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rjvines Google & download a silent MP3, use profile manager or tasker to change notification sound to silence mp3 when required. Voila.
This doesn't solve the problem. If you have different notification sounds for different apps, for example one sound for email and a different sound for text messages, neither will be silent with this method. The only thing silent with that method is anything that uses the default notification sound.
I'm very disappointed that notification and ringer are not separate as well. This is like the first thing I noticed within 10 minutes of owning of the phone. I hope an update will come that will allow for it. If i remember correctly, when I first got my OG Droid, it was this way as well, but the update to 2.1 (Eclair) came shortly thereafter, and had the 2 volumes split.
I think what I'm going to do is set my mail to the default notification and use the silent method for notifications. At least I will still be able to get phone calls through the night. Since I use a non-default notification for my messaging too, I'll get text messages through the night (undesired), but most times this won't be an issue.
Another option is to use a profile switcher like Tasker or Setting Profiles (what I use) and make two profiles:
1. Silent - profile set it to silence your ringer
2. Ring - profile to set your desired ringer volume
Now make a rule to trigger your "Ring" profile based on incoming call condition. The condition could be a call from a specific person, or persons from particular groups in your address book. Use the * wildcard if you want the condition to include calls from anyone. You can piggy back conditions so that, for example, you can add a time condition so the rule might only be activated at a certain time of day.
So what you have now is 2 profiles, one that mutes ALL sounds (thanks to ICS) and another that sets the ringer volume to a specific level. Set the "Ring" profile to have a higher priority, that way when they are both active at the same time, the "Ring" takes precedence.
Combined with your condition, the result should be, ALL of your sounds are muted, but when a call comes in, it triggers the incoming call condition, triggers the "Ring" profile, and both the mute and the ring profiles are active at the same time, and the ring profile will win. There might be a short delay, but it shouldn't be noticeable.
This would of course have the effect that certain calls will ALWAYS ring and maybe sometimes you truly do want to silence your phone. To that, you will just make another profile, call it "True Silent" for example, and have it silence everything and give it the highest priority (or at least higher then the "Ring" profile) and then when you activate that profile, it will win over the others.
This doesn't solve the problem. If you have different notification sounds for different apps, for example one sound for email and a different sound for text messages, neither will be silent with this method. The only thing silent with that method is anything that uses the default notification sound.Google & download a silent MP3, use profile manager or tasker to change notification sound to silence mp3 when required. Voila.
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