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[IDEA] Audio notifications without interupting

I was thinking on the way in, as I got annoyed by my music getting interrupted to tell me I had a new gmail message, that it might be somehow possible to play alert tones without muting default volume. The official AIM app manages to do this somehow, and I've been told back in the day it didn't interrupt anything when an alert played, so I'd like to try to bring this back somehow.
My thoughts are that it should be doable either in the notifications code or the audio code itself. I'm planning to jump into the CM5 source head first tonight, but it would be nice to know where to go about starting looking - is anyone familiar enough with how this works to tell me if it's plausible, and which section of the code it should be in?

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this would be great! I mean, whats the point in a blinking red trackball, if it still interrupts music with the sound

Back in the RC29&30 days this was the normal behavior for Android. It was changed to the current action of pausing the ongoing music with RC33 (pretty sure). As much as I would love my music to not be interrupted, I prefer the current method to the old "mixing" method. Where it would just play both sounds at the same time (pretty annoying actually). What would be ideal to me is the way my SEM600i did it, when I was listening to music (or watching a video) it would just beep and vibe when an alert came in & the music continued to play. This way I knew something was happening (be it a call or message) and could check my phone if I wanted, or keep on listening uninterrupted.

daveid said:
Back in the RC29&30 days this was the normal behavior for Android. It was changed to the current action of pausing the ongoing music with RC33 (pretty sure). As much as I would love my music to not be interrupted, I prefer the current method to the old "mixing" method. Where it would just play both sounds at the same time (pretty annoying actually). What would be ideal to me is the way my SEM600i did it, when I was listening to music (or watching a video) it would just beep and vibe when an alert came in & the music continued to play. This way I knew something was happening (be it a call or message) and could check my phone if I wanted, or keep on listening uninterrupted.
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I agree with this. Would love a simple beep rather than the whole notification tone.

id prefer a dim of the music volume then the tone, when it stops altogether its quite annoying especially in my car with the speakers up. if it just dimmed the sound down to give the notification preference it wouldnt be so disturbing and it wouldnt go loud silent super loud silent loud every time i get a text

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id prefer a dim of the music volume then the tone, when it stops altogether its quite annoying especially in my car with the speakers up. if it just dimmed the sound down to give the notification preference it wouldnt be so disturbing and it wouldnt go loud silent super loud silent loud every time i get a text
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This would actually be ideal, I'm going to look into it and see if it's possible to do this.

iamwhoamnot said:
id prefer a dim of the music volume then the tone, when it stops altogether its quite annoying especially in my car with the speakers up. if it just dimmed the sound down to give the notification preference it wouldnt be so disturbing and it wouldnt go loud silent super loud silent loud every time i get a text
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this it how it should work!

iamwhoamnot said:
id prefer a dim of the music volume then the tone, when it stops altogether its quite annoying especially in my car with the speakers up. if it just dimmed the sound down to give the notification preference it wouldnt be so disturbing and it wouldnt go loud silent super loud silent loud every time i get a text
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I think is is ideal as well but I am not sure if Apple has a patent on that. No other phone that I know of uses that except the iPhone.

I think is is ideal as well but I am not sure if Apple has a patent on that. No other phone that I know of uses that except the iPhone.
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I had an SE phone that did that sometime ago... And i am pretty sure that Nokia N95 8GB also does it...

Alarm sound not playing as loud as it should?

Hmm, does anyone here have problems with their alarm notification not playing as loud as it should? @[email protected] or is it just me?

i think it may be just you :\ my alarm wakes me up just fine in the morning

That's weird, is there a setting where you could set your alarm's volume?
Because I have my volume on 20... and the sound of the alarm when it's playing is very faint.
Edit: Nevermind it's working fine now. I think it just depends on which ringtone you choose. For me, alarm 02 doesn't play as loud as it should.

I agree, when u test the alarm sound in alarm app, it is very loud. This morning I woke up before it went off, and when it did it was not that loud. I'll research and report if I find anything.

The alarm, like your ringtone, seems to be the kind that increases in volume as it continues to play. I've not been able to find a setting that disables the increasing volume feature.
I agree though, it does seem kinda quiet initially, then the pauses between when the alarm plays seem to be too long.

Force Alarms to External Speaker?

Hi I was wondering if there is anyway to force alarms to come out of the external speaker?
Quite often I'll be listening to stuff on earphones and take them out my ears to do something else and leave them connected to phones, also sometimes fall asleep listening to music and earphones fall out.
This is causing me to miss alarms and calls whilst using my phone.
Does anyone know of a way to force the alarms to always come out of the external speaker as well as, or instead of, the earphones?

bump for any ideas? tried google but not found anything.

I turned vibrate on to catch that. Also with the Alarm Clock Plus V2 (free) I can delay it for a period of time, was appbrain link here but apparently I can't be trusted

[Q]Question about ring tones during music playing

I have a focus flash Mi7Rom
I would like to know if anyone has the same issue.
In Vibrate mode, when you are listening music with a headphone and someone call you, the music will not fade out. You can feel the vibration but no ringtone being played.
In Ring+vibrate mode, under the same situation, music will fade out and ringtone is playing from both headphone and the phone speaker.
Is there anyway to change the setting in vibrate mode where music will fade out with ringtone play when call is coming?
If my phone is in my jacket and someone call me when I was listening music, i would missed that call.
Same things apply to SMS. No notification sound in vibrate mode.

I'm not sure why you think this is a problem. The phone is not supposed to play audio notifications in vibrate mode. If you want the phone to play audio notifications or "ring" then use the ring + vibrate mode. As you mentioned in your post that mode does exactly what you need.
Also, as of now WP7 does not have a mode which plays back audio notifications only through the line out and not through the phone speaker.

Many times I have my phone is in my jacket that I couldn't feel the vibration
If the phone would fade out the music and play my ringtone, then I could have answered those missed calls.
coming from IOS, it's kinda inconvenient.

[Request] stop muting music playback when notification receieved

Hey guys thanks for opening the thread.
I'm simply looking for a mod (possibly xposed?) that lets me retain music playback without muting it when a notification comes in.
It would be preferable if the notification sound played over top of the current music playing.
Please don't recommend vibrate. I walk around a lot while listening to music and hardly ever feel it.
I used to have it on my I9000 in the gingerbread days and currently it seems like if my notification volume is close to silent it seems to behave in the way i'd like buuuut then i can't hear anything so its about as useful for me as vibrate.
thanks again!