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Help Notifications During The Night

Eris Ed

Android Expert
Jul 20, 2010
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Manchester, UK
I've had my Desire for over a month now and most features are set up sync/update about every 3 hours, including email polling.

2 days ago I started getting woken up in the middle of the night by notifications. This has never been a problem before and I think I changed a setting when I first got the phone that let me choose daytime and night time periods, so the phone would only 'wake up' and make a noise during the day.

I've looked through the phone settings and the settings of my apps and email clients but can't seem to find anything that keeps the phone silent at night.

I can always use the audio toggle to turn the phone to silent, but I'm sure there's a way to achieve the same result automatically.

Any ideas?
 
The only setting I can think of relates to an Exchange ActiveSync email account. You can specify peak and off-peak times during the day, and say you set off peak to night time, you can set the frequency to manual.

Settings > Accounts & Sync > Exchange ActiveSync > Schedule

Not sure I've seen a setting anywhere for the other mail apps though (google mail..)

You could always turn 3G/WiFi off - but I guess that is just the same as putting your phone on silent.
 
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Try using Timeriffic (I feel like a rep for the dev :p )
Its a good free app and thats exactly what I use it for, in combination with APNDroid you can schedule most things to switch on\off and volume levels etc. Below is what I use, but its much more powerful than that.

I set mine for "night" mode at 23:00

No Vibrate
Ringer 20%
Notification 0%
Bluetooth Off
3G/2G Data Off
Wifi Off

and "day" mode at 07:15
Vibrate
Ringer 75%
Notification 75%
3G/2G Data On
Wifi On
 
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Tasker will do all you ever desire (no pun intended)

Using tasker my phone does the following

1) 9:00-17:30 Mon-Fri if near office go to vibrate mode
2) If near home turn on Wi-Fi
3) If near home 22:30-07:00 and on power go to silent mode
4) Check diary to see if on call, if so ignore rule 3
5) If caller in prefered list turn off silent/vibrate and set ringer max

It only costs $4 but makes your phone infinitely configurable :D
 
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Sorry if it's a dumb question.. but how do I do this? :thinking:

Thanks

The easiest way is to download AudioManager from the Market and install the widget on your homescreen. Tapping the widget gives you instant access to every audio type on your phone (ringer, music, notifications, etc) and you can adjust them all with a swipe ;)
 
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