I never put anything into the "media" folder. I also use Mixzing for music and it does not pick up any of these Ringtones or notifications.

does moving the notifications and ringtones folders out of media remove them from the stock media player?

i know you don't use it, but if you could open it up and check for us?

 

[seanatsb]

Solution: Place media files in system folder. Requires Root

does moving the notifications and ringtones folders out of media remove them from the stock media player?

i know you don't use it, but if you could open it up and check for us?

Pretty sure that doesn't work.
Also, putting a .nomedia file in the folder prevents the files from being recognized to set as ringtones, notification tones, etc. I've been dealing with this problem for about a week, trying to find a solution, and I finally came up with one today with the help of advice from several others on these forums.

The only caveat of this solution is that it requires your fascinate to be rooted.
Once your phone is rooted, it's pretty simple.
1)Download Root Explorer from the Market ($4, but one of the best file managers out there) Root explorer will give you the ability to edit folders/files that normally can't be edited, ie read and write permission as opposed to read only.

2)Using Root Explorer (make sure in top left of program it says "mounted as r/w"), copy any ringtone, notification file, .ogg file, .mp3 file, etc that you have made or downloaded, by selecting sdcard folder and navigating to the location of your tones, long pressing the file of interest, and select copy. (You can even long press on the folder and copy the whole folder of tones).

3)Still using Root Explorer, back out of the SD folder, and find the folder called "system". Navigate to system/media/audio/"ringtones" or "notifications" . Click the paste button at the bottom of the screen (which should have appeared as soon as you copied your file/folder). The file/folder will now be in your system's tone folder.

4)You must power down and power back up your phone before the phone will recognize these newly added tones.

5)Either delete the tone files from your SD card, or put a .nomedia file into the folder to remove them from the SF's media player.

Hope this helps.

 

[Adiliyo]

that's a pretty good idea

 

[hindustani8]

I just tried seanatsb's instruction and they worked! Rebooting the device is very critical.