Samsung Galaxy S5 Guide

How to silence Galaxy S5?

Sometimes, you may want to make sure your Galaxy S5 does not make any sounds.  But sometimes, you may want the galaxy S5 to stop announcing the incoming calls or messages.

This guide will show you how to silence Galaxy S5.  Of course, it implies how to unsilence your Galaxy S5 as well.

How to silence Galaxy S5? And how to use the sound, vibrate and mute modes?

Basically, for the sound, Galaxy S5 has 3 modes:

  • Sound. This is the default mode. In this mode,  your Galaxy S5 will give audio alerts normally. You can change the volume and notification/ringtones.
  • Vibrate. Under this mode,  Galaxy S5 vibrates instead of making other sounds. You can adjust the vibration pattern and intensity. This essentially silence Galaxy S5 if you put the phone in your pocket. But if you put your phone on a table, the vibration itself may still make considerable noise. So, it may not silence Galaxy S5 completely.
  • Silent (mute). Silent (mute)model will silence Galaxy S5 completely.

There are many ways to access the sound settings to silence Galaxy S5 (or unsilence Galaxy S5).

  • Go to Settings–Sound-Sound mode (as shown below) to select one mode.
  • Press and hold the power key until device options pop out (as shown below) to select on mode.
  • Swipe down from the stats bar (top of the screen) with one finger in the top of notifications (as shown below). Tap the button to toggle among sound, vibrate and mute modes.
  • Swipe down from the stats bar  (top of the screen) with two fingers in the Quick Settings (as shown below). Tap the button to toggle among sound, vibrate and mute modes.
  • Press and hold volume down key to enter vibrate mode to silent Galaxy S5.
  • When in vibrate mode, press volume up key once (or more times), to enter normal sound mode (and exit vibrate mode).

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How to silence Galaxy S5 camera?

The shutter sound of a camera can be annoying sometimes,  especially when  in a quite environment (e.g., classroom). To silence Galaxy S5 camera, you can simply enter vibrate or mute mode. The camera will not make any sound then.

How to stop S5 from announcing incoming calls and messages?

Occasionally, some Galaxy S5 owners turned on voice notification (voice announcing the incoming calls and messages). But when you find it is annoying,  you may not find how to disable it.

Of course, you can silence Galaxy S5 (vibrate mode or mute mode) to disable the voice announcements. But most of the time, you may just want to disable the voice announcement and keep ringtones and keep other notification tones.

In Galaxy S5, voice announcement can be set up in different locations. This means you need check all of these settings to turn all of them off to disable voice announcement.  As a comparison, to enable voice announcement, you only need turn one of them on.

Here are the settings that may affect voice announcement for incoming calls and messages:

  1. Settings–Language & input–Notification readout (as shown below). This setting is for voice announcement for notification of incoming calls, messages and emails.
  2. Settings–Sound–Call (under Applications category)–Answering and ending calls–Using voice commands (as shown below). This setting is for incoming calls only.
  3. In Phone app, menu (3 vertical dots)–Settings–call settings–Answering and ending calls–Using voice commands. This setting will sync with that in 2.
  4. In Settings– Accessibility– Vision–TalkBack (as shown below). The TalkBack is an accessibility utility for owners with some visual difficulties. Once enabled (and configures), it may read almost everything on the screen, including all notifications.
  5. Car mode (or hands-free mode in some regions) under Quick settings as shown below.

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How to silence your Galaxy S5  keyboard?

By default, the Samsung keyboard also make sound (and vibrate) when the key is tapped.

You can disable the tapping sound or vibrate feedback at Settings–Sound as shown below.

Same settings can be accessed from keyboard settings (Settings–language & input–Samsung Keyboard. Please the settings in these two panels are synced automatically. You only need set it in one location.

For more details on using Samsung Galaxy S5, you may check this guide.

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How to use Galaxy S5 blocking mode to silence Galaxy S5?

Galaxy S5 also comers with Blocking mode, which is similar to the Do Not Disturb in iPhones. Moto X. Moto G and Moto E has this Motorola Assist, which performs similar tasks automatically.

Blocking mode can reject calls based on rules (timing, caller)  you set. It can also block the notifications. Some Galaxy S5 owners like this method to silence Galaxy S5 when sleeping or in a meeting.

To enable and setup blocking mode,  go to Settings–Blocking mode as shown below.  Drag the switch to right to enable it. Once blocking mode is enabled, you can choose:

  1. what to block: incoming calls, notifications alarm and timer
  2. when to block: you need set the timing to effectively use this feature. Outside of this period, blocking mode will not take effect.
  3. who to unblock (exceptions): you can set some important contacts as exceptions. They can ring you  or message normally. You will receive notifications from them as well.

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Do you have any questions to silence Galaxy S5?

Please let us know your questions or problems on how to silence Galaxy S5, how to silence galaxy S5 camera and using blocking mode.

More how-to guides , tips and tricks for using Samsung Galaxy S5 are available at Samsung Galaxy S5 how-to guides page.

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  1. Kerri says

    I downloaded Zedge on my Galaxy 5 phone and use some of the ring tones and message tones. My question is, when an incoming text comes in how do I stop or silence the message tone before it’s finished playing? Example: I was on a land line telephone and I received a text message, I needed to silent my text tone because its about a 10 sec or so tone but I couldn’t and didn’t know how to. With my phone locked or unlocked. I ended up placing my phone under my thigh so it couldn’t be heard. I understand the obvious reason is to put it on vibrate but there has to be a better way.

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  2. brittany says

    What’s the difference between putting ur phone on silence (volume) or putting ur phone on block mode? Will the alarm go off on either mode? And the alarm.. is there a way of turning it gf with out deleting it? (so far I have just selected a different day so it won’t go off the next morning)

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  3. Jenny says

    I want to know if there is a way to silience the incoming call or message tone by hitting a button. I have to open the message up every time or it does not stop. My iphone I could hit a bitton and it would at least mute. Is there a way to set it up?

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  4. Alex says

    Is there a way, like in blackberry, to select sound profiles, like phone calls only? Meaning it will only play calls but no messages etc?

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  5. Alex says

    I tried silencing the other three that are not phone calls before going to sleep. But then a Facebook comment, beeped. I think there is no way to totally silence all notifications while keeping phone calls on.

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  6. Vic says

    Is there any way to silence keystroke tone when on the phone so the other person can’t hear you typing. I can’t seem to find anyway to this on the settings
    Thanks

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  7. Haydy says

    Is there a way to just turn off the camera “click” sound without having to turn the volume on your phone off (for calls)?

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  9. mike says

    You mentioned rejecting a call. But what if you only want to silence the ring without stopping the call? My work phone will transfer to my cell and if I do not wish to answer it it goes back to my work voicemail. If I reject it the caller goes to my cell voicemail which I don’t want so I just want to stop the ring after it starts. I do not want to place the phone on mute as I want to know when I get a call. My old Motorola did this will the s5?

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  10. mary says

    I want to know when I make/recieve calls I cannot hear anything unless I put the phone on speaker. How do I fix this or is there a problem with my phone?

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  13. Ahmad says

    In many instances i would like to put my S5 on mute and still know if i receive incoming notifications. If I put it on mute then nothing is displayed and i miss out on calls. So

    Is there a way where i can mute it (i.e. no sound or vibration) and have the screen light up with the notification to show incoming msg, email, call, etc..?

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  15. Maria says

    I receive a call from the same number (spam call) every day. I have added this number to my call rejection list but it now goes straight to voicemail. Is there a way to block the number completely as there is on the iPhone?

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  16. David says

    Out of now here, my phone makes a noise, kinda sounds like a Super Mario Bros. sound, but I am not receiving ANYTHING. No phone calls, no texts, no notifications. Nothing. If my phone is on vibrate, it makes a loud vibrating noise. I cannot even find the sound the phone makes under sounds for the phone. no clue what is causing it. I’ve looked everywhere on the phone to try to fix this. But have been unsuccessful. Please help.

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  17. Harrison says

    I’ve accidentally turned off all sounds on my S5, the phone is on sound mode however I get nothing? When I go to turn the volume up is says “disable turn off all sounds in accessibility settings- however I can’t find this? Many thanks

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  18. tammy says

    I see where you can block calls/notifications for a certain time frame, but can you also do it in conjunction with a location? For example, I want my daughter’s phone to automatically silence when she is in school between 8 and 3, but I don’t want it to silence between 8 and 3 if she’s off for the day.

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  19. Joelinda Nichols says

    How do you silence the notification sound when I get a text. I want it on but I want to be able to stop it once I hear it.

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  20. mike says

    I figured out how to do this. If you want to silence your ringer but not stop the call so you can see who it is, all you have to do is hit the down volume button once and the ringer is silenced and you don’t have to flip your phone over. I do this often and without issue. Hope this helps…

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  21. ivar says

    I just downloaded a system update, and when I hold the power key, it no longer shows me the option to enter mute/vibration/sound.
    I can’t find where I can do it in the sound options aswell. Please help me ? ;/

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  22. ivar says

    I read the guide. But it is not similar to what I have on my phone now. My phone is on android version 5.1.11 to be exact

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  24. ivar says

    Ah. I see how it works now. Too bad there is not an easy/fast way to do it. But guess I’ll have to live with that. Thank you guya ; )

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  25. G says

    I am fed up with my phone making a noise at night. Why can’t Samsung reinstall the fast route to turning the phone to silent? I just want to hit one key when going into meetings or at night. Explain what I need to do please?

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  26. ivar says

    for G,
    Go to settings > sound & notifications > Interuptions
    Then once you are there, at the top: Select: Don’t interupt.
    With this you can also leave some options open that do or do not interupt whenever you want.
    It is harder to put it on silent like this yes, I don’t like it.
    But there are multiple things you can do with it that do benefit 😉

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  27. ofir says

    Hello, after the last update when my phone is lock (after pressing the power button) I can’t change to silence as I could before, the shortcut to silence is nor there Any more.

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