I'm having a very strange problem that I can't figure out and hoping to find a little help.
I have various widgets and apps that turn "silent mode" on and off. Turning silent mode on works fine. Both ringtone and notifications are muted. However, where I turn silent mode off the normal volumes are restored EXCEPT notifications remain muted.
I have 3 apps that turn silent mode on and off and they do the same thing. I moved from JB to Cyanogen and the problem followed me.
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance
So we have the new Silent mode which does not let Alarms through and does not blink the LED for Notifications.
We also have the new Do Not Disturb mode. Which is supposed to block unwanted notifications when on (Not working to well with third party apps many people are reporting).
There are some settings for it which are quite different then the old Blocking Mode in KK.
I'd like to discuss the old way you did things (In KK) and then discuss what the options are with the new way of doing things. (In LP).
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My use scenarios (that worked in KK):
- Normal - Sound mode, Blocking mode off
Normal setting during the day. All notifications un-blocked and make noise, vibrate, led, etc.
- Working - Sound mode, Blocking mode on
Silenced all notifications and text messages, calls were allowed through. Led light worked so I could glance at my phone and know if I had a new text, email or whatever.
- Temporary quiet time - Silent mode
I would switch to Silent mode if I was out somewhere like a show or something and wanted silence. I could have turned my phone off in these times but Silent mode worked fine most of the time.
The only thing to watch for is if you had an Alarm set, it would still go off.
- Bed time - Silent mode
Everything quiet except my alarm that would wake me in the morning.
I'm very interested to hear how people use these settings and their workarounds with the new LP methods.
Hopefully we can figure out some methods. Even if they are third party apps that you've had to resort to. But ideally while working with what we have.
Do not disturb has a setting to allow alarms on my VZW S6
On silent mode my alarm still rings and my led still blinks
nateohio said:
Do not disturb has a setting to allow alarms on my VZW S6
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So are you using DND as your Bedtime setting?
If you have DND set to stop all but Alarms what do you do for those other temporary times that you may want different settings for DND?
jadaress1 said:
On silent mode my alarm still rings and my led still blinks
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Wow.. I just tried again and the Alarm did go off with Silent mode.
I swear I tested it all the first day and it wasn't going off. I'm on the newest update now though. I wonder if that was it.
meboy said:
So are you using DND as your Bedtime setting?
If you have DND set to stop all but Alarms what do you do for those other temporary times that you may want different settings for DND?
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I just put the phone on silent...
What I miss from ( KK) Blocking mode is that it actually rejected incoming calls. The (LP)Do Not Disturb just mutes the ringtone, therefore people calling think you just missed the call and keep trying. Not really a big deal for most but as my work phone it was handy to be able to toggle blocking mode and my employees knowing when they called if it right to voicemail that I was driving or in a meeting. Now they just keep calling lol.
All of the 3rd party apps I've tried do reject calls but generally after 1 or 2 rings, and some have issues with 3rd party apps. I wish we could just use the KK blocking mode again
Do not disturb sucks. When I turn it on it doesn't work like it supposed to be. I still get the notifications on screen
I've searched around for a bit, but couldn't find the answer to this...
When in Vibrate mode, I want the vibration intensity for phone calls and messages to be at the maximum intensity.
When in Sound mode, I want the vibration intensity for for phone calls and messages to be completely off.
I've tried going into the Sound Settings and adjusting the vibration intensity while in Sound and/or Vibrate mode, but the intensity setting does not save within the Sound or Vibrate mode; its setting is applied universally.
My phone isn't rooted and I can't root because of a stupid app that my work uses and disables my app if I'm rooted. Plus, I've had less and less of a reason to root (besides tether and Titanium)
Is it possible to set it the way I've described?
Thanks in advance.
Ok so i generally turn off vibrations when it comes to my phone ringing / getting notifications! If my phone is going to alert me using sound then i don't need it to vibrate so i go ahead and turn it off! If however iam not wanting to be disturbed then i usually toggle "vibrate mode" which essentially makes the phone silent but will vibrate .......... or at least thats how it has worked on every phone i have ever owned ....... until now?
It seems that once i turn off vibrate in within sound mode then even if i toggle 'vibrate' .... there is no vibration!
Hope im explaining myself properly and you guys get what i mean! Any ideas? I basically just want my phone to NOT vibrate in normal use but to vibrate in silent mode?
Anyone? Its bugging me that i cant adjust the individual sound modes! I do not want my 'normal' sound mode to use vibrate so i turn vibrate off but this also turns it off for vibrate mode so when i enable vibrate mode its basically silent with no vibrate! Anyway to get vibrate mode to actually vibrate without vibrate being enabled for normal mode aswell
I guess nobody knows ? lol
When notification of sms, whats up or other app is coming I feel vibration in Ring mode. When I turn off vibration In Settings/Ring & Vibrate notifications it stops working even in Vibrate mode.
How to setup vibration to feel it only in Vibrate mode when notification is coming. Not in Ring mode where I wanna hear sound only without vibration.
has anyone an answer for this? accessibility shouldn't be an option since it doesn't do the job we want and since we have a slider for this. Until some time it was working normally, I don't know how it got messed up!!
I want vibration in vibration mode and only sound in normal mode..