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Old 09-27-2011, 07:06 PM   #1
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Question Contact-Specific Silenced Alerts & Ringtone

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I'm attempting to differentiate contacts by their alerts and ringtones. I have been successful at finding some information along that line. However, what I have not found is how to SILENCE ALL alerts (ringing, messaging) for individual contacts. It would appear I am forced to choose ringtones and alerts - that there is NO silent choice for any of the profile options - nor volume control.

I do not want to have to mute my phone entirely in order to silence one inconsiderate caller's manic, middle-of-the-night calls. I just need to silence the person's calls and alerts - set technological boundaries, if you will - whilst keeping my preferred profile active.

I would be eternally grateful for any assistance.


Thank you all very much for your advice in advance
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Old 09-27-2011, 07:22 PM   #2
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Default Re: Contact-Specific Silenced Alerts & Ringtone

Contact Alerts apply across all profiles.

You can set the Contact Alert's volume to "Active Profile" and it will follow the volume/silent setting for the overall profile. But you can't set the Contact Alert to silent while the rest of the device isn't silent (or on vibrate).
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Could you add an mp3 of silence, and set that as a contact alert? It would be silent always...

Or you can use message alerts (a program I've extolled the virtues of in the past) or something similar and program him into a 9-5 box.

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Default Re: Contact-Specific Silenced Alerts & Ringtone

I ran into this exact problem recently. I had custom ringtones and message alerts for a handful of important contacts. Within the contact itself the alerts were set to "always" instead of "active profile". Changing that solved everything.
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Default Re: Contact-Specific Silenced Alerts & Ringtone

Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. I'm happy to report I've moved yet one step closer to understanding my BB. To resolve this conundrum, I learned how to set up independent alert profiles. Please, see steps below:

- Select a Profile
- Change Sounds and Alerts
- Sounds for Contacts
- Add Contact Alert
- Name the contact alert
- Add contact(s) you wish to include in this Contact Alert profile
- Under "Contact Alert Settings", configure the desired phone and msg alerts for the contact(s)
- Set Volume by either choosing "ACTIVE" in which case volume setting will be that of the active profile - or - set the volume independent of the active profile by selecting a level between 10 and 1 or Silent.
- LED, vibrate, vibrate w/ ring, message alerts, etc can all be set independent of the active profile as well.

One caveat. If your method of updating your contacts via BB Desktop is to re-write one way your entire address book from Outlook to the BB, then the Contact Alerts will have to be configured again (ask me how I know that...)

Otherwise, using contact alert profiles works a treat. The contact I have in my "Silenced" alert profile called this a.m. I got only the LED alert - no ring, no vibrate - which is what I intended. A contact that I have in one of my clients groups alert Profiles called yesterday. I have a different ring tone for those clients - and have the volume set to ACTIVE (profile). Worked a treat for this profile as well.

I'm a happy camper... Thank you all again for your contributions!
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