If you’re like me, the subtle and calming tones of the Samsung Galaxy S5 alarm clock app won’t cut it. If you want to add a bit of your own style or customize the alarm, below we’ll explain how you can set any song you own as a Galaxy S5 wake up sound.
With Samsung Galaxy S5 users, there’s actually a pretty wide range of alarm tones to choose from, many of which are pretty obnoxious and should wake you up from that deadly deep REM sleep. However, some of us need a little more encouragement (or anger) than others, so here’s how to change that.
Of course, there are many alarm clock-specific apps on the Google Play Store, some of which will slowly wake you up, but instead of paying for an app that keeps reading to learn how to pick any song from your own personal library as your morning wake up call.
On most Android devices, using a custom or personal ringtone or song as the alarm is not as easy as you might think. Users have to manually copy a song to a specific ringtone folder and most of the time this still doesn’t work and you have to find the media folder in the root of your device storage.
All of this is probably a bit confusing to the average consumer, and lucky you guys, Samsung has made this extremely easy on the Galaxy S5. As long as you have music stored in the Galaxy S5’s internal storage (or micro SD slot), you’ll be able to choose the song you want in a matter of seconds.
Many users don’t know how easy it is, but it’s a question we’ve gotten enough times about how to do it quickly. Below are screenshots and a few simple steps to use any obnoxious (or peaceful Enya) song you want for the alarm clock on the Galaxy S5.
Instructions
The first step, of course, is to make sure you have music stored on your phone. They’re in the cloud on Google Music and if that doesn’t work, they must be stored locally on your device. This is easily accomplished by plugging your Galaxy S5 into a computer and adding whatever you want.
On a PC, go to My Computer, open your Galaxy S5 and click and drag any music you want to the “Music” folder located on the Galaxy S5. Mac users will need Android File Transfer Select the tool and then click and drag in the same way. After adding music that you think will get you out of bed, follow these steps:
Go to the app tray and select the Clock app, then select the alarm you want (or create a new one) and proceed to the alarm edit screen. From here you will see the time, the days you can tap to sound the alarm, the type of alarm and then the important thing is the “Alarm tone”. See below.
Select “Alarm tone” and then scroll through all the options as shown to the right of the image above. This is where you go to “Add” (highlighted in blue) at the bottom and easily add your own music. Samsung has done this so that Galaxy S5 users can go here and look at every file on the device to find the perfect sound. And when we say perfect, we mean “who took the dogs out” disgusting. Because nobody wants to listen to this and it requires you to get up and shut down and wake up!
Scroll through the Tracks, Albums, Artists and even the Folder list and find the exact song you want. Once you have selected all the songs you want to add to the alarm ringtone list, tap on done in the top right as shown below and you are ready.
This much! Now you’ve successfully added any song from your own personal collection (or the annoying South Park clip) to wake you up when you need that extra push in the morning. As shown in the screenshot to the right above, “Who Left the Dogs” is now unfortunately on my list and I will be ready to throw my phone that wakes me up at 6:00 am next time.
Also, make sure that the “Automatic suggestions” option is selected as shown above when choosing your preferred music. This feature will output the most important or loudest part of the song, rather than just playing the intro or beginning of the song. Who Let the Dogs Out starts badly so it works perfectly, but others may need a little Samsung auto-tweaking.
You’re done and users can now enjoy peaceful music they’ll really enjoy in the morning, or a little more aggressive music to get you up and moving.
