We have recently received a question from an US reader on his Samsung Omnia beeping in silent mode. So far only Verizon's version has been reported having the issue of beeping every five minutes of "low battery" in any mode, including silent mode. We have heard no case for other carrier's (Europe, Asia etc) on similar problems. If you are using a non-Verizon Omnia and still have this problem, please leave a comment below and we will follow up. Verizon users can attempt to modify the system registry at your own risk. The file in concern and in irritation is called "phonelowbatt.wav", you can try to do something on it. For example, change or add the value of the following registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds\phonelowbatt] |
Change or add the value Sound to a .wav file with no sound, or to an invalid file.
Alternately, user might attempt to replace phonelowbatt.wav with another file, if possible.
Update: Some reader pointed out that certain version of Omnia can change the low battery sound directly in option (Settings -> Personal -> Sound and Notification), you can change to a blank quiet.wav, and you can disable it, depends on model. If you don't see it, go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\{A877D663-239C-47a7-9304-0D347F580408}\ Add a stringvalue with valuename: "Default" and valuedate "lowbatterywarning" try the above again. |
Users are encouraged to leave their feedback or question on this page. There are useful information in the comment of this article, please refer to it. Thanks to the anonymous contributor!
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Hello, I have a Verizon phone and can confirm that there is no option to turn off the low battery beep. I've recently tried the registry hack mentioned here but it hasn't worked for me. I've tried changing the "phonelowbatt.wav" value to another sound and to an invalid file, but the changes don't ever save for whatever reason. When the battery gets low the registry value reverts to "phonelowbatt.wav" again. I'm new to registry hacks so maybe I'm doing something wrong?
I have also tried replacing the file itself but the phone tells me that the file is copy protected.
The beep is driving me absolutely crazy. Any thoughts?
There's actually another registry key that may be involved. I tried editing both the one mentioned above and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > ControlPanel > SoundCategories > BattLowAlert
I simply deleted the sound value on both, and so far it looks like a fix.
Thanks very much for the comments.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\BattLowAlert is what we've seen from a forum, which states that both registries should be modified.
Mr anonymous user, we are confident that your hack should work, but we currently don't have a Verizon Omnia to confirm this though.
Thanks again.
I also have the Verizon version of this phone. After my low battery alarm has gone off loudly many times while in vibrate mode (usually embarrassingly during times when a group has been told to silence their alarms), I started searching for anyone else out there that was having this problem, and found your site. I want it off my phone. I've never done a hack before on a cell phone, so I don't even know where to start to enter the HKEY_CURRENT_USER commands--do I need to download a program to do this? Or am I doing this on the browser on my phone? I hate to sound like a newbie, but this is above my pay grade. I can confirm that deleting the wave file for low battery does not work, but could really use help with the hacking.
Dear reader, thank you for your support.
To hack registry, it is always recommended to backup first. If anything fails, the backup copy can rescue.
We recommend that you try programs like:
PHM Registry Editor http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
or
Pocket Mechanic http://www.wizcode.com/products
/view/pocket_mechanic_professional
(Alternately, you can Google for the keywords: WM regedit)
You will have to hack the phone like how to "regedit" a computer. As this action has potential harm to data, please do back up, although if you follow the instructions carefully your Omnia will be fine.
I have downloaded the registry editor program, but I need a little more detail on precisely how to edit the registry so as to get rid of the low battery beep. Is anyone able to help, or at least point me in the direction of a site that can give me directions? Thank you!
Do you know any way to disable the low battery notification sound on a Tocco Lite also? It's driving me crazy!
Thanks
What a fucking joke
Here's how I fixed it:
Downloaded PHM Registry Editor (it's free)
Went to the two places mentioned above, HKEY_Current_User\ControlPanel\Sounds\phonelowbatt and HKEY_Current_User\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\BattLowAlert
In the SoundCategories one, I went into DefaultSound and deleted everything from the "Value data" field. In the Sounds folder one, I deleted what was written in "Default".
I have a Samsung Tocco Lite with the exact same issue, whenever the battery is low every 5 mins the damn thing beeps alerting me to its low battery. Its god damn annoying. Any way to just unlock the standard crap on the phone to delete the file?
I had this annoying problem as well. The solution that worked for me was to navigate to HKEY_Current_User\ControlPanel\Sounds\phonelowbatt and rename it to HKEY_Current_User\ControlPanel\Sounds\phonelowbattRemoveMe
This is a very simple fix for the Omnia users. If you have resco registry editor or some other registry editing app navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > ControlPanel > SoundCategories > BattLowAlert. There is a key entry there called InitVol with a value of 0x0 (2)...2 being the volume level. If you set that valye to 0 rather than 2 no more annoying be, no deleting key or any other mods needed. All your simplying doing is adjusting the volume level through the registry rather than by using the actual device. THE BEEPING HAS STOPPED. =D
I have a question mark. Were should i install phm registry editor? on the phone or on the PC and through a usb cable can connect to the phone and modify registry? Please help me! I want to disable the alert for low battery. i have model s5230