How to edit registry so the notification options you want available are available and selected. I posted this on another thread but thought it could also be of use here.
I hated that my brand new Sprint Touch Pro was beeping at me because of an appointment reminder and I needed to dismiss the reminder before it would quite beeping (the Repeat check box is grayed out, but selected for Reminders by default, so it couldn't be unselected). Not anymore
My phone uses MW6.1, so I have only tested these values on this.
First a list of the reminders in the Registry found in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications
15F11F90… - Reminder
695F6B37… - RSS-Hub:New Item
85ee47b2… - QuickGPS
8ddf46e7… - Connection established
8ddf46e8… - Connection disconnected
A877D658… - Begin Sync
A877D658… - Beam:Autoretrieve
A877D659… - End Sysnc
A877D65A… - Messaging: New Email
A877D65B… - Messaging: New Text
A877D660… - Missed Call
A877D661… - Voice Mail
DDBD3B44… - Wireless Network Detect
There are two important keys:
AvailableOptionsOptions
The values in these keys will determine what options are available (AvailableOptions) and which options are selected (Options).
The values relate to the following (in the order on the Notifications tab):
1 = Play Sound16 = Repeat8 = Display message on screen4 = Flash light for ...2 = Vibrate
Add the numbers of the notifications you desire. So if you wanted all of them selected you would put 31 in the Options key. If you only wanted a message and vibrate you would put 10.
Next step.
AvailableOptions determine which boxes are available and which are grayed out. (we will leave out Repeat until later). Options determines which are selected, and yes you can select something in Options that is not selected in AvailableOptions, it will appear as a grayed out check box that is selected.
So if AvailableOptions is set to 10 only the Display message on screen and Vibrate check boxes will be available, the rest will be grayed out. If the Options value is 14, the Play Sound will be grayed out, unselected; the Display message will be available and selected; the Flash light will be grayed out, but selected and 5 min (Duration key = 5); Vibrate will be available and selected.
So set the options you want to select and unselect using the Available Options key and use the Options key to specify which are selected. Changing the selection in the Notifications tab will change the value of the Options key, but will not change the AvailableOpions key.
The only values accepted for either are 1-15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31
Is is because you can't have Repeat (16) without Play sound (1), that's why there are numbers missing. I tested putting 16 in AvailableOptions and 31 in Options and all boxes were selected, but grayed out.
Now for the Repeat checkbox
Things get slightly more complicated when the Repeat box gets involved. The way the AvailableOptions values function do not change. Setting it to 15 will make each box, except the repeat box, available, with the Repeat box grayed out.
It seems that the Repeat box is governed by the Options value first and the AvailableOptions second. So setting AvailableOptions to 31 and Options to 15 would result in Repeat being unselected and grayed out.
The only way to un-gray the Repeat check box is to set AvailableOptions to 31 (it still matters) and set Options value to 1073741824 + (what you want selected).
So 1073741825 (1073741824 + 1) is only Play Sound,while 1073741855 (1073741824 + 31) will select all of them.
The only thing I can figure is that 1073741824 is 40000000 in HEX and that is needed to turn on access to the Repeat check box. The values added to that affect what happens to after that.
If you set AvailableOptions to 11 and Options to 107374185, all of the boxes will be checked, but Repeat and Flash light will be grayed out.
I have seen different values listed on the web, but the values I list here are what windows assigned when certain boxes were checked and unchecked. I did us one of the values I found on the web to determine 1073741824 was needed to open access to the Repeat check box.
Have fun setting your Notifications.
--Fred
It's nice to give back after gaining so much from the gifts of others.
Great guide fredjones32!!
Thanks a lot,
is this something that will allow u to stop like the text message ringer when u read it? instead of having to hit the End key?
This is great!
A big THANK YOU, mate!!
Awesome guide!!!! Maybe this should be in the Wiki as well...
Edit: Nevermind, I just added it to the Wiki under "WM6 Common Tweaks"
I have only the options key for each notification in the registry but not the available options key.
Aftashok said:
is this something that will allow u to stop like the text message ringer when u read it? instead of having to hit the End key?
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Dont' know. Check to see if the repeat is checked for Messaging:New text message. If not, it should only play the sound once, so you could choose a shorter sound.
claus1953 said:
I have only the options key for each notification in the registry but not the available options key.
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What do you see in the Notifications tab under Sound settings?
Since I haven't worked with Onyx Ultimate ROM, I can't say if that's the reason or not.
You could try adding the key or use the values for Options that are above 1073741824, since this sets things. If you change the value for Options and the boxes are grayed out, then I would try adding the AvailableOptions key and see what happens.
--Fred
hi
hav you figure out the duration under Messaging:New text message?
i tried playing around with the values, but dun get it...
some values causes the sms to go w/o the notification..
silencer22 said:
hi
hav you figure out the duration under Messaging:New text message?
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The Duration key in the registry is the duration, in minutes, for the alert LED on the phone to blink. This value can be is set by a drop down menu that becomes ungrayed when "Flash light for" check box is checked. I believe the default for a new text message has the "Flash light for" check box unchecked and grayed out. The will render any change to the duration as meaningless because without the box checked, the duration key never comes into play.
To adjust that setting, you will need to set AvailableOptions with the appropriate number to activate the Flash light option. You will also need to set the Options will the right number to activate the Flash light for notification. You could try setting both to 15.
Now with the drop down menu accessible, changes can be made to the Duration and they will show in the registry. If you desire to set the registry manually, the only acceptable values for Duration are:
0 (No limit); 5 (5 minutes); 10 (10 minutes) see the pattern; 15; 20; 30; 45; or 60
Other values will not show up in the drop down menu on the Notifications tab. It might even create adverse behavior (just a guess), which might explain what you are experiencing.
Hope that helps.
--Fred
What if I want to turn them off?
thx
peibl said:
What if I want to turn them off?
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set AvailableOptions to 31 (so nothing is grayed out) and set Options value to 1073741824 (so nothing is selected, including Repeat)
something about reminder's snooze times ?
There is something to change the reminder's snooze times ? (I think that 1, 5, 15 minutes .. and so on, are useless.
Thanks.
Any way of getting more control over the Raphael/Diamond's LED? It has 4 LED's around the dpad that can flash clockwise, counterclockwise, dim, etc. Presumably the light patterns can be controlled but there has to be more to it... The option to get a notification is enabled, but control over that notification appears to be preset (these are the 'rules' they follow: http://www.fuzemobility.com/?p=1390)
fredjones32 said:
How to edit registry so the notification options you want available are available and selected. I posted this on another thread but thought it could also be of use here.
I hated that my brand new Sprint Touch Pro was beeping at me because of an appointment reminder and I needed to dismiss the reminder before it would quite beeping (the Repeat check box is grayed out, but selected for Reminders by default, so it couldn't be unselected). Not anymore
My phone uses MW6.1, so I have only tested these values on this.
First a list of the reminders in the Registry found in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications
15F11F90… - Reminder
695F6B37… - RSS-Hub:New Item
85ee47b2… - QuickGPS
8ddf46e7… - Connection established
8ddf46e8… - Connection disconnected
A877D658… - Begin Sync
A877D658… - Beam:Autoretrieve
A877D659… - End Sysnc
A877D65A… - Messaging: New Email
A877D65B… - Messaging: New Text
A877D660… - Missed Call
A877D661… - Voice Mail
DDBD3B44… - Wireless Network Detect
There are two important keys:
AvailableOptionsOptions
The values in these keys will determine what options are available (AvailableOptions) and which options are selected (Options).
The values relate to the following (in the order on the Notifications tab):
1 = Play Sound16 = Repeat8 = Display message on screen4 = Flash light for ...2 = Vibrate
Add the numbers of the notifications you desire. So if you wanted all of them selected you would put 31 in the Options key. If you only wanted a message and vibrate you would put 10.
Next step.
AvailableOptions determine which boxes are available and which are grayed out. (we will leave out Repeat until later). Options determines which are selected, and yes you can select something in Options that is not selected in AvailableOptions, it will appear as a grayed out check box that is selected.
So if AvailableOptions is set to 10 only the Display message on screen and Vibrate check boxes will be available, the rest will be grayed out. If the Options value is 14, the Play Sound will be grayed out, unselected; the Display message will be available and selected; the Flash light will be grayed out, but selected and 5 min (Duration key = 5); Vibrate will be available and selected.
So set the options you want to select and unselect using the Available Options key and use the Options key to specify which are selected. Changing the selection in the Notifications tab will change the value of the Options key, but will not change the AvailableOpions key.
The only values accepted for either are 1-15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31
Is is because you can't have Repeat (16) without Play sound (1), that's why there are numbers missing. I tested putting 16 in AvailableOptions and 31 in Options and all boxes were selected, but grayed out.
Now for the Repeat checkbox
Things get slightly more complicated when the Repeat box gets involved. The way the AvailableOptions values function do not change. Setting it to 15 will make each box, except the repeat box, available, with the Repeat box grayed out.
It seems that the Repeat box is governed by the Options value first and the AvailableOptions second. So setting AvailableOptions to 31 and Options to 15 would result in Repeat being unselected and grayed out.
The only way to un-gray the Repeat check box is to set AvailableOptions to 31 (it still matters) and set Options value to 1073741824 + (what you want selected).
So 1073741825 (1073741824 + 1) is only Play Sound,while 1073741855 (1073741824 + 31) will select all of them.
The only thing I can figure is that 1073741824 is 40000000 in HEX and that is needed to turn on access to the Repeat check box. The values added to that affect what happens to after that.
If you set AvailableOptions to 11 and Options to 107374185, all of the boxes will be checked, but Repeat and Flash light will be grayed out.
I have seen different values listed on the web, but the values I list here are what windows assigned when certain boxes were checked and unchecked. I did us one of the values I found on the web to determine 1073741824 was needed to open access to the Repeat check box.
Have fun setting your Notifications.
--Fred
It's nice to give back after gaining so much from the gifts of others.
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Thought I had this figured out. It seems that every morning after the reminders do their job, the box for display message on screen unchecks itself. so it is good for one use at a time... any thoughts. ??
Thanks so much for posting this!
I've created a couple of registry files for those who are comfortable with importing these to the registry - I can't do CABs yet, sorry.
The first file sets all of the AvailableOptions values to 31 without changing anything else. This makes most options available in the Notifications dialog but, as explained above, it doesn't enable the repeat checkboxes.
The second file does the same thing but also sets all Options values to 1073741824. This has the effect of disabling all of your notifications but it does enable the repeat checkbox. Simply go into the Notifications dialog and check the desired boxes (the names of your sound files will still be remembered) and now the repeat checkbox will be available.
Edit: I've finally got round to learning how to make CAB files and I've attached the two versions described above. Please note, these settings work fine on my Diamond but I can't guarantee anything. I'm assuming the full keys names are the same for everyone.
First of all, thanks for posting this info, it has been very helpful to me in preventing missed texts. I use it to receive text pages for work (which I cannot miss). After viewing the text (doesn't matter if I view in TouchFlo3D viewer, WinMo messaging app, or both) it continues to notify me until some unknown criteria (it just stops by itself after like 5 mins or so).
I tried checking the "display message" check box since that brings up a standard WinMo text notification (which is not ideal, but I figured that would give me a "dismiss" option). It did give me the dismiss option, but that does not make it stop playing the notification sound/vibrate. Even after hitting "dismiss" on this box, it still repeats the sound.
Anyone know why or a workaround?
I had the same problem and the way I found to stop it is to press the red phone key, the one that ends the conversation.
I don't feel comfortable with this, but anyway its better than nothing.
THanks man, that works for me too. Not a perfect solution but it seems to work OK.
Also, I got some info on another forum as well, I'm posting it here:
Make reminders show only once
By default, reminders will keep bugging you for 2 minutes. You can change this to zero minutes by adjusting this value:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications\Reminders\AutoSnoo ze\AutoSnoozeMins = 0 (DWORD decimanl)
Note that you can set this to any value you like. Alternative to setting this value to zero is to delete the 'AutoSnooze' key altogether
fredjones32 said:
How to edit registry so the notification options you want available are available and selected. I posted this on another thread but thought it could also be of use here.
I hated that my brand new Sprint Touch Pro was beeping at me because of an appointment reminder and I needed to dismiss the reminder before it would quite beeping (the Repeat check box is grayed out, but selected for Reminders by default, so it couldn't be unselected). Not anymore
My phone uses MW6.1, so I have only tested these values on this.
First a list of the reminders in the Registry found in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications
15F11F90… - Reminder
695F6B37… - RSS-Hub:New Item
85ee47b2… - QuickGPS
8ddf46e7… - Connection established
8ddf46e8… - Connection disconnected
A877D658… - Begin Sync
A877D658… - Beam:Autoretrieve
A877D659… - End Sysnc
A877D65A… - Messaging: New Email
A877D65B… - Messaging: New Text
A877D660… - Missed Call
A877D661… - Voice Mail
DDBD3B44… - Wireless Network Detect
There are two important keys:
AvailableOptionsOptions
The values in these keys will determine what options are available (AvailableOptions) and which options are selected (Options).
The values relate to the following (in the order on the Notifications tab):
1 = Play Sound16 = Repeat8 = Display message on screen4 = Flash light for ...2 = Vibrate
Add the numbers of the notifications you desire. So if you wanted all of them selected you would put 31 in the Options key. If you only wanted a message and vibrate you would put 10.
Next step.
AvailableOptions determine which boxes are available and which are grayed out. (we will leave out Repeat until later). Options determines which are selected, and yes you can select something in Options that is not selected in AvailableOptions, it will appear as a grayed out check box that is selected.
So if AvailableOptions is set to 10 only the Display message on screen and Vibrate check boxes will be available, the rest will be grayed out. If the Options value is 14, the Play Sound will be grayed out, unselected; the Display message will be available and selected; the Flash light will be grayed out, but selected and 5 min (Duration key = 5); Vibrate will be available and selected.
So set the options you want to select and unselect using the Available Options key and use the Options key to specify which are selected. Changing the selection in the Notifications tab will change the value of the Options key, but will not change the AvailableOpions key.
The only values accepted for either are 1-15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31
Is is because you can't have Repeat (16) without Play sound (1), that's why there are numbers missing. I tested putting 16 in AvailableOptions and 31 in Options and all boxes were selected, but grayed out.
Now for the Repeat checkbox
Things get slightly more complicated when the Repeat box gets involved. The way the AvailableOptions values function do not change. Setting it to 15 will make each box, except the repeat box, available, with the Repeat box grayed out.
It seems that the Repeat box is governed by the Options value first and the AvailableOptions second. So setting AvailableOptions to 31 and Options to 15 would result in Repeat being unselected and grayed out.
The only way to un-gray the Repeat check box is to set AvailableOptions to 31 (it still matters) and set Options value to 1073741824 + (what you want selected).
So 1073741825 (1073741824 + 1) is only Play Sound,while 1073741855 (1073741824 + 31) will select all of them.
The only thing I can figure is that 1073741824 is 40000000 in HEX and that is needed to turn on access to the Repeat check box. The values added to that affect what happens to after that.
If you set AvailableOptions to 11 and Options to 107374185, all of the boxes will be checked, but Repeat and Flash light will be grayed out.
I have seen different values listed on the web, but the values I list here are what windows assigned when certain boxes were checked and unchecked. I did us one of the values I found on the web to determine 1073741824 was needed to open access to the Repeat check box.
Have fun setting your Notifications.
--Fred
It's nice to give back after gaining so much from the gifts of others.
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Just what I was looking for. Great work, however on my Touch Pro I can only enter 8 numbers in the Options key, cannot enter the + numbers. If I set it to 17 I get the Play Sounds and the Repeat box checked but grayed out. Any suggestions??
Re. the long article
That long article is fantastic and clears up lots of things. It even works as documented. The only issue is during the reminder period. It repeats yes but you cant control the delay between reminders. This can be disruptive if you've left your phone on the office desk while you're stiring your freshly brewed
I've tried a few more reminder apps since and gone back to "Best Reminder" - not perfect I know.
http://best-reminder.en.softonic.com/windowsmobile
Way back in my EVO OG days, someone had discovered how to directly access the LEDs, and I had put together some Tasker scripts to put them to good use. I know that there are apps like LightFlow that allow you to do a bunch of stuff to the LEDs, but I found them very cumbersome to use, and there were all kinds of settings that don't work on the Note 2. There was no easy way to know what settings to choose and what were appropriate for the Note 2. Also, Light Flow only works when the display is off, and interferes with the Phones own notification system. This mod works whether the display is on or off (if you want) and is independent of the built in charging notifications.
Also, it's way more awesome to learn to do stuff yourself!
I've used Tasker for years, and although it takes some getting used to, it does a great job at executing tasks based on events.
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Anyway, here's what you can do using Terminal Emulator (which can then be scripted in Tasker). YOU WILL NEED ROOT ACCESS.
Background
1. There are 3 LEDs used for notifications, leg_r (red), led_g (green) led_b (blue).
2. Each LED can be set to a specific brightness from 0 to 255 (where 0 is off and 255 is full brightness), by writing to the "brightness" file.
3. Each LED can be set to blink by writing a value of 0 (off) or 1 (on) to the "blink" file.
4. You can set the time the LED illuminates and the time it is dark when blinking by writing to the "delay_on" and "delay_off" files (values are in milliseconds).
5. These files are located in /sys/class/leds
It appears that "blink" must be executed again after changing the delay for it to have an effect, and turning the LED off requires you to revert the last change - if you set brightness and then blink, you must set blink to 0 to turn it off. If you turned it on with brightness last, then you must set brightness to 0 to turn off. (still investigating this part).
All you need to do is enter the following commands:
echo 500 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_b/delay_on <- sets the ON time to 1/2 second
echo 500 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_b/delay_off <- sets the OFF time to 1/2 second
echo 128 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_b/brightness <- sets LED brightness (blue) to about 1/2 of max (note that this turns on the steady LED)
echo 1 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_b/blink <- Blinks the Blue LED at the above intervals
Now in Tasker you can:
a. Create a profile for the "Missed Call" State (or event).
b. Add a Task and in that task add 4 "Scripts" of type "Shell" for each of the above.
c. Make sure you check "Use Root" for each script
I've done this to have my phone flash red for missed calls, blue for missed texts and green for missed calendar events (each as its own Tasker profile)
You need to create one (or two) additional profiles to disable the flashing. All it needs is the following 3 commands to turn all the LEDs off.
echo 0 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_b/blink
echo 0 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_r/blink
echo 0 > /sys/ckass/leds/led_g/blink
I set one for the "Screen Unlock" event and one for the "Notification Bar". This way, the flashing stops in intuitive ways.
There's way more stuff you can do and trigger alerts on using Tasker.
You can also access the 2 Flashes and 2 Task Lights on the back of the phone (although I suspect it is really just two LEDs that run in 2 different modes). They are located at:
/sys/class/leds/leds-sec1
/sys/class/leds/leds-sec2
/sys/class/leds/torch-sec1
/sys/class/leds/torch-sec2
These only have a brightness setting to turn them on, and are limited to what ever value is stored in max_brightness.
I've attached a couple of Tasker pictures, but feel free to post any questions.