OMG the annoying persistent notifications. What a step back Google.

[Nonymous666]

You'll only get the charging notification when the phone is plugged into a PC or attached to some other device, via the USB cable.

If you tap the notification, it then pops up a window asking what you want to do with the USB connection....

- Charge this device (which is the default)

- Supply power (if you want the phone to supply power to whatever's at the other end of the USB cable, such as for letting your phone charge another phone)

- Transfer files (selecting this then lets you browse the file system using PC's file browser. Selecting it is basically telling the device that whatever's connected to its USB, you're granting it permission to access the device's file system)

- Transfer photos

- Use device as MIDI

 

[xxaarraa1983]

Just found another annoying persistent notification - "Whatsapp web is currently active" Who cares? I know it is, because I activated it!

Waiting for all of you to tell me how useful this notification is to your lives.

 

[Aquila]

Just found another annoying persistent notification - "Whatsapp web is currently active" Who cares? I know it is, because I activated it!

Waiting for all of you to tell me how useful this notification is to your lives.

I've never seen that notification, so it's not useful to me. I can tell you all about how much I don't care about it.

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssss ¯\_______________(ツ)_______________/¯ much!

 

[Javier P]

Just found another annoying persistent notification - "Whatsapp web is currently active" Who cares? I know it is, because I activated it!

Waiting for all of you to tell me how useful this notification is to your lives.

That was introduced by WhatsApp a while ago and I kind of understand the logic behind this persistent notification: safety and privacy. It reminds you that you have a session opened on a different device.

It can be a bit annoying and I think your best options are getting in touch with WhatsApp support or installing an Xposed module that, apparently, lets you remove this notification.

 

[Richard Servello]

So, which is better? Having occasional benign notifications or not knowing that a melicious app is running in the background?

 

[Aquila]

So, which is better? Having occasional benign notifications or not knowing that a melicious app is running in the background?

I'd rather know.

 

[Jaycemiskel]

So, which is better? Having occasional benign notifications or not knowing that a melicious app is running in the background?

Well, since I've never had a malicious app running in the background, I would rather not have the occasional benign notifications. My personal preference though, I can see why some would want that.

 

[xxaarraa1983]

So, which is better? Having occasional benign notifications or not knowing that a melicious app is running in the background?

Well if your app store is well curated you wouldn't typically expect to have too many "malicious" apps to start with.

I expect my super smart phone to act like a smart phone and do its thing and abstract me from the nuisance. At the very least, let me dismiss the notifications. If I wanted to be a nerd watching every process running, I would also be running UNIX on my desktop, I don't

 

[Aquila]

Well if your app store is well curated you wouldn't typically expect to have too many "malicious" apps to start with.

The odds of a random person (who isn't up to shady stuff to begin with) having malware on either OS are nearly identical.

 

[xxaarraa1983]

The odds of a random person (who isn't up to shady stuff to begin with) having malware on either OS are nearly identical.

Not sure what you mean by "either OS"

I am a long time Android user and fan, my other phone is a Note 8. My comments here are related to Pixel 2 / Oreo and how it handles notifications.

Android fans need not get too defensive when someone says anything other than "everything is great!"

 

[Aquila]

Not sure what you mean by "either OS"

I am a long time Android user and fan, my other phone is a Note 8. My comments here are related to Pixel 2 / Oreo and how it handles notifications.

Android fans need not get too defensive when someone says anything other than "everything is great!"

Ah thought you were referencing iOS with "curated".

 

[xxaarraa1983]

Ah thought you were referencing iOS with "curated".

No man, Android people can use fancy words too sometimes Good words aren't limited to brown-nosed apple executives who want you to believe they invented the modern world! (apple product announcements are so entertaining in their fake news)

 

[sydneycooper1979]

Mod note: let's keep the discussion on topic please. Thank you.

 

[Richard Servello]

malicious apps have been known to slip thru.

 

[Richard Servello]

sometimes it's just poor code that runs in the background and shouldn't.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

It's the USB debugging / charging icon. Snip

you would rather your phone not tell you it could be capable of file transfers and system commands when it's plugged into something? What about something like an airport charge stand? Or a hotel clock?

That's cool if you are, but I think you can see the importance of this one.

Others may not seem important, but what they tell you is that an app or parts of an app are running as if they were in the foreground. They can ramp the CPU, use your network connection and even access the clipboard when they do this.

You need to be aware of this. You can dismiss the notification through its settings, but Google would be wrong to not tell you what's happening behind your back.

 

[ndonnine]

I'm not understanding why the notification thing is a problem? They don't make noise? They just exist as icons. I feel like that is super useful and not too imposing. Unless I'm missing something

 

[Aquila]

By the way, in 8.1 they can be turned off for those that want that.

 

[xxaarraa1983]

By the way, in 8.1 they can be turned off for those that want that.

Awesome! Thank you Google!

 

[103Softail]

In general, Android over does the notifications and I find Apple's approach better. I don't want to be told about everything happening behind the scenes, I want my 'smartphone' to handle it without telling me. I typically blank out much of what's on the status bar with systemUItuner anyway.

Anyway, Oreo seems to have taken several steps back with these super annoying persistent notifications!!! I don't need a notification to be there all the time that I cannot dismiss that says my phone is charging (I know, because I plugged it in!), or that something is running in the background (who cares?).

I found the one hack to remove the running in background notification, but I still get all the other annoying ones including every time I plug into my car for charging.

Anyway to deal with these? Anyone else feel this pain?

Try watching this -
Top 5 Samsung Galaxy Note 8 / S8 / S8 Plus Mods (No Root Needed)
by TK Bay