Message tone option.

[deanodrums]

I have just recently factory reset my phone and on looking around my contact settings I see there is an option to have a separate ringtone and message tone for just ONE contact. For me I'd always liked this option when I had a BlackBerry.
My problem is this. I set my ringtone to default and set a mp3 as a message tone. It doesn't seem to work. It just plays the default tone I have set for my text messages. Why is this? Does anyone have the same problem.

I have noticed that when you press the options- contacts to display-phone I can change these tones which is what I have done. But I have had the contacts to display- sim which doesn't allow you to change any tones and will use only defaults.

This is bugging me!!



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[meyerweb#CB]

Really? My Sprint S3 only has an option for individual ringtones in the Contacts app. What version of Android is on your phone? Can you show a screen print. (I"m just curious about this option for setting message tones in the contact app.)

Anyway, check the messaging app. I think you can set a notification tone there, and it's probably overriding anything set in contacts. I'm not sure how you'd turn that off, though.

 

[deanodrums]

For some reason i cant upload screenshots via my phone. Grrr. I shall keep trying.
I have the latest update (JellyBean 4.1.2) but i have an international S3.

If you go into contacts and click on a contact it will give you an option for Ringtone,Message Alert and Vibration pattern.
My ringtone for the certain contact is at default but the message tone i have changed. I dont bother with the vibration.
So to test it i got my friend to text me but it was for the defualt text tone. I have used another tone to see if the mp3 tone i used wasnt working but it just uses the default.

I have looked into what you have suggested but when i go into the message settings there isnt anything i can see to help me out. It only has the option to change the message tone. Which i have.
I have looked at replacing the contacts with GO contacts but i dont like it.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Must be a new feature of 4.1.2, or maybe Sprint removed it from their version. I have only options for Ringtone and Vibration pattern. No message alert.

The Handcent messaging app will let you assign different notification tones for each contact you've gotten a text from. I suspect it will ignore whatever is in the contact, but at least you can set it in the app itself.

 

[deanodrums]

OK I will have a look at hand cent. I think it might be a new feature but what is the point if it doesn't work? I think as you pointed out before is that another option is over riding it. What I dont know. I will put this into the s3 international thread to see if it just for international versions.

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[deanodrums]

Right i have found the answer. I spent an hour going through my contacts and un linking accounts connected with the contact. I had duplicates of the PHONE link. I dunno how.
I have even deleted them and now it works.
Cheers