Hello, is this a bug on the new Android 11. My Verizon Galaxy S10 doesn't show the top notification bar on the home screen anymore. In apps, it shows. For example, right now in RIF app I can see the time, my icons, battery. Not when I close the app and I'm sitting on the home screen.
Is this a bug? I read something on a Google Pixel thread on reddit that it's a feature of Android 11, but I want to confirm that. I can't recall this happening all week (or two) since I've gotten Android 11.
no issue on my 10+.
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Sorry, I couldn't find a general Android questions forum, but I'm using 6P so here goes:
One of my biggest pet peeves with Android in general is when a notification icon appears in the status bar, but when you swipe down from the top of the screen, no corresponding notification appears. The latest offender is one that looks like the Chrome logo, except that it's monochrome white. Various other offenders have plagued me from time to time throughout the years as well. I've found guides to Lollipop icons, but this Chrome-like icon isn't on there. Anyone know where I can find a key to the Marshmallow icons? Google doesn't seem to know.
Thanks.
Jon
heofenum said:
Sorry, I couldn't find a general Android questions forum, but I'm using 6P so here goes:
One of my biggest pet peeves with Android in general is when a notification icon appears in the status bar, but when you swipe down from the top of the screen, no corresponding notification appears. The latest offender is one that looks like the Chrome logo, except that it's monochrome white. Various other offenders have plagued me from time to time throughout the years as well. I've found guides to Lollipop icons, but this Chrome-like icon isn't on there. Anyone know where I can find a key to the Marshmallow icons? Google doesn't seem to know.
Thanks.
Jon
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The chrome logo is used when you get a Facebook notification (assuming you opted in) via chrome instead of using the horrible Facebook app. The chrome logo will also appear if you require a passphrase go sync your Google account in chrome. I can go on for days but that's what its there for. There aren't any new icons in MM that I've seen, and the chrome logo has been around for a while now
I'm getting this window in every app I try to access and add a photo. It's annoying cause I don't really know what it wants me to do. I simply tap settings and then the back key, and everything's fine. It's annoying. Can I disable it?
I was playing the screen overlay game for a while too. Never ran into this with my note 5, even the short time it had marshmallow. I removed a 3rd party app called PowerLine (was a battery meter app). Once that was removed my screen overlay permission annoyance disappeared. It would do it when I used s pen or trying to install various new apps. You might wanna disable apps one by one until you find the culprit.
With all that said, whats up with this new screen overlay thing? Is it marshmallow or the note 7?
It's not the Note. Happened on my S7e and pretty sure it happened on my Nexus 5x too.
Like many of you I'm a long time Samsung user. Now that I've picked up the v20, there are a few features that the note 7 had that I miss. I'm hoping that someone can recommend alternative apps that can fill in the gaps.
Here are the features that I've noticed so far that are missing from the v20:
* Battery draining app notification
If an app drains too much energy you get a notification telling you the app name and how much power the app has used in the last couple of hours. Clicking on the notification lets you disable the offending app.
* scrolling screen shots
On the note when you take a screen shot you can scroll down to capture anything off screen. This is great for capturing an entire web page (for example).
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Like many of you I'm a long time Samsung user. Now that I've picked up the v20, there are a few features that the note 7 had that I miss. I'm hoping that someone can recommend alternative apps that can fill in the gaps.
Here are the features that I've noticed so far that are missing from the v20:
* Battery draining app notification
If an app drains too much energy you get a notification telling you the app name and how much power the app has used in the last couple of hours. Clicking on the notification lets you disable the offending app.
* scrolling screen shots
On the note when you take a screen shot you can scroll down to capture anything off screen. This is great for capturing an entire web page (for example).
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For the battery one, i have the best of the best suggestion. Download, Accubattery, it wont throw you a notification saying exactly which app, however it does have a notification that shows you specific amount of mah and drainage,. when you open the app you will see a whole new world of battery management, specific app drains and more.
As for the screenshot while scrolling..... well, i only know about apps that combine screenshots on its own when it detects that there is something similar in one photo that you recently screenshotted and thus, combines it witht the other making it a larger image
nikkobenson said:
Like many of you I'm a long time Samsung user. Now that I've picked up the v20, there are a few features that the note 7 had that I miss. I'm hoping that someone can recommend alternative apps that can fill in the gaps.
Here are the features that I've noticed so far that are missing from the v20:
* Battery draining app notification
If an app drains too much energy you get a notification telling you the app name and how much power the app has used in the last couple of hours. Clicking on the notification lets you disable the offending app.
* scrolling screen shots
On the note when you take a screen shot you can scroll down to capture anything off screen. This is great for capturing an entire web page (for example).
Sent from my LG-H918 using Tapatalk
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This isn't one of the specific features you requested alternatives for, but I'm now using Side App Bar+ (free) from the Play Store to sub for the Edge App Favorites bar. SAB+ actually works better for the most part. I have the pull out area set to the top left corner, and never have any issues with me accidentally pulling the bar out.
I'm also noticing that for whatever reason, the Smart Stay feature is missing on the ATT version of the V20 (not sure if it is on other versions too, but I started a thread in Q&A about it). I'm currently experimenting with two apps as replacements: SmartStay EX (NOT the Lite version!)(free) and SmartStay+. I currently don't know which is better, but I can report back after some time if you want.
These apps are used to keep the screen on when looking at it, but let the screen turn off when they hit the Display Timeout if you aren't.
So far, these are the only two Note7 Withdrawal apps I'm using. I'm using other really useful apps though, like Forcedoze (makes the Doze features in Android even stricter and help increase battery life).
Oh yeah. The scrolling screenshot was an amazing and useful feature I'm going to miss.
Android 7.0 introduces Gmail notifications on the AOD (and many other notifications missing in Android 6.0.1), which is really great, but I am noticing an issue.
When I've received a Gmail notification and have clicked on (either) the message icon on the AOD, clicked on the notification on the notification shade or opened it directly in the Gmail app, the notification icon on the AOD and on the notification bar isn't removed immediately afterwards (as expected). In Android 6.0.1, the notification icon on the notification bar was removed instantaneously.
Can anyone replicate this issue?
On Android 6 notifications icon of Gmail persist even if you read or delete email, in nougat in my case icon disappeared right after opening email.. Double click on aod notification open application - that's feature, no issue
georgito said:
On Android 6 notifications icon of Gmail persist even if you read or delete email, in nougat in my case icon disappeared right after opening email.. Double click on aod notification open application - that's feature, no issue
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I disagree, or I'm seeing different functionality on my device. On Android 6(.0.1), the notification icon disappeared right after opening email (in Gmail app). On Android 7(.0), it does not.
That's strange, on my note 5 with Android 6 icon won't disappear from panel unless I remove it, in nougat, when open email, icon is gone... Strange
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That's strange, on my note 5 with Android 6 icon won't disappear from panel unless I remove it, in nougat, when open email, icon is gone... Strange
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This forum/thread discusses subjects related to Galaxy S7 Edge, not the Note 5. Perhaps you should consider expressing your thoughts about the Note 5 in the Note 5 forum...?
i have similar issue as well. the notification is remove around 1 sec after i read the mail or after i close gmail. last time it goes immediately after opening gmail. not bothering me that much though.
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This forum/thread discusses subjects related to Galaxy S7 Edge, not the Note 5. Perhaps you should consider expressing your thoughts about the Note 5 in the Note 5 forum...?
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Having galaxy s7 edge now.. I did mention note just for comparing android 6 with Android 7
Just wanted to add my 2 cents on the DP2 of Android P.
So far my favorite thing is how fluid it is and how nice the animations are (it's more fluid than Oreo in every way -- animations, scrolling, opening apps, switching windows, etc.) . The animations are especially nice when using the Pixel launcher. You lose certain animations when using 3rd party launchers. I've always used third party launchers since 2011 because stock ones never have the features I want but The Pixel launcher on Android P is pretty dang cool. I still miss options like no widget padding, icon packs, icon and folder resizing, gestures, custom desktop and app drawer spaces, but even losing all that is worth it with how amazing Android P runs with the Pixel launcher.
My battery life was terrible the first 2 days and I was considering going back to Oreo but it seems to have settle down now. I still feel I was getting slightly better battery life on Oreo but I can't say for sure. I know others have said they are getting better battery life on P but so far that hasn't been my experience.
I haven't run into any major bugs and have only experienced a couple minor issues like brief freezing (1-2 seconds and has only happened a few times), and had recent apps freeze up twice but hitting the home button fixes it. I know some have reported a lot of apps crashing but I don't use many apps and haven't had any issues there.
For me it's a DD. Wi-Fi Tethering, calling, texting, bluetooth, and GPS all work with no issues.
I'm not a fan of some of the new UI changes but overall it definitely seems like a good step up from Oreo. I can't wait to see how it develops over the next 6 months.
Nice write up! Agree this P is getting better and better!
I know Facebook isn't the best app in the world, and I'm a beta tester for the official app. I cannot get it to install for the life of me. Very odd errors.. keeps throwing error 504
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I know Facebook isn't the best app in the world, and I'm a beta tester for the official app. I cannot get it to install for the life of me. Very odd errors.. keeps throwing error 504
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I don't personally use facebook but I just checked it out because of your post and it installed fine. I also logged in and scrolled through it a bit and it worked fine. Not sure why it's giving you issues :/
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I don't personally use facebook but I just checked it out because of your post and it installed fine. I also logged in and scrolled through it a bit and it worked fine. Not sure why it's giving you issues :/
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Could be an issue with the beta... I never thought much about it.
I beta test FB as well, and had issues trying to get the app to install too. I have it installed on my s9+, but couldn't get that one to update, so I found the apk for the version that's on the s9+, and it was able to install on the Pixel 2xl DP2. This leads me to believe it's the FB app itself, and not the phone.
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I beta test FB as well, and had issues trying to get the app to install too. I have it installed on my s9+, but couldn't get that one to update, so I found the apk for the version that's on the s9+, and it was able to install on the Pixel 2xl DP2. This leads me to believe it's the FB app itself, and not the phone.
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Perfect! Now to hunt down the latest beta APK .. looks like 172.0.0.51.93 is the latest version.
I went back to Oreo the same day I flashed P DP2. This was the same day DP2 was released. I don't remember every detail but here are the things that made me go back:
- A handful of apps would simply not work/open. I forgot which ones they were.
- I don't like the way the Quick Settings look.
- I don't like it that the Quick Settings wont open a quick detailed view and instead just open the settings app. Seems minor, but is a step-back if you ask me.
- QS icons in landscape mode are out of place.
EDIT: - Accessing the settings app via notification drawer now requires you to pull down the drawer completely. That's because the gear icon becomes only visible/accessible when it's fully expanded, while in previous Android versions, like O, the gear icon was visible even on a collapsed notification drawer.
I reeeeally love the new sound controls!
very ugly LTE icon
Literally the only thing I don't like is that the gesture bar is still eating up screen space like the nav bar did and WTF on the LTE font/icon. There is no reason to not expand displayed content all the way to the edge of the display and have the pill hover over the content. Also I see no reason for the back button. If swiping in one direction takes you back to the last used app, make swiping the other direction the back button inside an app. Other than that, I much prefer the roundness of the UI seeing the the display corners of my Pixel 2XL are rounded. It just looks more cohesive. I was a huge fan of Flux Ui, so P taking on that styling cue is another plus to me. Also the animations are much better. I haven't tested a full day of usage for screen on time yet without my phone touching a charger at some point, but the fact that I'm consistently getting a 1 to 2 percentage battery drop overnight is already better than any android version I've been on.
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I went back to Oreo the same day I flashed P DP2. This was the same day DP2 was released. I don't remember every detail but here are the things that made me go back:
- A handful of apps would simply not work/open. I forgot which ones they were.
- I don't like the way the Quick Settings look.
- I don't like it that the Quick Settings wont open a quick detailed view and instead just open the settings app. Seems minor, but is a step-back if you ask me.
- QS icons in landscape mode are out of place.
EDIT: - Accessing the settings app via notification drawer now requires you to pull down the drawer completely. That's because the gear icon becomes only visible/accessible when it's fully expanded, while in previous Android versions, like O, the gear icon was visible even on a collapsed notification drawer.
I reeeeally love the new sound controls!
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I agree on all your points but for me the fluidity and animations more than make up for it. Hopefully some of those things you mentioned get addressed. I definitely do not like the new QS style.
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Agreed. That's is one of the new ui changes I'm not a fan of at all. It looks like it belongs on a phone from 6 years ago. Perhaps they did for people who are far sighted but it would be nice to have the option to use the old little LTE and 3g icons.
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Literally the only thing I don't like is that the gesture bar is still eating up screen space like the nav bar did and WTF on the LTE font/icon. There is no reason to not expand displayed content all the way to the edge of the display and have the pill hover over the content. Also I see no reason for the back button. If swiping in one direction takes you back to the last used app, make swiping the other direction the back button inside an app. Other than that, I much prefer the roundness of the UI seeing the the display corners of my Pixel 2XL are rounded. It just looks more cohesive. I was a huge fan of Flux Ui, so P taking on that styling cue is another plus to me. Also the animations are much better. I haven't tested a full day of usage for screen on time yet without my phone touching a charger at some point, but the fact that I'm consistently getting a 1 to 2 percentage battery drop overnight is already better than any android version I've been on.
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The gesture bar needs some refinement. I hate the back button as well. They need to at least make it have rounded corners and solid to match the rest of the ui. The sharp corners and hollow look really doesn't match and looks awful.
LTE and 3G icons are awful.
For some reason my battery just isn't performing as well on P as it did on Oreo. Especially the AOD -- it chews my battery up. It still easily get through the day with plenty of juice to spare and I work at home and always have a charger handy so it's not a problem.