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No sound but I would like the Alarm...

I would like to use "silence" mode at night, but still have my alarmclock enabled, how would one do this?
If i put the tytn to silent it also silence the alarm, and if I have some sounds I will get the phone signal at night which I don't want to.
This functionallity exists on EVERY other "normal" phone (nokia, ericsson and so on) but not here? why?

I use pocketx photo contacts program, you can set incoming alerts using the call filter feature to silent, but keeps the system volume on.

Try using Pocket Wakeup. It has a volumn control function which, if you set your phone to silent, it will over write it to make it loud. I'm not sure about vibrate, but I'm pretty sure if you were to set the volumn to minimum, the pocket wakeup can push it to whatever you set.

I use a freeware program called Mortplayer which is primarily an audio player but has a great alarm clock function built in too.
You can set the alarm to either play a playlist or a particular file, you can set increasing alarm and you can set the volume to override the system volume too so it doesn't matter if your phone is on silent (although it will leave the volume high after the alarm has increased it). It has a snooze function (set at any interval you want, 5mins, 10mins etc...) too with a very usable skin for switching the alarm off or on to snooze (ie. large screen buttons which you can tap with your fingers in a semi-conscious state)
Really great little program which I have been using for months with no problem and best of all, it is free

Great!! That seems to do it !

cybertron said:
I would like to use "silence" mode at night, but still have my alarmclock enabled, how would one do this?
If i put the tytn to silent it also silence the alarm, and if I have some sounds I will get the phone signal at night which I don't want to.
This functionallity exists on EVERY other "normal" phone (nokia, ericsson and so on) but not here? why?
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One potential way to do this is:
Change just the right slider on volume to lowest at night. keep the other one on high.
Then go to sounds and notifications and disable text and email notification sounds.

Try using Call Filter Alarm. I think you will love the sleep mode...

Separating volume settings? (Also posted in Leo General)

Is there a way to separate the different volume settings, like system, SMS, reminders, etc.? I listen to music on my HD2 a lot, and I almost deafened myself by bumping the volume up and then getting a text. I like how on my old Dash 3G every option was separate instead of bunched into just the system volume -- Is there a way to do that on the HD2?

System and ring volumes can be seperatied by going to Settings tab/Sound and Display". Switch off "Use single ring/system volume"
Program and button clicks can be set to soft/loud by going to Settings tab/Menu/All Settings/Sounds and Notifications.

I also have this problem. To me, it makes sense having a single volume control that goes from full volume to silent and vibrate.
If I play media, though, volume should be controlled through a different setting, with ringer/notification being the other setting. I noticed windows mobile (or sense, I don't know which one's doing it) will pair media along with notifications and ringer will be left alone, that is, untill you get to silent or vibrate, then both volume levels are applied the same silent or vibrate rule, even media!
I take it for granted now because, before windows mobile, every smartphone and dumbphone I've used allows you to play media when the rest of the volumes are set to silent or vibrate (I personally use vibrate all the time), but then when listening to music I have to pull the phone out of vibrate, which, as OP mentioned, suddenly brings the notifications to full volume too (and I like keeping notifications at full volume when I get off of vibrate mode, for example, when I'm sleeping, and not have to jump to settings to move notifications from soft to loud).
Worse, yet, is that there's no way to create and save a sound profile, which ALL dumbphones do. The only profiles available are the ones under Sounds & Display (where Display is only a button that leads to yet another menu, what gives?!). The closest I got to a profile I use is by setting the ringer to "Vibrate", system volume to 100 and ringer volume to 0 and control "system" volume as necessary with the rocker switch (all my notifications are off until I go to sleep when I have to manually set them all on, sadly). But if I ever, by mistake, press any of the "Profiles" under Sounds & Display, all the settings I had carefully set get thrown out and I have to do it all over again.
Maybe I need to peek under window's actual settings instead of using sense, and maybe I'll find something suitable.
I look forward to a version 6.6 or 6.7, or 6.8 of windows mobile where it retains all it's power, but simple issues such as this, or finger-friendliness are resolved. Microsoft did say they'd continue working on this windows as Mobile Classic (or proffesional, was it?)

Honestly, that was my exact same reaction. I can't believe something so basic, something so simple isn't in the newer Windows Mobile OS, but the old ones had it. Honestly, this is almost a deal-breaker for me.

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pedrovay2003 said:
Is there a way to separate the different volume settings, like system, SMS, reminders, etc.? I listen to music on my HD2 a lot, and I almost deafened myself by bumping the volume up and then getting a text. I like how on my old Dash 3G every option was separate instead of bunched into just the system volume -- Is there a way to do that on the HD2?
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You can go to your START/SETTINGS/SOUND & DISPLAY & unlick where it says use single volume for both settings!

@toreone
Actually, that just separates the ringer. I want the SMS, MMS, voicemail notifications, reminders, etc. to ALL be separate. That's where my problem is.

I wish WM6.5 had Android's system of audio control. Volume control for system, ring tone, phone, media. When you're NOT doing anything, the volume control should be for ring tone. When you're on a phone call, it should just handle volume for phone call. When you're playing multimedia, it should adjust media volume.
I'm not a big fan of how WM (or maybe sense) forces the system volume to be linked to the ring volume. I can't have ring as vibrate AND still have some volume for system. It's annoying!

Can anyone help me? In Settings I do not have Sounds & Display anymore...

deroux71 said:
Can anyone help me? In Settings I do not have Sounds & Display anymore...
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use your finger to swipe-scroll the settings list up and down, you'll find it there.

toreone said:
You can go to your START/SETTINGS/SOUND & DISPLAY & unlick where it says use single volume for both settings!
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This does not solve the problem. "Ring" only controls the volume of rings when voice calls come through.
SMS, mms, email, chat, listening to music, etc. is all clumped into the "System" volume.
So if you set it to "single volume for both settings" then phone alerts will come through just as loud as your music. And phone alerts are usually higher pitched and more annoying.
I'm having the exact same issue as the OP... listening to music and then getting this loud sms tone. I came from using an iphone and this problem was an easy fix as the iphone separated phone alerts (ring, sms, email) from headphones/ear piece volume.

pedrovay2003 said:
Is there a way to separate the different volume settings, like system, SMS, reminders, etc.? I listen to music on my HD2 a lot, and I almost deafened myself by bumping the volume up and then getting a text. I like how on my old Dash 3G every option was separate instead of bunched into just the system volume -- Is there a way to do that on the HD2?
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I am a newbie to HD2 but I have the old dash and old Shadows 2007 and 2009 and I agree I don't understand as to why this feature is missing in HD2. I am not sure if I missed it, but I don't see any hack on this one yet..

How can I listen to music and stay in VIBRATE mode?

Hi,
I recently switched from a WM standard phone (snap - non touch screen) to the HD2 - big move
One thing that I am confused about is that if I put the HD2 in "VIBRATE" mode, the volume is set to 0, so when I try to play some music using my stereo headset, I need to bring the volume up to hear it.
But, as soome as I bring the volume up, the HD2 switches out of vibrate mode
With my non-touch screen phone, even when you were in "Vibrate" mode, you could listen to any multimedia app you wanted, and still any notification (SMS, New Email, voice mail, etc) would still just vibrate and not make a sound.
How can I EASILY get the HD2 to stay in VIBRATE mode and listen to music without having to modify each "notification" manully one-by-one to just "VIbrate"?
Any ideas?

i vaguely remember (currently stoned! ) that this is indeed possible and that i used to do it on my HD2...
i'm currently using android 24/7 for the past 2+ months so can't boot back to WM to confirm what i remember.
i believe i had "ringer" and "system" volumes set to show as separated from one another on the big grey volume control screen. the setting to toggle splitting the controls is somewhere on the Sense settings' tab.
so i would keep the volume down pressed all the way so that the phone would switch both volume controls to vibrate (the sequence was highest volume->lowest volume->silent *(i.e. no vibrate either)->vibrate). then i would switch to the "system" tab of the volume control and drag it back UP. so the "ringer" tab remained on vibrate and the "system" tab got the volume it needs to play music, or what have you.
i suppose this would silence the notification sounds as well because i vaguely remember another setting that makes the notification sounds follow the "ringer" volume as opposed to the "system" volume. but if the notification sounds follow the "system" volume, then you would still hear them during the music playback...but i find that prospect useful as well, so maybe it was designed that way and i don't remember properly?!?
so yeah, whatever

ASCIIker said:
i suppose this would silence the notification sounds as well because i vaguely remember another setting that makes the notification sounds follow the "ringer" volume as opposed to the "system" volume. but if the notification sounds follow the "system" volume, then you would still hear them during the music playback...but i find that prospect useful as well, so maybe it was designed that way and i don't remember properly?!?
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If you could remember that setting that would be awesome, I like how Android handles notification and system sounds. I would prefer to have the ringer and notifications together and then multimedia sounds separate, any hint where to look?

you need settings....., sound + display....
then set "single volume" to off.
your volume control should now have two tabs for ring and system volume levels.....

even after they are seperate and he has the ringer turned down, his texts and other notifications will still sound because they are systems sounds right?

trueblood said:
even after they are seperate and he has the ringer turned down, his texts and other notifications will still sound because they are systems sounds right?
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Yes notification sounds are linked to System volume, the OP, and myself for that matter, are looking to have the notifications linked to ringer volume like it is in Android so that system volume is delegated to multimedia and such. I was always under the impression that this was a limitation of Winmo but now I wonder if it's in the registry to change that

regarding my post above, i have a feeling that i am incorrectly stating that the "notification volume follows ringer volume" feature is present in WM as well.
like i said in the post, i can't remember properly and so take the post with a grain of salt. apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Haha it's all good. Yeah I was just hopeful is all, it would be nice if it was a part of the registry but I am thinking that is a core functionality of WinMo

Alert Slider is a Letdown

Does anyone else feel like the alert slider is disappointing? I like the feature, but the settings for them are very restrictive. The silent and DND setting is different from what I assumed. They should have given us total freedom to customize it. Mine would be like:
Silent
Alarm sound optional
options to set volume silders
a timeout setting (to prevent phones getting lost forever when on silent)
DND
Alarm default on
Reminders/Events sounds optional
System sounds silent by default
Ring
This one is actually fine But they should allow us to set ringer all the way to vibate
Can anyone think of a workaround to customize the sliders?

Generally, I agree with you. A lot more customization would greatly benefit this feature, and I hope to see a way to change it on a rooted(/maybe future xposed, maybe?) I've gotten used to it, but I'd like to be able to set the phone to vibrate without sliding it to silent. For me I'd like it to be possible to change a profile, and have those settings come back when you switch to it. In fact, they could make the profiles have arbitrary names that can be set, and with all settings available for each. I'd want it like:
Silent:
Everything but alarms off.
Vibrate:
Like silent is now, but media not silent (yes I know you can change media settings)
Ring:
Like it is now.
It's the lack of customization that bothers me. I wouldn't call it a letdown, it's still useful, and I've gotten used to it, but it's not the way I'd ideally like it. Also, AFAIK, you can't control it like you can with no hardware using Tasker.

Coming from similar experience in the past with OP3 and OP3T I am very optimistic that our great developers will come up with all kind of solutions. Given the hot discussions everywhere its easy to forget that this phone is only available since a week (and in hands of most persons since much less)....

Just add a vibrate option to the DND mode! Then it would be ring, vibrate/priority, silent...customizable however is preferred.

Audio problems on Ticwach E

I have a problem with the audio of my Tichwatch E.
The watch is updated to Android Oreo.
The problem is that when I receive a notification, there is no sound but only the vibration.
Also there are no sounds even when I try to change the ringtone in the settings (ie, when I click on a ringtone, it does not play).
In the same way I do not receive any sound even from alarms.
The sound is activated, the volume is at maximum and the do not disturb mode (DND) is disabled.
What can I do?
Thank you,

Android Wear has no audio sound
You can use app like "Feel the Wear" to add sound.
Wear has sound for Alarm and Timer but you must setup the sound volume for this in the settings. By defaut it is set to only vibe.

dersie said:
Android Wear has no audio sound
You can use app like "Feel the Wear" to add sound.
Wear has sound for Alarm and Timer but you must setup the sound volume for this in the settings. By defaut it is set to only vibe.
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hi, thanks,
but I don't have any sound in alarm and timer (even if in the settings all the volumes are at maximum).
I installed "feal the wear" but it does not seem to work ... I only get the vibration, even though I set the sound from the application.

I solved the problem by setting the language of the Italian vocal output to English.
So the ringtones working (with the app feel the wear) and also the voice output of assistant (in Italian!)
the only thing, do you know how to make feel the wear only play the smartwatch when connected to the phone? otherwise when disconnected make the phone ring?

ChIP_83 said:
I solved the problem by setting the language of the Italian vocal output to English.
So the ringtones working (with the app feel the wear) and also the voice output of assistant (in Italian!)
the only thing, do you know how to make feel the wear only play the smartwatch when connected to the phone? otherwise when disconnected make the phone ring?
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It is only a notification system for the watch. Otherwise your notification phone works always on your phone, with or without have a watch, so your phone ring.