1. By setting the default ringtone different from your phone's default ringtone, you can have different ringtones for stored contacts and "unknown" (not stored) contacts. * You want different ringtones for private and business contacts, but you do not want to set the ringtone manually each time you add a new contact. * You buy a new phone.
2. Group Ringtone automatically sets the custom ringtones of your contacts based on the group membership of each contact.
3. Group Ringtone also supports a default ringtone for all your contacts.
4. While your contacts are automatically synchronized from your Google account, your ringtones are not.
5. Use Group Ringtone to set up all your ringtones again.
6. So now you can also use Google Contacts to manage your ringtones.
7. Version history and explanation of permissions on the app website.
1. Then (hopefully) your phone uses your default phone ringtone, The app overwrites any individual ringtones you set in your contacts.
2. And actually there's no need to set a ringtone for all of your contacts in a group, just use the Default, and set groups for any unique ringtones.
3. You could use it as telling you it's a possible spam call by assigning all your contacts various ringtones then assign a default ringtone and that one would be one not in your contacts.
4. I want all my contacts to have a distinctive ringtone from non-contacts, so I can easily identify potential spam when the soft default ringtone sounds from someone from my contacts calling me.
5. I was able to create a single group for contacts in the Google contacts, and then use this app to set a ringtone for contacts that is different from the default.
6. App changed ringtone to a custom, later unable to revert back to the default ringtone for all 1000+ contacts.
7. Functionally great I use it so only calls from an existing contract in a group in my contacts will ring my phone.
8. This fixes what I consider to be a major flaw in Google's phone app, the ability to have one thing tone for contacts and another for non-contacts.
9. Using this "Group Ringtone" app set an actual (audible) ringtone for your "My Contacts".
10. Or to stick with the default.Works so far! I already had groups this allows bulk assigning of a ringtone to each group.
11. I finally figured out I have to hit the refresh button (clockwise arrows) to apply the ringtone to my contacts, rather than just when I hit OK.