Fairphone3+ all ringtones disappeared

Hey,

I hope this is the right place for this technical question.

Problem

At 23. Nov. 2020 my FP3+ suddenly only plays a simple bell on incoming calls.
Inside the system menu there are no ringtones available for selection. Also notification tones cannot be selected anymore. Only a number is displayed.

How can this suddenly happen?
Did anyone had a similar issue?

System

  • FP3 with upgraded front and rear cameras
  • Reset to factory default some weeks ago
  • SD card
  • Build number: 8901.3.A.0054.20200929
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Is it formatted as internal/phone storage? If yes, reformat it as external storage and try again, it is known that formatting as internal storage causes issues.

Otherwise, a manual reinstallation of the OS might be needed…
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048050332-Manually-install-Fairphone-OS-on-FP3-FP3-

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The SD Card ist formatted as external storage.
The reason for the factory reset some weeks ago was an SD card, formatted as internal storage.
Factory reset cost me over 1 day of reconfiguration - nightmare…

Exactly the same strange thing happened to me yesterday (23. Nov. 2020). My configuration is the same as @Torohpal s is - but I use the FP3 (w/o +). And yes, my SD-card is external storage too and never was formatted “internal”.
The lack of ringtones effected my alarm clock too - I nearly overslept yesterday! I downloaded and activated a single alarm tone last night to get up in time today.
What’s going on there?