What's the difference between Silent and Ringer volume

[Andrea Moro]

I was trying to create a profile to turn down volume while on a meeting, but using the silent mode On doesn't affect my volume at all and the phone rang on testing.

So what's the difference between the Silent Mode and the Ringer Volume?

Is the ringer including the notification, but excluding alarms?

Thanks

Andrea

[Pak]

Perhaps it depends on which phone model you have?

I have one task triggered by tapping a NFC tag on my work badge to silence my phone for 55 minutes. I use Audio Action -> Silent mode and set it to vibrate. This works fine on my Samsung Galaxy S2, but one thing I discovered that this mode does not silence "media" playback. So I added to my task a separate action to set media volume to zero.

When you tested the ringing, did you actually call your phone or did you turn on the ringing via another method (thinking that maybe the way you played the ring tone was done via "media" playback versus actual ringing)?

[UncleMike]

Silent Mode only affects ringer and notification sounds, leaving media and alarm volumes unaffected.  On recent Android versions, Ringer Volume also affects both ringer and notification sounds, but that's because of a (inexplicable) change in Android, where ringer and notification volumes are inseparably linked.  Both Silent Mode and Ringer Volume *should* allow you to silence the ringer and notifications, but using Silent Mode allows you to return to the previous state with a simple Silent Mode Off action, whereas with Ringer Volume you would have to set the volume to a specific value.

I've never heard of a phone that didn't respond properly to Silent Mode, so I'm with Pak in thinking that what you heard while the phone was silenced was something other than a ringer or notification.  But if that sound is indeed what you need to silence, you'll need to change the appropriate volume setting (or all of them).

On Thursday, March 13, 2014 9:45:44 AM UTC-4, Andrea Moro wrote:

[Andrea Moro]

Can't recall at this stage what I've hear, but the more I play with Tasker and the more I found way to debug, and it seems fine now.