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Ring Tones - frustration. Help / advice please

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.

Programmatic volume control

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with controlling the ringer programmatically.
I've got a program where I want to turn off the ringer but if high priority calls come in allow the phone to ring. I've got the code working that changes the volume properly (using waveOutSetVolume) and have the code to identify the incomming call [SystemState.GetValue(SystemProperty.PhoneIncomingCallerNumber)]. The problem I'm having is that when I get the call and turn on the volume (can see the icon change from mute to enabled), the phone still doesn't ring. I assume it's because the phone app was in silent mode at the time.
I could play the sound myself (assuming I can find the current ring tone), but I don't want to have to manage them answering the phone and stopping it. So, is there a way to have the phone app actually ring correctly.
Thanks in advance

I'm not sure why this was moved from Development and Hacking to General Questions. I'll try to give a little more detail.
I'm writing a .NET Compact Framework application. This application is controlling the volume of the phone (HTC Touch Pro right now, but will expand to others). I am currently using the waveOutSetVolume function (via P/Invoke) to set the phone to silent (Volume = 0). However, if certain high priority calls are identified, I am setting the volume back to the original settings.
The problem is that even though I have restored the volume (and can verify that the volume has been set), the phone does not begin ringing since the call is already ringing. My assumption is that some system event has been missed or ignored. I would really like to reissue that system event so that all of the "work" is still performed by the phone application and not by my application. If the system is managing the ringing, I won't have to worry about whether they answered it or ignored it, just that I let it ring through.
Pseudocode (only relevant pieces):
Main:
CurrentVolume = waveOutGetVolume()
waveOutSetVolume(0)
SystemState.PhoneCallIncomming.Changed += IncommingCall_Handler
IncommingCall_Handler:
IncommingCall = SystemState.GetValue(SystemProperty.PhoneIncommingCallerNumber)
if(IncommingCall.Equals(@"1 (888) 555-1212")
{
waveOutSetVolume(CurrentVolume); //This line should make the phone ring but it doesn't.
}

Universal, System-wise Vibration Control that is Integrated into Volume Control

Hello folks,
I'm currently having this concern for my Nexus 5, running Franco's Kernel and Power toggle for sound profile switch, i.e. no sound - vib - sound only - sound+vib.
However, I noticed that switching sound profile using Power Toggle only applies to limited apps. For example, the ringer of the phone is of course under control by this toggle. However, I noticed that this toggle fails to control the vibration behavior of other apps such as Gmail and WeChat. I'm sure there are more examples but these two apps are of my daily use so I noticed immediately. To clarify, I'm talking about the situation when the phone would still vibrate on incoming emails in Gmail, even though I toggled to no sound or sound only profile in Power Toggle. It looks like this has nothing to do with Power Toggle because Android simply handles vibration behavior on a per-app basis.
For this reason, I am looking for a solution to handle the vibration behavior of the phone on a universal basis. I'm trying to achieve the behavior of the phone that is similar to iPhone (excuse me), where I can completely kill the vibration of the phone on one click (or toggle of the hardware button). iPhone 4 was my last iPhone but this simple "kill all vibration" feature is still so good to me.
The only thing I find now is to tweak vibration strength within the Franco Kernel settings. But we all know it's not an on-the-fly operation. I have to go into FKU app, hit Kernel Settings, and enter 0 for vibration amp. I wonder if there is any app that can integrate this operation into sound profile toggle, so when I toggle it into "no sound" or "sound only" mode, the vibration amp is automatically set to 0.
I know this sounds like a hassle but I really cannot think of another way of implementation, because it looks like Android's vibration is not universally controlled from the start? Correct me if I'm wrong, as I have no idea of coding or anything. Meanwhile, if what I guessed is true, it looks like the only viable solution is to find an app or widget that toggles between sound profiles while being able to set vibration amp to 0 through tweaking the Franco Kernel.
Thanks for your help!

Anyone? No one is annoyed by vibration when you want to set your phone completely silent?

How do you mute Media volume with the rest of the audio sliders?

I have the T-mobile S7.
Ever since I got my S7 when I have my phone on silent or vibrate, when an email comes in with my Gmail the notification sound plays. I have work email on my phone, but those new emails don't play through when on silent. Some other notifications also play through. I think from Google Hangouts and TXT messages. And I think Visual Voicemail notifications.
I can't seem to find anyone talking about this in my research. I have had several OTA updates from T-mobile and the issue is still there. I can't seem to figure out why some things have notifications that sound when the phone is in silent and vibrate mode. I have never had a phone do this before.
UPDATE: 2016.04.10
I still have the issue. I attached a screenshot of what is going on. The Media volume slider is not muting when I switch to Vibrate or Silent modes. The phone has had several OTA updates since I bought it and this still doesn't get fixed. I have the Moto G 3rd gen with Marshmallow as well and it doesn't have this issue. never had a phone with this issue. I am getting really tired of the work around, which is to manually mute and unmute the Media volume which takes several steps each.

I have two S7's and both have this issue.

Also, please don't suggestion the Do Not Disturb feature. Unless there is a way to have a simple toggle on and off of that feature with a pre-set of Total Silence, that solution does not help. So insane that silent mode is NOT silent!

Looks like I can toggle the DND shortcut and have moved it near the Mute/Sound/Vibrate button. Set DND to Total Silence. But still researching to see if the settings I use in the toggle affect the scheduled DND settings. As I only want Total Silence with the toggle, but at night I want my custom DND settings via the Scheduled DND.

Use macrodroid, e-robot or any other tasker-like app.
For MacroDroid, this particular macro does NOT require root:
1) Trigger volume button down, continue
2) Action Set music volume to media slider value 0
3) Constraint ringer volume is silent or vibrating
The above works ONLY when you use the volume down button. When the ringer volume reaches 0, it will also zero the media volume. It won't work if you use the Sound mode to change the ringer to silent or vibrate. You can program another macro to do the un-mute as well.
There are also other ways, such as through macro that is triggered by screen off, and change the media volume to 0 using the constraint of ringer volume being 0. This will work with Sound mode or DND, just not not immediately but when the screen turns off.

Sorry, I am looking for a stock method to this issue. Otherwise I think the general forum area would be a better place for me to ask about 3rd party apps. Right now I am still testing the DND options now that I see that I can toggle DND from the pulldown without having to choose DND options each time.

Darn it! DND is useless for this issue. If I leave the Sound toggle alone and on Sound, the DND does not affect things like unlock sound, key sounds, etc. etc. Silences calls and alarms, but the "total silence" option is NOT total silence. So I am still looking for a stock way to toggle mute and unmute of the entire sound system.

I just purchased a Note S8 and I'm having the same problem. There needs to be a simple and instant mute button so that if you need to mute in a hurry you can. If I am not overlooking it, it's ridiculous that they don't have them on these phones. I am used to using a Motorola and they always have had an easy way to quickly turn the sound off of my phone. The only way with this one is to hold down on the volume button and with a case it makes it even more difficult. I guess I'll just sit on it. $1000. Right.

del

Yeah, it's crazy. I now have 7.0.1 on my S7 and still no quick mute toggle with stock Android. And all my previous Android phones had a mute function that muted everything. Holding the volume button down does not mute all sounds. You have to press up or down, then mute the first slider which mutes all but Media, and then mute the media slider. THEN it's full silent. But I don't understand why it doesn't mute ALL sliders with 1 toggle via stock like it did on other phones.

the issue is still there on Galaxy S9....so freakin annoying

@sdho , yeah, it's insane! Android Oreo 8.x and we still don't have the simple mute function we had with much older versions of Android! By default muting should mute the Media slider too! If people want to only mute other sliders, THAT is what should then require the 2nd shade expansion to pick individual sliders. But 1 touch mute and vol down all the way, should mute ALL sliders by default.
I don't understand the programming decision to make the default the way it is!
PS: I now have the S9 Plus since launch.

Solved!
Just downloaded "Media Mute". Solved everything right away.

Thanks Choobaka, I now have Android Oreo 8.x with the Galaxy S9 Plus and still no improvement to stock 1 -swipe and touch mute. But thanks to your suggestion, while this can't be solved stock. At least it can now be solved without root and without any odd permissions. Thanks a ton. Trying it out now. So far it looks like that will do the trick for me.

Modding alert slider to go into Do Not Disturb mode?

Hi everyone,
I'm finding that the standard alert slider behaviour (ring / vibrate / silent) is not useful, as it's hard for me to go into Do Not Disturb mode. In the old OnePlus models this was standard, but now it's not available. I can't quite understand that, as DND is objectively better than Silent since it can do everything Silent can do plus more configurability. Anyways...
Is there any way to mod this behaviour back into the phone? I.e. is there a custom ROM or otherwise that supports modifying the alert slider behaviour? Any other ways? I read about using Tasker to read the state of three_Key_mode but this doesn't seem to work for me.
Thanks in advance,
Douglas

OK, so with a bit of playing around in Tasker, I finally got this working.
The Custom Setting to look for is the "oplus_mode_ringer" which, when set to 0, indicates that you have the slider set to Silent.
Then in your task, you first need to set DND. Then you need to set mode_ringer to 2 and alert_slider_mode to 3 if you want to retain the ringing.