Contact ringtone

[bogdyro]

Hello.
Is it possible to edit a contacts custom ringtone preferably without any user interaction by using send broadcast or start activity? Thanks

[Martin]

Hi,

There's no easy way to my knowledge. You could probably update the contacts database with command content but this could become complicated.
You could also try to set the custom ringtone for a contact and replace the sound file when you want to play another ringtone.

Regards,
Martin

[bogdyro]

Hi. Thanks for the response. I was already using the second method(replacing a file that I selected for that contact). I'm also doing something else now which works well:silencing the ringtone when a call comes in from some person and playing back a random song on the 'music' stream. It seems to start the play back sooner than if I let the ringtone play by itslef,don't know why that is.
I'm also interested in the 'content' method. Seems cleaner. Could you give me an example please?

[Martin]

Hi,

Sorry, I have no good example for this. When you connect your device to a PC you can get a description of the command with adb shell content. It includes some examples for listing and modifying system settings.

Listing the contacts could look like this:

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content query --uri content://com.android.contacts/contacts --projection _id:display_name:custom_ringtone

changing the ringtone of a specific contact could look like this:

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content update --uri content://com.android.contacts/contacts --bind custom_ringtone:s:content://media/internal/audio/media/123 --where "_id=321"

The contacts content provider is quite complicated to work with. Here's the entry point to the documentation: http://developer.android.com/guide/topi ... vider.html

Regards,
Martin