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Problems with Ringtone for contacts?

Im having a problem with my ringtones for my contacts. Like a seperate ringtone for like a ringtone for my mother. I have set it to something I want when she calls but everytime she calls it plays my default ringtone I have set for the rest of my contacts. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix this issue?

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kizzle53

lol guess im the only one that is experiencing this.

04lund2025

I am having the same problem, so you are not alone.

dcsphoto

I'm not having that problem at all. If I sent a different ringtone in their contact, that is the one that plays when the person calls.

kizzle53

04lund2025 wrote:
I am having the same problem, so you are not alone.

Ok good atleast someone else has experienced this problem... It played my default ringtone yesterday on someone I had set up and I went back in to contacts to see if it saved and right there it had the song I wanted for them but yet played the default ringtone so I reclicked it and redone it and then they called back like 4 times yesterday and it played their song 3 times then on the 4th it went back to default ringtone. So im alittle baffled on how to fix this issue. Anyone have any ideas?

Bird1e

You are not the only one having this problem. I was on the phone for 2 hours working on it with android support. It is caused by the preloaded text messaging program. Every time someone texts in for some reason the next call that comes through is always the default ringtone, even if you have a special ringtone assigned to that contact.

Unfortunately, you are not allowed to uninstall this texting program.The support person suggested that I upload handcent for my texting. I did do this, but can't figure out how to make this my default texting program. For now my texts come through both handcent and the preloaded text program simultaneously. So, for now, I am still having the same problem with no way to check if handcent (or a third party app) will be a fix.

Actually, if someone could let me know how to make handcent my default text app, I would really appreciate it.

kizzle53

Bird1e wrote:
You are not the only one having this problem. I was on the phone for 2 hours working on it with android support. It is caused by the preloaded text messaging program. Every time someone texts in for some reason the next call that comes through is always the default ringtone, even if you have a special ringtone assigned to that contact.

Unfortunately, you are not allowed to uninstall this texting program.The support person suggested that I upload handcent for my texting. I did do this, but can't figure out how to make this my default texting program. For now my texts come through both handcent and the preloaded text program simultaneously. So, for now, I am still having the same problem with no way to check if handcent (or a third party app) will be a fix.

Actually, if someone could let me know how to make handcent my default text app, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks so much I actually did a test with what you just said and It happend just the way you explained now I know, but not sure how to not make that your default messanging thing now. I too will download the handcent. Thank you again. hopefully they get a update to fix that problem cause Im kinda thinking of maybe returning it to get something else but really dont want to cause I like it alot but just a few problems just making me want to

DucksDroid

Let me be clear, you can set the default app that is opened when you click on widget. That is pretty self explanatory since it asks you each time. Any messaging program installed runs all the time and monitors the message service in the android OS. I don't believe this is the cause of the ringtone problem. I expect that the HTC Sense is causing the issue.

usmc_devildog

Having this problem with both of my Thunderbolts as well. Using Handcent as default text service did nothing.

kizzle53

Yeah I went to Verizon store today and they said there has been a trouble ticket issued so hopefully something is fixed soon

Dave4Signals

If I get what you're saying; the Market has two apps that might meet your needs. Ringdroid and for txtg try custom sms tones lite. no promises of course.

usmc_devildog

Dave4Signals wrote:
If I get what you're saying; the Market has two apps that might meet your needs. Ringdroid and for txtg try custom sms tones lite. no promises of course.

Dave, you don't get what we are saying.

We can assign specific ringers to specific contacts (custom or not). And usually the correct ring for each contact rings. However, anytime a text message is recieved, the very next incoming phone call will ring as the default phone ringer for all contacts.

markmi

I had the same problem on the Thunderbolt. This is what I found out and also came up with a fix.

1. If your contacts were synced from Google (google contacts) you cannot assign ringtones to contacts. Thisis a Google thing.

2. If your contacts were synced from Microsoft Outlook AND Google: If google contacts were updated to the phone 1st, then you cannot assign custom ringtones to the google contacts. Even if the same contact exists in Outlook.

What I ended up doing was two part through trial and error.

I deleted all of the contacts from my Thunderbolt and set the option to not sync with google.

I then used HTC Sync (another nightmare) to get my Outlook contacts to the phone.

I was then able to assign my custom ringtones to my contacts.

The other solution that I tried before the one mentioned above was to use Ringdroid (free app in the Market and Amazon). Bring up your custom ringtone in Ringdroid, Save it. It will prompt to assign it todefault or contact person.

Using this option worked, but I did not want to do it for each one of my custom ringtones which is why I used the first option.

Hope this helps.

kizzle53

markmi wrote:
I had the same problem on the Thunderbolt. This is what I found out and also came up with a fix.
1. If your contacts were synced from Google (google contacts) you cannot assign ringtones to contacts. Thisis a Google thing.
2. If your contacts were synced from Microsoft Outlook AND Google: If google contacts were updated to the phone 1st, then you cannot assign custom ringtones to the google contacts. Even if the same contact exists in Outlook.

What I ended up doing was two part through trial and error.

I deleted all of the contacts from my Thunderbolt and set the option to not sync with google.
I then used HTC Sync (another nightmare) to get my Outlook contacts to the phone.
I was then able to assign my custom ringtones to my contacts.

The other solution that I tried before the one mentioned above was to use Ringdroid (free app in the Market and Amazon). Bring up your custom ringtone in Ringdroid, Save it. It will prompt to assign it todefault or contact person.
Using this option worked, but I did not want to do it for each one of my custom ringtones which is why I used the first option.
Hope this helps.

Tried it. It worked at first then i redone all my contacts saved em to phone instead of google and right back to the same thing. So no luck on my end

kizzle53

Yeah no luck. So u think I should do another factory data reset? Then type each number in?

markmi

I assume you don't use Microsoft Outook or another email package. If you do, you could probably try using HTC Sync to import the contacts to the phone. Otherwise you can manually type in a couple of contacts and see if you can assign ringtones to them.

If you do all those steps including Factory reset, I would consider taking the phone back to Verizon for an exchange.

Hope you get things workings

Regards

Cobalt83

Same thing here but it's not a texting thing as some claim. Least not with me. When my phone is locked n' in standby, that's when the default ringtone is reverted to. When my phone is not locked, I get my assigned ringtones. I tested this a few times n' that seems to be the case. How to fix that, I have no clue.

Ann154

Once I learned where the default folder was that android phones look for ringtones, notification tones, or alarm tones, I have not had any problems with the phone playing my custom ringtones. I have done this folder setting with three different HTC android phones.

In the sd card create the following folders.
Sdcard drive:/media / audio / ringtones
Sdcard drive:/media / audio / notifications
Sdcard drive:/media / audio / alarms

Place the ringtone files in the desired folder(s) and after a reboot the phone will locate the files and include them in the ringtone selection list.

To add to this, Ringdroid creates the same folders on the sd card when you save any of the different types of ringtones through the application.

Wildman

Here is most likely the nature of your problem, your ringers are stored on your SD Card and any time you plug your device into a PC and it is mounted as storage device and anything that access the sd card the alert resets to default because the ringer is not avalible and it will reset once you disconnect and restart device

The best way to test this is to set a custom alert or ringer and test it to be sure it took and then mount phone with a PC with a USB and then try the alert again and see if it restored to stock, I really believe you will learn that this is causing the alert changing..

And as for the double notification with Handcent, just disable the stock notification under Messaging / Text Messaging / Left Menu / Messaging Settings and uncheck Notification.

CJREYES666

I tried to replicate the problem since i usually have only one ringtone for all contacts and it seems that the i have that problem as well. Here is what i did set a different ringtone for my wifes # and set my default ringtone, called from wifes # and she had her ringtone, called again but this blocking the # and got the default ringtone everything at this point. Sent a msg default ringtone for msgs aswell, called again from my wifes # but this i did get the default ringtone for her and not the ringtone that was set up for even do im looking at her profile with the ringtone choosen for her. So i guess it might be software issue here not a big deal for me but i understand some would like to know who is calling them just by the ringtone they have choosen.

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