Hi All,
Using the standard HTC mail app and have 2 email accounts setup - both google apps accounts using IMAP.
On my home screen I have 2 shortcuts, one for each mailbox - on previous phones (desire, hero) these shortcuts used to show a "badge" with the number of unread emails in the mailbox. I don't get this on my Sensation no matter how many unread emails there are in the mailboxes.
I can't find an option to enable this anywhere, so has it been taken out, or is it just not working?
Before I go down the route of a factory reset, could you let me know if you get unread mail badges on your mailbox shortcuts...
Thanks
I only have the general Mail icon, not a shortcut to an individual Inbox since I'm using only one Emailaddress on my mobile. That Icon shows the number of unread messages. Not sure if that's what you'd want, it would probably show you the sum of unread messages form both accounts.
Ideally I'd like the individual count like previous phones. Just noticed I don't get an unread count on sms either (htc sms and go sms). Thinking it might be a problem with sense...
fourfoot said:
Ideally I'd like the individual count like previous phones. Just noticed I don't get an unread count on sms either (htc sms and go sms). Thinking it might be a problem with sense...
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THAT sounds bad. I definitely get SMS count on the default icon... I'd try a reset if I were you.
Did a factory reset, still the same. Weird.
I guess I can live with it for now - makes it look like I have no work to do
Weirdly they started working today... I now get the unread counters and didn't change anything.
Under settings - accounts and sync, u can configure the syncing of specific gmail email app.
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I use the GMail app and the icon doesn't show a thing for me. I have a widget for the lockscreen that has email counts and that's accurate so its odd that the pre-loaded gmail app won't be displaying unread counts
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As a Google voice user it sucks not being able to use those widgets that allow you to see your SMS messages on the home screen or apps like SMS Popup. Now since Google Voice has push messages it would be cool to see some widgets and apps that take advantage of it. Getting to the point now, can anybody make a widget that shows your incoming Google Voice messages?
iVisionX01 said:
As a Google voice user it sucks not being able to use those widgets that allow you to see your SMS messages on the home screen or apps like SMS Popup. Now since Google Voice has push messages it would be cool to see some widgets and apps that take advantage of it. Getting to the point now, can anybody make a widget that shows your incoming Google Voice messages?
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Are you saying you don't like the current form of notification that just shows an indicator in the tray at the top? Just curious.
No I just hate not being able to use those widgets that show your sms messages.
Sort of like the SMS widget on Sense?
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No I just hate not being able to use those widgets that show your sms messages.
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Lots of work-arounds but I'm with you. Wish there was a widget or popup.
You could go into your GV Settings and have your SMS forwarded to your phone, which would put them in your SMS widgets and popups. However, that defeats the purpose of having free SMS with Google Voice, which is why I stopped forwarding the messages to my phone when the new Push version of the app came out.
You could also go into GV Settings and have SMS forwarded to your gmail address, and then the texts would show up in any Gmail widget, such as Pure Messaging Widget. You can reply to the SMS via email.
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Lots of work-arounds but I'm with you. Wish there was a widget or popup.
You could go into your GV Settings and have your SMS forwarded to your phone, which would put them in your SMS widgets and popups. However, that defeats the purpose of having free SMS with Google Voice, which is why I stopped forwarding the messages to my phone when the new Push version of the app came out.
You could also go into GV Settings and have SMS forwarded to your gmail address, and then the texts would show up in any Gmail widget, such as Pure Messaging Widget. You can reply to the SMS via email.
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That is a good idea but I've found that forwarding SMS messages to GMail to not be that reliable. Inbox Syncronizaiton usually gets me my message on time.
i would like to see the fancy little chat bubbles in gvoice sms
superficial, i know lol
however, the notification bar only says "google voice, 1 unread message" not a brief summary of the message which would be cool
This is why I bounce between using the GV app and fwd mt texts. I'd love an SMS notify widget for google voice. Im sure the dev could add th4e option to use it with GV.
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...
My wife is replacing her Samsung Highlight with a new MT4G, which we can all appreciate is a significant upgrade. One feature her Highlight did, was remind her that she had unread SMS text every 5 minutes or so. For her, phone in purse, car, whatever, it's rather helpful. Can I set something similar on her ny MT4G? The LED blinking isn't gonna cut it for her. And I don't want to tell her the Highlight can do something better than the MT4G! Thanks
insaneoctane said:
One feature her Highlight did, was remind her that she had unread SMS text every 5 minutes or so.
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Not sure about the built-in app, but Handcent SMS can do this and has some pretty nice other features as well.
ChompSMS also has the feature but that program's buggy. It causes the mms service to crash on my mt4g when I receive a picture mms and also causes the laucher to go all black on my wife's vibrant.
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Not sure about the built-in app, but Handcent SMS can do this and has some pretty nice other features as well.
ChompSMS also has the feature but that program's buggy. It causes the mms service to crash on my mt4g when I receive a picture mms and also causes the laucher to go all black on my wife's vibrant.
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I'm confused how handcent would integrate with how MT4G handles messages...it seems like MT4G integrates SMS with facebook/twitter and your contacts. Would handcent mess with this???
It doesn't completely replace the built in messenger, texts are still accessible from the builtin app as well as from handcent. You just install handcent and then configure the builtin one to stop notifying on new messages. All the account links remain in place.
How about something for email? I don't SMS but I would like reminders about email received.
And calls missed, how about for that? I used to have reminders on a older non-smart phone and miss it.
I checked for other programs by those who did Handcent SMS, but nothing there. What can be recommended for (reliable and hopefully very configurable) reminders?
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How about something for email? I don't SMS but I would like reminders about email received.
And calls missed, how about for that? I used to have reminders on a older non-smart phone and miss it.
I checked for other programs by those who did Handcent SMS, but nothing there. What can be recommended for (reliable and hopefully very configurable) reminders?
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Could this be what you're looking for?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/missed-reminder/ru.orangesoftware.areminder
ive seen tons of SMS notifier apps but is there anyone out there who knows how to get something like that for google voice?
Use SMS Unread Count.
I set it up on my phone, by forwarding my GV message to gmail, with a filter to label and skip the inbox so I don't get double notifications (one for gmail and one for the vm)
Here's the set up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10596876&postcount=10
It seems Google makes it easy from within the app itself:
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/03/23/google-voice-notifications-android-lot-faster/
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It seems Google makes it easy from within the app itself:
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/03/23/google-voice-notifications-android-lot-faster/
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I believe that is just in the notification bar.
I inferred from the OP's question that he was looking for something similar to the SMS notifiers that show the number badge on the icon.
I could be wrong.
Hello all, this may be a basic android question but i am new to andriod (HTC Thunderbolt, unrooted). The messaging app has three tabs: All Messages, SMS/MMS, and Voicemail. I'm assuming the All Messages tab should show not just SMS/MMS but also emails at the very least but all I get there is SMS/MMS. I have had the Mail app set up and working, and also the Gmail app. Also I have FB and Twitter for HTC Sense both set up (not sure if those post should show up there or not. Is there a setting I'm missing or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the Messages app? Trying to use the full functionality of the Thunderbolt. Thanks for your advice.
The all messages folder is supposed to show sms/mms as well as push messages and visual voicemail messages however I have yet to figure out how to get push messages or what services uses these
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