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Program idea/Suggestion: Stop SMS tone/Vibrate with keypress

hi.. i was thinking of something that may be of use regarding stopping SMS tone sound/vibrate via keypress (or assigned key) or screentap..
maybe if we could have a background program that monitors incoming SMS.. when an SMS comes in, it plays the selected sms tone and/or vibrate - but at the same time, captures all buttons (or an assigned key perhaps - like games) and/or screen areas so that it continues to play the song only if any of these actions (button press or tap) are made -in which the background program will stop the tone and or vibration it is playing..
the thing is, there is really no way of stoping any notification because it is handled by the OS itself..
so, maybe one of the initial requirements for this idea to fully work is to disable the native SMS Sound (and vibrate) notification so that the OS will do nothing upon an incoming SMS.. (it can be done so by unchecking the play sound and vibrate boxes in the incoming text message section of the Sounds and Notifications Settings)
so the SMS notification function (sound and vibrate) will be fully handled by the proposed program suggestion..
imagine it like this..
it is like having a background media player with just 1 song in its playlist and that is your SMS alert tone..
it stays in the background, invisible, but it monitors the sms notification database.
if an incoming SMS (or email whatever) is detected, it starts to play the song in the playlist once..
it then takes control over all physical input controls in the device (buttons, scrolls, volume sliders, touchscreen) - ala buttons locking program - in which all of the input controls are assigned as a STOP playing function..
so when you press a button (or tap the screen whatsoever) the program will stop the background music, unlock all buttons to it's normal functions and returns to the background - awaiting another incoming SMS..
another analogy can be made is that it is like an alarm clock program, it stays in the background, but instead of waiting for a time to strike before activating the alarm, it waits for an incoming SMS (or email whatsoever).. and like alarm programs, it will become activated from the background (so that it will become the top/active window/program) and takes control of the hardware buttons and the screentaps (some alarm programs do this so you can stop the alarm with any button or screen tap).. then after dismissing the alarm, it returns to the background and once again wait.. the only difference is, the active window of this program is invisible, meaning, no visible window will be imposed in the screen (only the title bar will change i presume)..
it sounds simple enough.. but i'm no programmer and i don't have any idea if even half of what i said can easily be done..
i just know that these things can be done because such things have already been done or is a part of exsisting programs.
like detecting incoming SMS (can be done by scripting, or have been done by SMS-like programs)
making a program that resides in the background
making a program that is invisible (not detectable by task manager and has no visible window) even if active
and of course music playback and vibration control (aside from media players most of these are alarm programs)
i hope this can help.. and someone can develop a little program from the idea..
thanks..
here is some reference/source code on detecting incoming SMS .. i don't know if it works because i can't read .net and progy stuff.. but i hope it can help
http://twit88.com/blog/2008/03/03/net-detect-incoming-call-or-sms-in-windows-mobile-phone/
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/32305/1954

anyone?
guess programmers are busy.. hehehe..

It's more like nobody's interested.
Though I do kinda miss it when my Nokia stops playing the alert/vibrate when I press a button.. but I'm already ok with it right now.
I just make short alert tones 3 - 5 seconds long.
Ok lang yan pre, mga tao kasi dito ayaw ng may additional background services pa dahil every byte of memory counts. Unless kaya talaga nila baguhin ung notification dll, they won't be interested.

I actually wouldnt mind this as well! Although im not a ppc programmer or anything.
But i cant assign a longer sms tone (The one that goes "Message....Message...Message....") and as it goes longer it slowly goes louder and louder.
Love that sms tone but i cant put it on because i cant stop it by pressing a button - which you could do with normal phones.
Im keen to support and this project if anyone takes it!
(Im glad i wasnt the only person who wanted this!)

thanks for the support guys.. upping this again, hoping that some good programmer can spare some time..
yeah.. i really miss the "normal" phone/notification behavior of other Mobile OS..
the problem is so basic that the big annoyance and inconvinience can't easily be tolerated..
it's been a problem ever since people started using a WM phone (and i've been using WM phones for almost 5 years now)..
they say, just assign shorter tones.. but that is not the point.. doing so is not really a solution.. it is more likely tolerating the problem and adding another problem..
the problem with assigning short SMS tones is that you are limited only to short ones (which is a rarity these days), and most of the times the old school cheesy ones..
cropping and converting tones (mostly from mp3 songs) to shorter ones need a PC (or a special in phone program), which is a hassle all the time.. you can't even download and immediately use tone contents off the web/wap/carrier or use tones sent from other people's phones.. you always need to shorten it up so it won't play infinitely when receiving a text message..
@kabayan da vinci.. mahirap talaga maging iba sa nokia country.. hehe..

up again for someone to notice.. hehe..

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Guess no one really wants this except you and myself ytsejam_....haha...

i don't really get it.. it is an OS/Phone function and SHOULD be given attention.. and should have been so, decades ago.. but people are just plain gaga about skinning and all apps and stuff nowadays are centered on making our WMs into iphones (instead of solving OS problems)..
the basic problems and functions already ignored..
well.. just my 2 cents.. i'm also grateful for the nice skin and plugin apps made in this forum.. and much respect for those people..
and.. please.. no flaming thanks

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Upped, has anyone found an alternative or anything?

Hi, just come across this thread. My Samsung Omnia CAN stop the sound/vibration on incoming SMS by pressing the hang button, dunno if other PPC/PDA's will behave the same way
Btw, my old Nokia 6280 worked exactly the same way, just pressing the hang button

this would be realllly nice.. i just want a normal music ringtone that doesnt have to play for 30 seconds everytime i get a text

sphinxy said:
Guess no one really wants this except you and myself ytsejam_....haha...
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hey i want this too... its kinda irritating me u see. i have msg tone which is about 10seconds i cant wait that long to read a msg hehehe so everytime when the SMS tone i playing i read a msg while its playing the nexttime a msg comes the sound does not play at all. So im supporting this one hoping someone could do something with this..

maybe if there was a way to play 2 tones but the second would be silent n play when u open a message that might stop the first tone

Up 1. I support this idea too. It's kinda irritating when u in some meeting or conferences while u forget to silent up ur phone. The tone will keep ringing until it end. Me myself met this situation b4 and the bad experience still irritating me... XD

ytsejam_ : Based from your handle, you must've wanted to assign a Dream Theater song as your text tone... That's why you thought of this... Hehehe!
BTT: I support this idea, as well...

I hadn´t look the full API searching for a solution for there problem, but I imagine that there´s now way stop the SO playing a sound after he started. What could happen is to turn-off all the SO notifications for SMS and use another program to show this notifications... then in this new program includes an option to stop play the sms tone...
Testing in my HTC Touch... when I use the hardware button for setting volume... it stop vibration and playing sound for calls and sms incoming...

some idea
i noticed that you can stop the long sms alert by navigating to sounds & notifications - sms tone , and press stop button ■. maybe someone can find the source code to relate this touch button press to hardware button in order to stop the tones.

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SMS Notification volume Problem

Friends!
I always keem my system volume low but ring volume at 80%. But when I receive the SMS it Notificatio plays at system volume, not at ring volume. Now how can I recover SMS notification Volume at ringer volume.
Is it so that, SMS alert Volume is System based Volume, not Phone base Volume ?
Previously I was using Photo Contact Pro but I have removed that, after that this issue arise.

I have this problem too..i dont want my System Volume at 100%, but i want to hear my incoming SMS...
Any solutions? Its it possible to put SMS and Mail tones into the Ringtone category?

mehulpatel said:
Friends!
I always keem my system volume low but ring volume at 80%. But when I receive the SMS it Notificatio plays at system volume, not at ring volume. Now how can I recover SMS notification Volume at ringer volume.
Is it so that, SMS alert Volume is System based Volume, not Phone base Volume ?
Previously I was using Photo Contact Pro but I have removed that, after that this issue arise.
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Any help on this would be useful; as stated, it seems that the sms alert is system volume rather than ring volume, is this correct?
Thanks.

I have to +1 this, on my touch hd same thing, it's just plain stupid that MS put the reminders, sms and stuff to system volume!!! I see no point in doiing so, nobody with a fix for that?

Anything on this?

A bit different, but: Is there a programm that forces SMS notifications to vibrate/ring more than one time?

Orbbman said:
A bit different, but: Is there a programm that forces SMS notifications to vibrate/ring more than one time?
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look for pocketMax PhoneAlarm (http://www.pocketmax.net/phoneAlarm.html) and with this skin is looks great on today screen (http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=7145.0)

Not a real solution but a work around is you can increase the volume of the wav file you use for SMS notification.
Its very simple, copy the wav file to your XP desktop (not sure if vista is similar) and right cligh the file and choose record. Then from Effect choose "Increase Volume" and save file and copy back to your phone and use it as you SMS notification. If you need it to sound higher, click "Increase Volume" as many time as you want.

same problem here!
so far, i merged the system and ringer together and kip all of them at 100%, but i have to remember every time I'm listening to some music and decrees the volume to put the volume up again!
there must be a way ... please help

vibration duration?

I'm Running NATF v4.7 on my fuze and everything works great nice and speedy. The only question I have and this really isn't ROM specific I don't think, is there a way to change the duration of the vibrate when you get a new sms? I keep my phone on vibrate most of the day on my desk and the way it is now it's about a 8 second vibrate and its more of a ringtone then a quick alert.
~Thanks

have you looked into the sms notification in sounds and notifications in settings
to see what you can do with the settings there?

I have , all you can do from there is turn vibration on and off but not change how long it will vibrate.

I was also wondering the same thing. I just got my fuze the other day and first thing i did was flash NATF's 4.7 so i thought it was the device.. Do other roms not vibrate as long for a sms?
Also there are registry keys to edit the script of rings and alarms etc.. if we can find the one for sms we can tell if its fixable or not.

theres actually an app for this....its called VA alert and you can find it on blownfuze.org

Thanks for recommending that site, got some interesting apps on it. BUT VAlert (i think thats what you were referring to) only edits the ringtone script.
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For incoming calls you definitely want VAlert1.21 (updated) by this guy which will let you customize down to the millisecond the pulsing patterns of the vibrator so that it gets your attention better than it otherwise would. I don't know if there's a similar thing for text and email but get this and subscribe to the thread for updates.
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I searched through the registry and could not find a script for text messages.
Anyone that has used NATF's 4.7 rom and another rom, is the text vibrate duration the same, or shorter on other roms?

fone_fanatic said:
Thanks for recommending that site, got some interesting apps on it. BUT VAlert (i think thats what you were referring to) only edits the ringtone script.
I searched through the registry and could not find a script for text messages.
Anyone that has used NATF's 4.7 rom and another rom, is the text vibrate duration the same, or shorter on other roms?
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I've used about ∞ roms and so far with all of them they all have a long vibration for if you have the phone on any setting above just vibrate, and then have a three pulse vibration for if you have the phone set on just vibrate. I've also wanted to change this too a different setting, but unfortunately the closest thing thats ever came up is VAlert, and that doesnt deal with SMS . I've also looked in the registry, but I couldn't find anything

if you go to [HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\Ringtone0\] You have the String Value "Script" By default it is av0pw3r [a=activate, v=vibrate, 0, p=play, w=wait, 3 seconds, r=repeat]
So this tells the device when you get a call it should activate the device, vibrate 0 (continuoulsy, if it was 1, it would only vibrate for a second) play the ringtone, wait 3 seconds, then repeat.
I'm pretty sure VAlert is just so you don't have to edit the registry manually.
NOW to our situation, since "Ringtone0" is for incoming call ringtone, maybe we can manually add a new key that refers to the new message sound and manually add a script and see if that works? ANyone have any ideas what the device refers to for new messages?

fone_fanatic said:
if you go to [HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\Ringtone0\] You have the String Value "Script" By default it is av0pw3r [a=activate, v=vibrate, 0, p=play, w=wait, 3 seconds, r=repeat]
So this tells the device when you get a call it should activate the device, vibrate 0 (continuoulsy, if it was 1, it would only vibrate for a second) play the ringtone, wait 3 seconds, then repeat.
I'm pretty sure VAlert is just so you don't have to edit the registry manually.
NOW to our situation, since "Ringtone0" is for incoming call ringtone, maybe we can manually add a new key that refers to the new message sound and manually add a script and see if that works? ANyone have any ideas what the device refers to for new messages?
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Ringtone1? Ringtone2? Maybe the numbers are used to designate different types of incoming data

Volume for notifications

Hi there,
My Mate 8 (NXT-AL10C00B137) came in yesterday, and whow, am I impressed!
There is one thing though that keeps puzzleing me: where is the option to adjust the notifications sound volume??
I can adjust ringtone, alarm, media and phone....
It is my first Huawei (being with Samsung Since first Note 1) so defenitely noob on EMUI. But I have looked all over, can't seem to find it.
Anyone? What am I missing here...
Regards,

notification volume should be bound to one of the others, i.e. ringtone or alarms. i got everything maxxed out and the notifications come in loud and clear

jbmc83 said:
notification volume should be bound to one of the others, i.e. ringtone or alarms. i got everything maxxed out and the notifications come in loud and clear
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Yeah, well that is just my point: I am used to have the Phone's ringtone to max, but the notifications to a low setting.
Somehow, that doesn't seem to be possible on Marshmallow/ EMUI??
At the moment downloading Volume Butler which seems to be able to differentiate between notification and ringtone. Too bad that this seems to be the only possibility!
***EDIT***
This is turning me crazy! Volume Butler app doesn't supply this option either...
Regards,

ah right! well, as long as u can get it working...

jbmc83 said:
ah right! well, as long as u can get it working...
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Well... I don't actually.
This is absolutely bizarre and frustrating!!

oh just saw that! not good...

I know what you mean, but I got around the problem (in a P8 updated to Marshmallow) by doing the following...
I usually only ever use 1 notification tune, so I reduced the volume of its equivalent MP3 file (using the free MP3Gain from 88dB to 75dB) & placed it in the Internal storage>Notifications folder (via a USB cable connected to my PC).
I then went into notifications settings & changed it to the reduced-volume file. Whole operation took a few minutes to do.
Now it sounds lower than the ringtone, just like I need it
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Well, after writing the above I found that using a third-party app solves the issue
I was fiddling about in the All-In-One Toolbar app & downloaded/installed the 'Volume Settings Plugin' from within the app (Toolbox button > Plugins tab), & it works fine now!
From the Plugin, one can also create a shortcut for easier access.
P.S. If you use the phone's main settings (or rocker switch?) to change the ringtone volume, the notification volume also changes accordingly. So, depending on how you need it, have may you go back into the Volume Settings Plugin app to change the notifications volume

Has this been resolved? I notice the same for my Mate 9. Would really like to separate the volume for both Notifications/text tones and ringtones

Dioky said:
Hi there,
My Mate 8 (NXT-AL10C00B137) came in yesterday, and whow, am I impressed!
There is one thing though that keeps puzzleing me: where is the option to adjust the notifications sound volume??
I can adjust ringtone, alarm, media and phone....
It is my first Huawei (being with Samsung Since first Note 1) so defenitely noob on EMUI. But I have looked all over, can't seem to find it.
Anyone? What am I missing here...
Regards,
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1- Install HiSuite
2- Download HiSuite (http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/HiSuite_en/index.html)
3- Install HiSuite on your Computer
4- Connect your phone to HiSuite
5- Go to Update>
6- Now wait for some time to complete the process.
7- Done.
8- Did I help you? A ''thanks :good:'' would be highly appreciated

how do i remove headset icon from huawei mate 8 i cant receive calls

Google Pixle 2 XL Top Speaker Bug APP

Hello guys, iam an Pixel 2 XL owner since 3 weeks. After the first usage of my phone i get a call and i must see that the top speaker isn't making any noise during incoming call and alarm-clock.
So after that i start developing and application which can workaround this problem. Iam an hobby programmer from germany and ich want to show you my application:
My application will work with the top speaker. During an incoming call and alarm-clock my application will enable the top speaker. If you accept the call and activate the "Freisprech-Funktion", i do'nt know how it's called in englisch, the top speaker will work too.
I give my best to include an englisch translation. So iam sorry for this translation but i hope you can understand what i mean.
http s://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loudspeaker

That would probably be "hands-free" in English. Did you post this in the non-XL section on purpose?
I am looking for an application that can check both microphones separatly, if anyone knows an app that can do this I would be grateful to know.

Just tested and it seems to work for ringtones for standard (non-xl) version of Pixel 2. Thank you, this is something I was looking for

To confirm, app works perfectly fine but there is few things that need improvement: App plays ringtones and alarms as media so if media is muted ringtone or alarm won't sound at all. There would have to be mechanism implemented to check ringer volume and set media volume to the same level otherwise phone ringtone volume setting is completely disregarded

OK, i try to check the ringer volume and set the media volume to the same Level.
Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for the english word "hands-free".
Iam from germany

Absolutely brilliant idea ?
After latest update the volume of your main ringtone... Fantastic.
Your contacts ringtone are equally as good!
Well done.

Can anyone please send me the link of this app?

jas0008 said:
Can anyone please send me the link of this app?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loudspeaker

Hey great fix! But I did just notice a bit of a bug, when adding a ringtone to your contacts it adds the phone number all wrong IDK if it's adding the phone number for your region
EXAMPLE : 1234/56-78-90 (this is how the app adds them)
123-456-7890 (this is the way I need the phone numbers to be added)
IDK if there's a fix or an update.
Also not to nitpick but it'd be great if there was an option for the NOTIFICATIONS tones as well.