Is there anyway to get different sounds for different alerts?
I've got different colour LEDs for emails and texts, but i'd like different sounds too.
I couldnt find any apps for this, however I have got SMS popup if that helps?
In the e-mail app, once you have selected an account, you may choose "account settings" and "choose ringtone". You can choose different sounds for different e-mail accounts.
In the SMS app, you may choose "settings" and (near the bottom) "choose ringtone".
I am using other apps than these (K-9 for e-mail and Handcent for SMS), but it seems that these settings allow for different sounds for different alerts.
(Words might be slightly different, my menus are in Norwegian.)
Thanks. Didn't notice those options lol
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Sorry if this seems like a couple of daft questions but I can't seem to find them out myself.
1) Is there a way to make the notification sound different for a text and an email. Right now if I receive either I hear the same sound, with the number of emails I get a day I tend to ignore it which now results in my not seeing I have a text till a couple hours later.
2) Is there some way to see how many texts and calls I've made over a set period of time? All the phones I've had before would give totals for me which I could then reset but I can't find that in this phone. I've downloaded an app called Phonalyzr but it doesn't do what I'm really after.
on the first point, go to Messages, press Menu --> Settings --> Select ringtone
same for email
hmm i dont seem to be able to do that. When I change the notification sound in either the messaging app or the default phone settings it changes in both. I dont have the option to change it in mail (I use activesync btw).
Its very annoying to have the same sound for both.
The notification sound set in the main phone settings will be for anything on the phone that you haven't set a different one for.
If you then go to messages and in the first messages window with "compose message" at the top, press menu / settings /scroll down to notication setting and choose select sound - you can then choose a different sound for messages.
There's currently no option to choose a different sound for gmail or mail as far as I know.
Dayzee
but when i open my Gmail, Menu, Settings, i get the Choose Ringtone option....first is Default Ringtone, then others :/
You are right Suisen - Thanks - Meant the HTC Mail one, but of course you can change the gmail notify to a seperate one. I just not done it on my Hero.
With most progs, if the app itself allows you to select a sound it'll have its own, but if not, it plays the one you choose in main Phone settings.
Dayz
Cheers for that, now I know when to actually look at my phone when it makes a sounds
Hello,
Is there a way of having a different tone for a new SMS and a different tone for a new Email recieved?
At the moment, all notifications sound the same, so you cannot distiguish between new email, sms etc, without looking at the phone.
Cheers,
Go to the relevant app e.g. gmail and then click menu and then change the notification sound to whatever you want...
You can set the sms sound in the sms settings, not for emails though so I guess emails use the default notification sound.
In Gmail menu > more > select ringtone
and you can change what appears in the list by creating folders for the notifications, then moving the sounds there
Problem with the phone is you can't have different tones for different people which is annoying.
You can have different ringtones for different contacts....
Email, vs text, vs picture message??
Also - when I get a facebook notification.......why doesn't my phone tell me about it like all my friend blackberries and iphones do?
Sigh.
you have to go into each individual program, hit the menu touch capacative button, hit settings, and then check the notification option and choose the ringtone. as for the facebook issue, eveyone has it. I receive notifications ver sporadically and few and far between. Its just something wrong with the facebook ap.
Edit: as for mms notifications, I'm pretty sure that its the same as the sms notification. Just go to settings, sound nd display, and choose the ringtone.
Sent through the Matrix
Thanks, I figured I just wasn't thinking!
I seem to remember on most of my old phones going right back to some old basic Nokias, there was an option in the profile settings that said something like 'alert for'
which was usually set to 'all calls' but you could go in and select contacts groups, and then you would only be alerted for contacts within the selected groups. This was very useful, but I can't find any such feature anywhere on my HD2, is it possible, either direct with the HD2 or via something like CHT?
I've no idea but its simple to have different ring/text/email tones that should sort your problem out
Just picked up my Moto G5+ from Costco a couple of days ago. For the most part I like this phone. Biggest benefit is the lack of crapware from the cell carrier.
I however am used to setting a custom ringtone and notification tones from a contacts information page. Meaning go to the contacts app, select a contact, choose the edit (pencil) scroll down till I find ringtone and/or notification tone. Select new tones as wanted/needed.
As such on previous phones when I received a SMS or a MMS either from an individual or sent to a group I could tell who sent the message without looking at my phone.
(This does not appear to be the case on my G5+.)
This was sent to me via the Lenovo/Moto website.
"For SMS, open a conversation > click on options (3 dots) > people and options > now customise notification here.
For calls, open contacts app > click on a contact > click on edit > click on options (3 dots)> set ringtone."
It gets me part of the way there. But the notification tones are for the individual message not the contact.
Any help is appreciated.
Kevin
Are you sure you followed the above steps correctly? Open contact app, select a contact, press edit, press options, select set ringtone, select whatever ringtone you want. That's it.
If you want to use ringtones apart from those which comes with phone, then put your ringtone file in the folder named "Ringtones" in internal storage. Now you should be able to select them in the list. Hope this helps.