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Crossstick's avatar
Crossstick
Roaming Rookie
3 years ago

Custom ringtone / text tone TCL 30 XE 5G ?

The TCL 30 XE 5G doesn’t allow for setting of custom ringtones any longer. Just got the January 2023 security update today.  In ‘Sound & vibration’ tap ‘Phone ringtone and vibrate’, tap ‘Custom ringtone’, nothing happens. I can choose stock ringtones only. Ditto for Notification tones. 

  • Crossstick wrote:

    Well well. TCL answered at the 48th minute. This time they did give support for this device. They had me reset app preferences in Settings / System and the link to set Custom sounds in Sound settings works again. 

    thats because they make the phone...and are the ones that do any bug fixing and or update fixes for their phones whether it be one of their own devices or one that they made exclusive for a company..its still their phone. carriers dont make updates nor create fixes..

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  • Crossstick's avatar
    Crossstick
    Roaming Rookie

    Well well. TCL answered at the 48th minute. This time they did give support for this device. They had me reset app preferences in Settings / System and the link to set Custom sounds in Sound settings works again. 

  • Crossstick's avatar
    Crossstick
    Roaming Rookie

    Again, TCL said they won’t support the phone because it’s a T-Mo exclusive. They were surprised T-Mo support referred me to them. Just for fun I tried TCL phone support tonight at 7pm Eastern Time U.S. I waited 45 minutes with no answer. It seems TCL is unreachable but see above.

  • syaoran's avatar
    syaoran
    Transmission Titan

    T-Mobile supports its compatibility with the network through carrier aggregation, modem tuning, and through T-Mobile's apps.  OS updates and Security updates come from TCL.

  • Crossstick's avatar
    Crossstick
    Roaming Rookie

    TCL says since this phone is a T-Mobile exclusive T-Mobile has to support it.

  • syaoran's avatar
    syaoran
    Transmission Titan

    Have you tried reaching out to TCL's Support to see if they are aware of the issue and have a fix or work-around for it?