wav-file as sms notification?

[fas73]

Hello,

Sorry if this is basic stuff, but I can't figure out how to use a user-made wav file as a notification, for example for sms or new email. I can only use my wavs for incoming calls...

Regards,

FAS

[Anonymous]

Drop the wav file into the windows folder of the xda. Then go to 'sounds & notifications' and choose your wav for incoming sms etc.

DT

[fas73]

yes, that's what I also expected it to be like, but no, it does not work for me.. have you tried it??

Fred

[andyclap]

Just to confirm - I also don't get any wav file options other than the ones in ROM (on 3.14.13ENG, radio 4.08 ).
Is this another Misrosoft "Our regression testers were unable to spot this because they tripped over their big shoes and their car fell apart again" or has it always been so in other ROM versions?

[Tulaine]

My ROM is 3.14.13 ENG and all I did was copy my wav file into the \Windows folder using the Cut & Paste facilities in File Explorer.

Once the file was there I went to
Start > Settings > Sounds & Notifications > Notifications

The drop-down selector shows all files in the \Windows folder that have a .wav extension, so I can use my wav for any event in the list, including "Inbox: New SMS message"

[andyclap]

That's bizarre. I really don't get any additional wave files. I thought it might be a particular file stopping the rest from loading, but I removed all other wave files except the default ones in ROM and added the 'old phone' from the ringtone pack: it still failed to show any except the defaults.

[Tulaine]

'Scuse me already if this is insulting, but you're not relying on the 'Add ring tone' feature are you?

The system can search all memory and find any wavs and then use them as ring tones where ever they are in the file system, but Sounds&Notifications can only see the wavs that are physically stored in the \Windows folder in the filesystem.

[andyclap]

Don't worry, no offence taken. Yep they're in the \windows folder.

[Tulaine]

OK, now we're moving away from XDA specifics, but what about the file format?

You said you'd made them yourself. I'm wondering if the XDA does anything to check for valid content rather than just listing all files with a .wav extension. I'm thinking if yours are not plain vanilla .wav format the XDA might be rejecting them and not adding them to the drop-down list.

Can you tap on the file in File Explorer and hear it play OK?

[andyclap]

AHA! Got it!
It's an O2/MS 'Lets give the task of creating the new PPC ROM to the cleaning staff' problem.

Basically, the wave files contained in the PPC Ringtones pack from Microsoft have been incorporated into this ROM release.
Unfortunately (for reasons only known to the developers and their keepers) they were copied with a space after the filename, before the extension, e.g. "OldPhone .wav"
Some lame code in the list populate must trim the filename, then look for it again, and skip the file.
So the - assumedly perfectly formatted - Ringtone pack wave files I was looking for just don't show up.

Simply create a copy of them without the space, and they show up fine.


P.S. Everything you read in Dilbert cartoons is 100% true.

[fas73]

Ahaa.... Funny thing... it's the easiest things that become the most difficult problems...


THANKS!!

[Anonymous]

HI

Read with interests all the postings on this thread.

Could someone tell me how the ringtones work? I believe the wav files are in the windows directory and when you "add ringtones", where do the files go to? I can see a Rings folder inside the windows directory; is it where the added ringtone wav files go to?

I couldn't quite understand the previous thread on leaving a space before the extension. Is it necessary to have wav files like this before the xda recognises as a proper wav file?

Thanks


Vic

[Tulaine]

I think the .wav files found and selected get added to some registry setting maybe (guessing) as I didn't find any copies made when I did it.

It's decidedly not necessary to have spaces in the file name - that's what trips it up! the space effectively ends one file name, so with "foo .wav" the file system would be looking for a file called foo (no extension) and another file called (empty) with an extension of .wav :?

[fas73]

As a thanks for all who replied:

Here is a great wav for incoming sms:

grab the second to last one, stworf.wav

http://68.8.131.184:6000/WAV's/files/StarTrek/StarTrek.htm

(not my page, seems a bit unstable tonight)


Fred