Guide to changing "Audible Selection" sound or any other ui sound

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Hey Everyone. Thought I'd post a lil tutorial on how to change the sound file that plays when you select things (if you have the option enabled, of course) or any of the other sounds like the keyboard presses.

Disclaimer: If you mess your phone up, which I can't possibly imagine since this isn't affecting important system files, dont blame me!!! ALWAYS perform a Nandroid backup when modifying anything that requires root access.

YOU MUST HAVE ROOT TO DO THIS !!!

You will need the android sdk to send the files over.

Step 1 :

First step is to get the sound clip you want to use. I'm using a sound from the starcraft 2 website (the sounds that play when you hover over options). There are multiple ways to capture sounds from websites. I stumbled upon a nice lil browser toolbar called "Ask & Record Toolbar" from here. You can't have any other "ask.com" toolbar installed, at least thats what it told me. If you have a Creative sound card they include an option called "What you hear" in the recording section.

Step 2:

Once you have your sound file you must convert it to ".ogg" format and save it as Effect_Tick. There are a number of ways to do this. For those of you using winamp, just download the "Winamp Essentials Pack" plugin and you'll have the option to convert to ".ogg". Another option is to download "Audacity", a free sound editing app, and then download the "oggdropXPd" plugin. If you have Nero then open the file you want to use in "WaveEditor" and save it as ".ogg".

Step 3:

Once you have your file saved as a .ogg it is time to send it over to your phone. Connect your phone to your computer. Do Not mount. Open a command prompt in the "tools" directory of the sdk. Type the following, pressing enter after each line:

adb remount
adb shell cp -r system/media/audio/ui sdcard/ (This will create a backup of all the ui sound files to a directory on your sd card called "ui")
adb shell rm -r system/media/audio/ui/Effect_Tick.ogg (This will delete Effect_Tick.ogg from your phone.)
adb push c:\Effect_Tick.ogg system/media/audio/ui (This will copy your file to your phone. Substitute whats in green to w/e directory you have your file in.)


After entering these commands you will have your new sound file rdy to go!!!
Just substitute "Effect_Tick" for w/e the name is of the file you are replacing.
Attached I have the Effect_Tick I'm using.

ENJOY ! ! !