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Alarms vs notifications and muting in kitkat

jusmee

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Jan 26, 2011
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I was looking for an app to mute my nexus tablet and noticed that most of the apps I tried do not change the alarm volume, only notifications and media volumes get set to zero. The tablet is running kitkat. I realized however, that what I thought of as an alarm, say, a reminder from the calendar, is probably really a notification. Is that correct?

I also noticed that the settings for sounds does not have a silent mode setting like my phone (running ICS) does. So what is the lowdown on keeping kitkat quiet? Do I need to find an app that also sets the alarm volume to zero? What things will trigger a real alarm?
 

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