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Help Unable to play this type of audio file

sinn24

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Mar 15, 2011
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I know this is a typical issue with lots of posts about it but this is a little different:

I notice after ~24-48 hours of up-time that my custom ringtones just stop working, stock ringtones and vibration still works

Without failure, every time this happens I will get the "unable to play this type of audio file" error for any type of audio except the default ringtones

I can solve it by rebooting but when this issue occurs, the reboot time is about 3 hours. Other times are < 15 mins.

What I've tried:
- Pulling the SD card even though my audio files are in the internal memory.
- Deleting / reloading my entire audio library
- Deleting entire library except one control test audio file (tried .wav, .mp3, .ogg), same issue

Is there anything else I could try before doing a restore?
Telus Galaxy S Fascinate
 
I know this is a typical issue with lots of posts about it but this is a little different:

I notice after ~24-48 hours of up-time that my custom ringtones just stop working, stock ringtones and vibration still works

Without failure, every time this happens I will get the "unable to play this type of audio file" error for any type of audio except the default ringtones

I can solve it by rebooting but when this issue occurs, the reboot time is about 3 hours. Other times are < 15 mins.

What I've tried:
- Pulling the SD card even though my audio files are in the internal memory.
- Deleting / reloading my entire audio library
- Deleting entire library except one control test audio file (tried .wav, .mp3, .ogg), same issue

Is there anything else I could try before doing a restore?
Telus Galaxy S Fascinate

I have the same problem. If someone could help..
 
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