I am stock rooted on my Nexus 5 and have been using the app Silence for silencing notifications during the night. I was missing calls because of the notification and phone volumes being linked, so I recently installed the GravityBox module for Xposed to separate them. After installing it and setting Silence to use individual volumes, the Silence app does not reliably work anymore. Sometimes it seems as though it just doesn't work at all. Other times, the volume slider displays change, but the actual volume is out of sync with the display until I reboot.
I am looking for a replacement app to handle the silencing functionality. GravityBox has a "Quiet Hours" setting that works similarly to the CM11 setting by the same name, but it is a premium feature that I do not have access to. If anyone is using GravityBox to separate volume controls and has a notification silencing app that is working well for you, I would appreciate any suggestions. If anyone is using GravityBox for QuietHours and can verify that it is reliable, that would also be very helpful. I'm considering the unlocker, but at the moment I am using it for exactly one feature, which is to separate the volumes, so it seems a bit silly to spend $4 on it.
Thanks!
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I am stock rooted on my Nexus 5 and have been using the app Silence for silencing notifications during the night. I was missing calls because of the notification and phone volumes being linked, so I recently installed the GravityBox module for Xposed to separate them. After installing it and setting Silence to use individual volumes, the Silence app does not reliably work anymore. Sometimes it seems as though it just doesn't work at all. Other times, the volume slider displays change, but the actual volume is out of sync with the display until I reboot.
I am looking for a replacement app to handle the silencing functionality. GravityBox has a "Quiet Hours" setting that works similarly to the CM11 setting by the same name, but it is a premium feature that I do not have access to. If anyone is using GravityBox to separate volume controls and has a notification silencing app that is working well for you, I would appreciate any suggestions. If anyone is using GravityBox for QuietHours and can verify that it is reliable, that would also be very helpful. I'm considering the unlocker, but at the moment I am using it for exactly one feature, which is to separate the volumes, so it seems a bit silly to spend $4 on it.
Thanks!
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If you aren't against a custom ROM, SlimKat (the 6.3 weekly) has a good quiet hours setup. Have a look.
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I have tried to search for this but haven't really found any solution. On my previous android phones when I go into work or somewhere that I want my phone on vibrate I would just simply hold the Vol Down key until it goes to Vibrate and everything would be silenced (ringtones, notification tones, etc.) but when I got phone calls, text, etc it would vibrate.
For some reason on this phone when I do this it doesn't control the individual "Notification" volume, so I have go in and manually control that myself. I guess for some people this might be useful to manually control them individually but to just quickly silence the normal things like ringtones & notifications. For me personally it's quite annoying to have to deal with them on an individual basis.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help me out on this!
I'm also curious about this. I do the same thing. I put my phone on vibrate when I get to work which silences the ringer but if I do something else (I often play ads in Viggle for bonus points) that volume is untouched and must be silenced on its own...
I'm using CM10 currently. Not sure if this differs between roms.
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Is there a settings / sound / volumes / link ringtone and notifications check box?
I haven't had either issue. If mine is on vibrate that's all it does, if silenced it's all silenced. Hmm.
Have you guys tried using a widget or the notification toggle?
Romman0 said:
Is there a settings / sound / volumes / link ringtone and notifications check box?
I haven't had either issue. If mine is on vibrate that's all it does, if silenced it's all silenced. Hmm.
Have you guys tried using a widget or the notification toggle?
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Thanks Romman0! That option is not available, but just your keyword of "link" enabled me to find an app that does exactly what I needed! :good:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.notquiteinsane.icsvolume&hl=en
Hope this helps someone else!
Romman0 said:
Is there a settings / sound / volumes / link ringtone and notifications check box?
I haven't had either issue. If mine is on vibrate that's all it does, if silenced it's all silenced. Hmm.
Have you guys tried using a widget or the notification toggle?
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There is a setting in Cm10 that links ringtone and notifications
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Would anyone be interested in a widget for this? I could get right onto developing it if there's a demand for it.
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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?
I have an OPO 3 and I was wondering if there's a possibility to turn off the notification sound for all app, but I would like to retain ringtone sound as well as vibration.
Normally on Samsung S6, there's a possibility to do this when you press the volume rocker key.
I am rooted and have Xposed installed. I tried Ringer & Notification Volume unlink xposed module but that doesn't seem to work.
This is something that I am missing very badly, its tragic that google didn't encompass this feature by default.
Is there an alternate solution? I do not want to disable it per app basis but rather on the system level.
Spaniard89 said:
I have an OPO 3 and I was wondering if there's a possibility to turn off the notification sound for all app, but I would like to retain ringtone sound as well as vibration.
Normally on Samsung S6, there's a possibility to do this when you press the volume rocker key.
I am rooted and have Xposed installed. I tried Ringer & Notification Volume unlink xposed module but that doesn't seem to work.
This is something that I am missing very badly, its tragic that google didn't encompass this feature by default.
Is there an alternate solution? I do not want to disable it per app basis but rather on the system level.
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Put notification slider in priority mode and configure only calls in slider priority mode menu. They will shut up all notifications except calls.
jocaboss said:
Put notification slider in priority mode and configure only calls in slider priority mode menu. They will shut up all notifications except calls.
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Well that does the work but it also switches off the vibration. I want vibration for notification and calls to be enabled.
I don't know how then. Try custom slider mod from @weaton. It's very useful but i don't know if there's present this feature.
The way I do it is, to set notification tone to "none"
at a system level.
I have 2 apps installed, WhatsApp and Ring Doorbell that are not giving me sound notifications. For me the volume on this device is not very loud. I work in a noisy environment and need loud volume. My last phone (Note 5) I did that sound mod changing the volume xml file and used very loud notification sounds (mp3) and it was perfect. So I took those sound files from the Note and put them into the Mi 10 Ultra in Ringtones folder and set them. Since then I get no sound notifications.
I did some digging and found an app 'Hidden Settings for MIUI' and set it to 'play sounds', but that didn't fix the issue either. I'm completely new to MIUI and am all out of ideas. Its strange, but when I open the phone, the WhatsApp notification sound beeps to let me know I have a message, but I have to open the phone, if its sitting in my pocket I get no notification. Ring Doorbell is not working at all as far as notifications go. Nothing. If someone who knows MIUI could give me some help it would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: shouldn't have wasted my time
That's it for me. SIM out and back to my Note 5. Great phone but the software is atrocious, if I had of known the nightmare this would be I wouldn't have bought this phone. So now it goes back into its box where it will stay, 6 months 1 year I don't care, until there is an alternative to using this absolute mess that MIUI is. A real shame, but something as simple as a couple of apps really is the deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll sell it? Global ROM? Who knows ....but for now its a useless device that can't even run a couple of apps? That is as bad as it gets. Its privacy settings are the worst I have ever seen. Disguised as 'protecting you' but in reality its the other way around. If I wanted to be locked out and locked in and locked down I would have bought an Apple iPhone. Xiaomi makes good phones, but their MIUI software is the worst I have ever seen. I would not recommend anyone buy this device.
I actually was facing this problem and found out a fix. You just have to turn vibration on. For some reason some apps don't make a sound if it doesn't have vibration on for notifications.
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I have 2 apps installed, WhatsApp and Ring Doorbell that are not giving me sound notifications. For me the volume on this device is not very loud. I work in a noisy environment and need loud volume. My last phone (Note 5) I did that sound mod changing the volume xml file and used very loud notification sounds (mp3) and it was perfect. So I took those sound files from the Note and put them into the Mi 10 Ultra in Ringtones folder and set them. Since then I get no sound notifications.
I did some digging and found an app 'Hidden Settings for MIUI' and set it to 'play sounds', but that didn't fix the issue either. I'm completely new to MIUI and am all out of ideas. Its strange, but when I open the phone, the WhatsApp notification sound beeps to let me know I have a message, but I have to open the phone, if its sitting in my pocket I get no notification. Ring Doorbell is not working at all as far as notifications go. Nothing. If someone who knows MIUI could give me some help it would be greatly appreciated.
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I have Ring doorbell and Whatsapp working (sort of) as sometimes they are delayed.
I had to change settings/notifications/ring and set rules for notification as important and also make sure all notification settings are on
Then fo to settings/apps/manage apps/ring and make sure Autostart is on and set permissions to make sure the bottom 4 are set to green ticked. Then make sure restrict data usage set to WLAN and Mobile data and then set Battery Saver to No restrictions.
Hopefully it will work after that. Do similar things to other apps that may not be making notifications correctly.
PS I'm using China ROM
So I had this issue and figured out a sure way to get sound notifications working.
You just have to turn vibration on in the subtype of notification for said specific app. If you don't want vibration on all notifications for that specific app turn it off otherwise.
Here is the thing that helped me with the same notification issue! Just google "xiaomi mi 10 ultra notifications" and in the top 5 links you'll probably find an article from:
theunpopulartraveller. It explains the settings, and they need to be accessed by pressing and holding the app icon ^ app info.
Don't give up, try and you'll get the sounds from needed apps back. And ye, actually now I find the way Xiaomi did it much more convenient: I just turned on notifications for 2 apps, and all the rest are silent, while previously I had to turn off all the rest of the apps (much more than 2, definitely) not to get disturbed by all the bull****.
hey everyone,
I noticed a very annoying bug in the new XDA App. If I´m currently using the XDA App, having them as the app that´s currently displayed on top, freshly arriving notifications produce a sound despite DND mode set.
This does not happen when the app is not in foreground.
I tried specific no sound and no vibration for XDA when long pressing an XDA notificatin in the notification bar, but this doesn´t change the issue.
This seems to happen on all my devices. A pixel 4 xl when it was still running A11, now on my pixel 4 xl when it´s running A12.
It has happened on a zenfone 7 pro as well.
Basically I can´t use the XDA app when my device should absolutely stay silent at the moment.
Freak07 said:
hey everyone,
I noticed a very annoying bug in the new XDA App. If I´m currently using the XDA App, having them as the app that´s currently displayed on top, freshly arriving notifications produce a sound despite DND mode set.
This does not happen when the app is not in foreground.
I tried specific no sound and no vibration for XDA when long pressing an XDA notificatin in the notification bar, but this doesn´t change the issue.
This seems to happen on all my devices. A pixel 4 xl when it was still running A11, now on my pixel 4 xl when it´s running A12.
It has happened on a zenfone 7 pro as well.
Basically I can´t use the XDA app when my device should absolutely stay silent at the moment.
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Interesting ... I have mine set to vibrations only (no sounds in Android settings). And this seems to work for me.
I can feel the vibration but do not hear a sound when new notifications are arriving - even if I am in the xda app (in foreground).
But I will check again.
On my system (SM-G973F, stock Samsung Android 11 with OneUI 3.1) I hear no notification sound when I disable sounds (i.e. set to vibration only) in system settings.
Maybe it is different when using the do not disturb mode/settings.
@Freak07 : Have you checked DND settings, exceptions and app permissions?
There is also an app permission called "do not disturb" ... not sure what it means.
And can you test if the system toggles for disabling all sounds works for you as well?
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Interesting ... I have mine set to vibrations only (no sounds in Android settings). And this seems to work for me.
I can feel the vibration but do not hear a sound when new notifications are arriving - even if I am in the xda app (in foreground).
But I will check again.
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It_ler said:
On my system (SM-G973F, stock Samsung Android 11 with OneUI 3.1) I hear no notification sound when I disable sounds (i.e. set to vibration only) in system settings.
Maybe it is different when using the do not disturb mode/settings.
@Freak07 : Have you checked DND settings, exceptions and app permissions?
There is also an app permission called "do not disturb" ... not sure what it means.
And can you test if the system toggles for disabling all sounds works for you as well?
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Unfortunately disabling sounds completely is not an option for me, as I want calls to go through for example.
And yes I have DND mode setup with some custom "rules" depending if it´s night or daytime.
It might be that the XDA-App isn´t "classified" as a normal messaging app when it´s in foreground.
See the attached screenshots, but the only app that is allowed to interrupt is digital wellbeing, the people category only has "calls" allowed, and alarms and other interruptions has alarms, media sounds, reminder and calendar events allowed.
No messenger or any other notification does make a sound. Neither does the XDA-App produce a notification sound when it´s either closed or running in background. But as soon as the app is open and I get a notification it produces the notifcation sound.
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Freak07 said:
Unfortunately disabling sounds completely is not an option for me, as I want calls to go through for example.
And yes I have DND mode setup with some custom "rules" depending if it´s night or daytime.
It might be that the XDA-App isn´t "classified" as a normal messaging app when it´s in foreground.
See the attached screenshots, but the only app that is allowed to interrupt is digital wellbeing, the people category only has "calls" allowed, and alarms and other interruptions has alarms, media sounds, reminder and calendar events allowed.
No messenger or any other notification does make a sound. Neither does the XDA-App produce a notification sound when it´s either closed or running in background. But as soon as the app is open and I get a notification it produces the notifcation sound.
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Yeah ... maybe classified as "Alarm" or "Media sound"
Hello, I think I have successfully recreated this issue. When setting notifications from XDA to silent, they still make a sound when the app is in use. I will log this bug for a fix, Thanks!
Can confirm. I do not have DND setup at all, but still when app is in foreground and a new alert/notification is received, i get the sound (without the noti. displaying in QS.).
Not a bad behaviour in itself but can be disturbing especially during DND period.
A better behaviour is displaying notification withoud sound when DND is on.