Phone rings on silent mode

[userjc2NdRE5ZJ]

I put my phone on silent when I'm in a theater or meeting.  After last update,  it now rings when call comes in and makes notification sound for incoming texts.  I don't want to shut phone off.  What is my alternative? This never used to occur. 

[doodooface]

You can turn your notification noises off by swiping down on the top of your phone screen. Click on the button next to your volume slider. When it has jagged lines and a line across the speaker, it will be on vibrate. If the button is greyed out, it is on silent. If the button has two lines next to it and the backdrop of the button is white, it is on loud.

[doodooface]

This is the button you would have to click to customize your notifications and call sounds.

[doodooface]

You can also customize your notifications for individual apps in your settings. Go to Settings >> Notifications >> Notification Sounds (Sounds and Vibrations) and from there you can freely customize your notifications.

[nullandvoid · Accepted solution]

You can also use theater mode for meetings (it should be preconfigured on your phone), or create a mode called "meeting mode" and set the parameters for silencing what needs to be silenced.  Once you turn that mode off, your phone will return to normal.  Just plain old do not disturb works, too (unless you have it set to let certain calls and notifications through).

[userjc2NdRE5ZJ]

same issue.  I don't want to go to theater mode.  I want my phone to vibrate like it used to.  Why would Samsung install this awful change?

[nullandvoid]

You can still put your phone on vibrate, just hold the volume down button until it goes to vibration.  Most people were complaining that they did not like that they couldn't use to button to go past vibrate to mute with the button push.  You want your phone to vibrate, so you are in luck, it still works.  I don't understand what you have against theater (or any mode) - it's a quick way to set your volume/notification parameters when you don't want noise.  You can configure it any way you want - in the example above, just turn sound mode and volume to vibrate instead of mute.

There are many paths up the mountain.  Use the one you like best.

[EmperorDP]

My phone is on vibrate but still has some doorbell theme when messages or calls come in. I do not want to hear that.

[nullandvoid]

is the doorbell your default notification or ringtone?  Have you checked the volume panel to make sure all the volume sliders are down and the phone is actually on vibrate?  Your phone should not make any sound at all when you have it set to vibrate.  Is this a recent occurrence?  Have you cleared your phone's cache partition?

[EmperorDP]

Nope. This is super recent. I'm actually about to call support. It doesn't even use my normal ring tones