Help Can we assign a distinct sound to a specific contact when they text us?

[dawgfan76]

I can assign a ring tone in my Contacts, but is there a way to assign a notification sound for one person that is not the default sound?

 

[quickaudi]

I thought you could do it in Handcent, but I might be mistaken

I know there are apps in the Market that can do it

 

[dawgfan76]

OK, thank you. Apparently, there is no way to do this without any mods or outside software?

 

[quickaudi]

nope. you can set a standard ring tone for voice calls for individuals, and you can set a ringtone for all text messages, but AFAIK, you can't differentiate between contacts using stock Android software for text messaging.

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-su...-app-split-sms-gmail-notification-sounds.html

the above is a link where a poster recommended the whoisit app, fwiw