Greets - I cannot figure out how to get my Incredible to STOP blaring alerts at midnight and beyond simply because a friend has a birthday. I have tried changing all the reminders to "NONE" in Outlook, but that information does not synch. Of course, I do not want to disable all alerts. I just wish I could figure out how to get those alerts to stop.
As a temporary measure, I have the phone set to go silent from 9PM until 7AM; at least that way I don't get woken up. But that's not the point.
Anyone know how I can get these 'all day' birthday alerts to stop reminding me, but still let the other alerts (like a doctor's appointment) come through?
Thanks!
Do you have your contacts sync with Facebook or something? Could that be what's syncing it to your calendar causing it?
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Yes but ...
Absolutely ... but that is how they got there ... now that they are there, how do I stop them from issuing related reminders?!?!?!
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Tough to believe I'm the first to post about this, but I did my share of searching in this Rhodium forum with no luck, so here goes...
I use the Outlook calendar religiously, and have many "all day events" scheduled such as birthdays and anniversaries, etc. My standard reminder for these events takes place 2.5 days in advance, so that Outlook (and my phone) lets me know at noon 3 days prior to the event.
But now, with the Tilt 2 (stock AT&T ROM), not only do I get reminded per the Outlook setting, the phone issues another reminder at the moment the event occurs, meaning my phone lets me know at MIDNIGHT at the start of the day in question. Same happens for normal events too, mind you. For example, I have a meeting at 3pm, 30 minute reminder. The reminder pops up at 2:30pm, and I'll dismiss it, no worries. But at 3pm sharp, the phone lets me know once again that meeting is right now.
So bottom line, is there any way to prevent the secondary "time-of" notifications from being issued? I could use the sleep.
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Great question. I have the same problem but no answer for you unfortunately.
I had a probem like that long ago on another WM PDA.
I used a program called PMClean to clean up the notification database.
I do NOT know if that will help and do NOT know if it is even compatable with the newer OSs.
worwig said:
I had a probem like that long ago on another WM PDA.
I used a program called PMClean to clean up the notification database.
I do NOT know if that will help and do NOT know if it is even compatable with the newer OSs.
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Appreciate the suggestion, but I don't think that'll do it. It's not a case of orphaned reminders in the event db or notification queue, it's by design that the reminders go off at "game time" in addition to their user-defined reminder. Thanks anyway.
Anyone else have an idea? Thanks,
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Did you try turning off the reminders sound in Sounds and Notifications?
Phone-atic said:
Did you try turning off the reminders sound in Sounds and Notifications?
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I don't think the OP wants to turn off ALL reminder notifications. He just wants to silence the midnight reminder for All Day events in Outlook.
catcraig said:
I don't think the OP wants to turn off ALL reminder notifications. He just wants to silence the midnight reminder for All Day events in Outlook.
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This.
The Outlook reminders are behaving normally, displaying at their proscribed lead times for events for which I have defined a reminder. However, and regardless of whether an Outlook reminder is set for an event, the phone reminds you secondarily at the time of said event. It is this second reminder that I wish to eliminate. Unfortunately, the phone's notification management system does not discriminate between the two types. Silencing reminders will silence ALL reminders.
Terrible oversight on the part of the designers.
Take a look at this ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-326890.html
And ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330850
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Thanks, Warlock. They're experiencing the same problem or a variant thereof, the variant being that they were relying on the default reminder lead-time of 18 hours, hence the reminder going off at 6am the morning prior to an all-day event.
The solution proposed in there is very heavy handed, and would require the redefinition of every all-day event in my calendar to an appointment-based event. Not exactly elegent, but I guess some are willing to do this.
Funny, my HTC/Cingular 3125 on WinMo 5 didn't have this problem... but hey, you can't stop progress, right? Even if it's in the wrong direction, evidently.
This is BS.
I noticed that the Nexus misses LED notifications and won't go out to check for email unless I wake the phone and open the email app. Pretty annoying. Does it have anything to do with the sleep setting on the phone ?
For example: I work in an environment where I can't always pick up my phone, that's why I prefer the LED notifications. Someone called through the land line and asked if I recieved an important email, they also texted. I wake the phone and there was a text with no LED notification and no email. So I opened the email app and then 10 came through.It is set for 15 minute intervals and SYNCH on all accounts. WTF ?
Later I wake the phone, to find 2 voicemails and no LED notification. It is also set to vibrateand ring on calls and sometimes I believe it doesn't even ring, or vibrate.
Anyone else having this issue ?
I can't say I've had this problem but I'm pretty sure the notification led does not light up indefinitely. You would need a third party app like light flow.
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I noticed that the Nexus misses LED notifications and won't go out to check for email unless I wake the phone and open the email app. Pretty annoying. Does it have anything to do with the sleep setting on the phone ?
For example: I work in an environment where I can't always pick up my phone, that's why I prefer the LED notifications. Someone called through the land line and asked if I recieved an important email, they also texted. I wake the phone and there was a text with no LED notification and no email. So I opened the email app and then 10 came through.It is set for 15 minute intervals and SYNCH on all accounts. WTF ?
Later I wake the phone, to find 2 voicemails and no LED notification. It is also set to vibrateand ring on calls and sometimes I believe it doesn't even ring, or vibrate.
Anyone else having this issue ?
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I am having the exact same issue and it is really starting to annoy me (especially since I spent $900CDN to get this device). Anybody have any suggestions on a fix? I have to enter the email application in order to receive new emails. I have it set to check for emails every 10 minutes, it just doesn't.
There is another options for mail - you can setup different notification options for each label (folder) - by default you have there only for inbox. For gmail - there are also options for other labels too (and by default - there are no notifications specified).
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There is another options for mail - you can setup different notification options for each label (folder) - by default you have there only for inbox. For gmail - there are also options for other labels too (and by default - there are no notifications specified).
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I wonder why it worked for a few days and then quit.
Sync is fine here. And so is indicator. Used lightdlow for a bit but the repeated superuser requests made me uninstall
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I wonder why it worked for a few days and then quit.
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It might be because of your mails belongs to Inbox and Priority box or other labels and you might have notifications and synchronization only for some of them. Not really sure.
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Sync is fine here. And so is indicator. Used lightdlow for a bit but the repeated superuser requests made me uninstall
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Do you have to have the sync feature enabled for it to work. I want to be able to delete emails from my handset only so sync is not important to me. I just can't seem to get my device to "grab" the emails unless I physically open the email app.
JeremyShanfield said:
Do you have to have the sync feature enabled for it to work. I want to be able to delete emails from my handset only so sync is not important to me. I just can't seem to get my device to "grab" the emails unless I physically open the email app.
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The phone will not poll for emails at your set interval (ten minutes) if sync is not on. The reason you get emails when you open the email app is because it auto-syncs when you open the email app.
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The phone will not poll for emails at your set interval (ten minutes) if sync is not on. The reason you get emails when you open the email app is because it auto-syncs when you open the email app.
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Synch is and has been on.
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I wonder why it worked for a few days and then quit.
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Actually, mine worked at the beginning too, but for the last 2 days, nada. Just turned the "sync" feature on but it doesn't seem to have cured the problem.
I've found that my "sync" keeps turning itself off, somewhat randomly. Which would cause the problems mentioned in this thread. So just because you set it on doesn't mean it stays on.
I have a thread on it in the Q&A thread. A poorly visited thread =(
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1378985
This does annoy, greatly.
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Oops, realized this would affect google account related stuff (gmail, voice) but probably not email related notifications, since they are not 'syncing' an account, but just polling a server.
on that note, go to your Gmail account under accounts and make sure mail is set to sync
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Ahh... found out my problem. User error.
On the power widget, I thought the rotating arrows was for auto-rotate.
They are not.
Apparently that's the universal sign for SYNC.
Or auto-rotate.
waylo said:
Ahh... found out my problem. User error.
On the power widget, I thought the rotating arrows was for auto-rotate.
They are not.
Apparently that's the universal sign for SYNC.
Or auto-rotate.
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Precisely. That threw me for a loop several times when my brother has come to me asking why Gmail wouldn't sync. The problem is you can (intentionally or unintentionally) hit the "sync" button on the power widget, then delete the widget, and have noooo idea why you're not getting your mail .
Glad you figured it out.
So I am trying to find a way to get my email notifications to turn on and off at specified times. The reason is this. I have my work exchange email account on my Galaxy Nexus. When I am at work, I'm usually at my computer and thus can see all my email. Therefore I have my email notification turned off on my phone since I don't want to constantly clear notifications. But when I leave work, I'd like to have my email notification turned on so that I can be notified when I get a new email.
Is there anyway I can get the email notifications to be turned on and off at specified times in the day?
You can get one of the many apps to turn on/off notifications for times. Most of them are branded as "quiet hours" type apps for sleeping, but you could surely configure for different times during the day.
Tasker or Locale could surely do this too if you want it based on where you are to turn off notifications (i.e. turn off notifications at work, then enable when you leave).
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You can get one of the many apps to turn on/off notifications for times. Most of them are branded as "quiet hours" type apps for sleeping, but you could surely configure for different times during the day.
Tasker or Locale could surely do this too if you want it based on where you are to turn off notifications (i.e. turn off notifications at work, then enable when you leave).
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I have considered that, but the problem is that I do not need to turn off all notifications. I just need to turn off the notifications for Android's stock email app. I still want to keep the rest of my notifications.
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Anybody got an idea?
Search for the Road Sync on the market.
i know touchdown does exactly what you're talking about, you could always try like k9 mail or some other email app.
i'm not sure stock has this as ive never used it for corp email. there are a couple features i needed to have that touchdown does have
My only complaint about the One VX so far is with the calendar. The notices are unreliable and the snooze is non-functional. Although I usually get notices, sometimes they do not work. When I do get a notice and try to use the snooze function, I never get another notice. It's the same as dismissing the notice. I have tried snoozing from the lock screen and while the device was not locked.
Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know if a solution? HTC support has been much help. After my first support email, they responded with some suggestions but they did not solve the problem. I responded to their questions for more information on the problem but now they seem to be ignoring me. So much for customer relations.
My phone is stock and has not been rooted. I am using the HTC Sync Manager to sync my calendar with Outlook 2010. One of the suggestions from HTC was to create a calendar entry on the phone and not use the sync. This did not correct the snooze issue.
Thanks.
Only thing I can think is to use the Google calendar instead. IIRC there's a way to have it sync with outlook. I knew it's not Tue answer you're probably looking for, but I have to say I use google calendar for just about everything and don't have problems. There's also a great app called maluuba that I've been using for reminders (it's like Siri, so much easier to just say "remind me to take out the trash tomorrow at 8am, or whatever) but that seems to save to google cal too, though it has its own snooze/dismiss function.
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Only thing I can think is to use the Google calendar instead. IIRC there's a way to have it sync with outlook. I knew it's not Tue answer you're probably looking for, but I have to say I use google calendar for just about everything and don't have problems. There's also a great app called maluuba that I've been using for reminders (it's like Siri, so much easier to just say "remind me to take out the trash tomorrow at 8am, or whatever) but that seems to save to google cal too, though it has its own snooze/dismiss function.
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Thanks for the response. A friend of mine had already suggested the Google calendar approach but I would really sync with my Outlook calendar at work. Now if maluuba will sync with Outlook that would work for me. I will look into that.
HTC has acknowleged that they are aware of this issue which will require an update to correct. No ETA on the update.
I'm not sure if anyone else has been dealing with this, but the Stock Email App seems to be engineered to make it's users going insane. Let me explain:
I have two email accounts connected to my phone. A school (.edu) email, and a personal Windows Live account for everything else. Both are set to Push notifications. When I receive a new email, I'm notified as extremely quickly, and it works as it should. 90% of the time it's an a newsletter from my school or an email from Newegg or something so I usually just swipe the notification away, and go about my day. Here's the problem. After swiping away the notification, I'll constantly be reminded about this "new" email every so often. Even though I technically haven't read it, I found it weird that I have the notifications set to PUSH and it seems to want to keep annoying me until I give in and just open the email app and delete it.
This happens quite often and to make things worse, I'll go in and delete 5-6 emails at the end of the week and close the app. Minutes later, I'll receive an email for 5-6 "new" emails. I'll go take a look, and it's older emails that I've definitely read in the past and wanted to keep in my inbox, starting the cycle over and causing me to check the tiny boxes on the side and mark them as read, only to have this happen again later in the week. I thought the point of a Push notification was that I'd be notified in near-realtime. It does so quite impressively, but then it seems to set some flag where it just pesters the crap out of me every hour or so (or when I receive another new email) until I give in..
Is there a way I can stop this? I'd rather not download a third party app if I don't have to. I'm not a heavy email user. I mainly keep the notifications on to notify me of shipping updates, payment confirmations and class cancellations from my professors. There's nothing worse than waking up at 8:30 and stumbling into an empty lecture hall, so the notifications are pretty important.
Thanks in advance,
Well that's the default behaviour of the email app, you will be notified for new mails on each sync interval you have set.
Just open the notification & read the mail to avoid getting repeated notifications.
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