Ringtone File

[tallen316]

I have a few ringtones downloaded from Zedge and was trying to look and find the location for where ringtones are stored on the phone in Astro file manager. I already took some notification sounds from the Zedge folder and moved them to the sdcard-media-audio-notifications so when I go into setting and change the notification sounds, the sounds I had in the Zedge folder are now in here. I have ringtones that I would like to put in the correct file/path so that when I go into settings and ringtones, the tones are there. Can anyone help??

 

[dhendriksen]

In the audio folder create a ringtone folder and put them there.

 

[tallen316]

Thanks for the reply. I never thought it would be that easy. Works perfectly!

 

[randalldavis]

OK I did this but how do you select them for a person??

Thanks
Randall

 

[zshazz]

randall, Open your phone app, go to your contacts and select the contact you wish to have a custom ringtone for. It should bring all of their information up, and near the bottom there's an option to choose a ringtone.

 

[randalldavis]

I figured it out today.
1. Connect the phone and select disk drive.
2. Create a ringtone directory under media/audio (/media/audio/ringtone).
3. Copy your ringtones there.
4. Disconnect from PC
5. Go to home on TB cell phone and select ringtones.
6. Select New ringtone (you will see all you copied there).
7. Select the ones you want to add to your list of ringtones.
Now when you go to the phone app to select a ringtone for a particular contact the ones you added will show there. You might want to rename them to something short and understandable.

Thanks
Randall

 

[CallerHoller]

You don't have to bury ringtones in /media/audio. Create folders for ringtones notifications alarms in your SD root directory. Your phone will automatic display them any time you assign one to a contact.

 

[tallen316]

Can I do the same thing with videos, music, and pictures by creating a folder for each in the SD card root directory??

 

[CallerHoller]

Can I do the same thing with videos, music, and pictures by creating a folder for each in the SD card root directory??

Yes. However music pictures and videos don't have to be in specifically named folders. The Gallery music and video apps scan all memory for these files. It shouldn't matter where they are.

The notifications ringtones and alarms have to be in specifically named folders so you don't have to scroll through all the audio files on your phone to select them.

 

[shellguy05]

Stupid question here, is the SD card root directory the first list of folders that pops up when you connect the phone to computer and hit the list folders button?

 

[CallerHoller]

Yes. Connected to a computer you shouldn't be able to see the phone memory. So the first screen will be the root.

 

[shellguy05]

Cool. Thanks.

 

[tallen316]

Shellguy I downloaded astro file manager. When you open up the app you can click on the SD card file and this is the root directory. This will get you to the same, I believe, as plugging into your computer and looking there. This is the same thing as calleholler is saying. So basically it saves you from plugging into your computer and being able to make changes from your phone anywhere.

 

[anon(19759)]

I've always left them wherever they go when downloaded in the zedge app. When I go to select a sound/notification, it asks me if I want to use HTC ringtone picker or zedge.

 

[enfuego360]

I am trying to figure out what what I am doing wrong. I want to add some custom notification sounds that I made (m4a files), so I can use them for incoming mail notifications, text notifications, ect. I placed my files in the /media/audio/notifications directory, but nothing will show up. I can select them as a ringtone if I go to "Select New Ringtone" and select it amongst all my music. But If I go into the settings of, lets say, my gmail app, I cannot select them to use. What am I doing wrong?

 

[CallerHoller]

Some apps only search for them in specific folders. So you have to move them to a folder for notifications.
Create a folder in the main directory of your SD called notifications. You can do the same for ringtones.

 

[enfuego360]

Nope, didnt work.

Let me add this. I guess when I downloaded the facebook app, it installed a notification sound, which I did see listed with the other notifications. I wanted to see if all the details of that file was the same as the others, so I copied it to my computer to check it out... Or at least I thought I did. I actually moved it. So now that I moved it back to my SD card (same exact place it was before), now it is not listed with the other notifications. Why is this happening?

It seems to be something messing up when I move the files to the SD card. It sees them, but it seems as though it is not recognizing them as notifications, even though I am putting them in a folder with the name "notifications" (all in lowercase and plural). Any other ideas?

 

[enfuego360]

So I made a second folder called "ringtones", and placed my ringtones in there. They are showing up in my ringtones list, but the notifications are not (including the facebook one that I placed back on the SD card).

 

[enfuego360]

sorry for the triple post... but i placed my notifications in both the notifications folder that i created and the /media/audio/notifications folder and now they seem to be there. i am not sure with folder they are coming from (i think it is the /media/audio/notifications folder). that was the last folder I placed them in. I also used the disk drive option to place the files on the SD card. before i was using the media sync option (my computer always recognizes that option, but not always the disk drive option). should i be worried about this? could something be wrong with my SD card?

 

[ShaggyKids]

You don't have to bury ringtones in /media/audio. Create folders for ringtones notifications alarms in your SD root directory. Your phone will automatic display them any time you assign one to a contact.

Agreed, when I put my ringtones in a media folder I had doubles and triples of them showing up on all the notifications, ringtones, alarms etc lists ... when I put it in it's own "root" folder I don't have this problem.