Hi..stupid question but i cannot seem to get my phone to vibrate whenever I receive a text or notification..can someone tell me where i can go to set this?
I tried going into settings, sound and display but i do not have vibrate as a selection in the notification ringtone tab.
Is there an app i can download that allows me to customize my sounds?
thanks!
the settings for notifications are within each messaging application. if you go to your sms application, hit the options button and go into settings. at the bottom you will find the notification settings, including vibrate and a ringtone selection. notifications for each of your messaging apps are configured this way.
johnnyb138 said:
the settings for notifications are within each messaging application. if you go to your sms application, hit the options button and go into settings. at the bottom you will find the notification settings, including vibrate and a ringtone selection. notifications for each of your messaging apps are configured this way.
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Thanks for the help!
i did that, but when i get a txt now, its like a half a second vibrate, nothign long at all, dont even know it vibrated 99% of the time :/
SiL3nTKiLL said:
i did that, but when i get a txt now, its like a half a second vibrate, nothign long at all, dont even know it vibrated 99% of the time :/
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Nothing you can do about that in android. Thats the default android vibrate for notifications. I think it sucks too, its way too short and too soft of a vibration.
What you can do is install SMS Popup. Go into settings on that app and enable notifications on it. It has more options for SMS notifications, like you can set a really long vibration. Just remember to then go into the Android messaging app and turn off notifications there, otherwise you'll get double notifications. This will only help fix the problem for SMS messages. I think android still sucks on incoming notifications for other items like emails, etc.
I REALLY like SMS Popup, its great.
whats the best custom setting. i am trying to set it so it virbates alot and i can feel it
Is it just me or is the volume sound too low for it and no way to change the tone?
Cant find anything specific for it.
Agreed. I can't find any of the standard options - ringtone/vibrate/ringone+vibrate.
Did you find how to fix this?
I keep missing every reminder. It is VERY low, and NOT a tone that I have set for anything.
Start from home screen
Settings
Sound and display
Look in this section and there are places to choose notification tones and also volumes.
scott2ride said:
Start from home screen
Settings
Sound and display
Look in this section and there are places to choose notification tones and also volumes.
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That was the first thing I tried, but thanks anyway. I installed Calendar Snooze, which seems to have solved the problem.
As the first couple posts imply, no settings exist for calendar tone or volume in settings.
scott2ride said:
Start from home screen
Settings
Sound and display
Look in this section and there are places to choose notification tones and also volumes.
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Any updates on this?
I totally rely on the notification sound in the calendar but it is hopeless.
Any way to replace with a better sound?
(I have changed txt notifications but not calendar)
Cheers
I also wish there was an option so select the settings just for calendar reminders as my old WinMo phone had. Specifically the option to play tone / vibrate even when phone is silent. New to an android device but this thing still knocks winmo out of the water.
Just put it in Vibrate mode.
Is it the setting in?
/data/data/com.android.calendar/shared_prefs/com.android.calendar_preferences.xml
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Ok found it. Sorta.
/dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db
In the reminders table is an event tied by event_id to the event in the events table. If you edit the ringtone field corresponding to an event in the reminders table using the full path to the sound file you can change the ringtone for each event.
Two items.had to copy the db, edit the copy and overwrite the old one. I also used an ogg file.
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rahlquist said:
Ok found it. Sorta.
/dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db
In the reminders table is an event tied by event_id to the event in the events table. If you edit the ringtone field corresponding to an event in the reminders table using the full path to the sound file you can change the ringtone for each event.
Two items.had to copy the db, edit the copy and overwrite the old one. I also used an ogg file.
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Oh... is that all! Sounds easy as!!!
In English please
scott2ride said:
Oh... is that all! Sounds easy as!!!
In English please
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Here is how I manually did it. This is probably best left to people very comfortable with linux/unix. ( I needed to be rooted, have root explorer installed, and SqlLiteEditor )
copy /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db to /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar_original_backup.db
copy /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db to /sdcard/calendar.db
open /sdcard/calendar.db
Open Events, scroll around and find the reminder you want., then look all the way to the left column for that line, you will find the event_id field, note the data in that field. Hit back
Open Reminders, find the event_ID from the previous step, tap the line and choose edit. Edit the data in the Ringtone field with the full path to the sound you want to use, i.e. "/sdcard/mysounds/calendar.ogg" (dont type the quotes)
Hit back until you are out of the SQLLiteEditor
copy /sdcard/calendar.db to /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.calendar/calendar.db
I am sure someone will build an app for this eventually.
I downloaded Calendar Snooze from the market. It works great for notifications. You can set your ringtone and you can snooze for a set amount of time
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accrews2001 said:
I downloaded Calendar Snooze from the market. It works great for notifications. You can set your ringtone and you can snooze for a set amount of time
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Sweet... even easier!
Oh, and rahlquist, thanks for the full explanation
A couple questions on Calendar Snooze:
1. Do you have to enable Alarm for each event in order for Calendar Snooze to give a notification?
2. Does Calendar Snooze give notification XX minutes before the event starts?
emmfan said:
A couple questions on Calendar Snooze:
1. Do you have to enable Alarm for each event in order for Calendar Snooze to give a notification?
2. Does Calendar Snooze give notification XX minutes before the event starts?
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Yes you need to enable the alarm when you input the calender event the first time. Though there may be something in settings to pre do it. I'll check.
You can set the notification time to anything you like. 1 min, 5min, 30, 2 hours, 2 days... whatever. And when you snooze it you can set how long the snooze is for, and change it on the fly.
Can also change the reminder sound to anything you want.
@scott2ride Thanks for answering my questions. I usually add events through Google Calendar on computer, so haven't figured out how to enable reminders on phone without manually changing each one individually, which is kind of annoying. I was hoping that Calendar Snooze had a default reminder for all events.
If you go to caledar, settings, reminder settings, select ringtone, you can at least change the tone. There are apparently issues with which calendar you have selected at the time and so forth, this doesn't seem to work smoothly yet. But it is a start. See this for more
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543268
Ive been trying to figure out how to set custom ringtones for txts for individual contacts but havent gotten anything. Can anyone help?
Use handcent sms from the Market. Turn off notifications in your stock messaging app once you've installed it to avoid double notifications. In the thread for the person whose notification tone you want to change, tap the button in the top right (the person with a gear) and choose notification settings, then notification sound.
There's no way to do it through the AOSP contacts or sms app.
thank you but thats for android. I forgot to mention I use the touch pro 2. I appreciate the help tho.
Maybe I'm just missing a setting here, but I can't seem to find where I can set the phone to vibrate and play a tone for an email or SMS text. The tone works, just no vibration. I'm coming from a N1 and had the 'vibrate' set to always. Anyone else notice this?
bgoheen said:
Maybe I'm just missing a setting here, but I can't seem to find where I can set the phone to vibrate and play a tone for an email or SMS text. The tone works, just no vibration. I'm coming from a N1 and had the 'vibrate' set to always. Anyone else notice this?
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If you go into "messaging". go to settings and at the bottom theres a notification setting.
tonyizhurr said:
If you go into "messaging". go to settings and at the bottom theres a notification setting.
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Thanks - I forgot about those settings. What about it vibrating for Gmail messages?
i tried taking screenshots for you but i'm having issues.
if you go into the settings of each of those applications, you can set it there. in email, gmail, and messaging there is a section in the settings called notification where you can set a unique tone and also enable vibrate.
*EDIT- tonyizhurr beat me to it
kingpongg said:
i tried taking screenshots for you but i'm having issues.
if you go into the settings of each of those applications, you can set it there. in email, gmail, and messaging there is a section in the settings called notification where you can set a unique tone and also enable vibrate.
*EDIT- tonyizhurr beat me to it
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I don't remember having to change these settings on my N1, they must have been activated by default. But I digress - thank you for the help!
tonyizhurr said:
If you go into "messaging". go to settings and at the bottom theres a notification setting.
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Thanks. This was driving me crazy. On the G2 you could find the discreet settings for different items listed together in notifications. Now I can assign different sounds.
Just installed the Kang ROM, love it, but when i get a new email or any notification the notification sound goes of and will not stop until i pull down the notification menu, please help. I'm sure i'm looking right at it, ugh....