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Old 19-09-2016, 20:03
d123
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I'm getting rather pissed off at my work phone, it's an S5 running 6.0.1.

How do I apply separate notification tones to apps? The major one giving me a problem is the Google app, it's taken to sending random google notifications every so often which notify with my text message alert. Going into the maze of settings I've so far found Application manager -> Google app -> notifications, but it seems that this version of Android only allows a on/off, so it's either put up with text message tone or completely shut down all types of notification (messages, sounds, notification bar, vibrate) for the app.

This seems rather counterintuitive for the "openness" of android.

Am I missing something?
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Old 20-09-2016, 09:21
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I'm getting rather pissed off at my work phone, it's an S5 running 6.0.1.

How do I apply separate notification tones to apps? The major one giving me a problem is the Google app, it's taken to sending random google notifications every so often which notify with my text message alert. Going into the maze of settings I've so far found Application manager -> Google app -> notifications, but it seems that this version of Android only allows a on/off, so it's either put up with text message tone or completely shut down all types of notification (messages, sounds, notification bar, vibrate) for the app.

This seems rather counterintuitive for the "openness" of android.

Am I missing something?
What type of message alerts ? The alert settings per app are usually in the app itself.
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Old 20-09-2016, 09:43
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I'm getting rather pissed off at my work phone, it's an S5 running 6.0.1.

How do I apply separate notification tones to apps? The major one giving me a problem is the Google app, it's taken to sending random google notifications every so often which notify with my text message alert. Going into the maze of settings I've so far found Application manager -> Google app -> notifications, but it seems that this version of Android only allows a on/off, so it's either put up with text message tone or completely shut down all types of notification (messages, sounds, notification bar, vibrate) for the app.

This seems rather counterintuitive for the "openness" of android.

Am I missing something?
Just checked on the one device I still have running 6.0.1

Under Settings > Notifications > App Notifications > Google App > App Settings I have the option to toggle notifications on/off and then under Priority Notifications I have the option to set the notification tone and toggle on/off vibration.
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Old 20-09-2016, 11:44
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Just checked on the one device I still have running 6.0.1

Under Settings > Notifications > App Notifications > Google App > App Settings I have the option to toggle notifications on/off and then under Priority Notifications I have the option to set the notification tone and toggle on/off vibration.
I don't have that, I only seem to have a single on/off slider and priority is the same, just on/off.

http://s21.postimg.org/m81efcv93/IMG_4011.png

Ah well, it'll just have to be all notifications off...
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Old 20-09-2016, 17:38
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I'm still on Android 5.1 and can't see any way of doing this through the OS settings, it would make sense to have the ability to set a sound to override the system default notification sound in the 'App Notifications' screen.

Some apps allow notification sounds to be set but can't see anything like this in Google's settings. There's an app called MegaSound which seems to do what you want but the first review says it doesn't work on Android 6.0 and it has not been updated since December 2014. Can't see any similar apps.


EDIT: This also may be worth a look: NotifierPro Heads-up at £2.64.
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Old 20-09-2016, 19:09
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It's ok, I fixed it by having a mini-tantrum and having the phone swapped for an alternative without such stupid foibles...

Problem now gone.
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Old 20-09-2016, 20:29
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It's ok, I fixed it by having a mini-tantrum and having the phone swapped for an alternative without such stupid foibles...

Problem now gone.
Thats an odd one.

I just looked at my Z5 and where you see 'Hide sensitive Content', i have App Setting below where i can change the tone.

I was going to say make sure you had the app on the latest version, but to late now!
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Old 20-09-2016, 22:12
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Thats an odd one.

I just looked at my Z5 and where you see 'Hide sensitive Content', i have App Setting below where i can change the tone.

I was going to say make sure you had the app on the latest version, but to late now!
It was all up to date, first thing I checked.
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