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Message notification problem.

Hi Folks,
This is a small, seemingly insignificant problem but it's bloody annoying so I'm hoping you can help me solve it:
When I receive a new message (SMS, MMS, Email) the little message shortcut on the desktop get's the little green '1' overlaid to show there's a message. Once I read the message and reply it doesn't disappear. I can open the message in Chomp or the system default app and it doesn't seem to register with the shortcut - it still shows the overlaid green number.
I know this is something of a trifling problem but I have my phone on silent a lot so it does cause some confusion.
Thanks in advance.

i've noticed mine staying on for a while but then disappearing... maybe it sits there for another 10/15 minutes?

Could be. I have to admit that afer about 10 minutes I've been losing patience and deleting the message, which makes it go away.

do u read ur messages through the widget page? cause i noticed that if u do, then the little green ball remains but somehow if u click on the message icon with the green ball to access ur acc and read from there, then it goes away.

I think that may be a factor, yeah. When I read them through the 'drag down' menu, either with chomp or system default it stays, I'll open the next one through the icon and see if that changes things.

I find that the trackball keeps flashing too unless you actually tap on the Messages shortcut icon to read the new messages that come through (as oppose to viewing from the notifications menu or through the text messages widget). I hope HTC fix this issue 'cos not everyone wants to go through the messages app via the Messages shortcut icon.

Yeah, I only used the messaging icon yesterday and it was fine. The problem seems limited to when you use the 'drag-down- menu.

Gmail notification bug?

When I receive a new gmail message, I usually click on the notification bar which opens Gmail and takes me to my new message. That's fine. But when I do this, the new message notification doesn't disappear. After reading the message I'll click Home button and the New Gmail alert is still in the notification bar. On my G1 the alert always disappeared from my notification bar when I clicked on it.
I did notice that if I click on it and hit the Back button after I'm done reading Gmail that the alert will remove itself from my notification bar, but this never happens when I hit the Home button instead.

I have noticed this also, but I like it.

I haven't had this issue... very odd.

I've noticed this too.... hit the go back arrow and it will kick you into your gmail inbox thus clearing the notification.

how to remove notification automatically

Hi all,
Haven't found anything with the search, so I'm opening a new thread for this.
Everytime you receive an e-mail or a text message, etc. you will receive a notification in the top bar.
If I select the message and mark it as read, the notification will still be there. I will have to clear it manually. Can this somehow be changed so I don't have to clear it myself?
Thanks for your help.
Batmantis82

Hi - Not sure about this one.. When I get a new email notification I usually click on the notification to take me to my emails... and that clears it from the list.. I will try going into email separately and see what happens.

Hi im_iceman,
I do the same. I click on the notification which brings me to the email or text message or whatever else. But the notification stays in the notification bar. it's only visible if you go into the notification bar though, but it will stay there forever unless you clear it.
It's not a major issue, but would be nice to have it automatically removed once you select the item from the notification bar.
Batmantis82

minor irritation regarding message notifications.

When i get a message I get a notification in the notification bar, but when i open the text the notification stays until I click on the text bubble and the text is displayed on a black background. Is there anyway to change it so the notification disappears as soon as i open the text?
Thanks

Agree, this is annoying the hell out of me. One time I had 50 text messages (conversations from 7 people) and I had too many notifications. WTF is up with that. LOL

if u use back to get out of the msg app it will go away

Hravz said:
if u use back to get out of the msg app it will go away
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True, but I'd prefer if the notification went away when I read the message, sometimes I read the message and go to the home screen and the notification is still there until I go back in the message app and click back.

use handcent messaging app instead. it works properly. Also use a custom home screen so you can set handcent as your main messaging program icon at the bottom.
hope that helps

rhys100 said:
Also use a custom home screen so you can set handcent as your main messaging program icon at the bottom.
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You can do that without a custom homescreen too. When in the applications menu, press the menu key and then choose 'Edit'. You can move the apps in and out of the bottom bar just like you move other apps around, by holding your finger on them for a second and dragging them.

Nope, this doesn' work for me. I use Handcent and like I said, even after many text messages, all the notifications won't go away. Just have to "clear" all of em.

Very annoying indeed.
To clear multiple message notifications (per contact) you'd have to hit menu button -> More -> Discard
It's very annoying.
I'm looking for a workaround too. I really don't min this phone at all, coming from a Touch HD hehehe this is a major improvement (speed wise, screen wise, response wise even features are up there) but I do miss my custom energy cookie roms which brought my touch hd back from the dead a few times over the last year.

Hravz said:
if u use back to get out of the msg app it will go away
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I also do this for the meantime I can start customizing my phone...

I think the best way to fix this is use Handsent SMS program and disable messaging notification.

so far the back button seems to be working lol (i used to press home)

Ever encounter if u receive a notification, the preview name and sender is different. Meaning if you go inbox and read the sms, its the correct sender. If its at the notification bar, it another name. Hmm. Wonder why.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

What you should do is use SMS Popup to notify you of a new text message.
Without this is what I get when I get a sms.
1. SMS arrives, phone rings + vibrates or w/e it's set to.
2. I press home to turn on the screen, and I see a SMS notification, and a SMS notification on the lock screen.
3. I swipe the glass.
4. I scroll down the notification bar, or press launcherpro's SMS icon that has a badge that says 1 at this point in time.
5. I read the sms, at this point I have to...
6. Press back, this clears the notification in the top bar.
7. Go back to home screen, and click the launcherpro icon if I choose to use the notification bar.
The worst bit is that I could dismiss the SMS after reading it entirely in the drawer, or when I 'got' it and saw it displayed on the screen.
I'm pretty sure Samsung's SMS app is just broken and doesn't report intents properly when messages are still alive and read and such.

issue no longer there
I've tried to get FROYO going on my phone using the registry hack
unsuccessful but what I ended up with a rom that's fixed this sms notification issue when multiple sms's are received from the one contact.
Basically no BACK button or MENU -> MORE -> DISCARD
needed for the notifications to disappear. I'm only guessing that this is also going to be fixed with Android 2.2
My current version is:
Firmware 2.1-update1
Baseband I9000UGJH2
Kernel 2.6.29
Build ECLAIR.UGJH2

[Q] Text Notificaton Status Bar - Call - Reply

Upon receiving a text message it will pop up on the notification bar and when I swipe down I see part of the message and below I have the option to Call, or Reply to the contact. In the past I would always be able to select Call or Reply but I noticed lately as soon as I pull down the notification bar Call and Reply shows up for maybe a half a second then goes away and I can't choose one or the other. Anybody having this same issue and if so how to fix it? Very convenient to pull down the notification bar and hit reply instead of unlocking the screen and opening up the messaging app.