Suggestion: Sound settings, system vs. ambience

asked 2014-06-22 11:19:21 +0200

pa4wdh gravatar image

Hi all,

I've found some other questions and suggestions related to the sound settings (ringtone etc.) which can be found in the system settings and in the ambience settings. Mine is a bit different so i hope it's ok to start a new topic for that :-)

My problem is that i have 2 other halves and both of them have a ambience connected to it. Besides the visual aspects that also changes most notification sounds. However, for some notifications i don't want the sound to change, most notably the ringtone, because it's what i recognize my phone with. My suggestion is to have an extra setting, either at the system settings or at ambience level. At system level this could be something like "Allow ambience settings to override this sound" (which could be a generic setting or per notification type). At ambience level this could be something like "Allow this ambience to change notification sounds".

In this way you can give more control to the user, in the current situation i'll have to notice the ringtone changed and modify the ambience to get my regular ringtone back.

What do you think ?

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I'm sorry, I don't have several TOHs yet, do the sounds reset every time you change it? If not, wouldn't it be a rather quick fix to go through your TOHs and change the ringtone and message tome on each to the same sound? (Since, as you say, the sounds are how you tell your phone from other phones, I assume you don't change these often.)

I agree completely that you should be able to choose phone colour, wallpaper and sounds separately if you want, but as something you can set up in 4 minutes I wouldn't wait for an update.

orjans ( 2014-06-22 11:52:14 +0200 )edit

The sound does not change every time yo change TOH, but for example the recent upgrade made the ambience revert to their original settings, and i didn't notice until i got an incoming call :-) And sure, it's fixable in it's current situation, but i think having these settings has two advantages:

1) The user has actual control over the sound settings

2) Because of it user is more aware of the connection between abience sound settings and system settings :-)

pa4wdh ( 2014-06-22 12:03:09 +0200 )edit