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jingle when sending SMS ?

Hi chaps
please read this and put me out of my pain, its really driving me up the wall now.
i want the wizard to vibrate when a text message comes in, no sound just vibrate. this onlt seems to work when 'notifications (alarms, reminders)' is also ticked, is this right? seems like one setting should affect the other ?
but how do i stop the phone from going 'jinga-alinga-jing' when i have just sent a message, i am on payandgo and it tells me my balance everytime i sent a message and i can see no setting to stop it.
even putting the phone into silent mode from the volume control will stop this jingle ITS PURE MADNESS.
anyone else found this? i can't be the only one on payandgo can i?

if you're on O2 PAYG you can call/email them and they will disable the credit notifications. This is the only solution I could find as I did not manage to turn off the actual sound, someone else perhaps?

hahahahaha
i am indeed on O2 didn't know they could turn them off.
i'm moving over to orange very soon though, if it still does it then guess orange can turn them off, cheers you have saved my sanity.
pretty odd that there is no way of stopping it in the phone though

I'm not an Payandgo but did you try in Parameters > Sounds and notifications > Notification (tab)
In the combo, you choose : "Message : New SMS"
And for this particular event, you can remove the sound and choose vibrate ...
Is that what you need ?

YES! i'm having the same stupid thing as well! My phone is a wizard badged as an O2 and i am on a O2 PAYG sim. I have CID unlocked mine and installed the K-JAM rom instead but still have the same issue when the phone is on silent.
Pulling out my hair!!

thanks for your replies guys
YvonLeFou - its not the sound to say that one has come in ie 'new sms' it happens when you send one. you send a message and O2 remind you what your balance is. dunno how this is done but it ignores EVERY attempt at stopping the xda to play a jingle. even if you put the phone on silent it still does it.
Latz - looks like Marc83 has the answer, call o2 and ask them to disable credit notifications, please let us know how you get on. i'm not bothering asking o2 as i'll be on orange soon. expect i will need to ask orange the same.
Marc83 - cheers

Did you try to deasable the notification message using the tweaks in the registry you can find somewhere on this forum ?

ive got hte same problem. Ive tried that and it still wont go away. its So So irritating :evil:

If this is their standard "SMS Sent Notification" you can suppress it by:
Edit your registry, HKCU\control panel\notifications\default\options (DWORD)
Set the value to 4. You will get a momentary Icon on your task bar (top) but I will go away on its own.

this isnt the jingle from the sms sent notification. This is the jingle after it that says "balance: £0.90" etc. It only happens on pay and go phones and it does it after calls and sms no matter what volume setting the phone is on.

I spent quite some time trying to do this and I just now figured out a way...
I used ActiveSync to explore to \windows under 'My Device' and copied notify.wav to my desktop. I then used an audio editor to make it silent and copied it back.
Now when I get the notifications it still plays the notify.wav but it is silent. You could change it to any sound you wanted.
Hope that helps someone...

jalex9 said:
I spent quite some time trying to do this and I just now figured out a way...
I used ActiveSync to explore to \windows under 'My Device' and copied notify.wav to my desktop. I then used an audio editor to make it silent and copied it back.
Now when I get the notifications it still plays the notify.wav but it is silent. You could change it to any sound you wanted.
Hope that helps someone...
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very good idea, i just wanted to point that out lol

My nodify.wav file is locked by windows... cannot edit it to make it silent. Does anyone have other ideas? It seems a registry tweak might be the best option, but I dont know which one to change in order to stop having the annoying balance notification after each call... thanks

I'm not sure what you mean by locked. When I copied the notify.wav to my windows desktop it was read-only. I had to go into the file properties and uncheck that before I could edit it. Is that the problem your having?
I used Sound Forge to edit the audio file. You could use something like Audacity that is free.
Then I just copied it from my desktop back to the same folder. It asked if I wanted to replace the file and I said yes.
Hope that helps...

I also unchecked read-only in notify.wav, but then I still cannot delete it. The read-only check dissapears when you uncheck it, but when you return to the file properties its still there. It must be protected by the OS. I also tried to modify it using a wav editor, but no luck. Of course, I can copy it on my desktop and edit it there. Its when I want to replace the original that problems occur.
Im both desperate and annoyed by that sound after a call. I also tried deleting almost every Reg key that has something to do with it, but no luck. Thank god HP has a good backup software...
Hopefuly somebody will post a workaround... thanks anyway

well, I wasn't expecting to post a work-around myself.
I went back to XP rather than Vista, and the XP explorer allowed me to change the notify.wav file. Now I have a silent file instead of the original and it works perfectly.
I guess Vista is less permissive than XP.

Interesting that Vista turned out to be the difference...
For those without access to XP, I wrote an installer cab to do the replace.
It should replace the notify.wav with a silent one then ask you to reboot the device. I tested it out on my HTC Wizard and it works. Really the only work it is doing is copying one file so it should just work but you never know...
-jalex9

What a fantastic idea, wish I had thought of that - worked like a charm, cheers buddy!

Notification Sound Changes
All I do with my notifications is find where the .wav files are located by exploring "My Mobile Device" - should be in the "Windows" folder.
Then I get the sound I want i.e. for new SMS messages I have Austin Powers saying "You got mail, baby!!"
I convert the audio format of the file I want to a 16bit, 11kHz sample rate and mono (single channel) .wav file. If it is not this format as a .wav file, it will not play. There are various free audio convertors out there that can do this resampling.
I then copy this amended sample over to the Windows folder in the mobile device, just by copying and pasting in Windows Explorer on the PC
After doing this you can look in the Sounds & Notifications > Notifications Tab. In the drop down box you will find the additional .wav files you have added.

Am i stupid?

Hella all
First post
Got my HD love the Phone, but i have a slight problem, when i recieve Files via Bluetooth/Beam they dissapear into the abyss, i cannot find them anywhere, i have tried the search programme and traweld through every directory on my phone what if anything am i doing wrong?
slp

/Documents maybe ?
You are lucky to start ur WM experience with a device like HD

Nothing in /documents, i tried again today, wrote down the file name before it was sent so i couldn`t go wrong, did a search for the file, nothing found, its driving me mad

If you're using a programme like 'obex inbox' which lets you specify where to receive bluetooth files and if by chance you haven't configured it or configured it to receive files to 'My Device', then I believe you'll get the kind of behaviour you're describing. So, to check if you have obex inbox installed check in settings\connections and also in programs if it is there, and if it is, change the directory for receiving files.
Hopefully this should provide you some clue as to what might be going wrong...
Good Luck

Try /FTP in the storagecard. And to check if your phone received try sending an mp3 file then go to Music and click on Library > All Songs and your phone should search for every mp3 file. If the file couldn't be found there, then that means your phone failed to receive it!

Try DrYar bluetooth. It works much better, lets you specify incoming directory, and it installs an icon on main screen for quick bluetooth on/off . I had a lot of problems on my Hermes with default bluetooth also, and this is just so much better.
DrYar bluetooth

very quick silly question, cos i had a friend with the same issue.
When you are recieving the beam, you get the icon at the top. and when it has finished beaming, it is not yet saved, so you cannot access it. Now normally you should get a notification that you have received a file and ask you if you want to save it.
If the notification does not appear, tap the beam icon at the top and then it should.
tap yes and then it should appear in my documents or the folder you set in bluetooth FTP.
If it's not that, sorry for being daft, but you'd be amazed how many times i've been asked that on various different HTC phones...!

Notifications

Hi all,
I've looked through both this board and the one for the G1 but can't find answer yet, which surprised me. Anyway, quick question.
I want to use an mp3 for my sms tone/notification! This should be easy but HTC seem to have made it difficult again. I know on old phones like the touch you had to put the file on the phone, in the sounds folder in system directory. Then you could pick it from standard list. Painful, but not a problem.
Unfortunately on my magic, I am unable to copy the file into the standard notifications folder as (when looked at using filedroid) the folder is shown as write only.
Thought I'd be able to remove the write only by plugging into computer, but that only seems to give me access to the sd card.
I have downloaded some applications that manage it, but it's all a bit of a faf. Is there a way to put it somewhere, or get phone to look at folder on sd card?
Bit long winded, sorry.
Thanks for any help.
Steve

Create a folder on your sdcard called "notifications" - any mp3s in there should then show up for selection.
Likewise "alarms" for custom alarm tones and "ringtones" for custom ringtones.

Nope. Tried that to no avail. It's really weird. I have since found an application called Rings Extended that seems to manage it without any real messing around. So I guess I will just have to carry on using that for now.

Sorry Codemonkey, please scratch my last comment. Although the rings extended works well, you appear to be correct in your response. Unfortunately I didn't realise the need to reboot the phone after creating the folder, and after each subsequent addition of tracks/sounds etc. It only seems to update when phone turns back on.
Thanks for your response.

As you've been so helpful, I wonder if you can help out on something else.
I now have my notifications set up the way I want, with the exception of email. At present it puts a notification icon up, which is fine and dandy. But it also sends out a noise, seemingly the same notification used for SMS. Is there a way to disable the noise, just for email?

spookydownunder said:
Is there a way to disable the noise, just for email?
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For both GMail and e-mail when in the app press Menu -> Select ringtone -> Silent

Why thank you very much. You are a treasure.

BigRD said:
For both GMail and e-mail when in the app press Menu -> Select ringtone -> Silent
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Helpful people, please help again. The email notification (now thankfully silent) is set to show in the status bar.....perfect. But....it also flashes the LED, can I turn off the flashing just for email. I like having the visual status bar, so when I have unread email I know it, but as emails are always popping in, the phone is nearly always constantly flashing. Really annoying. I don't mind it flashing for SMS, but sometimes you just want to ignore email
I know it can be done on th Hero. Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to change SMS/MMS informing sound?

I wanna change the sound, informing when SMS/MMS comes in.
What should I do for this?

+1 for this. I tried dropping mp3 and WAVs into the Rings folder but they don't appear for message notifications just ringtones.

I haven't tried this, but could you rename your own .wav file to the name of one of the pre-set alarm tones that you don't use, then select it for your SMS alert?

MP3s go in the root Windows directory, they then appear in the SMS list...I have a movie sample as my SMS tone

Brilliant....thanks a lot. Works a treat!

You can also place sound files in the my documents root folder on your sd card. That helps to keep more space free on your phone. This took me quite a while to figure, too. Because I also started experimenting with the windows/rings folder without success
Regards,
Lars

I've just read this thread as I wondered also how to use my personal SMS tones and couldn't figure a way.
I was initially going to put it in Windows root as a PP suggested but followed the advice of another PP who suggested My Documents root on the Storage Card.
Well... originally I had a choice of 7 message tones and after I plonked my chosen tone in the My Documents root, I went back to the message tones to select it and... as well as mine, loads more appeared that weren't there before! Like my doing there seemed to unlock/release more to choose from.
Hey, I'm not grumbling, I'm just like How did that happen?
Hopefully this won't turn out to be a bad thing

Ive figured out how..but..
ok thanks for the root insight. I was curious though if there is a way to keep them in a folder and not just in the root folder. I like to keep my sd cards clean and organized.

Hmmm I also have had problems with this, i have my text message alert i want to use and have dropped it into the my document folder on the storage card, but still can't see it to set it!!!
Any ideas please?

Ahhh it's OK, unplugged the phone, went back to main menu then tried it...I see it now
Thanks

custom sms and other notification tones not allowed?

hey guys ive tried copy and pasting into the /system/media/audio folder but my dhd wont let me do this and therefore im unsure what i should do.
Ive done a search but nothing seems to relate to froyo, all i want is to use my own wav/mp3 for incoming sms and emails and not the htc/hub ones.

i always used the htc ones with my legend but my friend has an X10 and he just made a 'notifacations' folder on the sd card and they seem to work

just tried making the sd card folder, and it works thanks for that. weird it works though since according to the user manual it you cant use files from the sd card for notifications

install handcent sms from the market.. u will have an option to use any tune