Miss Your Old Ringtone? Here's How to Get it:

[The_Chief]

Here's what I did and how I did it:

The astronomical ringtones on Nexus are - IMHO - lacking. I missed my stock Android ringtones from my Droid and wanted them back!

Since my Droid is rooted, I went into Astro, navigated to the system folder, went into "media" and copied - one at a time - the ringtones and notifications I missed. Navigated back to the SD card's "media" folder and pasted them there. One at a time.

THEN I connected the Droid to the PC via USB and moved them to the PC. You can use an existing folder or create a new one on the desktop just for the occasion. Afterwards, I unmounted the Droid and disconnected the cable.

THEN I hooked up my Nexus to the PC, and moved the ringtones to the "Ringtones" folder and the notifications to the "Notifications" folder. Pulled Nexus off the cable and started setting things up.

Lo and behold: there's my favorite ringtone and notifications listed!

Remember: your Droid must be rooted so you have access to the system files or you won't be able to access the ringtones.

 

[tristanbills]

Any chance you could provide these ringtones for download?

 

[The_Chief]

Welcome to the forums, Tristan!

I know this isn't the answer you want to hear, but no. I don't have Dropbox or any of that stuff... the only thing I can think to do is find someone near you with a rooted phone (or just root yours, since it's out of warranty anyway) and get the sounds that way.

 

[Tim K]

Any chance you could provide these ringtones for download?

Since you asked so nicely. And since I have my OG Droid Handy. And since I am so nice.....

Here you go.

All the OG Droid Ringtones and Notifications in one pretty zip file (separated into ringtone and notification folders)

 

[The_Chief]

Bravo, Tim! Good job!

 

[tristanbills]

Haha, thanks, Tim!!