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stephen65

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It seems like the newer generations of phones have alarms and notification sounds that have gotten much quieter over the years. This new S3 didn't come with anything that can wake me up in the morning. Chimes and gentle melodies just won't cut it.

I did find some alarms on the Verizon store that are loud enough but you can't override any of the default settings on the phone. I did get the Alarm Clock Plus app just to have something that was loud enough but I just don't trust an app to always be working properly. I would rather use the phone's alarm system.

Is there any way to import alarm sounds to the phone's alarm system?
 
open the clock when u create an alarm click more then click on alarm tone then click add and select whatever song you want as the alarm tone. Alternatively you could also create a folder called Ringtones in the internal memory and keep whatever songs you want to set as the alarm in that folder and it should show up automatically in the alarm tone screen.
 
Maybe but I wouldn't want alarms in my ringtones menu ... or notifications... unless they're of ringtone length.
 
Ok. As long as you're aware not everyone does and the official solution is a folder for each ;)
 
ok cool thanks i already have a folder for ringtones and notifications never had the need to create a folder for alarms.
 
Ringtones are 1 long sound byte.
Notifications are 1 short sound byte
Alarms are either repeated short sound bytes or 1 long soundbyte

So yes if you want a long sound byte for alarm it shows alarms and ringtones.

However if you want a short sound byte repeated for alarm, you wouldn't want that showing in your ringtone menu because its designed to repeat but it may not for a ringtone. So that's why they're separate. If you only use ringtones for alarms, you don't need an alarm folder but if you want an alarm sound to be isolated from other sound menus, you would need one
 
SUroot said:
You can create the following 3 folders in your sdcard

Ringtones
Notifications
Alarms

Anything you put in there will show up in the respective menus on your S3
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Ok I created the three folders. Now can I move the alarms I've already downloaded into those folders or do I have to go back and download them again?

For future reference, when you download a ringtone etc. how do you tell it to go into one of those folders?
 
You can move your existing downloads into there. In future, you will have to do the same also.

Unless you get your alarms from the zedge app, where it will create /scard/zedge/alarms
 
SUroot said:
You can move your existing downloads into there. In future, you will have to do the same also.

Unless you get your alarms from the zedge app, where it will create /scard/zedge/alarms
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But where are they? Because I checked in the downloads folder and it was empty.

Now I have gotten a couple from Zedge so are you saying they can't be moved into these newly created folders?
 
So here's how it works,

You can create "Alarms" on the root of the sdcard.
You can create "Alarms" in sdcard/media
You can create "Alarms" in sdcard/zedge

Android will pick up them all, throw the contents all together into the alarm settings list. They're just folders though. You can move what you want, where you want.

As to where your downloads are, I cant help there.
 
SUroot said:
So here's how it works,

You can create "Alarms" on the root of the sdcard.
You can create "Alarms" in sdcard/media
You can create "Alarms" in sdcard/zedge

Android will pick up them all, throw the contents all together into the alarm settings list. They're just folders though. You can move what you want, where you want.

As to where your downloads are, I cant help there.
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I see an address of C:/tones...... but I don't know how to get there.
 
sounds like thats on a windows computer. Did you download them on a PC and somehow drag them over, but creating a shortcut instead?

Anyway, thats not on the phone by the looks of it.
 
SUroot said:
sounds like thats on a windows computer. Did you download them on a PC and somehow drag them over, but creating a shortcut instead?

Anyway, thats not on the phone by the looks of it.
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Nope, came straight from the Verizon tone store on the phone. When I go into the Alarm Clock Plus app that's what it shows as the alarm identifier or address I guess. It's a very long address. C:/tones.......buzzy alarm/....etc.

Unless that's the address the tone provider uses for it and it doesn't actually mean anything on the phone.
 
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