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Assign different notification sound for SMS & Email?

Hi folks, is there a way to assign a different notification sound for SMS & email notifications? I don't really want to have to use a different messaging app just to do this though. Thanks very much.

You can set and change your SMS notification by going into Messages > Settings.

You can do the same with e-mail by accessing Googlemail > Settings.

You can enter Mail > Settings and enable notifications for other e-mail addresses, but you can't change the sound in here. I think the phone uses the selected notification sound for all emails.
 
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Hi folks, is there a way to assign a different notification sound for SMS & email notifications? I don't really want to have to use a different messaging app just to do this though. Thanks very much.

Tone picker is an excellent app & free, this allows you to easily select music files as your ringtone & message tone it will even let you use music for notification tones.
 
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You can set and change your SMS notification by going into Messages > Settings.

You can do the same with e-mail by accessing Googlemail > Settings.

You can enter Mail > Settings and enable notifications for other e-mail addresses, but you can't change the sound in here. I think the phone uses the selected notification sound for all emails.

I've just done a few tests and I can confirm that the Desire does use the selected notification sound and settings for all emails.
 
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You can set and change your SMS notification by going into Messages > Settings.

You can do the same with e-mail by accessing Googlemail > Settings.

You can enter Mail > Settings and enable notifications for other e-mail addresses, but you can't change the sound in here. I think the phone uses the selected notification sound for all emails.

Thanks for the suggestion. :) I can change the notification sound for SMS but don't seem to have the option to select a different sound with the mail settings. It just gives the 'use notification' option. :thinking:

I'll take a look at Tone picker, thanks for that.

Edit: tried Tone Picker but it doesn't have the right options either, unless I'm missing something obvious?
 
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Thanks for the suggestion. :) I can change the notification sound for SMS but don't seem to have the option to select a different sound with the mail settings. It just gives the 'use notification' option. :thinking:

I'll take a look at Tone picker, thanks for that.

Edit: tried Tone Picker but it doesn't have the right options either, unless I'm missing something obvious?

If you go to Googlemail and press Menu>Settings you can customise the notification sound etc in there. That will then be used for other email as well, providing you have the notification box ticked of course! :)
 
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If you go to Googlemail and press Menu>Settings you can customise the notification sound etc in there. That will then be used for other email as well, providing you have the notification box ticked of course! :)

Will this work for hotmail too mate? I really wanna change my notification tone for hotmail email. I am using Exchange for Android 2.x for all my hotmail emails.

Thanks for your help. ;)
 
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