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Help Mystery door bell

thicket

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May 23, 2010
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Seattle
Ever since the ICS update my phone makes a loud DING DONG sound randomly throughout the day. The only think I can come up with is it's letting me know when 4G is up, or down, or at the bar having a drink. But I can't be sure that's it. That is the only thing I notice is different. For the life of me I can not find how to turn this off...I have hit 99% of the settings, WHERE FOR THE LOVE OF ANDROID IS THE 1% I'M MISSING! Anyone know? I can not string the right words together in search to find a similar issue, either that or I am the ONLY person on the planet that has a phone with a random door bell. Help please, before I throw this phone into the Puget Sound.

Ashley
 
I think there may be an issue with yahoo type email programs also.

Check this from a Verizon page and see if it helps.

Personal (POP / IMAP) Email Notifications - DROID RAZR / RAZR MAXX by MOTOROLA


  1. From a Home screen, select Apps (located in the lower center).
  2. Select Email.
  3. From an Inbox, select Menu.
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  4. Select Settings.
  5. Select the appropriate account (located below General).
  6. From the NOTIFICATION SETTINGS section, select Email notifications.
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    Enabled when a check mark is present.
  7. If enabled, select Choose ringtone.
  8. Select a ringtone then select OK.
  9. Select Vibrate.
  10. Select one of the following:
    • Always
    • Only when silent
    • Never
 
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Verizon started installing a live streaming app called "Color" with the ICS update. I had installed it before the update, but found it too annoying and uninstalled it. The doorbell is letting you know that a live streaming event is available and that you can tune and catch the fun.

You can go into the app and change the notification sound, or you can go into the app management area and disable the app.

Why they chose a doorbell is beyond me and extremely annoying. The only thing I find more annoying is the annoying sound from "Dumb and Dumber."
 
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Well I tried the email route, but all I have is gmail. I tried to click on yahoo (etc) and it said I had to sign in. I didn't, would my phone be notifying me if I don't even have an account set up?

Then, I went to Color and it asked me to sign in via FB.... I didn't do it because, again, would my phone be notifying me of anything if I wasn't even signed in?

Both these options gave me no option for settings without signing in first.

So frustrating.
 
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I have the Droid Bionic, and this doorbell issue just started about 2 hours ago, and will not stop. I've installed nothing new today - I checked and I don't have the "Color" ap. I don't have wi fi on. My signal is strong and hasn't fluctuated. I haven't moved from this particular chair during that time because I'm at work. I don't even think that this particular phone has ICS as it's older (unless I got the upgrade, I never have any idea). All I can say is....wth???
 
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I hope you figure it out. I seriously LOL'd when I read this. WTH? Who could have possibly thought that new alert would be helpful?? I think they add weird things sometimes just to keep us on our toes.

Ever since the ICS update my phone makes a loud DING DONG sound randomly throughout the day. The only think I can come up with is it's letting me know when 4G is up, or down, or at the bar having a drink. But I can't be sure that's it. That is the only thing I notice is different. For the life of me I can not find how to turn this off...I have hit 99% of the settings, WHERE FOR THE LOVE OF ANDROID IS THE 1% I'M MISSING! Anyone know? I can not string the right words together in search to find a similar issue, either that or I am the ONLY person on the planet that has a phone with a random door bell. Help please, before I throw this phone into the Puget Sound.

Ashley
 
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Ok, kids, I seemed to have resolved my mystery doorbell issue. I'd been going into "applications running" and closing stuff that I didn't need in hopes of resolving the issue. Nothing worked. However, today I went into "settings" and "battery usage" and I found two programs that were apparently using battery, but weren't actually running (no idea how/why, I'm not that smart, but they were). One was DishNetwork, and another barely useful program. I kept trying to stop them from the battery usage screen (which was an option) but they wouldn't go away. I even tried pulling the battery, blah blah, blah - they still showed that they were using battery power. So, I just deleted the mofos. Doorbell issues went away. I've reinstalled them and have not had any issues since. So, maybe it's just coincidence, but it seems that this has taken care of the issue. Again, it wasn't from the "applications running" part of settings that I found these rogue problem makers, but from the "battery usage". Hopefully this will solve someone else's issues as well.
 
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I had this same problem with my Droid4. I logged out of my Yahoo email and I have not had the door bell since. But I am not ruling it out!
This did it for me. I was getting so annoyed by my "ding", I kept thinking that someone was doorbell ditching at my house.
Anyway, after disabling the yahoo email and not hearing the ding for a few hours, I logged back in and found a notification setting area where I was able to change the default sound to no sound, and disable the yahoo taskbar notifications.
I hope this took care of it for good.
 
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Ever since the ICS update my phone makes a loud DING DONG sound randomly throughout the day. The only think I can come up with is it's letting me know when 4G is up, or down, or at the bar having a drink. But I can't be sure that's it. That is the only thing I notice is different. For the life of me I can not find how to turn this off...I have hit 99% of the settings, WHERE FOR THE LOVE OF ANDROID IS THE 1% I'M MISSING! Anyone know? I can not string the right words together in search to find a similar issue, either that or I am the ONLY person on the planet that has a phone with a random door bell. Help please, before I throw this phone into the Puget Sound.

Ashley
It's been two years so I guess you either got it or got rid of the offending phone. I had the problem too recently. That's how I ended up here. I just noticed how to fix it.
system settings
Audio profiles
mine is set on general. tap the settings icon. Tap Default notification sound. Tap silent. Mine was set on ToneDoorbell as yours must have been also.
 
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