Hi all,
I'm a new Android user, having just switched from an iPhone 4 to a Galaxy S5 (w/Lollipop 5.1.1) last week, and I had a question about the contact message tone settings...
We use an automated program at work to monitor our computers, sending out notifications if something is down or services aren't behaving properly. The notifications go out through AT&T's email-to-MMS gateway, which is an email to mobilenumber at mms.att.net. When the message is received on the phone it'll opens up the Messaging app (not an email client) and show the sender, subject, and message content. If I add the sender address to a contact, the message shows up from that particular contact, but instead of playing the specific "message tone" assigned in the contact record, it only plays the general "notification ringtone" configured in the main Android settings (Settings -> Sound and notifications). On iOS the specific contact text tone is played instead, something very loud and obnoxious that can wake me up in the middle of the night.
As far as I can tell (during my very brief time with Android), texts from actual mobile devices appear to work as expected, but it will just not play the contact's message tone for MMS messages if the contact match is based on an email address.
The only thing I've been able to come up with at the moment is to switch over to AT&T's email-to-SMS gateway instead, sending messages to mobilenumber at txt.att.net. You get pretty much the same information, but instead of coming from an email address it comes from a phone number. Unfortunately with AT&T this number appears to change with each new message. The first test I sent was 1-410-100-001, the second was 1-410-100-002, and so on. I saw the same behavior when I was first playing around with this on my iPhone several years ago, but I believe those were from 1-210-000-XXX instead. I was relieved when I finally figured out the email address in the contact record and I could do away with all those other AT&T paging contacts.
I wrote up a perl script to generate a handful of importable contacts files with 200 numbers in each, 1-410-000-001 to 200 in the first vcf file, 201-400 in the second, etc, also doing a set for 1-410-100-XXX as well, but I'm concerned that some spam texts might slip through the same service or that these numbers might change at any point in the future and I'd miss something important.
I think this will work for the time being, but having the contact's message tone play for an MMS with an email address match would be ideal.
Does anyone have any recommendations? Any apps that could alter this behavior?
Thanks alot
I'm a new Android user, having just switched from an iPhone 4 to a Galaxy S5 (w/Lollipop 5.1.1) last week, and I had a question about the contact message tone settings...
We use an automated program at work to monitor our computers, sending out notifications if something is down or services aren't behaving properly. The notifications go out through AT&T's email-to-MMS gateway, which is an email to mobilenumber at mms.att.net. When the message is received on the phone it'll opens up the Messaging app (not an email client) and show the sender, subject, and message content. If I add the sender address to a contact, the message shows up from that particular contact, but instead of playing the specific "message tone" assigned in the contact record, it only plays the general "notification ringtone" configured in the main Android settings (Settings -> Sound and notifications). On iOS the specific contact text tone is played instead, something very loud and obnoxious that can wake me up in the middle of the night.
As far as I can tell (during my very brief time with Android), texts from actual mobile devices appear to work as expected, but it will just not play the contact's message tone for MMS messages if the contact match is based on an email address.
The only thing I've been able to come up with at the moment is to switch over to AT&T's email-to-SMS gateway instead, sending messages to mobilenumber at txt.att.net. You get pretty much the same information, but instead of coming from an email address it comes from a phone number. Unfortunately with AT&T this number appears to change with each new message. The first test I sent was 1-410-100-001, the second was 1-410-100-002, and so on. I saw the same behavior when I was first playing around with this on my iPhone several years ago, but I believe those were from 1-210-000-XXX instead. I was relieved when I finally figured out the email address in the contact record and I could do away with all those other AT&T paging contacts.
I wrote up a perl script to generate a handful of importable contacts files with 200 numbers in each, 1-410-000-001 to 200 in the first vcf file, 201-400 in the second, etc, also doing a set for 1-410-100-XXX as well, but I'm concerned that some spam texts might slip through the same service or that these numbers might change at any point in the future and I'd miss something important.
I think this will work for the time being, but having the contact's message tone play for an MMS with an email address match would be ideal.
Does anyone have any recommendations? Any apps that could alter this behavior?
Thanks alot
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