[starchild223]

Hey there people!

My device is Nokia E51, and for some, bizarre reason, I can't set the clock alarm tone.

When I choose the sub-menu "Clock alarm tone" a list of songs/audio files on the phone is supposed to load.... but nothing there. The phone doesn't even give me any options to choose from. I actually find this quite frustrating and annoying because I'm trying to do something very basic here.

I've attached a capture.

Thanks for helpers. 

[thundertiger · Accepted solution]

By any chance do you have a large number of mp3 or other audio files on the phone or memory card?

[starchild223]

Well, I do have quite much of 'em on my memory card; around 500 songs (96 kbps/aac plus).

Though I found a way to set tones: copy the song I want to the phone's memory, remove the memory card, then select (the song comes up then).

Though I wish it was easier for me to choose a tone. Too bad they didn't have a browser for that, or at least from the Music player have an option to set the current song as clock alarm tone (from the muic player you can either assigh the song to someone or set it as the ringtone).

I guess for now I'll live with that, though I'd be happy to hear if there's a way to set the clock alarm tone while the memory card is inserted.

Thanks alot and nice thinking coming up with the idea. 

[thundertiger]

Well the reason I asked about the large number of audio files is because it appears to be a common bug across many of nokias phones.   When you have a large number of audio files (either on the card or on the phone itself) the phone apparently gets 'confused' and is unable to load up the selection of ringtones or music files to use as a ringtone.

The only solutions would be to either:

1)  Delete songs until the ringtone menu goes back to normal

2)  Do what you have done with copying it to the phone then removing the memory card to be able to select the file.. then reinsert the memory card

Nokia just needs to get their act together. They should seperate ringtones from the music files.  This way when you go to select a ringtone.. it will ask to either choose a ringtone from a list.. or to select one of your mp3s from a list. This way keeping it seperate.  But that would be extra menus to navigate and people probably wouldnt like it.

But if they did it that way then they could use the mp3 listings by album, artist, song title, etc to allow people to choose the music files they want as a ringtone.  It would be easier to do that then continually scroll through huge lists

[archie_]

I'm going to try the remove microSDHC tip -- thought it may have been to many songs