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  • How to make a ring tone stick?

    From Chris Green@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 12 08:04:43 2025
    I have my ring tone set to one that sounds like a phone ringing.
    However it seems to revert to the default silly tune rather often, I'm
    not quite sure why. How can I make the ring tone selection more
    permanent?

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    Chris Green
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  • From Marion@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Sat Jul 12 13:25:37 2025
    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:04:43 +0100, Chris Green wrote :


    I have my ring tone set to one that sounds like a phone ringing.
    However it seems to revert to the default silly tune rather often, I'm
    not quite sure why. How can I make the ring tone selection more
    permanent?

    As Vanguard would likely point out, I fear there's not enough information
    about the device, OS & setup steps in the above for us to help you; but
    with that in mind, one trick I use under similar circumstances is I create
    a prominent folder in the file system with the desired file stored in it.

    Having a separate file from the ones the operating system & apps use is sometimes beneficial for when the default needs to be reset back to it.

    Having said that, and being a purposefully helpful guy, I looked up for you what "could" be causing the problem, where these came up you may consider.

    1. Software updates (to the OS or to apps) might reset default settings.
    2. Battery-saving or storage-cleaning apps can "optimize" the system.
    3. External storage can be unmounted causing a default to internal storage.
    4. Multiple profiles or Do-not-disturb modes may switch settings.

    Having said that, my ringtones don't change out from under me, but I'm on Android 13, Galaxy A-series, Nova Launcher where yours may be different.

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 12 15:36:50 2025
    Chris Green, 2025-07-12 09:04:

    I have my ring tone set to one that sounds like a phone ringing.
    However it seems to revert to the default silly tune rather often, I'm
    not quite sure why. How can I make the ring tone selection more
    permanent?

    What phone exactly?
    Manufacturer? Model name?

    What ring tone?
    A tone which came with the phone or one you downloaded or copied it to
    the phone? Is the ring tone stored in internal memory or does the phone
    have an SD card and the ring tone is stored there? Sometimes phones
    "forget" the SD card temporary, if it is of low quality and that can
    cause ring tone to fall back to a default setting.


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  • From Marion@21:1/5 to Arno Welzel on Sat Jul 12 14:26:16 2025
    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:36:50 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :


    Sometimes phones "forget" the SD card temporary...

    Hi Arno,

    While I've never had this happen (to my knowledge), and I don't buy phones without putting huge sdcards into them and I store all my customized data
    on those sd cards... when I looked up for the OP "why" it "could" happen,
    the results pointed out to what you said above (among other possibilities).

    So, in terms of "What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?",
    one advantage of storing everything on the internal storage is just that.

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Arno Welzel on Sat Jul 12 15:51:06 2025
    Arno Welzel <[email protected]> wrote:
    Chris Green, 2025-07-12 09:04:

    I have my ring tone set to one that sounds like a phone ringing.
    However it seems to revert to the default silly tune rather often, I'm
    not quite sure why. How can I make the ring tone selection more
    permanent?

    What phone exactly?
    Manufacturer? Model name?

    Android 11, Umidigi Bison

    What ring tone?
    A tone which came with the phone or one you downloaded or copied it to
    the phone? Is the ring tone stored in internal memory or does the phone
    have an SD card and the ring tone is stored there? Sometimes phones
    "forget" the SD card temporary, if it is of low quality and that can
    cause ring tone to fall back to a default setting.

    The ring tone it reverts to is the one that is used by default if you
    do nothing. It's stored (along with many others) in the phone's
    internal storage, I haven't added an SD card or anything like that.

    The ring tone I want to keep is just one of the other ring tones that
    are stored in the same place as the one that keeps coming back.

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 13 23:26:25 2025
    Chris Green, 2025-07-12 16:51:

    Arno Welzel <[email protected]> wrote:
    Chris Green, 2025-07-12 09:04:

    I have my ring tone set to one that sounds like a phone ringing.
    However it seems to revert to the default silly tune rather often, I'm
    not quite sure why. How can I make the ring tone selection more
    permanent?

    What phone exactly?
    Manufacturer? Model name?

    Android 11, Umidigi Bison

    Well - "Umidigi Bison" does not sound like a big brand but seems to be a
    cheap outdoor phone by a mostly unknown manufacturer.

    [...]
    The ring tone it reverts to is the one that is used by default if you
    do nothing. It's stored (along with many others) in the phone's
    internal storage, I haven't added an SD card or anything like that.

    Maybe their firmware quality is just not very good. I nevery experienced
    this except when using cheap SD cards which tend to fail sometimes.

    Sorry, I don't have a solution here except to try doing a factory reset,
    which is obviously not what you want to do just to keep the selected
    ring tone.

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 13 23:22:37 2025
    Marion, 2025-07-12 16:26:

    On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:36:50 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :


    Sometimes phones "forget" the SD card temporary...

    Hi Arno,

    While I've never had this happen (to my knowledge), and I don't buy phones
    [...]

    I had this a number of times with a Samsung S3 mini, Sony Xperia Z4,
    Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite with a number of SD cards - mostly SanDisk brand but it
    also happed with others. That's the reason why I don't use this any longer.


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  • From Marion@21:1/5 to Arno Welzel on Mon Jul 14 01:50:32 2025
    On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:22:37 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :


    I had this a number of times with a Samsung S3 mini, Sony Xperia Z4,
    Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite with a number of SD cards - mostly SanDisk brand but it
    also happed with others. That's the reason why I don't use this any longer.

    No matter who says something sensibly logical, I won't disagree with it.
    So I agree, an sd card is likely to be less reliable than internal storage.

    If I look at what I put on the sd card, it might not matter.
    But it's a fact nonetheless that the sd card is less reliable.

    Only a fool disagrees with facts; that's why they're fools.
    I'm no fool.

    So I agree with you on this.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Marion on Mon Jul 14 11:41:22 2025
    On 14.07.25 03:50, Marion wrote:
    On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:22:37 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :


    I had this a number of times with a Samsung S3 mini, Sony Xperia Z4,
    Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite with a number of SD cards - mostly SanDisk brand but it
    also happed with others. That's the reason why I don't use this any longer.

    No matter who says something sensibly logical, I won't disagree with it.
    So I agree, an sd card is likely to be less reliable than internal storage.

    If I look at what I put on the sd card, it might not matter.
    But it's a fact nonetheless that the sd card is less reliable.

    Only a fool disagrees with facts; that's why they're fools.
    I'm no fool.

    So I agree with you on this.

    What do you think how important that could be to anyone?
    You are a deplorable Sociopath.

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    "Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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