HTC Incredible--need REALLY LOUD notification tone
kllr1957
Enthusiast - Level 2

For when text messages come in.  I'm a new Incredible owner, first smartphone, and I'm old, so be nice 🙂  I've tried out the various tones on the phone over the past week, but I keep not hearing the notification when a text arrives unless I am holding the phone in my hand (so, not when it's in my purse, my coat pocket, on the seat next to me in the car, etc.)  I do have the volume slider bar as loud as it will go.  Can anyone point me to a tone that's LOUD?  I'm guessing something is available in Market? I don't care what the tone is so long as it's not something obnoxious or obscene.  Thank you for any help!

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Re: HTC Incredible--need REALLY LOUD notification tone
AZSALUKI
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there's an app called zedge. i use it for ringtones and text tones. i got the one that the motorolas have. it yells "DROID" at me and is pretty loud (my wife actually hates it it is so much louder than the other tones...lol). download zedge and you can preview MANY tones. when you find one you like you can choose to download it and select it as your tone. keep in mind that these are tones people have shared so there may be multiple files of essentially the same tone. some may make the same sound, but be louder. i also use an app called "missed call" that let's me customize the tones and reminders a bit further than just the phone. so now when i get a text, it says "droid" and vibrates at the same time. it then continues to vibrate every couple of minutes until i feel it in my pocket (i also have i hard time feeling it vibrate OR hearing it when it's in a loose pocket).

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Re: HTC Incredible--need REALLY LOUD notification tone
AZSALUKI
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there's an app called zedge. i use it for ringtones and text tones. i got the one that the motorolas have. it yells "DROID" at me and is pretty loud (my wife actually hates it it is so much louder than the other tones...lol). download zedge and you can preview MANY tones. when you find one you like you can choose to download it and select it as your tone. keep in mind that these are tones people have shared so there may be multiple files of essentially the same tone. some may make the same sound, but be louder. i also use an app called "missed call" that let's me customize the tones and reminders a bit further than just the phone. so now when i get a text, it says "droid" and vibrates at the same time. it then continues to vibrate every couple of minutes until i feel it in my pocket (i also have i hard time feeling it vibrate OR hearing it when it's in a loose pocket).

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Re: HTC Incredible--need REALLY LOUD notification tone
kllr1957
Enthusiast - Level 2

Thank you, thank you!  Thank you!  Probably everyone but me knows this, but I finally thought to search Zedge for 'loud' and got several tones to choose from that have 'loud' in their names, which more quickly let me find the type of notification tones I was looking for.  I've started with the loudest 'DROID' one per your suggestion, and see how that works over the next day or two.

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