Ringtone Issues

[JoeyUnity]

I have noticed that the Droid X kinda does its own thing when it comes to assigned ring tones. Sometimes the ring tone you assign an individual actually rings when they call and other times it does not.

I have over time been downloading ring tones from Zedge and a couple other sites. Today all of my downloaded ring tones stopped working and defaulted to some random ringer. ALL OF THEM. They all now sound the same.

Anyone else have this happen? Any fixes? This is quite annoying.

 

[JoeyUnity]

I power cycled the phone and it seemed to fix the issue. Hopefully for a while.

 

[hookbill]

A word of advice. Instead of downloading ringtones just get Ringdroid from the Market and create your own custom ringtone. Some of these places that sell ringtones on the web seem to make issues for the Droid.

 

[mountainbikermark]

The Zedge app didn't play nice with my Inc, had to uninstall it. I've gotten a few tones from their website with no issue but the app made my phone do what yours is doing until I uninstalled it

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[tracylfarr]

My phone will only vibrate when it rings now. I thought since you said the Zedge app messes with your phone it was with mine so I uninstalled it and I am still having the same issue. I have the ring tone turned up and vibration off. Any suggestions?

From Tracy, sent from my Droid X

 

[antennaman]

If your ring tones are on your SD card & it is "busy" a default tone will sound.

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[tracylfarr]

I am not what you mean. I don't even get a ring tone at all. Just vibration. My alert sound works fine. I am sure they are saving to SD card but not sure how to check.

From Tracy, sent from my Droid X

 

[joeshell20]

This is how you fix: you can move your mp3 ringtones from /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones to /dev/system/media/audio/ringtones.
Open terminal
Su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
chmod 777 /system
cp /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones/filename.mp3 /dev/system/media/audio/ringtones
Reboot
This will move the mp3 you specify on your sdcard to phone memory and stop the annoying random ringtone. Obviously you must be rooted for this to work.

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[stealthgriffin]

Removing Zedge very likely removed the ringtones that your phone was referencing, or at last removed the association to those ringtones. You will need to reassign them.

As for the phone randomly using a default tone, its because they are on your sdcard and as mentioned above, if your sdcard is busy it goes to default. The only way to avoid this is to be rooted and move the files to your phone memory.

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[mizlplix]

NO ringtones here... updated to Froyo when unrooted, ALL ringtones stopped working. I have no purchased ringtone apps on the phone.

OK, then I rooted. Still no ringtones at all.

When I have set to caller ID, I get voice saying name and vibrate.
When set to vibrate and ring, it only vibrates.
I have some custom ringers on special PPL and they dont ring/ only vibrate.

Phone randomly locks up once to twice per week requiring battery removal/reboot.

Yea, I'm gonna try all of the above, but I have no real confidence it will make any difference.

QUESTION: I'm rooted. Can I do a factory reset or do I unroot first then reroot after? OR do I just factory reset?


Aint life grand?

 

[tracylfarr]

After removing Zegde I did reassign my ring tones. When someone calls it does not even go to a default ring tone. Just vibrates. I'm not rooted either. I'll try moving tones to phone instead of sd card and see if that works.

From Tracy, sent from my Droid X

 

[joeshell20]

Tracyl, This may sound silly, but make sure your sound is turned on. At the lock screen make sure you slide the right slider to check if the sound is turned on and not set to vibrate. Next thing you should check is in settings - sounds - volume - make sure the volume sliders are turned up. If that doesn't work if it was mine I wouuld try a factory reset. That is probably what Verizon would tell you from the get go.

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[joeshell20]

I don't think that a factory reset will unroot your phone. Achieving root gives you access to the system that yoiu wouldn't normally have access to. So I am pretty sure that a factory reset only deletes user installed apps and settings. If your rom or system has been screwed up by some mod that you installed, you may have to bring it in to Verizon or risk the perilous method of reflashing the locked down droidx. For any that don't know, the droidx has a efuse chip that will brick your phone if you try and flash an unsigned rom.

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[tracylfarr]

Joeshell20,

I don't think it is silly at all. I double checked everything again and sound is on an up. I can hear everything else on my cell. Texts, clicks on the screen....just when someone calls me it vibrates. It is probaboly something so simple but I can't figure it out. I would hate to do a factory reset....I have so much on my cell. I keep my bank account check balance and bills on my cell. I will lose that all then, won't I since they are apps....thanks got the help!

 

[joeshell20]

I had a similar problem with my lg ally a few months ago. Big red just sent me another one.

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