Heads Up Notification - More annoying than useful [POSSIBLE SOLUTION] - General Topics

To be honest, Heads up notifications are one part of Lollipop that show me how unfinished Android is and how uncomfortable it can be (also compared to iOS, which I don't really like)
I mean, basically its a good idea to see whats in your notifications, but I would make two changes to it:
1. small notifications when in selected apps: For example, you are in a game. you don't want to disable the heads up completely for this app, but it shouldnt be so big. so it could be just one line, very small and not disturbing. like a ticker, with the height of the statusbar.
2. The heads up notification should go down into the notification bar when you pull it down. Would be a simple but good looking animation. Atm, at least on touchwiz roms, when you pull the notification bar down while a heads up notification is on screen, the notification bar is behind the heads up. Very ugly.
What do you think?

I agree, very annoying..

With HeadsOff lollipop heads-up notifications can now be disabled!
No root needed.
You can also restore the ticker text in the statusbar!
Give it a try:
Download from Playstore
XDA thread

i also hated it... but when i successfuly installed xposed on my device, i changed it's timeout for 2 seconds with gravitybox. after it I don't think it's a problem anymore and I don't need to pull the notification panel to see notifications. the problem is the timeout not heads up itself.

Yeah GravityBox through Xposed can help.
Hope Google might change this in final build of Android M.

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[Q] App for SMS alerts

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.

Statusbar notification + Notification drawer

Hi all,
I am on a Oneplus. I am looking for a specific feature/app/function that I am struggling on discovering on my own or finding a work around.
What I want to do:
An app notifies me something and shows said notification in the Statusbar.
I want to hide the notification in the NOTIFICATION DRAWER.
So I essentially want to just pick the app that I want to show a statusbar notification & not show anything on the notification drawer/pull down.
Any help would be great! Thanks!

Heads up notification on lollipop

Is there any way to disable heads up notification on cm12?? I personally dislike heads up notification because it gets in the way of the current app that I am using. I like to check the notification bar myself. They should have made it transparent at least... And an option to turn off under the developers menu ?
There is no option to disable it just yet.
I hate them too.
With HeadsOff lollipop heads-up notifications can now be disabled!
No root needed.
You can also restore the ticker text in the statusbar!
Give it a try:
Download from Playstore
XDA thread

Heads up notifications

Im noticing that whenever i get a notification, it just shows up in the status bar ticker style like it did in kitkat.
Did Sammy get rid of heads up!?
Mine shows up heads-up, though, except for a while it reverted to the ticker.
I wish I could get those tickers though. MUch less distracting.
Yeh seriously. I'd love to get the tickers back, hate the new heads up...

Is there a way to make it so notifications don't show up on the status bar?

Sorry if this has been asked, I searched but didn't find anything. I like to have my status bar nice and clean and just rather see my notifications on my lock screen or drop down menu.
Running Android 10 on a Pixel 3. I would still like to receive notifications but I would like my status bar just to show the time on the left side. I know you can silence notifications and hide them from the status bar but I still would like to get notifications in the same way other than seeing the icon on the status bar.
Thanks

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