On your phone its nice to be alerted when you get emails, calls, voicemail, etc. What about your Tablet? These notifications are in most cases annoying at best. Below are the steps you can take to turn off all notification sounds. Of course you can always leave on the ones that you feel are still useful. Generally I turn off the ringtone and audible selection sounds because the lock screen wakes up my wife when I want to use the tablet in bed at night, the obviously the brightness is also down.
Instructions to Silence all Sounds on Honeycomb:
- Go to Settings -> Sound -> Volume
- Slide all three sliders to the far left
- Go to Notifications and set ringtone to silent
- Go to Feedback and uncheck “Audible selection” and “Screen Lock Sounds”
- Thats it your Tablet is now silent
This will fix the ever so annoying sounds on your Honeycomb Tablet that you think you have turned off by turning the volume down just to open something else and have the sounds come back. Many apps and areas of the Tablets will use different sounds to play their notifications other than just media.
While this will silent all sounds on the device using hardware methods you can always root your tablet and turn off all sounds by simply deleting the sound files that are used by the system and/or replacing them with much more subtle sounds that don’t make you want to throw your tablet across the room. How many times can you hear chimes or Hello Moto before it drives you nuts.