Oh, wow! Really! Thanks for the suggestion! I thought only the Apple Watch could do this. Any suggestions as to what I might purchase? Do these devices also track sleep habits? I've always thought that would be kind of neat.
Thanks, Ari > On Jul 8, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi Ari, > > And there are a number of relatively inexpensive Bluetooth wristbands out > there which will wake you up with vibration and I don't think that sort of > vibration will be as noticeable as when a phone vibrates especially if it is > lying on a hard surface such as a wooden night table. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > englishride...@gmail.com > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 1:33 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings > > Yes, that is frustrating. I've long wanted to make the alarm volume low while > keeping the ringtone volume high. My husband is a very light slleeper, to the > point that a vibrating phone will wake him up. So finding something that will > disturb him as little as possible while waking me up at the same time (I'm a > rather heavier sleeper than he is, and even if I do wake up, am able to very > quickly fall asleep again if I do wake up from something making noise, my > husband doesn't find getting back to sleep easy) is very difficult. > > > Thanks, > Ari > >> On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:27 PM, Jeremy <jeremy.richar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You're suggestion made me very hopeful, but though I turned off the change >> with buttons setting, the volume of the ringer seems to be tied to the >> volume of the alarms. That is, if I leave the ringer volume low, and if I >> set an alarm for 1 minute, when the alarm sounds, it is presented at the >> same low volume as the ringer. I'd really like the alarm to be loud but the >> ringer to be very quiet. Thanks for any additional ideas. >> >> JR >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of englishride...@gmail.com >> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 9:13 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings >> >> You might be able to mess around with the ringtone volume and VoiceOver >> volume (turn this on in the rotor). To get a good balance between loudness >> of VoiceOver and your ringtone. Another thing I would suggest is turning off >> the setting called change with buttons in the sounds area of the settings >> app. This makes the ringtones stay at a constant volume, no matter what you >> do with your volume buttons. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Ari >> >> On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:50 PM, Joseph Hudson <jhud7...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, the only way that I can think of this happening is if you turned >> off speech/voiceover. >> >> Joseph Hudson >> Email >> jhud7...@gmail.com >> I device support >> Telephone >> 2543007667 >> Skype >> joseph.hudson89 facebook >> https://www.facebook.com/joseph.hudson.9404 >> Twitter >> https://twitter.com/josephhudson89 >> >> FaceTime/iMessage >> jhud7...@yahoo.com >> >> >> On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:06 PM, Jeremy <jeremy.richar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Is there a way of disabling the announcement of who's calling me when >> my >> phone rings? As is, when the phone rings, I also get VoiceOver very >> loudly >> announcing the name of the person calling. Ideally, I'd like to simply >> hear >> the phone ring. 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