Q: How can I disable the 'dingdong' sound when plugging in the charger cable?

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Is there an option to disable the ‘dingdong’ sound by some tweak in the .qml files?

Background:
When I can’t sleep in the night and reading e-books → battery goes empty → connect charger → dingdong sounds → imagine how my wife feels if this happens!
No joke! Thanks for any hint!

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You don’t head the sound if you enable “Do Not Disturb” -mode. So you could enable it before you plug the phone and disable it right after that (if you don’t want to leave it on for the whole night).

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Thanks @avhakola , this works. No sound on plugging in the charger cable when ‘Do not disturb’ is enabled.

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If you leave it on during the night, it helps also against those pesky telemarketers, if they somehow have gotten your number and start calling early in the morning :wink:

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Yes, agree, and over night the phone is always in flight mode. (except I forget to switch flight mode on…)

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For me, i physically turn the phone’s volume to zero before plugging in.

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For “keeping the significant other happy”, you could also investigate the app Situations and create a set of rules that automatically activates DND, FlightMode, etc. for you.

(e.g., in my case Situation is configured to detect Wifi network (== know that I am home) and certain time periods (== night time) and turn DND and Silent mode on, and turn vibrations off)

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Enabling ‘Do not disturb’ is really a good first aid against the ‘dingdong’, but how can I disable it permanently? Right now I searched in the qml files ( /usr/share/lipstick* ) but couldn’t find anything. Where is the link to the `dingdong’ sound file in the qml files? My idea is to simply comment out this path to sound file, to have peace and tranquility from ‘dingdong’.

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Why not just replace the file /usr/share/sounds/jolla-ambient/stereo/start_charging.wav with a silent version.

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Oh there are a lot of sounds I never heard before!
Some of the sounds are currently silent and very short, e.g. pulldown_highlight.wav .

So I did as devel-su:
cp /usr/share/sounds/jolla-ambient/stereo/start_charging.wav /usr/share/sounds/jolla-ambient/stereo/start_charging.wav.bak
and then
cp /usr/share/sounds/jolla-ambient/stereo/pulldown_highlight.wav /usr/share/sounds/jolla-ambient/stereo/start_charging.wav

edit: This sound file wasn’t silent but contains a short ‘klick’ sound. In general it works fine. Thank you very much @martinh !

edit: I created a 0,1 s long silent file with Audacity. Then it worked. A full reboot of the phone was necessary to take it effect.

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Great option. I remember one charger plug in sound I did not hate: the Nokia N900 receiving juice from the charger responding with a starved alien like “whreeeak” = “food!!” noise (after few hours of miserably wasting final electrons of battery charge with sad “puu-dung” sound.
If this was the nineties I’d sacrifice some gaming time to replacing the Sailfish sounds by “hack” now I’ll just wait for “app” or live with it.

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FWIW I always disable System Sounds in the Settings.

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