System alarm ringtones no longer appear in alarm ringtones list

[Ibrahim Hasbini]

Hello,

I recently switched to a new phone (Samsung Galasy S7 edge) with Android 6.0.1 and was not able to select an alarm ringtone from the system alarm ringtones.
The list item title "Ringtones" appears but there are no ringtones listed under it. I attached a screenshot showing this.
The sleep as android app is granted the storage permission.

Is there any other way to use the system alarm ringtones in sleep as android?

Thank you.

[Petr Nalevka]

Petr replied Mar 21, 19:19 Hello, at the moment we only show system ringtones which are marked as alarms. It seems Samsung decided to not include any of those in their firmware. You can use third party apps such as Ringtone Maker to mark other system sounds as alarms. The reason we don't show them is showing all ringtones would create quite some mess on different devices.. Thank you very much. Best regards, Petr Nalevka Urbandroid Team Sleep as Android Googlegroup sent a message Mar 20, 13:02

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[jere...@gmail.com]

With all due respect because the app is great otherwise, this makes no sense to me as a design choice. You can either

1. Make the ringtones section maybe 2x longer for some users by adding the sounds from /ringtones. Arguably this is a feature and not a bug since you get access to more choices and ringtones sound like alarms anyway and the longer list isn't going to kill anyone. This screen is already full of long lists.

2. Make the app search in /ringtones as well as /alarms, but only if it detects a Samsung phone.

3. Break core functionality for all Samsung users, Samsung being by far the most-purchased brand of Android phones worldwide.

...and you're going with #3? Having so many of your users go through and save each alarm tone individually in whatever third party app they find is not a reasonable solution.

Note for others seeking a workaround: Android alarm/ringtone sounds are kept in these folders:

/system/media/audio/alarms
/system/media/audio/ringtones
/system/media/audio/notifications

Samsung doesn't use the /alarms folder though. Everything is just in /ringtones and the native Samsung tone picker looks in both folders.

I solved the problem by copying everything in /ringtones to /alarms. You could do it more carefully if you don't want duplicate entries in the native picker. I believe you can put these folders anywhere on your device as long as they're called /alarms and /ringtones.

However, if you're not rooted you won't be able to access the system folder.

[Jiri Richter]

Jiri replied Oct 2, 9:06 Hello Sleep as Android, this is a Samsung specific problem, for some reason they did not mark the alarm sounds as Alarms in one of the firmware updates. We had this reported already. You may use some third party app like Ringtone maker or similar and mark your alarm sounds as alarms.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herman.ringtone To get rid of clutter we don't display all system alerts only those marked as alarms..

Thank you very much. Best regards,

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