Is "Quiet Hours" a Misnomer?

[valeriolucciola]

When I installed the dev. Preview of wp8.1 today I was super exited about the Quiet hours feature. Theoretically, periods of time where the phone was quiet. Not that it was kinda quiet or quiet only if you didn't accidentally schedule an alarm or calendar reminder but 100%, unequivocally, won't get you in trouble during a business presentation quiet. I started adding calendar events left and right so it would take care of silencing my phone automatically. Now I haven't noticed anything yet except that when I'm in "Quiet Hours" mode, my ringer is still at 5, my music volume still at15, and vibrate is still on. That worries me because it suggests my phone is not actually quieted/silenced (silenced being defined simply as my never being able to hear my phone). Is something wrong with my phone or am I simply not understanding what's going on here?

Thanks

 

[Nimdock]

Have you tried making a call from another phone to check if it rings?

 

[CJ Thunder]

It doesn't, I got texts and they just come in.

I have another dilemma. I want my phone silent in school for everyone, but still have an inner circle for night times. Can't be done.

 

[rcazador]

I admit that it needs some work. But this is the preview version, bound to be optimised further. There's also the GDR set for later this year. Let's not forget that while Android has several apps to do this this -many being buggy- even the feature rich android lacks this as an inbuilt feature.
If anything most of the changes in 8.1 were inspired by user feedback. So we can hope to see more germane improvements especially in quite hours since it's a part of Cortana who is still in beta

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[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

I was under the impression that this did not silence your phone. Cortana is simply supposed to handle all incoming communications. If you forget to pause & silence that inappropriate video, its on you

 

[valeriolucciola]

Ah, good catch. I didn't think about quiet hours being part of the Beta Cortana. Hopefully we will see many improvements I Cortana without having to wait for GDRs.

 

[valeriolucciola]

I was thinking more along the lines of getting sucked into an unplanned meeting, turning quiet hours on, and then accidentally getting a now unwelcome calendar reminder.

 

[CJ Thunder]

I was thinking more along the lines of getting sucked into an unplanned meeting, turning quiet hours on, and then accidentally getting a now unwelcome calendar reminder.

Put quiet hours under quick launch, that way instead of muting everyone, people still could get through if they were in your inner circle, since it is an impromptu meeting.

 

[svenhassel]

You have to have a "busy" status in the calendar's appointment so that it's quiet. Check that.