Text Alert

[sharpcroft]

How the hell do you silence it?
I dont mean just have it set to silent i mean stop it once its started "alerting"?
I know with motion gestures turning the phone over will silence a ringing mobile but it doesnt silence the text alert once its started?
I've tried pressing all the buttons mid alert but it just continues?
My old Galaxy S4 would cut off the text alert if you turned it over or hit one of the physical buttons but the One M8 just plays it till the end.
I have a quite long (8 seconds) and loud alert cos i sometimes work in a noisy environment so dont want to miss messages but it would be nice when in a not so loud environment to be able to cut the alert off once its started.

Cheers

Sharpy

 

[aldo82]

I don't know as I've not needed this but gave tried pressing the volume down button? That silences the ringer, might work for text messages too

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[sharpcroft]

I don't know as I've not needed this but gave tried pressing the volume down button? That silences the ringer, might work for text messages too

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Tried that, all it does is physically turn the volume down so it works in a way when volume actually gets to zero unlike when ringing which actually mutes the volume with one press.

Strange ?

 

[aldo82]

Maybe it's a problem they didn't think about. Personally my notification tones are so short that I wouldn't have time to silence them before they've finished, nor would I ever really need to. Could u use a shorter notification but set it to repeat.? That way if u don't hear it it'll notify you again but when u do hear it it'll only be short and not so annoying. You might need another app to do that tho as I'm not sure the stock sms app can

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[sharpcroft]

Im using Chomp for the sms as the stock android messaging app annoys me lol, every phone i've had be it apple or samsung android had the ability to mute alerts with a button push, works for other alerts just not sms