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Appointment reminder bubble not showing after softreset

Hello all,
I dug into a few WinMo boards, including this one, but couldn't come close to what keeps bugging me. I think I'll give it a try, so mods please accept apologies if this is a repost or if this has been asked before.
I heavily rely on my calendar to remind me of all the stuff I need to remember. In the "sounds & notifications" options, I've set the reminders to play some wav, to vibrate the phone and to display a notification bubble.
The issue is the following: sound & vibrate work fine, but as soon as I perform a soft-reset, the notification bubbles don't show anymore, even if the "display message" option is checked in the settings. I get the little bell icon in the top bar, and from there I can click on it in the HTC action screen to open the bubble, but it doesn't pop up automatically unless I go back to the settings, uncheck the option and save, then go again in the settings, check the option and save.
I tried to clean up the notification queue with SKTools, but it didn't changed anything. I'm pretty sure this bug wasn't present when I bought the phone, about 4 months ago. Is there any tweak or reg hack that would help me circumvent this very nasty annoyance, or should I hopelessly head for an hard-reset ?
Thanks in advance for any help one can bring.

I have the same issue - be interested to hear of any fix.

Me too, also same problem on touch pro.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3228098&postcount=5

I get this as well, very irritating

Me too ! This is a very irritating problem, no fix found
anywhere on the Internet

Same here. Its a terrible bug that has plagued Touchflo 3D since the Diamond...

Isn't there a third party app that shows announcements to fix this TF3D issue?

It isn't a tf3d issue, I run a ROM wihtout tf3d and it still occurs. Works fine for a while and then the display bubble stops popping up.
I've tried galarm as a third party alarm solution but this must rely on the system popup to give it focus because the same thing happens.
Very irritating, affects me when my wakeup alarm goes off and I have to mess around for ages to get it to cease.

Are you using wktask ? If so, it is being hidden by it. In your preference under the first tab, check the option for hide the task list when there is no task.

eaglesteve said:
Are you using wktask ? If so, it is being hidden by it. In your preference under the first tab, check the option for hide the task list when there is no task.
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No, although I have used it in the past and it is a very good task manager. Seems to be the settings under sounds & notifications for reminders which revert to unticked "display on screen". I tick it again and it is OK for a few days then it "unticks" itself. Weird. I am using Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 but I can't see that this should affect it.

Its not a wktask or wisbar issue as im not running either of those...

Same problem here.
Has someone found a solution?

caicai said:
Same problem here.
Has someone found a solution?
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I have the same problem - what's the fix???

same problem here

other problems with bubble...
Hi,
I'm having the same problem as above on my Touch Pro 2, but also, if the reminder includes a '&' it shows as a '_' in the bubble. A bit of an ASCII problem maybe?
If HTC is watching, the reminder bubble integration into TF3D has gained us problems and removed the ability to snooze the alarm... not really an improvement.
Problem I have, is that if HTC supply a fix at the ROM level (as with the GPS and SMS fixes) Vodafone won't take it up for months, if ever.
Cheers
YT

same problem here...
Ciao
Fred

I have figured it out the Alarm & calendar notifications issue. These settings will display Alarm & calendar notifications on screen with out clicking the little bell on top of the screen all the time.
Go to Menu --> settings --> Sounds & Notifications under “Personal” tab --> select “Events” under Sounds tab then --> go to “Notifications” tab --> select “Reminders” option from drop-down list for Event field --> Select “Display message on screen” and then click OK on top of the window.
You can select other number of options from drop-down menu to display the notifications.
Hope this will solve most people’s notification issue.

Can we fix this bug once and for all?

Can we please fix the stupid bug that has plagued HTC Touch flo devices since the Diamond..
The fact that notifications dont display on screen. This could be email, sms, tasks or reminders. You have to tap on the icon on the top of the screen, tap two more times just to display the notice. Before the notice would just appear on screen.
I know in sounds/notifications you can set the option 'display on screen' - this works until you soft reset your device, then it reverts back to 'dont display on screen'. What on earth is causing this? something in the registry?

darthbane2k said:
Can we please fix the stupid bug that has plagued HTC Touch flo devices since the Diamond..
The fact that notifications dont display on screen. This could be email, sms, tasks or reminders. You have to tap on the icon on the top of the screen, tap two more times just to display the notice. Before the notice would just appear on screen.
I know in sounds/notifications you can set the option 'display on screen' - this works until you soft reset your device, then it reverts back to 'dont display on screen'. What on earth is causing this? something in the registry?
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This bug got fixed for me when I flashed Duttys 1.7 rom to my HD.

darthbane2k said:
Can we please fix the stupid bug that has plagued HTC Touch flo devices since the Diamond..
The fact that notifications dont display on screen. This could be email, sms, tasks or reminders. You have to tap on the icon on the top of the screen, tap two more times just to display the notice. Before the notice would just appear on screen.
I know in sounds/notifications you can set the option 'display on screen' - this works until you soft reset your device, then it reverts back to 'dont display on screen'. What on earth is causing this? something in the registry?
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Strange, I don't have this bug using the stock ROM.
The notification bubble is always here. However, when I use WKtask, it can be hidden behind it although no task is running. I can make the bubble visible if I tick the preference/general1/Hide the task-list when there are no tasks option.

eaglesteve said:
Strange, I don't have this bug using the stock ROM.
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Sorry, but dont believe you. This bug has affected Touchflo 3D since the beginning.

Viba said:
This bug got fixed for me when I flashed Duttys 1.7 rom to my HD.
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I dont want to flash a 'custom' ROM.

I don't have this bug neither on my french stock ROM... BUT, I got another really annoying bug : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469186

yea this is bugging me too, since i use the phone as my alarm clock!!

afhstingray said:
yea this is bugging me too, since i use the phone as my alarm clock!!
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i'd reccomend switchin to GAlarm (or Klaxon) and then (if u'd like) link it to the clock so it launches instead of the wm6 alarm settings

Svegetto said:
i'd reccomend switchin to GAlarm (or Klaxon) and then (if u'd like) link it to the clock so it launches instead of the wm6 alarm settings
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how is this done?

G-Alarm looks very promising. Linking to it from the today screen sounds like a good feature.

darthbane2k said:
Can we please fix the stupid bug that has plagued HTC Touch flo devices since the Diamond..
The fact that notifications dont display on screen. This could be email, sms, tasks or reminders. You have to tap on the icon on the top of the screen, tap two more times just to display the notice. Before the notice would just appear on screen.
I know in sounds/notifications you can set the option 'display on screen' - this works until you soft reset your device, then it reverts back to 'dont display on screen'. What on earth is causing this? something in the registry?
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This is caused by TouchFlo.
You can disable this behaviour:
Start -> Settings -> System -> TouchFlo -> disable the third option (I'm on a German ROM so I don't know the exact name, but it should say sth about status).

darthbane2k said:
Sorry, but dont believe you. This bug has affected Touchflo 3D since the beginning.
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I'm sorry that you don't believe me. Hopefully one day you will realise that I've never lied to you in any way.

chr5s11 said:
This is caused by TouchFlo.
You can disable this behaviour:
Start -> Settings -> System -> TouchFlo -> disable the third option (I'm on a German ROM so I don't know the exact name, but it should say sth about status).
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There you go. This is why I had never experienced the bug because the first thing I do after hard reset is to didable that feature. Never wanted the extra screen.
So, anyone still saying that he did'nt believe me when I said I never had that problem?

Oh thank you all!! This problem was bugging me a lot, now it's working great! I can see the notifications directly on my screen, as I expected! It was annoying to make 3 clicks to get the messages.

darthbane2k said:
I dont want to flash a 'custom' ROM.
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You dont even have to. I use Duttys rom and there is still that annoying bug! Sometimes the icon looks like the message.. sometimes like a baloon tip. Cant figure it out.

The balloon is when you have more than one notification I believe, it uses the balloon as it cannot fit both icons on the top bar, ie email recieved, missed call etc.

darthbane2k, search the forum for SSMaPa and you'll have it working in no time

I like to get some HTC tip

Hi. I am a novice when it comes to HTC. Have some questions that I need help. When I put the key lock is the entire screen black. Would like to see a clock and date as a screensaver.
How do I change sms sound?
and how to disable the volume buttons?
I hope someone can help me. A very good forum incidentally.

Try S2U2 for your lock. As far as sms, go to settings-> personal->sounds and notifications. Tick notifications at the bottom. On the next screen tick the drop down menu next to "events", choose "new text message" and below choose the sound. Also make sure "Play sound" is checked. I'm not sure how to disable volume buttons...you might try AEbuttons Plus. I believe that's what it's called.

a little more infos on screen lock.. the screen gets completely off because it would drain an infernal amount of battery if it was on displaying some clock like happened, say, in those good old nokias (n70 and the likes). yes, you can install s2u2 which will provide a nicer "unlock screen" with clock and sms notifications and everything but after some idle time (5 minutes max) the screen will turn off anyway.
s2u2 anyway, when enabled, will block the volume buttons.

Option to handle notifications on lock screen disappeared

SOLVED (sounds & notifications settings)
Before when notifications (and most importantly the alarm) went off I am 99 % sure I used to get the popup menu at the bottom of the lock screen with options to either dismiss or pause the alarm. Lately this option on lock screen has now disappeared. Now when the alarm wakes me in the morning I have to unlock the phone, tap the notifications bar on top of the screen to get to the notifications menu and tap the alarm to get to the pop up menu for the chosen notification. If you just want to snooze the alarm, you'll be wide awake by the end of this series of touches.
Do people get the notification popup menu on their lock screens? I sure would like to get this back. Anyone?
PS: I think that this was OK on several occations between my last program install (I think this was updating the cookies home tab to 1.6) and when I first noticed the problem, but I can't really swear on it.
PS2: I have searched to find a thread with this issue, but have just found slightly relating topics (ie in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612775&highlight=notification+lock it seems a guy had to unlock to dismiss but I'm not sure if that was due to password lock. And I did try the "Clean notifications" with pmClean as suggested by post #6. I'm not really sure if this worked though, because it says that the number of notifications are 19 both before and after I apply the cleanup. Does this mean the program doesn't work?)

do you have bsb tweaks installeD? Turn on 'dismiss x notifications' tweak. That reenables the snooze and what not,
also,
settings tab - menu - all settings - sounds & notific - notifications.
call up teh notification you are interested in (new message, for example) and tick 'show on screen'.
Give those a try, see if they help. (Soft reset to make sure teh settings are changed.)

Thanks so much. It was the sounds & notifications settings that did it.
Feeling kind of silly now that it was just a simple setting . But I'm pretty sure I haven't changed it myself so I guess I just assumed it would be something more severe.
Anyhow. PROBLEM SOLVED.

Problem solved! I also forgot that I had already done this before I did a hard reset! Thanks for this post though!

Hi Guys,
I have got the same problem (no dismiss showing up in lock screen), but there is no option for alarms in the Notification Settings. How did you solve it in the end?
Cheers

SMS Notification on Today screen - how to disable

Hi , Is there a way to disable the today-screen notifications? In other words, when I have an SMS , I would like the phone to vibrate/ring only. I do not want the left softkey to change to "Notification". thanks

Settings->Menu->More->Sounds and notifications->Notifications.
Choose the new SMS setting and disable "show notification on screen" or whatever it says there...

there isnt setting "show notification on screen" ... only "play sound" , "display message on screen" , "flash light for" and "vibrate"

faraonsvk said:
there is no setting "show notification on screen"
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What is the item you've selected in the drop-down box? And what settings appear?

settings - sound and notifications -notification -event : drop down menu "Message: New message" . And there are settings :
Play soud
Repeat
Display message on screen
Flash light for
Vibrate

faraonsvk said:
settings - sound and notifications -notification -event : drop down menu "Message: New message" . And there are settings :
Play soud
Repeat
Display message on screen
Flash light for
Vibrate
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So what happens if you untick "Display message on screen"?

faraonsvk said:
settings - sound and notifications -notification -event : drop down menu "Message: New message" . And there are settings :
Play soud
Repeat
Display message on screen
Flash light for
Vibrate
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Common... "Display message on screen" is quite obvious, and it's not that hard to test if that is the correct setting...

Problem isnt "Display mesage on screen" problem is, I dont want the left softkey to change to "Notification" I dont need this notification.

faraonsvk said:
Problem isnt "Display mesage on screen" problem is, I dont want the left softkey to change to "Notification" I dont need this notification.
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But have you tried it?

faraonsvk said:
Problem isnt "Display mesage on screen" problem is, I dont want the left softkey to change to "Notification" I dont need this notification.
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Disabling that should stop the "Notification" left softkey from appearing...
Anyway, I've found that in my HD2 it never changes to Notification... What ROM are you using? Is Sense disabled?