Why can’t things just work? Why do gadgets hate me? No, really… they do. They like my husband; they hate me. I can be having trouble getting something to work and he will come along and do the exact same thing I already tried several times and it will work for him. Gadgets hate me.
I like my Android phone. Love it; it’s very cool. I almost never use it to make phone calls but I love all the other stuff I can do with it, like looking stuff up on the Internet and playing Mahjong. Mostly I get along with it really well but yesterday I found the Coolest Message Notification Tone Ever. It’s so geeky-cool that there’s almost no possibility of ever finding anything cooler. It’s Yoda saying, “Ahhhhh, message from the dark side you have.” So I set that to be my “notification” tone. This morning I got my first text message since I changed it and I’m still getting the same old tone. No Yoda.
Of course I was unspeakably disappointed. So I looked at my settings and it showed that I had selected Yoda. I should be hearing Yoda whenever I get a text message but I’m not! I have little doubt that later my husband will look at my phone and in 60 seconds or less make it do what I want it to do. I don’t know… maybe the “notification” tone is for something other than text messages but if that’s the case I can’t find where to set the text message tone.
I think I have figured out why gadgets hate me and like my husband, though. All gadgets are female (The bitches!) so naturally they like men better. Anyone know where I can get a lesbian phone?
UPDATE: I hear Yoda when I get a new email. Not what I wanted and I still can’t figure out how to set the message notification tone.
UPDATE II: [Profanity. A lot of really really bad bad bad cuss words.] I figured it out. You have to be at the right screen when you select “Settings”. It occurred to me that that might be the problem. You have to select Settings from the main text messaging screen but every time you touch the messaging icon it goes to your last conversation. If there’s a way to go back to the main messaging screen I don’t know what it is so I powered the phone off, then back on, went to Messaging, then Settings and there it was – the option I had been looking for. Right now I kinda want to slap a programmer.
So now I’ve got Yoda alerting me to messages from “the dark side”. I think I might get tired of him after a while. I generally prefer simple things like just a pleasant little tone but for the next week or three I’ll smile every time I get a message. BTW, I downloaded it from Zedge.
July 25th, 2011 - 8:12 am
Hmm. I’m just the opposite. I can make a gadget my bitch in no time flat. When my father was alive he’d always come to me to make the (primitive 1970s-era things he owned, like the alarm clock with numbers on metal flaps — remember those?) work.
Of course, unlike most men, I keep and refer to my owner’s manuals. Have you ever seen a guy look at an owner’s manual? It’s like doing so breaks some guy rule. My friend refuses to look at the owner’s manual for his new laptop even though he still can’t find some things on it. The manual is still wrapped in plastic and he won’t let me open it!
July 25th, 2011 - 8:41 am
Did you do settings -> sound -> notifications instead of settings -> sound -> ringtone?
I’ve done that a couple of times.
July 25th, 2011 - 8:42 am
I read the manual. It lists about a dozen different options under Settings that do not exist on the actual device.
July 25th, 2011 - 8:45 am
Ed, it has Voice Call Ringtone and Notification Ringtone.
July 25th, 2011 - 9:17 am
There you go. Yoda for voice call, and maybe Droid for notification – kids love it when it does that.
Then their parents hurry them away.
July 25th, 2011 - 9:41 am
I want Yoda for text messages because it says “message from the dark side”. The “notification” is email notification. Currently the text message notification is just a little “ding” tone and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it.
July 25th, 2011 - 10:31 am
Lynn,
Sorry about the confusion on my part, still on my first cup of coffee this morning.
The notification and ringtones are actually stored in separate folders on your droid; for my original verizon droid running 2.2.2 there are over a dozen different tones in each folder.
Possibly your vendor only put the one sound in your notifications folder, which stinks.
I don’t know how/what you used to get your new ringtone, but a pretty good description – with pictures – of how you can manually update your ringtones is here:
http://www.wayneschulz.com/2009/11/how-to-load-ringtones-and-notifications-to-droid-for-free/
I just tried it, and it still works for me….
ed
July 25th, 2011 - 6:25 pm
Andrea –
I’m a guy, and read all the manuals for everything I buy. From my HTC desire to my battered pickup truck, I read the owner’s manual, because it is, for me, far easier and less embarrassing to have read the manual, and have the answer to a simple question.
But, even my wife says that’s weird. And unfortunately, in the past several years, manuals have taken a strong turn for the worse – they have gained many, many pages of lawyer mandated warnings, but have lost good information, that someone might need. I bought a lawnmower engine a few weeks back, and while there were several redundant warnings about not running it in the house, it didn’t explain how to change the oil. Turns out you have to turn it upside down.
July 25th, 2011 - 7:00 pm
Hmmm.
I didn’t know you could get to settings from messaging, but, trying it, there it is.
Glad to see you got it working!