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emmzone22

emmzone22

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Is there a way to turn off the sound for notifications in the Android Forums app. I would like to get notifications, but I want them to be silent.
 
Some apps let you set a notification sound within the app, others don't and those are stuck with the default sound from system settings. If you set your system default notification sound as a real sound, you can still silence individual apps, but only IF those apps had a setting (or by turning system notification volume to zero which will affect all notifications). In this case you want to silence one app that doesn't have a setting, so the only way to do it (again without setting system notification volume to zero and silencing all notifications) is to set the default notification sound to point to a file which has no sound, called silence.

Setting default notification sound to silent would be in system settings. For me on 4.4.4 it's in sound / notifications / (If asked) media storage. Scroll to the silent sound and select it. If you don't have a silent sound, you can download one and aedd it to an appropriate directory...Then it will show in the list.

Adding sounds for those you want to hear would be done within the particular app, assuming it lets you set a sound.
 
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electricpete said:
Some apps let you set a notification sound within the app, others don't and those are stuck with the default sound from system settings. If you set your system default notification sound as a real sound, you can still silence individual apps, but only IF those apps had a setting (or by turning system notification volume to zero which will affect all notifications). In this case you want to silence one app that doesn't have a setting, so the only way to do it (again without setting system notification volume to zero and silencing all notifications) is to set the default notification sound to point to a file which has no sound, called silence.

Setting default notification sound to silent would be in system settings. For me on 4.4.4 it's in sound / notifications / (If asked) media storage. Scroll to the silent sound and select it. If you don't have a silent sound, you can download one and aedd it to an appropriate directory...Then it will show in the list.

Adding sounds for those you want to hear would be done within the particular app, assuming it lets you set a sound.
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Thanks!
 
Check out the app Light Flow pro and quickly see if it supports the AF app. If not, uninstall it for a refund.
Actually I'll check it out for you now.....
Nope sorry it doesn't seem to support our app (yet) but I'm gonna send a mail to the dev, he's a really nice guy.
Light Flow basically offers full control of app notifications from vibrate to LED to notification sound (or lack of)
 
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funkylogik said:
Check out the app Light Flow pro and quickly see if it supports the AF app. If not, uninstall it for a refund.
Actually I'll check it out for you now.....
Nope sorry it doesn't seem to support our app (yet) but I'm gonna send a mail to the dev, he's a really nice guy.
Light Flow basically offers full control of app notifications from vibrate to LED to notification sound (or lack of)
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Thanks, sounds neat! Keep me informed, please.
 
Reply already. Great dev :thumbsupdroid:
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Sorry to thread jack but looks like OP question is resolved and this is along the same line...

Anyway to turn off the visual notifications by default? I hate having tons of notifications on the upper left corner of the screen but it seems I have to turn them off one by one. Does this Light Flow pro app control that?
 
I don't think so. I think you have to change that in Settings, Applications.
I'll have a look tomorrow though if I come back across this. It's my beddy times .
You could test it with the free version though and your default sms app or whatever :thumbsupdroid:
 
electricpete said:
You can long press on a notification to bring up app setting details, and then uncheck "show notifications".
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To make sure I understand, would this be changing the setting on each application? As in one by one? Or will it bring up a master or "default" setting so I can just turn off the feature?

It seems each time an application updates it turns itself back on and it's hard to keep up with turning them off one by one.
 
Yes, it is one by one. But you don't have to go find the applications and you don't have to dig into different types of menus for each application. Just wait for a notification to come to you. If you decide that you never want another notification from that particular application again, then long press, click the button labeled app settings, and uncheck show notifications...you're Done!
 
electricpete said:
Yes, it is one by one. But you don't have to go find the applications and you don't have to dig into different types of menus for each application. Just wait for a notification to come to you. If you decide that you never want another notification from that particular application again, then long press, click the button labeled app settings, and uncheck show notifications...you're Done!
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Cool, that makes more sense than going down the application list each time... Thanks...
 
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