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[Q] Notifications not working

I'm having an issue with not receiving notifications for missed calls or new voice mails. Does anybody have know what app precipitates those notifications? I do get notifications for text messages. All that being said, I have frozen over 100 apps with TB and undoubtedly froze something that I shouldn't have. I would hate to have to go through all those ice cubes trying to figure it out. Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

dschoms said:
I'm having an issue with not receiving notifications for missed calls or new voice mails. Does anybody have know what app precipitates those notifications? I do get notifications for text messages. All that being said, I have frozen over 100 apps with TB and undoubtedly froze something that I shouldn't have. I would hate to have to go through all those ice cubes trying to figure it out. Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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That is the problem, you have frozen stuff and none of us know what those things are.
Unfreeze them all. Reboot into recovery, clear dalvik and cache and fix permissions. Bet you the problem goes away.

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Naddict said:
That is the problem, you have frozen stuff and none of us know what those things are.
Unfreeze them all. Reboot into recovery, clear dalvik and cache and fix permissions. Bet you the problem goes away.
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When I was freezing apps, I pretty much followed the list furnished by Rooted in Vegas (which is excellent, BTW). I also froze the voicemail app thinking it was the worthless voice-to-text thing that you have to put up with for 30 days. Actually it is the notification app and when defrosted, I am again receiving voicemail notifications and still have a lot of bloatware frozen.
I did clear the caches and fix permissions before I restored the voicemail app and did get the LED notification for missed calls.

dschoms said:
When I was freezing apps, I pretty much followed the list furnished by Rooted in Vegas (which is excellent, BTW). I also froze the voicemail app thinking it was the worthless voice-to-text thing that you have to put up with for 30 days. Actually it is the notification app and when defrosted, I am again receiving voicemail notifications and still have a lot of bloatware frozen.
I did clear the caches and fix permissions before I restored the voicemail app and did get the LED notification for missed calls.
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Even if/when following a reputable guide I'd work the Freezing only one (or a couple) at a time and test the _functions_ needed to ensure everything you use is still working, and continue to trim from there. When testing variables you first have to start with a known working _baseline_ or you are likely to end up with unexpected results, riiight ?
You might also write back to the creator of the Guide you are working with your findings. Just a thought *Grin*..

[Q] No Notification Light

I've noticed over the past couple of days with my M8 that the notification light doesn't activate for anything but charging. I see that many people with Verizon versions are complaining of the same issue. Is anyone else experiencing this on their's? I already know that the only thing Tmo will tell me to try is a factory reset, or have the phone replaced (both a hassle this far into ownership).

Shift4g said:
I've noticed over the past couple of days with my M8 that the notification light doesn't activate for anything but charging. I see that many people with Verizon versions are complaining of the same issue. Is anyone else experiencing this on their's? I already know that the only thing Tmo will tell me to try is a factory reset, or have the phone replaced (both a hassle this far into ownership).
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You may just want to RMA it so you have a new phone instead of finding something later down the line thats major. T-Mo will usually send you your replacement first and you mail your messed up one back. You could also just take it back to the store and do an exchange (I think) since it's within the 14 day period.

I've noticed it too. I get the amber light when charging and green when done, but thats it. I feel its more of a software bug than anything to do with the hardware.

Have you checked the "Notification Lights" setting under Display? It lets you choose which actions will activate the light.
That said, I have noticed the light is pretty minimal when compared to the SGS series notification lights. Additionally, I do not see a stock option to change the color of the light but no doubt that will come in time with Cyanogen Mod.

Booted into safe mode, tested the LEDs, they work fine. IMO, its definitely a software issue. Also, not sure if this is for everyone but booting into safemode also hoses your home screens. Now I have to redo all my folders.

SeanFloyd said:
Have you checked the "Notification Lights" setting under Display? It lets you choose which actions will activate the light.
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I did check and play with that, yes. I even downloaded Lightflow with no success. I'm going to lean toward it being a software issue. Hopefully a patch gets compiled at some point.

small update. I was really wanted the stupid notification led to work. I didn't realize how much I looked at it when I'm at work. So I decided to wipe and start over. I made a nandroid backup just in case nothing worked and wiped. I read around the internet that if you don't log into your google account after the wipe, let it do its stuff that it would work so I did. Before I logged into my google account my wife texted me and bam, it worked. Ok, so far so good. I logged in and it still worked. Well, I don't want to go and redownload all my apps so I went into the custom recovery (Yes, I'm rooted and am using the rom in the development section that is rooted, deodexed and a few more things, but the rest is stock) and restored just the data partition. All my apps came back and the LED stopped. WTF is up with that!? I looked at all my apps and nothing was there that would affect the LED. I decided to use Titanium Backup and got all my apps backed up, wiped again, didn't log in to my google account until after the phone fully booted. Logged in, restored my apps via titanium backup and boom, the led was working and is still working. I also use an app called Helium to keep a few apps backed up to my Google Drive and happened to have my homescreen settings backed up (folders, background, etc) and restored that. All my folders came back and the LED still worked. I now have a working notification LED!
Another small thing too. I noticed that when I let my phone boot up before logging into my account, the experience was a little different. Certain things loaded on the phone that didn't load before. My only thought on that is that I had two Samsung phones before this one that maybe something downloaded from my google account, some setting it kept backed up for me, that broke the LED. If you don't log into the account until after you let it fully boot, there is no option to restore your settings from google. It all starts new.
the backup utility I use is called Helium. You CAN use it without root. YOu have to plug into your computer after each reboot but then it will work without being connected. It'll backup the apps data and restore it after you redownload it from the appstore and can also backup both the app and data. It'll backup the homescreens settings like folders. No, I'm not plugging it but its a huge time saver.
Anywho, I now have a working LED for notifications and that is the process i used. Its annoying but I'm glad it works now. Being able to backup and restore my apps is the only reason I did it. That process can be very long and annoying so being able to restore them all in 3 minutes is the only reason why I did the process.
Hope this helps someone and helps to realize its a software bug and not a physical bug.

My LED is working for notifications I just can't alter the color which is a bummer.

johnomaz said:
small update. I was really wanted the stupid notification led to work. I didn't realize how much I looked at it when I'm at work. So I decided to wipe and start over. I made a nandroid backup just in case nothing worked and wiped. I read around the internet that if you don't log into your google account after the wipe, let it do its stuff that it would work so I did. Before I logged into my google account my wife texted me and bam, it worked. Ok, so far so good. I logged in and it still worked. Well, I don't want to go and redownload all my apps so I went into the custom recovery (Yes, I'm rooted and am using the rom in the development section that is rooted, deodexed and a few more things, but the rest is stock) and restored just the data partition. All my apps came back and the LED stopped. WTF is up with that!? I looked at all my apps and nothing was there that would affect the LED. I decided to use Titanium Backup and got all my apps backed up, wiped again, didn't log in to my google account until after the phone fully booted. Logged in, restored my apps via titanium backup and boom, the led was working and is still working. I also use an app called Helium to keep a few apps backed up to my Google Drive and happened to have my homescreen settings backed up (folders, background, etc) and restored that. All my folders came back and the LED still worked. I now have a working notification LED!
Another small thing too. I noticed that when I let my phone boot up before logging into my account, the experience was a little different. Certain things loaded on the phone that didn't load before. My only thought on that is that I had two Samsung phones before this one that maybe something downloaded from my google account, some setting it kept backed up for me, that broke the LED. If you don't log into the account until after you let it fully boot, there is no option to restore your settings from google. It all starts new.
the backup utility I use is called Helium. You CAN use it without root. YOu have to plug into your computer after each reboot but then it will work without being connected. It'll backup the apps data and restore it after you redownload it from the appstore and can also backup both the app and data. It'll backup the homescreens settings like folders. No, I'm not plugging it but its a huge time saver.
Anywho, I now have a working LED for notifications and that is the process i used. Its annoying but I'm glad it works now. Being able to backup and restore my apps is the only reason I did it. That process can be very long and annoying so being able to restore them all in 3 minutes is the only reason why I did the process.
Hope this helps someone and helps to realize its a software bug and not a physical bug.
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There was an issue like this with the m7, or at least the sprint version. It was after the first update they pushed, 4.3 maybe, though I'm not sure. If you installed the update you were fine, but if you installed it and then had to do a factory reset, if you signed in on the first boot up, the light wouldn't work. You had to let it boot to the sign in screen, restart, then sign in in order to get it to work right. It was really odd.

So I just got my phone. Do I have to wipe it and start over to get the damn notification light to work?? Kinda irritated...

E30Nova said:
So I just got my phone. Do I have to wipe it and start over to get the damn notification light to work?? Kinda irritated...
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If its not working, yes. Annoying as hell but I am glad I took the time to do what my above post says. I guess I never realized how much I looked at the light.

Man, it was working for a bit, but only for gmail apparently.
I wonder, do the people that convert to the GPE RUU or flash a GPE rom have the same problem?

Yeah, the LED is definitely won't, but I also think it's a software thing. As long as it lights up when charging, the hardware is working, so... Sense bug. They also don't give you many options in the Settings as someone pointed out. I notice the issue more when using 3rd party apps, the stock Sense apps seem to be mostly working fine.

Remember - if you in any way shape or form are using any part of "do not disturb" - while it's enabled, there are no LED's as well and sounds and vibrations.

Yeah mine only works for charging. I tried restoring fresh (not rooted so didn't do titanium with old settings), however I did restore from HTC Backup. Mostly did it for my text messages. I may decide to restore one more time just to see if it works, but really this is software related. HTC should patch it up.

If anyone is still having this problem, theres an app in the play store that fixes this. Install it, run it once and uninstall. My notification light works perfectly now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.jannux.switchledon

[Q] Settings menu all fubard

As my title states, no idea what happened to my settings menu.
I'm "stock" rooted. (Did it back in December with odin flash - 4.3)
Firewalled, Greenified, and TitaniumBackup to Freeze useless apps.
Everything has been great, then all of a sudden I was getting 3 errrors.
Google Text to Speech, Maps and Settings all quit working. (The whole, unfortunately *blank* has stopped working)
I removed Text to Speech, but Settings still crashes and refuses to work and now Maps took it's place (T2S).
Removed Maps and still Settings does not work and will randomly crash in the background.
I have done nothing new from what I described I have already done above.
Nothing was newly frozen. I have never uninstall any stock apps, just freeze them.
Last thing I uninstalled was a GoSMS theme I no longer use. Uninstalled it through ROM Toolbox Pro as I saw it was running in the background.
Everything else appears to be working fine. Camera, Chrome, Texting, Calling and my various daily apps.
Just something with the settings "app" has gone all wrong.
It also appears it's not the entire settings. Like if I go to about phone, it's all good. If I go to display part of the settings, *crash*
Two other odd issues pertaining to this as well:
My assistive light widget no longer works. So I know this happened within a 24 hour period as I use that light nearly every day.
And when you get into the settings part of the phone, all the text / font is screwed up. (Pic attached to see what I'm talking about)
Assistive light widget shows the same messed up text as well.

Data corruption. It will spread. The easiest and most successful solution is to wipe data, system, cache, and Dalvik cache, then re-flash the stock firmware, then re-root.
If you don't want it that successful you can do the wipes and restore a backup, but there is always a chance that there was corruption saved in the last backup and in a few days it will be as it is now.
What caused the corruption? It could be anything from a bad USB cable to a nearby flash of lightening, but more likely it's whatever you do that you need root for.
Frank

I would believe that was the issue if it was more wide spread.
Or I was having stability issues in daily usage.
The phone only gets charged via usb, I have not hooked it up to a computer for some time.
No storms or surges recently either.
As far as root usings, nothing has changed or updated recently. And none of what I do hard changes anything.

Reflash. Much faster and easier than wracking your brain trying to track down what exactly little thing went wrong.

Question Pixel 6 Pro won't stop playing notification tone during calls

My Pixel 6 Pro has a similar problem ever since the Mar 5 update has been installed. Since then, every phone call I made comes with the non-stop notification tone literally every second. For now, I managed to get around it by enabling the "DND Mode", but it isn't a long-term solution.
Is there a way I can re-apply the same update? or flashing a new one would help?

To be clear, you're saying that you keep getting the notification tone even after answering the call? If so, is it the same as your ringtone?
Is your bootloader unlockable? If so, Official Google Android Flash Tool (OEM Unlocking needs to be toggled on - you may not have to manually unlock the bootloader - the "site" will do that on its own).
It wouldn't surprise me if that doesn't fix the issue, however. Have you tried rebooting? Maybe clear the cache and app data for the Phone app (but then you'd have to re-customize the settings for the phone app to your preferences).
I'm not on the March update, but I also don't receive many phone calls anyway.

that notification tone, during normal time, represents incoming message. It is very short, unlike a ringtone..
Tried rebooting and clearing cache and app data of the Phone app. In fact, that notification could likely come from anything like WhatsApp, Messenger, Twitter...
I noticed that the repeating tones would not happen if the phone is on silent mode. So for now this is my workaround.

Very interesting, and strange. There have been settings in some OEM's phone apps you could enable to get notification tones at regular paces - usually once a minute - while on a phone call, but the issue on yours is only similar since it's constant / every second.
I stick with my recommendation of clearing the app cache and data for the Phone app. I also assume you're using the stock Phone app that Google provides.

In my previous phone (OnePlus 6T), the very same tone happens once in a while, but only at the moment an incoming message arrives. Pretty sure I am not getting a new message every second this time around, and I think it was triggered by apps other than the Phone app. I just noticed that the same symptom showed up when I tried to play video clips from certain apps as well.
And yes, I am using the stock Phone app.

Sounds like a factory reset and only selectively installing and configuring apps, or trying to figure out which app is causing the issue.
If you factory reset, I would first not even restore any apps at all, so you can verify if you have the same problem without any third-party apps installed at first. I would suspect you won't have issues then. And then when you install apps, do it in groups of your most important ones first, maybe at the most 10 at a time, then re-verify each time if you have the same issue or not, then the next batch of app installs. It could be a particular setting in a app as well, so it's possibly merely installing an app might not be enough, so each group of apps you install, make sure and configure them as well.
If you don't factory reset, go the opposite way, uninstall your least important third-party apps and see if the issue disappears. Keep track of which apps you're uninstalling in each group. Keep doing this in reasonably sized groups of apps until you narrow down when the problem stops happening.
Once you find which group of apps being uninstalled keeps the issue from happening, you can reinstall in even smaller batches, among the ones you most recently uninstalled, and eventually find the one causing the issue. In some ways I think it's easier to go the other way around, though, start with a factory reset.

Found the culprit!
Kind of silly: I have installed this app "Internet Speed Meter Lite" when I first started using my P6P, which is for me to monitor my real-time network usage (courtesy of that endless WhatsApp - Google Drive restoring process....). It basically refreshes itself every second and this morning I tried temporarily disabling it, the problem goes away even when the phone is not set to silent mode.
Glad I didn't have to come to the point of factory resetting the device, as I really don't want to go through the WhatsApp restoring process.
Thanks for all the input, much appreciated.

S10 plus keeps self-clicking on things like someone's in my phone.

S10 plus keeps self-clicking on things like someone's in my phone.
this time I swiped down to click on the weather notification in my drop down menu, then it locked up, couldn't do anything, the menu closed and my google calendar widget got tapped to 2032, that's how fast it was it went through all the months for every year up to 2032. a lot of times if I do something whatever app I'm using turns into a small box and can't get rid of it except for hitting home button then a floating icon which I have floating icons disabled have to grab it and drag it down to a x remove box.
a ton of bizarre things have been happening as well just random **** like Facebook app actually got pressed then it tried bidding on some marketplace I had to keep on hitting home button and reboot the phone.
the screen is clean this is just really bothering me.

Find the cause today or factory reset.
Suspected malware should be promptly removed.
Clear system cache from the boot menu.
Try in safe mode, if it persists in safe mode, factory reset. If it's not happening in safe mode a 3rd party app is likely the cause, find and uninstall it!
Be careful what you install and download henceforth. Keep social media apps off the phone.
You need to keep your phone in check...

blackhawk said:
Find the cause today or factory reset.
Suspected malware should be promptly removed.
Clear system cache from the boot menu.
Try in safe mode, if it persists in safe mode, factory reset. If it's not happening in safe mode a 3rd party app is likely the cause, find and uninstall it!
Be careful what you install and download henceforth. Keep social media apps off the phone.
You need to keep your phone in check.i recall
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i recall clearing delvik or what ever n cache, in fastboot, files recache or what ever. when I do it on this S10 plus with one UI 3.1 it doesn't show optimizing apps when I clear dalvik and cash.
even Google speech is stupid

Hitti2 said:
i recall clearing delvik or what ever n cache, in fastboot, files recache or what ever. when I do it on this S10 plus with one UI 3.1 it doesn't show optimizing apps when I clear dalvik and cash.
even Google speech is stupid
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Optimizing apps? Turn that junk off!
Clear the system cache.
I don't know what you did but you need to sort this out. That's very abnormal behavior for a stock Samsung.
If you did any recent major OTA upgrades, factory reset. Do not use SmartSwitch, clean load.

blackhawk said:
Optimizing apps? Turn that junk off!
Clear the system cache.
I don't know what you did but you need to sort this out. That's very abnormal behavior for a stock Samsung.
If you did any recent major OTA upgrades, factory reset. Do not use SmartSwitch, clean load.
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like i said wiping cache partition doesnt bring optimizing apps like the old days.
but thanks, could be verizon ****, samsung ****, google ****, everyone has its finger in the ass if this phone

Hitti2 said:
like i said wiping cache partition doesnt bring optimizing apps like the old days.
but thanks, could be verizon ****, samsung ****, google ****, everyone has its finger in the ass if this phone
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It could be a rootkit... I've never seen that type of behavior.
Could be firmware corruption, a SEU.

blackhawk said:
It could be a rootkit... I've never seen that type of behavior.
Could be firmware corruption, a SEU.
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samsung is a rootkit.
i did a few things we'll see, i'll report back. I even try using screen recorder to capture all this **** but when I get back control of my phone and record for 10 minutes nothing happens it's out of the blue like. grinds my gears about to go linux pc n a flip phone

i got rid of a few things, and cleared cache partition from recovery which apps use to get optimized, number apps on the phone, i haven't seen it since oneui 2.5 i think. seems like facebook app or another app i found out that google play removed was the culprit.
i also adb uninstalled some samsung apps.
i miss root, do what u want and if u fck up restore an image with twrp. and having a fcking sd card slot keep you images on.

Hitti2 said:
i got rid of a few things, and cleared cache partition from recovery which apps use to get optimized, number apps on the phone, i haven't seen it since oneui 2.5 i think. seems like facebook app or another app i found out that google play removed was the culprit.
i also adb uninstalled some samsung apps.
i miss root, do what u want and if u fck up restore an image with twrp. and having a fcking sd card slot keep you images on.
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Normally stock Samsung's like this are very stable, but they need to be optimized.
This N10+'s load is 2 yo now, still fast and stable.
You are what you install and download. Keep trashware and all social media apps off the phone.
Using Package Disabler makes troubleshooting easier as you can use it in real time.

blackhawk said:
Normally stock Samsung's like this are very stable, but they need to be optimized.
This N10+'s load is 2 yo now, still fast and stable.
You are what you install and download. Keep trashware and all social media apps off the phone.
Using Package Disabler makes troubleshooting easier as you can use it in real time.
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isn't Google Play trustworthy

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isn't Google Play trustworthy
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I keep it disabled unless needed. Resource hog.