Is there a way to silent the phone with a keyboard shortcut?

[kilcher]

I did a quick search and didn't find anything..

I am coming from a T-Mobile Dash and pretty much every phone before that I had I was able to silent the phone by holding the # button. I tried that and it doesn't do anything on the Q9H. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut?

[Outforit]

Originally Posted by kilcher

I did a quick search and didn't find anything..

I am coming from a T-Mobile Dash and pretty much every phone before that I had I was able to silent the phone by holding the # button. I tried that and it doesn't do anything on the Q9H. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut?

If you press and hold the "HOME" button....looks like a little house for about 2 seconds it will bring up a lits and in there you can switch profiles. not a one click solution, but a two click one.

Steve

[rainmakerrc]

Originally Posted by kilcher

I did a quick search and didn't find anything..

I am coming from a T-Mobile Dash and pretty much every phone before that I had I was able to silent the phone by holding the # button. I tried that and it doesn't do anything on the Q9H. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut?

Are you talking about setting the phone to Vibrate? If so, then I don't think there's a keyboard shortcut, per se - you just need to change the profile (which, most of the time, can be done from your homescreen).

[kilcher]

Originally Posted by rainmakerrc

Are you talking about setting the phone to Vibrate? If so, then I don't think there's a keyboard shortcut, per se - you just need to change the profile (which, most of the time, can be done from your homescreen).

Dang. I was hoping for a simpler shortcut. I'm surprised this seemingly common feature that was present on the last 6 phones that I owned is missing from this high-end smartphone.

[kilcher]

Originally Posted by Outforit

If you press and hold the "HOME" button....looks like a little house for about 2 seconds it will bring up a lits and in there you can switch profiles. not a one click solution, but a two click one.

Steve

Thanks for the tip!

[rainmakerrc]

Originally Posted by kilcher

Dang. I was hoping for a simpler shortcut. I'm surprised this seemingly common feature that was present on the last 6 phones that I owned is missing from this high-end smartphone.

It would be convenient to have, but the Q more than makes up for it. Besides, it's very easy to change profiles with the homescreens and plugins available. I use phoneAlarm myself to manage my profiles.

[Der Alta]

Are you thinking that you want to silence an incoming phone call after a few seconds? Or switch the phone to Silent mode for a meeting?

Because a quick spin of the thumbwheel silences a call, but doesn't send it immediately to voice mail.

[Outforit]

Originally Posted by kilcher

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the tanks.......MY first one.....Woo Hoo

as someone else mentioned, on the home screen if the profile is on there you can just scroll down to it and hit the center of the d-pad and select the profile that you want.

I also just tried this, press and hold the side select key untill Volume comes up and then press on the down side key untill the volume is all the way down. I have not tested it with a call cuz i get no signal down here in the depths of hell AKA: work....lol but i did try to play my ring tone and it did not make a sound...........just another solution.

Steve

[rainmakerrc]

Originally Posted by Der Alta

Are you thinking that you want to silence an incoming phone call after a few seconds? Or switch the phone to Silent mode for a meeting?

Because a quick spin of the thumbwheel silences a call, but doesn't send it immediately to voice mail.

The Q9h doesn't have a thumbwheel, but maybe the rocker button that replaced it does the same thing.

[Outforit]

Originally Posted by kilcher

I did a quick search and didn't find anything..

I am coming from a T-Mobile Dash and pretty much every phone before that I had I was able to silent the phone by holding the # button. I tried that and it doesn't do anything on the Q9H. Is there a similar keyboard shortcut?

Hey there, Me again
I just found this in a review

""On the right side Motorola has ditched the scroll wheel on the Q9h in favor of Up, Down, Select, and Back. You can hold down the select button to turn the Up/Down into standard volume buttons (they switch automatically to that during a call) and the back button to switch to adjusting the ringer volume. In practice, I almost never used these buttons for navigating the phone, it was just too wide and too awkward to get a thumb or finger over there.""

So there is another way. Press and hold the side back button, it wil show the profile you are one, then you can thumb down and reduce the volume. **warning** it does play 1 sec of the ringer at the desired vol as you press down........Give it a try and you will see

Steve