When silent is not silent
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On Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 720), when you switch to silent mode, videos play with sound and some apps emit sound. Why are the individual apps expected to check the silent status and behave themselves accordingly? Why can't the OS force the silent mode so the speaker goes absolutely silent no matter what? I think that is how Android behaves. Any thoughts?
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On Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 720), when you switch to silent mode, videos play with sound and some apps emit sound. Why are the individual apps expected to check the silent status and behave themselves accordingly? Why can't the OS force the silent mode so the speaker goes absolutely silent no matter what? I think that is how Android behaves. Any thoughts?
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On Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 720), when you switch to silent mode, videos play with sound and some apps emit sound. Why are the individual apps expected to check the silent status and behave themselves accordingly? Why can't the OS force the silent mode so the speaker goes absolutely silent no matter what? I think that is how Android behaves. Any thoughts?
I dunno about Android: if I turn the volume to Mute, the alarm still sounds at "normal" volume - it's independent of the "standard" volume control which affects video, music and email chimes. It's what you want I think, but...it isn't "mute" as such.
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On Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 720), when you switch to silent mode, videos play with sound and some apps emit sound. Why are the individual apps expected to check the silent status and behave themselves accordingly? Why can't the OS force the silent mode so the speaker goes absolutely silent no matter what? I think that is how Android behaves. Any thoughts?
On Android, the ringer volume control is independent of the media volume control. So tapping the volume widget to take it to 'silent' will still play videos with sound - same as what you describe.
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