Tasker full silent profile works great. No idea about free alternatives.
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Anybody else finding it's impossible to completely mute the volumes for "Music, video, games & other media" and "Alarms"?
Settings / Sounds / on any sound profile (Normal, Vibrate, Silent):
1) choose Volumes
2) observe or set "Ringtones & notifications" to completely silent
3) set "Music, video, games & other media" and/or "Alarms" to completely silent (also observe that as low as you set it, "Alarms" plays music) and press the OK button
4) return Volumes
5) observe now "Music, video, games & other media" is set kinda low but not completely off; observe that "Alarms" is a little bit higher in volume than that.
6) play a form of media or game or let an alarm go off and yes they are still audible
Is this a feature, a bug or a case of user education?
They are never completely silent unless you switch to vibrate or silent mode.
Alarms have a setting to sound even if volume is silent
NilsP said:
They are never completely silent unless you switch to vibrate or silent mode.
Alarms have a setting to sound even if volume is silent
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I'm not sure I follow.
Settings / Sounds / Sound Profile = Silent.
Launch Cut the Rope
Theme music begins.
Settings / Sounds / Sound Profile = Vibrate.
Launch Cut the Rope
Theme music begins.
Settings / Sounds / Sound Profile = Silent.
Volume / Music, video, games & other media = as low as possible
Launch Cut the Rope
Theme music begins albeit at a very very very very low volume.
Go back to Volume / Music, video, games & other media and the volume is never at the no-sound mark
Settings / Sounds / Sound Profile = Vibrate.
Volume / Music, video, games & other media = as low as possible
Launch Cut the Rope
Theme music begins albeit at a very very very very low volume.
Go back to Volume / Music, video, games & other media and the volume is never at the no-sound mark
I see what you are saying and I think that is a problem of design.
Typically, when you set the phone to vibrate or silent no notification sounds like texts or phone call ringers occur but there are apps that override that such as maps, music, and alarms, etc..
Notifications and ringer are governed by the ringer and notifications volume and controlled by vibrate or silent mode also. Music and some other apps are based on media volume which is not controlled by vibrate and silent.
Not sure of a way around that
If you got to your list of alarms, there is a settings menu and at the top it has play alarm when in silent mode that you toggle on or off. That may help part of your issue.
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In some of the ICS Roms I've encountered, I cannot chose an alarm ringtone. I get a crash and a reboot. Any suggestions? I just flashed this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1556183
Sounds like the Tasker Fullsilentmode profile will do what I need. Will post an update when I get a chance to check it out.
vprasad1 said:
Sounds like the Tasker Fullsilentmode profile will do what I need. Will post an update when I get a chance to check it out.
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And yes, the Tasker profile does a complete silence.
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On the iphone if i switched the vibrate function on the side of the phone, everything was muted, I notice when i put my phone into vibrate if i go to a game its still at full volume, whats a good master volume controller or something of that sort? I see a ton of them on the market
Yeah, only Media Volume is not muted when you use the volume rocker button.
AudioManager I think is good for a free widget.
I use sound manager & the best thing is you can set schedules for the system volume or individual sounds. I have mine set to kill notifications at night so emails & texts don't wake me, but keep ring volume up for emergency calls.
Quick settings...enable notifications being the same volume as ringtone
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Phoneweaver - enables you to set profiles that are manual, event, location, and timed based...
ISprayCandy said:
I use sound manager & the best thing is you can set schedules for the system volume or individual sounds. I have mine set to kill notifications at night so emails & texts don't wake me, but keep ring volume up for emergency calls.
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Thanks for this...just got it to try it and I love it already
Hello everyone,
I recently switched from a CM7 based rom to Oxygen on my Nexus S for reasons of stability (unrelated to this thread, let's keep this clean).
However, I'll really be missing the CM notification profiles. Always found it weird that Android doesn't include any sound profiles like any dumb phone before did.
So I'm looking for a way to manage different sound profiles for ringtones, notifications and the different volumes (alarm, ringtone, notifications and media) at a press of a button.
It doesn't need to be free (good if it is however) and hopefully it wouldn't take too much screen estate (widget to switch between each? Maybe something in notification?). I liked how the profiles were in the power menu with CM7.
The easier to use the better. I know my way around Tasker, but it's hardly user friendly in it's look. It also needs to override any notification sound. I don't want to hear a billion different notification sounds on a per app setting, I want all my notifications to be similar.
For example, I need 3 profiles:
-Home
Ringtone vol set to max
Notification vol set to max
Media volume set to half
Alarm volume set to max
Ringtone set to Ringtone 1
Notification set to Notification 1
-Work
Ringtone vol set to 75%
Notification vol set to 75%
Media volume set to 0
Alarm volume set to max
Ringtone set to Ringtone 2
Notification set to Notification 2
-Night
Ringtone vol set to max
Notification vol set to 10%
Media volume set to 0
Alarm volume set to max
Ringtone set to Ringtone 3
Notification set to Notification 3
Nothing really too complicated as you can see.
So that's why I'm asking XDA, there's a lot of knowledgeable people here so I'm sure someone uses a similar setup.
Thanks in advance for the suggestions!
polobunny said:
The easier to use the better. I know my way around Tasker, but it's hardly user friendly in it's look. It also needs to override any notification sound. I don't want to hear a billion different notification sounds on a per app setting, I want all my notifications to be similar.
Thanks in advance for the suggestions!
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I'm using Setting Profiles. It's way simpler than tasker. I've got profiles for:
- night-at-home: all sounds off when at home at night (wifi ID), only VIP-group callers can reach me
- gym: at gym (wifi ID) AND headphones inserted - totally silent mode, music player
- meeting: matches "meeting" "movie" etc
- offline: matches "flight" and also used as timed airplane mode is invaluable - I always forget to turn it off
- music: starts google music when headphones inserted
Hope this helps.
It doesn't seem to matter what the volume is set to, my media volume (almost) always has a slash through it and doesn't play media sounds (games, music, etc). I'm not sure what causes it or how I can fix it. The phone seems to do it randomly.
It hasn't always been this way, it comes and goes. I've watched Netflix and heard the music to Tiny Tower which both use the Media volume. Restarting my phone has shown to help at times but so far it always comes back. I'm hoping a firmware update can fix it.
I have no audio apps for monitoring volumes and none of the Motion settings that would affect audio are turned on. I keep my phone on vibrate 24/7 but still wish to have the media volume work separately than the ringer volume. I have (self-taught) experience in rooting, applying mods, general android app development, as well as every day usage with the android OS and this has me incredibly annoyed that I can't figure this out.
How can I explicitly mute/unmute my media volume?
Stock, no root, Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III (SPH-L710) Android 4.0.4 Hardware version L710.14
Do you mute/ vibrate from notifications - I can imagine that will override the sound settings. Set ringtone to zero and media to desired level?
No, I only ever change the volume through the volume rocker when I'm in an app that uses the media volume. I also never change the volume of notifications, they're muted and set to vibrate. The only volume I ever use or change is the media volume.
My phone become silent (at least for all kind of notifications voice calls, SMS, emails, tapatalk and all other events)
While I the sound plays on preview in sound picker.
I can play music via media player also. Only notifications are silent when they should play.
Assigned notification tones are all valid.
Phone is not in quiet mode or rest hours. Having CM11 installed..
bflmpsvz said:
My phone become silent (at least for all kind of notifications voice calls, SMS, emails, tapatalk and all other events)
While I the sound plays on preview in sound picker.
I can play music via media player also. Only notifications are silent when they should play.
Assigned notification tones are all valid.
Phone is not in quiet mode or rest hours. Having CM11 installed..
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Check the setting, the rom is almost stable so there is not an issue like that. Reflashing the rom will probably help.
I was looking at it and fond the source, my phone was swiched to night profile which I didn't know because I don't use profiles. After switching to default profile all sounds are played again.
Have another problem with sound: sometimes after phone restart the sound menu and all other apps sound settings don't locate the assigned sound tones although I can locate them in place by root explorer. They're placed at /system/media/audio/.
How that's possible the audio files are sometimes "invisible" to Android and apps they use them for playing notifications?
In field for selected ringtone there's label "unknown ringtone" instead of chosen ringtone. This fixes sometimes after phone restart.
I just upgraded from an S10 Plus. I have my audio settings set exactly the same. When using Google Maps to navigate I have it set to alert only. On the S10 while driving the music would drop in volume, I would get the alert tone and she would say "speed trap ahead" along with the pop-up on the screen asking if the speed trap is still there. On the S23 I only get the pop-up on the screen, no audio notification and the music volume stays constant. Is this a known bug? I would also get notification tones for messages as well, nothing on the S23. If I set it to be completely un-muted the turn by turn directions come through as expected but I have not yet driven through an area where an alert notification would come through while un-muted.
That sounds like a bug because I have a macro set to run everytime I connect to my car to turn down notification volume to 0 so it doesn't mute audio for notifications but calls still ring for me just fine.