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Vibrate setting on WM6, can it be hacked to work like WM5 again?

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

I frequently don't hear my phone ring or SMS notifications. What can I do?

I just find that the ringer is often not loud enough for me. Maybe it's my ripe old age of 32 that has brought me to this point of degraded ability but if I leave my phone downstairs or vice versa, I usually won't hear it ring. Worse is the one time sound notification, that's rather short in my opinion, for SMS's. Both of these are even worse if I forgot to remove my phone from the protective sleeve.
I searched and only found people having issue with the volume in relation to calls but no mention if I could increase ringer volume above what is currently selectable. Is there any way to increase this volume and/or extend the ring time for the text notifications?

http://www.wirelessinfo.com/content/T-Mobile-G1-Cell-Phone-Review/MakingReceiving-Calls.htm
According to that website, they tested the G1 ringer volume and found it to have the lowest dB of all the phones they tested.
Is it that speaker is underpowered? Is it possible that we may be able to re-encode the ring tones with a higher volume to help compensate?

I don't think it has a low volume... I think it has to do with what you are using because it is just as loud as my Wing when playing music.

What I'm using? As in which ring tone? I've tested several different ones and they all seemed the same to me. Do you have any suggestions?

I have the same problem frequently, it isnt that you dont hear the rings or notifications, they actually dont play at all. I have had this happen with my phone on in front of mewith a great signal, and I call it from another line. It "rings"(but never does), finally ending in a voicemail. When I hang up and check the G1 it shows a missed call and voicemail.
Unfortunately there is no fix, just a reminder that you bought a phone that shouldnt be expected to work until the system is given time to mature. Until then, you either return the phone, sell it, or live with its limitations. (or so I have been told)

No, I have that happen too, but I do frequently have it ring just not loud enough for me to hear it. I know because my girlfriend often has to tell me when it's ringing if I've left it in another part of the house.

I have also noticed that the ring volume isnt great with the standard wring tones. Using mp3 ringtones is better.
Notifications do sometimes seem buggy. I have had no notifactions with messages when i have had the message application open. Not even vibrate.
I have missed calls installed now for notifications and it seems to not happen anymore.
Theres also a program out in the market that allows you to create your own ringtones from full songs. You could just cut a song into a small section and use that for messaging.
Its called ringdroid

I have missed calls installed now for notifications and it seems to not happen anymore.
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The down-side to this feature of the program is, the notification light will stop. If you check your missed calls, texts, so on from the bar on top.
You have to actually open the "programs" manually to keep the notification light working.
Ex. if you get a missed call, instead of pulling down the notification bar to check. Press the call button once.
if you get a text, open the messeging inbox using the messeging button or SMSChomp button.
Try to limit how often you have to pull the notification bar down.
Pulling the notification bar DISABLES ALL notifications of all kind.

The way the HD vibrates, can this be changed?

I had the same issue when I had a Tytn II last year.
My issue is that when the phone rings while in normal mode, it is one constant vibration, which I dont like.
Also when i receive a text message in normal mode, the vibration is constant and lasts for about 4 seconds.
BUT
when the phone is in vibrate mode, the vibration for calls is a on/off vibration which I like, and for texts is 3 sharp vibrations which is a lot more useful in distinguishing whether it is a phone call or text that i am receiving when the phone is in my pocket.
Is there anything I can do to make the HD behave the way it does in vibrate mode for all calls?
There must be some sort of registry setting that can be tweaked.
Thanks in advance for any replies..

anyone?

Try this, It could be what your looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=437279&highlight=Valert

Would also be interested.
i remember back in the day, my Nokia 6310i (yeah not even color phone) would vibrate to the ring tone.

valert is cool, but on the HD has a bug that disables volume keys

I've installed VAlert but cant find it anywhere?

Try the attached utility. It's conf is under system settings.

nezz, the app has cyrillic interface: any chance to have it in latin (or at least a translation of what the 3 checkboxes mean?)
thanks

Is there a reg tweak for this? When you turn the phone on it does 2 short vibrations. i would like to use this as the sms vibrate alert. Is that possible?
Thanks!

[Q] Custom Vibrate style registry hack? (short, long, fast etc)

Just checking to see if there is any development. There a thread asking about it once a year, with 2 or 3 people saying they'd like that too, so I thought I'd start this years.
So: Is there any kind of registry-hack that allows you to change the vibrate style, intensity, duration and so on?
What I am personally trying to achieve is this:
Instead of having the phone either Vibrate shortly and than ring without vibrating or ring while vibrating continuously at full throttle, I would like my phone to Ring while giving short vibrate bursts every 5 seconds or so. Preferably the intensity of the vibrate could be set for different loudness levels of the ringing.
But I am guessing there is still no way of influencing this, so thx for reading. See you next year ;-)

Try looking at this post.

jSerious said:
Try looking at this post.
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Wow, that actually might work. I came across these codes before, but explained in much less detail and it sounded like you could only remove or add vibrate, LED flashing etc... not actually program durations and wait times.
I will give it a go. If I got all the options right, this is exactly what I needed.
Thank you very, very much!!!
PS: Damnit, now I see myself changing values, reseting, calling myself, reevaluating, changing values, reseting, calling myself etc etc all through the night lol
EDIT: Ok, falls a bit short of what I wanted to achieve, but still gives me alot more control than before. So still, huge thx.
Unfortunately there still seems no way to influence the intensity of the vibrate and unfortunately once you set the command to play the ringtone, the next command wont be executed until the ringtone finishes. So setting up soft Vibrate, start ringtone, hard vibrate every 5 seconds (as would be my prefered setting) wont work.

New Note3: annoyed by vibration behavior. Help?

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.