No Notification Bubbles on ICS

[flyfish23]

I'm not sure why Google would remove notification bubbles on apps like mail, gmail and messaging and only show it on the notification pull down menu. It seems so basic to see the icon and know how many unread messages you have.

Anybody not happy with this?

Is there a good workaround?

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

I'm not sure why Google would remove notification bubbles on apps like mail, gmail and messaging and only show it on the notification pull down menu. It seems so basic to see the icon and know how many unread messages you have.

Anybody not happy with this?

Is there a good workaround?

I honestly don't know the answer to this as this is my first device without a manufacturer's framework, but did they ever have it or was that just the manufacturer who put that there? I thought they discussed this on Mobile Nations?

 

[flyfish23]

The iPhone has it, my Sammy GS2 has it, just why would they take a simple feature like that away?

 

[Mooem]

I don't think stock Android ever had that feature. You could only ever get it through third party launchers, apps, or it was built into manufacturers UI (TouchWiz, Sense, etc.)

 

[jafels]

Yep...that was never a feature of stock android.

 

[TabGuy]

This is my fourth Android phone and I've never had notification bubbles.

 

[tntdroid]

IPhones love the bubbles. Stock Android us what your seeing now. Some skins on other Android phones give you bubbles. Need a 3rd party text if you want them. I used chomp in the past and it had a bunch of custom options.

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[TabGuy]

IPhones love the bubbles.

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Funny thing about that. My wife has an original iPad. I was thinking about getting one too but I hated the popup bubbles so much I waited and got the Galaxy Tab 10.1. That one feature that couldn't be turned off turned me off to the iPad. I'm certainly glad I waited.

 

[mrmoe110]

Stock Android never had popups. Handcent and chomp SMS do. You can even set it so you get the popup notification but stock SMS is used for everything else.

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[kharrigan]

I'm not sure why Google would remove notification bubbles on apps like mail, gmail and messaging and only show it on the notification pull down menu. It seems so basic to see the icon and know how many unread messages you have.

Anybody not happy with this?

Is there a good workaround?

Wait, are we talking about badges (like the small number in a circle on app icons) or pop-up notifications?

I kinda miss the badges, but feel that the notification page is a more efficient way of addressing the issue.

 

[flyfish23]

Then i mean badges showing the number of email you have unread.

 

[jafels]

The notification bar tells you how many new and unread emails you have.

 

[ultravisitor]

Then i mean badges showing the number of email you have unread.

That's not part of stock Android.

And regarding pop-ups: I hate them.

 

[GMC MaXx]

I hated those little badges and I kept them turned off. If the app icon wasn't on your home screen you wouldn't see the little badge anyway. Having it in the notification bar is way better and cleaner.

 

[tx_tuff]

I hate bubbles, I'm glad it doesn't have it!

 

[dammitcubs]

what are notification bubbles?

I don't see a bubble. When you get a notification, it shows up on the top of the status bar? I have seen this all stock android OS and Touchwiz for GS2.

Can you show pick of this "bubble"?

Thanks/.

 

[VideoEngineerAJS]

what are notification bubbles?

I don't see a bubble. When you get a notification, it shows up on the top of the status bar? I have seen this all stock android OS and Touchwiz for GS2.

Can you show pick of this "bubble"?

Thanks/.

I think they mean like this...

 

[MBSMD]

Funny thing about that. My wife has an original iPad. I was thinking about getting one too but I hated the popup bubbles so much I waited and got the Galaxy Tab 10.1. That one feature that couldn't be turned off turned me off to the iPad. I'm certainly glad I waited.

You can turn them off in iOS 5. But there's no option to put them in the top status bar (though they will show in the pull down notification panel like on Android).

 

[Jaycemiskel]

I think they mean like this...

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Yeah, that's not part of stock Android. Maybe a launcher could bring that functionality back though.

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[pauldroidr2d2]

The iPhone has it, my Sammy GS2 has it, just why would they take a simple feature like that away?

I'm not sure what bubble you are referring to. I don't remember seeing it on either my Bionic, Tbolt, or charge.

Do you have any screen shots?
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