I have been playing with the do not disturb mode and i'm disappointed that there is no way to turn off notifications for email apps like Gmail.
Other than 3rd party apps, is there a way to prevent gmail notifications from coming in when DND is turned on? If not what apps do you guys for this purpose which is simple and light and does not run in the background when not used?
Thanks
Need a little help. Most notifications will turn the screen on when they come in, like when we receive a text message or phone call. We'll, I have an app that I use for business that gets real-time notifications and even has a setting in the app to choose system tones for audible alerts, but the app doesn't turn on the screen when I get notifications from it. I need it to. Does anyone know if this can be changed? I can't seem to find a setting for it anywhere in system settings, and it's definitely not in the app settings.
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Hi All
I can't seem to get Edge Lighting notification to work consistently.
Everything seemed fine the first few days when i had Always On Display enabled, however with it off, it seems to have a mind of its own.
I have Edge Lighting set to "Always", every single notification enabled, transparency is 0, width is the highest and color is set to "App Color"
With those settings, the popups would appear only sometimes.
I then figured out that the individual apps themselves need to have "pop-up" notifications enabled.
Now with that enabled in a handful of apps, i get notifications for those - however, there are a lot more apps that don't support it! Google Hangouts for example!
And on top of that, Whatspp seems to be the only application that actually keeps an icon on my screen until i grab the phone. all the other icons disappear once the lighting stops.
Any thoughts as to what i'm missing?
or is this just how edge lighting works?
I've not been able to get even one app to work when the screen is off.
To me the EL notifications work for all apps but only not for Viber.. they light up, but dissapear... and what's worse, when I unlock the phone later, there is NO notification that there is new message....
dalanik said:
To me the EL notifications work for all apps but only not for Viber.. they light up, but dissapear... and what's worse, when I unlock the phone later, there is NO notification that there is new message....
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Ahh! yes this happens to me all the time too.
What a strange system.
Cant comprehend how it works perfectly fine for some apps, and not at all for others.
Glad to know its not just me!
If you are on Oreo, you can use Notification Channels to "force" the app's specific notifications to "Urgent" which will "Make sound and pop-up on screen." Unfortunately, in order for it to work with screen-off, the app has to have built in the ability to "wake screen," which is why apps like samsung messages, textra, whatsapp, snapchat all have the ability to work with the screen off. you can use a 3rd party app like Glimpse Notifications to force app notifications to wake the screen, but when you receive a EL Pill notification, it will be with Glimpse's icon, and no message details.
Also apps like facebook messenger, which have custom notification API's (because of chat heads and special things that facebook enables in this app) will NOT play nicely with EL Notifications. I have tried everything to get it to play nice with this app, but it also does NOT target Oreo for notification channels, so I cannot force it. I can force it with "Autonotification" app from Tasker, but it's not enough to trigger it.
Hope this information helps a little bit for ya. What really needs to happen, is Samsung needs to program EL Notifications in the system level, rather than as an app that runs (Edge Screen apk) so that it can monitor notifications on a system-level rather than Piggy-backing off of Android's notification system. That way, no matter what the notification is within the app, it will display in Pill-form when the screen is off and on. In order to get to more information, or reply in-line, then you bring down the notification shade and voila.
But, I've reported this to Samsung numerous times, and have never received a reply from them. Here's to hoping that maybe it gets a revamp/improvement when the S9 comes out.
Hello
I use built-in sms and gmail apps
What annoys me is preview of messages and emails in top drop down area
What is a point of locking apps with eg fingerprint when content may be read in notification area?
Is any way to disable this "feature"
Thanks!
Have you tried notifications settings for specific apps? Or you can just disable notifications content on lockscreen completely. Search notifications in settings and you should find these.
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Of course I tried this
In "Notifications" I have:
Allow notifications
Show on status bar
Banners
Notifications on lockscreen
Priority
Sound
Wibrations
No change of any abowe turns off previews
Don't think it's possible to disable notifications previews in notifications section.
You can disable them on lockscreen.
I guess locking with fingerprint is so someone can't access and use the application directly. Looks like another missing android feature that we should have.
What I can suggest is to disable notifications in notifications tab, leave sound / vibration on and notification badge in the app icon. Set lockscreen settings to hide content.
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Is there a 3rd party app perhaps that lets you add a custom Quick panel shortcut to disable/enable notifications from either a certain/multiple/all apps? Something like "Do not disturb" except it doesn't turn your phone into silent mode, it just turns off the text notification/s. Like if I receive an email, the Gmail icon would still show a +1 counter or even trigger the new email sound, but I wouldn't receive any notification at the top of my screen. Like if I'm showing my photo gallery to a friend, I don't want a random email or SMS or whatever from whomever to pop up and my friend sees it - it's none of their business. I know I can also go manually into Settings, Apps & turn Notifications off completely for specific apps, but I just want a quick 1 tap shortcut like I have for "Do not disturb" mode and also not disable them completely, but just the text notification at the top.