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I'm always forgetting to unmute my phone when I get home on days I take it to work (I can't take it into the lab I spend most of the day working, and I refuse to be that person who abandons his phone to annoy co-workers[^] all day long). Since it appears there're about a million apps for this, I decided to ask the hive mind for which ones did/n't work for them. As for general preferences, I'd prefer something that doesn't think it should be running my entire life if I let it on my phone; and would rather pay 99 cents than with my privacy.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Never occurred to me that there could be an app for that (I share this mute/unmute 1st world problem with you), but it sure could come handy !
I thought you were exaggerating it with "a million apps for this", but a quick google points to articles like 50+ Best Apps to Mute/Unmute your phone 
I am eager to know what the fellow CPians would propose. (I think an app that unmutes it as soon as I am home = in range of my home wifi)
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Rage wrote: (I think an app that unmutes it as soon as I am home = in range of my home wifi)
Would certainly be easy enough to put together, plus it could be tailored to exactly what was needed.
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Well I had one app which worked fine for me.. based on the WIFI, you can have two profiles. So automatically when I came to home and my phone detected my home WIFI, it switched to home profile.
Unfortunately I forgot the name.
cheers,
Super
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I don't connect to work's wifi (I'd need to install a large package of corporate crapware to do so), and want work to be the exceptional case; so triggering off of that wouldn't work for me.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wonder if detecting rather than connecting to a network could be used as the trigger (I also have no interest in installing the corporate crap required)!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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why an app? setting your phone to flight mode shouldn't allow it to connect to any network, meaning that it will shut up most of the notifications... i think
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? I'm looking for something auto-magic because I keep forgetting to unmute it when I get home.
Setting it in flight mode on arrival instead of adjusting the volume button down completely undermines the only reason I occasionally bring it to the office: needing to check something I can't via my work computer at some point while I'm in the office.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?
What an ass. You get picked on a lot in school, don't ya kid?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Dan Neely wrote: Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?
Was this really necessary? was only trying to help
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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How about a sticker on the steering wheel of your car that says "Unmute your phone dickhead!"?
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quick patent the idea  It could be you get rich quick scheme
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Elephant you too!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have ten such reminders already, so no room for any more of it. But thanks for the suggestion !
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If I was looking for this kind of functionality I would use NFC tags, does your phone have NFC hardware?
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Don't know; but I do know that the area I want it auto-muted (two buildings a quarter mile apart), and the areas I don't want automatic control (the rest of the world); are far larger than the maximum range of an NFC tag.
Also, I'm not seeing how scanning tags is supposed to be any less prone to oops I forgot than mashing a button.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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With NFC's you aren't exactly "scanning" tags. You just have to bring the phone close enough for it recognize it. Samsung did something where you could do various things with NFC thingies with their TecTiles[^] But it only works with a select number of devices.
I guess it's kinda interesting but has a very limited use and I suppose it isn't exactly what you're looking for.
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This is a built-in function of iOS so I don't have any direct experience but FWIW... an Android using co-worker recommends one in the play store called "Silent Time".
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I use profile scheduler. While it can do it based on GPS location, I've got it set to times of day so morning work, afternoon work are both silent type events and I've similarly got a weekend snooze event.
It's free and works well enough for my needs. Doesn't really need permissions apart from location I think but it's been a while since I installed it.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicobject.shush&hl=en[^]
Works on the time dimension rather than space - whenever you put your cell on silent/vibrate, allows you to specify a timeout after which the ringer volume is restored. You have the option to put it on silent indefinitely as well choose the volume it gets restored to.
Dan Neely wrote: I'd prefer something that doesn't think it should be running my entire life if I let it on my phone
It obviously runs at startup (it has to, given the functionality) but other than that, its permissions are a big fat zero.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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This looks good, thanks Vikram !
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You're welcome, Rage
I'm kinda surprised (and disappointed) it doesn't have this feature built in. My plain old Nokia 3120 (not 3120 classic) that I bought in 2004 and still use has not only 6 customizable profiles (a profile can mute all calls except from the Family group, for instance), but also the ability to "time" them so they expire at a set time.
For instance, I put my cell on silent every night but use this feature so the ringer is restored at 05:30.
While I love the customizability of Android, there are some VERY basic things it leaves out that even the dumbest of phones could do 10+ years back. You shouldn't have to install an app for everything.
I love my Nokia's calendar feature, every Android calendar I've tried, including Google calendar, has to take a backseat to this.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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I'm always surprised that Android does not have this built in. My wife has an old pre-Android phone, and when she sets it to silent it allows her to give a timeout value, after which the sounds are automatically set on again.
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Since you do remember to mute your phone, if you Android 5 or higher, there is an easy solution. On the main lock screen, try to change the volume. When you do a sub-screen will show up where you can change your phone to Priority Mode[^] for up to 8 hours. Then it won't ring for 8 hours and auto turn off at the end of that time.
Hogan
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I have 5.0; but it looks like HTC has skinned priority mode out of existence on my phone.  I get a popup with just the master slider and a gear button. The latter lets me adjust volumes for a few other things independently of the master volume but doesn't have anything that looks like what Gizmodo's showing. In any event, I'd need a 9 hour mute time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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