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title: Custom Ringtones, Alarms, Notification tones
layout: default
created: 2010-06-13 15:31:57 +0200
updated: 2010-06-13 15:31:57 +0200
toc: false
tags:
  - know-how
  - hardware
  - google
  - nexusone
  - passion
  - android
  - tones
  - ringtones
---
To add custom sounds to your Android phone, create the following folders on your SD-card:

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

Now you can put your MP3 sound files into these folders and they will appear upon the tone selection
dialogs. (You may have to wait a while until they appear, maybe even have to reboot the phone.)

On older Android phones, you might have to create the folders `ringtones`, `alarms` and `notifications` in the root
of your SD card. (see [here](http://www.androidforums.com/t-mobile-g1/1757-can-you-set-music-youve-uploaded-ringtone-texts.html))