What is the best, most full featured Phone/Ringtone app out for Windows Mobile in people's opinions?
I'm looking for something that has the features of Lightwav (http://www.toysoft.ca/lightwav.html)
Specifically I'm looking for:
1) The ability to set unique ringtones (MP3) for by either caller ID or phone number (or contact info)
2) Full screen picture caller ID (either JPEG or GIF)
3) Support for Cover Up Sounds (meaning you can make it sound like you are somewhere else (a bar, work, airport, etc., and the caller hears these sounds in the background during the call).
4) The ability to set different things to happen depending on what mode your phone is in (normal, silent, vibrate, etc.) so that if will automatically send to voicemail or send an SMS if you're on silent mode.
5) Announce incoming calls.
Anyway, please let me know what Windows Mobile apps might fit the bill for some or all of this.
Thank you.
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Hello,
I've had several previous generations of HTC devices, and never really got to grips with Ring Tones / Vibration / Ring Volume. I had high hopes that WM6 would have sorted the mess out by now (my last PDA was WM2003).
What I really want from the phone part of my PDA is to be able to consistently and simply do the following (based on an O2 Orbit 2, UK)
1) Choose my ring Tone (ideally starting a little quietly and then rising in volume)
2) Set the ring Tone to Ring & Vibrate.
3) when in meetings / cinema / church etc. quickly set just to vibrate
4) after the meeting quickly set back to Ring & Vibrate
(Personally I have no use for zero ring volume combined with vibration off.)
5) as a final customisation, I'd like to be able to set different ringtones for different calling numbers.
This is what I've done so far:
First I used the O2 "sounds & notifications" profile on the home screen.
This integrates nicely with the volume slider button on the LHS of the orbit - BUT it appears to have a few problems:
a) you can't choose custom ringtones
b) you can't have a rising ring tone with vibrate
I created a custom rising ringtone by editing a small MP3 so that it starts quietly and rises in volume over about 25 seconds. Placed this in "My Ringtones" directory in "My Documents". Then had to read the phone handbook (always a last resort) to see how to set this mp3 as my ringtone. The answer is that the "my ringtones" tones are not selectable under "sounds & notifications", instead you have to open up the phone dialer app, select menu, options, then you can select your custom ringtone.
Unfortunately, every time you subsequently use "sounds and notifications" to select, for example, the "meeting" profile, or the "silent profile", you lose the custom ringtones - so you can't simply put the phone on vibrate, and then back to normal without then having to go back to the phone dialer, menu options etc.
surely there must be a simple way around this? every non PDA phone I've ever used has this sort of thing down as a straightforward essential tool.
Hopefully someone out there can either show me the obvious step that I'm missing, or point me in the directions of some 3rd party (preferably free) software that manages this task.
Thanks in advance
Roy.
1. The ringtones can be in the windows, windows/Rings, My documents (not subfolder), storage card (root).
2. On the phone settings tab, there is an option to set it to 'Vibrate and Ring'.
3. You can use the HTC Home screen (free, and included in original Polaris, but can be found here) or some other 3rd party app like SPB Phone Suite (not free).
4. Same, or setting up "busy" events in the calendar, and setting the HTC Home screen for atomatic.
5. Check your options on the contact details page.
For the increasing ringtone, there isn't a better workaround then what you did.
I had exactly the same problem; this is my first non-Nokia, and I've always loved the quick access to "profiles".
From a recommendation on here, I now use pocketzenphone, which is fantastic.
I've got a row of five icons under the HTC home, to change profile. Each profile can change so many things, I don't use 20% of it! I just change ringtones and volumes.
It's free to try, and I think £10 or so to buy if you like it.
My TP2 stopped making any notification of incoming text messages or e-mails. I thought that incoming e-mail/ sms was controlled by the sound control, and that when we turned single volume off, we were setting one volume for ringing and another for system.
Silly me, I thought that System was e-mail and SMS message. But it looks like it is only things like low battery. Am I correct?
Where the heck is the control for e-mail volume. Also, I am trying to make distinctive rings for some individual e-mails. I have been able to go into an individual contact, edit contact, and then go to ringtones. But will that give me an individual ringtone when they call, or can I also get an individual alert when they text or e-mail me.
Then net of my problem now is that e-mail reception is silent. Then when I get the sound back I want to know if it is possible to get individual alerts.
Thanks.
Settings>Sound>Advanced>
make sure Events and Program Notifications are checked.. and go into Notofications and go through the pull down menu and make sure new email and new txt and new mms have sounds selected and checked "play sound"
Thanks. I did not make it deep enough into Notifications.
JG
I use my phone as my alarm clock. I keep it chargeing on my bedside table. I do not have a house/landline so this is my only option for communication.
It would be nice if at night, when I'm sleeping, i can set my phone (via app or setting) to a "do not disturb" type state.
In this state, i would basically like all phone calls routed to a special voice mail, that will state to the caller that i am unavailable, and to leave a message. However if it is an emergency, give the caller an option to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring my phone.
Same with Text Messages. I would like all text messages intercepted, and responded to via text in the same fashion, with the same option for the caller to bypass the do not disturb state and actually ring/notify me of the call/text etc.
And of course, put all other notifications to silent mode etc.
Then in the morning, i can check all notifications, phone, text etc, and see what i missed.
I hope i explained this well enough.
I would like to be able to sleep without interruption, but if something important happens, or an emergency happens, i can still be gotten a hold of.
there is an app called silent time lite that I use, it wont route your calls or anything, but between the times you states the phone will go into silent mode (vibrate or not, you decide) you can also have exceptions like if your mother calls at 3 am or something. Its free in the market, i use this app for school, put my schedule in there and it automatically muted my phone for classes
Blueman101 said:
there is an app called silent time lite that I use, it wont route your calls or anything, but between the times you states the phone will go into silent mode (vibrate or not, you decide) you can also have exceptions like if your mother calls at 3 am or something. Its free in the market, i use this app for school, put my schedule in there and it automatically muted my phone for classes
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Hmm, exceptions for contacts eh? Might be the next best thing if i cant find, or someone create an app that'll do the other stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion, ill look into it.
uh... How about... AIRPLANE MODE
I like the stshannon's idea : this kind of "filter" people can "bypass" only for emmergency...I've been loking for that for long time !
@nopenope : the aireplaine mode doesn't allow this kind of redirection I think...
timerriffic is awesome and free. once you've got your profiles all setup you can set what goes off, volume, vibrate etc... I use it to turn off notifications at night but ring my phone at 100% when I'm "on call" for work or 40% when i'm not.
different day settings too, m-f and weekends.
Edit: Just saw the note: No commercial apps allowed Okay so if an admin wants to delete this thread, dunno if you count a hobbiest selling an app for under $3 and providing a nice full featured free version as well as "commercial" but that's your call not mine. I certainly don't mean to offend.
I played around with various call block / night clocks and didn't find anything to do exactly what I wanted so I wrote CallShield. You can download the Lite version that allows you to specify three blocked callers and three important callers, and purchase an unlock license for unlimited for $2.99.
It couples a ring overrider for important calls, a call blocker for calls with blocked callerid or in a block list, and a bedside clock that mutes the phone but allows important callers and texts through. Great for IT staff on call who don't want to be disturbed by anyone but work.
From the description:
Ever wished you could turn off your ringer but still let your loved ones reach you? That's what CallShield does. Maintain a list of "Important" or "Blocked" callers and CallShield will manage your ringer for you.
When your ringer is in vibrate or silent mode and an important person calls or sends you a text it will automatically activate the ringer to notify you of the event, and then revert back to the mode it was previously.
Want any of your friends to be able to text you important things without adding them all to the important list? Just tell them to add an exclamation mark to the text (that's the default.) You can customize the special code to whatever you want and optionally allow those text messages to override your ringer and ring through.
In addition, CallShield includes a bedside clock with sleep mode. Activate sleep mode and your ringer is silenced, but you can optionally allow important calls and texts to override it. This feature is great for anyone who is on call at night but doesn't want bothered by anyone else.
If you place CallShield in sleep mode, as soon as you answer an important call or exit the screen by touch it automatically disables sleep mode so you can't accidentally go through the day with your ringer off.
It's CallShield in the Android Market or at http://www.humanoidapps.com/callshield
I'm looking for an alternative for "RingerX VIP" for iPhone to use with my Android device.
On google play I found a lot of programs, but they are limited for phone calls and messages.
I need to customise the ringtone for one specific mail contact.
At home I have some MyFOx home automation system including smoke - and intrusion detection. When the system detects something an alarm goes off and an email is send to my three e-mail accounts.
But when I'm sleeping or in a meeting the phone is muted, so I will not hear that I receive an alerting email from my MyFOx home automation system.
So I want to customise a ringtone (eventually the vibration also) of an email contact so I can give it a specific ringtone, and that i can configure to also ring when the phone is muted.
So if some one knows a program that can do that, or is able to make one, I would appreciate it :good:
nobody ?
Finally found an application which responds on my demands :good:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.willdev.mailalert