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One Email Notification to Rule All Emails

Coming from a OG Moto Droid to Bionic so everything has been pretty thumbs up with this new phone. I did notice what seems to be an oversite from the designers/coders. If you sync a exchange email account and a POP email (like I do) or probably any two email accounts (except Gmail), all email (again except Gmail) gets assigned the same email notification ringtone. This is pretty annoying on a phone that was delayed to market, and cost me $300. Hopefully this is just an oversite by someone but I wanted to make sure I pointed this out in an official forum so that it can be fixed in future updates.

Of course if anyone has a solution I'm all ears...would love to hear two different ringtone notifications for my two different email accounts. Right now they are all getting the "WORK EMAIL!" alert. I just confirmed that this is an issue at the store, my OG Moto did this very easily but for some reason (while I get two different icons notifications in the status bar) the ringtone alert has been combined for all non Gmail accounts.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

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BionicDroider, thanks for posting and congrats on your new device! I understand why you would want to have separate email notifications for your work and personal email accounts. This is not something that was just overlooked or a design flaw for the Bionic. This is how Android is designed. Any emails in the default email application will have the same notification sound. You can try 3rd party mail applications from the Market for other options.

gina7289

So she is saying gmail gets 1 tone non gmail gets 1 tone? What is ur default mail? Is there any phones that dont do this? Can u have 1 tone for gmail + 1 for non gmail?

SteelerFan

Check Touchdown out for Exchange. It is good and allows you to choose a different tone and light

Ann154

gina7289 wrote:
So she is saying gmail gets 1 tone non gmail gets 1 tone? What is ur default mail? Is there any phones that dont do this? Can u have 1 tone for gmail + 1 for non gmail?

I have one notification tone for my Mail application and a very different tone for my gmail application. Both are custom tones.

BionicDroider

MarquiaF_VZW wrote:
BionicDroider, thanks for posting and congrats on your new device! I understand why you would want to have separate email notifications for your work and personal email accounts. This is not something that was just overlooked or a design flaw for the Bionic. This is how Android is designed. Any emails in the default email application will have the same notification sound. You can try 3rd party mail applications from the Market for other options.

This is not the way Android is designed, my ORIGINAL DROID could perform this simple (but important) function and is a total step backward. My 4G Dual Processor Machine to Rule All Machines can't tell the difference between my email accounts? This a totally BOGUS response and very disapointing. This machine can do better and I expect this to be fixed.

Thanks to the other forum members for suggesting apps to fix this. Fortunately this is an open platform so the market can correct this.

natalie1444

I completely agree, having only one notification for all emails is ridiculous and should be corrected.

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