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've set a very loud noise for notifications of appointments, missed calls, arrived SMS's and so on. But Amsterdam is a noisy city, so it often happens that I do not hear the initial notification. Of course I can see them once I see my Today screen. But I'm one of those rare people who's not staring at the today screen all day ;-)
appointment notification settings has a check box for "repeat". Very nice, but that doesn't repeat anything as long as the notification dialog is still on.
Missed calls and arrived SMS's do not have that repeat setting by default.
And I do not really understand what the use is of a loud notification right after I missed a loud ringtone. I want to be notified later on until the device sees that I take action.
I found out that I could turn that on by replacing a registry key value from 9 to 40000019 (I believe, I can check that later). Borrowed that setting from the appointment notification.
The bad news is that the notification after a missed call/SMS now doesn't stop repeating after I've read the SMS or followed up the missed call. It goes on and on till I either reset or till it drains the battery.
Any suggestions from different registry settings up to commercial software are welcome.
Maggy
Ok, so on every dumb phone I have ever had you can hit the volume button on the side of the phone to silence the ringer for both incoming calls and SMS. On every WM phone you can only do this for incoming call. Kind of sucks because I want a long sms ringer so if im in the next room it gives me more of a chance to hear it, but it also sucks when you have a 30 second ringer that you cant shut up. So here is my challenge, someone develop and app that will allow you to silence the sms ringer with a button push. I don't have the slightest idea how to go about doing it, but i'm sure someone on here can do this fairly easily.
ajk511 said:
Ok, so on every dumb phone I have ever had you can hit the volume button on the side of the phone to silence the ringer for both incoming calls and SMS. On every WM phone you can only do this for incoming call. Kind of sucks because I want a long sms ringer so if im in the next room it gives me more of a chance to hear it, but it also sucks when you have a 30 second ringer that you cant shut up. So here is my challenge, someone develop and app that will allow you to silence the sms ringer with a button push. I don't have the slightest idea how to go about doing it, but i'm sure someone on here can do this fairly easily.
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Mabe this totally isn't what you're looking for, but this is my solution.
I'm using PhoneAlarm. When I have a missed call or SMS, it gives me a
warning every 30 seconds for 30 minutes long.
That would solve you're missed SMS/calls problem.
I'm afraid developing an app for this, is much more difficult.
not really what im looking for but definitely a good solution for the general problem. So anyone know why its so hard to develop an app that can interrupt the sms ringer?
if i dont have any notifications with vibrate enabled, is there anyway that i can set the phone to global vibrate and have all my sms's and emails etc vibrate as well? my notifications dont do anything if they arent set to vibrate already.
does anyone understand what im saying?
let me try and lay this out:
for all situations: sms, gmail, email, phone: vibrate is all unchecked.
situation A
volume rocker is set to ring @ medium volume
when calls come in, or when sms's arrive, all i get is a sound and lights, no vibrate.
situation B (reality)
volume rocker is set to vibrate
sms's arrive, only lights flash, no sounds or vibrate
situation C (ideal)
volume rocker is set to vibrate
sms's arrive, lights flash, and phone vibrates.
i figured it out. the app called sound manager does this, but doesnt advertise it very well.
all the notifications that you want to vibrate need to be checked. and in the menu of sound manager there is a vibrate setting, check it to vibrate when silent only.
ah, i can go relax now.
I'm trying to turn off the vibration when I get a new email like I have on my Evo LTE. I don't want the phone to vibrate when I have to receive an email even if the phone is on vibrate. I don't need to be notified of the emails however when I happen to look at my phone I still want to see the icon at the top of the screen letting me know i have new emails... Is this possible? I didn't have the GS3 or any Samsung phone prior to this one so it may be a common answer to others just not me...
-I have already unchecked the Vibrate box and Notify for every message box within Gmail itself from my phone.
-It's not in Driving mode like some have stated while trying to look this up online
-I've tried to set the ring tone to silent but that didn't work
Does anyone know to accomplish this? Thanks in advance
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On my GS3, in gmail settings (account not general), I have Notifications ticked, then in Inbox Sound and Vibrate I have Vibrate unticked, Sound=silent and Label Notifications ticked.
Phone doesn't ring or vibrate when an email arrives and I get an envelope icon in the notification bar
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Yeah I have the same thing and my GS4 still vibrates when I have my phone on vibrate while I'm at work... I have the same set up on my Evo and it doesn't do it there however it does for whatever reason on this phone.
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dawishmaker said:
Yeah I have the same thing and my GS4 still vibrates when I have my phone on vibrate while I'm at work... I have the same set up on my Evo and it doesn't do it there however it does for whatever reason on this phone.
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Glad I am not the only one struggling. Gmail needs an update maybe? I just killed sound and vibrate.
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Glad I am not the only one struggling. Gmail needs an update maybe? I just killed sound and vibrate.
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Mine finally started working for whatever reason... I had the same information that EJ stated above but it wasn't working however it is now. Don't know what changed but it is working... Make sure in the Gmail app that the sound in there is set to silent... On my Evo LTE, there is a sound there (notice) but it never goes off so who knows
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didn't have this problem for about a week, but it started up in the last couple days. nothing in my setup has changed! any thoughts?
bump. this is driving me nuts, like a steering wheel in my pants.
better late than never I guess... I think I found a solution to this!
It's been driving me nuts on my Galaxy s5 and have spent the past few hours trying to get this fixed.
The solution I came up with is the following:
Set Gmail to silent and uncheck vibrate. Leave notifications on still just silent.
Download and use the light flow app to set up notifications for gmail.
Go into light flow and edit the notifications for gmail.
Enable sound and select the sound you would like to play.
Enable vibration as well.
Set the vibration pattern to 1 short vibration. This will change the vibration to a little quick chirp for an email. Much more tolerable.
OR you can do a custom vibration pattern and set the pattern to 0,0 to have no vibration at all.
Make sure to leave both the boxes "Vibrate only when silent" and "Don't vibrate when silent" both checked.
The vibrate only when silent stops any vibration when the volume is on. And I dont know if my logic is right on this but I think the "Don't vibrate when silent" acts to stop the phone from using it's normal vibration method and uses lightflow instead. Because even with this checked you will get whatever vibration you have chosen instead of what the phone typically uses.
Follow those steps and set those options and you should be good.... Try it out!
This worked for me. Hopefully it'll help you guys out too!