v557 personal rings - another quirk

This is the second quirk of this phone that is small but incredibly annoying.

So I set a Ringer ID for 2 people in my address book. Unfortunately, it
doesn't just play when I get a call from them - it plays when I get a
message (via text) from them as well. Can't I still have it play the
normal message noise but the custom ring?

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In <2006020515450116807%dkocolin@gfiltersallspamfromt heirmailcom> on Sun, 5
Feb 2006 15:45:01 -0500, dkocolin <dkocolin@gfiltersallspamfromtheirmail.com>
wrote:

>This is the second quirk of this phone that is small but incredibly annoying.
>
>So I set a Ringer ID for 2 people in my address book. Unfortunately, it
>doesn't just play when I get a call from them - it plays when I get a
>message (via text) from them as well. Can't I still have it play the
>normal message noise but the custom ring?

One person's annoyance is another person's desired behavior -- I personally
think that "quirk" is good.

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John Navas wrote:
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> In <2006020515450116807%dkocolin@gfiltersallspamfromt heirmailcom> on Sun, 5
> Feb 2006 15:45:01 -0500, dkocolin <dkocolin@gfiltersallspamfromtheirmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is the second quirk of this phone that is small but incredibly annoying.
>>
>> So I set a Ringer ID for 2 people in my address book. Unfortunately, it
>> doesn't just play when I get a call from them - it plays when I get a
>> message (via text) from them as well. Can't I still have it play the
>> normal message noise but the custom ring?
>
> One person's annoyance is another person's desired behavior -- I personally
> think that "quirk" is good.
>

I assume by that you infer that there is no way to prevent it happening?
Like the OP, I find it very annoying, and had I known about it I would
not have bought the phone. I e-mailed Motorola with the same question,
but got no reply - so my guess is that there are a lot of us that
dislike the "feature" and they're fed up of telling people there's no
way to prevent it.

Regards,

Bob


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In <dsq9st$nq1$1@nntp.aioe.org> on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:50:53 +0000, Bob Henson
<news@galenx.org.uk> wrote:

>John Navas wrote:
>>
>> In <2006020515450116807%dkocolin@gfiltersallspamfromt heirmailcom> on Sun, 5
>> Feb 2006 15:45:01 -0500, dkocolin <dkocolin@gfiltersallspamfromtheirmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the second quirk of this phone that is small but incredibly annoying.
>>>
>>> So I set a Ringer ID for 2 people in my address book. Unfortunately, it
>>> doesn't just play when I get a call from them - it plays when I get a
>>> message (via text) from them as well. Can't I still have it play the
>>> normal message noise but the custom ring?
>>
>> One person's annoyance is another person's desired behavior -- I personally
>> think that "quirk" is good.
>
>I assume by that you infer that there is no way to prevent it happening?
>Like the OP, I find it very annoying, and had I known about it I would
>not have bought the phone. I e-mailed Motorola with the same question,
>but got no reply - so my guess is that there are a lot of us that
>dislike the "feature" and they're fed up of telling people there's no
>way to prevent it.

I think that's a very big (and unwarranted) leap.

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