Changing Phone's Ringtone to your favourite song or tune

eOSWiki HOWTOs
1

Mission:

To change your Phone’s Ringtone on /e/OS to a custom tune or a song of your choice.

Prerequisites:

Let’s roll.

  1. Open /e/OS Settings and navigate to and open Sound settings therein

    2
    21026×296 11.1 KB

    3
    31080×687 35.8 KB

  2. Scroll down in Sound settings and tap on Advanced

    4
    4720×1280 49.6 KB

  3. Under Advanced sound settings, scroll to find and tap on Phone Ringtone.

    5
    51080×618 25.7 KB

  4. A page with list of ringtones appear, scroll down most to find and tap ‘+ Add Ringstone’ to select the downloaded audio file.

    6
    6720×1280 42.3 KB

    7
    71080×623 32.3 KB

  5. Audio file name now appears as Phone Ringtone to use. Select your desired Phone Ringtone, tap OK.

    8
    8720×1280 42.5 KB
    9
    91070×611 25 KB

Voila! Your favorite audio tune or song is now your Phone’s Ringtone. Enjoy!

Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/ the unGoogled mobile OS and online servicesphone

4 Likes
2

Thank you for writing, @manish

1 Like
3

Thanks @Manish !

A simple trick that worked for me (Android 8) : if you upload the audio file right in the special folder “Ringtones”, just aside “Download”, “Documents”, “DCIM” … etc (under /storage/emulated/0), you’ll see it appear automatically in the Phone ringtone pick list, at step 5 (without need to “Add ringtone”).

And it works the same for “Alarms” and “Notifications” :slight_smile:

2 Likes
4

Yes, it does. But then copying it to specific folders can be tricky for a layman on an Android device.
So, it is best we go this route. What say?

1 Like
5

Does this only work in Oreo and Pie builds?

I have a couple of Nougat builds*, and the ‘Adbvanced’ option doesn’t appear in the sounds menu. It has a ‘Phone ringtone’, but that has only ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons

I added the ringtone by copying the file to the Ringtones folder as descrined by @jpmeuret above, but it would be good to know if the described way can work for Nougat builds.

Thanks

Pete

  • Officlal e-0.7-n-2019112732147-dev-condor running on Moto E (condor)
  • Unofficial e-0.7-n-20200117-UNOFFICIAL-suzuran on Sony Xperia Z5 Compact (suzuran)
1 Like
6

It has been tested on Pie exclusively. Soon most of the ROMs would be upgraded to Pie. So, kindly bear with us.

7

No worries. Thanks @manish

1 Like
8

Thanks Manish - I’m quite happy to wait :slight_smile:

When you say ‘Soon most of the ROMs wpld be upgraded to Pie’, does that include ROMs for older supported phones (e.g. Moto E Condor which currently have Nougat-based ROMs?

Pete

1 Like