Has anyone found a way or an app to unlink the ringtone and notification volume? This is a real deal breaker for me. I need to find a way to be able to set the phone on a "phone only" mode at night so that only the ringer is on.
This is a new issue with ICS. It was available on older version of android.
I've been searching for this as well; so far nothing. Audiomanager (pro) can't set them individually. I guess we'll have to wait for custom ROMs or a Google update to get the 'old' behavior back.
I'm pretty sure they changed it after froyo.
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With Gingerbread 2.3.3 on my Galaxy Ace I was able to set volume for notifications and ringer individually.
This is killing me. I need to set just the ringing on without having notifications make noise. Does anyone have any ideas?
same issue here. I solved it by downloading a silent mp3 and adding it to my notifications folder. I can then choose it within the profile app I use for my sleep profile. phone still rings but notifications are using the silent mp3.hth I use "profile" but same strategy should work with any similar app.
Yeah, this really annoys me too. My ringtone is plenty loud with the Volume+ app. Only notifications are still very quiet. Really need to boost the notification volume without blowing out the speaker with my ringtone!
I suppose one could just record a louder notification mp3.
But it's a workaround for something that shouldn't need a workaround!
Try downloading Quick Settings from the market. They allow you to adjust the notifications volume separate from the ring volume. They have six different volumes you can set.
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It's a cool program, but unfortunately the two are inextricably linked. Quick settings lets you pretend to set different levels, but it doesn't stick. Try having separate volume levels, close that setting, and open it again.
OS problem unfortunately. Really short sighted of them to remove a clearly useful feature.
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same issue here. I solved it by downloading a silent mp3 and adding it to my notifications folder. I can then choose it within the profile app I use for my sleep profile. phone still rings but notifications are using the silent mp3.hth I use "profile" but same strategy should work with any similar app.
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I ended up doing this too. The only issue here is all apps have to now use the default notification tone or they will not go to silent. I guess this will have to work for now.
what profile app are you using?
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Try downloading Quick Settings from the market. They allow you to adjust the notifications volume separate from the ring volume. They have six different volumes you can set.
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This doesn't work in ICS. The two volumes are linked for some dumb reason.
Hoping for a fix on this one soon as well. I need to be able to hear my notifications when I am at work but I can't have my ringer going off at obscenely loud levels.
Same here, really hoping they bring back that functionality to unlink notification and ringer volume.
For me the ringer volume is too low, so I want it on max, but then my notifications are extremely loud and I really don't need the whole office to know I just got an email/text/tweet etc.!
bump to see if anyone has found a way to do this.
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Hi all,
This has been bugging me since moving to ICS also, so I wrote an app to work around it! I just published it today.
Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brianhislop.icsringervolume
It's still a work in progress, but it's fully functional and gives (I believe) a good solution to this issue!
Cheers,
Slopppy.
Come on, people, star the issue in google code and let's push google to fix this issue
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23117
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23202
Has this been fixed in Jellybean or are notification and ringer volumes still linked?
I'm not running JB, but from what I've heard it's the same as ICS.
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I have been using an app called "Smart Sound Profiles".
Finally I'm able to have separate ringer and notification volumes!
It is a paid app, but there is a free trial version to try it out for a few days.
It works like a charm on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus on JB 4.1.1
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tartar.soundprofiles
Update to jellybean, not sure about stock but every custom jellybean rom i have tried gives you the option to decouple notifications from ringer, also some custom roms have an option to custom preset a quiet time period start time and end time, i have not tried it myself but believe there are other settings in quiet time to further customize sound output. Jellybam 3.3.0 had it i am pretty sure but check latest features and changelogs in jellybam thread OP, there are plenty of good jellybean roms with these features and jb is far better than ics my current rom whilst totally excellent and ultra fast doesnt support quiet time but has the delink notifications option.
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Does anyone know why ICS no longer appears to have the separate volumes for ringtones and notifications? Or was that a Touchwiz thing on my old Galaxy S?
More to the point is there any way to grt them separated as I used to have Tasker silence my notifications overnight and I don't want calls silenced too!
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Can't really help with separating the two volume levels but if that's your problem you could simply let Tasker set the notification tone to "silent" instead of turning the volume down, assuming the is a "silent" tone (there is on honeycomb).
I found the same problem today buy fortunately my profile app Quick Profiles Pro lets me set different volumes for ringtone and notification and it works OK.
Thanks for the replies guys.
Good idea gokpog - unfortunately I've got different notifications for different apps, so I don't think this would work
chandlerweb - I'll have a look at Quick Profiles Pro. Have you actually received a phone call while notifications are silent?
James.
Has anyone found a workable solution to this yet? I also use separate alerts per application so the Quick Profiles app doesn't do quite enough to work for me.
I used quick profiles pro for this exact purpose and when I tested it by calling it from another phone, whichever volume (ringer or notification) was set quieter was the default for phone calls also. I like to leave the phone ringer on and notifications silent when sleeping for emergency purposes and also while working sometimes. This is a major fault with ICS unless I'm overlooking something.
No separation of ringers and notifications!?!?!?!
This change is a huge disappointment. Hopefully Google addresses this in a future release. The problem I was trying to solve was after I go to sleep, I want notifications to remain silent, while the ringer is set to full blast (I am always on call for work). I could schedule this with timeriffic on my Droid Incredible, but because the volume settings could not be set granularly in my Galaxy Nexus, I lost this functionality (and sleep).
I found a solution, though. I had already downloaded the paid version of Light Flow to control my status LED based on different messages that appear. I just realized it also controls sounds for each app. I can leave the global notification sound in ICS as silent and set individual alert sounds for each notification type in Light Flow. I can then set my sleep hours in Light Flow and specify that I only want the status LED to operate for each notification, and no sound during a certain set of hours.
Hopefully this helps someone. The same functionality may exist in Light Flow Lite, so you might not even need to purchase anything. Try it out. This solution would give you custom LED colors for each notification, as well as some peace and quiet at night, and custom sounds during the day.
Quicker can do it
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Quicker looks like it does it, but it still won't allow me to change the volumes separately.
When I un-check "use ringer volume for notification" the notification volume slider doesn't change anything and reverts back to the ringer volume when you look at it again.
I found a solution that works for my needs. Ringleader allows you to set up profiles that you can change any or all of your individual ringtones to silent in one click.
It takes a while to configure. Once you install it you have to set all of your ringtones and alerts again using the Ringleader option for choosing alerts. If you set it as the default ringtone chooser option it simplifies the process. Once you have reset each one they will shop up in the Ringleader options list.
In Ringleader you then save a base profile. After you have a base profile saved you can edit all of the alert sounds individually through Ringleader and save new profiles.
I have three profiles. One is for normal use, one for phone calls only and one for silent. There is a simple widget available for switching them quickly.
Hopefully that helps someone else.
I still think Google needs to restore the option to separate the alerts and ringer volumes.
Try Audio Manager Pro from the market. It's a couple bucks, but allows you to create profiles and then you can toggle them from widgets independently. I used to use it to keep my ringer/notification tones THE SAME so I'd assume it works the same to separate them. Give it a shot. There's a free trial version as well.
Free: https://market.android.com/details?...NvbS5zbWFydGFuZHJvaWRhcHBzLmF1ZGlvd2lkZ2V0Il0.
Paid: https://market.android.com/details?...nNtYXJ0YW5kcm9pZGFwcHMuYXVkaW93aWRnZXRwcm8iXQ..
For those receommending an app, are you SURE they work on ICS?
ICS has combined notification and ringtone volumes, so most of the apps Ive tried are not compatible. The Ringtone setting in the apps is what 'wins' and the notification setting does nothing. I use Llamma and it has this problem, dev knows about it but there is no way for it to be fixed as its an OS issue, not an app issue.
I also want this feature back as I turned notifcations silent at night, and have custom ones for several apps. Ringtone stays on.
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For those receommending an app, are you SURE they work on ICS?
ICS has combined notification and ringtone volumes, so most of the apps Ive tried are not compatible. The Ringtone setting in the apps is what 'wins' and the notification setting does nothing. I use Llamma and it has this problem, dev knows about it but there is no way for it to be fixed as its an OS issue, not an app issue.
I also want this feature back as I turned notifcations silent at night, and have custom ones for several apps. Ringtone stays on.
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rabscuttle mentioned RingLeader earlier. I've been using RingLeader Pro on my GNex, and it works pretty good. It won't let you control the notification volume separately, but, once set-up properly, you can easily silence notifications as needed. Once installed, you have to go into each app that has it's own notification sound (system notification sound, text msg, gmail, facebook, etc.) to set the notification sound. With RingLeader installed, it shows up as an option when setting sounds. Pick it instead of Android System. When all done, open up RingLeader, and each of those apps will be listed. From there you can create different RingLeader profiles. To create a profile to silence notifications; from RingLeader, select each app to set the notification (then use Android System when inside RingLeader) and select Silent. Do that for each app to silence at night, including the system notification sound, and then save profile. It has a widget for quick profile switching, and a Tasker plugin if you wanted to have profiles changed based on time/location.
I am using LIama to silent the notification based on location and times.
Hi guys,
I've just written an app to combat this exact annoyance with ICS. I hadn't found a solution I liked after being on ICS with my Sensation for a few weeks, so I decided to write an app myself.
Currently looking for beta testers. Head on over to my thread in the Sensation area if you're interested in helping me out and getting a free version of the app to use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470285
Cheers,
Slopppy.
Not sure if its been mentioned but AOKP milestone 3 includes option to separate ringer and notification volumes in the settings.
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Please, star de issue in google code and let's "push" google to fix this.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23117
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23202
anyone know way to increase vibrate intensity? its pretty low and I never even notice it
*bump* I would like to know as well. Soft keys are pretty useless when you don't even know if you've touched them or not. Vibration really needs to be increased.
bump +1. I would also like to know this, and have been searching without any luck so far.
I do agree, the Sensation had great vibration, when playing games like 'Fruit Slice' the vibration really added to the game play, when you hit a bomb!
hmmm, mines the opposite. swap?
I have the same problem the first day i got my X. The vibration is very weak when in vibration mode. In coming sms is only very 2 short vibration can not get notice compare with my HD2. Anyway can change some figure to increase it?
I have one App run on it and when it vibrate it pretty strong, so must some place can adjust.
Thanks for anyone can help
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I agree. It is pretty ineffective for incoming sms.
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Mine really suffers from incredibly weak vibration when the capacitive buttons are pressed, sometimes it doesn't even vibrate, only making a faint sound.
But when a call is incoming, it's strong again, anyone have any ideas? Hardware fault?
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Finally I have some temporarily solution to share with you all to solve the weak vibration issue for One X.
I did not find a way to change system value in some files and even find this way it may not useful for the One X which is not rooted.
So I tried different APPs in goolge play store, and here is the most 3 top APPs(all are free) I think can change vibration pattern:
1. Vibrate tools -
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it is very small APP and it is simple. You can easily create your new vibration pattern just by tapping different times to control each time how long it will vibrate and how many times it vibrate also between each vibrate the waiting time. The pattern created can be assigned as default SMS vibrate setting. You do not need to change any setting in system. One thing you shall be aware that even this APP shall run itself every time you reboot phone, but I found it did not run automatically. So if you do reboot you may need to run it once. This APP may not increase the intensity but by prolong the vibrate time for each and make 4,5 vibrate in a sequence is far more better than default 2 short vibrates in One X. This is the one I use now.
2- SMS Popup
It is a very good APP. You can adjust the vibrate pattern in its setting menu freely(by put different figures). And it do much more things for you to enhance the SMS notification, like repeatable notice, wake up screen and so on. It is very good SMS application some of you may find its usage not only just to change vibrate pattern.
Use SMS Popup you need to turn off the system SMS notification, otherwise you receive 2 times notification.
I did not use it after some testing, since I found from time to time the APP in memory will be killed and not running any more. So you will not get any vibration for incoming SMS since you have already turn off the system level notification as well. I do not know is it only my phone problem or it is not compatible with One X .
3- Ringo: Ringtones & Text Tones
This is a good and complex APP as well. It can adjust the vibrate pattern using its pre-defined 5 levels.(you can not create your own pattern like another 2 APP above). But it has different other usage for notification.
You can play with it to see how it is suitable or not. I do not use it since I want a simple tool not eat memory too much and also I do not like its 5 level pattern.
Hope all this will help your guy. And feel free to try in Google play shop to find others which may good and share with us. I tried another 5-6 APPs but not as good as the above 3 ones.
The weak vibration was only a soft key issue in my case. Vibration was strong during all other areas except when you used to soft key buttons. One of the few reasons I went back to the GS II.
I had been running Lifeless for the longest time until recently that I was able to figure out a way to get whatsapp working on AOSP ROMs. I noticed the speaker volume on stock ROMs is louder than the speaker volume on AOSP ROMs. Is there a way to adjust the speaker volume on AOSP ROMs so its as loud as stock ROMs? Thanks!
Edit: In-call volume is really low too... I noticed some AOSP kernels have louder speaker volume but not in-call volume.
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I'm interested to find out about this as well, specifically for headset volume. AOSP volume is way lower than stock.
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Same here, the volume is much lower on CM 10.1 than it was on stock software. I've also noticed that phone calls won't play through the 3.5mm audio jack, although that is probably a separate issue.
As an aside, the numbers are meaningless, but I use my phone for music in my car, and while 30 used to be a good comfortable volume level (though certainly loud, but that's my preference), now I have to go to 40 to get approximately the same effect. I also have the loudness compensation in the DSP equalizer set to "stronger," now, which I wouldn't have done before.
If anyone has any info on any of that, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: Max volume on my car stereo (a basic Alpine model) is 40, I noticed today. I'm probably tearing my eardrums apart, but I have the phone turned all the way up too and it's not very loud (relative to my previous phone, a Motorola Photon 4G, or stock LG software on this phone) at all.
Hey guys, I have found that if you are into the changing and tweaking if you have 'trickster mod' some kernels you can actually change the fixed gain under "specific" then "sound control" hope that helps
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Hey guys, I have found that if you are into the changing and tweaking if you have 'trickster mod' some kernels you can actually change the fixed gain under "specific" then "sound control" hope that helps
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Is there an option for in-call volume?
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing" - Optimus Prime
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Is there an option for in-call volume?
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing" - Optimus Prime
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you know.. im not sure.. i would assume if you turn up the fixed gain throughout the speakers it would apply to all scinerios. i have noticed that during even the screen lock it gets LOUD! sorry im not able to look at the moment im trying to figure some things out on MIUI
I figured that I'd bring this post back up since its pretty much relevant to my question.
All stock ROMs for this phone, from ringtone to notifications, have a crisp sound to them but AOSPs in my experience don't. The sound seems tinny or "grainy" if you will. Is there a fix for this I'm overlooking?
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I figured that I'd bring this post back up since its pretty much relevant to my question.
All stock ROMs for this phone, from ringtone to notifications, have a crisp sound to them but AOSPs in my experience don't. The sound seems tinny or "grainy" if you will. Is there a fix for this I'm overlooking?
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I haven't found one... The weird part is some say they have no issues while others (like you and me) notice the difference.
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Update: using TricksterMod donate and tweaking the sound settings definitely helped the volume. I've attached a screenshot with my current settings. Actually, the phone's loudspeaker sounds too loud for it's own good on max system volume. I keep it turned down a couple of notches. Headphone volume is much improved, though. And I don't have to worry about it being grainy when I'm using the headphone port, of course.
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Update: using TricksterMod donate and tweaking the sound settings definitely helped the volume. I've attached a screenshot with my current settings. Actually, the phone's loudspeaker sounds too loud for it's own good on max system volume. I keep it turned down a couple of notches. Headphone volume is much improved, though. And I don't have to worry about it being grainy when I'm using the headphone port, of course.
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What ROM is that?
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I am on official CyanogenMod 10.2, the latest nightly, 10-11-13. And running Smoocha 2.0 kernel. Smooth as silk, now, and the data issues are gone, for me.
Now that we have S-Off, I have been going over the ROMS that are showing up. I need to know if anyone can point me at a ROM where the Ringtone/Notification sounds have been unlinked. I cannot stand the fact that they are tied together.
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Now that we have S-Off, I have been going over the ROMS that are showing up. I need to know if anyone can point me at a ROM where the Ringtone/Notification sounds have been unlinked. I cannot stand the fact that they are tied together.
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+1 I am surprised nobody including myself has brought that up yet. It would be fantastic!!
I just realized that they are together and it's really annoying....
I am with you, it is driving me crazy. Basically all the original development roms work, I have tried Vanir (even donated, it works great) and the cm rom. I ran Vanir as my daily driver for about three weeks. The only issue I have with these are (and it may be my imagination) is the sound and camera. With stock you get Beats and I swear it sounds better. You also get the stock camera that has ZOE (which I don't fully appreciate yet but never will if I don't play with it). Also no Blinkfeed (oh, well, darn!) Audio Control from Play store is the only app that I found that will compensate, and it works pretty good. I wish I did not have to use a 3rd party app to make this work. I think it works by tricking the phone, sort of. You select custom ringer and select that level. Notifications and ringtone are still the same but it grabs the call and resets the volume before it rings and then lets it go after it's done. Very clumsy way of explaining but I know it works and allows me to use whatever notification sound I want for individual apps. Most of the other apps out there will over ride these settings and use a default selected tone.
I looked at the Audio Control app and a few others. None of them really did what I want. Like you said.... clumsy approach.
I keep thinking one of the ROMs has to have this feature. The CM 10.1 JB variant for my Droid3 has this, so I am not sure why it does not show up more often. If I was talented enough coder ( and brave enough ) I would build a ROM myself.
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I looked at the Audio Control app and a few others. None of them really did what I want. Like you said.... clumsy approach.
I keep thinking one of the ROMs has to have this feature. The CM 10.1 JB variant for my Droid3 has this, so I am not sure why it does not show up more often. If I was talented enough coder ( and brave enough ) I would build a ROM myself.
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Yep, me too. I script a little bit but any of the code that I've fooled with is copy, paste, cross fingers. Like I said above though, Vanir and the CM roms have this feature, but you do have to go into the sound settings and uncheck the box that says link them together. I think all the ASOP based roms are like this. I'm giving Ecliptic (Sense based) a spin right now. If you hold down the home key on this one you get the expanded menu with quick settings, and you can independently manipulate them there, but it does nothing. I hope that at some point this will be picked up and fixed. I've posted a few requests for this feature in the various threads but only one developer came back with a reply and it was basically that he didn't know how. I just don't think there is enough people that notice this and are bothered by it for a developer to look into it. Same thing happened when I needed a kernel with driver support for the Galaxy Tab plus. I was trying to crack WEP for pen testing with the tablet and could not put the nic in promiscuous mode. I finally made my own kernel but only with limited success. Just don't have the talent.
"Ringer & Notification Volume Unlink" module for xposed works though it does not show them unlinked in settings. I have an old Sound Manager app and sure enough, it worked. I can now schedule quiet times for the notification and reduced volume for the ringer and night. WooHoo! Working on Stock Vzw M7_1.10.605.10.
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"Ringer & Notification Volume Unlink" module for xposed works though it does not show them unlinked in settings. I have an old Sound Manager app and sure enough, it worked. I can now schedule quiet times for the notification and reduced volume for the ringer and night. WooHoo! Working on Stock Vzw M7_1.10.605.10.
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apk ?
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For the sound manager app?
You guys can plan on seeing this in Sense 5.5.
I know that doesn't help at the moment, but it shouldn't be long...
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All I really wanted from the speaker update was a tone when text messages arrive. Shouldn't it use the ringtone volume?
I assumed this would be an obvious use of the speaker. Can anyone explain to me why this does not work and if there are any work arounds. I've tried the native Samsung Note 5 native messaging app, hangouts, google messenger and Verizon messenger+. Yes I checked and sound is on and volumes are turned up (media volume, ring volume and watch ringtone). Thanks
agreed 100%...would love to have sound on notifications.
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agreed 100%...would love to have sound on notifications.
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Weird... i just got a notification tone from TVSHow Time app.....I think. Happened so fast, and phone rang too, not sure. maybe there's hope.
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All I really wanted from the speaker update was a tone when text messages arrive. Shouldn't it use the ringtone volume?
I assumed this would be an obvious use of the speaker. Can anyone explain to me why this does not work and if there are any work arounds. I've tried the native Samsung Note 5 native messaging app, hangouts, google messenger and Verizon messenger+. Yes I checked and sound is on and volumes are turned up (media volume, ring volume and watch ringtone). Thanks
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Have you tried the lightflow app. I believe it will do what you want.
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Have you tried the lightflow app. I believe it will do what you want.
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Thanks great suggestion. I wasn't really familiar with this app but I believe I got it to work with my messaging app. Fantastic.
Now for Notifications....can't seem to get it to work. I assume the "Notifications - All" setting should do the trick but no luck. Any thoughts?
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Thanks great suggestion. I wasn't really familiar with this app but I believe I got it to work with my messaging app. Fantastic.
Now for Notifications....can't seem to get it to work. I assume the "Notifications - All" setting should do the trick but no luck. Any thoughts?
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I think you need to make sure media volume is turned up on the watch.
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I wasn't able to get LightFlow to give notification sounds either on the watch. I agree too, that's the use of the speaker I was most looking forward to. I'm sure a developer will make something that runs on the watch & will play a notification sounds when it intercepts a notification coming through.
mayby with tasker?
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mayby with tasker?
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I have no doubt tasker can probably do it BUT i'm a hack at tasker and would love some direction
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I wasn't able to get LightFlow to give notification sounds either on the watch. I agree too, that's the use of the speaker I was most looking forward to. I'm sure a developer will make something that runs on the watch & will play a notification sounds when it intercepts a notification coming through.
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I don't think LightFlow has any control over sound notification, only vibration notification. At least that's all I see in the Play Store description:
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Light flow allows you to take control of the notifications on your device.
It's main features are:
- Controlling the notification LED for phones that have them (cycling colors through outstanding notifications)
- Sound control, including repeating sounds
- Vibration control, including custom vibration patterns and repeating vibrations
[B]- Android wear vibration support[/B]
- Sleep times
- Lock screen based notifications (on phones that support live wallpapers on lock screens)
- Contact specific notifications for certain notification types
bouchigo said:
I don't think LightFlow has any control over sound notification, only vibration notification. At least that's all I see in the Play Store description:
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Light flow allows you to take control of the notifications on your device.
It's main features are:
- Controlling the notification LED for phones that have them (cycling colors through outstanding notifications)
- Sound control, including repeating sounds
- Vibration control, including custom vibration patterns and repeating vibrations
[B]- Android wear vibration support[/B]
- Sleep times
- Lock screen based notifications (on phones that support live wallpapers on lock screens)
- Contact specific notifications for certain notification types
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Lightflow has a sound tab and I have successfully used lightflow to send SMS related sound notifications (and various vibrations). I cannot get "app" based notifications to work unless they have an SMS option.
You could try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...tones-text-t3349211/post66132474#post66132474
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Trying it thanks, still Beta bound to be buggy but worth trying, it works well.
I got tones to work, did not get Text to Speech to work yet but .... it is still beta.
AMoosa said:
You could try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...tones-text-t3349211/post66132474#post66132474
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Now on Google Play, as "Smart Wear Notification".
Works like a charm. With sound notification and/or reading text. May work with many apps though I only have tried it with the standard android message apps.
Finally getting what Android Wear should have provided from the beginning along its sound notification for calls.
so if I read all these correctly.. the naitive huawei sounds are for Calls and Alarms only? Notifications make no audible sound ? I just got my watch today and I know when I went into the sound volumes, they are all turned up and I could hear sounds.. but when I get an Android Messages SMS or Hangouts message.. the watch only vibrates.. and doesn't play a sound..
Thanks!
Right now I am using this app..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.martinflorek.wear.feelthewear
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Seems to work pretty well. not sure if I want to pay yet or not.. but now all my notifications have sounds!