Help Ring Tones and Alerts - Phone to SD

[Tripndrag]

Is there any way to get the ring tones and alerts off the phone and copy them to the SD card? The sounds on this phone are pretty good but you just can't hear them. I am most interested in the alarm clock sounds. If I could get them off the phone and on the SD card in my folder system on there where I could assign them as ringers and alert tones I would be very happy.

 

[drexappeal]

Is there any way to get the ring tones and alerts off the phone and copy them to the SD card? The sounds on this phone are pretty good but you just can't hear them. I am most interested in the alarm clock sounds. If I could get them off the phone and on the SD card in my folder system on there where I could assign them as ringers and alert tones I would be very happy.

In order to get to the information that's stored in the phone memory, you have to ROOT the phone. If you're new to Android, rooting the phone is basically allowing for "administrator" access to all the files that are preloaded on the phone.

I haven't done that on my EVO yet, but apparently it's very easy to do. Once you root the phone, I'm pretty sure you can move those files over to the SD card.

 

[Tripndrag]

I didn't get any good feedback and I know there are probably people out there wanting to do this so here is how you do it. This works on the EVO Shift and on the Verizon Droid 2 Global, I have both phones and have done this on each of them.

I downloaded AndExplorer, I can't believe there isn't a file explorer on the Shift??? Anyway easy to download, doesn't do anything but explore the files on the phone and allow you to work with them, so I haven't had any problems with it, just a great app.

If you launch AndExplorer you can then browse the phone as well as the SD card just like Explorer on your computer.

Browse the phone deviece to the folder System - Media - Audio.
Once in the Audio folder you will see the folders for the sounds, they will read Alarms - Alert - Notifications and Ringtones. There may be a couple others but you don't have to use them.
Open the Alarms folder for example, hit menu - more - select all.

Once all the sound files are selected hit menu and the Copy/Paste button, it will bring up a window where you can select copy.

Once they are copied, navigate to the folder you want to put them in like Notifications, or if you setup the folder structure for sounds on your SD card like in my directions below you can go to your SD card.

Once your in the folder where you want the sounds, hit menu and then the Copy/Paste button, a window will pop up and you can select Paste, all your sounds from the other folder will go in.

Now you can also copy the files from every folder on your phone and then navigate to your SD card and past the files there. If you want all sound files to be available then just create this folder structure on your SD card:
Open your SD card, make a folder called Media
Open the Media folder and make a folder inside called Audio
Open the Audio folder and make 4 folders inside it, Alarms - Alert - Notifications - Ringtones

Now just paste all the sounds from all 3 folders on your phone in to each of these folders. You can also throw in any other sounds you may like. Just remember when you add a sound to one folder you might as well add it to all of them so the sound will be available in all the sound settings for Ringers, Alerts, Notifications or Ringtones.

Once your finished, turn off your phone, pull the battery, wait a few seconds and then put the battery back in and boot the phone up. All your sounds should now be available to you where you want them. No rooting involved.

 

[drexappeal]

I didn't get any good feedback and I know there are probably people out there wanting to do this so here is how you do it. This works on the EVO Shift and on the Verizon Droid 2 Global, I have both phones and have done this on each of them.

I downloaded AndExplorer, I can't believe there isn't a file explorer on the Shift??? Anyway easy to download, doesn't do anything but explore the files on the phone and allow you to work with them, so I haven't had any problems with it, just a great app.

If you launch AndExplorer you can then browse the phone as well as the SD card just like Explorer on your computer.

Browse the phone deviece to the folder System - Media - Audio.
Once in the Audio folder you will see the folders for the sounds, they will read Alarms - Alert - Notifications and Ringtones. There may be a couple others but you don't have to use them.
Open the Alarms folder for example, hit menu - more - select all.

Once all the sound files are selected hit menu and the Copy/Paste button, it will bring up a window where you can select copy.

Once they are copied, navigate to the folder you want to put them in like Notifications, or if you setup the folder structure for sounds on your SD card like in my directions below you can go to your SD card.

Once your in the folder where you want the sounds, hit menu and then the Copy/Paste button, a window will pop up and you can select Paste, all your sounds from the other folder will go in.

Now you can also copy the files from every folder on your phone and then navigate to your SD card and past the files there. If you want all sound files to be available then just create this folder structure on your SD card:
Open your SD card, make a folder called Media
Open the Media folder and make a folder inside called Audio
Open the Audio folder and make 4 folders inside it, Alarms - Alert - Notifications - Ringtones

Now just paste all the sounds from all 3 folders on your phone in to each of these folders. You can also throw in any other sounds you may like. Just remember when you add a sound to one folder you might as well add it to all of them so the sound will be available in all the sound settings for Ringers, Alerts, Notifications or Ringtones.

Once your finished, turn off your phone, pull the battery, wait a few seconds and then put the battery back in and boot the phone up. All your sounds should now be available to you where you want them. No rooting involved.

I'm not sure exactly what you were trying to accomplish by doing this. Does copying the system notification/alarm/ringtone sounds that are on the phone memory onto the SD card make them available anywhere else that you normally wouldn't be able to use them? Sounds like that would just be duplication (e.g. 1 ringtone/alert on the phone, 1 on the sd card).

The way I replied, I was basing that purely on not being able to delete the files in the folder (which is what your original post said). Are you saying that you were actually able to delete the files on the phone without actually rooting the phone? If so, I'd be interested to see how that was accomplished exactly because anytime I've tried deleting ringtones/alarms/notifications off the phone memory, I get a pop-up saying that it cannot be done. That's using a File Explorer, btw.

 

[Tripndrag]

This is so you can use all the tones anywhere. Yes there is duplication if you do it how I did it above but it doesn't matter much. I just couldn't hear any of the notification sounds, the alarm clock sounds on the other hand are loud! Copy the alarm sounds into all the other folders and you can then use them as ringers, calendar notifications or whatever and actually hear your phone sound when you have an appointment. I don't see anywhere that says I was trying to delete anything? I have read that in other posts, I just wanted to move the sounds around.

 

[drexappeal]

This is so you can use all the tones anywhere. Yes there is duplication if you do it how I did it above but it doesn't matter much. I just couldn't hear any of the notification sounds, the alarm clock sounds on the other hand are loud! Copy the alarm sounds into all the other folders and you can then use them as ringers, calendar notifications or whatever and actually hear your phone sound when you have an appointment. I don't see anywhere that says I was trying to delete anything? I have read that in other posts, I just wanted to move the sounds around.

Oh, I see. Okay. Had I known that's what you're going for, I would've answered differently.

I read this,

Is there any way to get the ring tones and alerts off the phone...

and thought you meant that you were trying to remove the ringers from the phone memory...Just a simple misunderstanding.

No worries. Glad you got done what you needed.