My phone will either bleep for all events and notifications, or not make any noises at all. I want it to disallow noises for programs, disallow noises for hanging up, or errors in the OS. But bleep when I get a damn text message. All my settings indicate that this is what should happen, but it isn't what actually happens. Who in the world wants their phone to bleep all the time when they're using it? No-one is who. It serves no purpose and is inappropriate at work.
Enabling sound for programs and notifications enables sound for everything including SMS
Disabling sound for programs shuts everything up, but disables sound for notifications, muting the SMS alert.
Windows Mobile is just brilliant!
at45 said:
Enabling sound for programs and notifications enables sound for everything including SMS
Disabling sound for programs shuts everything up, but disables sound for notifications, muting the SMS alert.
Windows Mobile is just brilliant!
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Ahh, finally a solution. This has been driving me nuts for the past 3 hours..
Yes, it is crazy that you have to enable sound for programs to get a sound when a SMS arrives. Probably because WinMo considers SMS client to be a program.
Thanks at45 for the hint, now my X1 works again..
at45 said:
My phone will either bleep for all events and notifications, or not make any noises at all. I want it to disallow noises for programs, disallow noises for hanging up, or errors in the OS. But bleep when I get a damn text message. All my settings indicate that this is what should happen, but it isn't what actually happens. Who in the world wants their phone to bleep all the time when they're using it? No-one is who. It serves no purpose and is inappropriate at work.
Enabling sound for programs and notifications enables sound for everything including SMS
Disabling sound for programs shuts everything up, but disables sound for notifications, muting the SMS alert.
Windows Mobile is just brilliant!
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Enable the programs and notifications, then go into the advanced and tick off the play sound for everything you dont want to sound.
My phone doesn't bleep all the time with errors, have you got "events" enabled or disabled, 'cos that's the one that makes the system noises.
No, that's not the solution. There are no check boxes for things like 'hang up' or 'close pocket outlook'. They just bleep anyway. Events aren't enabled.
Edit: ...and don't beep for 'message sent' confirmation.
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Is it possible to change something in the registry in order to achieve both vibrating and audial alerts for alarms related to tasks, appointments and such?
As I have understood, it is possible to mute the sound and turn on vibrating alert. However, I'm very interested in using them both at the same time...
I've scanned the forum, but could only find a registry change making it possible to have increasing ring tones together with the vibrating feature.
Thanks!
Not sure if i've missed something, but i dont think you need any changes to the registry.
Settings (personal tab)
sounds & notifications
Notifications tab:
pick "reminders" (or whatever) pick the sound file and tick the "vibrate" box
Beeble said:
Not sure if i've missed something, but i dont think you need any changes to the registry.
Settings (personal tab)
sounds & notifications
Notifications tab:
pick "reminders" (or whatever) pick the sound file and tick the "vibrate" box
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Thanks a lot for that! Don't know how I managed not to notice those settings...
No problem
Personally i use Pocket Zen Phone (although there are others) which allow you to have different profiles wilthout having to manually change all settings every time (ie STFU when i wanna sleep, extra loud everything at work so i hear it, same but with bluetooth for the car etc).
Basically you can then have different sounds/vibrate options depending what you are doing.
I have a dilemma that I'm hoping someone can help me out with.
I use my Wizard as my daily alarm clock, but don't want to be prematurely awakened by calls or emails. Right now, my only option is to turn on flight mode, but I need to see if I missed any calls while I was asleep. So I need to keep system sounds on, but turn off notification of messages and calls.
Anybody know of a way to set this up or know of some software that would help?
I was wondering the same thing myself, and I found nothing of help. Looks like the Wizards are really not good as alarm clocks - for the reason you are talking about, but also because alarms are so unreliable.
I cant soeak to the reliability of teh alarms, but you could get something like PocketZenPhone. That way you could have a profile with the ringer shut off but whatever notifications you want notifications left on. You could also set it to switch to this profile at a set time so you won't have to remember to do it.
I just downlaoded teh 30 day trial and it see,s to be working well with a small footprint.
turn off phone
I worked round this by turning off the phone in comm manager but leaving the sound enabled - you get the alarm as required but you're not disturbed by incoming txt/email/calls.
xenos said:
I have a dilemma that I'm hoping someone can help me out with.
I use my Wizard as my daily alarm clock, but don't want to be prematurely awakened by calls or emails. Right now, my only option is to turn on flight mode, but I need to see if I missed any calls while I was asleep. So I need to keep system sounds on, but turn off notification of messages and calls.
Anybody know of a way to set this up or know of some software that would help?
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It is not free but I use a really cool utility from Pocketmax that lets you set all kinds of profiles so that you can have the phoen ring but no e-mail sounds or whatever you want. You can also set it to change when you plug it in, or on a schedule. Pretty neat.
PPCProfilesPro
One that is free, and does as above-mentioned programs, is MoDaCo's PPCProfilesPro.
http://www.modaco.com/Latest-Version-t205779.html
Requires registration to the website to download, but well worth it. I found it yesterday while searching for exactly the same thing.
isn't there a silent wav file that you can use as the tones for messages and calls when you sleep?
Does anybody know how to turn off the annoying SMS sent audio notification?. Even with the phone set to silent or sound off setting it still generates a jingle when sending SMS messages.
Have trawled the web for a solutin to this problem and had a look through the registry but to no avail.
Kinda makes it impossible to answer text messages when in meetings or when trying to be discrete.
Well, there is a registry tweak to turn off notifications altogether. If you want the visual notification alone, this would not help.
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Inbox/Settings/SMSNoSentMsg to 1
kernelguy
Hi, I'm sorry if this has already been brought up by someone.
Every now and then I hear an unknown notification for something. I can't find what application is doing this and it's obviously something you can't set at the normal sound settings menu (all the tones I've selected for receiving SMS, ActiveSync, WiFi networks or any other app are different). It must be some kind of system notification, but I can't find out what is causing it, because it happens when I'm not even touching the phone.
(BTW, I have the LED notification installed, and it doesn't light up when this tone sounds).
does it sound a little bit like a bird tweeting? the twitter tab makes that sound when it auto updates.
Thanks for your quick reply!
Yeah, I've thought about that, because I thought it was Twitter in the first place, but I've checked and there were no new tweets when I checked after hearing the sound.
(But thanks a lot, it definitely is the Twitter notification sound, I just checked!). Now when does it sound... that's the question
It makes it even if there are no new tweets, it's just to tell you it has checked.
Well, ok then. But then it's not very consistent, because it should check every 5 minutes and I don't get notifications every 5 minutes
Just shifted to Android 4.3 on a Nexus 4 after years of using Symbian. Learning loads of stuff and loving most of it.
However there is one thing that I sorely miss:- The ability to control sound and vibration notifications through "Profiles". I installed a nifty little app called 'Settings Extended' with which I can control these notifications quite easily.
The problem is that these settings seem to apply only to Calls and not Text messages.
First off, I have kept the vibration notification 'unchecked' in the stock messaging app because I don't want it to vibrate everytime I receive a text.
Next I change the Sound Settings to enable both sound and vibration notification. Here I expect the phone to Ring+Vibrate for both Calls and Text messages..just like in Nokia phones. Sadly this does not happen apparently because vibration is OFF in the stock messaging app.
So now I'm in a fix. If I enable vibration in the messaging app, the phone will vibrate for new texts even when I don't want it to and on disabling it I run the risk of missing the notification sound or blinking LEDs for that matter.
I have tried 3rd party apps like GoSMS and Handcent where they have an additional feature to enable vibration notification for text messages only when "Phone is set to Vibrate". The problem here is that the phone should be in "Vibration mode" i.e only vibration is enabled and sound is disabled for the app to give a vibration notification on new messages. When both sound and vibration are enabled under Sound settings, no vibration notification is produced.
This is really bugging me. Seems unnecessary complication of simple tasks to me. I have searched the net for a solution and although have found few people having the same problem, I haven't come across a solution yet. So now I turn to XDA because I know that if a solution exists, it can only be found here.
Thnaks to anyone who had the patience to go through this post!