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Help Adding ring tones

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larrydonline

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I imagine this has already been discussed but I couldn't make the search box respond at all. Tried it on Edge and Chrome. I'm unhappy with the message alerts available on my Samsung Galaxy Express Prime 2. No matter what sound I choose from the menu I never seem to hear it sound off when a message arrives. For one thing they only play about one second and don't seem to repeat at all.

So if I'm not practically holding the phone when a message comes in I'm likely to not know about it. I'm hoping there is a fix for this. My old Samsung T-Mobile pay-as-you go would keep pestering you on messages received until you checked the phone. It's alert was also about four or five seconds long. Thanks for any suggestions.
 
There are apps for that.in the Play Store. Either a Ringone Maker or a Ringtone Manager sould fix your problem.
What I used to do was use a sound editor on a PC then loop them for however long I wanted a Ringtone to last then tranfer those to the Ringtone folder. Where the ringtone folder is varies among devices.
 
No, it used to be "Android Market", then Google decided they wanted it to be broader than that and came up with a particularly dumb name for it instead.

But you don't even need a "ringtone maker" unless you need to clip a section from a sound file. Just copy the sound file you want to use to /sdcard/Ringtones or /sdcard/Notifications (depending on what you want to use it for, and remembering that /sdcard is, despite the misleading name, internal storage rather than the removable SD card).
 
I'll give Zedge a try. I've already installed and removed half a dozen from the Play Store because I didn't like their choices of sounds. I don't think the ones I left installed for a while actually changed anything in the phone. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
I've been playing with Zedge for a couple weeks and I can't figure out how to use it to set a ringtone for text messages that arrive. I think I've got it set but when I go back into system settings it's still the default sound and nothing has been changed. Can anyone offer ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

I use the 'notifications' setting in Zedge and say I pick AC/DC Back In Black for my tone. When I tap on it the next window has three icons at the bottom - an arrow curving right, a heart, and a big circle with an arrow pointing down. Selecting the center circle the next window has four choices, set contact ringtone, set ringtone, set alarm sound and set notifications, Tapping the last one it says "notifications undated". Yet when I check the settings menu for 'sounds and vibration" > 'notification sounds', the 'message notifications hasn't changed.
Thanks.
 
Text messages might be handled by your contact list on an individual basis. Open up a contact and choose to edit it. See what the ringtone is set for there.
 
I don't find any setting for or even reference to ring tones from the details window or any other window I could open, under any contact.
 
Zedge stores ringtones and notification sounds in different folders, so if you're wanting ringtones, search for "Ringtones" in Zedge. Never had an issue with being able to set individual sounds for different callers as well as different sounds for individual apps as long as the apps allow for custom sounds.
 
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