The notification sound my Android device was making every time I received an email message was annoying. I had to change the ringtone. Here’s how it’s done.
Stock Email App
- Open the “Email” app.
- Select the “Menu” button located at the upper-left corner.
- Choose “Settings“.
- Select the email address associated with the account for which you want to modify notifications.
- Do any of the following:
- Check “Email notifications” to enable notifications or uncheck it to disable all notifications.
- Select “Choose ringtone” to change the sound that plays when an email arrives.
- Check or uncheck “Vibrate” to enable or disable vibration when an email arrives.
Gmail App
- Open the “Gmail” app.
- Select the “Menu” button located at the upper-left corner.
- Choose “Settings“.
- Select the email address associated with the account for which you want to modify notifications.
- Do any of the following:
- Check “Email notifications” to enable notifications or uncheck it to disable all notifications.
- Select “Inbox sound & vibrate” to set “Sound” and/or “Vibrate” when an email arrives.
Nicola Timms says
Thank you – it’s just too much most of the time for me to wade through the maze where all those options are on smartphones!
Jeff Silverman says
This is almost but not quit what I want to do. I want to upload a sound that says “You have E-mail” or “You have a text message” or “There is a something in your calendar that you have to do”. I can connect my android phone to my linux computer and I can see the file system, or most of it, anyway. But I don’t see where in the file system these files go.
Enlighten me, please.
Kevin says
Thanks for posting this, it’s just what I was looking for. I kept looking in the general phone settings, not the email settings.