Oreo: can't get rid of notification sound

[LuH]

After the Oreo update, any (or almost any) notification shown triggers an notification 'ding', even though Settings → Sound & notification → Default notification sound is set to Silent. Before update, I had everything on silent, only incoming texts on vibrate and calendar notifications with sound, other notifications I would only notice visually (LED or notifications bar/drawer).

I'm sure Gmail app and HTC Sense now do a sound even though they shouldn't and no setting was changed. I even tried setting "Default notification sound" to some sound and back to Silent, and still there is a sound.

Any suggestion how to make my phone silent again?

 

[5m4r7ph0n36uru]

You can set it for every single App via settings > apps > appname > notifications. Or by settings > sound and notifications > advanced > notifications.

Sent from my HTC U11 using XDA Labs

 

[LuH]

well, that's what I'm trying to avoid - there's a lot of apps there, don't wanna spend an hour disabling them one by one. On Nougat it worked universally.

Thinking of it, I'm looking for per-app whitelisting of notification sounds, instead of blacklisting them. If not possible, which I think is a design flaw, I guess I'll have to cover each app individually.

 

[sergeymetallic]

I can reproduce that but I'm ok with it. Have you tried something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fnp.audioprofiles or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Orion.Soft ?

 

[LuH]

I can reproduce that but I'm ok with it. Have you tried something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fnp.audioprofiles or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Orion.Soft ?

This is kind of overkill for me. I guess in the end I'll just disable Gmail and some others and it will be enough. Thanks for the tip though, didn't know this was possible w/o root!

 

[zopostyle]

Just, backup you data, flash the RUU, and set it up again. I always get some random bug when updating via OTA only...

 

[LuH]

Just, backup you data, flash the RUU, and set it up again. I always get some random bug when updating via OTA only...

I'm sure factory reset would work just as well, but that's the other thing I wanted to avoid, restoring backups is usually a long and bothersome process for me. This is the only bug I'm experiencing without an obvious quick fix so far and actually the first OTA with any problem for me and my U11, so I guess I'll keep using the system as is.

 

[Mitch M]

The easiest way to do this is get a silent/empty notification track and set that as the default notification sound. That way android thinks it's playing a sound but isn't. Then set a different notification sound for apps you do want to hear.