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[Q] Notification tone during text

Hi,
Is there a way where the S3 would vibrate for any incoming notifications (mails, texts, etc.) while I'm texting someone instead of the usual notification tone? I had an Iphone before and it does this. I'm hoping the S3 can have this feature or an app can make this happen. It is very annoying to be in the middle of a text and hear the notification tones several times.
Thanks

Tanopug said:
Hi,
Is there a way where the S3 would vibrate for any incoming notifications (mails, texts, etc.) while I'm texting someone instead of the usual notification tone? I had an Iphone before and it does this. I'm hoping the S3 can have this feature or an app can make this happen. It is very annoying to be in the middle of a text and hear the notification tones several times.
Thanks
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I don't think we have a future where phone recognizes when you text and just vibrates. I think that you can only set it to vibrate only or vibrate & sound. I don't know about the app. It doesn't bother me so I haven't searched for it.
Sent from my frozen SGH-T999

HajmeR said:
I don't think we have a future where phone recognizes when you text and just vibrates. I think that you can only set it to vibrate only or vibrate & sound. I don't know about the app. It doesn't bother me so I haven't searched for it.
Sent from my frozen SGH-T999
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There is an "Alert on Call" option in the call setting. This is same as what I'm asking except I want it in the text setting.

NO notification sound from either email or text

I do not get any notification sounds from incoming email messages or text messages.
Phone ringtones work.
Checked all the normal Settings for Notification.
Any ideas?
thanks for any help.

bbqbrisket said:
I do not get any notification sounds from incoming email messages or text messages.
Phone ringtones work.
Checked all the normal Settings for Notification.
Any ideas?
thanks for any help.
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did you check sound volume? It could be different for ring and notification.
settings->sound->volumes

bubor said:
did you check sound volume? It could be different for ring and notification.
settings->sound->volumes
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Yep. Notification and System as well.
thanks

Notification settings

I jumped directly from Kitkat (Cyanogen OS which my old phone had and which I never updated as it was very buggy update to Lollipop and I wanted for MM which never came) to Nougat when I bought the Z2 Play. It's mostly a positive change except for the notification settings. I know it's been discussed at length how Google messed up the notification settings on Lollipop and the trend has continued in Nougat too.
So now to my issue with it. I have currently set ringtones at full volume and Notifications on silent by selecting default notification ringtone as "None" as I don't want to hear a chime on every notification that comes through as most of my notifications are News feeds. Whenever l recieve a notification my phone vibrates so I assume there's no setting to customize Silent/Vibrate by default for all notifications and also individual app unless the app itself has implemented it in its settings like Textra and merely selecting no notification ringtone sets it to vibrate unless I go to individual app settings and set on the toggle "Show Silently". It is quite convoluted really.
Now what I want to achieve with the way my phone acts on notifications is something like this:
I want the to set a default notification ringtone and I want to set some notifications to vibrate and some to silent which I simply cannot do unless the app provides its own settings of silent/vibrate.
I want the Reminders and Events set in the Google and Calendar app to have a notification ringtone even when in default settings I have set notification ringtone to "None" but they rely on default notification settings. Some apps like Textra provide their own so is it really hard for Google's own app to do the same. This way I can set a different ringtone too than the default one. So I would like to know of a way to do so. Maybe the Motorola profile Settings can be used for this? That is why I am posting this here also.
And honestly why aren't Reminders relying on Alarm sound i.e. if alarms are allowed to make a sound Reminders should too. It is really frustrating. I missed a reminder like this today because I wasn't aware of the convoluted way Nougat handles all this.
Kitkat had the best implementation. It had a separate slider for notification sounds too.(Cyanogen OS had one).
What I think is a better implementation is allowing to set a default ringtone in Sounds settings and then in individual app's notification settings separating the vibrate part from the "Show Silently" option. This would allow me to achieve my goal of having a ringtone for some apps, vibrate for some and silent for some. And it would solve my problem of having a sound when I have set a reminder in the Google app and have set default notification ringtone to "None".
The best implementation of course would be to set a default silent, vibrate or ringtone for notifications and then have granular control for each app i.e have a list of all apps and allowing to choose from Silent, Vibrate or ringtone for each app which would override the default.
Also why not allow to change the default sound that the volume rockers control. In Google's own YouTube app volume rockers change the notification volume and not the media volume which is again very frustrating.
Sorry for the long post and rant. I really wish Google fixes this but I doubt it.

Many apps have individual notification settings.

pizza_pablo said:
Many apps have individual notification settings.
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True many not all and especially not the Google app and calendar app to which I add reminder and Events. And I cannot set a default notification ringtone as the news feeds apps I use don't have a setting to set them on vibrate. So I am kind of stuck there.

roy92 said:
True many not all and especially not the Google app and calendar app to which I add reminder and Events. And I cannot set a default notification ringtone as the news feeds apps I use don't have a setting to set them on vibrate. So I am kind of stuck there.
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There are other calendar apps and you can silence the Google calendar. I use DigiCal, for the dark theme.
I don't know what kind of apps exist for news feeds, but if you get and android wear watch you can totally silence the phone and select which apps vibrate your wrist.

pizza_pablo said:
There are other calendar apps and you can silence the Google calendar. I use DigiCal, for the dark theme.
I don't know what kind of apps exist for news feeds, but if you get and android wear watch you can totally silence the phone and select which apps vibrate your wrist.
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Thanks for the app suggestion. Does it support adding Reminders through Google Assistant?

roy92 said:
Thanks for the app suggestion. Does it support adding Reminders through Google Assistant?
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If you mean creating new events via voice, yes.

How to make notification only sound for text message

The topic pretty much says it all. I get notification sounds for all notifications. I would like it to sound for only a text message on my s9. If I turn off the sounds in apps, does that also turn off the pull-down notifications? Don't want to lose that option. How? Thanks.

Choose "Silent" for the sound for notifications from settings Sound & Vibration, and change the message notification sound from the messages app itself

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Choose "Silent" for the sound for notifications from settings Sound & Vibration, and change the message notification sound from the messages app itself
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Many thanks.

chas521 said:
Many thanks.
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Sms notification

Hey guys
This is a simple bug that bothers me .
I have set a different notification tone for my messages and different for normal notification.
But what ever I do , I am hearing the same notification sound of normal notification not the sms notification, when messages arrive !
Any idea ?

Click on incoming messages in app settings, then go to advanced and change the tone.