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This error shows up when there is a module in your project whose .iml file does not contain:

    external.system.id="GRADLE"

Can you please check your .iml files? Also, instead of opening the project, *import* it, that will completely rewrite your .iml files and you won't see that error again.

I can confirm that it works with AS 0.8.14 if I do

1) open AS,
2) delete the Gradle Java modules from the project,
3) re-import the Gradle Java modules to the project,
4) close AS,
5) re-open AS.

In that case AS does not *not* complain about Gradle Java modules to be non-Gradle Java modules, and I've confirmed that the generated *.iml files contain external.system.id="GRADLE".

However, if I do

6) close AS,
7) delete the *.iml files,
8) re-open AS,

then AS again complains *although* the generates files again contain external.system.id="GRADLE". It seems that the problem is related to "open" vs. "import". In the latter instructions, the *.iml files seem to get implicitly generated because the Gradle Java modules are referred to from setting.gradle.

Can it be that AS is somehow performing the check for non-Gradle Java modules before the *.iml files are generated in case of just opening (instead of importing) the project?

I see what is happening now. Yes, you are right. This is an issue with "open". I think I know how to fix this issue.

Thanks for the confirmation. On a more or less related note, as this would not have happened if I was committing the *.iml files, what is your recommendation WRT this? I know about [1] which recommends to share "All the .iml module files", but it's kind of annoying that these files get rewritten if e.g. dependencies change in build.gradle. In general, most of the *.iml files seem to be duplicate content WRT the build.gradle files and can be derived from them. So, should we commit *.iml files for Gradle Android modules to Git?

[1] https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/23393067

It is better not to add iml files to source control. For regular IDEA projects is OK because .iml files are the source of truth for project configuration. In the case of Android projects, the source of truth is gradle.build files, and .iml are generated from them every time you sync your project with Gradle.

Thanks for the clear recommendation!

@5 As you seem to know what the problem is, would it be appropriate to change the status from "NeedsInfo" to "Accepted"?

This issue is fixed in Studio 1.2.

It also happens if there are comments in .iml file like:

<!----------- My comment -------------->

I just received this error from AS 1.2.1.1 and I do not have any non-Gradle Java modules in my project.

I have one main android application + six Android libraries.

We do not commit our .iml files to source control.

I received the same error in version 1.3.2.

I received this error on 2.1.2.

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received this error in 2.3 canary 2

I am receiving this error in AS 2.3 Canary 2 after doing File->Invalidate Caches->Restart.  Mine is a CMake project.  This error is not very useful, since the project eventually builds anyway.

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I am seeing this with AS 2.3 Beta 1 as well. Since this issue has been closed for some time, I went ahead and created a new issue @ https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=230550&thanks=230550&ts=1482021669

#18 & #19: Did you happen to get this error after switching to Gradle 3.2?

And are you, by any chance, using the com.github.dcendents.android-maven plugin? I upgraded from 1.4.2 of that to 1.5, and updated to Gradle 3.2 at the same time, and I'm seeing the error even after downgrading to AS 2.2.3.

I'm in the process of doing a clean install now, and then I'll be trying reverting back to the older version of both, to see if that changes anything.

I don't know what's changed, but after a clean install, and removing ALL .iml files, after an initial complaint on opening the project, it rebuild all the .iml files and now seems fine. It's weird that last night, I tried making a brand-new project, and got the same results, but I'll take what I can get.

That said, it seems interesting to me that several people at once all seemed to run into the same thing. There may be something going on, still.

The issue is still exist in android studio 3.0.1

Same here on android studio 3.0.1

Same here on android studio 3.0.1

Same here on android studio 3.0.1

The same in Android 3.1

also the same in Android 3.1

where can i find java gradle module?

same error in Android Studio 3.1.2

Msg Error in Android Studio v 3.1.2 :
6:48 PM Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules: AndroidStudioProjects. Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and Android-Gradle modules in one project.
I do not have any non-Gradle Java modules in my project.

The error occurs also in:

Android Studio 3.1.4
Build #AI-173.4907809, built on July 23, 2018
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b01 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Linux 4.15.0-32-generic

I am not sure, but I believe this causes further errors which are quite problematic. I have several projects with this issue: in all of them, some dependencies that are defined in a module's build.gradle file cannot be resolved by AS. Actually, the dependencies are resolved and downloaded from the repositories and show up under "External Libraries" in Project view. However, everywhere I try to use any class from those dependencies... I get a "Cannot resolve symbol XYZ". So I end up stuck with unresolved imports, no way to navigate through classes, etc.

The wierdest thing, though, is that the app compiles fine and runs in a device. It's just AS cannot resolve symbols from well-resolved dependencies.

Project structure overview:
- "app" Android application module (Gradle); depends on "commons", "annotations" and "processor" modules -> *gets detected as non-Gradle*
- "commons" Android library module (Gradle) with common utils, views, dependencies, etc.
- "annotations" java module (Gradle)
- "processor" java module (Gradle)

The symbols that are not resolved by AS come from dependencies defined in the "commons" module.

I have invalidated caches, deleted .idea and .gradle folders, re-downloaded the project, deleted ~/.gradle/caches folder, deleted *.iml files... no luck whatsoever.

Any hints on this issue? Do you believe the "Unsupported Modules Detected" error has anything to do with the "Cannot resolve symbol" issue?

Thanks a lot and best regards.

Same error in 3.2.1

Did some research and this was the outcome after trying in Windows & Mac.

When importing a project you have a screen giving 2 options:
- Create project from existing sources
- Import project from external model

Inside the "Import project from external model" there are 2 more options:

- Android Gradle
- Gradle

If you select "Android Gradle" everything is fine, no false positive at all.
If you select Gradle you will get the false positive error message every time you open that project in Android Studio.

same error in 3.5.1

Same error in 4.0.0

Same issue I am facing every single time I open my project in android studio 4.0.0

AS 4,0,1  
for one of older project
deleted .idea and .gradle folders, re-downloaded the project, deleted ~/.gradle/caches folder, deleted *.iml files..
work ok.

This still happens with AS 4.0.1. All of my *.iml files specify 'external.system.id="GRADLE"', and the Java modules build
when I double-click on the "build" gradle task - but the IDE can't build the Java modules itself. Better to use a Makefile for
building I guess ...

who solved this issue on the latest versions of AS, please share your actions

this is happening here too, nothing works, I'm using Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Canary 1 on a mac m2
bug reported

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I have also tried setting my custom ringtones with Zedge (downloaded) rather than Android System and so far I haven't lost them.  Until Google fixes this bug (they NEED to fix it on next release) you can use a 3rd party program.  That's the best suggestion I can give for now.  I'll advise however if Zedge loses ringtones too.

Yip - repeatable on my Nexus S with 2.3.1

found a fix to assign a ringtone to a contact... seems to be a problem with multiple contacts in your google account.(my best guess) You open your contacts, go to the problematic contact, then press menu>display options> your google account contacts>(check) all other contacts. After you do this, go back and you will see multiple contacts that are the same. delete all of them, then make sure the data is not in the phone/(sim?) anymore by calling from that number... I was getting no ringtone for a contact at all no matter what i did until i did this. I think the random ringtone thing is whichever copy of the contact "wins" when they all get read at the same time gets its ringtone played....

In response to my comment 42 above, it lost sync after mounting and unmounting a volume on the computer even with Zedge.  So that doesn't solve the problem either.  This issue needs to be resolved.  This is why I didn't like the idea of an internal SD card.

This issue would likely be present w/ an external SD card as well - the problem lies in that the emulated SD card (USB filesystem) must be unmounted by the OS so that it can be mounted externally as a mass storage device - that would apply to either physical format.

Yes Google needs to fix this, I'm curious however why this has only popped up on the Nexus S, why hasn't it been on other devices if they also hook up directly to the USB file system.  I'm going to stop mounting my phone and try to work with some Samba app I can browse over the wireless network instead.

The issue not only occurs for contact specific ringtones in my nexus s running 2.3.1 but on any ringtone or alarm and not on reboot, but when anything is plugged into the micro usb slot. E.g. gmail ringtone works perfectly in one instance, and has changed to a song I don't even recognize as being on my phone an hour later, the only difference being I plugged my phone in to charge Overnight using the official Samsung charger that came with my phone.

I decided I'm going to use the program "File Expert" and when I need to mount my SD Card, I'll just use the FTP protocol on my computer and access it over wifi.  Much better plan than mounting the SD card on the computer and all this crap happening.

Don't know what happened exactly but this only just started happening to me 2 days ago...

it's damn annoying... sometimes I get a music track, sometimes a ring tone thinking someone is ringing me only to find it's a tweet update...

I think it's only happening with custom ringtones that are stored externally

The reason it is only happening to nexus s is because the s is the only phone running gingerbread. This is ginger related. Anyway, just install rootbrowser and copy ringtontes to /system/media...  my ringtones never change anymore.

Clear evidence: First I checked my custom ring-tones in Clock (alarms). Then I connected my Nexus S to USB to copy files. I disconnected then. The ring-tones were not assigned anymore. However, this is not 100% repeatable.

One workaround (if you don't want to root) for the phone ring-tones and system-wide notifications is Phone Weaver. I can create a profile to run every two hours in order to reset you ring-tones. Another option would be Tasker.

I'm not convinced it's entirely due to USB mounting as I've mounted mine via
USB a few times and the ringtones have been deselected in the settings menu
but have still sounded correctly, and on some occasions I've had a ringtone
deselected without USB mounting.  It's not happened in quite a while now,
but has happened at least once since updating to 2.3.1.

re comment 53, I've also noticed that when plugged in, even just for charging, the notification sounds don't always play.

I am honestly tired of this. I don't understand how this phone or software got released with serious bugs such as this or some of the other bugs I have seen reported regarding only the nexus s / gingerbread. Unless this is fixed I will either return or root the phone because this is rediculus.

I to am having this stupid issue with my phone. It is getting extremely annoying.

Same problem here...annoying! Should be an easy fix really...

My first Nexus S had a strange circle burned into the screen and had this problem with notifications as well. Every once in a while it would switch from my custom notifications to the default ones the phone came with. Annoying, but not that big of a deal.

Returned the first one because of the screen issue and got a new one and this one also has the notification problem, except worse. It seems to randomly pick a song from my music library to replace notification sounds with. I don't want lady gaga playing when I get an email.  "Medium" does not accurately capture the priority of this issue.

I vote to have this defect priority upped to critical.

I just got a Nexus S, and mine exhibits the same behavior. I haven't set contact-specific ringtones though - just a custom ringtone for ringtones and notifications. Whenever I reboot the phone (100% of the time) or connect it to the computer (sometimes), the ringtones reset.

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I agree with those who said that the priority should be set as critical. This is terrible

I agree with those who said that the priority should be set as critical. This is terrible

Just to post a workaround for this bug, I used Profile Valet (free) to create a recurring schedule that sets the ringtone and notification tones to a specific sound file every morning before I wake up.  While this does not solve any issues with setting custom ringtones for individual contacts nor custom alarm ringtones, it does keep your generic ringtone from changing to something that is not environment appropriate (such as Baby Got Back at work or a 45 second long text notification).

I can't possibly express just how annoying this is.

For the record: it happens every time I
a) plug into a computer to charge, even if I don't turn on USB storage
b) reboot the phone ( which, as luck would have it, I have to do fairly frequently thanks to http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2845 )

Google -- I expect better than this from you!  I bought the Nexus S specifically because I expect better than this from you!  Can't you at least give us a sign that you're taking this seriously?

Guys, I exchanged mine over two weeks ago, and now only use "Ringtone Maker" to create the ring, text tones for my phone,  then use "Ringo lite" to assign them to my respective contacts. I have mounted/unmounted the phone to my computer, swapped batteies, and have never had the issue again. From my experience this issue is not affecting all phones. You must exchange yours.

I just online chatted with Samsung, and they told me to do what they called a "soft reset", which they said was shutting down the phone manually, taking the battery out for 30 seconds, then putting it back in and restarting the phone. This sounded rediculous, and it did not sound like a very "soft reset" to me. But I did it. And it worked. After this procedure, when I set the ringtones, turned off the phone, then turned it back on the ringtones magically were the same still. Same with connecting to computer. The samsung person told me that it is most likely to do a third party app causing a software glitch, and that this procedure resets the phone's software. It may happen again if the same app is still problematic, but at least I know to pay attention to what I might have run when/if it happens again. Having said that, I can't help but to wonder if the several ringtone apps I installed to get some new ringtones (the ones that come with the phone are terrible) might have been the cause of this problem, even though I have since unintalled them after I saved the ringtones I wanted. Hmmmmmmmmmm......

It's obviously not a 3rd party program issue.  It did this for me on a fresh install simply by adding files to the SD card and using the android system to select ringtones.

That, my friend, is complete Samsung BS.  Have fun pulling your battery ever 5 min tho.

OK. I kind of thought it  might be like avoiding the issue and blaming it on an app. But it did work, so I thought he was right. I wonder how long it will be before it happnes again?

I just tried 67's "workaround" (with a doubt deep down inside), and after turning the phone back on to set my ringtones and rebooting it, my ringtone settings didn't change this time. But when I plugged the phone into my computer (and turned on USB storage), my ringtones changed just like before. Like 68 said, this is definitely not a 3rd party issue. I started experiencing the issue before I started installing any apps.

And as a reply to 64's "workaround", it is a viable workaround until Google resolves this, but it eats way too much battery. Android reports the service eating so much battery as "gpsd", which after doing a little research, I understood it as network-based location, or GPS without using the GPS. I'm usually left with half a battery or more at the end of the day but with this app I was at half in 2 or 3 hours.

Thanks for the reports, I'll have someone take a look.

Thank you very much for looking into this. Of all the bugs on the Nexus S/2.3 this is the worst one. Hopefully you can get a solution for this asap. Please also merge issue 36923945 into this. Thanks!

I just had another problem today, didn't mount anything, only thing I did was have to reboot it at some point.  I woke up to an alarm playing the ringtone I had assigned to my Gmail notification (ringtone was on sd card).  I open up the alarm and it had the Gmail ringtone assigned to it, I had previously had it assigned to a different sd side ringtone.  After a phone reboot, my Gmail notification ringtone was then assigned to what I had set for the alarm.  The alarm had nothing assigned.  So I again had to go reassign both Gmail and alarm ringtones.

Happening to me too. Running a Nexus S with 2.3.1. Not just ring tones, but notification as well. It has been changing from the assigned tones to ones from my MUSIC LIBRARY of all things - media files in entirely different folders. I was like "Why are SMSs playing Bark at the Moon now?"

Notification sounds within 3rd party apps seem to keep their assignments as far as I can see.

Thanks!

plz do something, as soon as possible, to fix this problem! it drives me crazy since i have to select ringtones for every contact every other day

I rooted NS and flashed Cyanogen, and I have not experienced this issue.  B4 flashing it, I pushed the ringtones to the /system side of the phone which fixed the issue...so i was interested if after flashing Cyanogen, i was curious if this roblem would return...so I am currently using the ringtones on the SD card, th way it wouldnt work on stock gingerbread.  So how is it that Gingerbread in Cyanogen is not exhibiting this behavior but the Stock Code from google is messed up?  

Just repro'd this issue on my phone after installing the just released 2.3.2 update. Same as before, ringtone gets randomized after connecting to computer and turning on USB storage. Didn't expect a fix, since the update arrived too soon after Google started looking at this, but figured it was worth a try.

Got this problem on this phone ONLY after the 2.3.2 update! I think I'm returning it for good. This is ridiculous!

I'll give it few more weeks and if it still does it, I'm done as well.

I'm trying to hold out with my NS until the next "great" phones come out, but this is a total reason to bail.  Makes me nuts.

Yea, the problem sucks, but the work-around is simple. Use stock ring-tones and live with them until Google makes w/ the fix.

Out of 83 comments, only a handful of them are really useful to Google - the rest is just a bunch of whiners.

Squeaky wheel policy often works well in these situations

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There are too many whiners here. This is a forum for reporting bugs, not shaking your fists at a mountain. All you whiners are doing is making noise in other users' mailboxes, and I for one am fed up with it so am unsubscribing.

Yeah guys shut up already unless you have something useful to say. Google is fixing it so sit tight. I'm tired of my phone going off every 30 seconds everytime someone wants to whine.

I refrained from commenting so far. But please do not comment if you have nothing useful to add (eg a new description or a log of the error). I am about to unsubscribe as well if people don't stop posting stupid drivel. Less stars means lower visibility.

FYI the 2.3.2 fix was to resolve issue 36918804 only.  This issue along with issue 36924236 , issue 36924183 , issue 36924063 are all serious bugs that need to be resolved on the Nexus S.  I don't see how all of these bugs were missed during any testing phases they may of had.  Did they bypass these serious bugs to get it out before Christmas?  Please make sure all of these serious bugs are addressed.

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It would seem that the "logic" to temporarily use a default ring tone inside /system is missing if /mnt/sdcard based files are unavailable. There is a system default of Sceptrum.ogg for ringtone and Castor.ogg for notifications within /system/build.prop

I haven't reviewed the code, but suspect that additional ringtones may be pseudo-randomly loading into a hash, and each time the card is unmounted and remounted, that hash ordering changes somewhat, but the references within the contact databases are *not* updated to match.

(I also posted in 13309, but I see that's flagged a duplicate of this bug. Sorry to anyone who has starred both for the extra message.)

I've started seeing this on my Nexus S with Android 2.3.2 (just out).

If it's difficult for Google to fix the actual bug(s) with sounds on the SD-card, maybe they could provide a tool for copying audio files into the internal memory?

a) That functionality is missing in the first place and should be a basic feature of Android. You shouldn't have to install a 3rd party file manager just to customize your notification sounds.

b) We can't copy sounds to the internal storage ourselves as it requires root access. (Or is there some folder which non-root users could use for this? I could not find one which worked.)

I created a folder structure and moved my audio files there and it works for me.

/sdcard/Android/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/Android/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/Android/media/audio/ringtones

I own a Nexus S as well.  This happens anytime I reboot or mount my USB storage and then unmount it. The ringtone is a different one than assigned.  Just received the OTA update from Android, so now I'm on 2.3.2 and still experiencing this issue.  Just posting to note that 2.3.2 is still experiencing this bug.  Please fix!

I did the same as 95 (well, no alarms folder because I don't have any custom alarms) and am still having problems.

I've been having related problems particularly with notifications made with Ringdroid, but also with my personal settings in Hancent SMS in general. I've also had similar difficulties with customized album art in the Cubed music player. It feels like they are related as they will get scrambled or reset upon restart. After a lot of frustration, consults with app devs, and a discussion with a T-Mo in-store guy, I decided to do a factory reset. This seems to have fixed the problem, but I only did it yesterday and other fixes (such as reinstalling apps) have seemed to work for a little while, but then stopped working.

@95

You created an Android folder after /sdcard/.

I just did:

/sdcard/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones

Does adding the Android folder before /media/ help? My mom and I have the same phone. Her phone is set to as posted above, but still keeps losing ringtones. Mine has been alright because I'm using a diff app to assign ringtones based on contact groups. But technically it shouldn't be reseting ringtones period so this is still a problem.

Moving the ringtones to "/sdcard/Android/media/audio/ringtones" seems to work around the problem for me.

Just posting to say changing the directory structure doesn't solve the issue... definitely still lose my custom everything tones after mounting the SD card.  This also means the weekend hasn't brought any solutions from Google... I'm a user in Australia that bought in US, so returning it isn't really an over the counter kind of deal for me.  Was so psyched to change to Android... makes it really hard to promote to my iphone friends when basic functionality is so broken.  Honestly google, you do yourselves a favour as much as us by fixing this.

I'm so incredibly tired of resetting my alarms and notifications and ring tones over and over again. The folders don't help, eventually.

I can verify this happens on my HTC EVO with 2.2. This seems like a HUGE oversight. Custom ringtones are worthless if stored on an SD Card if one also wants to take advantage of the USB mounting option.

Clearly this is a big issue:

http://www.google.com/search?q=android+ringtone+sd+card+reset

I too have been having this issue with my Nexus S, right up until the latest version of Gingerbread (2.3.2) However, I was just forced to reboot my phone and as I was starting the process of resetting my ringtones, I discovered that they were all still set. The only difference? It was in Airplane Mode when I rebooted.

Now, I'm not sure if this is a fluke, and I'm hesitant to try again because I really don't want to have to reset my ringtones, but if any of you need to reboot your phones, try putting it in Airplane Mode first and see if this is actually a workaround.

I've experienced this issue every time I've rebooted, until 2 minutes ago, when I tested Airplane Mode. I put my phone into Airplane Mode, reboot, and sure enough, my custom ringtones were still selected. I immediately did it again, and can confirm that my ringtones are sticking.

Losing custom ringtone setting everytime I reboot. Setting them with the Zedge application doesn't help either.

Well, me and my mom both have the Nexus S. Her phone gets ringtones messed up if she just plugs it into a USB that links to the laptop for charging, not even mounted. Mine however has been fine and I hardly experience it. So honestly I'm not exactly sure what's up with it. My phone and my mom's is set up the exact same way folder-wise. She doesn't lose her ringtone selection as long as she charges it from a wall instead of thru a comp.

I have this problem and it seems to manifest when I connect my Nexus S (GRH78C) running Android 2.3.2 to my PC and thus use the USB connection.

It occurs to me that the internal memory of the Nexus S is partitioned into two portions - 1GB that acts as internal storage and 15GB that acts as if it were an SC Card. Is it possible to save user notifications/alarms/ringtones to the internal memory so this doesn't unmount when the phone is connected via USB?

Incidentally Samsung support suggested I store the notifications in /sdcard/media/audio/notifications rather than /sdcard/notifications but it seems to make absolutely no difference.

Same problem alarm tone is my bugbear ....
maybe its time for me to have my first go at rooting!

same here....
had to move my custom ringtones to /system/media/audio folder... but that's not the way it should be!

Have the same problem and this is driving me insane.

The priority of this ticket should be raised!

Same shit and its annoying. Fix it or I'm gonna have to find ya!

Having the same issues on my Nexus S....This is embarassing for Android users and the priority needs to be raised ASAP.

I like having my OWN ringtones to play when i get calls. So this issue is hell for me like you do not know. Its good to see that im not the only one however. BUT PLEASE GOOGLE FIX THIS ASA Fin P!!!

Alright y'all.  SOLUTION

I've had the same problem.  Either rebooting or connecting my Nexus S (2.3.2) to a computer would cause all my ringtones and notification tones to change to random files.  What I found interesting is that contacts that use the same ringtone (people from work are all assigned Imperial March from StarWars ;) would change...but they would all change to the same ringtone, different from what I wanted but the same among eachother.

I originally had my Ringtones and notifications under /sdcard/media/audio in separate folders for each.

I moved them to the sdcard root (ex. sdcard/Ringtones) and then reset all the settings the way I wanted them.  This seems to have solved it.  Been running for 24 hours and have connected to my computer 5 times (2 different machines)and have shutdown and restarted my phone twice.  Everything stayed exactly as I set it.

Hope this helps everyone.

Well I think the permanent fix at the moment is rooting the phone, and dumping the ringtones and notifications onto the phone's storage so that part doesn't get touched. It's just not fair for those that don't know or want to root their phones.

The main issue right now is getting a fix for those that don't root their phones and having this not be a problem when ringtones are on the SDcard portion of the storage.

I have the same problem on mine as well (2.3.2) I set up ringtones for specific contacts...and when I reboot the phone or plug it to the laptop the ringtones change, it's the same issue with my alarm ringtone please fix this

it happens on my Nexus S as well.

This bug is crazy !!!!
NEXUS S 2.3.2 ( I can test on nexus one , but I never experienced it before nexus S)

New follow up to reporduce :
Assign a ringtone or notification as well
Mount usb on computer
Unmount it ,go to ringtones , sometimes you have twice the custom ringtones ( and one is not working no sound if you select them).
To suppress the bad twin of  ringtones reboot
You will think all is working because the custom ringtone is still selected !
Receive a call / SMS = no sound
The custom ringtone selected has gone ?

I don't know if this bug is specific with device with internal storage. But all "solution" like creating media/audio/ media /android etc etc . will not work !
Each time you connect /Reboot your nexus S you have to set ringtones , and notification ( alarms seem to be keeped ! ) So it not possible to assign custom ringtones to contact beacause of the manual work at each reboot !

I will root my nexus S for "Fix" the bug

Had the same problem with Nexus S, downloaded a ringtone App and got all the problems listed above. Downloaded a different App and the custom ringtones now stick. Tried mounting/unmounting, rebooting, turning off, still custom ringtones are not lost. Could be that the location the app loads the the customs tones makes all the difference, however the ringtones just sit in the regular 'Ringtones' folder. Now 24 hrs since it's been working correctly, will advise if there is a change.

My ringtones keep changing and it is completely unacceptable.

I almost got fired for being late because my alarm changed to SILENT.

Comment 116 worked for me. I do not have the problem anymore.

Nexus S 2.3.2

I was put MP3 file into /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones.And use contact groupU to set contact's ringtone.

But after I reboot and my friend call to me, ringtone was go back to default.
So I goto contact>select my friend contact > [menu] > option, the ringtone name wasn't default ringtone.

Ex.
My default ringtone is River.mp3
My friend's ringtone is If.MP3
But when my friend call to me the ringtone was rang River.mp3 not If.mp3

How I solve this problem


Thank you& sorry for my English.

Motorola DEFY user..custom ringtone replaced at random when plugged into USB cable.  What the heck?

I am so sick of this issue that I have been forced to switch all my ringtones to system tones (which is annoying). Resetting my ringtones, emails tones, sms tones, calendar tones, everyday was getting far too annoying. Please fix this google. This phone cost me a lot of money and although I love it I haven't had a phone ever that reset my custom ringtones. What is going on???????

Comment 116 didn't seem to work for me:

I have created:

//sdcard/Ringtones/
//sdcard/Alarms/
//sdcard/Notifications/

moved all files there and re-assigned, but no luck.

iMoPh... can you please explain the procedure and if it's really working for you?

Thanks.

Workaround anyone? I use this awesome phone for business. Cannot miss calls and/or appointments. Really desperate. Is it memory corruption? Is it reference/pointer corruption? It happens when I reboot the phone. It happens when I can USB connected/disconnected. I doubt Google will fix it as part of 2.3.3 release.

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Did the 2.3.3 update and have pluged in and out multiple times and still working.... fingers crossed they did fix it! will see how it goes over the next couple days.

Can anyone else that has done the update confirm this aswell??

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Still good news!

Mine also used to do it overnight most nights when I plugged it into charge.

Fingers crossed!

Please fix this ringtone issue... it gets annoying.... besides that.... best phone i've ever had....

Pretty sure its fixed in 2.3.3 update...

Been a few days now and hasn't changed!

Confirmed with my update to 2.3.3. Custom ringtones are unchanged after a reboot.

What I am noticing though, is that while my phone is connected via USB, none of my custom ringtones show up in the notification ringtone menus. When I turn USB storage off they re-appear, and the correct ones still seem to be selected. Does this mean my phone won't ring if USB storage is turned on?

Try texting yourself see if you hear any notifications (if you use your own notification tones which are on the sd portion)

I am still on 2.3.2 and I have the following observation:

I have installed AlarmDroid, now my (morning) alarms are set correctly and wouldn't change.
I have installed Phone Weaver, two profiles: night and day, each to reset the phone ringtone and notification ringtone. However, PW has the same symptoms: ringtones are unassigned after a reboot. Using the same API? But AlarmDroid survives such a reboot. Really curious about the defect.

Waiting for 2.3.3, hoping it's fixed there...

Manually upgraded to 2.3.3, now it seems working OK. Unchanged after a reboot, unchanged after a USB connect/disconnect.

having the same problem. nexus S 2.3.2 in spain.
i am so tired of having my phone going crazy when i receive a message. he keeps playing a random song for 2 or 3 minutes.

god, fix that please.

Hi. I have the same problem nexus S 2.3.2

I have different ringtones for some people in my family and it's very annoying having to set it up over and over, as the matter of fact, I decided to no customize any contact's ringtone until it's fixed.

I haven't experienced the issues anymore in 2.3.3.  Seems like (hopefully) the last update fixed the issue.

The ringtones that I have selected from my music library change at random. Very frustrating.

Still going on in 2.3.3.  Another problem Google seem to be unable to resolve.

This phone's a lemon...

Just another note to say that the issue looks like it's been fixed by 2.3.3. I've been running it for a few weeks now and not noticed any problems. Shame Google haven't posted an update with what they changed!

It's not just a Nexus S/ Android 2.3 problem - I've got exactly the same issues with my HTC Z running 2.2.1 version 317545
For me I think it's every time I connect my phone to my PC as a hard drive (i.e. copying files across to it).

To make matters worse, now the phone will no longer allow me to reset the personalised ring tone to about a 3rd of those I've set - and it's not the same new tone for each of them either or the same ring tone that they were all set to use (13 contacts which should have had 3 different personalised tunes amongst them).

Hey guys. This issue is present since 1.6. I have now 2.3.3 and if you set a base ringtone everything is fine. If you set custom ringtones to contacts sometimes it plays the assigned one, sometimes just the base ringtone. It's very frustrating. Phone functionality should be perfect, all the time.
Please look into it. It's very frustrating.

Comment 124, I have the same problem. I am using 2.3.3 nexus s.
please fix it asap. It is an annoying bug!!!

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I´m having the same problem. Always I connect the USB cable the device reset all my definitions of ringtones.

NEXUS S
Android 2.3.2 GRH78C

Exact same problem. It's got to the point where I can't be arsed to re-assign the ringtones/alarms any more.

Last time it happened, I had connected the phone via USB for a short charge. All custom notifications, ringtones and alarms affected.

Android 2.3.1

I have this issue as well.  Only started within the last week or so.  Typically after resetting my notifications/ringtones for all my apps (Stock alarm, Gmail, Good mobile messaging) it appears to pick random songs that I have added.
I don't believe my notification for Google Voice texts have been affected though.

I am still on 2.3.2 Nexus S;I wanted to wait for OTA lol,  still not here =)

I have exactly the same issue with custom ringtones. Its very annoying and needs fixing. Can't believe Google haven't fixed this after 4 months. Apple would have! Starting to regret moving from my iPhone. Google - sort this out!!

I have the same issue with custom ringtones.
It is very annoying and when it occurs, it is making me confuse on who is calling.
Please fix this issue Google!
Nexus S is starting to sell on main telco in my country (Malaysia), we don't want to see this as a thing that hold back Android fans & fans - to - be.

Currently on stock 2.3.2.

this is driving me nuts! can't believe google hasn't done anything for this.  shouldn't an update take care of this crap?!

Android 2.3.1 on Nexus S.

Horrible problem, the phone is worthless if you can't depend on notification and ringtones. This is a worse actual phone than my 10 year old Samsung flip phone. At least it always rang when I got a call.

I REALLY THINK GOOGLE/SAMSUNG SHOULD RECALL THIS PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I dont have a problem with custom ringtones reverting to stock, but i do have the issue of custom ringtones assigned to contacts being switched around (i.e. custom ringtone assigned to my wife playing when a friend calls, or my global/general ringtone playing when my wife calls). SO basically the wrong ringtone playing for a given contact, or the right ringtone NOT playing for a given contact.

This is a terrible issue that needs to be looks at quickly.

The issue still exists, but lately I've noticed that it doesn't happen as often as it used to. Before, my ringtones would reset at least once a day, and I would have to keep an eye on the settings to make sure it hasn't reset. But now, it happens maybe once or twice a month to me now. And I didn't change anything.

on 2.3.4 .. and it still exists :( !!

Some days ago I wrote this on XDA Milestone Cyanogenmod thread:

On my Milestone (Cyanogenmod, Android 2.3.4) I've finally found a way to make custom ringtones works

1) For every single call
2) Even in low memory situations, like while playing HD games like Asphalt HD
3) Without a millisecond of delay

I spent 3 hours searching the web for informations about how Android store informations, and soon I found that Android store contacts informations (every single detail, including contact photo and call registry, in a SQL database file, located in data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/database. I've studied SQL at university, so I know how it works.

There are 2 tables with the column "custom_ringtones", in every table the fields were of this form:

content://media/internal/audio/media/XXX

where XXX is a number associated to a ringtone, this association is stored in another SQL database located in data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/database (there are 2 databases, one for internal ringtones and one for sd ones)

I immediately realized that the solution was simple: pointing directly to the ringtone file.

So in a developers website I found that the correct form to point directly was:

file:///sdcard/XXX.ogg
file:///system/media/audio/ringtones/XXX.ogg

I manually edited the contacts database for only 1 contact, rebooted, and it works!

But this is an hard and slow procedure, so I managed to find an easier way, and the solution I found is really easy and fast:

1) Download from Android market a ringtone picker app, I've used Tone Picker. If you use HandCent SMS, you already have a ringtone picker (however, I prefer GoSMS so I downloaded TonePicker).

2) Only if your ringtones are not in sdcard, download a filemanager with root permissions, I used Root Explorer because all my ringtones are in in system/media/audio/ringtones

3) Now you have to assign custom ringtones with Tone Picker: in the contact options, select the option to assign a custom ringtone, select Tone Picker instead of Android System, and it will show a list of applications, select the file explorer and point to the desired file.

4) The same procedure should be used to define the default ringtone in settings/audio

By doing this way for every contact, in the contacts database all the custom_ringtones fields will be filled correctly, directly pointing to the ringtone file, and phone will ring with the correct ringtone every time, and without looking in the media database, so the ring will start immediately.

1) It's better to avoid spaces in the ringtones path and also in the ringtone name, because in the contacts database spaces are converted in "%20", may cause problems

2) I don't know if it helps, but before installing the ROM I changed this line in build.prop:

ro.telephony.call_ring.delay=5000

The original value was 3000. Strangely, now the phone starts to ring immediately instead of waiting 3 seconds.

UPDATE: I tried to delete the ringtones databases and the phone always plays default ringtone. By terminating the media process (android.process.media) I also had some issues. But this is a Milestone issue, only 256 MB RAM without swap, on Nexus you sure won't have this process accidentally killed.

Try my method and post comments

I started using Zedge after this issue kept bothering me a million times, but even this failed. The ringtones are still getting swapped randomly, albeit now it doesn't point to null or a completely new ringtone.
It either plays the default one or the custom assigned one.

i have 2.3.4JVP and have same problem as all of u and its pain in the ass

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Galaxy Tab 7" aggiornato a Gingerbread 2.3.3 stesso problema

Confirmed on samsung captivate its not only a nexus issue its the os...  Set to critical

Same problem here: Samsung Infuse SGH-I997 FROYO.UCKE3

This is my first Android. Imagine my disaapointment & anger at finding this to be a common problem. For the money I (we) are paying shouldn't a basic function of the phone be expected?

Same issue, just got the 4G Nexus and ringtones keep reverting.

Similar issues on Samsung Mesmerize after 2.3.4 update. Did not have this problem in previous android versions.

Samsung Nexus S (T-Mobile), 2.3.5 - I used to have this issue before, but lately (past 2-3 months), I have not noticed the issue anymore. Perhaps it was a syncing glitch within the system and not the phone?