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Is there any way to hide the text under the shortcut icons on the homescreen(s)?
In many cases, the text is longer than the 1x space given for the icon and you see the "..." or in some cases the text just fades off. Both are ugly and distracting imo.
Is there an application that controls SMS alerts better than the stock android alerts? If I turn off status bar notifications, it turns off sound and vibrate.
I want to turn off status bar and lock screen sms notifications, and only get a tone/vibrate. Checking the status notification off in the menu turns off sound/vibrate.
HTC Evo Froyo 2.2 on Calkulin rom
There are SMS notification applications, yes, but I don't think you can enable sound/vibration without a status bar notification as the status bar functions as a sort of master notification manager.
I imagine that's intentional on Google's part -- if you could enable just sound without a visual cue, it would be too easy to end up confused as to what kind of notification you actually received. Sounds like a recipe for confusion from less-savvy users.
Now, there's a chance I'm wrong here -- but I'm fairly certain I'm not. You could try SMS Popup (http://www.appbrain.com/app/sms-popup/net.everythingandroid.smspopup), which can do a one-time popup notification without putting anything in the status bar, but again, that won't do sound or vibration without the status bar notification enabled.
I tried sms popup, it requires you to do a status bar notification.
I don't really understand your part about the sound/vibrate notification being confusing. phones for years have had sound/vibrate with different alerts for each type of event. i also get a (1) on the SMS application showing i have 1 unread message.
I really think it is a poor design that I can't turn off the status bar notification without turning off all message sounds/vibrate. What if I just didn't want someone reading my messages but wanted to hear the sound?
I have never used a phone that doesn't automatically (and non-optionally) put a notification icon in a status bar, or place a # over the messaging icon, or give some other visual cue that you have a new message. But if what's actually bothering you is the scrolling message preview in the status bar -- not the notification icon itself -- SMS replacement apps Handcent and ChompSMS both can disable that.
The only option if you just really can't live with that icon, for whatever reason, is to get Handcent or Chomp to disable the scrolling preview, and then to go digging around in one of those programs' files with Root Explorer or the like to find the SMS notification icon image file and replace it with a completely transparent .png. The notification icon would then be invisible, despite still technically being there.
Yea im talking about the scrolling notification bar not the # on the sms message app icon.
I've used handcent and sms popup and both have a notification on/off, just like default message. It is tied to the audio. If you don't want the scrolling notification bar, you can't get audio from what I've found so far.
It was kind of nice at first, until i realized its just wasting extra battery, and it stays up there until i actually go click it or something. It also displays the text if someone else is holding the phone and thats annoying as well. I just don't understand why the notification bar isn't separate from the audio/vibrate.
When I receive a Hangouts/SMS message, I have the normal Hangouts Icon shown in the Status Bar. But I also have an odd icon that looks like a small black box, with a smaller white box with lines running through it.
Does anyone know why this icon shows up?
If I click it in Notifications, it takes me to the hangouts message.
I have recently added Xposed & Gravity Box. There's nothing in there that I have selected that would prompt this odd icon to appear though.
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Mostly after closing an app but not only my notification bar text line (time, battery, connection) scrolls up until it is vanished and then scrolls down in again. No new text just the same notification bar text is being displayed then.
Does anybody have the same problem or an idea how to solve the problem?
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I personally don`t understand what is the issue ... Can you post a screenshot and also mention the device and android version ?
Thanks !
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Ever since Android Marshmallow I believe that was when the notification style changed from only showing an icon to showing an icon plus a drop-down bubble which shows the message. The old style was that you had to slide down the notification bar to see the messages (which I prefer)...
Is there a way that I can change my notifications to not show a bubble but still show an icon? The bubbles are annoying because they show up even when I'm watching videos etc.