How to set a different ringtone for email or SMS notifications
Android is full of little tricks. The latest one involved email notifications. I recently set up a new email account for server error messages, and wanted a "special" ring tone associated with that email account. It's important that I know right away if my servers have problems, whereas I really couldn't care less about knowing precisely when email arrives to my other accounts. Naturally, I couldn't find a decent notification message in the pre-installed list on my X10i. So I downloaded a new ringtone, learning via Google that you had to put it into a directory called "ringtones" - even the all-lowercase is mandatory - for the phone to see it. Well, it didn't. Or, to be more precise, it did see the new ringtone as a ringtone, but it still did not show up in the ring tone list for email . Lovely separation, that. One wonders exactly how many ring tones a person might need to have before it would be confusing enough to be worthwhile main...