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Vibrate on connect call

One of the greatest feature in HTC phones for me, was the Vibrate on connect feature. Basically the phone vibrates slightly when the person you are calling answers , if you are not holding the phone to your ear. As long as the screen is turned off the phone does not before as it "thinks" you are holding it at your ear.
Is there any way to enable something like this on the GNexus? I couldn't find an app to for this.
Maybe one of the talented devs around here are interested in doing a mod to enable this function?

Cyanogenmod has this feature. I'm unsure if it is present in cm9 as its still relatively new, but it was definitely in cm7
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Nobody else interested in this?

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myxcon said:
One of the greatest feature in HTC phones for me, was the Vibrate on connect feature. Basically the phone vibrates slightly when the person you are calling answers , if you are not holding the phone to your ear. As long as the screen is turned off the phone does not before as it "thinks" you are holding it at your ear.
Is there any way to enable something like this on the GNexus? I couldn't find an app to for this.
Maybe one of the talented devs around here are interested in doing a mod to enable this function?
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I would love this! Miss it!

Im sorry for bringing the "old" thread back, but , this is very very importand and usefull to me ..
I cant belive that there is no option for this on GN .. (stock rom)

I need this feather too.

I would love this feature too, was using hTC D2 for a while, and I'm new to Android

This would def. be interested in this feature being available.

try this app
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tnkfactory.phonesettings

JayXon said:
try this app
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tnkfactory.phonesettings
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I actually did give that one a try earlier today. The vibrate on call end worked for me, but the vibrate on call connect did not work at all (stock ICS). The app has several different "vibration mode settings" to try if it isn't working on your phone, but I had no luck with any of the different settings.
I emailed the developer, so hopefully they get back to me.

i'm missing this feature too!

myxcon said:
One of the greatest feature in HTC phones for me, was the Vibrate on connect feature. Basically the phone vibrates slightly when the person you are calling answers , if you are not holding the phone to your ear. As long as the screen is turned off the phone does not before as it "thinks" you are holding it at your ear.
Is there any way to enable something like this on the GNexus? I couldn't find an app to for this.
Maybe one of the talented devs around here are interested in doing a mod to enable this function?
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I had this feature on the OG Droid through the KickBack, which was installed when I switched to a cyanogenmod 7 rom... KickBack says that it's deprecated/included in ICS, but I can't find a setting for this feature anywhere on my GN (4.0.4 stock rooted). I would really love to have this feature back, just so I don't have to stare at my phone until it starts actually dialing.

efdisastet said:
I had this feature on the OG Droid through the KickBack, which was installed when I switched to a cyanogenmod 7 rom... KickBack says that it's deprecated/included in ICS, but I can't find a setting for this feature anywhere on my GN (4.0.4 stock rooted). I would really love to have this feature back, just so I don't have to stare at my phone until it starts actually dialing.
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Open dialer goto logs .. press menu..goto call setting> call alert> call vibrate ... this worked for my galaxy note 2 n7100

[Q] Vibrate....gotta be a way to increase the "oomph"!!!! Right?!?

I love this phone...but for my purposes, having it on vibrate = having it on silent. I missed TWO job interview calls having my phone on vibrate in my pants! I barely had time to call 'em back today to set up an in-person!!!!
I found a program a few weeks ago to handle my volume problems....is there a program that handles the vibration problems??? I guess I'm one step away from changing the vibration to just one long vibrate for texts and calls....but this soft motor probably still won't help it out!
Anything? Or am I doomed to putting this on craigslist and waiting for the next big phone???

Samsung has the worst agitator.
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ljwnow said:
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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I think it agitates everyone pretty well actually.
To be on topic, though, I don't know of any apps, or software mods at all really, that will increase the power on the vibration. That's a hardware thing.

ljwnow said:
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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Really? Seems great to me. Way better than my previous HTC phones.

Apparently Light Flow has settings where you can set particular vibrations for particular notifications (i.e. how long & how frequent you want them). Haven't tested it myself, but I've read about it. Link. Perhaps if Light Flow doesn't work, try Sound Manager V2?

anton2009 said:
Apparently Light Flow has settings where you can set particular vibrations for particular notifications (i.e. how long & how frequent you want them). Haven't tested it myself, but I've read about it. Link. Perhaps if Light Flow doesn't work, try Sound Manager V2?
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I tried light flow but I could never seem to get it to play nice w/Handcent.. It'd always stutter my ringtone. Even when I turned notifying for Handcent off...
On a table, it works fine. On a bed or couch or pocket...it's garbage. And I really didn't notice it until last week when I needed it on vibrate. Now, I wish I'd noticed it during the 30 day period of returning the phone....
Shoot!

How to make a number ring in silent mode?

I now have my apartment buzzer come to my cell phone and I would like people to be able to buzz me if there is an emergency at night when I have my phone in silent mode. Is there any way I can make an exception for the number of the buzzer so it always plays the ringtone even when in silent mode?
Thanks in advance.

Tasker can be programmed to play a ring tone and switch the sound on your handset on when setting numbers are calling.
Swiftkey'ed on my CM9 Galaxy Nexus

You may want to edit the title to make it easier to understand.
If you are in the US, Google voice can do that for you. It doesn't even matter what kind of phone you have. Look into it
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Thanks for the replies. I am in Canada so Google Voice is no go and I will look into tasker... there has to be some way to do it in stock JB...
I don't want my GF showing up at night an dnot being able to buzz herself in because my phone is on silent.

Exostenza said:
Thanks for the replies. I am in Canada so Google Voice is no go and I will look into tasker... there has to be some way to do it in stock JB...
I don't want my GF showing up at night an dnot being able to buzz herself in because my phone is on silent.
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No there is no way to do it on "stock JB". You need a 3rd party app.
Why not give your GF the gate code?????

nxt said:
No there is no way to do it on "stock JB". You need a 3rd party app.
Why not give your GF the gate code?????
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It is just a buzzer box at the front of the condo building. Everyone has to be buzzed in I think... I don't think there is a code that can be put it that would allow someone in.

Exostenza said:
It is just a buzzer box at the front of the condo building. Everyone has to be buzzed in I think... I don't think there is a code that can be put it that would allow someone in.
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Sooo how do YOU get in if no one is home? Do you still need to push the buzzer and it calls your phone and you have to press a button on your phone??? lol if so, that's ridiculous.

Android Device Manager - Ring function does not work properly

I have Google Apps and am trying to ring my device remotely while its set to vibrate. It rings once at full volume then stops (its supposed to ring for five minutes at full volume). If I call my phone it makes a quick chirp and then goes into silent mode from vibrate (its supposed to stay at full volume). Can someone please test theirs?

hytekjosh said:
I have Google Apps and am trying to ring my device remotely while its set to vibrate. It rings once at full volume then stops (its supposed to ring for five minutes at full volume). If I call my phone it makes a quick chirp and then goes into silent mode from vibrate (its supposed to stay at full volume). Can someone please test theirs?
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Works fine for me.

In working with Google, the resolution was:
Paid Google Apps should use: https://www.google.com/apps/mydevices
Regular Android Consumers: https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
Using the Google Apps link all the functionality works great.

It did the same thing for me. One ring at full volume, then fell back to silent.
The Google ID i have tied to this phone is my personal one, so I can only use the "Regular Android Customers"

Working fine here.

My wife uses the HTC One on T-Mobile, and we see this behavior on her phone as well. I don't remember my One on Verizon having this issue, but in fairness I never tried it until after I flashed CM 10.2. Anyway, it's not specific to the Verizon edition. Whether that's comforting or not, I can't say.

Anthrax79 said:
It did the same thing for me. One ring at full volume, then fell back to silent.
The Google ID i have tied to this phone is my personal one, so I can only use the "Regular Android Customers"
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Same here. One ring only.

Old thread but the same for me.
Rings once.

steven_1214 said:
Old thread but the same for me.
Rings once.
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Same here. Rings once, then unable to trigger again. Not sure what the retry threshold is supposed to be.

Just tested it with my Note3 and it does the same, rings only once no matter if the phone is set to vibrate or not. Although it seems to track it fine even though I'm indoors.
But I already had the chance to put this to good use a few weeks ago to find my father's S3. He called one evening upset and said he thinks he lost his phone on the golf course somewhere. I started to get mad at myself for not having installed one of the tracker apps on his phone. It was already near dark and we have heavy dew that would have ruined the phone overnight. So I called Verizon and asked if there was anything we could do. The rep asked if he had a Google account setup on the phone and whether or not GPS was on. I said yes to both and he instructed me how to login at Google.com and track the phone with Android Device Manager. It worked perfect. It pin-pointed the phone of the golf course and my father and I went to retrieve it. It was really dark by then and I was using my phone, signed into his Google account, to see the map. We went to where the map indicated the phone was but still didn't see it even with flashlights. So I clicked the ring option and we heard his ringtone clearly in the quiet darkness. It was less than 10 feet from where we were looking and it was lying face down it thick grass. Had it not been for the ringer, we may have overlooked it and just assumed the mapped location wasn't very accurate.
So that story had a happy ending and at least the ring option worked on the S3, but it still only rings once on my Note3. And when I immediately click the ring option a second time it doesn't ring at all. If I wait 30secs to a minute and try it again, it will ring but only once. My father had a song ringtone on his S3 and I just have one of the default ringtones on my Note3. Wonder if that makes a difference? Will have to test it sometime.
Also I'm curious to see if the device tracker will work well with GPS turned off? The rep asked me if GPS was turned on, and I knew my father gets good battery life and just leaves his GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi on. I was so excited to see it track the phone that I forgot to ask if it would work with the GPS turned off. The battery on the Note3 also lasts about 2 days even with GPS and Wifi on, so I'm planning on leaving GPS on just in case.

So, with a Galaxy Note 5, just updated to Marshmallow 6.0.1, I can't get it to ring at all (didn't try with 5.1.1).

0x6A7232 said:
So, with a Galaxy Note 5, just updated to Marshmallow 6.0.1, I can't get it to ring at all (didn't try with 5.1.1).
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Is Android device manager allowed as a device manager under settings->security ?
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dottat said:
Is Android device manager allowed as a device manager under settings->security ?
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Yes it is.

Notification and ring volume Android pie

Curious what some of you are doing as far as managing volume since Pie. And if my complaint below annoys anyone else.
My complaint about Pie is the fact that the notification volume is married to the ring volume. Typically I want my phone to ring at about 75% and notifications to sound off about 30%.
I've tried sound profile and macro droid. What I've discovered is that even though in both of those applications you can adjust notification volume separate from ring volume like with Samsung, but what ever was last to change is what both are set to. It's very frustrating having my phone blast notifications at 75% or my phone ring at 30% and not hear it. I've created a few macros that almost solve the issue, but the macros are not 100% all the time.
I've searched high and low and can hardly find anyone else complain about this. That makes me wonder, am I missing something really simple?
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Nope, it's been tied together for years, not just with the Pie update. On Oreo and previous versions i was able to use xposed and Gravitybox to separate the notification and ringtone volume levels, or on some custom roms they have that option built in. I updated to Pie, and gave up xposed/gravitybox.. but I would still like the ability to set notification and ring volumes separate. One day maybe..

Scratching my head as to why I never noticed until Pie, I've had my Pixel 2xl since May.
Any other solutions people use that don't require root?
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scott2ya said:
Scratching my head as to why I never noticed until Pie, I've had my Pixel 2xl since May.
Any other solutions people use that don't require root?
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I am currently trying out an app called precise volume. See if it works for you.
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houtx2 said:
I am currently trying out an app called precise volume. See if it works for you.
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installed precise volume.. haven't noticed a difference yet, and when i go back in and check the settings it seems the system changes the values..

Yeah I remember now, I was using sound profile to manage my sounds. After the pie update I couldn't get it to work well with my DND rules, kept missing important calls, so I ditched it and went all native.
The hack job in doing now is using macrodroid (user friendly tasker like app) monitor for incoming calls and set ringer to 75% unless silent or vibrate, then wait 20 seconds and set volume back to 30%. That makes sure my notifications don't scream at me all the time.
I also set up the DND schedule in macrodroid mainly because using the native DND, it would use the last set volume and not wake me up for important calls. This way when my schedule activates DND, it will also set the ring volume all the way up so the important calls and texts will wake me up while muting everyone else.
Too much work to make all this happen, I miss my Samsung.
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So no solution yet on this, I remember back in the first galaxy days, when I rooted and installed ROM... that was one of the options almost every custom ROM had... hard to belief it never made it all the way into an official google release...

You can always use Automagic (preferred) or Tasker to set up shortcuts. It can adjust each individually. The newest Automagic beta (gotta purchase it) can even intercept your volume buttons. Get creative with it and can probably find a better solution than you previously had.

You can try Volume Butler app from playstore. It works for me.

pvtjoker42 said:
Nope, it's been tied together for years, not just with the Pie update. On Oreo and previous versions i was able to use xposed and Gravitybox to separate the notification and ringtone volume levels, or on some custom roms they have that option built in. I updated to Pie, and gave up xposed/gravitybox.. but I would still like the ability to set notification and ring volumes separate. One day maybe..
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I just bought a OnePlus 6T after being on a Samsung Note5 since it came out and forgot about this "feature" of stock Android. I don't know why it's too much to ask for these to be separate. Now if I want to silence notifications at night but allow the phone to ring I have to use the Do Not Disturb settings. Should be so much easier than this.
I remember one version of Android had the two sliders for notifications and ringtone separate, and you could select a checkbox to sync them only if you wanted.

What the heck!
I've been on CyanogenMod/LineageOS for the past years and now that I'm on OxygenOS with the OnePlus 6T I'm noticing this nonsense!
What's the problem on having the option to link the ringer and notification volume togheter or NOT???
And at the same time, what't the problem on having the option to choose to use the volume buttons for media or for ringer?
It's a software, leave us the options!

Same here. Lineageos user now oneplus 6. No separate notifications volume. Very very annoying. ****, maybe put an expert mode to android if you think people are confused by so many options. ?

Notification volumee
scott2ya said:
Curious what some of you are doing as far as managing volume since Pie. And if my complaint below annoys anyone else.
My complaint about Pie is the fact that the notification volume is married to the ring volume. Typically I want my phone to ring at about 75% and notifications to sound off about 30%.
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Yes! I find it really, really annoying. I like to have notifications only just audible but ring tone quite loud and the fact that this is now impossible, is incredibly irritating and frustrating. What on earth were the Android Pie developers thinking of....
I haven't found any fix for it at all but I'm not as au fait with development as you are. I'll keep looking though. Perhaps there'll be a fix from Android Pie developers soon.

I gave my pixel 2xl to my son and picked up a note 9. Forgot how much I missed Samsung. No longer have to deal with that asinine decision to marry ring tone and notification sounds. Love my note9. But miss the camera from the pixel
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The easiest way to reduce notification volume is to use Audacity or similar and supress the loudness of the audio file. No need to root the device just for that.

It seems like a huge conspiracy. Why oh why google cannot affort to make it a setting to choose different volumes. It must be that apple is paying them to make android suck.
I miss all most my calls now on my new phone. I just do not hear them with my notifications off. I just cannot have notification volume on at work. I get hundreds of those each day.
But I maybe get a phone call once a week during office our? Also when going to sleep or watching tv or what ever it is super super irritating to get those super loud notifications.
They say is like this since kitkat. Well I come from kitkat and my kitkat did not work that way. Maybe I fixed it years ago but I cannot remember.
Now there seems to be a solution called "Volume Butler" but hey! This is no longer on google play? You would think that google discovered that some people dared having difference volume for ringones and notifications. !!!!
I have a rooted phone I cannot believe it is this complicated to seperate the volumes. and I so do not understand why google is forceing this. what could possibly be their motivation not to make this optional? Sure link by default not problem if we can just turn it of.

okay I found volume buttler some where else but it totallay does not sepperate the 2.
It only shows 2 sliders but only one works and works for both.
I cannot believe this. make my phone useless. Since people cannot call me like most of the time.
I have to get a seperate phone dumb phone? ith a seprate databundle just to get calls and my new . How evil is that. And people will not understand thay canot whats app me on my calling nummbers. They have to whatsapp me on my notification number.
Als this because of a lazy developer at google?
Screw fingerprint scanning or face recognition give me my seperate volumes.
And then people say give feed back! just go to settings / tips /feedback? Well my stock android 9 does not have that.
Getting desperate.
Maybe install 10 versions of each notifications sound and have an app rename them based on the volume I need. But still think it is totally unnessary! This is not a feature it is a basic function of the stupid phone.

I agree it's bs with stock not having this feature. On most custom Roms it's included.
This is on lineage 16

anand_kumar said:
The easiest way to reduce notification volume is to use Audacity or similar and supress the loudness of the audio file. No need to root the device just for that.
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A genius and elegant solution for a stupid problem that should not be. :highfive: :victory: :highfive: