Cell phone annoyances

July 13, 2005 9:00 AM

I own a Motorola v600 cell phone. On the side of the phone are buttons which change the ring style. Can I disable them?

Whenever the phone moves around in my pocket it beeps, or in some cases the ring style changes. I'll be sitting in a movie with the phone on vibrate, move around which changes the ring style and then have the phone go off at its loudest in the theatre. This is incredibly annoying and I desperately need a way to disable this "feature".

posted by null terminated to Technology (8 answers total)

Best answer: Try:

Settings
Security
Lock Application
Ring Styles>Change (set to Locked)

(and you have to remember the default Unlock code is 1234)

This way, you're just locking the feature so that you can't change the ring style without entering the code; if you bump the button, it just asks for the code without changing anything. Still annoying, but not as annoying.

Pretty major design flaw.
posted by COBRA! at 9:22 AM on July 13, 2005

Response by poster: Great! Thanks.
posted by null terminated at 9:46 AM on July 13, 2005

Superglue? :)
posted by catkins at 9:47 AM on July 13, 2005

Aww, I have the exact same problem with my Motorola V551, but there's no Ring Styles option in the Lock Application list. This phone sucks.
posted by cloeburner at 10:03 AM on July 13, 2005

Strange, when I do the above on my V220 it does not work. With the phone closed, the up and down arrows on the side of the phone will still change the ring style. :(
posted by SNACKeR at 11:01 AM on July 13, 2005

Yup, double-whammy major design flaw. Not only as described, but since with clamshell closed the effect of pressing that damn button on the side is actually different from pressing it with clamshell open (closed = menu of silent/ring/vibe+ring options etc; open = menu of ring volume), and since reclosing the clamshell once the Unlock code is entered has the effect of nulling the Unlocking, then in order to change it to silent, you have to go clicking interminably through the phone menus. Press button, open clamshell, 6 clicks, then 4-digit code + OK, then another click just to get to the choice which style you want, plus the clicks to choose it and exit. If you only want to change the volume, you can still use the outside button with the unlock code; press button, 4-digit code+OK, then button again for desired volume. I don't know about normal usage, but I am more often interested in quickly setting my phone to vibe/silent or vibe+ring than changing the volumne.
posted by suleikacasilda at 11:08 AM on July 13, 2005

With all the disgruntled Motorola users here, is it alright if I piggyback on your (already best-answered) question?

Does anyone know to stop that damn jaunty arpeggio Motorolas play as you shut them off? The same song plays as the phone turns on, but muting the keypad fixes that. The manual is silent, and Google just gives sad unanswered queries.

Has anyone found a fix?
posted by ellanea at 12:54 PM on July 13, 2005

Not elegant, but if the phone's set to vibrate or silent it won't make noise when turned off or on (though it will vibrate if it's set that way).
posted by occhiblu at 3:38 PM on July 13, 2005