Help Ring in headset when on silent-vibrate

[littvay]

Dear All

On the go I listen to music or podcasts with a wired headset (with a button). I also keep my phone on silent vibrate (because I always hate phones ringing in public).

My problem is the following. Right now, if I get an incoming call, I need to feel it vibrate, dig the phone out of my picket, take out of case, swipe to pick up. Back on the iPhone this worked the following way. Music stopped. I heard the ring in the headset. I pressed headset button to pick up. I pressed headset button to hang up. Music kept on playing.

Is there any way to automatically invoke the iPhone-like behavior? I know that if I change from silent-vibrate to ring-vibrate before starting to listen to stuff, and back when I am done, that does the trick. But I forget. More importantly, I forget to put back on vibrate when I am done listening. There's gotta be a way to automate this, like invoke it by plugging in a headset. Recently I found an App that changed all sorts of settings when a headset was plugged in, and back when unplugged, but could not get it to do what I need.

This is my final specific grief with the Nexus One. I'd love it to go away. Any ideas for me?

L

 

[lordofthereef]

Take it off of vibrate. It should stop the music and ring in the earphones when they are plugged in. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to have it ring in the headphones when you have it set to vib.

 

[littvay]

Interesting. It doesn't help me out as I would not know if I am getting a call as soon as I remove the headsets. But I can beg people who write apps that toggle various behavior to add vibrate on/off.

Is this a bug? I personally think the default behavior should give the phone all priority even in vibrate mode. But that's just me. I am told my (N1) gingerbread update is imminent. Maybe it is fixed there. Maybe I'll ask a Gingerbread owner to check.

 

[Teknologic]

I don't think that's a bug, it just doesn't ring when sound is off. I would recommend setting it to vibrate when ringing as well, then you'll notice it ringing either way. About the pausing and resuming playback, I think that depends on app coding, I know most if not all media players I used did this.