Message ringtone stop

[Simon Morton]

We have a work phone that receives text messages that we need to respond to asap 24/7.
Since the default message ringtones are only a second or two they are very easy to miss.

Therefore we set some custom message ringtones that last 10-20 seconds.

However when we receive the message it plays the whole message ringtone, and doesn't stop playing when we press buttons.

What are we doing wrong?

 

[SpookDroid]

Have you tried to pull down on the notification bar mid-ringtone? I can't recall if by pressing the volume down button it also truncates the ringtone, but I believe it only does so for incoming calls, not notifications. The notification shade pull down, though, should stop the sound.

You can also use a 'normal' ringtone and just use a 3rd party app to remind you at intervals if the message has not been attended. Off the top of my head, I know NoLED does this (letting you repeat notifications every X minutes) and displaying constant notification bubbles on the screen. LightFlow MIGHT do something similar but I'm not sure.