The annoying busy tone

[Guest Seraphic]

Hi guys,

After getting a bit pee'd off with the busy tone playing loud over the speaker whenever you try to ring someone who is already on a call, I started looking around in the registry and found the key to disable it:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Sounds/BusyTone

Change the Script entry so that theres nothing in there.

That'll at least stop the annoying noise!

[Guest NickFritz]

Thankyou

[Guest touficjohn]

It removes it from playing on the speakerphone or it removes it completely?

[Guest Seraphic]

It removes it from playing on the speakerphone or it removes it completely?

Unfortunately it removes it from playing completely - you could change the .wav entry to point to a lower-volume sound however.

[Guest siu99spj]

Quick OT query, what is and where is a suitable registry editor for the Hermes?

[Guest Seraphic]

I use PHM, which can be found for free here:

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/

[Guest siu99spj]

Thanks Seraphic, time to destroy that blasted busy tone!

(If you can't guess, it kinda annoyed/deafened me!)

Edited December 18, 2006 by siu99spj

[Guest Seraphic]

Yup, one of the most annoying things about the phone.

[Guest Teo2005]

I think it can be done pretty easy:

1 - extract file busy.wav from Windows\ folder

2 - with some WAV editting software (GoldWave, CoolEdit etc.) modify the Amplitude to 30% or smth. Envelope, Normalization tools should do the job)

3 - copy the file back in \Windows folder (if it says that you can't, then copy under the name Busy2.wav and modify the HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\Busy key accordingly.

I didn't do it because it doesn't bother me (so far) but it has to work.