Adhan app: prayer alerts, the muezzin's voice and the full-screen alert — FirdawsWay Guide 2
How to set up the adhan in FirdawsWay, step by step: how each prayer reaches you (Off, Silent, Sound On or Fullscreen) and Override Silent Mode on Android, the reminder before the adhan, choosing the muezzin's voice and the Fajr adhan, the adhan as a notification (and Jumu'ah on Fridays), the full-screen alert and its background, which changes with each prayer, Preview Adhan, applying one setup to every prayer, Sunrise's reminder, and System Health Check when an adhan doesn't come.
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Assalamu alaikum, and welcome to FirdawsWay. That was the adhan alert. In this guide, we'll set it up step by step: how each prayer reaches you, the voice of the adhan, the full-screen alert, and what to do if an adhan doesn't come.
When it's time, the alert names the prayer. You can mute the adhan or close the alert. Below are your prayers this week, and Track Prayer marks this one as prayed. Left alone, the alert closes itself after ten minutes. On an iPhone, the adhan arrives as a notification that plays its beginning: open it to see this screen. On Android, this screen can open by itself, even when your phone is locked.
Everything starts in Settings, under Notifications. This switch turns every prayer's alert on or off. Each card shows how a prayer reaches you: Fajr comes full screen, Sunrise is off, Asr plays its adhan, and Isha only vibrates.
On Android, Override Silent Mode plays the adhan even when your phone is on silent.
Tap a prayer to set it up. We'll take Fajr.
This switch turns Fajr's alert on or off. Pre-Adhan Reminder warns you before the adhan: turn the wheel to anywhere up to an hour before, and tap Done.
And this is how the reminder arrives.
Turn Sound off, and the alert only vibrates.
Adhan Sound opens the list of muezzins. The default is a short adhan of thirteen seconds. For Fajr, the Fajr adhans come first, with "prayer is better than sleep" in them. Tap play to listen.
Further down are muezzins from twenty-six countries, each with a flag beside it. Let's hear this one.
With Premium, you can also add your own recording. Then tap a voice to choose it, and it shows under Adhan Sound.
Turn Fullscreen Alert off, and the adhan comes as a notification instead.
On an iPhone, it plays the beginning: open it to play the whole adhan.
On Android, the notification plays the whole adhan.
And on Fridays, Dhuhr's adhan is called Jumu'ah.
Turn it back on, and pick its background. Default changes with the prayer: dawn for Fajr, a bright sky for Dhuhr, sunset for Maghrib, night for Isha. Or choose one of twenty-one others.
To see and hear it now, tap Preview Adhan.
On the way back, FirdawsWay offers to use the same settings for every prayer. Tap Yes, and every card changes with it.
Sunrise has no adhan: it marks the end of Fajr's time. Open its card, and Pre-Sunrise Reminder can warn you before it.
And if an adhan doesn't come, open Settings, then System Health Check. It checks that notifications are allowed, that your location is set, that your adhans and reminders are ready for the coming days: if your phone dropped any, opening this screen sets them again. And that their sound isn't turned off. When something's wrong, its FIX button takes you straight to the setting. On Android, it also checks the phone settings an adhan needs to arrive on time, and to show when your phone is locked.
That's the adhan in FirdawsWay. Download it free from your app store, and see you in the next guide.