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Atom O2 Plus Bug ? Need confirmation from other users.

I have noticed this bug on my Atom with O2 Plus and need confirmation from other users before I try to feedback to their support.
I have found that my Atom intermittently does not sound Notifications and Alarms. Couldn't figure why for awhile then I discovered this workaround :
1.
Using O2 Plus, switch profile to Silent. You will notice speaker icon on the top bar shows muted.
2.
Switch profile back to Normal. The icon at the top bar now shows the speaker as ON (but actually notifications and remoinders will now fail i.e. not sounding)
3.
Go to Settings / Sounds & Notifications / Notifications
On the Event drop down, select reminders
4.
You will see your notification alarm sound with a "test play" button.
Hit the test play button a couple of times, then wait a few seconds.
5.
You will mysteriously see the speaker status in the top bar change to MUTE !!! Click on it, turn speaker back on, close all the windows. Your notifications will now sound correctly at the appointed alarms and calendar times.
It seems the O2 Plus profile when switching back from silent to normal does not do a full job in turning on the notification sounds, just system sound or something like that.
If you carry out this procedure everytime you switch your profile you will no longer have missing / silent notifications !
Can other users confirm this bug / phenomenon ?
Anyone able to write a simple proggy or script to do the above procedure automatically ?

Haven't noticed it before, and I haven't missed any notifications, but you're right.

yeah i noticed this!!!THANKS FOR THE FIX!

just to add.besides notifications, you also lose screen taps when switching from different profiles.this apparently is not fixed by your solution.

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.

[Q] Android 5.0 Whatsapp issue

Hi guys,
I flashed the factory image today and am quite pleased with it up to now, but there are 2 issues that really annoy me:
1. When sending messages in whatsapp, I don't get that pop sound it used to make.. it just sends the message and I can hear a very short strange and faint sound. other than that all regular notification are fine.
2. I'm sure this has been discussed thoroughly but what's the deal with removing silent\vibrate from the power menu options? I can't really remember how it used to be in the clean android 4.x since I was using xposed with gravityBox and I set the volume to control notifications+system sounds. aaaaaanyway, there is now way now to put the phone on silent COMPLETELY without going into settings>sounds and lowering the media volume separately.. sucks..

1: Complain to the app dev to update the app
2: Complain to Google
Next!

1. Same here. I guess the "pop" sound file has a format which worked fine on KitKat and now doesn't in Lollipop. => WhatsApp needs an update.
2. The notification system in Lollipop was profounld changed in comparison to KitKat. KitKat had sound, sound+vib, vib, none. Now, Lollipop distinguishes wheather you want all, some or no notification sounds. If you don't want any vibration, select "none" in the popup after pressing the volume rocker of the Nexus. You will receive everything, but you will not be bothered by any sound (also no vibration). If you just want some "importand" notifications with their sounds or vibration, selsect it in the same popup! What exactly is important and which calls you will receive is configured in the menu.
In short:
No vib, no sound: "None"
Vib only: "All" with decreased Volume down to vibration

BAZZI_US said:
1. Same here. I guess the "pop" sound file has a format which worked fine on KitKat and now doesn't in Lollipop. => WhatsApp needs an update.
2. The notification system in Lollipop was profounld changed in comparison to KitKat. KitKat had sound, sound+vib, vib, none. Now, Lollipop distinguishes wheather you want all, some or no notification sounds. If you don't want any vibration, select "none" in the popup after pressing the volume rocker of the Nexus. You will receive everything, but you will not be bothered by any sound (also no vibration). If you just want some "importand" notifications with their sounds or vibration, selsect it in the same popup! What exactly is important and which calls you will receive is configured in the menu.
In short:
No vib, no sound: "None"
Vib only: "All" with decreased Volume down to vibration
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Thanks for the reply mate, but you are quite wrong regarding the sound profiles, if you choose "none", media volume is not affected. I'll give you a scenario, say I'm in my room, and in the next room my baby boy is sleeping, I choose "none", then I go to watch a YouTube video, the video will have normal volume, my boy will wake up and my wife will beat me with whatever is the closest blunt object. While before, I had the option to silence media volume manually by pressing the volume rocker (or all together using xposed but that's not the case here), now in order to silence media volume you need to go into settings>sounds and mute it. What I'm saying is that "none" is not really complete silence, as it should be.

Alarm/Timer Ringtones

I don't seem to be able to add 3rd party Clock/Timer Ringtones to the A9. I've tried to place the mp3 ringtone files at different places: /sdcard/alarms, /sdcard/ringtones, /sdcard/notifications. The ringtones do show up for Phone ringtone but NOT for Clock/Timer. I've also granted Storage permission for the Clock app. Please help!

toiday said:
I don't seem to be able to add 3rd party Clock/Timer Ringtones to the A9. I've tried to place the mp3 ringtone files at different places: /sdcard/alarms, /sdcard/ringtones, /sdcard/notifications. The ringtones do show up for Phone ringtone but NOT for Clock/Timer. I've also granted Storage permission for the Clock app. Please help!
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(1) If you would like to have a customized ringtone as a default alarm ringtone, go to Settings/ Sound & notification/ Alarm, then tap on the plus sign on the top right corner and choose Music. It will show all music files for you to set as a default alarm ringtone.
(2) If you would like to have a customized ringtone as a specific alarm, go to ALARMS tab in HTC Clock app and tap on that specific alarm, then tap on "Alarm sound" and press the plus sign on the top right corner. Finally, the rest is the same as (1).
(3) For timer ringtones, go to TIMER tab in HTC Clock app and tap on the 3 dots on the top right corner, then select "Alarm sound". Finally, the rest is the same as (2).
Please try it. It is fine on my A9 :good:
Hope these help.

gg_man said:
(1) If you would like to have a customized ringtone as a default alarm ringtone, go to Settings/ Sound & notification/ Alarm, then tap on the plus sign on the top right corner and choose Music. It will show all music files for you to set as a default alarm ringtone.
(2) If you would like to have a customized ringtone as a specific alarm, go to ALARMS tab in HTC Clock app and tap on that specific alarm, then tap on "Alarm sound" and press the plus sign on the top right corner. Finally, the rest is the same as (1).
(3) For timer ringtones, go to TIMER tab in HTC Clock app and tap on the 3 dots on the top right corner, then select "Alarm sound". Finally, the rest is the same as (2).
Please try it. It is fine on my A9 :good:
Hope these help.
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That's great! I was using the Google Clock and it doesn't have the "+" sign to add more files. But I used HTC Clock to add my mp3 files then they show up in Google Clock as well. Thanks again!

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

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