Orange Circle Notification Number - Facebook and Email apps - HOW TO TURN OFF?

[tbr5999]

On the app icons for Facebook and Email, I have orange circles with a number in them showing new emails or Facebook notifications. I want to make the orange FB notifications DISAPPEAR. My belief is that since I see that orange # show up so frequently, with every new comment to a FB post, that my device must be pushing notifications and checking FB every 10 minutes, wearing down my battery. So I would like to end that.

I have already:
1. Gone to App Settings > Refresh Interval and said NEVER
2. Gone to App Settings > Notifications and choose INACTIVE
3. Gone to Account Settings > Notifications > Mobile Push and UNCHECKED everything
I have also gone to Device Settings > Applications > Application Manager > Facebook and UNCHECKED Show Notifications.

The same orange circle with number of new emails show on my email icon, but I don't mind that so much. However, if I can disable it, perhaps I can find my way to disable on Facebook.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Rukbat]

Push doesn't mean that your phone pushes notifications, it means that the server (Facebook, email) push notifications to your phone, waking the phone up for a tiny faction of a second. Turning off the notification badges (the orange circles) won't stop that, it will just stop notifying you that an email got pushed to the phone. The badging does take battery - you may need to charge your battery a minute sooner after 2 days if you have badges on, it's that small an amount. Normally that will be in your launcher's settings. In Nova, it's in Unread counts.