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Help Can't put this phone down! Only wish the tones were louder

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Herbalacious

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Just picked this up yesterday and I'm very impressed. This is my first droid phone and it blows away the other phones I've owned in the past. Not really a fan of the iPhone and have been on AT&T forever..it's time for a change. My last phone was a Nokia E72 which is a great phone, but wanted more! Gonna put that on E-bay soon hah.

The only complaints I have so far are the notification sounds are quiet even at the max volume setting. The Nokia E72 is a lot louder both in ringtone and sms tones. Also, the four buttons on the bottom sometimes don't respond. I find I have to occasionally hit the same button a couple times to get it to work. Very minor tho imo. It's not too frequent.

If anyone knows how to make the tones louder or if there's a decent app that does so, let me know. Thanks.

Overall tho this phone is great..honestly its hard to put down! I'm very happy switching to Sprint.
 
I thought the low tones were me, I had to choose a longer tone so I wouldn't miss a text or anything
 
The default volumes for calls and notifications isn't 100%. Did you increase them? To do so, push Menu>Settings>Sound & display>Ringer volume. I don't know, they seem loud enough to me, especially at 100% volume.
 
Yea volume for both at 100% i did that right away. Got zedge and im using a loud car horn for the notifications. It is better, but could still be a bit louder imo. Don't get me wrong tho, I really like this phone.
 
gme109 said:
Got the phone at 7:30 pm today, and I haven't put it down yet. Better stop now though, and get some sleep.
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I didn't get much done at work yesterday b/c I played with my phone all day. Unfortunately my battery died! I need another USB cable to charge it at work.
 
Herbalacious said:
Yea volume for both at 100% i did that right away. Got zedge and im using a loud car horn for the notifications. It is better, but could still be a bit louder imo. Don't get me wrong tho, I really like this phone.
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i'm having the same issue even at 100% its just not as loud as the incoming calls even when using the same ringtone for both. i dont like it either
 
i found a ringtone that is somewhat louder than what comes with samsung epic. called annoying ringtones from market on epic i used the car alarm ringer as notification ringer its not real bad but loud enough to hear hope this helps
 
I had the same problem. I downloaded a zip file with all of the Blackberry notfications and ringtones and use those instead. It's a night and day difference. On 100% volume, they are too loud.
 
Themase said:
I had the same problem. I downloaded a zip file with all of the Blackberry notfications and ringtones and use those instead. It's a night and day difference. On 100% volume, they are too loud.
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Newbie here....I was able to locate and download the Blackberry notifications and ring tones zip, but can you tell me where on the memory card to put them on so I can "choose" them?

Thanks
 
LifeguardSteve said:
Newbie here....I was able to locate and download the Blackberry notifications and ring tones zip, but can you tell me where on the memory card to put them on so I can "choose" them?

Thanks
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On your SD card create a Ringtones, Alarms and Notifications folder within the media/audio directory.

Your directory structure will look like this

/sdcard/media/audio/alarms

/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones

/sdcard/media/audio/notifications

Hope that helps ;)
 
Flash9 said:
On your SD card create a Ringtones, Alarms and Notifications folder within the media/audio directory.

Your directory structure will look like this

/sdcard/media/audio/alarms

/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones

/sdcard/media/audio/notifications

Hope that helps ;)
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Okay stupid question.
Is it possible to add folders to your SD card using the phone, or must you plug it into your desktop computer?
 
gme109 said:
Okay stupid question.
Is it possible to add folders to your SD card using the phone, or must you plug it into your desktop computer?
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Yes you can do it on your phone. You should have an app called "My files" start that up and select where you want to create a new folder, press the menu button and it will give you the option to create a folder.
 
Flash9 said:
Yes you can do it on your phone. You should have an app called "My files" start that up and select where you want to create a new folder, press the menu button and it will give you the option to create a folder.
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I'll download "My files" and give it a try. But can you also do by plugging the phone into your desktop?
 
Flash9 said:
On your SD card create a Ringtones, Alarms and Notifications folder within the media/audio directory.

Your directory structure will look like this

/sdcard/media/audio/alarms

/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones

/sdcard/media/audio/notifications

Hope that helps ;)
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Thanks- for some reason I did not have the alarms or ringtones folder on my SD card (the notifications folder was there- with only one file in it). But I did add the two other folders with "my files" app and all is well :-)
 
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