Best Add Blocker? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers

What is the best Add Blocker? I'm using Adclear... But I can't seem to remove the drop down notification. Which is extremely annoying.

Wouldn't you be able to block the drop down notification? (by holding your finger on the notification for a couple of seconds, then choosing "Block all notifications")

XooLoo said:
Wouldn't you be able to block the drop down notification? (by holding your finger on the notification for a couple of seconds, then choosing "Block all notifications")
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Without root, you can't block a persistent VPN notification in the status bar due to the high potential security risk - the "Block all notifications" option is greyed out. The only blocking that is allowed is the lockscreen notification.
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b0Ne83 said:
What is the best Add Blocker? I'm using Adclear... But I can't seem to remove the drop down notification. Which is extremely annoying.
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Try out Adhell from the Play Store. It blocks ads on non-rooted Samsung phones without a VPN. It injects the blocking policies into the Knox firewall. There is no persistent notification or anything. Adhell does not constantly run in the background either: once it injects the IP tables into the Knox firewall, it's done.

henrybravo said:
Without root, you can't block a persistent VPN notification in the status bar due to the high potential security risk - the "Block all notifications" option is greyed out. The only blocking that is allowed is the lockscreen notification.
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Try out Adhell from the Play Store. It blocks ads on non-rooted Samsung phones without a VPN. It injects the blocking policies into the Knox firewall. There is no persistent notification or anything. Adhell does not constantly run in the background either: once it injects the IP tables into the Knox firewall, it's done.
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Is there any drawback to enabling KNOX? I am currently using netguard as the VPN solution. I like the idea of loading an iptables firewall and not running a VPN app in the background.

henrybravo said:
Without root, you can't block a persistent VPN notification in the status bar due to the high potential security risk - the "Block all notifications" option is greyed out. The only blocking that is allowed is the lockscreen notification.
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Try out Adhell from the Play Store. It blocks ads on non-rooted Samsung phones without a VPN. It injects the blocking policies into the Knox firewall. There is no persistent notification or anything. Adhell does not constantly run in the background either: once it injects the IP tables into the Knox firewall, it's done.
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Whoa that sounds sweet I'll check it out thanks!
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Kill apk

HI,
HAve some problem, every time i clear or kill application i need to restart application on background . I use lmt laucher and i want to keep on alway time...but went i clear all i need to restart...
mAybe some option to stay
martinjo24 said:
HI,
HAve some problem, every time i clear or kill application i need to restart application on background . I use lmt laucher and i want to keep on alway time...but went i clear all i need to restart...
mAybe some option to stay
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Open Setting > Advanced settings > Battery manager > Protected apps and tick apps that you want to run in background.
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Or you can try Setting > Apps > Advanced > Default app settings > Launcher and tick the default launcher u want to use.
thank you,
bUt i try all...nptbing happen clpse everytime
Same here
Anyone can help
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I get the solution from digging on web
Press the home hot key.press the options hot key(the one with three horizontal lines)task manager list will be opened will all the minimized appsjust SWIPE DOWN on the app you wanted to run in backgroundNow A lock symbol will be displayed on the app,which means that app is locked from killing by task manager.i.e your app will now run in background even after killing all the tasks in task manager.To reverse it(to unlock it or to prevent running it in background) press the home,then options hot key.. Now swipe that app UP..that lock symbol will be gone and you can kill it with task manager.
shntarer said:
Same here
Anyone can help
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I get the solution from digging on web
Press the home hot key.press the options hot key(the one with three horizontal lines)task manager list will be opened will all the minimized appsjust SWIPE DOWN on the app you wanted to run in backgroundNow A lock symbol will be displayed on the app,which means that app is locked from killing by task manager.i.e your app will now run in background even after killing all the tasks in task manager.To reverse it(to unlock it or to prevent running it in background) press the home,then options hot key.. Now swipe that app UP..that lock symbol will be gone and you can kill it with task manager.
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wowwwwww...thank you so much...work welll
Guys please explain more. I have the same issue but I didn't understand what you did. Please give me a step by step instructions and if possible upload some screenshots.
a. felon said:
Guys please explain more. I have the same issue but I didn't understand what you did. Please give me a step by step instructions and if possible upload some screenshots.
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To lock your application in background.
1. Press the SQUARE button next to Home button (CIRCLE)
2. Applications list will appeared.
3. Swipe down the application that you need to lock in the background. You will see a locked icon on top right of the application.
4. To unlock it just do Swipe down again.
Good Luck.

Notification bar bug? Lock screen notifications? 4G keeps turning off? Help pls

Hey guys!
I just bought my Huawei Mate 9 and coming from a two year old Oneplus One i can say it feels like flying, but at the same time I seem to been having some problems, I don't know if it is EMUI that works this way, but I find this next things serious problems more than annoyances.
1. First there is the notification bar, nothing wrong with it when I'm at the home screen, but when I go into an app it seems to vanish and the only way to know what's going on in my phone is to manually pull it down. Is there any solution to this? Is it a bug with EMUI 5.0?
2. Somewhat of a related problem, when I'm at my lock screen, I can never see ANY notification, the only thing I see is the time and my step counter, this is a very serious problem, I should be able to have a glimpse of my notifications at my lockscreen.
3. Finally there has been some times when I notice that my phone is loading slowly internet sites, and then I realize that the 4G option at the quick menu from the pull down notification bar has been turned off, this has happened several times, I thought it was because it could not find a LTE signal so it turned itself off, but when turning it back on it automatically goes into 4G/LTE. What's going on? Why does it turn itself off automatically?
I really need to know if this is an EMUI thing or something I can change or fix,
Thanks in advance guys.
Did you notice any problems before installing apps? First thing I'd try is turn off the step counter and any other running apps and see what happens.
The Mate 9 has some very intense power saving and you may have to play with some settings.
Some notifications dont seem to show on the lock screen. The built in email app is one of them. It makes a noise and the led pulses but the screen doesnt come on, theres no popup on the lock screen and the notification bar doesnt have any icons or anything to tell me anything. Gmail, messages and a few other work fine.
I have already disabled the power saving app closer thing, so it's not that, I will try to disable the steps counter, but I have a doubt, do I have to enable the "power on display when a notification arrives" setting so my notifications show in the lock screen?
esantiago098 said:
I have already disabled the power saving app closer thing, so it's not that, I will try to disable the steps counter, but I have a doubt, do I have to enable the "power on display when a notification arrives" setting so my notifications show in the lock screen?
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I have that on but still no email notifications
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Ok I think Ive got it. Go to settings, notification and status bar, notifications management, select the apps you want to wake the screen and show a popup notification. Click "display on lock screen". That should do it. I dont know what "banners" means but I selected it.
Ok I guess banners means the message shows on the top of the screen if the device is on.
Could it be maybe a problem with the current theme? Not even Whatsapp notifications appear on the lock screen.
wingzfan said:
I have that on but still no email notifications
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Ok I think Ive got it. Go to settings, notification and status bar, notifications management, select the apps you want to wake the screen and show a popup notification. Click "display on lock screen". That should do it. I dont know what "banners" means but I selected it.
Ok I guess banners means the message shows on the top of the screen if the device is on.
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It seems those settings solved the problem, but not completely, sometimes the notifications appear and sometimes they do not :/
Is it possible to respond to notifications when the screen is locked?
To get notifications systematically on the locked screen of the Huawei Mate 9 (or P9), you may only choose the "Magazine Unlock" wallpaper. Then all notifications as long as you've granted them permission and the app is full compatible with Android 7.0 will appear. I have a few apps for which no notifications appear either on lock screen or sound, though they do on my P9. I believe this is due to a necessary Android 7.0 update for the apps.

deactivate heads-up notifications from Whatsapp on S8+ ?

Seems like a constantly reoccurring topic:
Anytime I'm using my phone, watching videos or showing others things on my phone, I'll receive any incoming whatsapp message as a very indiscreet pop-up in the top section of my screen.
I've tried using the "adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0" setting that works on some phones... sadly not on the S8+.
There's an App by Jawomo called "noHeadsUp" in the playstore, however this app involves activating (and then partially bypassing) the "do not disturb" function accompanied by the statusbar notification.
Jawomo's App "Headsoff", which worked perfectly on my S6 edge, seems to not be working on Android 7.0
Anyone have a solution to this issue?
(Pop-Up notifications are, of course, turned off in whatsapp's settings)
THANKS!
bashu_ger said:
Seems like a constantly reoccurring topic:
Anytime I'm using my phone, watching videos or showing others things on my phone, I'll receive any incoming whatsapp message as a very indiscreet pop-up in the top section of my screen.
I've tried using the "adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0" setting that works on some phones... sadly not on the S8+.
There's an App by Jawomo called "noHeadsUp" in the playstore, however this app involves activating (and then partially bypassing) the "do not disturb" function accompanied by the statusbar notification.
Jawomo's App "Headsoff", which worked perfectly on my S6 edge, seems to not be working on Android 7.0
Anyone have a solution to this issue?
(Pop-Up notifications are, of course, turned off in whatsapp's settings)
THANKS!
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Yes only way i found now is - ON the Pop-Up notifications to, only show when Phone is OFF in WhatsApp
I had NOTE 7 and we could stop the Preview in that older phone
Why we are not able to that here
This actually disables the notifications from popping up when I'm actively using my phone.. but yeah... now they pop up when my phone is locked... not sure which is worse.
Thanks though.
ive been trying to find an answer to this for over 2 weeks since getting the s8 and still had no joy , had the same issue on s7 but there was a solution to that but doesnt work on my s8.
i have emailed whatsapp developers direct and had no response from them at all.
think the only solution for now is to use a different messaging app and delete whatsapp.
If they didn't remove system ui tuner, we could then stop it. I hate the damn crap always popping up in my face. People seem to talk more when I'm trying to watch youtube and cover the damn video.
bashu_ger said:
This actually disables the notifications from popping up when I'm actively using my phone.. but yeah... now they pop up when my phone is locked... not sure which is worse.
Thanks though.
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Glad i could help
you could click on the Thanks
There a free app called noheadsup that works for me. Install app and use single app setting scroll down to WhatsApp and you can disable the popup notification in there. I still get vibration alert when I get a msg.
Does it work to go to the Apps manager in the phone's Settings, and turn off Notifications for WhatsApp?
Tinimark said:
There a free app called noheadsup that works for me. Install app and use single app setting scroll down to WhatsApp and you can disable the popup notification in there. I still get vibration alert when I get a msg.
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noheadsup app doesnt work for me , does nothing at all
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Gary02468 said:
Does it work to go to the Apps manager in the phone's Settings, and turn off Notifications for WhatsApp?
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if you turn off notifications for whatsapp then you dont get any sort of notification at all, i still need the sound or vibrate just not the big banner across the top with all my message contents on view for anyone looking at my phone to read.
widget2k13 said:
noheadsup app doesnt work for me , does nothing at all
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if you turn off notifications for whatsapp then you dont get any sort of notification at all, i still need the sound or vibrate just not the big banner across the top with all my message contents on view for anyone looking at my phone to read.
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It's called "peek" now and if Samsung left the system ui tuner in, then we could disable just the peek/heads-up.
This is what I did to make it work.
Installed noheadsup
Open app and go to the in app settings (basic settings)
In the first box "disable all" make sure this is not activated
In the second box "disable single" activate this and press settings.
This will load all you apps in a list.
Scroll down to WhatsApp and select it
In this next menu make sure that allow notifications and show silently are both on. Set the "on lock screen" to not show notifications
Go back... And turn on vibration and sound alerts.
For me, the sound alerts don't work but the phone does vibrate and there are no popups. S8+
Tinimark said:
This is what I did to make it work.
Installed noheadsup
Open app and go to the in app settings (basic settings)
In the first box "disable all" make sure this is not activated
In the second box "disable single" activate this and press settings.
This will load all you apps in a list.
Scroll down to WhatsApp and select it
In this next menu make sure that allow notifications and show silently are both on. Set the "on lock screen" to not show notifications
Go back... And turn on vibration and sound alerts.
For me, the sound alerts don't work but the phone does vibrate and there are no popups. S8+
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For that we do not need this App for it to show Silently
we can just go in the WhatsApp settings and
Turn on Show silently
But if the PAID version works with sound i would Pay
Doesn't work for me neither
Same here.
It disables popup, but there is no sound then..
After update i do not get mesg Previews anymore
Tiles
I have successfully disabled heads up notifications for my s8+. Get the Tiles apk by rascarlo from the Playstore, grant adb privilege, enable the head up tile, booom, goodbye intrusive heads up notifications.
moraytadroidz said:
I have successfully disabled heads up notifications for my s8+. Get the Tiles apk by rascarlo from the Playstore, grant adb privilege, enable the head up tile, booom, goodbye intrusive heads up notifications.
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Not working here.
Nothing is working.
Only thing that is working is to mute the notifications all together per app... so no sound or vibration. This is really a very bad thing. I hate it.
1. Activate show notifications silently in settings.
2. Download an app called lightflow and set up notifications for WhatsApp.
3. Now you won't get popups, only sound and vibration.
moraytadroidz said:
I have successfully disabled heads up notifications for my s8+. Get the Tiles apk by rascarlo from the Playstore, grant adb privilege, enable the head up tile, booom, goodbye intrusive heads up notifications.
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Using this worked for me, no headsup notification but there's still sound and vibration. I think this is the best method because it modifies a system setting instead of needing an app to run in the background all the time (how Lightflow works).
flushell said:
Not working here.
Nothing is working.
Only thing that is working is to mute the notifications all together per app... so no sound or vibration. This is really a very bad thing. I hate it.
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Note 7 had a opption to disable preview
then i wonder why it was removed
Hoping OREO 8.0 will have a solution
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Samsung s8 + -- system ui tuner

I am trying to access the UI tuner on the Samsung S8 plus. I have downloaded the SystemUI tuner by Zacharia. I have untoggled the heads up toggle and i have also activated the Power notifications Control.
By doing this nothing happens in terms of Heads up as they still appear. Furthermore i am unable to find out where to change the level down on an APP such as Whats APP.
Can someone please advise as to how i can change this as i ultimately want to disable the heads up message displays. Yes i have tried the ADB thing which did work on my S7 but does not work on my S8.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks
shakeele said:
I am trying to access the UI tuner on the Samsung S8 plus. I have downloaded the SystemUI tuner by Zacharia. I have untoggled the heads up toggle and i have also activated the Power notifications Control.
By doing this nothing happens in terms of Heads up as they still appear. Furthermore i am unable to find out where to change the level down on an APP such as Whats APP.
Can someone please advise as to how i can change this as i ultimately want to disable the heads up message displays. Yes i have tried the ADB thing which did work on my S7 but does not work on my S8.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Did you do the adb commands? You have to grant permissions via a couple adb commands. The are listed on the app when you open it.
Yes I did insert the ADV commands as stipulated by the APP. I have disabled the heads off toggle as well and enabled the power notifications toggle which should allow u to drop down the permission levels per app. I don't know where to navigate to in order to do this tho?
I am not even sure that the Samsung S8 even allows this sort of app manipulation like other devices running Nougat7.0.
I ultimately want to disable the heads off display and I have scoured every forum imaginable trying to find a solution with no luck.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
shakeele said:
Yes I did insert the ADV commands as stipulated by the APP. I have disabled the heads off toggle as well and enabled the power notifications toggle which should allow u to drop down the permission levels per app. I don't know where to navigate to in order to do this tho?
I am not even sure that the Samsung S8 even allows this sort of app manipulation like other devices running Nougat7.0.
I ultimately want to disable the heads off display and I have scoured every forum imaginable trying to find a solution with no luck.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Not sure if the S8 allows it either. Good luck with it, I just used it to get rid of the battery in the status bar.
Thanks I hope someone has a solution or a way to get rid of the dreadful headsup display.
you can. first, disable the power notif toggle..
then, for all the apps you want to modify its level, disable the notification for those apps in settings > notification
go back to systemui tuner and enable power notif, then back to settings > notification, you can set level now.
Thank u so much!! That worked like a charm! U can't imagine how happy I am that I don't have the stupid headsup anymore!
Some of my apps like Facebook messenger don't allow me to make it higher than level 4, do u know a workaround to this? Is there a way I can use an adb command to instruct an app to change it's notification level?
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crayonyes said:
you can. first, disable the power notif toggle..
then, for all the apps you want to modify its level, disable the notification for those apps in settings > notification
go back to systemui tuner and enable power notif, then back to settings > notification, you can set level now.
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Some of my apps like Facebook messenger don't allow me to make it higher than level 4, do u know a workaround to this? Is there a way I can use an adb command to instruct an app to change it's notification level?
theforevermachine said:
Some of my apps like Facebook messenger don't allow me to make it higher than level 4, do u know a workaround to this? Is there a way I can use an adb command to instruct an app to change it's notification level?
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Some of my apps like Facebook messenger don't allow me to make it higher than level 4, do u know a workaround to this? Is there a way I can use an adb command to instruct an app to change it's notification level?
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I don't know.
it could be that the app itself doesn't have level 5 notif ? cmiiw.
crayonyes said:
I don't know.
it could be that the app itself doesn't have level 5 notif ? cmiiw.
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Damn. Alrighty. Worth a shot. Thanks for the reply!

Disable Heads Up Notifications?

I've been using a Lineage PIE ROM on my OPO for months and the heads up notification toggle was a tile.
Can't find anywhere to disable it on this OP7 Pro.
Is it possible?
+1, can't wait to get rid of it
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Ruggerxpunk said:
I've been using a Lineage PIE ROM on my OPO for months and the heads up notification toggle was a tile.
Can't find anywhere to disable it on this OP7 Pro.
Is it possible?
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I actually have been disabling them with adb on my past 3-4 devices. But with the 7 pro, if you disable heads up, you won't receive notifications at all when screen is off (unless there is sound)
Also just discovered this, I had my animations turned off and my horizon light didn't work. Randomly turned them on today and what do you know... Animations off = no horizon light.
Not sure what OP is doing to notifications...
Okay so I found no tile but if you switch to Do not Disturb Mode you can deactivate them.
Go into settings->do not disturb->notifications->custom
It's not as efficient as the tile but it works. And I guess with the alert slider it's at least manageable since you can switch pretty easily
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I actually have been disabling them with adb on my past 3-4 devices. But with the 7 pro, if you disable heads up, you won't receive notifications at all when screen is off (unless there is sound)
Also just discovered this, I had my animations turned off and my horizon light didn't work. Randomly turned them on today and what do you know... Animations off = no horizon light.
Not sure what OP is doing to notifications...
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It seems if you do it with the method mentioned above you can have the screen turn on and no pop up for notifications
Tottie said:
Okay so I found no tile but if you switch to Do not Disturb Mode you can deactivate them.
Go into settings->do not disturb->notifications->custom
It's not as efficient as the tile but it works. And I guess with the alert slider it's at least manageable since you can switch pretty easily
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It seems if you do it with the method mentioned above you can have the screen turn on and no pop up for notifications
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These are my settings but the pop ups still occur.
If that doesn't work the only other idea I have is misusing game mode..
Obviously it's not really that usable for games then anymore
I use Tasker for this.
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I use Tasker for this.
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Is there a profile you can share?
There are apps that can help with this.
I use Shortcutter, works with root and non root via adb.
Ruggerxpunk said:
Is there a profile you can share?
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I use the AutoTools plugin for this, see attached screenshot.
rickysidhu_ said:
I use the AutoTools plugin for this, see attached screenshot.
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Do notifications still come through on Ambient Display on this?
Tried the same adb command and it broke Ambient Display, worked fine on 6T tho
Connect the device via ADB and run the following command from a command prompt on your computer:
adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0
That disables heads up notifications only
dr_rick13 said:
Do notifications still come through on Ambient Display on this?
Tried the same adb command and it broke Ambient Display, worked fine on 6T tho
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I'm not too sure about that actually, haven't really paid attention to ambient display with this setting enabled.
My use case is to disable these notifications only when in certain apps (YouTube, Netflix). As soon as Ieave these kinds of apps, heads up notifications will enable again.
You can try adding a screen state context, so ensure that %SCREEN = on, else enable heads up notifications to ensure ambient display notifications work.
Just do it in adb. One command and it's off. Still get notifications and dots. And sounds. Just no heads up. Works perfectly...
adb shell settings put global heads_up_notifications_enabled 0

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