How To Guide How to fix notifications on Vivo X90 Pro+

[extremecarver]

Anyone tried if adapting the do not disturb mode to become a normal mode with full notifications accessible changes problems like dark mode or vibration mode? Of course it will have no influence on power saving troubles..


This setting I think is hidden

 

[lemonade747]

Hi, has this procedure definitively solved the notification problem? Please? I had that problem too (as well as having another one)

It's working, but with dark mode turned on, notifications are still missing on the lock screen

 

[Simone25]

It's working, but with dark mode turned on, notifications are still missing on the lock screen

Hi,
ah, ok, perfect, thank you very much

So this process of getting all notifications on time etc only works with dark mode turned on, right? Did I get it right?

Please?

A thousand thanks

 

[lemonade747]

Hi,
ah, ok, perfect, thank you very much

So this process of getting all notifications on time etc only works with dark mode turned on, right? Did I get it right?

Please?

A thousand thanks

With light mode on, it will be likely 90-95% working all the time, even on the lock screen. If you turn dark mode on, for sure 100% it won't show anything on the lock screen. For normal notifications, like gmail, facebook chat head I think it will work normally as long as you follow the instruction, it should be good.

 

[Simone25]

With light mode on, it will be likely 90-95% working all the time, even on the lock screen. If you turn dark mode on, for sure 100% it won't show anything on the lock screen. For normal notifications, like gmail, facebook chat head I think it will work normally as long as you follow the instruction, it should be good.

Hi,
Ok, got it, thank you very much

the notifications always arrived on time with the always on display always on and with the clear mode active, while with the always on display deactivated the notifications also arrived two hours late

(Besides the fact that I don't see whatsapp notifications on the lock screen (as opposed to other phones)

A thousand thanks

 

[Simone25]

Seeing as there are dozens of people who are claiming issues with receiving notifications. I figured it's time to make this thread.

The following has worked for me to restore notifications for every single app I use.
To date, I have had absolutely no problems whatsoever with getting any notifications from any apps. Regardless of the app itself, time, battery state of the phone or 4G/5G/Wifi et cetera,

These are the steps that I have done. They worked for me. If you have already done other steps and things are not working for you. You may likely have broken something on your own, in which case these below steps obviously won't work for you.

Steps.

1. I got my new phone
2. I ran the Debloat Script
3. Rebooted the phone to check everything is working, no force closes etc.
4. Installed the apps I needed manually (did not copy from any previous device or use a transfer app)
5. Settings > Battery > Set to Balanced
6. Settings > Battery > Background Power Consumption > for messaging apps and other real-time important apps I set "High Background Power Usage"
7. For each app > Go to "App Info" (longtap on app) > Permissions > All Permissions > Autostart ON
8. Install APKPure store
9. Update these: Google Play Store, Google Services Framework, Google Play Services, Carrier Services
10. Reboot
11. Make a test notification from another phone to my Vivo - it works.
12. Open the app, then use the App Manager to swipe it away from the recents drawer
13. Make another test notification - it works.

Most of this is just simple a' la: https://dontkillmyapp.com/vivo

I have tested this with the following apps (and many more I could not be bothered to list):

• Whatsapp (all message notifications are fine, can receive calls too)
• Facebook Messenger (all message notifications are fine, can receive calls too)
• Telegram (all message notifications are fine, can receive calls too)
• Signal (all message notifications are fine, can receive calls too)
• Threema (all message notifications are fine, can receive calls too)
• Snapchat (all message notifications are fine, can receive calls too)
• Google Photos (sync works fine, also got shared photos notification)
• Gmail (all email notifications working, also Google Meets notification reminders)
• Google Calendar (calendar reminders all working)
• Microsoft Todo (reminders working fine, also added shared tasks notifications working)
• Protonmail (all email notifications working)
• Tutanota (all email notifications working)
• Weawow Weather (weather alerts working fine, plus persistent notification not being killed for weather)
• Pano Scrobbler (automatically opens and detects any playing music correctly even if I haven't opened the app in days)
• Youtube Vanced (subscription notifications working fine, so are recommendations)
• NewPipe Sponsorblock (same as Youtube Vanced)

This allows apps to start by themselves (also when invoked by another app in the background), it also prevents them from ever being killed in the background so you still get notifications.

Other things to note:

• Dark Mode - I have it set to always on, no problems with notifications whatsoever and I have never had a problem
• Do Not Disturb - When the schedule is set, all notifications are still received but are muted
• com.vivo.pem - Still installed on my phone, I never removed it and I do not recommend removing it
• 120hz Mode - I am using this all the time
• Battery saving or task killing apps? - I have none installed. They are all unreliable.
• TradingShenzhen - I got my phone from here
• System Version - PD2227C_A_13.0.19.0.W10.V000L1

Battery drain?

My phone barely even drains 20-35% in a day. This is by far the best phone I have ever used when it comes to battery drain. I have never had a problem with the battery draining at all. Not even randomly or overnight. The longest I have left my phone on without any kind of reboot is about 9 days. The phone drains on average about 1.3% per hour if I am not using it and 3% an hour with light use. Even using the camera and taking 4K video, the drain is very minimal. I use auto brightness and I have the always-on display turned off.

Battery drain will always come down to how you use your phone:

• How much you pick it up,
• Did you Debloat your phone,
• Do you play games (I do not),
• Are you using 5G (much higher drain) or Wifi (lower drain),
• Do you have lots of apps syncing high volumes of data in the background,
• Do you have Bluetooth on constantly and NFC in the background always on,
• Do you watch a lot of videos (I do not),
• Do you regularly properly close apps you aren't using?

and all things like this. As always YMMV. For me though, I could not get a single day out of my Samsung S22U. I can get almost 3 days out of my Vivo X90 Pro+ whilst taking a lot of photos, quite a few videos, having a few calls and using my browser a lot.

Here's 2 screenshots of my battery usage. Purple bars are background usage, which you can see is really nice and low for all apps. Turquoise (blueish) is foreground usage and I think those levels are normal. Notion is a massive battery hog, so is Libby. Notion due to sub-optimal coding and the over aggressive syncing it does when you're even just typing. Libby is just badly made. Likely I will also prevent Libby running in the background, but I allowed it only so I get notifications when my books are ready.



What about *x* app?

I don't know man, do these steps and try it for yourself. This is just what I have done and I have literally a perfect experience with this phone so far, which I think is to be expected because I wasn't chopping up my OS and removing system apps etc. If you feel like you are having a really bad experience, likely the only way forward is to fully factory reset the phone and try these steps.

What about com.vivo.pem?

Look. Friend... If you haven't figured out by the screenshot evidence and everything else I've been saying here and in my other threads, that you absolutely do not need to remove it (and absolutely should not). Then I can't help you and I won't say it again. What I will say though is this. There are a few people who have removed it, all of which STILL are having problems. ALL of which who are facing far WORSE problems like battery drain so bad that one of the biggest advocates for deleting this package is now selling his Vivo X90PP because he's unwilling to admit he bricked it by removing this package. Yet despite this he's still telling others to remove it . What we do know? Well removing to causes massive battery drain, your phone won't even last a full day. Removing it also can make it impossible to install any apps after an OS update . Removing it can also do all sorts of other weird things with your phone like force close apps randomly and cause random restarts. So why did people remove it? Because some "genius" was convinced it was a good idea. Because one guy who owned an X80 said it solved a problem getting his notifications to work. Because instead of looking for a really solution, some guys got out the axe and started hacking. So, keep the package? The worst you'll get is what... a notification might not work (which this whole guide should fix anyway). Remove it? Then only God can help you (or maybe a factory reset). My advice: Leave the package alone. If you already removed it and are having problems, factory reset and run the new debloat script and follow this guide.

Final word

I don't really use this community at all. Nor do I check posts very often. I help out only in my spare time and I don't have any interest in being some active member. In the past I have found this community unwelcoming, toxic and full of chest beaters, so I am really only interested in getting the tools and info I need and then getting out. I am not sure even why I bothered fixing the script for everyone else, I guess because it was simple and I really love this phone and want others to enjoy it. In short, I want more good phones like this and with a little bit of tweaking it can be an amazing device. However, lately, a lot of people have been DMing me after I fixed the debloat script, like over 20 people. Please do not DM me, I will likely not see these posts at all. All my notifications are disabled now after too much spam. Plus I won't reply to them individually. Make your posts in a thread where more than just me could give you an answer and do not pose your questions to "just me". I won't help you with your specific issues. The community here has always been adamant that you need to help yourself, otherwise just buy some overpriced Samdung or iPhone and forget about XDA altogether. My 2 cents.

In any case, I hope this thread helps some people going forward.

Good morning,

I wanted to ask one thing, if I may, please:

Is this procedure useful and good only for notifications, or can it also be good to "solve" another problem with the application on my car? Please?

A thousand thanks

Hi

 

[ivanox1972]

@extremecarver do you have idea what needs any of Samsung browser adblocker addons to work? No one works. When opening Samsung browser it always says adblocker app not working, not installed properly, see what misses etc...

 

[luontokoodaus]

@extremecarver do you have idea what needs any of Samsung browser adblocker addons to work? No one works. When opening Samsung browser it always says adblocker app not working, not installed properly, see what misses etc...

Use a proper browser that has proper adblock. Why would you use Samdung spyware?

 

[extremecarver]

Btw, via notifications history you can change notifications settings for apps that you cannot normally access for setup like android system...

Useful to remove some of those stupid notifications that you don't want to see..

 

[ivanox1972]

Use a proper browser that has proper adblock. Why would you use Samdung spyware?

Which browser you suggest?

 

[ef1x]

Try opera

 

[luontokoodaus]

Try opera

This IS literal Chinese owned spyware...

He should use Brave or regular old Firefox with adblock. Even Kiwi Browser works fine and allows addons.

 

[Find791]

Can someone confirm that battery is only 1.3% draining by hour without using it with this method?
Thanks! Show us your battery stats.

 

[lemonade747]

I'm figuring it out how to fix the Dark mode with notifications after a week of testing some debloatings, don't need to remove vivo.pem. Tested with Messenger and it's working and showing perfectly on the lockscreen. I don't use whatsapp, so I couldn't test it, but I tested with other social apps, message apps, like instagram, tiktok, fb, signal, telegram and they are working same as in light mode. I will test more in the next few days then will give the instruction how to fix this if I'm not very busy.

Example video of Messenger working in Dark mode:

2023_04_08_21_48_08.mp4

drive.google.com

 

[extremecarver]

Do you get notifications on time with dark mode? I took quite some stuff regarding dark mode out of the config files - and actually I get notifications too. However seemingly only around every 10-15 minutees.
Actually the same even if I go into battery saving mode too.
But I changed way too many (hidden) settings related to this so I wouldn't know at all what is responsible.

 

[lemonade747]

Do you get notifications on time with dark mode? I took quite some stuff regarding dark mode out of the config files - and actually I get notifications too. However seemingly only around every 10-15 minutees.
Actually the same even if I go into battery saving mode too.
But I changed way too many (hidden) settings related to this so I wouldn't know at all what is responsible.

If you viewed my video, then you could see that it showed the notifications right away after I sent it. No delay at all.

 

[extremecarver]

If you viewed my video, then you could see that it showed the notifications right away after I sent it. No delay at all.

The problem is for me only with screen off for 10 minutes or so before. If screen was on during previous 10 minutes then dark mode and power saving/sleep is fine (unlike vibration mode or silent mode which destroy notifications right away with screen off). That cannot be shown in a short video

 

[lemonade747]

The problem is for me only with screen off for 10 minutes or so before. If screen was on during previous 10 minutes then dark mode and power saving/sleep is fine (unlike vibration mode or silent mode which destroy notifications right away with screen off). That cannot be shown in a short video

So you want me to record 10 minute video for you to prove or what? It's been working for me for a whole week, so I guess it's ok for me buddy. You can believe it or not. For me, I'm satisfied, even the notification showed 3-5 seconds faster than my S22U.

 

[extremecarver]

Na I believe you if you say so. It's just I didn't click the video because I didn't even suppose it can show the problem I have on dark mode. It used to be complete out but not sure if Vivo firmware or me changing stuff related to dark mode in system and global config changed this to arrive but with 10-15 minutes delay

 

[luontokoodaus]

Can someone confirm that battery is only 1.3% draining by hour without using it with this method?
Thanks! Show us your battery stats.

Check the OP. I literally included battery stats in the first post...

Dark Mode still working for me 100% and getting notifications on lock screen also with Dark Mode on. Have still not removed com.vivo.pem