Ringtones for Known and Unknown Callers
 

I used to have a Treo 800w. Worst phone I ever had, but I digress. One thing it had that I liked was that in Settings:Sounds and Notifications:Event it had known callers and unknown callers. So, you could specify different rings if someone called who was not in your contact list and a different ring for people in your contact list. If you already had a custom ring specified for a contact, that ring would override the default.

So I had many callers with specfic rings assigned in contacts. But, I really liked the fact that when the phone rang I always knew if the caller was in my contracts or not by the ring.

The Diamond does not have the option in Settings:Sounds and Notifications:Event. It only has phone incoming call. I assumed it was a function of WM 6.1 but I guess not or it was left out of the stock Diamond. Is there a way to get that option through a tweak of some kind?

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I do not know of a tweak but if someone else does, I would love that functionality as well. I remember when I had my Treo 700wx I used to use "Who Are You" by the Who for unknown calls... still have the custom ringtone that I made for it :)

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I also used custom sounds for incoming email and text messages in place of the wav files on the phone but when I try to assign one of my custom wavs to incoming messages, they don't play. They are wav files just like the stock ones on the phone, they are located in the same directory (windows) on the phone as the stock wav files for such messages and they are of similar size but there is no sound when they are selected.

Any ideas?

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The "Unknown" caller feature was on my Mogul and my treo 800w, wish it was on the Diamond, I used "Who can it be now" for the ringtone.

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If has to be a reg

if some one has there old 800W or Mogle and can give me HKLM and HKCU reg ill compare to diamond reg.

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Actually I was just thinking of the same thing... let's see if we can compare and figure this out...

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HKCU>ControlPanel>sounds

can i have that full key to take a look?

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My old 700wx is somewhere at home.. but I have a new 800w here in the box that I am returning. Hang on, I'll open it and look real quick...

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my 700wx is out on loan, so i cannot check it.

or id be on that like flies on s*it.

i too miss this option. i ignore unknown #'s and let my voice service get them.

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