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?

Is there a type of bluetooth device that, once paired with an Android device, can send push notifications to the phone via bluetooth without needing any additional apps be installed?

Using a recent version of Android. Solutions requiring root are okay.

I am working on a site, which should notify users of a new message coming in. This works well in Chrome on Desktop, but in Chrome on Android - no matter what I do, despite having all the notifications enabled for this domain, I still cannot get notifications to be received. Any idea where else I can check for this? Same results when a friend tested on his device as well. Could it matter that this is on a subdomain, where the parent domain does not have permissions allowed (but also not blocked)?

Sometimes when I receive notifications from the Spark email app or Google Maps, the notification text will be the app name repeated twice. For example, notifications from Spark will read "Spark Spark" and Google Maps notifications will be "Maps Maps". If I swipe down to open the notification center, notifications from Spark will display the email message contents as expected. I have the settings in Spark set to always show the email contents. Notifications from other apps like Discord display the message content on full. This occurs while phone is unlocked and in active use. I am using an Asus Zenfone 8 running system 33.0210.0210.332, Android version 13. Why are some of my notifications the app name twice? How do I get the correct notification text to always appear?

I bought my first smartphone in 2012. I had one motivation for doing so: my clients, instead of ringing me, were increasingly emailing me. I had to have a computer "to go" to respond in a timely manner. But a flaw emerged as I got to grips with my first Samsung: although I had configured a bleep to be sounded every time an email arrived in my Gmail inbox, this, er, didn't always happen. At that time, I think, I probably assumed that this was a small thing which was associated with the teething troubles of a spanking new technology, and would quickly be ironed out. That did not happen. 12 years later and no improvement. It is simply unbelievable. I have spent many, many hours viewing forums about the notification problem and struggling to try anything and everything, repeatedly. Often finding that supposedly available options etc. didn't in fact exist on my phone. The defect is still there. I almost said "the Samsung notification problem". Indeed I almost also said "the Android notification problem". Recently I have even contemplated the unthinkable, i.e. going over to the **Other Side**. But when I googled things, I found that (reportedly) various models of iPhone in reality seem to suffer the same thing. A few days ago it occurred to me: is there an app for Android which has one single function? Every 5 minutes, it looks at the Gmail inbox for a given account, and if an unread message is present it makes a bleep. How hard can that be? I searched for such an app at PlayStore. I didn't find one. Which doesn't mean one doesn't exist. If someone knows of such a thing, please enlighten me. Therefore my question is: **is it feasible to create such an app?** I have never tried to create an Android app, but there's always a first time. Does anyone know whether emails arriving in a Gmail inbox are detectable by the phone pretty much immediately? My understanding to date has been that this giant intermittent defect happens despite the fact that a new email has already arrived in the phone. Maybe that's not always the case. But certainly there have been MANY MANY times over the past 12 years when I have glimpsed down at my phone to find, yes, an email has arrived in the Gmail app ... but my ****ing phone never bleeped me a notification. The app I imagine would at least put an end to that source of fury. This is no joke for me. It hasn't been for years. With my line of work, my clients will tend to contact other people if they don't get a response within 30 minutes or an hour. I have lost 000s of £/€/$ over the past 12 years due to this unfathomably frustrating nonsense.

Long story short, my wife has many accounts (against my advisement), and one of them is sending Find Device push notifications that aren't being pinged by either of us. I advised her to check all her GMail accounts for security notices, but she doesn't wish to do so (no idea why). Just to humor her, I'm thinking of taking a look for her but other than sifting through logcat, is there any other method to enumerate/filter this information, whether programmatically or otherwise? She has a OnePlus 10 [TMO][Stock][A13]

I'm using a firewall (NoRoot) on (Samsung) Android (10) to try to harden it, but now, push-notifications aren't coming through. I'm trying to figure out which apps/services are responsible for that and what URLs/ports need to be whitelisted. I've seen several candidates that might be it: * System * A *different* System‽ * System (Uninstalled) 🤨 * Google Play services/Google Services Framework * AASAservice, Accessibility, … … …, Wallpapers, WlanTest (very long list) * Hiya Service Most search results just mention this page which doesn't specify the app/service that requires the URLs and ports listed. Likewise, this answer (which is outdated since GCM is deprecated) also doesn't specify *which service* to whitelist. And this page outright recommends just allowing everything which defeats the whole point to a firewall.

I know there are fixes for a rooted device with Android 5.0+ to stop the notification popups for like text messages and apps like facebook. These I've found tend to be perminant and not so easy to do fixes so can't be used as a 'toggle' on / off. What I am looking for is some way that I can toggle off those notifications at the top of the screen that can interfere with seeing the screen or worse, if I'm drawing a picture it can totally damage the drawing by blocking where I'm working while I'm drawing and because I'm touching the screen there flips me out of the app I'm using and into the other app and sometimes even causes the original app to crash losing all the work. By default, I have found NO built in option to turn these on or off. I like them when I'm just doing everything else and find them very useful so don't want them 'perma off'. Anyone know of anyway or anything that may help with this? Is this hard coded in all editions of Lollipop? EDIT: The model of phone in question is a T-Mobile Note 4 with Android 5.0.1. Model: SM-N910T. This is a rooted Stock rom.

Hi I hope anyone can help figure out this app icon on the notification bar. I can't for the life of me know what it is. lol

I'm trying to make sure that when I get specific emails, I get notified instantly, loudly, and even if I'm in "do not disturb". The emails are going into a gmail account. These are things I've done so far: - Set up a new email, log into that email on the Samsung "Email" app, turn notifications on for that email app, create a filter on the original email that forwards to this email. - Create a filter on the original email with a label, go into the "gmail" app filter notification settings, allow syncing on the filter with notifications. both these methods work to get notifications on my filter... but both of them seem to be delayed about 15 minutes (I assume the filter and send and perhaps the "email" app make up that 15 minutes on the first option... and the filter and syncing within the phone make up the 15 minutes on the second option).

So my current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21. I receive a LOT of push notifications, by choice. The problem is, when I receive those push notifications for, say, Twitter, the number of notifications that are displayed in a single "stack" in the notification tray CANNOT exceed 24; once the stack reaches 24 notifications, I do not receive any further push notifications for that app. This is a HUGE issue when I'm trying to keep track of a big Twitter thread or watch for an important email. My previous phone, a Galaxy S8, had a maximum notification stack size of 40, after which the same issue occurred; this leads me to believe that there is some variable SOMEWHERE that can be changed to increase or decrease the stack size. Just to clarify, since Google brought up similar questions but no relevant answers: - I am **not** referring to the notification *badge* displayed on the app icon on my home screen; I am referring to the notifications *in the notification tray* viewable by swiping down from the top of the screen. Image attached to show what I am talking about. - This issue is not app-specific; all apps seem to have a stack size of 24, whether it's Twitter, Gmail, YouTube, a game, or whatever. Each app DOES have its own stack, but each of those stacks can only go up to 24 notifications. I have checked every setting I could access on my phone; none of them changed anything relevant. If there is ANY way to change the stack size, even if I have to manually dump my phone's kernel to my PC and use a hex editor to change the relevant bytes, I will do it. Thanks in advance.

I have a Samsung S21 Ultra 5G, using Android OS 11 I have enabled push notifications for multiple apps and gave them all different notification sounds. Apps like news, twitter, banking, online ordering, transport alerts, weather report etc. Periodically they all arrive at the same time causing a cacophony of notification sounds which is quite annoying. I'd like to have the notifications as they're pushed from the apps server (as they happen), rather then having them in groups causing a notification overload. I'm not sure if this has something to do with the Wi-Fi setting ("Wifi Power Save Mode" is set to OFF) or network syncing period. How can I set my phone so that important and specific apps deliver their notifications as they happen, rather than being grouped with others? For example I'd like to be notified when a person who I follow on twitter and have their notifications turned on as soon as they tweet, rather than being notified in 10 minutes or in an hour. Same with my news alerts etc... I'm not sure if this was always the case with my phone and became obvious as I enabled more and more app notifications. I thank everybody in advance who are willing to reply to help. I have seen this post but it's really old and our problems are not quite the same; https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/155808/multiple-notifications-arrive-all-at-once-from-multiple-apps

Until recently Gmail messages arrived to my Nokia 9 PureView instantly. But recently unacceptable sync delays appeared in the Google account, especially in popular services like Gmail. Nokia suggested to delete Gmail's cache and do a soft reboot (power+volume up), but it didn't help whatsoever. Likewise neither did Safe Mode. Their next suggestion - factory reset - was enough to send me here. If I manually click the 3 dots and choose to sync now, it solves it...for that moment. The following screenshot was taken at 18:30, almost half a working day after some of these syncs took place. WhatsApp, in comparison, syncs its contacts every hour without any misses. Can anything bring back the Google Account sync to what it used to be?

Recently I seem to have stopped getting notification when I receive new emails on Gmail. I used to get these until a few weeks back. I have a Nexus 4 with the Android 4.2.2 and I am running the latest version of the Gmail app. I have checked and notifications are turned on for the Gmail app in Settings->Apps Anyone know why these might have stopped?

the problem I am having is with Push notifications in Android. In order to receive my WhatsApp notifications I need to manually launch the application, which I don't want do. I want to be able to receive my notifications at any time... I've heard that it might be due to the Push Notification not working so, I decided to download from Google Play the app PNF No-Root which changed the heartbeat interval to 5 minutes (I use WLAN connection) and it didn't work at all (the same for similar apps). I tried looking for other solutions. I went to Settings > Data Usage > WLAN > WhatsApp to check if the Restrict background data box was unchecked, it was unchecked. I also went to Apps > WhatsApp to see if the box "Show Notifications" was Checked. Went to WLAN > ADVANCED and set "Keep WLAN on during sleep" as "Always". Finally, I launched WhatsApp and all the settings are correctly set for me to receive, but I don't. When I go to Apps > Running > Whatsapp it says that there is 1 Process and to Services (although it shows 1 service sometimes), ExternalMediaManager and MessageService. My device is a Lenovo A5000 with Android OS 4.4.2 I don't know what else to try, thanks.

I have disabled WhatsApp's access to Internet by disabling both WLAN-usage and mobile network usage. I thought this should block WhatsApp from accessing the internet. But miraculously WhatsApp gives me a message with ominous content: "You might have new messages" When I open WA it does not show any messages. When I then give it back it's access rights wonder what, there are messages I received the same day! So to me it looks as if this app has found its way to sneak around my network restrictions. So the following questions arise: * Is my assumption about the effectiveness of restricting the "data usage" for apps wrong? * Does WhatsApp hack around the standard restrictions?

How do I disable push notifications for Instagram? As much as possible, I don't want apps to do any push notifications (except for MMS).

I don't know if an update occurred, but a number of days ago now (maybe since the FB outage), my FB Messenger messages on the Messenger app (not the Facebook app, or Facebook for Desktop) are not coming through when my phone is locked and the screen is off for awhile (even like 15 minutes or something). When I unlock my phone I don't even get them. It's only when I open the FB messenger app that all the notifications come through and pop up at once . It seems to only be FB messenger that's affected. I get Google Calendar Reminders and Text Notifications. They are coming through immediately and just fine on Messenger.com and Facebook.com . Completely cleared the cache/data for Messenger and uninstalled/reinstalled the program. Makes no difference. I haven't changed any battery settings or restricted anything. Do not disturb is not on. Is anyone else experiencing this? - Google Pixel 4a running Android 11 - Security Update: Oct 1 - Google Play: Aug 1 - Build #: RQ3A.2110001.001 - FB Messenger Version: 333.0.0.17.119

**Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, MIUI 12.5.1 (Android 11)** When the phone receives a stream of notifications (e.g. 1 message per 7 seconds), only the *first* notification is accompanied by vibration - other ones go unnoticed. If the message interval is increased (e.g. 20-30 seconds), the problem will be gone - every message has its own vibration and it works well. it doesn't depends on app - I've got this with WhatsApp, Telegram, VK, Instagram. Could you please tell whether this is bug or not? How to deal with it? P.S. I've got the same thing on MIUI 12 with Android 10 as well.