No message alert tone...

Menu > Messages > Msg Settings > General > Message Alerts


By default, this setting is "Off" - which makes absolutely zero sense. Try setting it to "Once", "Every 2 Minutes" or "Every 15 Minutes"


Changing this setting didn't help the no text alert issue with the Samsung S380C I'm dealing with, but it might work for you.

Does anyone know how to turn the message alert on so that it repeats every few minutes until its viewed. I went under general settings and turned the alert on to every two minutes but it does not work. HELP PLEASE

Hello jinniq51,

i have some tips on how to do it hope it helps :D

Settings
In this menu, you can adjust various phone
settings. To reset some menu settings to their
default values, select Restore factory set.
Tone settings
Select Menu > Settings > Tone settings and from the available
options:
Ringing tone-To set the tone for incoming calls
Ringing volume-To set the volume level for the ringing and
message alert tones. If you set Ringing volume to be level 2 or
above, your phone rings with the ringing volume ascending
from level 1 to the level you have set when there is an
incoming call.
Vibrating alert-To set the phone to vibrate when you receive a
call or a text message
Message alert tone-To set the tone to sound when you receive
a text message
Warning tones-To set the phone to sound tones, for example,
when the battery is running out of power

Hi
All you need to do is to scroll to settings on your phone then you go to tone settings,from there you go to Message alert tones and check if your message alert tone is off.if it is off then you have to select a tone then you can start hearing the sound when you receive text message.
THANK YOU

Go to tools menu>Audio & ring tones>Alert type>Message alert tones. Choose silent and click set. This will disable all email and voicemail alert tones.

to change txt message tone:
go to text message main screen then press the top left button.scroll down to settings and click. then scroll down and ull see "new message alert" and there u go.
to the same for picture messaging.
ring tone:
go to phone
click the top left button
scroll down to settings, then general
scroll down the incoming call. and clik on that and u will have options

then you will need to have the firmware reflash or take it to the store and hvae them explain why it is still doing that.....the phone firmware may need fixing.

You CAN set a song as your text alert tone. Here are the steps:
1- Go to: Settings> Profiles>
2- Select your options (e.g. normal, vibrate and ring, etc....)
3- select Options> Customize (2)>
4- Highlight "Message Sound" and select Options> Customize (2),
5- Then browse to the folder your song or sound is in (e.g. audio) and select the file you want to use and save it.

I noticed that the songs have to be under 30 seconds to use as any type of alert tone for calls or texts.

Hopefully this helps.

I think that there is just a generic message alert tone setting applies for both vm and text. If your voicemail alert tone and message alert tones are the same, this is probably the case. I have searched the menu on my phone and haven't found any setting to change vm tone specifically.

In order to use tones other than the presets for text messages, you have to put new .WAV files on your phone. Any 8bit .WAV file will work; just connect with ActiveSync and navigate to your /Windows directory on your phone, and place the files there. You will then be able to use them as text message alert tones.