Hey! I am at a loss.
I am trying to mute my notifications and calls. But, I want them to come in (so I can read them, when I turn on the screen).
Bottom line: I want to read incoming messages in a room, where notifications (sound or vibrate) would be a disturbance, and I wanna see who calls, in case it's important.
Additionally, I don't want to shut off alarms (set with the stock clock app).
Currently I archieve the goal by pressing 'volume down' --> select 'NONE'.
Sadly, that setting doesn't allow alarms.
When I use 'volume down' --> 'IMPORTANT', as soon as I turn on the screen, the phone beeps when a message arrives (in settings, all important disturbances are switched off).
So as I see it, 'IMPORTANT' only shuts off the alarm sound as long as the phone's screen is off.
Please help. It's pretty much a simple search for the equivilant setting in Android 5 for the 4.4-silent-mode. :fingers-crossed:
[EDIT: Sorry for some incorrect translations. 'IMPORTANT' is actually called 'PRIORITY'. There might be others ]
Step 1: Make sure you have no starred contacts. If you don't know what this means, you should be fine you can ignore this.
Step 2: Go to Settings -> Sound & Notifications -> Interruptions -> Change Calls/ messages from to "Starred contacts only".
Step 3: Press the volume up/down button once. Then do this:
Do you think 3rd party applications will be able to use this functionality? I.e WhatsApp etc?
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I really hope custom Roms will include this again!
Maybe this will help you
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Step 1: Make sure you have no starred contacts. If you don't know what this means, you should be fine you can ignore this.
Step 2: Go to Settings -> Sound & Notifications -> Interruptions -> Change Calls/ messages from to "Starred contacts only".
Step 3: Press the volume up/down button once. Then do this:
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Thank you very much. That does in deed work (couldn't make it work for TEXTRA, but for Google Messenger as standard texting app that solution actually helps).
[With TEXTRA right now I have to toggle to vibrate, and then as well set notifications to 'PRIORITY'.]
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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.
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.
My ringer is usually off and I can't keep looking at my screen (e.g., for NoLED) when I'm with patients. I've been unable to get vibration notifications of incoming text messages, although as far as I can tell I've selected everything to do with vibration in Settings.
Surely there's a way to get this that I'm missing.
in the sound settings, select vibrate and choose an option like vibrate only in silent mode or always. in the messages app, choose settings and select vibrate. choose vibrate only in silent mode or always
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in the sound settings, select vibrate and choose an option like vibrate only in silent mode or always. in the messages app, choose settings and select vibrate. choose vibrate only in silent mode or always
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Right. I've done that (Vibrate Always in both Settings and Messaging), yet it doesn't vibrate for anything except calls.
be certain that notifications are enabled in the messaging app.
there was a similar problem on a couple htc phones i had. i used a program from the market called 'sound manager', i believe it was. then i set everything the way i wanted it, did a test and vibrate worked. then when i deleted the sound manager app the settings stuck and my messages still alerted via vibration. good luck.
I'm starting to think this might be a Gingerbread bug, man, cuz I don't get vibrations on text either
I used to think it was CM7 but I have the same problem on stock.
Has anyone figured out how to turn off vibration mode PER CONTACT? I want to be able to have complete silence with certain contacts when they call in other words if the phone is in vibration mode and I have a silent alert for both text and calls if the phone is in vibe mode it will still vibrate. I have went into settings and contacts and everything else but still cannot set individual vibe mode per contact??
NO ONE else??
gthmcty111 said:
Has anyone figured out how to turn off vibration mode PER CONTACT? I want to be able to have complete silence with certain contacts when they call in other words if the phone is in vibration mode and I have a silent alert for both text and calls if the phone is in vibe mode it will still vibrate. I have went into settings and contacts and everything else but still cannot set individual vibe mode per contact??
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Go to contacts, click on contact you want to edit, click on edit and then scroll down, hit more and you get all the options for Ringtone, Message tone, and vibration pattern. Is that what you're looking for?
now if you want a little more control over messaged i personally use Textra as my messaging app, which gives me control to change things per person in the app itself as well and override the stock settings.
nest75068 said:
Go to contacts, click on contact you want to edit, click on edit and then scroll down, hit more and you get all the options for Ringtone, Message tone, and vibration pattern. Is that what you're looking for?
now if you want a little more control over messaged i personally use Textra as my messaging app, which gives me control to change things per person in the app itself as well and override the stock settings.
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Thanks for the suggestion but I have tried that and when you go into edit contact, it does not give you the option to turn off vibe mode per contact and there were other factors with this phone that bugged me so I went back to my 6S plus.
Is it possible to disable the vibrate notification when receiving e-mails (using the stock e-mail app)? I want the visual icon to show up in the notification bar with no sound, just NOT vibrate. I want to keep the vibrate notifications for MMS, calls, etc..just not e-mails. This seems like a simple request but I can't seem to figure it out.
If its anything like the Gmail app then open up settings, inside settings, click on your Address [email protected], Then its inside there...
( I don't use the email app, sorry.. just a thought )
Settings --> General --> Notifications --> Select corresponding account --> UNcheck "Vibration" (unchecked by default for me)
rpenrod23 said:
Settings --> General --> Notifications --> Select corresponding account --> UNcheck "Vibration" (unchecked by default for me)
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Thanks for your response. The "vibration" option is grey so I can't change it. It is off by default anyways, but it still vibrates.
This is driving me crazy. Any recommendations for a different email app?
Open email. Touch 3 dots in upper right hand corner. Touch settings. Open notifications. Select email account . Turn off vibration.
blawkhawk1w said:
Is it possible to disable the vibrate notification when receiving e-mails (using the stock e-mail app)? I want the visual icon to show up in the notification bar with no sound, just NOT vibrate. I want to keep the vibrate notifications for MMS, calls, etc..just not e-mails. This seems like a simple request but I can't seem to figure it out.
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If you're like me and always keep your phone on vibrate, this is actually a far more annoying issue than you would imagine. (The same fix can be used for Google Hangouts.)
If vibrate is not currently enabled under notifications and your phone keeps vibrating at you, it's actually because of your notification sound. If you change the notification sound to "Silent", your phone will no longer vibrate.
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If you're like me and always keep your phone on vibrate, this is actually a far more annoying issue than you would imagine. (The same fix can be used for Google Hangouts.)
If vibrate is not currently enabled under notifications and your phone keeps vibrating at you, it's actually because of your notification sound. If you change the notification sound to "Silent", your phone will no longer vibrate.
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Yes, I always keep my phone on vibrate. If I switch it to silent, wouldn't that disable the vibrate from sms and calls?
No, those will still vibrate. You don't want to switch the ring tone settings, just the notification sound for your email. Go into settings, notifications, and then for the notification sound select "Silent".