I'm constantly harassed by these *" Download unsuccessful."* notifications. After taking the above screenshot, I cleared the entire notifications list. Within the next three minutes (usually even less), the list was already overflowing again. I've learned to manage the symptom by navigating to the ***Download Manager*** application settings; hitting *FORCE STOP*, followed by *CLEAR DATA*, and *CLEAR CACHE*. Although the notifications slowly start showing up again. Just one at first, but gradually increasing in number with each occurance. Within a day or two, the numbers are usually back out of control. I have no idea what it's supposedly attempting to download, or why. But whatever it is, it's not instigated by myself. I could just disable download notifications, but I'd rather identify the underlying problem and kill it directly. Needless to say, I'm not too keen on my devices automatically trying to download random mystery files from the internet. Any ideas? Thanks. FYI: The device in question is a **ZTE Blade L5** smartphone.

Is there a way to get my phone to not vibrate during calls? I want it to vibrate for various notifications when I'm not on a call, but it's a bit startling with my phone up to my ear. I've found a few SMS apps that can do it, but I'm hoping for something general, across all notifications. Upon further testing, it seems that my phone (Moto G, Android version 5.1) doesn't vibrate during a call by default. But sometimes, it messes up and allows the notification vibration to go through.

My phone is a Samsung S23 Ultra running Android 14. Whenever I check my notifications history for WhatsApp on my Android phone’s Notification history, a few of my notification’s history states “Custom app notification”. The messages are not there. Also, when I open the custom app notification and filter it for "Whatsapp", in my notification history it says “Media playback”. What does this mean?

My phone is running MIUI 12.5 (rooted if it matters) and some apps just push individual notifications so each notification I get, shows up in its own bubble instead of showing them all under a group of notifications for this same app. It's really hard since it takes up all my screen and if I want to search for notifications from a certain app I have to go over all the other notifications from the other apps.. Is there a way to force notifications from the same app to be grouped together in my notification bar?

My Samsung Galaxy S22 stopped showing a number in the upper-left corner of the messages app when a new text message has arrived. I think these numbers have been called badges. Is there a way to restore the number notification? Have they been eliminated for another method of notifications?

**TL;DR:** With two Android phones, how do I get arrival & departure location sharing notifications on my backup device, instead of the primary device? ---------- I have a primary and a backup Android phone. Recently, the primary one developed an issue with the display, rendering it mostly unusable, except with screen projection utilities (e.g. AirDroid and scrcpy). As a result, I switched to using the backup phone. Over the last couple of days, I noticed that Google Maps was still sending notifications of arrival & departure (notification channel: *Google location sharing (friends)*) to my now unusable primary device. After searching the internet, I found [this answer](https://support.google.com/maps/thread/286527280?hl=en&msgid=286627449) , which essentially requires me to sign out of my Google account on the primary phone. This solution is untenable for me, as I intend to repair and return to using the primary device in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, however, I still want to receive notifications on the backup device. How do I achieve this? Here are the things I've tried which didn't yield the expected result: * Fully disabled location sharing on the primary phone * Disabled all Google Maps notifications on the primary phone * Cleared data and disabled Google maps on the primary phone * Disabled & re-enabled location sharing on the backup phone

I'm going to make another attempt to find a solution to this. This has been the bane of my life, all the time without interruption, since I bought my first "smart" phone in 2012. I've always had an Android. My current phone is a Samsung J6 dual-sim, so quite old. But a few years ago it was relatively new: in fact I may have bought it on the recommendation that upgrading might solve the problem. No. Just today a client sent me an email and there was no notification for at least 4 hours. All the settings relating to Gmail are COMPLETELY correct. When I then sent myself an email to that address, yup, the notification sounded within less than a minute. The client in question was sending an email from France to me (in the UK). I struggle to believe this could be significant in 2025, but don't rule anything out. But it happens again and again and again. Over those 13 years I have lost 000s of £ due to clients sending me an email (always Gmail) and me not receiving the notification in a timely manner. By "timely" I mean maybe within 30 minutes. Though why notifications shouldn't be received as fast as the emails themselves I have always failed to understand. I have tried turning off battery optimisation and many, many other things. If you have a solution, please don't assume that a setting on your phone exists on my phone: it may, it may not. I believe (not entirely sure) that the gmail ICON does in fact appear in the top left of the phone: i.e. the problem seems to be that the acoustic signal (notification) of an arrived email often does not sound, or sounds only very belatedly. For unknown reasons. I'm a coder and am now inclined to see if I can develop an app, an extremely simple app, which, every minute or so, does a check to see whether this particular Gmail account has an email sitting there waiting to be read, and then MAKES A SOUND. I have never coded for Android and assume it would be quite annoying to develop this. If this is a possible solution surely someone must already have come up with something like it. There is a Reddit question on this theme from 2 years ago. One answerer replies as follows: > Android Gmail isn’t “checking” emails but is the Google Firebase Cloud Messaging pushing notifications to the device. That process should be instant, however for battery saving reasons Google (which made FCM as part of Google Mobile Services on your phone) decide to delay the display of some notifications including Gmail, on my device Gmail notifications are delayed until I unlock it. The solution will be using a local email client and keep that app open, or use another cloud based email client that pulls email to their server then use FCM to push to your phone, which less likely to cause delay. It seems that this person's first language is probably not English, and I'm having difficulty understanding either the suggested technical problem or the suggested solution. If someone here believes this holds a possible key, please try and explain it to me: "a local email client": what might that mean? And could "battery saving reasons" still be the culprit even if I have the optimisation completely turned off (which I do)? Any suggestions welcome. ***Later*** A couple of days of testing has in fact left me more frustrated than ever ... I simply don't understand. On my phone (Samsung J6 dual-sim) I now have no fewer than 3 alternative email apps (in addition to Gmail): BlueMail, Thunderbird and K-9. About 30 minutes ago I sent myself an email from another account (yahoo.co.uk) to my Gmail account (i.e. the one I use for my clients, where I want to get a sound notification every time a new email arrives). THE ONLY app which actually sounded was Gmail. Neither Bluemail, Thunderbird nor K-9 made any sound at all... and no notification icon is showing other than the Gmail one. In THEORY, Bluemail is set to "pull" ("fetch") emails every 3 minutes, and Thunderbird and K-9 are set to pull every 15 minutes. NONE of these apps is working at all. Over the past couple of days, as I've been testing things, I've occasionally had the sound notification from Thunderbird. Hardly ever from Bluemail. What could possibly explain these infuriating (apparent) failures of these apps to do what they're intended to do?

I have a custom ROM on my S3, but that shouldn't really be the issue here. I am on JB 4.2.2. With my custom ROM I am able to set up different colors of the LED notification for each app that I want. However, this works for every single app I get notifications for except for Instagram. I still get the notifications for Instagram, the LED just doesn't light up when I receive them or they are still sitting in my tray. For Twitter I had to change the settings in the app itself to allow the LED to work, but for every other app, it has been default once I added the settings in my custom ROM. Instagram seems to be handling notifications a little bit differently from the other applications, because it doesn't wake up my phone when I get a notification either. But, I have a desktop application that shows me a pop-up on my computer when I receive notifications on my phone, and it notifies me for every notification, even Instagram. I want to know if there is anything that I can do within Instagram or maybe somewhere in the phones settings to enable the LED to light up when I receive a new notification from Instagram.

I normally keep my OnePlus 13 slider on the "Vibrate" setting as to not disturb others. Sometimes in the evening, I switch it to the "Ring" (loud) setting. I recently installed an app for a medical device, and I require the app to be loud at all times. I tried enabling "Allow in Do Not Disturb" but this only takes effect when using Do Not Disturb, which stops all other notifications. How can I set my medical app (or any app) to be loud AT ALL TIMES, while keeping all other apps on Silent, Vibrate, Ring (according to the slider)?

Lately, I’ve been getting random pop-up ads on my Android device, even when I'm not actively using a browser. These ads appear over any app I’m using — YouTube, messaging, games, etc. It’s not limited to a specific app; they just appear at random times. Example: I haven't recently installed any sketchy apps, but I suspect one of the apps might be causing this in the background. It's super disruptive and annoying. Has anyone experienced this before? How can I find the source of the ad and stop it permanently?

Everyday, my phone make beep sound for 3 seconds around 9am. There is no notification. No app visible activity. My phone is Oneplus 12 (Android 15). How do I identify the culprit app and give it 1 star rating?

I am using a BlackBerry DTEK running Android 6.0. Is there a way to (offline) retrieve app messages (messages that appear on the top-right on the home screen with a small icon of the app) without opening the app itself? (or when the app doesn't store these messages) Or is there a way to store these messages?

I've recently switched to Android from iOS. I'm a bit annoyed that my Gmail notifications do not include any of the body. It only displays the subject. This is what it looks like (not my phone, but it gets the point across). You can see that it doesn't show the body at all. I'd prefer it to look like this below How can I do this? I am on a Motorola Edge 50 Pro - Android 15.

How do I turn off the spacecraft game in Android 16? It starts automatically when I put the phone on charge and gives me hundreds of notifications that can't be muted.

##### Rationale I want to extract the content of com.android.settings/.notification.history.NotificationHistoryActivity, in order to provide verifiable proof to my cellular operator that I received the undermentioned expanded notification: ##### Research Unfortunately, adb shell dumpsys notification --noredact | grep 'SIM 1 not allowed' returns $Null.

I activated the notification dots on my Moto G6 following this process: Settings > Apps & notifications > Notifications > Allow notification dots, but the dots are not appearing. Did I do something wrong? How can I solve this?

I just got a new Samsung A54 and I'm trying to set it's notifications to "preserve my sanity" mode. In Settings > Notifications > App notifications, I can select individual app. On the App notification screen, I can then: - Allow/disallow notifications - Set allowed ones to "Allow sound and vibration" or "Silent" - Under "Notification types" I can select **"Lock screen", "Badge" and/or "Pop-up"** (latter only if sound and vibrations are allowed. I have some idea what each of the notification types means, but would like some clarification. Screenshots with examples would be greatly appreciated.

[Reddit - App/function to play message to callers before phone rings?](https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/8wf6ew/appfunction_to_play_message_to_callers_before/) Basically, a simpler version of this: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/77846/accept-call-then-play-a-pre-recorded-voice-message-to-caller 1. The call will pick up. 2. Notify the caller that the phone call is being recorded for quality assurances. 3. Then it will ring on my end if the person stays on the line. Even better would be if it knows if it's a two-party consent state/country, etc, and plays the message based on the area code. 4. Record the phone call. I suppose in the paid version, you can select certain phone numbers/strangers and groups from one's phone, and it will play to/record, so that you can exempt certain groups. Is it programmable? **Edit:** There is a recording app already, **"All Call Recorder"** it simply doesn't notify the caller. It's possible.

Under "Sounds and vibration" I have it set to vibrate. This is what I want. All apps, emails, etc to vibrate- except text messages. Can I set vibrate globally and just override text messages? I think this should be possible because I use pagerduty and it has a system wide override feature- so PD still makes noise even though system wide vibration is set. I don't want to pick through notification settings of each app I just want a single override for text messages. EDIT ---- If this is not possible can a 3rd party app do this? For example buzzkill? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.buzzkill . Could I have vibrate set globally and have buzzkill just generate a sound for texts? I google for this use case but I can't be sure the app supports it. UPDATE ------ Buzzkill worked and was easy to use. I left everything as it was (set globally to vibrate) and created a rule in buzzkill to "unsilence" messages. I also added another app or two. So I can globally set everything to vibrate and exclusively choose which apps to bypass the global setting and make a noise. This is what I wanted. I'm not marking this as an answer because its a third party app. Maybe this post could be updated when android finally supports this.

I recently did a factory reset on my Pixel 6a (running Android 14). Now I find that I get a separate notification in the notification shade for each incoming e-mail. So, for example, if five e-mails have come in since the last time I looked at my phone, I have to swipe away five completely separate notifications. Before I did the factory reset, the behavior I was accustomed to was a single expandable notification that showed *all* new e-mails together. I'd still hear the notification alert sound for each incoming e-mail, but it would then just be added to the existing notification rather than generating a new one. I could either swipe them away individually, or swipe them all away with one gesture. I assume that, at some point, I have changed a setting that governs this behavior, but I can't figure out which setting is relevant. I tried Googling this behavior, but I can't find anything directly on point. What am I missing?