Hello,

I'm new to the forums. I've been reading for quite a few days now. I've learned allot and love my droid. I have 2 questions though.

1 - how do I change the alert notification for my calendar? Originally it was just the standard alert. When I view the settings there was the option to use the standard droid alert of use a ringtone. So, playing around I cheeked use a ring tone. It brought me to a directory(?) or folder with 4 songs that I had downloaded using railio(sp) ringtones. Now that's the only place I can get to for ALL alerts and ringtones. Even for my contacts it goes to the 4 songs I downloaded from railio ringtones and I can't navigate anywhere else.

I have gone into manage applications and uninstalled the ringtone program, but still can't get out of that spot for my alerts and ringtones. It's driving me crazy!

2 - My contacts have multiple entries for one person.

How can I delete the multiple entries for a contact? When I edit the contact information for a person I see 3 - 5 duplicate entries for one contact. When I first got my droid I synced with 2 google accounts - I didn't know what I was doing --- so, the information under one contact is repeated many times. Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

bump ... no ideas?

 

doss,

Thanks for trying to help. I tried joining the contacts, but since they are listed under the same contact, just shows the information multiple times under one name, the joining doesn't work.

Any ideas on the ring tone?? That's really making me crazy. And I can't find any information to change it back.

Kim

 

I don't know if the ringtone folder was deleted. How would I find out? And, how do I do a hard reset? Remove the battery. Sorry, coming over from a BB and really don't know this phone yet.

Doss,
Actually, the name, email, address, notes, et al is repeated several times under google account a and then goole account b and then again for account a and then again for account b....

I guess I'll have to look into the contacts at google.

Kim

 

doss,

Thanks. I'll try that if it doesn't work, I'll try looking at it through google.

Kim

 

I'm not sure I want to go that route. I don't care about text or call logs, but I do care about the mail configuration. Will that be lost? How would I back up everything anyway? I installed an app that backs up to the sd, but don't know how to back up anywhere else.

I do have a flie explorer app installed. I found the mailio folder and deleted it, but guess what? The songs are still there. Would restarting the phone take care of that?

 

Powered up again. Songs are gone, but now when I go to a contact or calendar and choose options to set a ring tone I get the message that there are no ringtones or sd card cant be found. I think I just messed up. I know I deleted the right folder, but the phone didn't default back to the pre-installed ringtone choices. Although at least one is there. When I go to settings and choose the ringtone volume it plays the default ring tone for phone calls.

Not sure what to do now short of a hard reset. how do I back up my mail settings? Or are they automatically reinstalled when I input my google account?

BTW, thanks for your help and your patience. You're being so kind to a newbie.

 

I have my domain running through google mail. All the mail is online at google. So, I guess I won't loose anything but some tweaking. What about all the apps I downloaded. They are all free so far, will they also be reinstalled? Not a big deal if they aren't, I can download again.

I will definitely clean up the contact issue first though. Odd, if I left a factory installed ringtone for a contact it works just fine. If I had set a custom ringtone with one of the 4 songs I downloaded, the phone only buzzes when that person calls. I would have assumed it would have defaulted back to the factory installed ringtones. If only I could navigate to them everything would be fine.
Thanks again.

 

The same notice. No music files or SD card cannot be found. The app I downloaded must have reset something to set that folder as the default and the setting must still be in place even though the app, the songs and the folder has been removed.

 

Yep seems that way to me too. Or reset a link to it so that it goes to their folder which is now non existant.

will def do that first. Thanks for all the help.

 

update ***
I sorted out all the contact information on my google accounts. I then reset my phone to factory settings and input my information again. The contact issue is solved, the factory installed default ringtones are there again and all is great.

LOVE this phone! Reformed BB user and not looking back. Anyone want a BB curve cheap??

 

Just one glitch -- or small problem from my own doing, When I set up my phone again I used my domain email account rather than an old not used gmail account so all my downloads were gone. It's really not a big deal. I just got as many as I remembered and, if I don't have it, I obviously didn't use it so no big loss.

thanks again for all your help last night, I appreciate it.