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This may be a question more appropriate for Android forums but I figured I would give it a shot. My university restricts the school phone numbers from appearing on the recipient's Caller ID. When I get calls from within the university, the call comes up Restricted on my Samsung Galaxy S4. Is there anyway to program the phone so that all Restricted calls have a custom ring?
You can put all of the contacts in your list into a group and assign the group with a ringtone, and set the default ringtone as something else. This way anyone not stored in your phone will ring with a different tone to anyone you have stored.
As far as I know no, they're restricted number but they're still treated as different numbers. I doubt that the phone would be able to set a ringtone due to it not being a contact and it needs to know the number to be able to know what ringtone to play otherwise it will play the default ringtone. As it doesn't know the restricted calls number it'll play the default ringtone.
Johndroid. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Right now I was looking for an answer to set a ringtone to private numbers (that's what appears in my cell phone when somebody calls and doesn't show the tel. number) in Google.com and then I saw this Spiceworks.com web site and I decided to check if there was an answer waiting for me and I read your suggestion and Voila! Your suggetion was the best thing I could do for my cell phone. Now If that private number phone calls appears again even if I see it, at least no gonna bother my ears X-D
Just replying so that I, too, can receive replies to your inquiry. My problem may or may not be the same -- but pretty sure it is. I opted to use a 3rd party email app (TypeApp) which had a checkbox to be used for ActiveSync. When I add my Hotmail account with ActiveSync checked, it pulls in my contacts etc into the native (Samsung) Contacts app. But when I edit an individual contact, it does not give me the option (normally under "View more") to edit ringtones and texttones. The options are simply not present. When I created my email account *without* ActiveSync checked, no contacts were pulled in; it was simply email. I also added a Gmail account and *was* able to use custom tones. After various online searches and several forum boards, I've come to the conclusion that the problem is almost certainly with Microsoft/ActiveSync. So, can you provide any insight into this issue? Note, I was able to have custom ringtones etc on my previous phone (LG V20 running Nougat 7.1.2). But I was using the Outlook email app. Hmmm, interesting.
I have same problem. Some contacts - I can use edit and Ringtone is an option - at the moment I have three specific Ringtones. Default ringtone is set and works for all the others. For most contacts if I use Edit there is NO tag/selector to add Ringtone. Really annoying! I suspect at first the 'Contacts' were OK and individual ringtone could be set for all individual people and then it 'broke'!
Putting people into groups where I can then assign ringtone has sort of worked - albeit you have to keep tidying groups as many end up in Family! So I guess groups and ringtones cannot survive the Android vs Microsoft synchronisation.
I'd also really love to be able to change the face to something other than the six options they give you...some color or font size/orientation options...idk why in this day and age you are locked in to the same six watch faces they've had for years.
I was told by a reddit user that the ringtone itself is a phone setting, but it's not a sound I've heard my phone make any other time. Is it some sort of emergency alarm? My system default alarm sound is Bright Morning, so it's not that.
Learn how to change the sound that plays when you get a call, text, email, or other notification on your iPhone or iPad. Choose from a variety of built-in sounds or buy ringtones from the iTunes Store.
You then need to click the menu button and create a new group. Give it a name and choose a ring tone then click add members and click select all (top left). This will add all your stored 'known' contacts to the group, and will use the selected ringtone for their incoming calls.
You can follow these exact steps to silence text messages from the same contact as well. Instead of choosing Ringtone in the Contact Edit menu, you need to choose Text Tone and assign the silent ringtone in a similar way. Or, if you want to hide all the message alerts, you can simply mute the conversation in the Messages app.
Have you ever walked around in public and heard the same handful of default ringtones over and over again? How do these people know who's calling without looking first? It's tough to tell when they all sound the same, but there is something crafty you can do to help with that. Using a different ringtone for certain contacts will allow you to differentiate between them instantly.
Most Android phones use Google's Contacts app to handle these features, so we'll give instructions for that first. But if you have a Samsung device, skip the next paragraph to see instructions for your phone.
For most phones, start out by opening the Contacts app to the main screen, then select someone whose ringtone you want to change. Tap their name once to bring up their details, hit the three-dot menu in the top-right, then choose "Set ringtone." If you have multiple apps that have a ringtone picker built into them, you'll have to select which one you want to use.
If you're on a Samsung, open the Contacts app and select someone whose ringtone you wish to change. Tap "Edit" at the bottom of the next screen, then scroll down to the end of the subsequent page and hit "View more." Scroll down to the bottom again and tap "Ringtone," then hit "Allow" if prompted to give the Contacts app permission to access your storage.
You might only be able to use the default ringtones that came with your phone at the start, but you can use your own custom ringtones as well. If you download Zedge, Next SMS, or chomp SMS, they all have individual ringtone pickers built into them that will pop up as options if you repeat Step 1.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to designate a ringtone, text tone, and vibration pattern for your specific contacts so that you can hear the call or even feel it, and not have to look at your iPhone screen to know who it is.
Having different ringtones for different contacts makes it easy to tell who is calling, even if your device is on the other side of the room. It also keeps you from getting bored with your default ringtone. Mix it up a little. Give your iPhone a bit of flare.
Sadly, the specific ringtone you set for a contact only applies to the iPhone. So when you get a call from that person, your iPhone will play the custom ringtone; however, your Apple Watch will have the standard watchOS ringtone.
I need a way to distinguish which calls are coming through the business line vs which are coming through my personal line. That way I can answer the phone differently depending on the call. What I need, is a special ringtone that is only used when calls are forwarded from my business line.
The best way would be if Verizon had the option to add a 2nd line to a single phone with a distinct ringtone if it goes through the 2nd phone number. This way, I would know it was a business call, and I could still see the incoming caller's phone number... maybe even a second voicemail system for the 2nd line would be helpful... all while still using a single phone. Also, of course we would need the option to make calls from either of the two phone numbers using a single phone. I think this would SERIOUSLY add a lot of new verizon customers from the business world where a feature like this would be VERY VERY popular.
Really, all I need is the option to add a 2nd phone number on a single phone, and each number has a distinct ringtone... that way I can use the same phone for personal or business, and I will always know which line it's coming from because of the ringtone.
Sorry I don't have experience forwarding a line to my Verizon phone. But if the call coming in from the forwarded line shows a distinct number in the caller ID, you could add it to your contacts in your Verizon phone and assign a different ringtone to it that way.
You can achieve this somewhat by putting a distinct ringtone on all of your personal contacts in your phone. Then any phone calls you receive without this distinct ringtone would be answered as if they were business calls. If they are not business calls, you can then add the distinct ringtone to this new contact. It should not be that hard to facilitate on your own. Especially, if you only want to carry around 1 instead of 2 phones.
Toader, thanks for the great suggestion. At this time, we do not have a way to differentiate between calls that are forwarded to your phone and calls that come directly to your phone. I am not sure if this is something that can possibly be implemented at a later time. One thing you can look into is Google Voice. You can create a new number on Google Voice, and then forward those calls to your cell. It gives you the option of showing the number that the call is coming from or your Google Voice number. The one drawback of doing this is that your caller id will show the Google Voice number and not the number the call is actually coming from. It is still something you may want to consider.
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