Patch webOS Turning Off Dialpad Noise

Introduction

When dialing on the phone with sound enabled, the phone makes really really loud noises. There are a number of ways to address this. One's first attempt might be to lower the volume on the DTMF mp3s. However, a quick examination of the phone app indicates that these same sounds are played over the phone for touch-tone responsive systems, so mucking with them is not a good idea.

The Change

The key is the TelephoneyCommands.sendDTMF function. It sends a tone over the network, or optionally, just a noise on the speaker (if the second argument is true: it's mapped to a service parameter called "feedBackOnly". In dialpad assistant, simply commenting out these

lines stops the noise. This dialpad assistant is by default located in

/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.phone/app/controllers/dialpad-assistant.js.

The lines of interest in dialpad-assistant.js are:

Line 509 for the touch screen.

Line 791 for the keyboard keys.

(The lines are 634 and 929 with 1.1)

Comment out one or both, as desired.

To "comment out" a line, add // at the beginning. Example:

printf("This is code");
//printf("This is commented out");

Acknowledgements

Thanks to icederror for the mod, writeup by jblebrun