Notifications help

[PGero]

New MotoX user, fan so far. Great performer, love the wrist twist and waking it from a dead sleep with voice commands.

Notifications are so far a bother though. I want slightly different notifications per app. Nothing too demanding, pretty straight forward list:

1.) Phone - go nuts. Ring, vibrate, AMOLED Active Notification.
2.) SMS - audio ping and vibrate, active notification.
3.) Google Hangouts – tone, active notification on screen, NO vibrate.
4.) Skype text – active notification only, NO tone, NO vibrate.
5.) Gmail inbox – active notification only, NO tone, NO vibrate.
6.) Work email – NOthing

But, I’m finding I can only have one strategy for all notifications with Moto X. I go to Settings>ActiveDisplay and can only select a binary on/off for active notifications. No customization options at all.

Then, in Sounds, I can only assign one standard sound/vibrate strategy for ALL NOTIFICATIONS, rather than having a strategy for each.

Am I overlooking something?

 

[Golfdriver97]

New MotoX user, fan so far. Great performer, love the wrist twist and waking it from a dead sleep with voice commands.

Notifications are so far a bother though. I want slightly different notifications per app. Nothing too demanding, pretty straight forward list:

1.) Phone - go nuts. Ring, vibrate, AMOLED Active Notification.
2.) SMS - audio ping and vibrate, active notification.
3.) Google Hangouts – tone, active notification on screen, NO vibrate.
4.) Skype text – active notification only, NO tone, NO vibrate.
5.) Gmail inbox – active notification only, NO tone, NO vibrate.
6.) Work email – NOthing

But, I’m finding I can only have one strategy for all notifications with Moto X. I go to Settings>ActiveDisplay and can only select a binary on/off for active notifications. No customization options at all.

Then, in Sounds, I can only assign one standard sound/vibrate strategy for ALL NOTIFICATIONS, rather than having a strategy for each.

Am I overlooking something?

Welcome to the forums.

1. Go into phone> lower left corner is a three dot menu, click that. Then Settings. Here you can alter the ringtone, click vibrate. When a call comes in, the screen will go to the incoming call screen.
2. SMS, same thing: should be a 3 dot menu somewhere to open up settings within the SMS app.
3. Hangouts: In hangouts, you want to click the 3 dot menu at the top>settings>you@gmail.com. There should be the changes for both Hangout and video call notifications.
4. Skype I do not have. Sorry. I would guess the same trend. 3 dot menu somewhere for settings, and in there something should allow those changes.
5. Gmail: 3 dot menu at the upper right>settings>you@gmail.com>Inbox sound and vibrate.

Hope that helped.

 

[PGero]

OK, that is helpful. I had gone into each app under [Settings>Apps] and seen the option of turning notifications on and off for each. But the [Settings>ActiveDisplay] list of them all seemed more convenient. So, via this method you suggest [Open App>Three Dot Settings Menu], I'm actually setting a specific sound notification for each one. That seems right.

I'm curious how/whether this integrates with the Active Screen settings. I guess I can do some trial and error with my wife's phone eventually... But if I have Active Screen notifications off [Settings>ActiveDisplay] from 11:00 to 6:00, will these individual setttings for notification sounds in each app override that?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Your first part just shuts off notifications to the status bar. The active notifications list is related to that feature.

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