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.
Does anyone know how to disable the messages that overlay the time/battery display in the bottom right corner? I find it really annoying that when I'm updating my apps and I want to open a previous notification I have to wait for the "installing" popup to disappear and it seems to take forever. I still want the icon notifications at the side of the clock but without the intrusive overlay popups. Thanks =]
just click the black part of the task bar when it says installing, and the message will go away
Hello everyone, few days now I have an issue with my nexus 5. Before i start im on a stock rom 4.4.4, rooted with xposed installed.
So when I'm receiving a call during an open application like facebook (or any other) the bottom navigation bar disappears, the scroll down option of the notification bar is not working and it doesn't show me the call answer screen. The only thing that i can do is just to lock the device but it doesn't fix it , or continue browsing the open app. Also it shows me only an icon of the phone on the notification bar. Does anyone else had this issue? If yes how i can fix it? thank you
I bought my s6 and it was running 6.0.1 out of the box.
Whenever I get a whatsapp message I don't get a icon in the status bar. When I swipe the bar down the messages are there and they also appear on the lockscreen.
For some reason I can't get it to say 'allowed'.
I have added screenshots of my settings in the "notification" menu
Anybody here knows the setting or is having similar problems? I have some more apps that have this problem.
Hi guys
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.