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Hi Guys,
I was wondering, has anyone played with the registry or seen an app that will mute the SMS Ringtones??
I had WM5, WM6, and i currently have WM6.1, if I have a longer sms ringtone, when i receive the ringtone will keep playing, even tho i read the sms and replied....
Is this normal?
Can I somehow Fix it?
Thanks,
Have a Great Day!
How is that a bug ?! Make a shorter ringtone!!! Problem solved!
DUH!!
In this day and age, do we even have to say that anymore?!?
I mean COME ON.
IT is a Bug!
its a bug because how come on other phones, when a txt message arrives, if u press any button, the ringtone immediately stops????
Na its not a bug its how the dash reads the file.
I would really like this "feature" added as well. Or a way to implement it with a registry edit, etc.
I use a very long, beeping sound byte for my text message arrival sound. The reason I do this is for work purposes. I receive pages to my mobile phone. If I receive the page and then start to view the new text, it would be nice if the sound would stop playing automatically.
I realize that this thread has been buried for sometime now, but I recently discovered this problem as well, and wanted to see if anyone has come to any resolution to this (besides the ones that say make it shorter etc etc). A real resolution like a reg edit or something of the sorts. Thanks.
its common sense make it shorter.. jus time it.. um cmon
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(besides the ones that say make it shorter etc etc). A real resolution like a reg edit or something of the sorts. Thanks.
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You obviously missed my posting. I want to be able to hit a button, and make it stop. I realize that making it shorter will fix this, but that's not what I'm after. There is apparantly no fix for it as of yet, and your answer would be the obvious, but again, not what I was looking for. Thanks for not even reading my post.
no problem thats why lm here lol
damnit i missed all the [email protected]#
its not over yet ha ha it jus begun
do you know why when i add guns n' roses - november rain (9:12 long) as my text beep, it plays for 9 [email protected]!#[email protected]
jk man...honestly its not a bug...its the length of the file...there is software you can cut up mp3's with to make them the length you want. i ran across something today...let me go see if i can find it...ill send it to you if you want. let me know.
gix
gixxum said:
do you know why when i add guns n' roses - november rain (9:12 long) as my text beep, it plays for 9 [email protected]!#[email protected]
jk man...honestly its not a bug...its the length of the file...there is software you can cut up mp3's with to make them the length you want. i ran across something today...let me go see if i can find it...ill send it to you if you want. let me know.
gix
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you could just go the htc touch/diamond attchments. im pretty sure theres an mp3 trimmer
LOL, I understand that its not a bug within the Excalibur itself, but any other (as a matter of fact EVERY other) cell phone I have ever come across, (roughly 30 or so) has had that feature. Yes, thats what we'll call it... a FEATURE. Ok, so, let me rephrase my whole posting.....
Has anyone come across any software that will add the FEATURE of making the "file" stop playing by a key press? If so, I would greatly appreciate it... Thanks.
Example:
If im upstairs, and I don't hear the phone, and come back downstairs, then I would love to hear the end of the 3 or 4 minute song thats playing to let me know I received a text message. I'm not going to just go check it every time just because I just came back downstairs. Now if the phone is in my hand, I would love to just be able to push a key and make it stop. That simple.
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LOL, I understand that its not a bug within the Excalibur itself, but any other (as a matter of fact EVERY other) cell phone I have ever come across, (roughly 30 or so) has had that feature. Yes, thats what we'll call it... a FEATURE. Ok, so, let me rephrase my whole posting.....
Has anyone come across any software that will add the FEATURE of making the "file" stop playing by a key press? If so, I would greatly appreciate it... Thanks.
Example:
If im upstairs, and I don't hear the phone, and come back downstairs, then I would love to hear the end of the 3 or 4 minute song thats playing to let me know I received a text message. I'm not going to just go check it every time just because I just came back downstairs. Now if the phone is in my hand, I would love to just be able to push a key and make it stop. That simple.
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sure...the feature is called use a smaller file.
Edit. Edit. Edit.
we messin with you.. we kno wat u talkin bout.. like other phones.. wen u wanna read it.. the song will jus stop.. but theres nothin you can do.. its not a bug.. thats jus the way it is.. if u find somethin hit me up
yea man...other phones might...this does not. i offered a tool for you to create and chop files. you dont want it...thats cool man. take care
Ok, good to know we're all on the same page. Thats just it, I don't want to make it all small, its kinda like it was in my example. For that reasoning... Sort of.
What's the deal with the loud advertisements on the pages now? I was very abruptly greeted with an advertisement this morning while at work talking about non-sense and it made me have to mute my computer. This is kind of a pain and to be honest the first time that I have every had an audible add that didn't give an option for muting. I know you guys have to pay to keep the lights on...but this is going to be a big nuisance for many users.
Pecinua non olet.
Scooter Scott said:
What's the deal with the loud advertisements on the pages now? I was very abruptly greeted with an advertisement this morning while at work talking about non-sense and it made me have to mute my computer. This is kind of a pain and to be honest the first time that I have every had an audible add that didn't give an option for muting. I know you guys have to pay to keep the lights on...but this is going to be a big nuisance for many users.
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Such ads are not acceptable and they sometimes slip through the cracks. Please send me a screenshot of the offending ad and I'll have them removed immediately. If email is easier: xda.svetius(at)gmail.com
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Such ads are not acceptable and they sometimes slip through the cracks. Please send me a screenshot of the offending ad and I'll have them removed immediately. If email is easier: xda.svetius(at)gmail.com
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Will do! Thanks for your help!
whats the go with this? almost all the pages i load now have adds playing with the volume on straight away. normaly you have to unmute it but all the adds im getting are unmuted first and to make it stop playing you have to click on it to open a new window and it stops
I thought I was hearing stuff the other day. Couldn't figure out what was talking lol.
if you have an XDA page open just scroll to the bottom right and you should see it playing. soooo anoying when you open 5 different windows up and they all start playing loudly -.-
PLEASE FIX, i know you guys need to make money. but do the adds really need to automatically play sound??
Hey guys that admin provided a solution above...if you witness a loud advertisement take a screenshot of it and send to the admin above so they can take care of it
Hi, I'm Kitty. I love technology but it hates me and to be honest any fix past turning it off and on is a little out of my skill range.
I have the Samsung Epic through Sprint, it is less than three months old. I got up this morning and my buttons for the dialpad, contacts, and messaging were gone. I can't seem to get the dialpad to come up from using the numbers on the slide out keyboard, and I tried restarting it. I have handcent sms, so I can receive and send texts that way, and I can call if I tap on the call button through handcent, but I can't get back to the dialpad.
I saw one post like this but it was for a different phone and had no responses. If I missed a post, I am sorry. I'm a noob and unworthy of the help of you technology gods, but if you just give me some fire I will leave Mt. Olympus. (yes I know he stole it, fire wasn't really given)
I have to call and pay our bills today so it would be awesome if someone knew how to fix my phone without completely resetting it.
kittikat said:
Hi, I'm Kitty. I love technology but it hates me and to be honest any fix past turning it off and on is a little out of my skill range.
I have the Samsung Epic through Sprint, it is less than three months old. I got up this morning and my buttons for the dialpad, contacts, and messaging were gone. I can't seem to get the dialpad to come up from using the numbers on the slide out keyboard, and I tried restarting it. I have handcent sms, so I can receive and send texts that way, and I can call if I tap on the call button through handcent, but I can't get back to the dialpad.
I saw one post like this but it was for a different phone and had no responses. If I missed a post, I am sorry. I'm a noob and unworthy of the help of you technology gods, but if you just give me some fire I will leave Mt. Olympus. (yes I know he stole it, fire wasn't really given)
I have to call and pay our bills today so it would be awesome if someone knew how to fix my phone without completely resetting it.
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Are you completely stock and not rooted? And do you sync with google?
I don't know exactly what rooting is, so I'm going to go with no. I didn't modify the phone past downloading a few apps, but nothing recently or anything that I think would use this.
When I say I love technology, I love technology like a muggle loves magic. I think it is wonderful but I don't understand it.
Also I have the lookout app but I don't think I sync with Google. How would I go about doing that? Sorry I'm so dumb with technology.
Go into Settings. Then Accounts & Sync. Then add a new account.
Sent from the Epoch
Oh, I am synced to my gmail account.
Has this (the phone not working as a phone) happened to anyone else or do I just have a knack for destroying technology?
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Oh, I am synced to my gmail account.
Has this (the phone not working as a phone) happened to anyone else or do I just have a knack for destroying technology?
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To make you feel better I lost my phone stuff after flashing a theme but never for no reason so you may have that technology curse you are talking about. Did you install anything new?
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kittikat said:
Oh, I am synced to my gmail account.
Has this (the phone not working as a phone) happened to anyone else or do I just have a knack for destroying technology?
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I have tried to make mine go away or blank out not sure what happened. you might be able to do reset but you would lose your apps and would have to reinstall.
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Have you tried doing a battery pull and turn it back on? Or have you installed a dialer app?
been on xda since early 2000's, and this is somehow my first post! i guess i followed the rules, and searched, and read and read and reread correctly lol! what's up my epic community, kittikat, & kennyglass123!
are you saying the icons are gone from the bottom dock, or completely gone from the dock and your applications list also? if they are gone from both (which is unlikely), then you'll need to factory reset your phone to get them back. if they are in your applications list (they should be), click applications icon, push the menu button (very left button on bottom of phone that looks like an equal sign inside a half square), click edit, then you can hold down on the phone, contact, or the messaging icon (or any icon), and drag onto the bottom dock. the bottom dock should hold up to 4 icons. the icons can be removed from the dock on accident, or by themselves from time to time (don't know why this happens).
you can also just hold down on whatever app icon you want in your applications list, and place onto whatever homescreen you want, but not practical for the icons you need (which you're going to use all the time).
i also use handcent and don't use the built in messaging app. handcent has a widget you can put on any homescreen, which will tell you how many new texts you have, and can eliminate using the main messaging app. hope this helps!
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Ok so I found the phone, contacts and messaging after searching through apps and restarting my phone (they weren't there pre-restarting) Taking the battery out and in didn't seem to do anything.
How do you drag the phone back down to the main dock? I tried following your instructions but got lost. I will be back in a few hours (I have to go to work) and I will try again.
The most recent thing I downloaded was random lolcats a few weeks ago (lame, yes, I know)
And thanks for being patient and helpful everyone
no problem, it happened to me, my sister, and a few other friends with epics also. could have sworn i used to have 4 icons on the dock, and then one day after updating to gingerbread there were only 3. thought i was tripping lol. ok here are the steps again.
1) while your application list is showing, press the menu button (the very left capacitive button of the bottom 4 buttons that light up, below the Samsung logo)
2) choose edit (all your icons should show a minus sign on the top right corners of each icon if done correctly)
3) click and hold down on the phone icon until it starts following your finger, then drag down to bottom dock.
4) viola! profit!!!
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nismofreak said:
no problem, it happened to me, my sister, and a few other friends with epics also. could have sworn i used to have 4 icons on the dock, and then one day after updating to gingerbread there were only 3. thought i was tripping lol. ok here are the steps again.
1) while your application list is showing, press the menu button (the very left capacitive button of the bottom 4 buttons that light up, below the Samsung logo)
2) choose edit (all your icons should show a minus sign on the top right corners of each icon if done correctly)
3) click and hold down on the phone icon until it starts following your finger, then drag down to bottom dock.
4) viola! profit!!!
Sent from my cm9'ed out SPH-D700 using xda premium
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Nice pick up both me and kenny were going in totally wrong direction. Was thinking well in the phone part there was no dial pad. I need a beer LOL.
Huzzah! It worked! Thank you everyone
*hugs*
tazfanatic said:
Nice pick up both me and kenny were going in totally wrong direction. Was thinking well in the phone part there was no dial pad. I need a beer LOL.
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Yeah I thought the phone or dialeractivity.apk got corrupted. Did not think it just fell off the dock. Glad you got it working Kitty.
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Has anyone noticed that with the latest google navigation, the nice phone lady no longer warns you when your turn is coming up? She just blurts out, "Turn left." when you're in the far right lane maybe 20 yards from the intersection. She used to say, "In 200 feet, turn right," then after a bit, "Turn right." Is there a way to get my verbal warning back, or has Google really just made their navigation almost useless?
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Has anyone noticed that with the latest google navigation, the nice phone lady no longer warns you when your turn is coming up? She just blurts out, "Turn left." when you're in the far right lane maybe 20 yards from the intersection. She used to say, "In 200 feet, turn right," then after a bit, "Turn right." Is there a way to get my verbal warning back, or has Google really just made their navigation almost useless?
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I noticed that as well. While I don't use navigation that often, it was very noticeable when it was missing. Almost missed my exit.
I thought it was just a glitch, or that I missed it being said. Glad to know it's not just me.
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The only thing I can think that makes that make sense is they're assuming everyone is using a mount and keeping the screen on like a real GPS nav unit, so they can see their turn coming up. But that's a bad assumption.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
JaylanPHNX said:
The only thing I can think that makes that make sense is they're assuming everyone is using a mount and keeping the screen on like a real GPS nav unit, so they can see their turn coming up. But that's a bad assumption.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
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Hmmm, could be. It would be a huge oversight on their part if that is true.
Funny, because I would be using a mount if they made one that fit the phone while in a case. I bought tje docks (both car and desk) and returned them because of this. I'm not going to take my phone out of the case every time I want to use a dock.
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Yah. I dont know why they did that
Maybe we should make a fuss in the comments in the play store.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
Hadn't noticed this, but that does suck. My gf got me a dock from radio shack that fits the hercules with a case on it
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Yeah I noticed that as well but I had already given up google nav for Waze. Waze has much better fluid directions ahead of time - plus it has speedtrap and traffic alerts as it's a social networking navigator app. Way way better.
i use both Google Nav and Copilot. Nav became more convenient so I use it almost daily. However after the update came the "New (soft) lady voice" and I hate her. She speaks to soft and I can't hear her as well. I want the loud booming robotic voice back but don't know where to find it.
That leads into my second issue with Nav. The two ladies seem to start and finish each others directions.
example:
(slv - soft lady voice): now take upcoming left... (LBRV takes over) IN 300 FEET, NOW TAKE LEFT
CONTINUE ALONG GENERIC... (slv) road for 100 feet and arrive at your destination.
Its annoying.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the new voice either.
Has anyone else noticed their instructions getting cut off? Usually when I'm using navigation I'm also listening to music over bluetooth. Since getting ICS it seems like the music doesn't get turned off fast enough, and sometimes gets turned back on too soon, so I can't hear if I was supposed to turn onto Cedar Rd, or Cedar Ave or what.
Okay this is getting weird now... I got a third lady in there. Cheerful & Perky. Where the hell did she come from?
Now I get directions from all three.
I just want the original booming robotic lady voice again.
To top it off on my S3, I only have SLV and C&P.
C&P is a step up from SLV but still not as loud as BRV.
C&P sounds exactly like the voice in this Google Search comparision:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kDsOtdRtG0Q
rosedog said:
Okay this is getting weird now... I got a third lady in there. Cheerful & Perky. Where the hell did she come from?
Now I get directions from all three.
I just want the original booming robotic lady voice again.
To top it off on my S3, I only have SLV and C&P.
C&P is a step up from SLV but still not as loud as BRV.
C&P sounds exactly like the voice in this Google Search comparision:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kDsOtdRtG0Q
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You may have a separate issue altogether. Do you have more than one TTS engine installed? If so, you may want to try getting rid of one or two. Check settings under language and keyboards and see if you can disable all then check one to work.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
Thanks but nope, that is not it. I haven't installed voice packs. The only thing I can think of is that happened after a Google Maps Update or after the ICS update. All three ladies will speak during Navigation. I swear I'll have to get video of it somehow.
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Thanks but nope, that is not it. I haven't installed voice packs. The only thing I can think of is that happened after a Google Maps Update or after the ICS update. All three ladies will speak during Navigation. I swear I'll have to get video of it somehow.
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If u want a video of it download screencast from the market, it'll take video of ur screen w/sound, i recomend just using the free version, i paid 5 bucks for the pro and it asks for a license check every 10min
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rosedog said:
Thanks but nope, that is not it. I haven't installed voice packs. The only thing I can think of is that happened after a Google Maps Update or after the ICS update. All three ladies will speak during Navigation. I swear I'll have to get video of it somehow.
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Clear data/uninstall reinstall? After that, I'm out of ideas. Maybe flash AOKP, since it won't let anyone use any voice other than Google TTS.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
I just got the phone on Sat. morning, rooted it that night and removed some bloatware.
Today at work, during lunch I wanted to watch some youtube, and every video would play for a 5-7 seconds and then as if someone is touching the screen it pauses and then immediately play again.
I thought it was the palm gesture, that pauses music? So I turned off all gestures and its still doing it.
Really annoying! I cleaned the phone so there is no smudges or anything.
WTF could be causing this? I shouldn't have rooted this thing, now if I gotta bring it back, I'm screwed
holy mother mary!!
Please disregard this post!! It wasn't gestures, it was the smart pause!! (I FEEL STUPID)
Lol, dont worry, we've all be there before.
it may be the smart stay ( pause video when looking away ) thing. unchecked it
That's what he said 2 posts up.
fastfed said:
holy mother mary!!
Please disregard this post!! It wasn't gestures, it was the smart pause!! (I FEEL STUPID)
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Welcome to the club! VIP status is only a couple stupid moments away! xD
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I thought smart pause didn't work with yt
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I got back to work after watching in my car, I was sitting in a parking lot and it was working great. then all of a sudden when I started to drive it was pausing and playing.
Mind you I had the phone down and was listening through my blue tooth.
I was so pissed when I got back to work, thinking, how the hell do I return this 3 day old phone, I already rooted it!
I made this post and it hit me! it wasn't gestures! it was that silly smart pause thing.
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