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Currently the bell rings with whatever is the media playback volume. Instead, a 
config setting should be used to set the volume for the bell, without affecting 
the general playback volume.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. set end-of-day time to midnight

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Bell should stop ringing at midnight.


Instead, it never gets day, so the bell never rings.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Turn bell on such that notification is shown
2. Reboot phone

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Upon boot completed, the bell should be scheduled (which works) and the 
notification should be put up (which doesn't work).

cannot reproduce for now, trying to get more details

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.i am unable to find the settings for the app on my phone 
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3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
All I see is the bell on the cushion.. unlike the app on my tablet I can't 
locate the settings therefore the bell never rings

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Samsung 5

Please provide any additional information below.
Each time I touch the screen the bell rings but the bell should be ringing to 
remind me to pause and rest in mindfulness

Currently the bell will ring even if the phone is muted.

Instead if the phone is mute or on vibrate, the default should be that the bell 
is also muted. This can be made configurable.

Something is weird around the time settings. Not sure exactly what, should 
check robustness of start, stop, and frequency settings.

For FroYo, enable installation of this app to the SD card.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set mindfulness bell to occur every 5 minutes
2. Start recording a whatsapp voice-message and wait for the bell to sound
3. When the bell sounds, the bell will be displayed and the voice message will 
be deleted.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Mindfulness Bell should detect that you're recording a whatsapp voice message, 
or at least holding down your finger on the screen, and wait until 10 seconds 
after you release your finger before it sounds the bell.

Version 2.4.0
OS: CM-11-20150125 Android 4.4.4

Please provide any additional information below.
I've disabled showing the bell. Hopefully that will resolve the problem of the 
voice message being deleted.

Hi,

The mindfulness bell proposes an update and now asks for more "rights" on my 
phone : Reading the ID and phone number of my phone.

WHY ?

I don't believe that a mindfullness bell should snoop on my personal details, 
so I have refused the update until this excessive rights request is removed.

Best regards.

In the display screen of the bell, it should be possible to trigger the play 
sound simply by touching the bell.

If i attach the earphones to my phone the sound continues to exit from my phone

People would like option to ring every 5-10 minutes, or only every 3-4 hours

The about menu item should show a nice about dialog with a clickable link to 
the website.

The current way of scheduling the bell means that it ends up coming at 
specific, predictable times. It would be better to have really random timing.

Returning to settings, sometimes the start and end times are shown as 00:00.
Possible solution might be to move the time update from persistent settings
form onStart to onReturn or whatever it's called.

Some users prefer not to see the bell in the status line. This should be made 
configurable.

Nice to know that your working on this great program again!

I patched mindbell to use the AudioManager some time ago. So if you want, 
here’s the patch…

Instead of music volume, we could try using the notification mechanism. to be 
investigated.

If the mind bell is set to "on", and the phone is restarted, the user must
manually restart the application, go to settings and leave them again.

Instead, the update method should be automatically called once every time
when the phone starts, so that the user's persistent settings are applied.

A user would like to set the volume lower than level 1.

People want the option to schedule the bell at predictable times rather than 
random.

If the mind bell alarm is triggered, the mind bell rings even if a phone
call is ongoing.

The mind bell should
1. detect whether the user is currently on the phone (maybe also detect
whether another audio service is currently active, such as music playback?);
2. either cancel the bell or wait until the phone call is finished before
ringing the bell.

replace current rudimentary graphics with nicer ones

Default settings for the preferences as in preferences.xml are to have the bell 
active, and to mute during calls and when phone is muted.

But after installation, the settings are such that the phone is off and the 
both mute settings are disabled.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. activate bell with notification
2. deactivate bell

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected: after activation, see notification; after deactivation, notification 
should disappear
actual: notification stays.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Play a playlist with a music app
2. The bill rings on top of the music (and if the volume is different changes 
the volume)
3. When the bell completes, volume returns to previous volume and continues

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Want the playing music to pause, the bell to ring, the music to continue.  
Instead, the bell plays ON TOP OF the music.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
current droid

Please provide any additional information below.

currently when you remove your finger from the bell, it rings; instead, it 
should ring when you first touch it.

I can has apk, too?

In the emulator I got no sound from Android 2.0. Need to check again more
carefully.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. in prefs, set volume to max
2. accept and exit prefs
3. touch bell on main page

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected volume is the one set
observed volume is the previous setting

The volume does not always properly reset the global media volume.

One user mentioned idea of having this as a notification rather than media 
sound, need to investigate.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. listen to audio on your phone at different volume than bell setting
2. wait until bell chimes
3. afterward your audio resumes playing at changed volume (the bell's volume 
level)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

bell chimes at selected volume, audio resumes unaffected at previous volume

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

current version on android - btw, are you also releasing versions for other 
platforms? 

Please provide any additional information below.

Thank you for making this app available, I love it!

the position of the bell is not good. It overlaps the semi-transparent text.

Instead, the text should take the amount of space that it takes, and the bell 
should use the rest, above the text.

One user reported the bell was far too loud on headphones

This would require scheduling the bell as a background process.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.playing any audio recording, Whatsapp, mp3, music,
2.mind bell comes on
3. original audio file keeps playing while mindbell rings. you lose about 30 
seconds worth of audio content. That's ok for music, not ok for Whatsapp 
messages, voice notes, or podcasts, audiobooks etc....

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
when the Mindbell plays: ALL recorded audio is paused, so that when the bell 
stops, NO audio content is lost. 
I.E. keep going where you left off. 


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Android, Samsung, Tab2, and Tab4, both have some issues.
IT's not OS related ,its the way mindbell is written: it would be good to pause 
other audio streams while playing mindbell, 

I like using mindbell every 10 mins or even 5. 
so if I listen to a lecture, I lose 30 secs or so every 5 mins, 
that's a lot. 


Please provide any additional information below.

possibility would be to allow setting days of week on which bell will ring

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Switch phone to landscape mode
2. run mindbellsettings

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

some of the gui elements are not visible, but all should be visible. Maybe
scroll content?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


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One user suggested the bell could watch the google calendar and silence itself 
during meetings.

Two users up to now have asked for a silent vibrate option

Problem: After the automatically triggered bell is finished ringing, the 
preferences or MindBellMain activity is shown.

Instead, the previous activity used by the user should be shown.