Hi chaps, I'm using Cyanogen 7 (and also MildWild which is based on CM and has same issue) and what I'm wanting to know is how do I turn on the text message notification counter? What I mean is that on receiving a text I get an icon in the status bar but what I really want is for the text message icon on screen to have a count of unread SMS's. Currently there is no counter and the icon in the status bar stays the same whether it's 1 or 10 unread text message. Is there any way to do this and if so, where is the setting for it? Thanks.
No setting for it. You can get an app for the message counter on the Play store. Or use another messaging app.
Oh that's a shame because I love everything else about both of these rom's. I love 'Sense' but it was just too 'laggy' for my likings hence the switch. Oh well I'll take a look around the store and see if I can find such an app, cheers.
I hear that handcent is a good messaging app.
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Hi folks. I've got my Evo rooted with the latest damagecontrol ROM.
Everything was working fine until yesterday but for some reason now every time I get a text message, I get a notification from the original Messaging application in the notification bar. It does not go away even after I've read and/or deleted all messages. For each text message I have to hit clear on the notification bar otherwise it does not go away. I've searched online but haven't find a resolution on this yet. If anyone has any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I figured it out. It was the stupid "Beautiful SMS" widget set to show bar notifications and integrate self to Handcent.
So out of the blue I received a text message and got the standard notification from the sms app, but I also got a second notification I hadn't received before. Its the envelope icon from cupcake I believe, and it alers of unread messages and links to the standard sms app just like the black smiley icon does. Thing is, it doesn't go away after replying or reading and I find it really annoying. Tried installing and uninstalling handcent and chompsms hoping for a fix and nothing. Also defaulted the stock sms app to no desired results.
Anyone know how to stop/remove this?
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If you have installed any app for sms "like handcent", then you will have to go to the settings of either one you dont want and turnf off the alerts. That way only one will notify you
Yup. You gotta go into your stock messenger and menu then uncheck notifications.
gaalaagaa said:
If you have installed any app for sms "like handcent", then you will have to go to the settings of either one you dont want and turnf off the alerts. That way only one will notify you
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ddgarcia05 said:
Yup. You gotta go into your stock messenger and menu then uncheck notifications.
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That's the thing, even by disabling all other notifications, it still shows up. And its I'm using hancent at the moment, that notification shows as well as the second one (which links to the stock android sms app)
Here's how its set up regarding notifications:
Stock sms app: all notifications off
Hancent sms: green smiley notification set up
And still this mysterious second notification linking to the stock sms app still appears.
I had that same problem on my device too. I had to do a factory reset and it fixed the problem.
Make sure you back up your apps before doing it.
Aparently that notification its not from stock. Maybe something else you have elsewhere. See if you can identify the icon and that way maybe you can tell what it is.
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ddgarcia05 said:
I had that same problem on my device too. I had to do a factory reset and it fixed the problem.
Make sure you back up your apps before doing it.
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Aparently that notification its not from stock. Maybe something else you have elsewhere. See if you can identify the icon and that way maybe you can tell what it is.
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The icon was the old letter envelope from like 1.5-.6 and it wouldnt go away.
and i say wouldnt because it mysteriouly stopped showing up today.
no factory reset done or anything. just went away. i wonder what it was.
anybody else had this?
im actually curious as to what was sending that notification
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I'm curious too....I haven't had that.
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do you have beautiful widgets? load the beautiful sms widget and disable notifications
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do you have beautiful widgets? load the beautiful sms widget and disable notifications
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Ding ding ding we have a winner. I had to change this for my wife. I don't know why you can't access the sms options through the main beautiful widgets settings. Very annoying. I went through every setting option looking for this!
Been having this problem too, and I have BW. But for the life of me I can't find the BW sms widget??
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Been having this problem too, and I have BW. But for the life of me I can't find the BW sms widget??
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BW SMS WIDGET is in BW PACK 2
-push on screen select WIDGETS
-select BEAUTIFUL SMS
-in shown option screen unmark SHOW NOTIFICATION
worked for me. Nexus S
I was a Inc 1 user and asked a few times for this but it was like no one understood what i was asking for. i was wondering if its possible or if a developer would take the challenge of altering the stock sms/mms apk so that a preview of the message doesnt show up in the notification bar. I know Go SMS and Handcent have the option of showing "new message recieved" instead of showing the text contents in a privacy setting but i would like to keep the stock messaging app. puhlease someone. it would be greatly appreciated....
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I was a Inc 1 user and asked a few times for this but it was like no one understood what i was asking for. i was wondering if its possible or if a developer would take the challenge of altering the stock sms/mms apk so that a preview of the message doesnt show up in the notification bar. I know Go SMS and Handcent have the option of showing "new message recieved" instead of showing the text contents in a privacy setting but i would like to keep the stock messaging app. puhlease someone. it would be greatly appreciated....
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not so sure what u mean, or if it's possible, why not try handcent or go sms? I know u want stock, but may be the only way,
If you go under Settings>Privacy, it gives you 1 or 2 options. I'm not so sure since I'm using newtoroot's Sense 3.5 ROM and that may or may not be different from what you're using. (yes, I'm advertising a Rom, and yes, you should totally go for this rom.)
Handcent SMS does this. You can disable the preview per contact or just in general. You would disable the notifications in your normal SMS app and then set it so that Handcent is the only app that does notifications for SMS and if you disable the preview feature, it will just say "XXX-XXX-XXXX text you" or something like that
I've used handcent and am currently go sms. Was just curious if there was a way to do it for the stock. Guess it cant be done.
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Is there a way to put an SMS count on the Handcent icon? I use widgetlocker, and one of the swipe bars goes to my Handcent app.
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I've been using Handcent for 2 years now, and I've always had an unread message count at the top whenever I've had unread IMs.. of course this may not be what you're asking about?
I believe you're talking about the iOS style unread notifications directly on the app icon.
If that's what you're talking about, I know that GO Launcher has an add-in that does this for the stock app and GO SMS. Whether it works for Handcent or not, I could not tell you; GO is better, anyway.
Hey there,
is there a mod that disables grouping in the notification bar?
like for example if you recieve a whatsapp message and pull down the notification bar you see the message. but when the contact sends another message the ICS groups the messages and it is displayed as "2 messages". i rather have all the messages as single notifications, so i wont have to open up whatsapp to see what the contact wrote.
is it hard to code such a mod??
This is how it's always been on Android..
so there is no need to ask for a change?
if mankind would've kept that mindstate we would all still be climbing trees and sleeping in caves.
When did I say anything like that? Your wording makes it sound like notification grouping is an ICS feature and it is not..
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so what is up???
still no real answer to my extremely innovative suggestion??