Help Notifications During The Night

[Eris Ed]

I've had my Desire for over a month now and most features are set up sync/update about every 3 hours, including email polling.

2 days ago I started getting woken up in the middle of the night by notifications. This has never been a problem before and I think I changed a setting when I first got the phone that let me choose daytime and night time periods, so the phone would only 'wake up' and make a noise during the day.

I've looked through the phone settings and the settings of my apps and email clients but can't seem to find anything that keeps the phone silent at night.

I can always use the audio toggle to turn the phone to silent, but I'm sure there's a way to achieve the same result automatically.

Any ideas?

 

[slug56]

The only setting I can think of relates to an Exchange ActiveSync email account. You can specify peak and off-peak times during the day, and say you set off peak to night time, you can set the frequency to manual.

Settings > Accounts & Sync > Exchange ActiveSync > Schedule

Not sure I've seen a setting anywhere for the other mail apps though (google mail..)

You could always turn 3G/WiFi off - but I guess that is just the same as putting your phone on silent.

 

[nacatomi]

Try using Timeriffic (I feel like a rep for the dev )
Its a good free app and thats exactly what I use it for, in combination with APNDroid you can schedule most things to switch on\off and volume levels etc. Below is what I use, but its much more powerful than that.

I set mine for "night" mode at 23:00

No Vibrate
Ringer 20%
Notification 0%
Bluetooth Off
3G/2G Data Off
Wifi Off

and "day" mode at 07:15
Vibrate
Ringer 75%
Notification 75%
3G/2G Data On
Wifi On

 

[Eris Ed]

@nacatomi - thanks for that, just installed it and seems just what I need. I've left everything unchanged except the ringer and notification sounds are muted between 2300h and 0600h.

Still, it's strange that the notifications have only started waking me on the last 2 nights, no idea why.....

 

[nacatomi]

For me it was Calendar reminders when I forget to uncheck it. All day events would kick off a reminder at midnight and then every 5 minutes until dismissed.

 

[Nasalhair]

Couldn't you just switch the phone off? That's what I do...

 

[Eris Ed]

Couldn't you just switch the phone off? That's what I do...

I didn't know I could do that with my Desire....is there an app for that??

 

[Evil Genius]

Couldn't you just switch the phone off? That's what I do...

or he could also stay awake all night and then he wouldn't get woken up by the notifications.

 

[nacatomi]

Couldn't you just switch the phone off? That's what I do...

I would still like to be contactable at night in emergencies so no that wouldn't help at all. As a rule my phone(s) never get switched off unless I am in a hospital for work purposes when required to.

 

[Baz8755]

Tasker will do all you ever desire (no pun intended)

Using tasker my phone does the following

1) 9:00-17:30 Mon-Fri if near office go to vibrate mode
2) If near home turn on Wi-Fi
3) If near home 22:30-07:00 and on power go to silent mode
4) Check diary to see if on call, if so ignore rule 3
5) If caller in prefered list turn off silent/vibrate and set ringer max

It only costs $4 but makes your phone infinitely configurable

 

[LECTER]

I didn't know I could do that with my Desire....is there an app for that??

Airplane mode.

 

[choccy]

Why can't you just put the phone notifications onto silent?

 

[nacatomi]

Why can't you just put the phone notifications onto silent?

You can.... The OP wanted to do this automatically

 

[Android1]

+1 for Timeriffic

 

[Nodders]

Sweet Dreams is another option

 

[typoerror]

i have come to the same conclusion as th op and was coming to find a solution for this problem. timeriffic seems to be the answer i was in search of. thanks nacatomi for the suggestion!

 

[jred7469]

+1 for timeriffic

 

[hippy247]

Got to go with BAZ8755 with his suggestion of using the Tasker app, it is the most customisable app available and will basically make your phone do anything. Its not the easiest app to work out, but once you have learnt how to use it, you will be left wondering how you ever coped without it.

 

[Eris Ed]

I solved the problem using Timeriffic. Set it to mute the Notifications, Ringer and System tones between 2300h and 0600h 7 days a week. I can over ride this using the AudioManager widget if I need to. Perfect

 

[SpicyTacoto]

MIssed bedside mode when I ditched my BB. Sweet dreams did the truck for me.

 

[ThinkingDroid]

Simple Solution:

Auto Notifications for Android

 

[jay_kay]

Spooky, been having the same issue and was gonna post here today for ideas!

Just DL timeriffic so fingers crossed no more being woken by my calendar or gmail!

 

[garym]

Sound manager is another good app for managing notifications.

 

[Bradden]

Why can't you just put the phone notifications onto silent?

Sorry if it's a dumb question.. but how do I do this?

Thanks

 

[Eris Ed]

Sorry if it's a dumb question.. but how do I do this?

Thanks

The easiest way is to download AudioManager from the Market and install the widget on your homescreen. Tapping the widget gives you instant access to every audio type on your phone (ringer, music, notifications, etc) and you can adjust them all with a swipe