Hi guys, I've been trying to manage volume(s) on this device.
The tricky part is that I wish it to have different volumes for different things. Notifications and ringtones are, on the contrary, managed together.
My aim is to have the phone completely silent except for incoming calls (and videos, when I play them, of course).
This includes the boot animation and its jingling.
I've tried differents methods:
- set to 0 the Media volumes (helps with some notifications, but not with random sounds and boot animation)
- third-party apps: 1) Sound Profile, 2) Audio Profile, 3) Volume Butler, 4) Volume Manager (they either fail in setting different volumes or are unable to use a custom ringtone);
- using an "empty" mp3 for notifications (but this doesn't help with boot animation and for custom sound notifications in apps, unless you can change it).
None of the above was successful.
Speaking of the camera click, I simply renamed the file to prevent it from reproducing. That easily solved my problem.
Any further suggestion?
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Does anyone know if there are some software that gives me the possibility to define different sound setups and store them for quick access and change?
If I go into a meeting I want to change the ring tone and the sms notification sound to something that no one else will pay attention to. To do this change manualy takes too long when the meeting has started. It has to be done quick and unintrusive.
The ideal way to solve this is (in my opinon) to have icons on the today screen, one icon for each sound setup. One tap to change both ringtone and sms sound.
Regards
Asbjørn Søbye
I am using MortScript for this, here is how I do it.
I have different ringtones in a folder A. The ringtones that are assigned to an event are in a different folder B.
For every sound setup, I have a different script; this script copies files from the folder A and overwrites the assigned soundfiles in folder B.
Furthermore, the script also changes the vibrate function using a registry setting and shows an indication on the todayscreen (with rlToday or a registry hack, both work but I'm not sure which I like best).
Changing to a different soundsetup is then a matter of launching the apropriate script.
Jorg
I use Pocket Zen Phone for this purpose.
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.
Ok, I need a little help, as this problem has me stumped.
I wanted to set a custom notification sound, so I copied 2 new mp3 files to /sdcard/media/audio/notifications. Normally this should allow me to select those sounds as notification sounds from the sound settings, but this time it didn't work (I have done it successfully before). I then proceeded to open the files in ES File Explorer, selected Play and Set as Ringtone, Notification Tone. That worked and the sound was set as the default notification tone. BUT, here's the kicker, when I now go to settings - Sound - Notification Sound, on the screen where you can set the Default notification, Messages, Calendar, Mail and Notice, I am no longer able to select any tones for each of these categories. When I go into Default notification, where I used to get a list of notification sounds, there is no list anymore, and the Apply button is greyed out. Same with the other notification categories.
I've tried selecting a different notification sound through ES File Explorer, and that changed the Default again, but I still can't get a list to load in the settings screen. I've already tried clearing data and defaults for the ES File Explorer, Music and Android System under Apps in settings, but that didn't fix it either. I've rebooted just to make sure it wouldn't correct itself, no luck. I'm stuck. I would like to have the ability again to set these different categories of notification sounds. Can anyone help?
I ended up restoring a backup to fix this issue. Problem solved.
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.
In Nokia phone, there used to be an option named "Profile" in settings of the phone, where there are various user-defined sound presets such as Sound, Vibration, Full Silent etc. From there it is very easy to change sound profiles and it is effective to activate a profile for a limited amount of time. As I often forget about deactivating Silent profile after activating it, I enjoy the feature named "Timed" by which a profile (such as - silent) can be activated for a limited time (e.g - for 1 hour). On Nokia 8000 (KaiOS), there is no option given like this. To change sound and vibration, every time user needs to change the sound and vibration manually. Is there any KaiOS app or any other way by which the sound profiles can be created and be activated for a limited amount of time?