A ringtone is the tune that gets played when somebody calls.
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How do I set a custom MP3 as a ringtone for other notifications?
I have an HTC Droid Incredible running Android 2.2 FroYo and would like to use custom sounds/songs as ringtones for text message notifications, event and task reminders, Facebook and Twitter ...
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Is there a way to customize vibrate patterns?
Like many people my phone is most of the time in silent/vibrate mode. I was wondering if there's a way to assign different vibration patterns for different notifications, just like we do for ringtones ...
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How to stop a phone from ringing without rejecting the call?
Sometimes I don't want to take a call, but I don't want him to know that. So I left the phone be until it stops, so it would appear that I'm away from phone or something and I miss the call. Can I ...
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How do I set a custom SMS tone for a single contact?
If it matters any I have an HTC Desire Z with the original Sense install.
We have this monitoring service at work that keeps an eye on the various servers and starts frantically SMS'ing me whenever ...
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How to set MP3 ringtone in Android (Nexus S)
I am using Music (latest up to today) and TTPOD as my MP3 players.
After Googling, I suppose I can set my MP3 ring tone, by long press on the song through Music application. However, once I long ...
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With headphones plugged in, set incoming call ringtone to play through speaker
I use my phone to play music at work. When I wander away from my desk, I often leave my headphones plugged in. If someone calls my phone when the headphones are plugged in, the phone rings, but only ...
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Is it possible to only silence certain notifications?
I'm running Android 2.2 FroYo on an HTC Droid Incredible. When I go to bed, I want to turn off all notifications except for incoming phone calls, which I still want to receive. Is this possible, ...
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How can I turn songs from Google Play Music into ringtones?
Is there a way to easily use music from Google Play (the service formerly known as google music) as ringtones on my phone?
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Separate ringtone for calls from numbers not in the contact list?
good old Siemens phones had a feature that allowed you to set a single ringtone for all calls coming from your contacts, and a single ringtone for all calls coming from numbers not in your contact ...
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How do I silence incoming call and text message ringtone without hanging up in the Galaxy Nexus?
I have set up MP3 ringtones for both incoming calls and text messages on my new Galaxy Nexus, but I can't figure out how to silence them without hanging up (in the case of incoming calls) or without ...
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How do I silence a call with my Samsung Fascinate?
I want to be able to silence the ringer/vibration of a call without hitting the "ignore" button.
The reason is that if someone gets sent to voice mail after one or two rings they will likely know ...
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Maximum ring volume for one contact, vibrate for others (SMS)
I keep my phone on vibrate all the day because of my work. So I mostly get back on people when I have the time.
However, I must be informed immediately when some server goes down. For that I have ...
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How do I remove delay between ringtones
My new Droid Razr, and Razr Maxx phones put a small delay in between each ring. Some of the factory ringtones are designed to be a continous loop. for example "medieval jaunt", "romancing the tone", ...
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Vibrate-before-ring
Is there a way to have an android phone vibrate first before it starts ringing?
Note that I'm looking for a clean solution, i.e. I don't want to modify the ringtone to include a few seconds of ...
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Galaxy Nexus ringtones and notifications too quiet
I've recently ditched an iPhone in favour of an Android, Galaxy Nexus. Now I am missing calls and texts all the time because I simply don't hear the ring! I have maxed all the volume sliders in ...
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How can I restore the original ringtones and sounds?
Without really thinking, I used the "clear data" command on the Media Storage app, which deleted all the stock ringtones and notification sounds from my Nexus One. How can I get them back?
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Old ringtones from android 1.0?
I had a Android Dev G1 phone (which has long since bitten the dust). it was running android 1.0 (later updated to 1.5). I have just gotten a HTC Desire running 2.2. There was a nice ringtone on the ...
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Add New Ringtones, Notifications and Alarm tones on Nexus One
I have music (MP3 files) on my SD card and am trying to set them as ringtones, notification tones and alarm tones on my Nexus One.
My phone only lets me select the stock ringtones, notifications or ...
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How do I set mp3s as ringtones on ICS?
I just upgraded my Nexus-S to Ice Cream Sandwich, I can't find the option to set mp3s as ringtones for my contacts? what am I missing?
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how do I set a ring tone for a specific contact?
I've searched for this here and don't see it. I've set a custom, contact-specific ring tone before but don't recall how. It doesn't seem to be under the contact, which is where it should be.
Phone is ...
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How to use diffrent modes at same time on a phone for different callers
For two different callers call on a phone, Is it possible that phone is on vibrate mode for one caller and on ring mode for different user?
My question is in terms of making an application. Is it ...
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How to increase speaker volume of HTC Evo 3D
I have just bought HTC Evo 3D and as much I am inspired by phone, its speaker performance is giving me equivalent dissatisfaction, the speaker sound is very low for ringtone as well as for music ...
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How do I get my stock ringtones back?
I have a Droid X, and I've been having issues with my music lately. I finally deleted the Albums, Music, and Playlists directories from my SD Card, and used SDRescan to get the media library to ...
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How do I make my phone play a ringtone over my headphones despite being on “silent”?
I'm running Cyanogenmod 7.1RC1 on my Desire.
When my phone is not on silent, I can hear the ringtone on my headphones when someone calls me, which is great. However, when my phone is on silent and my ...
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How can I set different ringtones - one for new email and one for new SMS in Nexus One?
Currently I can't find the selection box anywhere in the configuration in my Nexus One to allow this; i.e. they are the same and when I'm expecting SMS from my friend, I get distracted by the emails ...
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Ringtones from my mp3
I have in bluetooth folder some .mp3 files. How can I make them ringtones? The phone ringtone option doesn't see them.
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Samsung galaxy SIII is there a way to add a new call ring?
I proudly own this phone, but I can't find a way to set up a classic ring call. What can I do?
There's a way?
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iPhone ringtones and other sounds on Android
My current phone is an HTC Desire and I was using an iPhone before. I am really liking the ringtons and other system sounds on the iPhone and I am now looking a way to have these on my Android phone. ...
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Set MP3 as ringtone on CyanogenMod 10
Without using a market app, how can I set a custom MP3 file as ringtone?
I've tried placing the MP3 in media/audio/ringtones and variations (e.g. media/ringtones), but the MP3 does not show in ...
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Why did my phone lose the ringtone configuration?
I've assigned a default ringtone and one other ringtone to my wife. She called me two days ago and the phone played the Galaxy SII ringtone. Next day, somebody else called me, and the same happened.
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How to access the internal ringtone folder on rooted 2.2?
I have a rooted Samsung GT5510 running 2.2.
I have tried in vain, using different file explorers, to locate the built in ringtones (folder).
Can someone please point me to the right path? Is it inside ...
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Second ring tone for my Google Voice phone number
I'm considering adding a second phone number to my android phone by using Google Voice. Can I have a different ring tone to indicate that a call is coming from that second number and not from my first ...
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Reset ringtone picker preferences
My Samsung Galaxy S2 on Gingerbread was set to use Handcent as the default ringtone picker, and I accidentally changed this back to the built-in ringtone picker. How do I get it to use Handcent again? ...
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Saving ringtone selection in Contacts app
My wife's Samsung Captivate (AT&T's Galaxy S variant) phone is running CyanogenMod 7.1 (Android 2.3.x). Several times for various reasons her Google account was removed and had to be re-added. ...
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How do I change the delay between rings?
I have an HTC EVO Shift running Android 2.2 (Froyo). When I receive an incoming call the ringtone plays constantly. Each cycle starts immediately after the previous cycle finishes with no delay at ...
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How do I set unique ringtones for individual contacts?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and would like to set text notifications to be unique to each contact (just as I can set unique ringtones for each contact). Is there a way to do this? For example, I ...
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Custom ringtones don't work on Cyanogenmod 9
I'm running Cyanogenmod 9 on my S3, and want to set an mp3 file as the ringtone. As this wiki page suggests, I've created the directory '/sdcard/media/ringtones` and put the sound files in there.
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Is there a sound picker app with file browser and audio previews?
In android (at least in Xperia) when you want change a ring-tone (SMS, call, ...) it show you a list of all available audio files in your mobile and SD memories. Choosing a ring from a list of ...
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How to install a ringtone into internal memory?
I am using a custom ringtone. It is a mp3 which is stored on the external SD card.
When my phone is connected via USB to my computer and the SD card is mounted, my phone uses a default ringtone on ...
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Can I add my own notification ring tones from MP3 files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set a custom MP3 as a ringtone for other notifications?
I've been easily able to add call ringtones but is there a way to add notification ringtones from an ...
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Why does my SD data get messed up when i connect to PC with USB?
Every time I connect my phone to my computer via USB (Huawei U8666E, Android 4.0.3) even after I've disconnected my phone, the following 2 things happen (that I can tell): My ringtone goes back to ...
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Lost my ice cream truck ringtone
I have a rzr hd and one of the stock ringtones was an ice cream truck. About a month ago, it disappeared from my phone. Any ideas? I don't know the name of it, but I haven't added any ringtones to my ...
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Google Voice - Separate ringtone but maintain caller ID?
I suspect I know the answer to this question, but I wanted to quadruple check here just in case...
Is there any way to set a phone to have a different ringtone based on what number was dialed? I ...
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Ringtones and alarms changes randomly [closed]
3 weeks ago my HTC EVO 3d (rooted, S-OFF and with LEEDroid latest ROM) started to randomly change ringtones and alarm tones (mainly at reboot, but occasionally during normal use).
If I restore the ...
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Is there an application that allows fine tuning of what ringtone to play on Android? [closed]
I'm not very satisfied with phonebook's ringtone assignment: they disappear sporadically and sometimes fail to play (default ringtone is played instead).
Ideally I want an application that do this:
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How to set special ringtone for all foreign numbers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Separate ringtone for calls from numbers not in the contact list?
How to make all numbers except of "+375..." play different ringtone (or set ringtone just for this ...
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Setting “phone ringing” sound for outgoing calls
When I place a call I hear the traditional rotary dial phone ringing sound until the person at the other end, whose ringtone most likely is completely different, answers. What I was wondering is, can ...
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How to manually upload ringtones and notifications to DroidX?
I've created 2 folders on the root of the SD card,
Ringtones
Notifications
and placed one mp3 file within each. When I disconnect the DroidX from the USB cable and navigate to either "Settings" > ...
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Ringtones directory won't update in settings
I removed some of the stock ringtones (from my ROM) that I didn't want from /system/media/audio/ringtones and added some new ones that I got from the xda forums via my SD card and RootExplorer.
When ...
