I've searched but cannot find an answer for this. I want to silence email notifications only on the Incredible 2. The closest I've been able to come is to go into notification settings and slide the rocker down to silent...but then I cannot hear text notifications. I'm using one gmail account and I use Handcent for text. So...how do I silence gmail without silencing text? I've had a Droid and Thunderbolt, it's simple to do in both those phones. Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.
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Help How Can I Silence Email ONLY?!
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Only thing I can think of is to not actively sync your mail. When you want to check it, open the app to sync it and see if you have any new.
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Try: settings>accounts & sync>mail>account settings>notification settings
From here uncheck notification sound
From here uncheck notification sound
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I would definitely be annoyed big time if I were one to set it differently from sms notifications.
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There is a similar thread in the Droid 1 forum. It looks like notification settings have been completely removed from Gmail.
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One can access and set the notification sound for email under settings/Personalize/Notification Sound/Email but it has NO effect on Gmail notification sound. I have one (alpha, I think) that cannot be changed. I believe that this bug happened with the gmail update, not the Gingerbread update. Previously, one could even select a silent sound.
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At least I feel better now that I know I'm not nuts. It seemed a pretty simple thing to do and after an hour of trying to find a way to silence gmail, I gave up. I don't understand how this phone could be missing something so basic and simple. This is the third Android phone I've dealt with (original Droid and Thunderbolt). Both the others allowed you to set a unique ringtone, including silent, for gmail...but not here. Very odd that this was left out and very frustrating.
I don't know if this belongs in this forum or the All Things Root one, but any ideas if rooting the phone would allow me to install a rom that would allow for this?
I don't know if this belongs in this forum or the All Things Root one, but any ideas if rooting the phone would allow me to install a rom that would allow for this?
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There is a way to do this, thanks to info in another post:
Choose the second tone option: Silent. A complication of the original way, but it works.
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Originally Posted by xdarmercx
I just RMA'D my old Thunderbolt, and I also ran into this problem with the updated Gmail. The correct path is Gmail>menu>more>settings>(your account name)>labels to notify>inbox>then click on ringtone. It doesn't look like a clickable link, but it is. That is what threw me off.
I believe the email notification sound in the phones settings is for the phones stock email service (ie the one that you would use to check yahoo, msn, etc.)
Choose the second tone option: Silent. A complication of the original way, but it works.
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Originally Posted by xdarmercx
I just RMA'D my old Thunderbolt, and I also ran into this problem with the updated Gmail. The correct path is Gmail>menu>more>settings>(your account name)>labels to notify>inbox>then click on ringtone. It doesn't look like a clickable link, but it is. That is what threw me off.
I believe the email notification sound in the phones settings is for the phones stock email service (ie the one that you would use to check yahoo, msn, etc.)
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