I have recently moved to an S3 after years in iPhone land. Its been mostly great, the S3 is a way more open and powerful platform. However a coupe of small things are driving me nuts.
All I want is my phone to vibrate and ring at the same time for incoming calls. Vibrate and play a tone when an SMS is recieved and neither vibrate or play a tone when an email is recievied (but still pop up the icon in the notification area). Seems simple enough, but it appears to be impossible on the stock phone. The only setting covering vibration in the Sound menu is "Sound and Vibration" but if I tick this the damn phone vibrates for all notifications, even if I have the notification sound set as "Silent".
The most frustrating thing is that is seems vibration settings per app used to be there in the S2, but have been removed in the S3. Now the Messaging and Email Apps do not have a specific vibrate option, rather it is all controlled with the global "Sound and Vibration" option.
My other annoyance is there is no easy way to control the brightness from the notification area (with out installing a crappy app). Once again it appears the S2 had a slider right on the notification pulldown, but for some reason this was removed?!?
I have used up all my Google Fu and have no answers. Can anyone suggest how to do these seemingly simple things in the stock rom, or suggest an app or even rom that has these features.
Thanks.
try this....
Setting > [email protected] > ringtone &vibrate
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can i add another problem? no notification sound when i receive a sms. icon does not appear in the status bar.
k0k0z said:
try this....
Setting > [email protected] > ringtone &vibrate
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I should have clarified I am using the stock email app, not gmail.
revo14 said:
can i add another problem? no notification sound when i receive a sms. icon does not appear in the status bar.
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You can fix that in the messaging app settings. Messaging -> Settings -> Notification Settings. Tick Notifications and then select a ringtone. If it is still not working then its a bug, try rebooting the phone.
Regarding brightness control, try the app Quicker in Google Play
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Martin5000 said:
Regarding brightness control, try the app Quicker in Google Play
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Thanks for the suggestion.. it gets quite close to what i want if you use the status bar shortcut. Just wish it could put the slider *right on* the status bar.
I think that saying it's a mess is a bit melodramatic. I have mine set up exactly as you describe. Maybe you need to play with your in-app settings a bit more ...
fluxbends said:
You can fix that in the messaging app settings. Messaging -> Settings -> Notification Settings. Tick Notifications and then select a ringtone. If it is still not working then its a bug, try rebooting the phone.
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yup i already did this. looks like my unit needs to be replaced.
Is anyone else having problems where your phone freezes for a few seconds when you recieve a sms while the phone is in use?
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If i were you i'd do a factory reset.
Before i got my phone i had heard issues where notifications either wouldnt appear or would appear even when there is no text and various other issues regarding sound etc
So to make sure i didnt get any of these issues as soon as i got my phone i didnt a factory reset straight away and i haven't had any issues.
I've set my phone to silent and vibrate. The SMS notification vibration duration is annoyingly long on the S3. Is there a way to shorten it?
I use volume control + pro, and everything is good.... Give it a try
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I have exactly the same problem. Since i get a lot of mail every day, it's annoying to have vibration enabled, but disabling it in global settings disables it also for SMS :/ I don't think there is a way right now to leave it enabled for SMS only.
Jekkin said:
Is anyone else having problems where your phone freezes for a few seconds when you recieve a sms while the phone is in use?
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Yes I have this problem too but it vibrates for long time and then suddenly reboots
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AMoosa said:
I think that saying it's a mess is a bit melodramatic. I have mine set up exactly as you describe. Maybe you need to play with your in-app settings a bit more ...
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Same here, I set up mine almost exactly as he describe and no problem at all.
So after all this discussion, has anyone figured out how to disable just the vibrate alert for the stock email app? I still want notification in the taskbar, just no vibrate.
Pahel said:
I have exactly the same problem. Since i get a lot of mail every day, it's annoying to have vibration enabled, but disabling it in global settings disables it also for SMS :/ I don't think there is a way right now to leave it enabled for SMS only.
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No problems at all. As has been said, you need to set your notifications in the in app settings, not the general sound settings on the phone.
To start, go into the phone settings and select sound, and then for notifications set it to silent. Leave sound and vibration as checked.
Then use your in app settings to set you sound and vibration for notifications. I haven't used the stock email app, I use the gmail app. You have to go into the settings for each individual app, but you can set a custom notification sound and vibration for each account. I tested this with two of mine, having vibration on for one and off for another then sent some mail. It vibrated for the account with vibration on, and did not vibrate for the one with vibration off.
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TimmyRaa said:
So after all this discussion, has anyone figured out how to disable just the vibrate alert for the stock email app? I still want notification in the taskbar, just no vibrate.
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OK, just out of interest sake I set up an email account using the stock email app and while it does have custom notification settings for each account, it does not give you the option to disable/enable vibration. So, to me, it appears you can not turn off the vibration in the stock email app without turning it off for the whole phone.
I would assume your only choice would be to use a third party email app if this is important to you.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
I'm on stock everything and it works fine. Only thing I had to do is install an app to get some specific mp3 ringtones I had made. But I do have the option for different types of vibration for different contacts or groups, the silent mode works and the custom vibration also works.
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1. Pull down the menu where you see notifications and can switch wifi gps etc. Off.
2. Enable the notifications by scrolling to the right and finding the ( ! ) logo.
Vibration is now activated again. Had the problem myself my girlfriend kept asking me how
Hi, I've updated my phone with Omega v45 (4.2.2) and ever since I can't get it to stop vibrating when I receive an email. I'm using the stock email app with 2 accounts (one Hotmail, one exchange).
In the email app I've been to Menu -> Settings -> General Preferences and de-selected "Vibrate" and also done this for each of the accounts but it still vibrates when a new email comes in.
I've also looked in the system settings -> My device -> Sound, I've disabled haptic feedback but can't see anything that would disable vibrations for just email (I still want it to vibrate on a new sms etc).
Any tips would be great!
Thanks,
Paul
don't know if this works in stock ROMs but you could enter in Settings and to Apps, then to the All section and look for the generic android email app and below the name just uncheck the Show Notifications. It SHOULD stop any sounds, alarms and push notifications but IDK if it works with vibrations
Hope it helps
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don't know if this works in stock ROMs but you could enter in Settings and to Apps, then to the All section and look for the generic android email app and below the name just uncheck the Show Notifications. It SHOULD stop any sounds, alarms and push notifications but IDK if it works with vibrations
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've gone to the All Applications and selected the Email app. Unfortunately even if I Force Stop, the "Show Notifications" is ticked but greyed out and can't be changed. Even if I could change it I'd prefer to receive email notifications in the notifications bar still so this wouldn't work for me. I'm just looking to disable the vibrate for emails.
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Paul
I have been searching high and low and I can't seem to find a solution to this. I want to disable the screen wake on SMS notification. I feel it's just a waste of battery life. If anyone knows of a mod or tweak that will do this, please let me know. Thanks!
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rudolphe said:
I have been searching high and low and I can't seem to find a solution to this. I want to disable the screen wake on SMS notification. I feel it's just a waste of battery life. If anyone knows of a mod or tweak that will do this, please let me know. Thanks!
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There's not a way as of yet. Your best to disable the stock SMS app and download Handcent. With that application you can disable that stuff.
Ahh ok. I dug through all the configuration files and couldn't find anything referencing it. Thanks.
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In messaging settings there's an option to "Turn screen on when notification received", is that what you're looking for?
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In messaging settings there's an option to "Turn screen on when notification received", is that what you're looking for?
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There is a work around for this. You will need to download 2 apps from Play Store to accompolish. It's called Ringo Lite and Light Manager. Install Ringo Lite and use it for your notification sound, vibrate and such. You can also use this to set individual contacts to silent or other tones. Next app is Light Manager for your LED light.
Next, disable sounds for SMS or simply set to silent. Now go to stock messaging app, settings and untick notifications. Now set your Light Manager app to control the color of your LED indicator.
You no longer will have a screen wake when an SMS is received. You will have sound and LED set to your color only.
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Hi, I've just got one of these. I'ts very good but I cannot find anyway to distinguish between setting the notification sounds for email and messages. I'd like to only have notification for messages but there doesn't appear to be this facility?
Does anyone know it this is possible ?
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My S3 is constantly indicating that I have notifications and it drives me up the wall. Any idea why it is doing this?
Eggstones said:
My S3 is constantly indicating that I have notifications and it drives me up the wall. Any idea why it is doing this?
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You can go into settings notifications and turn them all off or only select the ones you want notifications from. I get way too many too.
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jd1639 said:
You can go into settings notifications and turn them all off or only select the ones you want notifications from. I get way too many too.
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Sorry I was a bit unclear. I'm getting notifications sounds but no actual notifications. It just bleeps like I have had one. If I knew which app was doing it I would just turn it off but as I don't have any just a sound I can't
Managed to find out what goes on. Samsung has an notification reminder under accessibility. The default setting there is 1 minute. Switching it off sorted my issue out.