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Google Now has a neat feature (at least I think it's from Google Now) where it warns you for emergency events. The problem is it's just warned me twice in half an hour with an extremely loud tone about a snowstorm I've known about for days.

Is there some way I can make the phone vibrate or change the ringtone? I only see an option to disable these alerts entirely. It's not my default notification/alarm ringtone; it's a special LOUD warning tone. Good at attracting attention but major overkill. I would like to still get them, but I would like them to be much quieter (yes, even though they're "emergencies") as my phone blaring loud warning tones at work is quite distracting.

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I ran into the exact same issue (same storm too, no doubt). In Android 4.2, you can disable these alerts by going to Settings → Wireless Networks (More...) → Cell broadcasts. The alerts cannot be muted, but can be disabled in this screen.

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The questioner asked about how to mute the Google Now alerts and not alerts received via cell broadcasts. – Flow♦ Feb 3 at 23:29
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On my phone, which runs Android Gingerbread, this setting is under Sound\Emergency\Emergency Tone. I have set it to OFF, as opposed to Alert or Vibrate.

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And which phone (running which Android version) is it? – Flow♦ Feb 3 at 23:29
@wbogacz if your phone is running Gingerbread (Android 2.3), then you don't have Google Now, as it's only compatible with Android 4.1 (Jellybean) and newer. – GAThrawn Feb 4 at 12:17

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