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Help Adding notification ringtones

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Nichole6431

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I want to add a specific notification ringtone to my husbands contact. I cant figure out how to do it. I am using a ringtone maker app and I made it, clicked use as notification but when I go to his contact and click on the notification ringtone, the song I added isnt on the list. HELP????
 
Where did you place the ringtone (assume it is a MP3)? It should be in a folder on the phone memory rather than the SD Card. There is a folder called "media" you should create subfolder of it and name it "ringtones". Place the MP3 in that folder and try again to use it for your husband
 
Nichole6431 said:
I have done that but the song isnt on the list when I click on his contact. Not sure what I am doing wrong
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You copied it to the wrong directory. There should be a Notifications directory. Put it in there.

Edit: ever since ICS, you no longer need the Media directory. The default folders are located as:

1) /sdcard/Alarms
2) /sdcard/Notifications
3) /sdcard/Ringtones
 
neil154 said:
Where did you place the ringtone (assume it is a MP3)? It should be in a folder on the phone memory rather than the SD Card. There is a folder called "media" you should create subfolder of it and name it "ringtones". Place the MP3 in that folder and try again to use it for your husband
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This is not correct. The ringtone doesn't have to be on the phone storage in order to use ringtones or alerts.

I linked to a post I made in the Motorola Photon forums, but it'll apply for any and all Android phones that have an external SD card

http://androidforums.com/3044622-post5.html

That information is also located at the FAQ sticky at the top of the Note 2 forum:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-note-2/633197-galaxy-note-2-tips-faqs-quick-access-thread.html
 
NeoGrandizer said:
You copied it to the wrong directory. There should be a Notifications directory. Put it in there.

Edit: ever since ICS, you no longer need the Media directory. The default folders are located as:

1) /sdcard/Alarms
2) /sdcard/Notifications
3) /sdcard/Ringtones
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Really? Oh man, I didn't even realize that changed in ICS (I guess because the Photon never got stock ICS). Oh well, it still identifies with the media folder.
 
drexappeal said:
Really? Oh man, I didn't even realize that changed in ICS (I guess because the Photon never got stock ICS). Oh well, it still identifies with the media folder.
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Yeah, I remember with GB, I needed to make the Media folder. But since ICS, I noticed it already had the default folders setup. So I plopped all my mp3s into the appropriate folders and left it at that. No need to create new folders/subfolders. LOL.
 
Yes, you can do it to the SD card but on some phones there is a time delay for it getting the ringtone and you will lose it and it will go to the default ring. I have this problem on my S3
 
NeoGrandizer said:
Yeah, I remember with GB, I needed to make the Media folder. But since ICS, I noticed it already had the default folders setup. So I plopped all my mp3s into the appropriate folders and left it at that. No need to create new folders/subfolders. LOL.
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That's pretty awesome. I might re-organize the sub-folders to reflect the updates (although, as the saying goes...if it ain't broke...LOL).
 
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