Disabling the notifications bubble?

[Petersonz]

Can the notification bubble be disabled?

Its absurd that in the sounds and notifications, I uncheck all notifications from all events and still get the "Dismiss" button for a notification of a missed call or voicemail or email or mms.

I really dont need to see new email counter increment, plus notification/dismiss bubble at the bottom of the screen and finally the envelope icon at the top. Im not that dense.

[URPREY]

Can the notification bubble be disabled?

Its absurd that in the sounds and notifications, I uncheck all notifications from all events and still get the "Dismiss" button for a notification of a missed call or voicemail or email or mms.

I really dont need to see new email counter increment, plus notification/dismiss bubble at the bottom of the screen and finally the envelope icon at the top. Im not that dense.

You need to uncheck "show message on screen" from the connection established event under sounds and notifications.

[ChInEsE ChIcKeN]

no that just dosnt allow the message to pop up on the notification. i dont believe there is anyway to disable the icon that pops up in the top.

but what you can do is disable the message that pops up

[URPREY]

no that just dosnt allow the message to pop up on the notification. i dont believe there is anyway to disable the icon that pops up in the top.

but what you can do is disable the message that pops up
The instructions I posted prevent the notification bubble from popping up, which is exactly what the OP was trying to accomplish.

[ChInEsE ChIcKeN]

no i think he means the icon that pops up on the top not the message that comes up when ever something happend...

at least thats what i think he means...

[Petersonz]

I dont mind the envelope on top, what I do mind is when I have the keypad locked and it take 4-10 button presses to get the normal soft key navigation back.

Example:

Missed call, new email, new mms, new voicemail. Each has a seperate "notification" that has to be viewed and dismissed in 2 keystrokes.

So for example, on a missed call only:

1) Turn display back on
2) Unlock (left softkey)
3) Unlock touch right mid screen (or *)
4) click softkey notification (left softkey)
5) click dismiss softkey (right softkey)

As you can see, it takes 5 buttons to get my left softkey back to normal and get rid of the notification bubble. The handset icon with the ! on it is sufficient to indicate the missed call.

Now, how about a missed call, which of course causes a new voicemail:

1) Turn display back on
2) Unlock (left softkey)
3) Unlock touch right mid screen (or *)
4) click softkey notification (left softkey)
5) click dismiss softkey (right softkey)
6) click softkey new message
7) click softkey dismiss

Now add new voicemail, missed call, new email, new text message and you can see it takes a ton of annoying keypresses to get rid of the bubble notifications and return the softkeys to normal where I expect them to be whenever I need to use my phone.

I have everything unchecked in the sound/notify section so that doesnt help.

If I dont use Today but instead, a Today replacement, does that go away?

Thanks :)

[jinnosuke]

take a look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1843894

goto HKCU\control panel\notifications\
and change whatever you want to not show up to 0 or 1 in the options. What i do is set everything to 0 and i used to have a 1 ring lag due to that stupid bubble but as a disclaimer i use S2U2 to Handel the phone calls and phone alarm to Handel notifications so i am able to turn all this stuff off and still have the notifications i ask for.

[Petersonz]

No luck on that thread. I still get the missed call changing the softkey to Notification and then a bubble, then dismiss.

I tried setting all the "Options" in each key under notifications to zero. So far, I think they all went away except missed call.

[pdxadmin]

I have also been looking for a solution to disable the left soft-key notification / notification bubble. It seems that anyone who receives a lot of calls, voicemail and e-mail on there phone would find this "feature" annoying. I've tried various phone alarm type applications and not had any luck.

You're idea of replacing the today screen sounds like a good idea.

...but so far I just have to disable all on-screen notifications in notification settings and then press the left-soft key over and over again to dismiss all those stupid notifications.

[DeepThought]

It seems that anyone who receives a lot of calls, voicemail and e-mail on there phone would find this "feature" annoying.

Absolutely! I also can not understand why it seems impossible to get rid of this "feature". Specialy since HTC Home Plugin (and lot of other today plugins) make this notifications absolutely unnecessary.