turn on system sound for Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0

[AC Question]

Hello,
A few months back, the various persistent notifications noises coming from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 was driving a houseguest right up the wall. I searched and searched the internet for a way to turn them all off, most only turned a few off, but I did eventually find one that turned them all off.
Unfortunately, I can't find the setting to turn it back on and a few people are getting pretty annoyed at the delay in my discovery of their email and response to it.
The sound is working, I hear a video no problem.
Places I've already checked:
- swipe from the top/Blocking Mode/turned off
- swipe from the top/Volume/turned on
- main screen/Settings/under Device/Sound/Volume/all 3 are set to mid range
- main screen/Settings/under Device/Notifications/Chirps
- main screen/Settings/under Device/Sound/Volume/all 3 are set to mid range
- main screen/Settings/under System/Accessibility/Sound balance set to midrange
- main screen/Settings/under System/Accessibility/Turn off all sounds set to off

Is there someplace else I should be looking for sound/volume On/Off?

Thank you for any advice, direction or thoughts.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Go to the App Manager, select the Email app, and make sure Show Notifications is checked on. Also, open the Email app, tap Menu>Settings, select the email account, and look for the notification options--make sure they're set correctly there.

 

[AmyInNh]

My email account has:
General Settings
- Email notification/on
- Notification sound/bubbles
ISP/Notification
- Email notifications/on
- Notification sound/Postman

Just to be clear, the sound is off for all notifications.

 

[B. Diddy]

When you go to Settings>Notifications menu, what happens if you select a new notification tone? Does it play you a sample?

Can you remember anything about how you happened to turn all of the sounds off? If you can give us a clue, it might be helpful.

 

[AmyInNh]

Yes. When I toggle any setting that allows the selection of a sound, it does play aloud.

I remember going through quite a few suggestions, which only worked for turning off some of the sounds. I seem to remember the one that worked said go here and turn the volume all the way down, but I'm not completely sure of that.

Is there something I could use to diff settings versus factory settings? Or a debug flag I could turn on?

 

[B. Diddy]

Sorry, not quite sure what to try next. Have you already tried wiping the cache partition? https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-16226

 

[AmyInNh]

That's a factory reset, isn't it? I may have to settle for doing that. It's occurred to me while digging around on the web this morning that I could actually run across the original instructions and the value and GUI for it may've been deprecated in a software update.

 

[B. Diddy]

No--the system cache partition wipe only clears out the temporary system data in that partition. It doesn't erase any personal data. Just make sure you don't select Wipe Data/Factory Reset in the Recovery Menu.