How to Transfer Ringtones to Samsung Android Phones?

If you own a Samsung Android phone, you may want to know how you can change the ringtones on Samsung phone to make it more personalized. Customized ringtones and alerts on the mobile phone can reflect your personality. If you like to do so, you can refer to this guide to transfer your music songs from your computer to Samsung mobile phone and activate these music as default ringtone on the phone. Note that you can easily copy files and data from PC or Mac to Samsung, but you can not  copy the audio files or ringtones to just any folder on the phone. Additionally, the exact steps may vary slightly depending on your Samsung phone’s model and the version of Android it’s running. See how to install ringtones on Samsung phones properly below.

How to Transfer Ringtones to Samsung Android Phones Properly?

The easiest way to transfer files to Samsung mobile phone is to connect the phone and computer through USB data cable which you use to charge the phone and sync the phone with PC through Android phone management tools. After the USB connection, you will be able to access your phone’s internal storage and external storage (memory card, MicroSD card) if any from your Windows Explorer on PC or equivalent tools on Mac. Make sure the phone is set to File Transfer (MTP) mode when prompted.

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Double click the ‘Phone‘ to open and access your Samsung or Android phone’s internal storage or click ‘Card‘ to access files and folders on MicroSD card. You can create a particular folder on your phone either its internal storage or external storage to save new ringtones. Copy ringtones from computer to Samsung mobile through USB connection, then activate custom ringtones on Samsung Galaxy mobile phones from its settings.

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On some Samsung phones, find the Ringtones folder or create one if it doesn’t exist. This is where you’ll place your custom ringtones. On other phone models, you need to look for a folder named ‘media‘ on the phone’s internal storage, create this folder if it does not exist, then create a sub-folder ‘audio‘, open the newly created audio sub-folder and create a new sub-folder ‘ringtones‘ beneath it.

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Then copy and paste your ringtones files from computer to this new ringtones folder on Samsung mobile phone’s storage. You can use audio editing software to create or convert ringtones if needed. Generally speaking you don’t have to do that as Samsung Galaxy phones support a wide range of audio formats for ringtones, like OGG, WMA, MP3, M4R files.

Also if you like to change alarm, alerts or notification sounds on Samsung mobile phones, you can also follow these steps. Just make sure to create corresponding folders on your Samsung phone and copy the tones to them.

Set ringtones on Samsung phone

Disconnect your Samsung phone from the computer. Open the Settings app on your Samsung phone and go to select “Sounds and Vibration” or “Sound & Notification,” depending on your phone model or software version. Look for the option to set ringtones and select the custom ringtone you have just copied from PC to the phone.

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