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More Sounds. Any ideas?

I want more sounds on my device much like my PC.
I want a different sound for:
MSN contact online
MSN Paging Me
Calander reminders
Oulook eMail notification
XpressMail eMail notification
SMS Messages notification
And probably others later
Anyone have any ideas as to registry hacks to add sounds for items that use the default sounds and how to change them?
Raptor

you should store any sound media files in MyDocument folder and go directly to Setting-Personal-Sounds&Notifications to set them as you need.

Don't know if you have been to Sounds & Notifications lately, there is a very minimal selection of items to apply sounds too.
Raptor

Don't know if you have been to Sounds & Notifications lately, there is a very minimal selection of items to apply sounds too.
Raptor

I use my SD card for all sounds.
First if you create a My Documents folder on the SD card and dump wav files in there, the Phone App will look in that directory on your SD card and you can choose ringtones without doing anything.
The only directory that I found that Sounds and Notifications picks up is Windows. You can dump WAV files in the Windows directory and it will pick them up under Sounds and Notifications.
For the sounds and notifications though it does not automatically pick up any directory except for Windows folder. (I think. I haven't found any other directories that it picks up. I tried putting WAVs everywhere and unlike for Ringtones the only directory that works is Windows)
Since I have a bunch of WAVs I just use my SD card and I would rather not clutter up my Windows directory or use up the space on my phone.
So what I have to is this.
First go to sounds and notifications and set your sounds and notifications. Just choose whatever sound is available. (Doesn't matter to what)
Then use a registry editor and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications
There are a bunch of subkeys and each pertain to an event. For each subkey look at the (Default) Value and that will tell you for which event that key is for. i.e. for new e-mail the value is "Messaging: New e-mail message"
Then just edit the "Wave" value and set it to your wav file. Do not use the extension though. If your wave file is example.wave then just put in example.
The path I use for my notifications is the following value:
\Storage Card\My Documents\example
Assuming that there is an example.wav in the above directory. Obviously just change the above path to wherever your wav file is. I have not tried using any other sounds other than wav files so I don't know if you can use mp3's or mid or other sound files.
This at least works for the default notifications. I don't know how to add new sound events for the examples you were giving.
NOTE
If you set these registry settings try not to go back to Sounds and Notifications or you will lose the settings. Then you have to set them again using the above steps. When you exit the Sounds and Notifications applet since it didn't recognize the paths you changed the wav files to, it will just put back the default like alarm1 or something so then you have to change them again.
Hope this helps

making custom ringers in sounds and notifications
wussup man.. maybe i can be of help.. i just got my vario a few days ago and ran into the same problem as you. i dont like the default sounds for the sounds and notifications too. what u need to do is if u wanna add sounds to any of those, u need to make sure that your sounds are in WAV format. then they will show up in the list.. hope this helps.. good luck kid

Am I speaking Greek? :-(
But Seriously, maybe I am not communication properly. I want to add sound events such as when a new contact somes online from MSN or any other IM product, I want a unique sound. This is not currently an option in sounds and notifications, I want to add my own if anyone has any ideas on how to do this.
Raptor

Found this on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...lui5/html/wce50conhidingsystemsoundevents.asp
I guess you would have to add the event directly into the registry. BTW, this is for CE5.0 not WM5.0 but should be something similar of which events might be available.
I found several notifications' keys in my registry that had no Default values (event name) nor Wave (name of sound file). For example when the battery is low it will play lowbatt.wav if it's available in Windows dir. But this low battery event does not show in Start>Settings>Personal tab>Sounds & Notifications>Notifications tab. To add it go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications\{A877D663-239C-47a7-9304-0D347F580408}\
Create a String value named "Default" and set the value to "Low battery warning". Then go to Start>Settings>Personal tab>Sounds & Notifications>Notifications tab, and there you'll be able to select "Low battery warning" and customize it.
Now if we could only find out what keys define the other extra events.

While we are at it, I found this. Apparently It is for changing the default tap click.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...tml/wce51conwaveformaudioregistrysettings.asp
And this:
Sounds (and soundevents) are all over the place.
So far as I know there are 4 places:
- 21 general sounds in HKLM\snd\ in a 21 line multiz string (possible to include paths) See previous post in thread.
- phone sound events in HKCU\Controlpanel\SoundCategories and Sounds
(don't have a phone so I cannot be for sure)
- System Notifications/warnings in HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications
- Screen Taps & Hardware buttons in WAPEAPI.DLL, WAVE\100 to 103
where HW buttons (Loud/Soft) = 100 and 101
Screen taps (Loud/Soft) = 102 and 103
(see attached image)
The latter have to be transplanted with Resource Hacker. Dunno if you can overwrite the WAVEAPI.DLL in de \Windows folder. But it is worth a try.
EDIT: the waveapi.dll.0409.mui is used on my system which is overwritable ;O)
UPDATE: Works splendid. Very nice sound effects (using all above together) Laughing
ps: don't forget to keep a modified copy on your Memory card. After a hard reset the default waveapi.dll.0409.mui will return from ROM.
(or make a proper backup everytime you change something like I do)
Tip: use sndrec32.exe to edit you wav file and do wav conversion
Tip: if you overwrite a \window system file you can always delete it again and do a soft reset to get the original back.
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from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42022

Re: making custom ringers in sounds and notifications
inspired_708 said:
wussup man.. maybe i can be of help.. i just got my vario a few days ago and ran into the same problem as you. i dont like the default sounds for the sounds and notifications too. what u need to do is if u wanna add sounds to any of those, u need to make sure that your sounds are in WAV format. then they will show up in the list.. hope this helps.. good luck kid
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Hi All my sounds are wav, but they still don't wanna play. I put them in the windows folder, but they don't play. All are 22000Khz 16 bit stereo max 120kb files. So nothing big. But can't make them to play, even if there are selected.
What should I do?
Thanks

Smartphone volume control (C++ / C#)?!

Hi Guys!
I just wasted a very frustrating weekend to try to set the volume of a wav file, i play via the PlaySound function. waveOutSetVolume does not seem to have any effect on it.
Anyhow i do not quite get the damned volume control concept on Smartphones, if there is any.
The same code runs fine on a PocketPC device and the wav files i play via PlaySound are played using the system volume, which is quite nice.
Now on my Smartphone device i get the maximum possible volume which guarantees an acoustic shock. Even with the bloody phone in your pocket you can easiely hear the audio playing from a 100meter radius. I don't want to imagine what happens, when you are in a voicecall and hell breaks loose.
So how is this supposed to work?
What i want to do is this:
Get Notification volume of currently active smartphone audio profile
Play wav file from memory with notification volume
I guess i am asking for too much. *sigh*
I do not really want to write tons of code to utilize the bloody waveOut API. I don't need to play 50MB files from the storage card, just a few custom wav notifications, which are part of a C# .resx file.
So if anybody can point me to a resource that explains the volume handling on smartphones that would be very helpfull. I hope M$ has spent some thoughts on this and not just implemented all these profiles and volume settings for their own internal phone application without giving access to these settings to the outside world.
Also any C# PInvoke example of how to use the waveOut API for playing wav files from a byte array / memory would be helpful, if i really have to go with the hard & painfull approach.
Thanks,
Tobias

i used this:
http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/coredll.waveOutSetVolume

Hi oldsap!
Yes i tried using waveOutSetVolume, but it doesn't seem to have any effect, if the wav file is played via PlaySound.
Guess the waveOutSetVolume only works, if you use waveOutWrite as well, and given my current C# experience level it'll take me probably 3weeks to adapt one of the waveOut API play from file examples to work with my embedded *.wav files in the *.resx ressources.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Tobias

I used playsound to play the wav file and it worked fine on my T-Mobile SDA smartphone.
This is a snippet from my application in VB:
...
Dim v As Integer
reg.GetDWORDValue(reg.HKCU, key, vol, v) 'get set volume for my application
Dim ov As Integer
reg.GetDWORDValue(reg.HKCU, "ControlPanel\Volume", "Volume", ov) 'get set volume of device
waveOutSetVolume(IntPtr.Zero, v)
sound.Play()
...
waveOutSetVolume(IntPtr.Zero, ov) 'set the volume back to the device volume settings

Hm, intresting..
So you call waveOutSetVolume without a handle and that works?
No waveOutOpen / waveOutClose anywhere necessary?
Well i'll try that this evening.
I did a waveOutOpen, waveOutSetVolume, waveOutClose, PlaySound and that didn't work.
I haven't tried waveOutOpen, waveOutSetVolume, PlaySound, waveOutClose yet.
Cheers,
Tobias

yes sir. that's all i did and it worked fine.

Setting custom sliding keyboard open/close sounds

It requires some registry editing, so as usual, mess with this at your own peril.
Here are the steps:
1.) Prepare/get two sounds files. One will be used for the sound when your keyboard slides open, and the other closing the keyboard. I'm not sure what sound files formats are acceptable. The ones that I used, which work fine, are 22khz 8bit mono PCM .wav files.
2.) Name the closing sound #_in.wav and the opening sound #_out.wav (where # is any number greater then 2 because 0 1 and 2 are taken up by the default sounds). I am assuming you can add as many as you want, and just keep them in the numerical sequence. You might be able to name the sounds files anything you want also, as long as they have a corresponding entry in the registry, but again I haven't tested that assumption.
3.) Copy the sound files to the \Windows folder on the Mogul (not in a sub folder below Windows!).
4.) Using a registry editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\SlidingSound.
5.) Create a new key with value of the next available number (eg. 3)
----A.) In this new key, set the (Default) string value to a friendly name for your sound (eg. Star Trek Communicator)
----B.) Create a new String named in with a value set to name of your sliding in sound file (eg. 3_in.wav).
----C.) Create a new String named out with a value set to name of your sliding out sound file (eg. 3_out.wav).
6.) Close the registry editor, and go to Start->Settings->Personal tab, and tap on the "SlidingSound" icon to pick and test your new sliding sound set.
Here's a link to several slider sounds I put together:
Rapidshare Link to Mogul Sliding Keyboard Sounds
Included are a long and short transformers sound set, and a light saber sound set. The light saber set is courtesy of PDAPhoneHome forums member Wizzums. The long Transformers sound set I made by downloading it off a website, and reversing it in a audio editor for the closing sound. I thought the sound was too long, so I made shortened/sped up version. I also included .reg files you can import, for those too lazy/scared to create the registry entries themselves.
Sources:
PDAPhoneHome.com Forums
PPCGeeks.com Forums

AWESOME. Love the Tformers sound.

if you look at the ppc geeks thread you can see where i also posted a shotgun sound set too
im glad you enjoy that hack i got bored one day and was browsing the registry and saw that set, fiddled a bit (just used logic mostly) and it worked

how about this for the sliding sound?

how do you install/use PHM edit?

please explain how :[

new!
im new to this forum thing. but i have the sprint 6800 & im trying to do this sliding sound thing. but how do i do the registry thing? where do i go for that? is it in the phone or something i have to download? please help!

There is a really easy way to do this on the HTC Wing
1. Set your Sliding Keyboard to Wind chimes sound. 2. ActiveSync. 3. Copy and Paste these two files into the Windows directory. It will ask you if you want to replace/overwrite the ones that are already there. Now when you open and close the Keyboard you will hear The Star Trek Original series Sliding door sound. No registry editing needed. Its really cool.
If you want to save the Wind Chimes for later use just copy and paste the files with these two names out of your Windows directory to a file on your PC.
Enjoy!

One Additional Thought
You can also go into the Registry afterward and change the name from Wind Chimes to Star Trek Door or whatever you want and it will show in the menu on your Keyboard Sliding App.
Also you can change the other two default sounds and rename them.

replace all 3 sounds
Here is a zip file to replace all 3 default sounds on your wing just copy and paste these into the window directory on your phone and replace the default sounds.
You can rename all three
HKLM\Software\HTC\SlidingSound......
0 = change to Star Trek Door
1 = change to Whistle
2 = change to Transformers
Enjoy!!!!

I did this a while ago when it was 1st posted over on ppcgeeks. My problem though is I can only add one set of sounds when i try to add a 5th sliding sound it wont come up on the sliding sounds menu just the stock 3 plus my star trek doors ive done. can there be more the 4 choices or am i gonna have to copy over one. Ive done the same reg edits that i did to make the doors work

5.0stang said:
I did this a while ago when it was 1st posted over on ppcgeeks. My problem though is I can only add one set of sounds when i try to add a 5th sliding sound it wont come up on the sliding sounds menu just the stock 3 plus my star trek doors ive done. can there be more the 4 choices or am i gonna have to copy over one. Ive done the same reg edits that i did to make the doors work
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i have 6 on mine, stock 3 plus 3 custom
make sure you are adding a new (and unique) reg key for each set of sounds you want

Has anyone figured this out for WM6? I had changed my sliding sounds before I upgraded the ROM, and now when I try to put it all back, the registry isn't the same. Help?

Gah nevermind I'm a blind doofus. Carry on!

If your placing the sounds into the windows folder doesn't it get over written every boot? I've tried to make this work with my tilt using the sounds from this side. I can preview them but I can't get the noise to happen when I slide it. There is no noise at all infact unless I pic the old ones.

I also have custom sounds at my website. I can also make your sounds into a cab installer that will install and un-install the sounds. I have made a few so far. Check it out.
MeGa
PS - Info is in my sig

This same process works for the HTC TYTN II/AT&T Tilt.
This is what I put on mine. It's the shotgun reload sound from Half-Life. There is a short and long version. Short for the open, and long for the close.

cool excellent work guys.... i was actually just thinking of doing that the other day... I have a good 1 to add to the list. Whos a FINAL FANTASY FAN HERE LOL.... Victory sound that would be GREAT to add !! =)

zcink said:
1. Set your Sliding Keyboard to Wind chimes sound. 2. ActiveSync. 3. Copy and Paste these two files into the Windows directory. It will ask you if you want to replace/overwrite the ones that are already there. Now when you open and close the Keyboard you will hear The Star Trek Original series Sliding door sound. No registry editing needed. Its really cool.
If you want to save the Wind Chimes for later use just copy and paste the files with these two names out of your Windows directory to a file on your PC.
Enjoy!
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hey wats good i fallowed ur step by step instruction the the wing but i get an error saying cannot copy slider0_in be certain that thurs enough memory(witch i have)that the destination is not write protected and that the file is not currently in use please tell me wat needs 2 b done

this is the one i use...
door opens for out
door closes for in
i made star trek files as well, but the bridge door wav that has saturated the intertubes doesn't reverse well (sounds the same), likewise with the light saber.
i thought about getting the simpsons sounds where ralph is playing with the flag on a mailbox...up = laugh (or out, for us), in = cry (in, for us) but everytime i start going through wav sites, i end up spending too much time downloading things for ringtones and alerts, lol. i have a jetsons messaging notification, and oodles of ringtones and alert sounds now...

Any software requests out?

Hi, I'm a developer wanting to write an app/today plugin. Do you have any request?

Yea I've wanted this for long time and hope you make it for me. Program that like the watch beep or vibrate 30 min or hour and not turn the screen on?? so I can tell time without pulling the phone out.
Thanks for the opportunity, I was thinking about asked here.

Today plug in for Last call and Running Program as in O2 Plus. Both are nice features of O2 Plus but sadly hacked version has lot of issues to run on wizard and it's big prog to install only for those plugins. Thanks.

check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328317

I'd love an app that would allow you to get notifications of email that goes into folders other than inbox. Currently, there's no way to do that, and there are no rules you can set like in desktop Outlook to inform you when a message goes into one of those folders.

Hi Kartam, I use claunch, you can see it in my avatar there, I would love to be able to finger scroll the launch icons to the left or the right to quickly get to all my apps, configurable icon size of course. Outside of the today screen a finger friendly file browser is definitely waiting for development, something that has the look and feel of pocketCM but shows your files instead of your contacts, complete with favourites and filters for stuff like music videos or documents. It should also allow users to set a default action on selecting any given item.

funger friendly alarm clock?
Hi,
how about an alarm clock with numbers like a telephone pad, so you can easily type in the wake up time (regular cell phones allow this). I tried all sorts of commercial products, they are not good (snowtime, spb time, etc...)
Or how about a modern version od "pPod"? :-D
Good luck with all your programs!!

finger friendly alarm clock?
Hi,
how about an alarm clock with numbers like a telephone pad, so you can easily type in the wake up time (regular cell phones allow this). I tried all sorts of commercial products, they are not good (snowtime, spb time, etc...)
Or how about a modern version od "pPod"? :-D
Good luck with all your programs!!

Mine's rather Simple!!!!
...or at least I think it it should be.
All I want is an app (preferably that sits on the today screen) that can toggle the network selection between automatic, roam only, and home only.
Sometimes I need to roam to hold a proper signal, and in those places I like switching my phone to "roam only". Then, when going home, I switch it back to automatic network selection. Problem is that this is buried in many menus and takes several clicks to switch. Its a pain to do this 2x a day.
what do you think?

I actually think you may be able to do that with MortScript, I could've sworn I saw a script that did something similar on HoFo or another forum with one that did almost exactly what you described, but it might've been the WiFi radio in conjunction with a GPS puck...or something

I have multiple application using GPRS. My problem is that all those application are not using tha same APN (not sure of the name, I mean different GPRS connections). Each time I need to use one application or another I need to go to the parameters, change my setting click multiple times on OK.
It would be great (at least for me) to have an application on the today screen which permit to select the correct APN.
Regards
Stephane

cybersush said:
Hi,
Or how about a modern version od "pPod"? :-D
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What a great age we live in when a completely touch screen digital music player is not considered as modern!

Haha, you got a point there, touché :-D
What i meant was a more modern pPod skin (maybe more skins to choose from...?), a playlist manager of some sort (so you dont have to browse through all kins of folders until you find your mp3s), slightly bigger buttons, ....
I love the design and the simplicity of the pPod though, just a little tweaking would be cool. And yes, i did also try mortplayer and HTC audiomanager, both great programs, but both programs are too big for just playing music (in my opinion)

Actually a great program would just be a hack to have HTC Audio Manager use the ID3 Number tags to sort music instead of Alphabetical

Re the new ppod program - that'd be great - I've been refreshing the iphone media player thread like nothing on earth - cant wait to see what that turns out like... the HTC hack would be good tho.
ps you might want to check out Simple Tunes V1.61

Hi!
You can make a little program for me??
Here you can find a little CAB http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=49265&d=1188921933
They copy to the Windows folder a little executable, copy into StartUp folder a shortcut to it, and add few registry-entries....
Well, this program don't have any interface, simple start when device start...
The target is "improove" the quality of A2DP transmission (audio over bluetooth)
BUT, when this service running, the battery quickll drain!!
You can make a simple app (like a GUI) to enable/disable it??
To enable = write few registry-entries and copy a shortcut to the StartUp folder, then softreset the device
To disable = remove the same registry-entries and remove the shortcut from the StartUp folder, then softreset the device

Can you create an application that will let my Hermes roam the floor vacuuming!?

a2dp stereo auto enable
can you write (or is there out there) an app which enables the a2dp pairing with a bt headset so the stereo is enabled by default when the headset re-establishes a connection.
currently (for me) if i turn loose the pairing, ie if I charge the headset, then turn the headset back on for a2dp. I have to run the bt settings in control panel and click 'set as wireless stereo' on the headset.
note the phone headset is enabled straight away when it is powered up.
thanks

left/right scrolling today screen plugin
this would be a sweet today plugin....

Location based profile changer

MMF (SMAF) Filter - stumped.

I've been wanting to be able to play MMF ringtones on my phones without conversion.
I have made some progress, but am now stumped. They play, but they also cause the vibrator to run in sync with the music and I can't figure out how to turn it off!
Here's what I've done so far:
1. Downloaded registry from Samsung Blackjack SGH-i607 to identify files needed for MMF playback (BAEFilter.dll, BeatnikPlugin.dll).
2. Ran Dependency Walker to identify other necessary files needed (mobileBAE.dll).
3. Copied BAEFilter.dll, mobileBAE.dll, and BeatnikPlugin.dll to my devices (Tornado and Wizard).
4. Registered BAEFilter.dll and BeatnikPlugin.dll (mobileBAE is not registerable).
5. Now MMF files play, but vibrate!
BeatnikPlugin.dll, I'm not even sure what it's for. Maybe for that cool spectrum analyzer in Samsung's WMP theme? It doesn't need to be registered for MMF playback to work. Only BAEFilter.dll needs to be registered. Viewing MobileBAE.dll in text mode, I did find reference to another file, mobile_300_base.dls. I copied it over too. It didn't make any difference and appears to just contain EQ settings and such.
I have used UltraEdit32 and viewed the file in text mode to see if any registry entries might be able to disable the vibration. I couldn't find any. I copied every single registry entry from the Blackjack referring to BAEFilter.dll and BeatnikPlugin, as well as everything related to their CLSIDs. I also downloaded the contents of the Blackjack's Windows folder and examined the registry entries in the RGU files. I didn't miss a single one, but it still vibrates.
I'm stumped. The MMF ringtones vibrate on both my Wizard (WM6 PocketPC) and Tornado (WM5 Smartphone).
I'm not sure what else I can try...

Just a small question: what did you do to register the dlls?

I downloaded WM5_RegSvrCE.exe and ran in it from Resco Explorer. I think you need to use Resco because it lets you enter arguments.
I plan to see if I can make a CAB installer out of it in case anyone else is interested. If not, it'll at least make it a lot easier for me to install in my own devices.
I know a little more now than I did when I made the post:
BAEFilter.dll needs to be registered for MMF to work at all, and will allow WMP to play them.
BeatnikPlugin.dll needs to be registered for MMF to work as ringtones, notifications, or alarms (can't be used as alarm on PPC for some reason, but Smartphone works fine).
I did find a workaround for the vibrate, it involves changing the registry for:
[HKLM\Drivers\Builtin\NLed]
"Flags"=0
This killed the vibrate on both my Wizard and Tornado. Setting Order=0 to match the Samsung also worked on the Wizard, but not the Tornado (its Order was already 0). Unfortunately, it completely kills vibrate altogether. I seldom need vibrate mode so it's no big deal for me. I'm theorizing the Samsung does something fancy with vibrate mode so that the phone vibrates in sync with the ringtone, but I'm not sure.