Ideas
This statement is true "I actually never realized the phone didn't support custom tones for contacts outside of the calling ringtones." which is something I want to try and do on my Android, because I was able to do it on my old iPhone. On the iPhone I thought it was simple, but with Android I don't know the systems well enough.
When you told me about Tasker I went yeah! But now, not so much. What's with this; "You would first have to disable notifications from your sms app so the tasker profile wouldn't just play a sound over that one." couldn't you just set up a variable with specific number set to play certain files and not disable anything? As for this; "You'd also likely have to create a separate profile for each contact that you want to have a custom sms tone for." I thought of that as well and said to myself, "set one up and have it working then clone it" and "then change the numbers and sound files". Which is not as hard as trying to create a new profile every time.
I actually never realized the phone didn't support custom tones for contacts outside of the calling ringtones. That actually sounds pretty difficult to implement via tasker. You would first have to disable notifications from your sms app so the tasker profile wouldn't just play a sound over that one. You'd also likely have to create a separate profile for each contact that you want to have a custom sms tone for.
This statement is true "I actually never realized the phone didn't support custom tones for contacts outside of the calling ringtones." which is something I want to try and do on my Android, because I was able to do it on my old iPhone. On the iPhone I thought it was simple, but with Android I don't know the systems well enough.
When you told me about Tasker I went yeah! But now, not so much. What's with this; "You would first have to disable notifications from your sms app so the tasker profile wouldn't just play a sound over that one." couldn't you just set up a variable with specific number set to play certain files and not disable anything? As for this; "You'd also likely have to create a separate profile for each contact that you want to have a custom sms tone for." I thought of that as well and said to myself, "set one up and have it working then clone it" and "then change the numbers and sound files". Which is not as hard as trying to create a new profile every time.