Purchased HTC Evo 4g LTE - notifications repeatedly ping, can't be dismissed from lock screen
I just purchased an HTC Evo 4g LTE phone and I have yet to activate it on a phone plan.
I have been trying to learn how to use it and the main features I want are for it to notify me when I get an email and for me to be able to dismiss these notifications from the lock screen after I have read them.
I have notifications working fine but it never seems to stop notifying me of the same message. My phone is set to sync every 5 minutes and EVERY 5 minutes it will notify me again if I haven't dismissed the notification. I would rather it notified me upon receiving the email and then sit quietly with its green light blinking. Is this possible?
Is there a way to dismiss these notifications from the lock screen? The only way I know of to stop the beeping is to unlock my phone, slide down the notification panel, and then dismiss the notifications but this seems like too many steps if, say, I'm at dinner or having a conversation and just want to shut the thing up.
Thank you so much for any help. I'm very new to smart phones, especially Android.
Eric
Updated: The Android version running on the phone is 4.1.1
I tried to install NiLS but the install page says "Android devices lower than 4.2 are not capable of showing widgets on lock screen. However you can use 3rd party lock screen such as WidgetLocker to be able to do that." I don't really want to buy an app for something I don't even know if it'll work. It seems everything I read says 4.1 does not offer much in the way of lock screen customization.
I just purchased an HTC Evo 4g LTE phone and I have yet to activate it on a phone plan.
I have been trying to learn how to use it and the main features I want are for it to notify me when I get an email and for me to be able to dismiss these notifications from the lock screen after I have read them.
I have notifications working fine but it never seems to stop notifying me of the same message. My phone is set to sync every 5 minutes and EVERY 5 minutes it will notify me again if I haven't dismissed the notification. I would rather it notified me upon receiving the email and then sit quietly with its green light blinking. Is this possible?
Is there a way to dismiss these notifications from the lock screen? The only way I know of to stop the beeping is to unlock my phone, slide down the notification panel, and then dismiss the notifications but this seems like too many steps if, say, I'm at dinner or having a conversation and just want to shut the thing up.
Thank you so much for any help. I'm very new to smart phones, especially Android.
Eric
Updated: The Android version running on the phone is 4.1.1
I tried to install NiLS but the install page says "Android devices lower than 4.2 are not capable of showing widgets on lock screen. However you can use 3rd party lock screen such as WidgetLocker to be able to do that." I don't really want to buy an app for something I don't even know if it'll work. It seems everything I read says 4.1 does not offer much in the way of lock screen customization.
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