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sound profiles

CatsTide

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Oct 29, 2009
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are their any real sound profiles? i'm coming from blackberry and am used to using different profiles. i have seen the airplane and silent profiles but was wondering if i was missing something...i have seen several apps for this but was wondering if it was in the original os anywhere...if not is their an app for this that anyone would recommend?
 
are their any real sound profiles? i'm coming from blackberry and am used to using different profiles. i have seen the airplane and silent profiles but was wondering if i was missing something...i have seen several apps for this but was wondering if it was in the original os anywhere...if not is their an app for this that anyone would recommend?

Beautiful Widget also gives you a vibrate profile. Haven't found any specific profiles in the OS yet.
 
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Locale sucks. All it lets you do is change the phone call settings, not the notifications. That is useless for me. If I just wanted calls muted, I would use silent mode. I want email and other notifications off while I sleep, but I want the ringer to work in case a call comes in. Loving the Droid, but the lack of this feature is ticking me off and I can't find an app that will do it. Ear came close, but it won't give you an on/off option for notifications, only vibrate. argg.
 
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Locale sucks. All it lets you do is change the phone call settings, not the notifications. That is useless for me. If I just wanted calls muted, I would use silent mode. I want email and other notifications off while I sleep, but I want the ringer to work in case a call comes in. Loving the Droid, but the lack of this feature is ticking me off and I can't find an app that will do it. Ear came close, but it won't give you an on/off option for notifications, only vibrate. argg.

keep looking and if you find something post back on this thread...i'll do the same.
 
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Coming from Windows Mobile and this was one of the first utilties I looked for also - currently trying Quick Profiles. You have to setup your own profile definitions but it does let you set the volume for ringer, media, notification, alarm and voice. Profiles is another one.

how bout email? seems simple enough but my main concern is muting email notifications at night but leaving everything else the same. i can do that manually but i would like to have it done automatically.i don't want to get woken up by an email but if i get a call or sms in the night it is probably important.
 
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Coming from black berry this is annoying that android doesn't do this out of the box. locale played havoc on my phone.

Here is my work around until something else comes out.

I made a short cut to sound and display settings on the home page. Goto ringer volume, from here you can mute your notifications and adjust the ringer. Just make sure you uncheck use incoming call volume for notifications.

Then when I wake up I crank the ringer volume and check the box. Not a great solution but it doesn't make my phone unstable either.
 
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Coming from black berry this is annoying that android doesn't do this out of the box. locale played havoc on my phone.

Here is my work around until something else comes out.

I made a short cut to sound and display settings on the home page. Goto ringer volume, from here you can mute your notifications and adjust the ringer. Just make sure you uncheck use incoming call volume for notifications.

Then when I wake up I crank the ringer volume and check the box. Not a great solution but it doesn't make my phone unstable either.

That will work for now. Thanks. I didn't see the option for separate volumes.
 
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i downloaded an app named "profiles" havent gotten to play around with it mut it seems it should do all your looking for :)

It's close, but Profiles has a single volume setting for Notifications (Email, SMS, Calendar, etc) which I think is the fault of most of the apps I've seen.

@bwsmith, I loaded Night Ringer, and it seems like it would be promising, except I wasn't able to load emergency contacts for phone or text. That would probably suffice if I could get it to work.
 
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So sounds like we're still looking for the right solution. I'm really surprised that it doesn't exist. If I had the time I'd get on it...

In the meantime, I've just ended up muting my email notification sounds all the time, since during the day I'm either at my desk anyway or using my phone on a semi-regular basis. Emergency notifications still come in via SMS, which set off a ringtone.

Rawr.
 
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