Custom SMS Alert Tone for N73?

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Kyleee

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I know that there are many programs out there that block all non-whitelisted messages, but I need something a bit different.

My Search & Rescue team has just decided to stop using pagers and move to SMS alert messages.

In addition to those alert messages, I also receive all of the "usual" messages from friends & work throughout the day. With a separate pager, I knew that when I heard that sound, I stopped everything and checked. It was also loud enough & long enough an alert tone to wake me up in the middle of the night.

I still want to be notified with an alert tone for the routine messages, but I would like to set up a custom alert tone for a select list of senders in the same way that it can be done with custom ringtones for a contact group.

Does anything exist that can do this?

Thanks.
 
I'm actually interested in this too... I'd like some sort of paging tone that is strong enough to wake me up in the middle of the night.

Is there some program that will repeatedly alarm an SMS incoming msg? I dont think 1 ring will wake me up lol...
 
I have yet to see a piece of software that will differentiate SMS alert tones based on from whom they were received, though I like the idea.

I'm fairly sure that there is an application that repeats a tone if you have waiting messages, but I can't find it right now. I'll keep looking and report back if I do.
 
Use a differnet(louder) ring tone & try 'Remind Me' application. This reminds based in the frequency you set until you acknowledge the SMS/voice mail/missed call.
 
That sounds like a rather useful tool, but doesn't really help me with my current problem. If in a meeting I receive 5-6 SMS messages, the last thing I want is to be constantly reminded of them. I want my phone to be discreet & quiet for 99% of all SMS messages when I'm not in a position to read/respond.

However, when a certain sender's message arrives, I want to know about it right away without having to look at the phone.

I can give a great example...today I received an SMS while getting ready in the morning and waited until I finished to check. A mountain biker had slipped and started to slide down a cliff, and was hanging on to a small bush. The message is so urgent that the 10 minute delay in seeing it almost rendered it irrelevant.

Based on the responses so far, I'm unfortunately not so optimistic that such a beast exists. Thanks to everyone who tried to help.
 
If your in a profession that requires you to Search and Rescue for possible victims then why arent people just calling you and you answer immediately. I mean...did the guy make it or because you waited to put your skivees on is he no longer with us? I would think that if your responding to emergencies you would want your SMS tone to be non-discreet 99 perent of the time instead of discreet.
 
Remind Me from Mobifunsoft will repeatedly alert on an incoming SMS. I use it.

http://www.mobifunsoft.com/RemindMe.html
http://www.mobifunsoft.com/RemindMe3rdEdition_v310.sis

It is smart enough to differentiate between voicemail alerts and text messages, but not smart enough to behave differently for certain SMS based on filter rules.

I'm doing the same thing - using SMS as a substitute for a pager. Cingular Enterprise Paging makes this very appealing as it supports the usual paging protocols: email, SNPP, WCTP, TAP. http://www.cingular.com/midtolarge/entpaging

Yes, it would be really nice if Remind Me could behave differently for SMS from different sources.

Webgate has an SMS filtering product, but it isn't quite what the OP wants either.
http://webgate.bg/index.html?content=products&rmenu=1&rsmenu=2
 
People in need of a rescue call the police. The police call our SAR team commander. He initiates a call-out via mass broadcast message to the (volunteer) team. Whoever can respond hauls tail.

In this case the impact was that I arrived too late to join the lead responding vehicle, but another medic did make it onto that one so there was no impact to the response (he's ok...only a few scrapes and little dehydrated).

As to your suggestion, there is a saying that if everything is urgent, then nothing is urgent. My other hat is a manager at a high tech company. I receive dozens of routine FYI-type updates via SMS every day - including about a half-dozen overnight. In addition to that there are the usual friends/family. If I dropped everything each time I received an SMS, I'd never get anything done.

Since the SAR team is volunteer and work is not, I can't stop the work messages. I've already cautioned the team commander that this decision will likely result in my missing rescues, but the decision to drop the pagers was budgetary and over his head. I'm hoping to make the best of the situation and to find a solution within the Symbian phone.

Thanks.
 
You are not the only one in your situation. I'm sure a lot of other SAR volunteers are facing the same delimma. Since they decided to go to a "generic" system of notification you really don't have much hope. The only suggestions I would have is 1) carry another phone with a different phone number and hence sms number for the SAR work or 2) band together with other SAR members and get a symbian developer to write something for you. I've seen programs where, based on the content of the text message, can lock down your phone (like if it was stolen), so there must be a way to trigger a specific alarm. If you contacted some developers I but one of them would do it for you.
 
This looks like a company that can do sms filtering for Symbian UIQ, maybe a S60v3 port is possible.

http://www.symbianwave.com/
 
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