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Motorola G 6

kalina — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:04:19 GMT

I just bought the Motorola G6 when it was the special value. I understand that when you receive a text message it does not give you a ring tone of any sort as a notification. I don't keep my cell close to my at all times, so a flashing light will not be a great thing for me. Is there an app that I can load to give me a ring tone for text messages, and does anyone know the name of a good one I could use?

Thank you.

Re: Motorola G 6

Bird mama — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:29:31 GMT

Hi @kalina I'm currently using an older Motorola G (can't remember the version number). It's been my experience that if you have the phone muted then you will only get the light. If you have it set on vibrate instead of ringing, you will get a quick buzz (vibrate). If you have the volume turned up you should get some kind of noise. It won't be a repeating noise for a text like it is when a call is coming in.

I was able to work within the confines of my Moto G so I never did an app. I don't even know if an app exists.

I hope you enjoy the phone. I wanted it but not with Tracphone.

Re: Motorola G 6

hckynut — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:23:14 GMT

@kalina

My wife just got her E5 Motorola Tracfone. It has these settings:

Media Volume

Alarm Volume

Ring Volume

Vibrate(when on it overrides the other settings).

Tones? Beats me, I prefer just an old telephone ring.

hckynut

Re: Motorola G 6

kalina — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:35:19 GMT

Thank you for responding. I guess I will just have to use the phone and play around with it for awhile.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:49:02 GMT

@kalina- I thought of buying the Motorola G6, but the thing I'm most concerned about is whether it has a repeat alert function for texts. My current LG eliminated that feature and it's a major pain. I don't carry my phone all around the house, so often it's hours before I realize a text came in.

I did post a question about the TSv concerning this and the answer was that you could set an audible repeat alert by going into Settings, then Accessibility.

I have to say that makes no sense to me, so I don't see how it could work. Normally, the repeat function is set within the app (in this case Messages). Have you looked at the settings for the actual app?

Once you've had a chance to get used to your new phone, can you come back and tell me whether you really can set a repeat alert. I'd appreciate it. In the meantime I'm not ordering.

Re: Motorola G 6

Moonlady — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 20:00:43 GMT

Well @Venezia, you might be interested to know that the LG Stylo 4 I got last month does NOT have the repeat notification feature which my previous Fiesta did have. I looked all over for it, and it's nowhere lol. I did set the blinking light, which blinks for texts and voicemails. I actually like that because I don't respond immediately to texts, anyway, and found the repeat annoying, so I'd usually turn it off while shopping, for example. At home, I don't carry the phone around, so the blinking light is enough of an alert for me to notice when I'm walking by, if I miss the notification sound.

I really like the phone, but I don't like how they've been eliminating features I'm guessing most users like. I do miss the NoLed app because I liked having the floating contact photo. I've found no substitute for that yet.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 21:39:12 GMT

@Moonlady- I found, when I compared my previous LG Premier to the LG Fiesta 2, that it's a different Messages app, although it looks almost the same. And the new one eliminated the features. No earthly reason why anyone would do that.

At least with the repeat alert function, you could choose between 2 minutes, 5 minutes or never. So it suited everyone! I've only got 16 Gb of storage on my current phone and a lot of it is used up, so I'm not thrilled about having to download another app to replace what has been taken away.

I'm still thinking about using Textra, which is much more customizable than the Messages app.

Good to know about the LG Stylo though - that was another one I considered. The best phone I've had was the one with the LED light built into the phone, that you could set to different colors for different contacts!

Re: Motorola G 6

Ainhisg — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 22:18:05 GMT

@kalina wrote:
I just bought the Motorola G6 when it was the special value. I understand that when you receive a text message it does not give you a ring tone of any sort as a notification. I don't keep my cell close to my at all times, so a flashing light will not be a great thing for me. Is there an app that I can load to give me a ring tone for text messages, and does anyone know the name of a good one I could use?

Thank you.

@kalina , I've had this phone since last November. It has a tone that you choose to notify you that you have received a text. There is no way to make the tone repeat, however. Also, if you wave your hand over the phone or even reach for it, the screen will come on showing you if you have a text or missed call. In the event that I decided I wanted a flashing light for notification, I was going to download this app to use, but I never found it necessary. I love the phone!!!! So many neat features! You do have to use the turbo charger that comes with it, and it will charge your phone super fast. The battery life is not as good as other phones that I've had, but with the turbo charger, I find that to be a non-issue. Here is the app I was going to download:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trendy.frontflashnotification&hl=en_US

@Venezia , as I stated above, there is no way to make the phone have repeated alerts for text messages.

Re: Motorola G 6

kalina — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 22:56:11 GMT

Thank you. I have printed the info about the app and will try it when I get the phone.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 01:03:27 GMT

@Ainhisg- Thank you so much for the info about the repeat alert function not being available. I simply didn't believe the answer to the question by a supposed Tracfone employee, as it didn't make sense.

I knew it was better to ask someone who actually had the phone. It looks like a good phone otherwise, but I'll wait as my current phone isn't even a year old.

Re: Motorola G 6

Ainhisg — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 01:51:38 GMT

@Venezia , I, too, would like a repeated alert, but my last phone didn’t have it either. For whatever reason, companies have decided that that is something we don’t need or want. I wish they would leave the feature on the phone with a way to turn it on or off, so people could have it if they wish. I’ve had a lot of tracfones, and this is my favorite one yet! Love the fingerprint sensor and many other things about it, so if you think you could live without repeated text notifications, this would be a good one to get.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:50:20 GMT

@Ainhisg- The repeat alert feature used to have a choice of "never" so, if you didn't want it to happen, you just chose that.

That's why I don't understand why on earth they did away with it. I'll keep the Motorola in mind though. I'm sure it will come down in price by the time I need another phone.

My DH and I have only ever owned Tracfones and each one has been better than the last. But losing that repeat alert feature really was a bummer. I almost reverted to my LG Premier!

An at-home option

PickyPicky3 — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 12:36:47 GMT

Slightly off topic, but I want to remind people of the benefit of using an answering machine with the Bluetooth sync-to-cell feature. I hate carrying my cell phone around the house. With the answering machine I just leave it in my purse and it syncs as soon as I walk in the door. Texts are announced loud and clear with the caller ID name. There is an app available so that the entire text can be read. What a great benefit for the blind.

You can use the answering machine just for your cell -- no landline needed. Absolutely one of my best electronics purchases.

Re: Motorola G 6

Moonlady — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:06:54 GMT

I'm convinced that getting users to download apps, even free apps--with ads-- is behind a lot of these changes to native/stock apps.

And you DO have to be careful with updates, even if you disable them as I do, because some of them still do update. I've caught a few in the middle of updates, and canceled them.

For example, I was just carping about updates here a while ago, and how I was unable to edit photos years ago after an update, then noticed on the Fiesta that I could no longer choose a pic from my *own* gallery to use as an icon--I had to choose from among those in the stock phone gallery. (I'm not a fan of those pastel icons, and like to download colorful pics of phones, clocks, memo pads, photo albums, etc to use for icons, instead.) Obviously, there was an update which squeaked by.

Well that particular issue is even worse on the Stylo, because there isn't even a mechanism to change icons using their icon gallery...there ISN'T an icon gallery on the Stylo lol! It's been eliminated. And I don't want to download an icon-package app.

And they change things from simple to hard, too. For texts, the subject line *used* to be right where it belonged in the menu, and was easily accessed when texting. Well it's not there in the Stylo. It took me 3 days to find out where they'd hidden it! Why hide it?

When it comes to cell phone features, it seems that their updates often aren't improvements at all.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:16:59 GMT

EDIT AND UPDATE !

Grrrrr!!!!!!!!!! I am no longer a happy camper (see original message below). I decided to give it a try tonight, using my DH's phone to send myself some texts. Every time I tried it, it would throw up a box saying the app (Messaging) had stopped working. Once I closed that, it would let the text through, but no sound at all.

Finally, I got an info pop-up from Google that said this app was "for an older version of Android". In other words, tough luck, you're stuck with our crappy new version!

I've since uninstalled it, as there's no point keeping it on my Fiesta. So now, I either revert to my "older" phone, with no guarantees that they don't update it on there to the new version.

Or I download something like Textra, as I'd originally planned. That seems to be the way to go now. I'll come back and let you know how that works out.

However, ShareIt does work as I said, so that's something to know.

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@Ainhisg- I was browsing the web last night, trying to find a solution to my LG Fiesta 2 without the repeat alert function. I was annoyed that they did away with this since I'd had it on my LG Premier.

Well, I discovered an app called "ShareIt" that transfers apps from one phone to another and I just decided to give it a try. And it worked!

I transferred "Messaging" from the Premier onto my Fiesta. I've set it as my default text messenger and have now been able to set audible repeat alerts like I used to have. Hurrah!!! And it only took minutes to download onto ShareIt to each phone.

It works similar to the Transfer Wizard, but allows you to transfer apps.

Re: Motorola G 6

kalina — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:46:40 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion of the Share It app. I will put it down on my list of things I can do to get a repeat tone for texts.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:18:54 GMT

@kalina wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion of the Share It app. I will put it down on my list of things I can do to get a repeat tone for texts.

@kalina- See the update I just made to my previous post. I'm so fed up with Google and their antics.

Anyway, I'll see how Textra works out. It's so stupid to have deleted the repeat alert funciton. I'm about to go onto their site and send them some feedback!

If there are any other apps you want to transfer though, ShareIt is easy to use.

Re: Motorola G 6

Moonlady — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:14:22 GMT

@Venizia, I thought the ShareIt app idea was interesting. But you're in for a treat because I've been using an app to repeat notifications, and it works like a charm--you might like it. It's called MISSED NOTIFICATIONS--the first one to pop up when you google "missed notifications app" (it has a teal broken circle with an arrow). It's VERY simple with no added options. You just choose the minute interval for repeats (I chose 2 minutes--it's customizable), enable a "max" number of repeats (if desired--I didn't pick this, so they repeat indefinitely, until the text is opened), then check the apps you want repeat notifications for. It simply repeats whatever sound you've set in the stock app.

So now, I just turn off the phone when I go shopping lol. The texts simply queue up as before.

Try the app; you might like it.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:52:04 GMT

@Moonlady- Thank you! I'll try that for sure. It's driving me crazy not having the repeat alerts.

Re: Motorola G 6

Venezia — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:27:27 GMT

@Moonlady- I downloaded that app earlier today and have tested it out a few times. It's working perfectly so far; just what I needed.

Thank you again!