Hi folks,
I'm aware of the registry hack to change the RingTone settings (such as vibrate length, etc), but can this be done for the notification alert? When I get a notification the phone just vibrates for too long.
Any help appreciated.
PaulB
Hi,
Any help on this would be most appreciated, as the vibrate just goes on too long, and not only annoys me but everyone in my (quiet) office!
You can set the vibrate length in seconds for RingTone0 in the registry so there must be an equivalent for the notification alert?
PaulB
i second this request, the whole scripting thing for ringtone0 is simple but bizarre especially as there seems to be no equivalent settings for text/email notifications. There must be a way!
Change duration of notification vibration (hey I'm a poet!)
Sorry to bump this again, but as some time has passed I wondered if anyone had managed to find the reg settings for the notification alert?
I really need to shorten the vibration duration for notifications.
I second this, the message alert is way to long. Hope someone have a sollution to this.
Jarle
Fix for long vibration
I recently switched from the Sidekick 3 (I had the sidekick 1, sidekick 1 color, and sidekick 2 as well) to the 8525/TyTN and immediately found this vibration issue described above extremely annoying. The sidekick uses the sound file normally played to generate the vibration pattern, meaning if the sound file has two large amplitude alerts 1 second apart, if the phone is in vibrate mode, it would vibrate twice, with a 1 second spacing.... along with "the beat" of the audio.
Anyways, I discovered today that Windows Mobile does this as well to some extent. If the phone is set to vibrate mode, then it seems that all notifications vibrate as the long, 5 second or so, vibrate that you're all familiar with. HOWEVER, if the notification is set to vibrate and sound acoustically, it vibrates for the duration of the sound file. Strangely, this does not work when the phone is set to only vibrate. To get around this, what you need to do is set your notification (text message, e-mail, whatever) to both play a short sound and vibrate, then set your phone's audio to be on, but then turn the volume all the way down. In this setting, the phone does not play a sound, but does vibrate according to the length of the audio file.
I haven't tested this extensively, but it seems to work so far. This actually was one of my biggest complaints about the phone and i'm very glad i've found a simple work-around.
Let me know your experiences and/or if it doesn't work for you,
Todd
quite a great idea there, but was hoping someone has figured out a better solution?
what about going one step further with this and make a short wav file of pulsed noise, but at 20kHz. you won't here it!
All,
I have just joined this board searching for a solution to EXACTLY this problem. What is required please is a registry tweak that shortens the vibration alert for text messages, etc, when the phone is set ot vibrate only.
The ringtone fix to shorten the vibration alert works when a call comes in but NOT when a message comes in.
Any help on this would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
WB
Oh wow. I have the same annoyance with my phone. You send a text on vibrate and it goes nuts for an hour! Not really that long, but for just a text message notification it should be a little 1 second bitz.
This long vibration is really bad when you are in class and it goes for so long. My phone hits right against those plastic chairs through my pocket and resonates though out the whole room.
Unfortunately the Notification registry entries don't have a script option.
If you go into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications
the Default String tells you what the each directory is for.
The other keys are
AvailableOptions - What options you can pick from in the Sound/Notifactions screen in settings,
Duration - the length of time the light flashes (5,10,15,20,30,45,60min, 0=no limit)
Options - what sort of notifications you want
1=play sound
2=vibrate
3=play sound, vibrate
4=flash light
5=play sound, flash light
6=flash light, vibrate
7=play sound, flash for, vibrate
8=nothing
9=play sound, display message
10=nothing (can only pick play sound and vibrate)
11=play sound, display message, vibrate
12=Display message, Flash light
13=play sound, display message, flash light
14=display message, flash light, vibrate
15=play sound, display message, flash light, vibrate
senergy said:
Unfortunately the Notification registry entries don't have a script option.
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So what you are saying is there is no way of making the vibration shorter? No way at all? Could you add an option for time? Is there some program?
Senergy,
Many thanks for your response. Disappointing news as this is a serious nuisance.
I have lost count of the number of times I have been in meetings where the phone has gone off in vibrate mode only for the whole world to know I have had a message. Many a time I simply turn all alerts off which defeats the objective of having a discrete vibrate system.
I rang HTC's support team in the UK and got nowhere.
I wonder if a written query into them might get a more productive response?
WB
Anyone heard of any solutions yet? I've been searching google, forums, etc for days with no luck yet.
DRChrysler,
No but see thread link below. Shantz may yet be able to help us out here.
Cheers
WB
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311838
I own a Cingular 8525 which had WM5 when I first got it then later upgraded to WM6 and both WM5 and WM6 have 3 differet default profiles which are Sound/Vibrate and Vibrate Only and OFF.
The Vibrate Only profile on WM5 was one long vibrate which I liked because I could feel it in my heavy coat pocket.
But on WM6 they changed the Vibrate Only profile to a quick few short vibrate and I would always miss it because it barely can be felt in a coat pocket or even in a loose pants pocket.
I know it had to be a registery change since it was one long vibrate pulse in WM5 and it was changed in WM6 but I have search high and low in hope to restore the Vibrate Only back to one long pulse vibrate like it was in WM5.
I am already aware of the phone setting where you can change vibrate from short or long but that setting only effect on the Sound/Vibrate profile and does not do anything in the Vibrate Only profile.
I will be greatly appreicated if anyone here can help me out and see if there a way to restore the Vibrate Only to one long vibrate again because I am deaf and I keep missing too many emails and data and IM messages so they are sort of important to me.
I also know I can leave it on Sound/Vibrate profile and go to phone setting selecting long vibrate but I keep forgetting about it and being deaf when I go to movie or some events where cell phone ringing is not welcome .. well you get the picture .. deaf man in a movie and everyone's head turns staring at him with a "let get a rope and hang him" looks.
Thank you
Bill
I wanted to add that I have looked in the registery like HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\ but didn't find anything in there to change the Vibrate Only characteristics.
Anyone know where in the registery if any there a place to change the characteristics of the Vibrate only?
I would also like to change the characteristics of email notification and set it to wake the device when I have new email incoming like it does on SMS incoming. Is there a registery to edit that as well too?
Thank you
Bill
Hi !
Has somebody found some solution to reduce the delay for the ringtones for blackstone ?
I've installed the second cab here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=258109) as well as write in the registery (av0pw0r), but i can't reduce the delay under (almost) 2 ring tones, eventough i use a *.wma file.
I've also tried to play on HD tweak (1.7 option), but this does not change anything...
This is very annoying me, i've already lost some calls.
I haven"t tried yet a cooked ROM, but i wonder if this would change something
Please help
make sure the ringtone is on the phone and not card. That helped me a lot.
tks for your answer.
But well, i use (for the moment) the "Alarm-Classic.wav" under windows\rings, so i think it's ok from this side
How much delay do u have ?
hi.
using wma ringtones I get a response on my HD in about 1 ring after a soft reset. From the second call on the HD rings at about half a ring to the caller.
three rings from to wake from soft off.
but i forgot to say that if the phone is already "on", the delay is about 1/2 half ringtone, which is acceptable ! .
It seems that the additionnal delay (about 1 sec.) comes from the phone to go from "standby" to "on"
I've always had a delay with every HTC I've had (C500, C600. E650, Touch HD) using standard and custom ROMs with ringtones as WAV's and MP3's on the device and the storage card. I got used to it ages ago and if the phones on my desk can now predict an incoming call before it rings
Hi,
I was also searching for a solution on the ring tone delay issue. Guess that is a winmobile thing.
However there is no delay if you switch off the ring-tone and enable vibration mode only. That is weired behavior of the phone cause why cannot the ring-tone sound as fast as the vibration comes in vibmode only? And why does the vibration comes as late as the ring-tone when in combi-mode?
I am afraid there is no solution so far...
Regs!
this delay is something you'll have to learn to live with, unfortunately. at least in europe people seem to be finding loud and/or dodgy ringtones not very nice, and when dealing with the wiindows mobile vibrate mode is the one to go for.
another suggestion is to set up a caller tune, people are more likely to wait longer when they're listening to music.
ive found i can get it to ring at 1 ring if i turn off caller id pictures on s2u2
Yeah, the operating system does all the checks and clearing up before handling the call to prevent dropping, the way WM handles things, you can't get way from the delay, slowing the CPU with app like a nuedynamicclock worsens it. Well I notice a call before it rings if it is on
SlakerBoi said:
this delay is something you'll have to learn to live with, unfortunately
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All my wm devices have had this issue. My blackstone lights up from sleep a good 2 to 3 sec. before the first ring. I use the old phone ring tone and have four fairly well spaced rings before vm kicks in. I just count the rings as I get to the phone and it has become a non issue. The hd tweek for it seemed not to have an effect btw. Also I'm with t-mo usa and using their code I have my ringtime set to max rings. which is 30 sec. before vm.
Hi,
I just got my jade about a month ago. Im very happy with it except the vibrate feature. there are two option for 3 vibration features.
Vibrate only
Vibrate then ring - vibrate first then stop. later the ringtone start to play
vibrate and ring - vibrate constantly until the ringtone stop to play
Is there any way to configure this vibrate setting so that it can vibrate like nokia phone rather than vibrate constantly?
One more thing i realise that my jade ring quite slow at the beginning although i already set the loudest volume. How to fix this?
thanks
check the valert thread
Too bad the current version of Valert disables the volume hardware buttons.... Would've loved to use it on my Jade...
I posted some links in the valert thread. Its possible to edit the registry to customize the vibration pattern.
^^But that won't let you make a vibration pattern while the ringtone is playing.. This is a problem if you're using long mp3 tracks as your ringtone...
I like how Nokia phones vibrate while ringing or like how Valert works... It doesn't vibrate continually while the ringtone is playing...
For me too-disable my hardware volume buttons when making the phonecall.I remove application.
Just got a brand new Note3. Loving it save for the way it handles notifications with vibration mode.
It seems to default to the long "Basic Call" vibrate tone no matter what I configure in the settings. I find this tone to be quite harsh if I'm lying in bed, for example, and get a message. This is true for both SMS and gmail, so far. Further, I tried disabling vibrate notifications in some apps and they persist regardless and always with the same long vibrate tone.
Is this a known issue that others are experiencing? If not, do you have any ideas how I can properly configure vibrate mode to work properly?
Thanks.