It was a common complaint: this device does not vibrate,so how to ensure no missed call during meeting?
With this simple trick you can make it 'vibrate'. This is how to do it.
First, make the voice recorder of your device to record a vibrating sound of another phone.If you don't have another phone,borrow your friend's. You may need to try a few times to get the volume right.
Next, using your voice recorder program itself,set the voice file as your ringtone.
Use start/setting/phone to change the ringtone to your recorded file before a meeting.
The phone will not vibrate, but you will hear the same vibrating sound as other phone.
As for sms and email, change the sound for these events to 'quitest'.
Eaglesteve Your Genius!, I mean such a simple idea, yet soo effective (im sure). Wonder how many users thought about this before... . And I am confident this idea can be manipulated on other devices... Add to wiki!
Besides nowadays no one will flame you at a meeting if they manage to hear the "vibra-sound".
uf.. that's sooo simple!
I guess "nobody" think this before?
Thanks for the idea guru!
At business meeings we found that if we activated a fart machine under someone's chair by remote control attendees were far too polite to mention that they had heard it. Afer all, the others may think that it was them. So I reckon a good alternative would be for you to record some farts (as to how, I leave to your discretion), and then when your phone "rings" nobody except you will hear it. Hope that helps
A PK 4.0 ringtone?
could somebody upload a good vibra-soundfile?
you could always use a silent ringtone goggle 'silent ringtone' or 'mosquito ringtone' its a high pitchnoise (very irratating people wil think your monitor or other is buzzing) and can get higher pitch ones that are inaudiable for those over a certain age perfect for school children and the younger ones with old fogies for bosses
That mosquito ringtones are here:
http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/
Try all the different one to ensure YOU can hear it, otherwise you miss the calls.
More tips on phone etiquette in public
Further to my post on vibrating phone ringtone, I have an extract of an article taken from here
http://ringtone-software-review.toptenreviews.com/cell-phone-etiquette.html
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In public, cell phone violations happen because your phone causes those near you to endure two unwelcome events: extra interruption and extra noise. If you use your phone in ways that counter these two rude factors, you can get away with breaking a few cell phone etiquette norms.
Disguise Your Ringtone
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Instead of using blaring midi tunes to announce your incoming calls, consider camouflage cell phone ringtones. If you can't find the perfect tone, many ringtone software packages can help you record your own socially-acceptable sounds. Such ringtones blend into the background and keep you from being the object of society's scorn. Here are a few favorites:
*Cough or sneeze ringtone—you can even go through the motions for added effect
*Whisper ringtone—no one will be able to tell that it's your pocket doing the whispering
*"Shhhhhh!" ringtone—handy when a normal ringtone would cause others to shush you
*"Ouch!" ringtone—people don't usually scold those who are in pain
*Walking feet ringtone—to remind you to walk away from the crowd before you answer
*Typing ringtone—the gentle rhythm of a keyboard doesn't sound a thing like a cell phone ring, but you'd better use this one only when surrounded by office space
*Tweeting bird or buzzing bee ringtone—instant phone camouflage for outdoor events
You get the idea.
If you're worried that your ear won't catch these subtle ringtones before folks catch on, program the ring to start near-silent, and gradually up the volume. You'll be surprised at how quickly your brain connects the unusual ringtone to your cell phone.
Of course, you can use a silent, vibrating phone ringer whenever ringtones are unwelcome, but clever camouflage ringtones are a novel, fun way to approach social conformity. Just be sure to choose a ringtone disguise appropriate to the setting.
Keep in mind that camouflage ringtones make marvelous cell phone defaults that can save the day when you simply forget to turn your phone off.
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If you want real good quality ringtone, these could be purchased for a small fee. They are professionally recorded with good equipment in sound studios. Else,use your own voice recorder but quality won't be as good.
BTW, the my vibrating sound idea came from myself. I found this article only an hour ago.
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Dear all,
Is it possible to configure my XDA Exec such that the persons ringing me can hear my MP3 ringtone as well ?
Thanks
ringtone
ummm, i don't think that is possible, but here, tmobile US has this thing called caller tunes, where you set your account to play a song instead of the pulsing ringing sound when someone is calling you.
In israel we have the same thing,
In israel we have the same thing,
HOWEVER - technically you could do it:
its like a fax machine when it picks up and hears its not a fax call:
it answers, and other side hears a "still no answer" tone and the fax still rings.
you have to write a program that answers the second the call is recieved, starts an mp3 program with a file, and your phone is on mute,
and upon pressing "send" key un-mutes your phone and stops the music.
just dont forget to tell program to hangup after a minute or so
BUT - you have to check when you are on the phone with some 1 and you play an mp3 on WMP or other player - if the other side hears the music while he's muted.
would be a really good idea !
If all you want to do is let them hear it while talking to them, you could get them on the phone and go into phone settings and click play next to the ringtone. They would hear it by proxy so to speak.
Cya
Stot
You could always learn how to duplicate noises using your mouth. You know, like that dude off Police Academy.
HTH
I had something like that on my old Sony J5 mobile phone from a few years ago, an answerphone built into it onto which you could record any answerphone message you wanted.
It is possible. Had a girlfriend once whose phone did that. T-mobile UK and a one-off fee. Cant remember how much though.
I had it also, was totally crap as I had one hell of a lot of missed calls, people would call, it would start ringing, they'd go "What the f....." and hang up!!
It was useful, you could hear them but they could only hear the soundeffect/answerphone phone message, not the microphone, so you could interrupt it if you wanted to talk to them and if not they believed it was just an answerphone.
MP3 caller tune
Dear all, Thank you all for your comments and suggestions, etc.
What I mean is something just mentioned in this post, called caller tune.
Basically, what I want is: the caller can hear MP3 from my phone instead of that boring "pulsed ringing" before I answer the call.
i dont think that will be possible, surlly thats the phone companies ownership
Of course its possible - answer the phone the second it rings, and hold it near your stereo ;o)
Hi,
Is there any application that will allow me to set a repeat audible alarm that notifies you every X minutes whilst your on the call?
For clarification, the type of beep/tone im looking for is similar to a call waiting beep that you hear when on a call, its un-obtrusive. It's built into my Motorola A1000 (also on SE P900 etc) which uses the Symbian OS and is in the 'Call tracking' menu listed as Audible Timer where you can nominate the time ie 3minutes and then theres a check box to have the audible timer repeat over and over whilst you are on the call.
Its a great feature that i would love to have on a WM6 PPC PE.
Phone Alarm does not do this.
Nice Idea
It Does Seem like a nice Idea.
Could definitely use a application like that.
I'm sure it can be made, if anint already there...
you could also make this request on the pocketmax.net forum. they made the phoneAlarm and Redial (freeware) applications, so I guess it would be very easy for them to include it in one of theire apps.
I was talking to Bruce Jackson from PocketMax back in september about this but he said they couldnt do it because Windows Mobile use 2 separate audio channels, one for the earpiece and the other speaker phone (which is what phone Alarm uses)
I still think is should be possible, seeing that other 'audible in-call tones' like 'call waiting', 'new message tones' as well as 'increase volume beeps' all happen in the ear piece when your on a call.
Who has experience or knows of software that can modify these tones. Thats who would have a better idea how this can be achieved!
I guess having a vibration every minute would thus be very easy to do for Bruce Jackson from PocketMax. I can understand the phone ear loudspeaker is very hard to obtain (I remember recording from this is also impossible for the Wizard since the channels are hardware separated), so a vibration would be better than nothing.
Anyone knows a solution for having audible in-call timer like motorola phones.
Any advance in development community between 2007 and 2009?
Thank you for your answer
I would really want one, its really painful for the entire call just because of that single second.
Hi all,
This is an issue which has been semi bugging me since getting my Touch HD a few months ago.
If I use Touchflo and go into settings for the ring volume, I put the slider right down to '2%'. When a call comes in, it's still very loud indeed.
I've tested so that if I put the volume up to say 80% and call in again, its VERY very loud!
I want it that I can leave my ringer on say 5% or 10% when I'm working so that I can hear the ring tone but not disturb other's who maybe close by.
Also, upon testing, if I change the ring tone type, then when it 'preview plays' the ringtone its nice and quiet, kind of at the level I'd like it to ring. However, when then selecting the ringtone and clicking done, I test with an incoming call and it's much louder.
Am I missing something here? I've never had this issue with any of my previous Xda's/HTC phones.
I had a look in search but nothing seems to show up like this from other posters - could my handset be faulty?
Or, do I need to buy some software which controls this better and offers more profiles than just the 4 standard ones?
Any ideas out there please?!
Cheers! Dennis, West London UK!
I think the volume setting goes by an incremental of 20%. Yeah, at the lowest 20%, it is still quite loud. The default Innovation ring is excessive loud. You can try another one which is not as disturbing at 20% setting
Hi there,
Thanks for the response!
Yes, I had the 'innovation' ringtone set and have now changed it to generic 3 which is 'better' !
Is there any software out there specifically for ringtone generation? maybe I could create ringtones and record them at a 'lower recording level' to acheive a 'low' sounding ringtone on the THD without this 'limitation' I pointed out/experience?
having done a search, I can't quite beleive I'm the only one who seems to have noticed this!
Might have to find those 'funny' ringtones - the Brad Pitt Snatch dialogue " why the **** would i wanna caravan with no ****ing wheels' being my favourite !
Cheers! Dennis! West London UK!
Your not the only one who has this problem. There is a other thread about the music player and the volume there, but the whole TF3D volume is just way too high . Annoys me aswell
Something that works for the vibrant... any suggestions?
um.. search?
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I found a app in the marketplace but its half asses and not very reliable.
i need something like this too. i tried all of the available apps on the market and none of them record both parties, or if they do, it records the person on the other end so low that you can even hear it. I need something like this for court
I recommend the Olympus TP-7 Telephone Recording Device and a good voice recorder. The TP-7 is a mic that goes in your ear. You plug it into the mic plug on the VR, put it in your ear, and hold the phone up to that ear. It will pass the sound from the phone through to your ear and record both sides of the conversation.
I have yet to see a good app for this, and I've been looking for one for Blackberry and Android for a couple of years.
IANAL, but be aware what the laws in your area are regarding recording phone calls and conversations. Also, be mindful of the "chain of evidence". IOW once you record the conversation change NOTHING about that file other than its location. That means that whatever format the file is recorded in (.wav, .ogg, .mp3, etc.) is the format you will present it to the court in.
And while I am truly NOT a lawyer I do work for a company that supplies inmate phone systems to prisons. Every inmate call (other than those to registered lawyer phone numbers) is recorded and admissible as evidence. So it is a subject I am familiar with. However, check with a GOOD lawyer if you have any questions.
They all slightly suck. I tried 4. Every one except Google Voice requires you to use speaker phone for it to work. GV inserts "recording notification" krap into the call.
I've noticed my phone always starts to ring at where I set the volume to and then escalates to be very loud after a few seconds. I didnt see any settings to change this. Is this happening to anybody else?
Is it in your pocket when it does that?
I noticed in the HTC Sense demo video it says if it is in your pocket or purse it will ring loud so you can hear it. I think it has to do with proximity and light sources. If i have it sitting out, it will ring quietly, but it is always loud in my pocket.
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Is it in your pocket when it does that?
I noticed in the HTC Sense demo video it says if it is in your pocket or purse it will ring loud so you can hear it. I think it has to do with proximity and light sources. If i have it sitting out, it will ring quietly, but it is always loud in my pocket.
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Actually yeah. Thats usually when it gets loud. I dont really like that as it gets super loud sometimes. Why wouldnt they have a setting for this?
Any news on this? Because I also find it quite annoying that the ringer is so loud even when I'm sitting in the quiet office...
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Any news on this? Because I also find it quite annoying that the ringer is so loud even when I'm sitting in the quiet office...
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I have the same issue! It happens on ALL Sense ROM's. If I am running AOSP (CM6 or MIUI) it is not an issue. Are there any ways to disable this setting if it is supposed to do so? Mine is on my belt in a case and when I'm in the office it rings way too loud. If the phone is on my desk it rings as I have the volume set.
Actually I found you can disable the loud ringer in settings really easy
Settings --> Sound --> Pocket mode
There's no way to adjust the volume though,
Apparently the Shift has the same issue as my EVO or as Sprint would call it..."feature".
http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=669629#post669629
You would think there was an app out there to override this.
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Actually I found you can disable the loud ringer in settings really easy
Settings --> Sound --> Pocket mode
There's no way to adjust the volume though,
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What device/ROM are you running? There is no setting for Pocket mode under settings -> sound on the stock EVO Shift 4G (at least not on mine). Anyone else find this?
I have a Desire Z with the original ROM (Froyo + Sense)
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I have a Desire Z with the original ROM (Froyo + Sense)
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that setting dont apply to shift
Did a complete wipe 2x using Amon Ra Recovery 2.3 and then flashed a stock image file from HBOOT and updated WiMAX, PRI & NV Radio. The issue was not present on the stock ROM. Wiped the stock ROM and flashed Myn's RLS5.....no more issues. Something was corrupt and enabled the sensor to trigger ring loud (when covered or senses low light) as it is designed to do on the Shift. The EVO does not have Pocket Mode in settings. Whatever the cause.....it is now resolved!
I sent a tweet in the direction of @htc about this yesterday, but they haven't answered. Hopefully we get an update that gives us a 2.x release of sense, not this weird "you have some of the features of new sense but not the whole package." The other feature that I know is there is the one where you can flip the phone over to silence the ring, and in fact, BOTH features are undocumented - the user manual for the shift doesn't mention declining a call by flipping the phone OR the word pocket except in warnings about where not to keep it.
I don't have any hope of a satisfactory answer, though, because in an earlier answer to someone about bugs, they said to submit something at htc.com/support and make sure to mark it a bug report - you can't do that anywhere on the email form and the other two options for support aren't things you "submit." The two times I've contacted them by email were also tremendous disappointments, so... there you go.
Tried to second your post on HTC's support forum but their forum software is misconfigured and my email server is rejecting their mail because it is not a fully-qualified hostname. Meh. Like you, I don't hold out enough hope of a fix to bother with the registration process.
You mentioned flip to silence, but there is actually a setting on the Evo Shift 4G to silence the ringtone when the phone is moved. It's under settings - sounds, and it is "quiet ring on pickup". Since the action of flipping the phone involves moving it, I wonder if you are seeing that setting working when you flip your phone over. My phone stops ringing (if it's not in a pocket) when I pick it up off the table. It doesn't decline the call, it just stops the ringer.
Edit: eh, I made an allowance on my mail server so HTC's misconfigured SMTP server could send my activation message and let me register.
By the way, I posted a workaround on Android Central that works for the way I use the phone. I created a silent ringtone. Then I set the phone to vibrate as well. So in my pocket I feel/hear the vibration but I don't get the ridiculously-loud rings. But I can hear my notifications at normal volume. When the phone is on my desk, the vibration and screen lighting up are enough of an alert for me. Obviously this won't work if you ever keep the phone in a bag or somewhere that you can't hear or feel the vibration, but it works for me as a pocket user.
Three ticks up from silenced on the volume rocker:
Picking the phone up off my desk quiets the ring, flipping it silences the ring. I wonder if turning off quiet ring on pickup will turn off flip to silence... might as well try it.
aaand no it doesn't. Pickup didn't quiet (per the setting now being off) but flip still did silence the ring.
Interesting note: flip-to-silence is actually a silencer; it doesn't decline the call immediately.
http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/112/t/9935.aspx
For anyone else that wants to weigh in on the issue on the official HTC support forum. Maybe they won't ignore us too hard.
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Three ticks up from silenced on the volume rocker:
Picking the phone up off my desk quiets the ring, flipping it silences the ring. I wonder if turning off quiet ring on pickup will turn off flip to silence... might as well try it.
aaand no it doesn't. Pickup didn't quiet (per the setting now being off) but flip still did silence the ring.
Interesting note: flip-to-silence is actually a silencer; it doesn't decline the call immediately.
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Ok, makes sense - since I use a silent ringtone, the "quiet" and "silent" are the same to me, LOL. But yes, it doesn't decline the call.
I actually liked the Touch Pro2 where flipping during a call would turn on the speakerphone. Why can't they keep good features like that instead of forcing this new stuff down our throats with no option to turn it off.
Bump/Update: After two tweets on the issue and an entire week of the post I made sitting on the HTC forums, I have had enough of being ignored and went to the email support option.
I'm not resetting my phone again, so I instead borrowed the New Issue text from Google Code project pages and sent steps to duplicate.
Anybody else that might have this problem is welcome to weigh in; I gave links to this thread and the one over on Android Central in my forum post on HTC, which is linked in the support message I sent.
Another update: Today I received my response; I don't have to reset my phone (yet) and my concern is being escalated to whatever the next level of CS is called.
They say escalated department is first-come, first-served, so it may be a while before I know more.
The problem is that HTC sees this as a feature, not a bug. They market this as a way to hear your phone when it's in a bag. While it makes perfect sense to us end-users to have an option to turn this off, from a lab testing standpoint it's not a priority because the function works as designed. If HTC had really thought this through, they should realize that there are some things phones should never do, and ringing at maximum volume unless specifically directed by the user is one of them.
The funny thing is that I'd like almost the exact opposite behavior. I'd prefer the phone to ring (quietly) on my desk, and automatically switch to vibrate when it's in my pocket (as determined by the prox sensor). But people who carry their phones in bags or purses wouldn't benefit from this option. Everybody's needs are different; HTC just determined what they think is the most common scenario and coded Sense that way. I have to give them credit for thinking up the idea, but since it doesn't work for everyone it should be more flexible.
Thanks for taking the time to bring this to their attention. It may well be that a couple of generations of phones from now we'll start seeing more options in these settings, which would be fantastic.
Update: HTC has been calling me at work, once yesterday once today. I have not been at work this week but will be in tomorrow; they gave me a number to call if I wanted to get in touch with them sooner. I will be calling them back as soon as I'm done with my planned tasks tomorrow (assuming they haven't called me first).
Here's hoping news about when we get an update that stops this nonsense comes swiftly!