email icon not showing number of emails

[bszaronos]

The email icon is not showing the number of emails anymore. It shows in the notification bar that I have received an email.
I have seen it show up once or twice, but i had 7 emails this mourning, and the icon shows nothing.

Any one got any ideas ?

 

[srkmagnus]

The email icon is not showing the number of emails anymore. It shows in the notification bar that I have received an email.
I have seen it show up once or twice, but i had 7 emails this mourning, and the icon shows nothing.

Any one got any ideas ?

Does the email icon still show (without the number of emails)? Of it's not, then you might have deleted the notification from the notification pull down. Mark everything unread then see if the number of received unread emails shows afterwards.

 

[bszaronos]

I went into applications menu, deleted everything and re-set my email account. Now it is showing the number of emails. =^.^=

 

[MJK113366]

Re: How to fix email icon not showing number of emails on Galaxy S6

Believe it or not, the fix for this issue is really easy! If you are not receiving the small number "bubble" on your email icon, you are most likely not receiving any numerical indications on your text icon or your voice mail icon as well. I had this happen, and my AT&T store told me that it was due to an upgrade downloaded to my phone. Completely not true!! So, this is how to restore the number bubbles on your email icon, text icon, and your voice mail icon.
1.) Open up your "Settings".
2.) Slide the pages until you get to the "Device" page.
3.) Open up "Applications".
4.) On the page that opens titled "Applications", look at the top of the page and find the "Application Manager" icon, and tap that to open it.
5.) The next page that appears is the "Applications Manager" page. At the very top right of the page you will see the word "More". Tap on "More".
6.) After taping "More", a box will open in the top right of the page. It will have two(2) choices..........."Sort by size" and "Reset app preferences".
7.) Tap on "Reset app preferences".
8.) This will open up the "Reset app preferences" box.
9.) At the bottom of the box, you have the choice to either choose "RESET" or "CANCEL".
10.) Tap on "RESET". This will reset all preferences for disabled apps, disabled app notifications, default apps for action, background data restrictions for apps, and any permission restrictions. YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANY APP DATA!!
11.) Your numerical "bubbles" for emails received, messages received, and voice mail received will be back to normal!!!!!
12.) Since you have reset disabled apps, default apps for action, background data restrictions for apps, and any permission restrictions, you will need to go back into settings to easily modify your Galaxy S6 preferences.

Follow these simple directions.......and your home page icons for email, texts, and voice mail will regain their numerical indicators. SIMPLE!!!!

 

[1kathy]

Re: How to fix email icon not showing number of emails on Galaxy S6

Did not work for me

 

[TSharif]

Re: How to fix email icon not showing number of emails on Galaxy S6

Thank you! Your instructions were so on point.

 

[Simjim92]

guys i found a solution to get it to work that doesnt involve resetting app preferences (which is annoying because it resets it for everything!!!!)

basically, have tiles notifications with numbers turned on > in emails, go to notifications, and put yes for the accounts > but if you dont like the push notifications set the importance to LOW!!! > in emails set sync schedule to auto (when received).

to recap, here's a checklist:

in apps, click emails, then notifications make sure app icon badges is on
for each email account, set yes to notifications, but change importance to LOW if you dont want push notifications to drop down screen, and make sure app icon badges is swiped blue to on.
in settings>notifications > notifications on home screen, make sure app icon badges is on, with either show with dot or number (your choice)
for each email account, make sure your sync schedule is AUTO (when received)



boom. the second you get a new email, the number will appear.

hope that helps, i like it because constantly resetting preferences would be irritating!

 

[Bnewcol1]

The problem is, in my app settings, there's nothing that says app badge icons. It is not even in my settings to check it or uncheck it, so then what?

guys i found a solution to get it to work that doesnt involve resetting app preferences (which is annoying because it resets it for everything!!!!)

basically, have tiles notifications with numbers turned on > in emails, go to notifications, and put yes for the accounts > but if you dont like the push notifications set the importance to LOW!!! > in emails set sync schedule to auto (when received).

to recap, here's a checklist:

in apps, click emails, then notifications make sure app icon badges is on
for each email account, set yes to notifications, but change importance to LOW if you dont want push notifications to drop down screen, and make sure app icon badges is swiped blue to on.
in settings>notifications > notifications on home screen, make sure app icon badges is on, with either show with dot or number (your choice)
for each email account, make sure your sync schedule is AUTO (when received)



boom. the second you get a new email, the number will appear.

hope that helps, i like it because constantly resetting preferences would be irritating!

 

[Graphics-VA]

So, I ran into this same problem and the fix is actually MUCH SIMPLER than all of this.

Do a search for "BadgeProvider". It's a system app.

Most likely it is turned off. Just turn it back on and then you are done!