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.
Anyone know if there's a way to expand the notification window? Or reduce the size of all the quick settings buttons? When I tap the lower-right corner to expand the notification window and see my notifications, 100% of the notifications are hidden below the bar (because the time, date, wifi status, battery status, quick setting buttons, brightness setting, and 'settings' item fill the entire window), which means I always have to swipe-scroll-up to see what notifications are waiting if any. Kind of awkward and doesn't seem at all what Google intended.
If the window notification window opened further (to a greater height on the screen), or the some of the settings could be collapsed (the clock?), it'd solve the problem...
Is there a way to hide certain notifications in the lock screen ONLY? I say this because apps like Power Toggles or T-Mobile I want displayed when I swipe down on the navigation bar, but not sitting on my lock screen.
If I block it in the sounds and notification it blocks the app from showing up entirely. Same with "hide notifications" in app settings.
Any help would be appreciated.
The only options are for all apps and only show / hide all notifications. If you have a secure lock, you can show only the title but hide the content. There are no per-app settings
Or flash this ROM.
Nexus 5 AOSP With Gapps
On latest version r5.4, it has hide certain notification without disabled entire app notification.
Just hold on the notification you want to hide in status bar, and click the silent icon.
Currently my status bar will show about 4-5 notification icons before it shows the "dot dot dot" icon meaning there are more notifications but no room to show them. When this happens there is still a ton of space left to show more icons. Unfortunately the icons that do display are usually persistent ones, so when I get notifications that I actually care about I'm unaware until I pull down the notification pane.
Is there any way to change this behavior so that emui continues to display new notification icons instead of hiding them?
No way to remedy this I guess - bummer, it's my only real complaint about this phone (EMUI I guess). Constantly have to be pulling my notifications panel down, otherwise I miss notifications because they don't all display in the notification bar.
Can I turn off the pop-up notification Keep show notification in notification bar only ? (Oreo 8.0）
All I can find it's turn off all notification for app. Can only find some Google official APP have such a setting. Can not find the setting in third-party APP. Pop-up notification is kind annoying in some situations like watching movie.