Hi all,
Its out!
Search for "google voice unread count" or "feokala" in the market.
Email the dev's if you see anything we can make better!
I just installed and then uninstalled this app. It is a step in the right direction however I have two problems with it personally. One, I do not like the way the number of unread messages appears below the icon rather than on the upper right like every other icon notification. I am a very A-Type person so that kills me, not to mention that it doesn't say "Voice" under the icon. The second thing that is a deal breaker for me is that it isn't a live notification widget. Meaning that it checks in intervals of at the very least 15 minutes of there being an unread message. This is not mentioned in the description of the application and I think it should be.
Hopefully this small bit of constructive criticism well help the overall development of this widget. I'd gladly pay the price asked if these two things were addressed.
Thank you.
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Hello, new here. Hope I don't sound too foolish.
Is there some way to simply add an icon to my today screen that will indicate a message (or email) has arrived? Perhaps a button that will be "lit up" when sms or email is waiting? Could it indicate the number of messages unread?
I know there are various add ons, interfaces, that have this feature, but they usually don't work well on my Imate 9502.
Any suggestion would be appreciated, thanks.
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you can add messaging/email to your today screen which would show how many unread but it won't lite up..... this should be set to be there by default though
Or does it??
you already get a notification when an email arrives, what more do you want?
an intrusive, iPhone like pop up box like in the 90ies?
Sounds like he does. To each his own. Does Gmail Notifier app do that maybe? Worth checking out, OP.
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bommel0815 said:
you already get a notification when an email arrives, what more do you want?
an intrusive, iPhone like pop up box like in the 90ies?
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Guess I get tired of dragging down the notification bar to clear the notification every time I get an email throughout the day. It takes more movements that way and it builds up to annoyance throughout the day. Seems easier to take that away and just have a popup that shows me I have an email and gives the option to close the popup or read/respond.
The option exist for SMS and it works great - figured it'd work great for email too. Surprised it doesn't exist.
I'm glad you asked - I happen to have just the right thing for you
Just search for "Gmail Popup" on the Android Market. There's a free trial version as well which works until the end of this month.
Looking forward to your feedback!
Does one exist? And if not why is that? I have noticed that there is almost NOTHING around that interacts with Google voice sms. Is this difficult to do? Thanks.
I just wanted to second this...
Actually, id rather have one for voicemail...
Would love to have a way to configure GV so that the sms came to the native 'messages' and had an unread/heard voicemail notification widget...
Actually it is possible to have Google voice sms delivered to the native messaging app. You have to visit the Google voice websiteand click settings. Under phones, click edit on the phone you wish to receive messages on and check the box that says "Receive text messages on this phone"
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paintballboi07 said:
Actually it is possible to have Google voice sms delivered to the native messaging app. You have to visit the Google voice websiteand click settings. Under phones, click edit on the phone you wish to receive messages on and check the box that says "Receive text messages on this phone"
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And in doing that, you no longer have free texting through GV.
it exists now....
search for "google voice unread count" or "feokala" in the market
It also looks like crap. I think I may start in on a much more aesthetically pleasing widget.
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It also looks like crap. I think I may start in on a much more aesthetically pleasing widget.
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I know this is an old thread. I was searching for a GV icon with an unread count because I also think the one available in the market looks like crap. Was just curious if you ever started on the "more aesthetically pleasing widget?"
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I know this is an old thread. I was searching for a GV icon with an unread count because I also think the one available in the market looks like crap. Was just curious if you ever started on the "more aesthetically pleasing widget?"
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I too would be interested in wondering if any work has started. I could offer some services if needed. Not real happy with the one on market either, the gmail widget looks great though that is free on the market. Need something more like that.
I'm a little confused. Is that ugly paid widget really the only way to get an unread voicemail count for GV on Android? How is this not a native option of the GV app? This seems like a basic feature.
baconmania said:
I'm a little confused. Is that ugly paid widget really the only way to get an unread voicemail count for GV on Android? How is this not a native option of the GV app? This seems like a basic feature.
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If you use Kanok Gem's SMS Unread Count (android.kanokgems.com/sms-unread-count) and forward your Google Voice messages to your Gmail account you can get notifications pretty easily.
Create a label in Gmail called "Voice" or something to that effect. (Note: I seemed to run across a bug where the widget can't identify labels with two separate words, so it can't find a "Google Voice" label, but it can find a "Voice" label.)
Set up a filter under settings to filter all emails from Google Voice to your new "Voice" label. If you check off "Skip the inbox (Archive it)," the messages will appear as new in your Voice label only and will not show up in your inbox. This avoids double notifications - one for gmail and one for your voicemail.
When you add the widget and change the setting to Gmail, it asks what label you want to use. Select your "Voice" label.
You can easily use custom icons. Directions are on the developer's website.
It's admittedly a workaround for a feature that is lacking in Android, but it works well for me.
lactardjosh said:
If you use Kanok Gem's SMS Unread Count (android.kanokgems.com/sms-unread-count) and forward your Google Voice messages to your Gmail account you can get notifications pretty easily.
Create a label in Gmail called "Voice" or something to that effect. (Note: I seemed to run across a bug where the widget can't identify labels with two separate words, so it can't find a "Google Voice" label, but it can find a "Voice" label.)
Set up a filter under settings to filter all emails from Google Voice to your new "Voice" label. If you check off "Skip the inbox (Archive it)," the messages will appear as new in your Voice label only and will not show up in your inbox. This avoids double notifications - one for gmail and one for your voicemail.
When you add the widget and change the setting to Gmail, it asks what label you want to use. Select your "Voice" label.
You can easily use custom icons. Directions are on the developer's website.
It's admittedly a work around for a feature that is lacking in Android, but it works well for me.
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Cheers for this!!! I've got it working, only how do you clear the icon count bubble in a practical sense? Clicking the icon launches Gmail, and if you delete the email of course the count goes away but this seems a little cumbersome. Marking the email as read either in gmail or automatically using the filter rules doesn't remove the count. I'm guessing that ticking the 'Delete it' option in the respective filter would work, but of course I'll never get the count at all then...
The Facebook Push Notifications doesn't work for me. Chat is working fine, but not comments, Friend requests and so on!.
Does it work for anyone here with Facebook 1.5.1? If Yes what are your settings?
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it does not work for me either ...
I haven't had it working for me either..I will get notification bar updates but no push notifications.
damn it ... I think they removed this function.. but why? What is with a downgrade.
Should be 1.5.0
Yep, it's been quiet for a while here too.
It has been quiet my end as well for some time.
I remember we used to get them
Does anyone have the Facebook 1.5.0 version, I would try this out!
I tried it with fb 1.50, too.
Doesnt working either!
My understanding of Facebook push notifications is that they SUCK!!! Sorry about that. When normal people think of push notifications we think of notifications of things we actually want to be notified of like wall posts, comments, likes, etc. Unfortunately for us when Facebook thinks push notifications they think about pushing us notifications for things we don't care about like event invites and inbox messages.
I don't have much in faith in facebook in that we will ever get push support for all notifications :-( It seems to me that facebook's strategy for android will be to integrate features into the phone instead of delivering a stealer app people. This means working with OEMs as they have been as of late. I don't think we will ever get a useful app from facebook.
Currently I think Tweetdeck provides you with the most comprehensive facebook notification support and when you combine that with the actually facebook app all notifications are covered I believe. The only downside is that Tweetdeck is poll driven.
I used to get it for comments, wall post, inbox bla bla..
now didnt get it anymore.. oh well, thats fine... it's not like my world will end without push noti anw
I think 1.5.1 broke or disabled the push notifications feature.
flow
Have you guys tried facebook flow? I just installed it testerday. I has the option of utilizing gmail push notification to send/recieve facebook notifications.
Ive liked it more and more since I have installed it, and the push works great
Yeah man. Sad that Facebook not going to deliver an application for android users. Sigh..
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Any IM app that is PUSH technology rather than Pull? Besides Gtalk.
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Any IM app that is PUSH technology rather than Pull? Besides Gtalk.
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I believe both beejive and trillian use push notifications.
trillian is half the price of beejive and if you use trillian's desktop or web app you can have your im conversations on your phone synced to those products.
beejive on the other hand saves your conversations to your sdcard and also has the ability to email the transcripts to what ever account you want.
trillian lets you set a custom ringtone for notifications where as beejive only lets you pick from either the yahoo, msn, or aol im sound. I think this is unfortunate though beejive lets you set a different sound when the app is active and when it is idel which is cool
beejive will notify you in the status bar when you receive an im as well as blink the led, though I think the status bar notification is timed (by that I mean the notification disappears from the status bar after some set time. This is what I have noticed idk anything official)
I believe trillian also notifies you in the status bar. trillian also allows you to suspend the app. this logs you out of the app on the phone but keeps you logged into all your im services on trillian's servers. I think this is prob similar to beejive's idel stat in that it is designed to use less battery when not actively using the app. If the app is suspended you will receive an email notification that you have received an im.
As far as support goes, trillian has a forum that you can post any questions in. The only support for beejive that I know of are their email addresses listed on their website and the market-place and I haven't had much luck when emailing them questions.
beejive also lets you set your status: available, away, busy, and invisible and also have custom status messages for each service. You can also delete, appear offline, and block contacts though I haven't had success with those features.
I think that they should re-add those features back.
For a second there, I thought I was the only one that noticed that Facebook push notifications actually existed for a short while and then died. I've done multiple phone wipes and rebuilds to try to correct the problem. Now it's clear that it's a Facebook thing and not my phone.
I setup a gmail account just for facebook....I get instant notifications....I gave up on face book notification. And only reason i setup another gmail...so i can have a diffrent tone and nothing but FB mesages. THe moment you get your message its sent to your gmail you setup.
I think the lack of notifications is on purpose, and it makes sense. Here is why, an average person has well over 100 friends on FB, if you leave a comment on any post you recieve a notification on facebook each time someone responds, if you "like" a post, the same thing happens, now figure that you commented on 20 or more different posts and made a few yourself, Do you people have any idea how incredibly annoying it would be to get a notification everytime someone "likes" or comments on those same posts or links anytime after? It makes perfect sense why FB only pushes Friend Requests, PM's and Events. I won't even get into the amount of server bandwith it would be using. It's common sense.
I suppose it would be nice for them to offer an option in the settings for the people so incredibly obsessed with every little thing that happens on facebook but I myself would go insane if my phone vibrated or beeped everytime someone responded to a wall post.
Uh....Facebook allows push notifications for everything. Just not push notifications from app. Everything you mentioned is pushed to my gmail account or sms. Yes does get annoying if 50 people reply to a post but FB does push notifications.
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First off I love my GNex... such a great phone and I love Android. However there is one feature missing that is probably keeping it from being used more in business. That feature is per folder notification. What I mean by that is if you have an exchange account configured on your phone and in your Mailbox you have a rule to move email from certain senders to a certain folder you will not get any sort of notification that you have received that email (yes the folder is set for Push Sync). If you check your email and click on your account name at the top you can see if there are emails as they do sync and show how many unread messages are in that folder so the possibility is there.
It seems like such a simple fix for something that would have a large impact. I had 2 co-workers all set to get an android phone and when i told them about this limitation one got an iPhone and the other is going to wait for the Windows 8 phones.
I am aware there are third party apps (not cheap) that supposedly provide this feature (touchdown) but aside from providing that feature I havent heard great things about them (and all seem to negatively affect battery life).
I was really hopeful that it would be addressed in JB but it still remains untouched after all these versions
WoodroweBones said:
First off I love my GNex... such a great phone and I love Android. However there is one feature missing that is probably keeping it from being used more in business. That feature is per folder notification. What I mean by that is if you have an exchange account configured on your phone and in your Mailbox you have a rule to move email from certain senders to a certain folder you will not get any sort of notification that you have received that email (yes the folder is set for Push Sync). If you check your email and click on your account name at the top you can see if there are emails as they do sync and show how many unread messages are in that folder so the possibility is there.
It seems like such a simple fix for something that would have a large impact. I had 2 co-workers all set to get an android phone and when i told them about this limitation one got an iPhone and the other is going to wait for the Windows 8 phones.
I am aware there are third party apps (not cheap) that supposedly provide this feature (touchdown) but aside from providing that feature I havent heard great things about them (and all seem to negatively affect battery life).
I was really hopeful that it would be addressed in JB but it still remains untouched after all these versions
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Have you tired Tasker?
Oh I'm aware there are apps that can help you with this but it should be a core functionality of the email.apk.
More apps doing stuff means worse battery life and more to backup/restore. Its hard to sell to business customers when their argument is "well with the iPhone it just works"
that's one thing that I really miss from my TP2 running winmo is the "persistent notifications" (that's what I call them anyhow). If you dismiss the notification in the curtain on android then its just gone. My old TP2 would show notification bubbles anywhere and everywhere you could think of.
if you had a text it would show on the text icon, if you were looking through your contacts it would show notification bubbles for text/call/email right on the contact info
i guess gmail.apk has that
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i guess gmail.apk has that
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and apparently devs aren't making use of it?
widgetlocker & tesla unread is the closest I've come to some of the old winmo functionality
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that's one thing that I really miss from my TP2 running winmo is the "persistent notifications" (that's what I call them anyhow). If you dismiss the notification in the curtain on android then its just gone. My old TP2 would show notification bubbles anywhere and everywhere you could think of.
if you had a text it would show on the text icon, if you were looking through your contacts it would show notification bubbles for text/call/email right on the contact info
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Many custom launchers (Nova, Apex, etc) give you the option of showing unread counts on the icons of apps such as SMS, Gmail, etc. Those shouldn't disappear when you dismiss notifications, so that would at least solve half your problem!
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Many custom launchers (Nova, Apex, etc) give you the option of showing unread counts on the icons of apps such as SMS, Gmail, etc. Those shouldn't disappear when you dismiss notifications, so that would at least solve half your problem!
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If I was on an ICS+ rom that would be more helpful, but it's something to look forward to at least. Although none them seem to have that feature for standard email which is where I miss it most.
I'll have to check out holo because I believe it at least does the same sms and calls.
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If I was on an ICS+ rom that would be more helpful, but it's something to look forward to at least. Although none them seem to have that feature for standard email which is where I miss it most.
I'll have to check out holo because I believe it at least does the same sms and calls.
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I did this with LauncherPro back when I was on Android 2.3, so I'm guessing it should work with that for you?