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submitted 1 year ago by lime@feddit.nu to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

ringtones were big there for a while, but now it seems everyone just leaves them on default.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

My call ringtone and text ringtones are pad noises from Star Trek. My alarm is the red alert sound.

[-] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

I used the communicator chime for a long time, but these days I'm basically permanently in do-not-disturb. My phone only makes sound when a close contact calls, or for a timer/alarm. Anything else can wait.

[-] xylogx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My ringtone is the music from the battle of the Mutara Nebula from the Wrath of Khan. My text message notification is the photon torpedo sound.

[-] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

my phone has been on do not disturb since 2016

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[-] PostProcess@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Portal theme tune, the one that plays through the radio when you are in the start habitat. Works beautifully.

Edit: https://archive.org/details/portal-radio-decompressed

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

My phone is always on vibration since 4 phones ago. If I miss it I'll call you back, If I don't that's your answer

[-] ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] mononomi@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Mario kart wii options sound lol, it's actually perfect for a ringtone

[-] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago

that's perfectly annoying. same energy as the wii u chat tune

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[-] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 6 points 1 year ago

There's this guy who I help with his computer and anytime he gets a text it goes "Hey good lookin! You just got a text!" which is fucking insane and also I love it at the same time

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Third Sanctuary from Deltarune by Toby Fox.

There's a lot of emotional investment in that song at the moment. And the ringtone is just the very first riff on repeat, as that part sounds like an actual ringtone (wondering if that's on purpose)

This song is famous for having an absolutely insane time signature that somehow works, as shown in this visualizer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=De0FDShxgrs

[-] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Fellow Deltarune ringtone!!

I got Now's Your Chance To Be A

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air outro.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's kind of silly, but a long time ago when I pirated more games and software, I stumbled onto one of these key generators for one of my programs that I thought just had the best chiptune lol. Anyway, it has been my ringtone for years and years now.

My text tone is the RCT1/2 notification sound. Works perfectly as a phone notification noise haha. I've had this one for years and years too.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago

not silly, i'm using a midi from an old dos game!

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Back in the day I had my entire phone setup with a custom Metroid 2 sound theme that I put together from MIDIs, plus custom ringtones for my dozen or so most frequent contacts. I remember using Power Puff Girls for my wife, TMNT for her boyfriend, Sailor Moon for my girlfriend, and Little Honda for my dad.

Nowadays it’s on silent all the time so I don’t bother. :(

[-] rotorwashed@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

The satellite phone ringtone from Jurassic Park 3.

[-] Million@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

My ringtone is now default. But for a long time it used to be the aqua teen hunger force "dancing is forbidden" song, without the starting noise of the baseball bat destroying the radio.

My alarm is also some default now, but it used to be a 5 second long loop of the EVE online shield alarm closely followed by the hull alarm .

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I genuinely don't know I have never heard it

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[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My ringtone is the bandit radio from STALKER: Clear Sky. Cheeki breeki!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_podzD4cSA

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

А ну Чики-Брики и в Дамки!

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Most of the time my phone is on silent but I use a custom recording of bamboo blocks as a ringtone otherwise.

[-] lichengeese@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago
[-] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago

I stopped bothering to personalize my phones, because they don't feel personal. They're just disposable tools.

[-] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Technically default, but none of my devices make any sounds. Watch notifies me of events only haptically.

[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] ClockworkN@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Phone call: Circuit (from iOS, copied over from when I used an iPhone)
  • Notification: Pizzicato (mostly for nostalgia)
  • Alarm: Argon (sometimes have to switch it up or I'll sleep through)

In practice, it's on silent at the office and vibrate elsewhere.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

Amazing Horse

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I had a weird itch that I just had to get the KotOR 2 Telos Apartment Console Ringtone for my phone, but I couldn't find it until I just found some weird scuffed version on Zedge that also had the Telos cantina music in the background with it.

Inspector Gadget theme song

[-] BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Mine's the Steel Samurai theme from Ace Attorney

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago
[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

i've been using this one for almost two decades now, for about as long as i've had a phone that could use custom sound files. although i've had my phone on silent since about then too.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have different Owen Wilson 'wow's for each of my most regular contacts message notifications.
For my ringtone it's the metal gear solid codec call.

[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Silent these days. For a while I used the "black headcrab nearby" sound from HL2 as a text tone tho. Was fun watching people's reactions to it.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Arality@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

It's like dun-dun dun dun-dun-dun dun dun dun-dun. DUHN-DUHN DUHN-DUHN-DUHN-DUHN DUHN DUHN DUHN-DUHN.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The default one. Haven't even opened the ringtone page in the settings.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

ATT Firefly, from a Lumia 920.

My text tone is the fatal error sound from XP:

https://youtu.be/kBNOZdXwzdg

[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the ringtone i have the ringtone from the sip pulsar phone we had in italy while for notifications i have the cascade chime from some doorbell in an ancient condo i worked at. Before that i had the "you got mail" from aol. But it was a bit too esotheric since no one where i live speaks english

[-] SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Indiana Jones theme

Every spam call is an adventure!

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

My phone just vibrates lol

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I dont have a tone set and am always on silent mode. I hate the noises.

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