So as you all are aware the stock touchwiz SMS app has the online notification indicator for SMS messaging. Since we are all getting forced slowly but surely over to hangouts and this status indicator is deeply tied into g-talk is there any way to keep this once we are al forced onto hangouts. With the online/offline indicator showing up in hangouts now I would like to switch over from talk but this one feature I have grown to love must work.
Is there any possibility or workaround to this? It works if you still have take and all others have hangouts but once you upgrade that functionality is lost
Please help or direct me to he right place
Thanks
James
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Hi guys, hope you can help!
Basically the embarrassing situation has occurred a few times now when I'm showing my friends some features of the DHD a personal text comes in which was meant for my eyes only, however the first two lines of it are displayed in the notification bar when it arrives.
Surely there's a way to stop this from happening!?
Cheers!
fannymcslap said:
Hi guys, hope you can help!
Basically the embarrassing situation has occurred a few times now when I'm showing my friends some features of the DHD a personal text comes in which was meant for my eyes only, however the first two lines of it are displayed in the notification bar when it arrives.
Surely there's a way to stop this from happening!?
Cheers!
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If you're using HTC stock messaging app then there is no way to stop it. A solution would be to use messaging apps from the market like Handcent SMS and the likes. It will give you the ability to pop the notification but does not show the content.
I've just had a friend ask me this as well. Wanting just a notification sound and icon rather than disclosing the sender or the message body on the lock screen or in the notification bar.
I've got a DHD and don't mind if people see what i'm receiving, even to the degree that i've installed an app called ChompSMS which brings up a window on the homescreen displaying the full message.
I had a fiddle with the ChompSMS settings and it seems that you can increase the privacy settings to make it anonymise the notification, however as soon as you unlock the phone it will still show the full text in a window - I only fiddled a little bit, but couldn't find a way of disabling this without losing other features.
I uninstalled ChompSMS (for the purposes of this experiment) and had a look round at the generic (HTC) messaging settings and it seems like it's all or nothing, as soon as you turn off the 'received notification' option it greys out the options below it, meaning that you get no notification whatsoever when someone messages you (except for the green circle on the messaging widget - if you have this on your homepage).
I'm going to try installing Handcent (another popular messaging app) to see if I can make it do exactly what my friend wants done. I'll message back if I manage it.
Mike.
Anyone else have the issue that the GV notification will not go away from the notification bar if you open the message from there? Seems you have to open the actual app itself to get it to clear from a new message.
And also, unlike Gmail, it doesnt clear if you check a message from the web. That one really kills me.
This happen to anyone else?
It has been like that for months now. Google doesn't give that app much attention.
Hi Guys
Does anyone know if it's possible to have a notification on the lock screen for a new whatsapp message received? Just like for a new sms or e-mail, but for whatsapp.
This would be amazing. I mean, lockwidgets is awesome (except for the fact that it stops working after a while by itself), but I would love a little whatsapp icon with a number next to it indicating the number of messages on the lock screen.
Thanks!
This functionality is supposed to come with WP8, so all we can do is hope it gets backported to WP7.8.
Running Stock verizon LG G2, when I receive a text via hangouts app and I get to the lock screen I'll notice the hangouts notification in the notification bar and right away it disappears before I can drag down the bar to see what the message was.
Any ideas?
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Running Stock verizon LG G2, when I receive a text via hangouts app and I get to the lock screen I'll notice the hangouts notification in the notification bar and right away it disappears before I can drag down the bar to see what the message was.
Any ideas?
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I get this too...maybe 50% of the time with hangouts
Text messaging with Hangouts is cumbersome and annoying, I just went back to stock Messaging app.
But this is probably a Hangouts bug, yeah.
Yep - me too.
I have this problem too - but I also had the problem when using Textra. Maybe there is something about the G2 that's preventing the typical SMS notification from working properly. I guess I'll try the stock messaging app for a bit and see if that works properly.
The hangouts application is my preferred way to SMS and text. When I receive a message, I receive a notification like I should. After I open the hangouts app and then engage in further conversation, I get a notification sound after each message I receive although I am still chatting to the person. The notification sound rings with each incoming message weather I am in the application, within the very chat, or weather I am on the homescreen or anywhere else. The only way I've known to subdue it is by turning off the sound notification for hangouts messages completely.
I've had this problem since 4.4.0 update. Today after I flashed Lollipop I was expecting it to go away but it didn't. I thought about it and then decided to ask if anybody else have had the problem before.
Something I strongly suspect is when I cleared the "Google services Framework" in hopes of getting 4.4.0 OTA ASAP I might have messed up. At that time this was suggested by many websites which later turned out to be counter helpful and create problems with the GCM.
So, if anybody knows how it could be fixed, and I could get notifications in the normal way it would be much helpful.
Thank you.