This sucks. Moto Assist allowed me to set my sleep time so that someone would have to call me twice from the same number w/in 5 minutes for them to get my phone to ring. That was perfect.
That has apparently been eliminated in 5.1 so that now only priority notifications get through and they get through on the first try if you select your downtime settings and have starred a contact. The problem I have with that is that I don't want to "star" any of my family members as they are the worst offenders in calling me when I am sleeping. But I do want them to be able to get through to me in an emergency and what I have instructed them to do is to call twice w/in 5 minutes to get through to me during my sleeping hours if it is an emergency.
Can I use tasker or some other app to get back the Moto Assist option that is now gone from Moto Assist?
Autoring is supposed to do what you want, I haven't tried it with my MotoX.
I've used Do Not Disturb in the past and it does what you want.
You can also create a Tasker profile that will do this. Basically you set up a simple "silence when asleep" profile, then add another profile that disables Silent mode for a few minutes when you receive a call.
Edit: Also, I haven't tried it on the Moto X, but with the Tasker profile you may need to create a "delay" for the incoming call. On some phones the profile will work such that it rings for those emergency numbers as the tasker wiki describes, which is not what you want. On others it doesn't ring for the incoming call that triggers the exception but instead rings for the next call.
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so currently i use the app "Do Not Disturb" which sets a timer (I have it from 10pm-5am) so that my phone gets switched to silent while I sleep and I won't get woken by my friends drunkenly calling me all night long... what I'm wondering, is if there is any app like Do Not Disturb, except with some kind of white list, so I can set it so if my Mom calls (might be an emergency) it will still ring. any ideas? i've looked but haven't been able to find something like that.
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so currently i use the app "Do Not Disturb" which sets a timer (I have it from 10pm-5am) so that my phone gets switched to silent while I sleep and I won't get woken by my friends drunkenly calling me all night long... what I'm wondering, is if there is any app like Do Not Disturb, except with some kind of white list, so I can set it so if my Mom calls (might be an emergency) it will still ring. any ideas? i've looked but haven't been able to find something like that.
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Maybe setup a rule in Locale to ring at maximum when a certain contact calls?
polarbearmc said:
so currently i use the app "Do Not Disturb" which sets a timer (I have it from 10pm-5am) so that my phone gets switched to silent while I sleep and I won't get woken by my friends drunkenly calling me all night long... what I'm wondering, is if there is any app like Do Not Disturb, except with some kind of white list, so I can set it so if my Mom calls (might be an emergency) it will still ring. any ideas? i've looked but haven't been able to find something like that.
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Haven't seen anything like that, but seems like a perfectly reasonable feature.
Maybe the dev would be receptive to adding such a feature if you contact them?
second this request.
even the cheap nokias and sony ericssons have it. been missing it since I started using wm/android. found some sw that did it on wm, but they all sucked
with the google contacts groups, this shouldn't be to difficult, should it? I would like to have it implemented in an app like 'profiles'
Foxyring. Amazing app. Everything you want and more.
It's main purpose is to every so often(user adjustable) turn on the mic and listen to the ambient noise wherever you are(even if the phone is in your pocket) and raise or lower the volume of your ringtones. I have noticed no effect on my battery at all.
Second it comes with a widget to silence your phone for a period of time. Like you use for the movies.
It has an option for sleeping hours. Always be silent between blah and blah.
And then it has exactly what you are looking for. An emergency contacts list that will ring regardless of the ringtone status.
Also has a location aware setting like locale for other ringtone options. i.e. change your ringtone from "BOOTY EVERYWHERE" to Bethovens 5th when you are at your moms automatically.
App placed in top three for ADC2. It deserved it. I have not adjusted my rigtone volume in the past 3 weeks and it has been perfect everytime.
I have a problem with my ringtone that is driving me nuts. When the ringer starts, it is very quiet for maybe a second or two and then suddenly goes to the full ringer volume. I would like it to start at the preset volume level and continie; i.e. get rid of the soft-then-loud and just keep the loud.
For additional background I used ringdroid to make a few ringtones from .mp3s. The original .mp3 and created ringtones created sound perfect played through a media player so it is not the files themselves rather something weird on the phone.
This is one of the last items for me in setting up my new system so please help!
You can't fix that. Its a standard Samsung thing that they do with all devices.. No way as of yet to get around it.
This is terrible! Isn't there a way to remove this setting? This is an Android device after all!
Fret not, my friend.
As there's no solution to the native ringing behavior, here's a workaround to help offset the first low ring by extending the time your phone rings before rolling over into voicemail.
1. On your phone, dial *#61# and click Send.
2. Some information should be displayed: number that the calls are being forwarded to and the delay before the forwarding engages.
3. Write down the number (including +1)
4. Dial **61*+1xxxyyyzzzz*11*30# and hit Send. +1xxxyyyzzzz is the number you wrote down previously, 30 is the delay in seconds. The delay can be set in 5 second increments, 30 is maximum
5. Dial *#61# to verify that the new settings are active.
Dialing *#61# as instruction 5 suggests told me that my phone forwards to voicemail after 30 seconds.
I will give this a try. Any explanation for why this works?
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I will give this a try. Any explanation for why this works?
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Its not that it changes the tone like he said. All this does is make your phone ring for a longer period of time. I think the default is 20 secs.. using the settings above you extend that time by 10 more secs of ringing which helps so you can catch the phone. You still aren't stopping the actual soft first ring.
Exactly. This used to be changeable only via AT&T until I discovered the procedure elsewhere. Helps alot.
Hmm. This is not quite what I was looking for; I want to hear the beginings of my ringtones! Does anyone know the exact time the ringtone is softened? I guess I could use an .mp3 editor and bad nothingness to the beginning...
I downloaded audacity and put some blank space in the front of each one of my ringtones. 2 seconds seems to be the perfect amount of dead time for the ring to come up at full volume. This is actually kind of nice now vecause it gives me two seconds to reject the call before it starts making noise, so if I am in a meeting or something and forget to turn the ringer off (never happens I can dump the call.
Thanks Jack45, worked perfectly!
Phone is stock. What happens is, regardless of the sound profile, if I get a phone call my phone will ring at max volume. Right as the call comes in the phone auto-switches to a normal profile and then switches back to whatever it should be after the call is completed. Text messages and notifications all work correctly with the sound profile settings.
I've tried changing the profile through a widget, the volume rocker, and through setting>sound. Nothing works. Anyone else having this problem or have any ideas?
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Interesting timing, I just observed this with my One today at work. The phone was in silent mode and started ringing, I took it out and ignored the call, when I looked at the profile it showed silent mode. I did not notice if it showed silent mode even as it was ringing.
I am using Llama for location based profiles but it showed the correct location and profile through that time period, so I don't think it was responsible.
So I figured it out, at least for my case. I had to wipe the cache partition. I didn't realize you could do this in a stock phone, but I guess you learn something new everyday.
I attached the .docx file that HTC support gave me explaining how to do it for anyone else that has this problem.
I'm not on the Moto X anymore, but my sister is. She claims that on KitKat, she had it set so that if someone called twice in succession while in silent mode, her phone would ring for the second call. Now on Lollipop she can't find that option. Is this no longer possible, and if it is, how can she do this?
Hello,
Just got a pixel 3. I need a do not disturb profile. I have one but it's not working. I do not want any interruptions while I sleep, except if it's from a favorite contact. Also if they text, I want to send them a response if it's important or emergency please call. (I have children, one with autism. If I can take a small snooze during te day would lie to do that without missing a call or text from his school)
I had similar profiles from years ago. But, as I keep upgrading my phones, I am having difficulty. Even though, I have do not disturb on, Something is still vibrating and ringing. When I go to notifications, I can't find anything.
To sum it up:
Dnd to ring/vibrante Favs only. All other notifations silent no vibration. But, need alarm.
If revive a text, to respond with please call.
Thank you.