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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leelaa:
Be careful mate. I flashed the 4.2 gapps and once i rebooted i was constantly getting force closes on all the apps that got flashed.

My device was a real mess. I have not tried the separate apps like keyboard etc so i cant comment on them.

Edit...i did not flash the ones that the fellow member linked you to in the post above.

The ones in that link say the for any androud 4.1 device so you should be ok.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fuzone:
Ah, I assumed the OP already had the apps in the link I posted as he said about his S3 and the thread linked was in the S3 forum.

So yeah, make sure you're using the apps from the link and you should be fine as the post says its for any device running 4.1 or over. If you're unsure you could always perform a nandroid backup beforehand in case anything does go wrong. :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rex.regis:
yeah, that link is where I got the GAPPS from. I guess I didn't see the part about being able to flash it on anything. lol

thanks a bunch
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shto:
Hallo

How to stop or change viber sound notification?

TiA
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
Hi,

This is a member of the Viber R&D Team!

@shto - Changing Viber's notification sound is not available at this point. :/

However, we'd be happy if you add your idea via: http://bit.ly/H2xu54 Thanks! :)

You can stop Viber sounds form your regular device settings - Viber mirrors the device setting. :)

Please feel free to let us know your thoughts, questions and comments, we'd be happy to assist.

Thanks,

the Viber Team
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shto:
Hi

Where is sound files?

It is no possible to change it?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
Unfortunately we (as a company) cannot direct users to the exact files of the sounds (they are embedded within the app file).

As we said, we plan to add the option of customizing Viber's sounds in future versions.

We apologize for the temporary inconvenience.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shto:
Tanks, but .. why you need to doing embedded sound files in application !? I don't understand you .... :confused:
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htcmodteam:
Come on viber we have been waiting a long timeeee
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
@htcmodteam -

We are aware of this request, and it is certainly high on our check list of development for future versions.

Once we have news about this feature, we'll make sure to inform you.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
It's still not there after a year...
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
Hi,

We have since added an option in Viber to use the phone's ringtone+vibration settings, and we can see our users find this feature very useful.

We will consider adding an option to completely customize Viber's sounds and vibration in the future.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pradeepd:
It's really annoying to have viber sound for every chat message. All other messaging apps have disable notifications. Appreciate if you can disable sounds.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
This is a known request, and we are considering to add such a feature in future versions of ours.

Meanwhile, we invite you to enter our Feature Request page and post your suggestion there, or join an existing similar suggestion. Unfortunately it is not possible for us to integrate every suggested feature into Viber, but the more people join on a request, the faster it will become reality :)

You can find it here: http://viber.kayako.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/43/0/have-an-idea-for-a-new-feature
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gx3k:
+1 on removing chat sounds. It's annoying that it beeps and boops when receiving and sending messages. Other than that is the best chat app I've used so far.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
Can we stop the stupid 'beep beep' sound whenever we receive a msg in viber yet?

Why is it so freaking hard?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
Are you using the latest version, Viber 4.0 ?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
Yes. Running Viber 4.0.0 on a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 running stock JB 4.1.2. I already uncheck 'Use system sounds' and it still beeps whenever a msg came in...

What else do I need to do?

Thanks.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamosmaki:
agree as well. I dont mind if i cant change the sound of notifications but it really bothers me that i cant turn it off . Its quite annoying especially of you are in a chat widow with many participants
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
and not just 'beep beep' when a msg comes in, it also 'beep beep' when I sent out a msg...

Beside that, more bugs:

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- after I quit Viber by options->exit, when a msg came in, it still beeped and gave notification. If I quit Viber, it means I don't want to receive/send anything and therefore I don't want 'beeps' and notifications. Please stop everything when I choose 'exit'.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
About the notification sounds:

Unfortunately, this feature is not available yet. We will consider adding it in future versions.

Meanwhile, we invite you to enter our Feature Request page and post your suggestion there, or join an existing similar suggestion. Unfortunately it is not possible for us to integrate every suggested feature into Viber, but the more people join on a request, the faster it will become reality :)

You can find it here: http://viber.kayako.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/43/0/have-an-idea-for-a-new-feature

[MENTION=4590785]testrider[/MENTION] -

This is the expected behavior from Viber at the moment. We see Viber as a "substitute" for your mobile service, meaning even if it's closed (using no RAM or bandwidth), it still remains available thanks to the C2DM service.

Viber's "exit" capability is relatively unique in the messaging space. Our statistics indicate that the vast majority of Viber users (well over 95%) never use this feature. In discussions with users about this feature we learned two things:

1. Those who wanted exit were typically "power users"

2. Overwhelmingly, the reason they wanted "exit" was not to become inaccessible but rather to make sure Viber does not consume any resources. Still, they expected Viber to be accessible even if they exit the app (via C2DM).

We believe the number of users that want to an exit feature that will turn off Viber completely represents an extremely small number of users - maybe 1 in 10,000 overall. As such, we do not believe adding an "exit and turn off notifications" feature is needed. It would merely serve to unnecessarily complicate the application. We are sorry if this is not the answer you were looking for, but we need to make sure that adding features that would make some happy would not hurt other users.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zer0r:
+1 for turn off notification sound!! :)

And I already posted request on your database.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seljachina:
if you use old version of viber app, to stop it to check/prompt for updates, add this to hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.cdn.viber.com
127.0.0.1 cdn.viber.com
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
Thank you for your reply and I sincerely appreciate it. While I understand your decision, but I can't say I agree :)

- why do you think it's COOL to beep every time a msg comes in and every time I hit enter to send a msg, is way beyond me. As you already heard, it seems that you are the only one who thinks this is COOL :)

- You really need to let people exit out of Viber. By preventing 'exit' it's not a good way to keep customers. It's like

when you go to shopping and as soon as you enter, they locked the doors. Do you like it?

Thank you

---------- Post added at 09:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 AM ----------

Thanks! Will give it a try!
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
Thanks for the feedback.

As we said, we understand your position. Please bear in mind that you are included in the group of "power users" who mentioned. It does not, by any means, mean that we disregard your opinion and feedback. It merely means that when it comes to features and behavior of our service, we are trying to develop Viber in accordance with the huge majority of our users.

Having said then, we invite you to enter our Feature Request page and post your suggestion there, or join an existing similar suggestion. Unfortunately it is not possible for us to integrate every suggested feature into Viber, but the more people join on a request, the faster it will become reality :)

You can find it here: http://viber.kayako.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/43/0/have-an-idea-for-a-new-feature
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thelordharry:
I installed your app today on my phone and tablet. It's a lovely app but the first thing that screamed at me was the ever present noise going on so I thought that it would be easy to go into the settings and set notifications to silent and untick the box that said 'sent message sound'....but I couldn't find it anywhere. That led me to Google and ultimately, this thread. I've had to chuckle at how you're treating something so basic to an app design as the turning on and off of notification sounds as some sort of consensus thing and then you might consider if enough people request it. Seriously, this should already be a part of the app and why it isn't is beyond me. It is the addition of a few more items in the app's settings and if you want sounds on, you leave the default and if you want sound off, you remove the check/tick. Come on man, gone are the days of getting what we're given when it comes to mobile device software. It's 2013! You either make your app as ergonomic and configurable as your developers possibly can or you don't and lose business to the competition. If you don't do it, someone else will (has) and you lose. Just a friendly piece of advice. You know what, figure out all the above and then charge me several dollars for your app and I'll happily buy it. Until then, it's back to something that I can customise.

Here's another thing. There's a huge gap in the market right now for a messaging app that actually works on Android using ART instead of Dalvic and Viber seems to work! If you could nail down these niggles that are close to show stoppers, you could really clean up. Imagine all those users out there whose current message app of choice is not working because of ART finding your app does all that their previous one does and is free?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
As we said, there is nothing we can say to prove that you are 'wrong', but this is not our intention at all here.

If you think our focus is on the wrong things (or that we neglected basic features and options), then we encourage you to submit a feature request, or even open a bug ticket and explain your meaning.

I will deliver your message and general idea to our development managers, but again - the best way to heed to our users' requests is to actually bundle up a great many of the same request.

I apologize if this is not the answer you were looking for, and we will try to implement the feature you are talking about as soon as we can.

* Thanks for the interesting tip about ART by the way.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
Honestly, you better act fast. In today's fast changing Android world, may be somebody will come out with another app tomorrow that has everything Viber has, just need to include the missing 'features' that Viber doesn't have, then 'boom', you are gone into history and bye bye Viber... :)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Havohej:
I am not trying to be here an ungrateful a***hole but I think you can't even imagine the amount of people who uninstall this app because of this problem with the sounds. Even if you say that's your strategy (Viber replacing Phone and SMS apps), reality is different. A chat message is not an SMS and tons of people find it unacceptable to have those constants beep-beep-beep all the time. I can't have my phone at work doing crazy sounds all the time and I can't deactivate SMSes sounds because I need them for actual work. I am sure tons of people are with me in this. As a start my whole department in my company.

But your product, your rules.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
I totally agree. A lot of people had to uninstall viber and use another product because of the beep beep sound. Of course it's your product and you are free to do whatever you want, and you forgot that we are also free to choose another product that doesn't beep. :)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Viber Team:
It is our product, but our users' voice is very important to us.

We are aware of this user request, but I will make sure to send this message up to our developers and product managers. Hopefully, we'll be able to integrate this feature soon.

Thanks again, and we hope to bring you good news soon!
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
This sound issue was brought up, complained, suggested ever since Viber first came out and it was never addressed. As I said, we just chose another product. there are other apps that do the same thing , you know.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thelordharry:
It's almost like they want the app the fail. You've gone to all the trouble to create this functional app and then you effectively handicap it by leaving out certain basic features. You won't be told though, good for you :D

Anyway, a certain green tinted messaging app is working again in 4.4.2 under ART so it's back to that along with it's mutable notifications and multimedia sending capabilities. I can live with the 69 pence a year that it costs me to run I think ;)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
Viber's design decisions are really weird and I'm a software engineer (in a different discipline).

The only apps I want to have sound continuously are games :) and even game apps let us set it to

'mute' inside the game settings.

Let me ask this again to the Viber team who posted here, I'm serious and curious:

- why do you think it's really COOL to have Viber beeps at EVERY SINGLE INCOMING and OUTGOING message?

Could you give us a good reason? What's the justification? Again, just curious. You don't have to answer.

Thanks!
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienyd:
totally agree! this 'feature' which has been there since forever drove me nuts, and i ended up uninstalling the app!

the current version's sound is already less intrusive, but the app STILL vibrate no matter what when i turn the phone's sound off. maybe you'll think I'm too picky, but this vibration is even more irritating, because it vibrates TWICE!

wtf?! people, seriously! tell me why!
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Foggy79:
Sooooo.... any news yet?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Foggy79:
Fixed
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] torogi:
finally

So I reinstalled Viber today.. I didn't use it for months actually because of the annoying sound. I had time to read the posts and its true. I uninstalled it just for that sound.

Fast forward today, I had to use viber because its the only thing that works at the moment and looking for ways to disable the sound. If there was any upgrade. So finally.. Under Notifications.. if left un ticked for all notifications it will make a sound but i checked 'Use system sounds'->Notification sound -> silent. No annoying sound anymore.

Hope this helps.

Nevermind, it is still annoying. What i said didn't work. Maybe it was just noisy at work earlier.

uninstalling now..
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testrider:
That's not really a solution because all other notification sound were silent (emails, text etc....) and that's not what we want. At least not me. I just want Viper to shut up when I sent /receive a msg.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borchouk:
Any solution about MUTE VIBER sound.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thelordharry:
It baffles me why anyone is still bothering to pursue this really. There are so many better alternatives, some that are free, some that are pennies a year and they all have custom sound functionality. Anyone tried Voxer? Very nice, you can send text, images and voice...and all free without the annoying bing bongs :)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidAficionado:
I've used a workaround (needs root access) to 'silence' the annoying sounds.

The following works on my Samsung GS4, I identified the offending sound file through trial and error and exploring ;)

adb shell

su

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

mv /system/media/audio/notifications/S_Charming_bell.ogg /system/media/audio/notifications/S_Charming_bell.ogg.old

exit

The main reason I've stuck with Viber (I actually removed an earlier buggy version), is the relatively new Windows PC integration. This is a great way to chat using my phone and/or pc, depending on which is easier for me at the time.

I agree with many of the sentiments of this post, that it'd be preferable if the Viber developers allowed users greater control over how notifications occur, so we didn't need to resort to these type of hacks ;)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Taboltini:
Just deleted viber and keep using whatsapp... this sound is annoying... it's really stupid to disable an option to disable this beep beep... hate you guys...
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoCache1:
Perhaps they've changed the app since your hack - but that seems unlikely since your post is pretty recent - but that file is not on my device.

The part that drives me crazy is that the app plays tones for incoming messages even while the app is in the foreground. This is idiotic. I took apart the APK and found the offending file. It is in /res/raw/incoming_fg.mp3 inside the APK. Just as there is presently a checkbox for "Outgoing message sounds" (to let you turn them off) there should be a checkbox for "Incoming foreground message sounds".

I don't want to turn off all notifications - but I don't want the app to make a peep while it's in the foreground. Since the incoming message sounds are already in two separate files (incoming_bg.mp3 and incoming_fg.mp3) this should be trivially simple. Viber should be embarrassed that users have been complaining about this since 2012 with no response. What they fail to recognize is that for every user that gripes about it there are probably 20 that just said "What moron designed this thing? Uninstall.".

The sad part is that it is an otherwise good product that has the unique advantage of running on just about every platform. It almost feels like there is someone on the dev team that just can't bear the thought of people not hearing his dippy incoming_fg.mp3 for the entire damn time they are using the app.

I'm going to try disassembling the APK, removing or replacing incoming_fg.mp3, putting it back together, signing, and zip aligning it. Maybe that can save this app from itself (or rather its developers). You'd think that with the massive monetary value associated with these products (look at the sale price of WhatsApp recently) that Viber wouldn't want to drive off customers over a stupid checkbox. Even if the configurability was exposed inside a settings database so we could do it ourselves without anything added to the front end of the app - that would be better than nothing. Or have the sound files external to the APK so we can delete them. Or do virtually anything other than what they are doing now.

OK, I'm done ranting.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Okluzhion:
[MENTION=2830161]MotoCache1[/MENTION]

Any luck with removing that particular sound? I tried, but if I remove/replace the sound, I get force close upon opening the modified apk. Beside the annoying sound, I had my phone vibrating on each incoming message. Blocked Viber from accessing the vibrate function through App Ops, but that stops all the vibration coming from Viber, even the one I would like to keep. But that's not such a big issue.

Sent from my eXposed C6603
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoCache1:
No, it seems that the developers at Viber really really really really really really really really want us to hear that damn sound. I had the same experience as you after removing the file from the APK. I didn't give up at removing it, I also tried replacing it with another sound, and even tried changing nothing and just re-zipping, signing, and aligning the file and it still blows up with "Viber has stopped" (or whatever it said) when you try to run it.

I can do the exact same unzip, rezip, sign, align procedure on other APK files and they run fine, so it makes me think that the Viber folks are doing something like checking the signing certificate on the APK to make sure it's theirs, or some other integrity check, and then abending when the check fails.

All of the evidence at this point is that they are absolutely determined to make this app unusable and it should be abandoned in favor of an app that wasn't written to satisfy the auditory predilections of 13 year old girls.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFakeer:
It's been almost 2 years and you are still waiting for the USERS' voices? Really! Why don't you just implement a feature of "shut up Viber" or you have already had too many users and want to shed some load to say WhatsApp or Telegram.org?
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alienyd:
SOLUTION!

hi everyone, finally I've found a way to produce the much anticipated shut-up-Viber effect!

tested with phone on mute: no crazy vibration!

just install Xposed and one of its modules GravityBox, your phone must obviously be rooted for this.

go to 'ultimate notification control' in GravityBox, activate the one for Viber,

check 'override notification sound', 'override vibration'.

with this, you can even set a notification color for Viber and other apps as well.

have fun being quiet, Viber:)
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidAficionado:
Hi MotoCache, the file that I found was specific to Touchwiz, but the workaround has stopped working anyway. I like your idea to modify the apk, and Alienyd's Xposed solution looks even better because it provides a more permanent fix. Unfortunately GravityBox doesn't work for me in that it's designed for a more vanilla experience compared with Touchwiz, but I'll keep investigating other options when I get a chance.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eurgbp:
Totally agree!

Viber programmers are moronic idiots, and they think they know better what is best for users... I tell you,

I've got no control over this viber thing...

Will stick to whatsapp
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manthes:
Go to settings and choose to use system sounds. Then check silent. I didn't check if it works but that is the logical
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danikine:
Empty mp3?

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[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mycorrado:
Looks like the got close to fixing this, albeit in a stupid way in version 4.2

The Enable "use system sounds" & Then choosing the android "silent" option works IF the screen is locked.

If you are actually looking at the Viber screen when a message comes in, you STILL get dinged. what an idioting development team, perhaps they are better off going to work fixing the Nobamacare fiasco, or maybe they are the same folk. I am an engineer, and this is utter design incompetence, and I certainly hope they read this. Period.
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manthes:
Download a silent mp3 file and choose it. Maybe it will work and while you are looking viber screen
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mahmood.n:
Hello,

After two years of discussion, I wonder if Viber team is still debugging on why notification sounds can not be disabled?!

Thing is, if viber is mirroring device's settings, then what should I see so many options regarding notifications? Please see the picture which is taken from 4.3.3

http://i.imgur.com/Qnfo0EE.jpg

Funny thing is that, if I change my phone's sound to vibrate mode, then Viber will vibrate 3 times per incomming message. That means, if I receive 5 messages one by one, ten phone vibrates 15 times!!!!

That is a great idea. thanks