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Guest Gashead86
Posted

Hi There,

I have had my omnia now for a good 6 months and am on the whole happy with it.

The only thing I have never ever been able to do is set MP3's as ringtones and its driving me mad!!

I have tried all the tips on this forum and none of them work! If i save them in the various suggested file paths and hold the file down, the menu pops up but there is no option to save as ringtone.

I have also located the files in the media album, if I try and select 'set as ringtone' in the media album i get the following message..'this ringtone is not working properly. You may want to use a alternative'.

So no matter what i try I seem unable to use MP3's as ringtones!

Any suggestions guys??

Cheers

Guest necosino
Posted

Find the .mp3 you want to use in the file explorer. Hold it to bring up the context menu and select "Set as ringtone"

WinMo will copy the .mp3 to your ringtones folder and set it as a selectable ringtone in the sounds and notifications area...

Guest Gashead86
Posted
Find the .mp3 you want to use in the file explorer. Hold it to bring up the context menu and select "Set as ringtone"

WinMo will copy the .mp3 to your ringtones folder and set it as a selectable ringtone in the sounds and notifications area...

Hi there,

thanks for your responce.

Unfortunatley when I hold down the mp3 i want to use I dont get that option pop up.

Guest necosino
Posted

Maybe try a different ROM. I know all the i910's ROMs have that option, at least.

Guest DannyBoii
Posted
Maybe try a different ROM. I know all the i910's ROMs have that option, at least.

Ive Got a i900V (Not Sure What The V Means But Thats What It Says On The Box)

And I Set MP3's As Ringtones With The Same Method Used Above

Jus Navigate To Them Using File Explorer And Then Hold And Select 'Set As Ringtone' ;)

Guest Jokes On You
Posted
Maybe try a different ROM. I know all the i910's ROMs have that option, at least.

i900's also have that option.

Guest necosino
Posted

Right, so I think he just needs to flash to another ROM..

Guest pallen
Posted

Check your mp3 file. Maybe try a different one. I wonder if there are certain bitrates or such that are not supported? You can also try converting it to wma, but I have had several MP3s with no problems on several different roms.

Guest yojoe600
Posted

yea i have no problem getting them to work

Guest bpivk
Posted
Unfortunatley when I hold down the mp3 i want to use I dont get that option pop up.
You have to use the windows file explorer not Resco file explorer or anything like that.
Guest Jokes On You
Posted
You have to use the windows file explorer not Resco file explorer or anything like that.

or use file explorer extension. It enhances windows file explorer with more options. You can find it here

Guest Yunabeco
Posted

Got no problem setting up ringtones on mine. I just make on my PC a 30 or 40 second mono MP3 file encoded with lame encoder at quality 0 that I drop on \My Storage\My Documents\My Ringtones for contacts' ringtones, and \My Documents\My Ringtones for my main one (else it won't load during boot). Oh, and no special characters.

For notifications I drop a MP3 or WAV on \ or \Windows.

Guest aceofrazgriz
Posted

as Yuna said, "\My Documents\My Ringtones" is the ringtone path, just drop the file in there, go into the Sounds menu and it should be selectable. If not... you got something really screwy going on.

Guest nossy_89
Posted

Saw this on another forum, if u want to save space then in my storage make a folder called My Ringtones and copy the file there, it should come up in yr ringtone list.

Guest tokkong
Posted

i once has problem of ringtone not ringing, found out that is because i set the default player to be pocketmusic instead of touch player. if your default player of mp3 file is not touch player then most prob have the problem

Guest doitall76
Posted

I have run into the same problem as the original post.

I now recognize that the File Explorer is not identifying these mp3 files as Windows Media files (the icon beside the file is different). It uses WM Player to open them, but it doesn't give me the option to "set as ringtone" as it does with the other files that it has the WM icon beside the name of the file.

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I know that I can copy and paste the file onto the device memory in order for it to be recognized, but is there anyway to map the ringtones to a folder in My Storage? That way I am not eating up a lot of memory?

Doitall76

Guest LuigiSlowHand
Posted

i have the mp3 that i used as ringtones on the My Memory folder

it works fine for notifications and ringtones

hope it helps

Guest pacman9889
Posted

I use VITO ringtone editor and it works great. You can then save the ringtones to the /Windows/Rings folder or assign them from VITO and they will be recognized. It used to be free, but it seems its 7 bucks now. You might be able to find the old version though.

Posted

adding a folder called my ringtones does the trick for me... ;)

Guest GodsGift
Posted

If you copy sounds (mp3's etc) to the device/application data/sounds/ folder then they will appear in the drop down in the sounds and notifications dialogue box.

This is the easiest way.

GG

Guest sys_error
Posted (edited)

The easiest is to copy MP3 to the root of My Storage, then select them as Ringtone in Settings > Sounds & Notifications > Notification tab.

I cannot help thinking that i'm talking to a baby. If you really cannot set MP3 as ringtone, you should dial your local Samsung support long ago rather than wait 6 months ;) .

Edited by sys_error
Guest GodsGift
Posted
I cannot help thinking that i'm talking to a baby. If you really cannot set MP3 as ringtone, you should dial your local Samsung support long ago rather than wait 6 months ;) .

Not the nicest way to talk to someone who's asking for help ...

jeez. who took the jam out of your donut ?

GG

Posted

Creating another My Ringtones works for me.. More storage space ;)

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