Where are ringtones and notification sounds stored?

[bevhoward]

>> but there's no "save" button <<

Might slow down and take another look.

I just tried it again using both the default media selector and ESFile explorer and both worked.

I recommend that you use the default media selector... it has a "Cancel" "OK" after you select and it shows both the system ringtones and those in the storage ringtone folder.

If you use ESFileExplorer, it shows only the tones that are in the storage ringtone folder.

In addition, the default media selector previews each sound as part of the selection process.

Hope that this information is helpful,
Beverly Howard

 

[razzell2]

Just got my Galaxy note 8.
All of my previously downloaded notification sounds and ringtones etc, are not visible when I try to find them and use them for my apps and settings.
They are all installed to a folder called Notifications in my SD storage.
Using the default app called My Files, I copied all of them and moved them to the other folder with the same name, notifications, on the SD storage.
They all suddenly became visible to me and I was able to set my Tones, ringtones, notification sounds etcetra.
How about that?
Well, all except for Twitter which has to be changed within the app and is not available to us yet on the note 8.

 

[JB Orton]

I can't find the new ring tones on my note 8 or my old ringtones on my old SD card. Do I need to be using a different file manager to find them?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! What new ringtones are you referring to? Did you download them using an app like Zedge, or did you copy mp3 files manually to the /Ringtones directory?

 

[JB Orton]

In my new note 8, There are about 35 ring tones available in any contact record. Go to contact record, push edit, scroll down to view more, scroll down to ringtone. When I go to ringtone directory under My Files/ Audio/ Ringtones there are 2 tones from the factory. So this is not where the other 35 ringtones are stored. I'm not very tec savy so seeking help.

My old note 4 had a about 60 ringtones and I liked them better. I can't locate them on my note 4 either.

 

[B. Diddy]

The preinstalled ringtones on any phone are in a protected system directory. The /Ringtones directory you're referring to is the user directory, where you can put your own custom ringtones. Which tone files do you see there? Are you sure they're from the factory? If it's a Hangouts tone, that's actually considered 3rd party.

 

[Parama Herath]

I was able to do it without rooting. If you have Facebook try putting your custom mp3 ringtone inside the storage/sdcard0/media/audio/notifications folder. My txt message settings recognized it

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I was able to do it without rooting. If you have Facebook try putting your custom mp3 ringtone inside the storage/sdcard0/media/audio/notifications folder. My txt message settings recognized it

What! Man! You're a genius! Worked like a charm!

 

[Parama Herath]

Works! Thanks!

 

[Cairdeas]

I was able to do it without rooting. If you have Facebook try putting your custom mp3 ringtone inside the storage/sdcard0/media/audio/notifications folder. My txt message settings recognized it

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I was able to do it without rooting. If you have Facebook try putting your custom mp3 ringtone inside the storage/sdcard0/media/audio/notifications folder. My txt message settings recognized it

Could you explain how I find that path please on my note 8. I'm all over the shop lol x
(Even with esfileexplorer I cannot find anything saying notification) did Oreo block this?

 

[SherifDesko]

For Note 8

/ > system > media > audio > ringtones .

 

[SteveJ1961]

I did not have an SD card in my phone, but it was still simple using the information given above.

I have a Galaxy S10 currently running Android version 11, so relatively modern as of this writing. I attached the phone to my computer, and went into the "S10>Android>Media" folder. There was a couple of Facebook-related folders, but nothing else. I then created the folder "audio>notifications" as a sub-folder, and put my custom mp3 in there, and it immediately showed up for use. I could then set it as the default system notification, and directly in other apps like my email app.