Duplicate ringtones/notifications

[markathome]

I've got duplicate ringtones in the phone and notifications menu settings. These ringtones were acquired from marketplace apps and saved. For instance, I have two 'Hello sir C3PO', three 'Incoming transmission', two 'Resistance is futile', and five 'You belong with me'. That's what I get for letting the kids play.
Anyway, I have removed the apps, but, I cannot find the files to remove the duplicates from the menu list. I've checked the /system/media/audio files and checked the SD card and cannot find them.
Ideas?

Thanks!

 

[markathome]

Nobody has any ideas??

 

[Ziani]

Think maybe they are actually in your phone memory

 

[markathome]

So, if they are in the 'phone memory', is there no way to clear them out? I guess I could do a hard reset, but, I'd have to investigate what else I'd loose besides the downloaded apps.
Seems like this is a bug...
BTW - Motorola Droid

 

[jefm]

I'm new to Droid/Android but I think you need to get a file manager (Astro, etc) and browse to /sdcard/media/audio
Look around in Notifications/ringtones.
Delete your extras, you might need to go back to settings and re-setup your tones.
hope that works!

 

[markathome]

Yea, I've mounted it on my PC and searched the SD card and the all the local folders on the Droid. They aren't there....

 

[Ziani]

As I said...think they will be on your phone memory. Just a thought though, could try reinstalling the App again then look on your SD card and see if they show up within the folder the App may have otherwise think it will have to be a reset.
I suggest that you create a folder specifically for ringtones, notifications, alarms etc by doing this below then you can add and delete to your hearts content:
In the SD card root, create /media/audio and add /alarms, /notifications, /ringtones and /ui to /audio. Files placed in these folders show up in the appropriate selection menus (and are ignored by Music).

 

[markathome]

Since reading those pointers on this forum, I've created that folder structure.
I'm hoping not to have to do a factory reset, but, realize I might have to unless I want to live with those duplicates in the list.
Maybe Google/Motorola will fix this bug...

 

[cranky_dan]

I have the same problem, but mine cropped up *after* a hard reset.

I hadn't installed anything afterwords, and noticed two of every ringtone. Altho there are not two of each in my ringtones folder on the sd card.

So, like markathome, I'd really like to know how to manage the ringtones...

Or fix the quirk.

Thanks!
Dan

 

[markathome]

Thanks for the support. Glad to know others are having this issue too...

 

[jumpinerd]

I did some minor searching using the terminal emulator through the /system/media/audio folder and it seems that we don't have two files of these ringtones/notifications. I believe it's an XML file that has two entries. I will try to find this XML file when I get home and see if I can edit and post it here for everyone. It is annoying to have two listings for the same thing.

 

[markathome]

Thanks in advance...

 

[markathome]

Just reading the forum today and there seems to be a lot of similar issues/request from other users. Very interesting. I think this is a bug.

 

[dkwak]

Yea im havng the same problm. I downloaded two ringtones onto my phonethrough Myxer - Download Ringtones and More, but the ringtones dont show up when i search it through the pc or through any app.

 

[dRm42]

Guys!

I've just read a thread the other day, becasue I was facing the same issue. Android shows all audio which is in a folder called Ringtones no matter where it is placed on your SD Card.

For example you can have your audio files in media/ringtones and backup_folder/media/ringtones or whatever_folder/ringtones. In my case I had an extracted image on my SD, and it hooked all the audio files from the normal media folder and from that particular extracted images's folder as well.

Think about if you have a folder copy with your manual backup, an extracted image or something like this...

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
dRm

here's the original thread: http://androidforums.com/droid-all-things-root/171359-sound-files-showing-twice.html