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Straightforward. Go to contacts, tap on the contact. Then, tap on info for that contact. Then, at the top of the screen, tap on edit. Scroll up; should be a "more" on the right. Tap on that. Then you'll see the ringtone option; tap on that and you get the phone's list of ringtone. Pick the one you want, save everything, and you're good to go.
You can put in specialized ringtones on the phone, but that's a different story.
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It won't let me do that. There is no option to save the changes in the
sound picker app.
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Weird. I grabbed a random contact, edited it, tapped the ringtone item, picked haze or something, hit the back button, observed the new name on the ringtone item, and hit save in the top right. Checked by editing it again and, yup, still the new value.Either we're not doing the same thing or something's fouled on your phone. Um. Backup and try a reset of some flavor?
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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I was hoping to avoid a backup and reset. A third party ringtone
management app can change it, though.
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If the contacts are saved to the Sim card it won't let to you. They need to be anywhere else other than the Sim.
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I don't have a sim card.
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Um. If you have an S8 and you've ever made a call with it, ever, yes you do. Top edge of the phone, there's a little panel with a small hole in it. Push a blunt needle or thin paperclip in it and a tray will pop out. Should be a SIM card in there. Along with an SD card, if you want more storage. If not, you haven't been making calls using T-Mobile's phone network.There do exist versions of the S8 that actually have room in there for two SIM cards; that's kinda for people that want two phone numbers/providers on one phone, mostly seen in Europe, I believe.
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I'm sorry, I thought you meant the memory card. How can I tell if the
contacts are stored on the SD card?
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Got it. When you're in the sound picker, just tap on the radio button for the sound you want. Then... just hit the back button, bottom right of the phone screen. The sound you picked will be in the edit screen, ringtone item. THEN hit the save in the contact edit screen, top right.
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The ringtones don't appear in sound picker.
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Strangely enough, there's a T-Mobile tutorial on this! Contacts: Samsung Galaxy S8
You had me going, too. As it happens, I had an S5 from Verizon before coming over to T-Mobile late last year. Verizon uses a SIM card that's for a CDMA network; CDMA SIM cards don't store the contacts on the SIM, ever. GSM SIM cards, which T-Mobile uses, can store the contacts. When I used Smart Switch to copy everything over, it naturally copied the contacts from the cell phone internal storage on the S5 to the same rough location on the T-Mobile S8; from what I can tell, none of my contacts are on my SIM, they're all on "PHONE".
Following the T-Mobile tutorial above, I created a new contact. Interestingly, you get a choice of where to store the contact: PHONE (internal storage), SD Card, SIM, or a list of providers, in my case starting with Google and ending with Samsung, although I guess this list of providers are with whom one is going to sync the contact as compared to where it's physically stored on the phone.
You can see where a contact is stored by editing the contact, then scrolling to see the very top left corner; mine all say "PHONE" up there.
According to the T-Mobile tutorial, one can copy the contact by opening (not editing) the contact and hit the triple-dot in the top right corner, and select "Copy from Phone"; if yours are on your SIM card, then maybe you get a menu item, "Copy from SIM" or something.
I'm curious: Where are your contacts stored?
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Default storage for the contact is on my phone.
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OK. That's where it should be.
Did a little checking after my last post on the subject. Open Contacts, tap three dots in top right corner: There's a "Manage Contacts" item. As you've probably figured out, the default save location (phone, SIM card, various accounts) are in there.
A bit more interestingly, you can export or import contacts as vCard (VCF) files. This raises a couple of possibilities.
First off, you could export the contacts, to Internal storage, the SD card, or the SIM card. (I guess that's how you'd move them from place to place). So, if you've got the contacts on the SIM card somehow, this looks like a method to get them on the Phone: Export them to somewhere other than the SIM, then import them onto the Phone.
Second: Before you try #1, I'd suggest that you try creating a new, junk contact, you know, with a name like John Smith. Make sure it's on the Phone; then try selecting a different ring tone with it. If that works, then it kinda sounds like your current batch of contacts is on the SIM or something. If not, there's something more serious wrong.
Along the lines of "More Serious": I, for one, am not having problems assigning ring tones; I suspect that the great majority of S8 users are in the same position. If all that is true, then (a) backing up everything using Smart Switch, (b) factory resetting the phone, and (c) putting everything back on the phone, might be in order.
If, on the other hand, your contacts are inadvertently on the SIM somehow, the export/import trick should fix that.
Let us all know what 'ya got.