[Landsharkk]

Pretty straight forward question, in Windows Phone 8, is there an option to go straight to 'silent' mode?

In WP7, you had 'volume' and 'vibrate', but no 'silent'. In order to make the phone silent you had to manually turn the volume to '0'.

I'm hoping in WP8 you can simply touch a 'silent' option and be done with it.

Thank you!

[XboxOmac]

Settings > Ringtones & Sounds > Ringer set to OFF, Vibrate set to OFF.

Done. Silent mode. :)

[Landsharkk]

Settings > Ringtones & Sounds > Ringer set to OFF, Vibrate set to OFF.

Done. Silent mode. :)

In other words I'm assuming there is no quick button for 'silent' mode. And by quick button I mean, pressing a volume key, then pressing 'silent' from the list of volume options.

[fwaits]

The trick is turning vibrate off, then you have choices between ringer and silent. If ringer and vibrate are both on, then you get ring + vibrate and vibrate from the volume controls. Not sure if this has been altered in any way in WP8.

[gerrymad]

The trick is turning vibrate off, then you have choices between ringer and silent. If ringer and vibrate are both on, then you get ring + vibrate and vibrate from the volume controls. Not sure if this has been altered in any way in WP8.

No change in WP8. I miss that too. Previous phones I had volume down went to vibrate and then if you kept holding the volume down the vibrate setting turned off as well. With Windows phone it is necessary to turn off vibrate separately as indicated above.

[zolgi]

Pretty straight forward question, in Windows Phone 8, is there an option to go straight to 'silent' mode?
Thank you!

Does your silent mean no vibrate and ringtone?

[ncxcstud]

hitting the volume key and then tapping the 'bell' in the to right corner doesn't turn it to silent for you? Does for me on WP7...

[fwaits]

hitting the volume key and then tapping the 'bell' in the to right corner doesn't turn it to silent for you? Does for me on WP7...

Yes it does IF you have vibrate off. There are basically 2 modes:

If vibrate is off then the volume control shows 'Ring and Silent'.
If vibrate is on then you get 'Ring+Vibrate or Vibrate'.

[thegoodnotes]

It is weird that in Vibrate mode, the device still outputs sound from apps (like in IE). I wish there was a vibrate mode that didn't output any sound, but still vibrated for notifications.

[chitresh]

Can we have different profile like meeting,night, ring vibrate etc which we have in all basic phones

[alllies]

Can we have different profile like meeting,night, ring vibrate etc which we have in all basic phones

Why?..it was Metro desingned all throughout..all things done with simplicity.