Okay, I've been using this device for over a year and a half, and I still haven't ever quite figured this out. Having come from a Blackberry, where this stuff was dead simple, it's sort of annoying, so I hope someone can share a strategy.
I'd like for this device to handle all the various notifications better. It seems that there's a convoluted mess of settings for email, ringtones, sms, alarms, countdown timers and all of them overlap with each other and single settings verses system settings. Add to that my own personal need for the device to be silent at times, louder at others, and have different loudnesses for different functions.
The closest I've ever got is using an app called Sound Manager to manage things, but even that has me befuddled most of the time. So, rather than going into all my attempted and failed strategies, here's what I'd like the device to do:
Phone rings:
Not at all between 10:30pm and 6:30am on weekdays, 11:30pm and 9am weekends. The volume has to be loud at all times, except 9-5 on weekdays, when I'm in the office and it can be softer (rather than the super loud it has to be to get my attention when in my coat pocket).
SMS/Google Talk:
Same rules for middle of the night, always loud when on, but different sound so I can differentiate it from a phone call.
Alarms:
Always loud, always on.
Reminders from Google Calendar:
Always on, loud during the day, soft otherwise.
Countdown timers:
Loud. Whenever set.
The blackberry made the off stuff easy as it turned itself on and off at night without asking me, and would wake for alarms but nothing else. I won't hope that Android will do that anytime soon.
If someone can help me to untangle this mess, I'd truly be thankful. For some reason, I can never get this right.
Cheers!
I'd like for this device to handle all the various notifications better. It seems that there's a convoluted mess of settings for email, ringtones, sms, alarms, countdown timers and all of them overlap with each other and single settings verses system settings. Add to that my own personal need for the device to be silent at times, louder at others, and have different loudnesses for different functions.
The closest I've ever got is using an app called Sound Manager to manage things, but even that has me befuddled most of the time. So, rather than going into all my attempted and failed strategies, here's what I'd like the device to do:
Phone rings:
Not at all between 10:30pm and 6:30am on weekdays, 11:30pm and 9am weekends. The volume has to be loud at all times, except 9-5 on weekdays, when I'm in the office and it can be softer (rather than the super loud it has to be to get my attention when in my coat pocket).
SMS/Google Talk:
Same rules for middle of the night, always loud when on, but different sound so I can differentiate it from a phone call.
Alarms:
Always loud, always on.
Reminders from Google Calendar:
Always on, loud during the day, soft otherwise.
Countdown timers:
Loud. Whenever set.
The blackberry made the off stuff easy as it turned itself on and off at night without asking me, and would wake for alarms but nothing else. I won't hope that Android will do that anytime soon.
If someone can help me to untangle this mess, I'd truly be thankful. For some reason, I can never get this right.
Cheers!
