Howard Brazee

I've been futzing with my settings since I got my iPhone. I want it
to ring and vibrate when I get calls. I have a bunch of
notifications on.

But every few minutes I get a quiet beep and short buzz, and I can't
trace down what causes this. I swipe down to see notifications.
Nothing. I check my phone - nothing. I have no idea what it's
buzzing about. What good is a beep or buzz if I can't trace down
what it's for?

So I have two questions:
1. How do I find out what the beep is trying to tell me?
2. Once I know, how do I turn off that beep/buzz (let me see the
notification later).


(I accidentally posted this in the wrong forum earlier)

salgud

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:18:01 -0700, Howard Brazee wrote:

> I've been futzing with my settings since I got my iPhone. I want it
> to ring and vibrate when I get calls. I have a bunch of
> notifications on.
>
> But every few minutes I get a quiet beep and short buzz, and I can't
> trace down what causes this. I swipe down to see notifications.
> Nothing. I check my phone - nothing. I have no idea what it's
> buzzing about. What good is a beep or buzz if I can't trace down
> what it's for?
>
> So I have two questions:
> 1. How do I find out what the beep is trying to tell me?
> 2. Once I know, how do I turn off that beep/buzz (let me see the
> notification later).
>
>
> (I accidentally posted this in the wrong forum earlier)

Have you rebooted?

Howard Brazee

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:25:39 -0700, salgud <spamboy6547@comcast.net>
wrote:

>
>Have you rebooted?

I will. I never power off my iPad nor iPod except when they got
stuck, and didn't know there was any advantage to rebooting my iPhone.

I'll get back to this thread later today with my results.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Howard Brazee

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:37:53 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
wrote:

>>Have you rebooted?
>
>I will. I never power off my iPad nor iPod except when they got
>stuck, and didn't know there was any advantage to rebooting my iPhone.
>
>I'll get back to this thread later today with my results.


Didn't work. But I infer that the beeping isn't normal, that
there's some way I can turn it off.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Jolly Roger

In article <blp5i7hprpl0tja3amk68p6odhj15akpi4@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:37:53 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
> wrote:
>
> >>Have you rebooted?
> >
> >I will. I never power off my iPad nor iPod except when they got
> >stuck, and didn't know there was any advantage to rebooting my iPhone.
> >
> >I'll get back to this thread later today with my results.
>
>
> Didn't work. But I infer that the beeping isn't normal, that
> there's some way I can turn it off.

I'm sure there is. It's likely coming from an application you have
installed.

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DevilsPGD

In the last episode of <jrc4i79nktcd3ht4rbtnq5a4422kpt6umv@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> said:

>I've been futzing with my settings since I got my iPhone. I want it
>to ring and vibrate when I get calls. I have a bunch of
>notifications on.
>
>But every few minutes I get a quiet beep and short buzz, and I can't
>trace down what causes this. I swipe down to see notifications.
>Nothing. I check my phone - nothing. I have no idea what it's
>buzzing about. What good is a beep or buzz if I can't trace down
>what it's for?
>
>So I have two questions:
>1. How do I find out what the beep is trying to tell me?
>2. Once I know, how do I turn off that beep/buzz (let me see the
>notification later).

There's no good way to hunt it down, unfortunately. Watch for any
applications where a badge counter changes. Gmail's App, for example,
doesn't display a popup but does play a sound, vibrate, and update the
counter.

--
It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to
steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

J B

On 27/01/2012 18:03, Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:37:53 -0700, Howard Brazee<howard@brazee.net>
> wrote:
>
>>> Have you rebooted?
>>
>> I will. I never power off my iPad nor iPod except when they got
>> stuck, and didn't know there was any advantage to rebooting my iPhone.
>>
>> I'll get back to this thread later today with my results.
>
>
> Didn't work. But I infer that the beeping isn't normal, that
> there's some way I can turn it off.
>
On mine, there's a little switch on the side for turning the sound off ;-)

--
J B

Howard Brazee

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:20:14 +0000, J B <jb@invalid.com> wrote:

>> Didn't work. But I infer that the beeping isn't normal, that
>> there's some way I can turn it off.
>>
>On mine, there's a little switch on the side for turning the sound off ;-)

I want to hear and feel the phone ring. It's those other
notifications that I want to be quiet and non-vibrating.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Howard Brazee

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:05:24 -0800, DevilsPGD
<Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage@crazyhat.net> wrote:

>There's no good way to hunt it down, unfortunately. Watch for any
>applications where a badge counter changes. Gmail's App, for example,
>doesn't display a popup but does play a sound, vibrate, and update the
>counter.

Good idea. If I see it changing, I can play with notifications for
that particular app, provided it has them.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Howard Brazee

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:57:51 -0600, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
wrote:

>> Didn't work. But I infer that the beeping isn't normal, that
>> there's some way I can turn it off.
>
>I'm sure there is. It's likely coming from an application you have
>installed.

I traced it down. It's my wife's .me e-mail. I'm not finding how
to turn off its notifications. Actually, I don't even want her
e-mail on my phone at all except when we're on vacation. And no
notifications then.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison