Why can't I change the ringtone of my contacts?

I am having trouble getting the ringtone for my contacts to change. I have a standard ringtone that I use for everyone that I don't talk to frequently. The contacts in my phone that I talk to frequently I have assigned their own ringtone to differentiate them from other callers. I have been able to assign ringtones to everyone except for 1 of the contacts that I would like to. When I open my contacts I scroll to their listing and open it. Then I hit the menu hard button in the bottom left corner. I will select set ringtone and then scroll to the ringtone I want to use, select it, and hit ok. When that person calls it does not play the ringtone I selected. For some reason it is only playing my text alert sound. Any idea how to fix this? I am running Android 4.1.2.

I figured this out finally.  But I didn't start looking for a fix in 2013 May, I started in April 2015.  So 2 years late with this post but here's how I fixed this problem. 
Delete the contact from your contacts list.  Create a new contact listing for him/her, then assign the new ringtone to the new contact listing.  Worked for me the first time I tried it.  This is such a common fix for un-fixable problems with computers I figured 'What the heck, I'll try it.'.
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