My ring tones keep changing. I put them on the SD card and made a seperate folder for the ring tones. The ring tones keep going to the previous ringtone. Am I doing something wrong?
Make sure the files are in the SD Card / media / audio / ringtones and also remember that the ringers are not accessable when sd card is mounted to a pc..
I did put the ring tones in a seperate file using my pc. It was easier. Does that matter? My ring tones are actuatlly under sdcard/ringtones. The music is sdcard/music.
The directory I posted is the default location that the system stores and scans for ringtones and alerts...
They need to be in the directory I posted to guarentee that the files are located, since you have a none standard directory the software will play the files from there but the wont always remember to look there for the files.
I guess I should make another folder than. I just forgot how to do that. LOL. I don't remember where I can find the audio/media part.
Hazel_Eyes_4_U wrote:I guess I should make another folder than. I just forgot how to do that. LOL. I don't remember where I can find the audio/media part.
Hazel_Eyes_4_U wrote:
I would not put them on an external media card as that get scanned later and may be why they keep reverting.
You will have to do this from your computer while your phone is mounted as a USB disk drive.
I keep forgetting the device had a accessible internal storage drive... This is a good suggest to store to the internal drive but I still suggest that the directly be SD Card / media / audio / ringtones to avoid issue and guarantee the files are in a default location that OS will scan automatically.
It doesn't really matter if it's media/ringtones or media/audio/ringtones as long as it's in the internal memory (sdcard as opposed to sdcard-ext).
The default Android external SD file structure is:
It would seem like a good example for the internal. I added the media folder to it, with the others as subfolders (e.g., media/notifications), just to keep it a bit neater. But the phone will scan the directories looking for media unless they have a .nomedia file in them.
Actually it does make a difference if you want it to load the files quickly after the device has been mounted...
The OS is hard coded to check the default folders first before it scan custom folders.
The internal memory root location is located at the directory I supplied, when the user has issues with ringers changing on its own this usually means the is isn't accessing the custom directory. Other directory will work but the correct directory is the is default location because it cause less issues for the OS to scan the default directory location instead of unmapped locations.
