WhatsApp Notifications

[david-ger]

How has your guys’ experience been with receiving WhatsApp notifications (audible alert) while the app is in the background? Personally, it felt like some battery optimization is going on and the app doesn’t receive notifications, but it may have just been a one-time thing. After allowing the app to run in the background, it seems all notifications are coming through:

adb shell dumpsys deviceidle whitelist +com.whatsapp
adb shell cmd appops set com.whatsapp RUN_IN_BACKGROUND allow
adb shell cmd appops set com.whatsapp RUN_ANY_IN_BACKGROUND allow

Let me know If any of you are experiencing the same issues, to see If the extra steps are even necessary. Keep in mind that allowing WhatsApp to run in the background will affect battery life.

[urszula]

@david-ger I have the same thing. I’ve tested WhatsApp every which way & always get an audible notification.

[dominick]

I have the same. All notifications are turned off and still get the annoying sounds. This is for me really a dealbreaker because nothing screams annoying that all those notification sounds.

[aled]

Do you still get the notification sounds if you mute the conversations inside WhatsApp?

[jfoigjboiwjefaij]

I find it a bit weird not having a full silent switch or focuses like iPhone/iOS but I suppose that’s somewhat the intent of the Offline+ mode?

Is there no way to disable all notifications globally?

[urszula]

@jfoigjboiwjefaij

Is there no way to disable all notifications globally?

@jfoigjboiwjefaij You can use the Offline+ Mode, and then you won’t get any notifications. Once you turn it on, all the messages will be delivered. I just tested it.

[miiiiiiiiiiiii]

@jfoigjboiwjefaij

Is there no way to disable all notifications globally?

I don’t have WhatsApp on my Kompakt so I didn’t test, but maybe this helps: If you sideload an app that can run hidden activities for you (e.g. Activity Manager or Activity Launcher), under the Settings app (com.android.settings) you can start the Settings$NotificationAppListActivity and change notification settings for apps.

[dominick]

But ideally I dont want ti have notifications but be reachable by phone

Ideally I would love if Mudita could create a Phone SOS Only mode so it disables all notifications except phone calls of favorites/urgent sos contacts

[finnso]

So can someone confirm, if I have whatsapp installed I will get notifications for it no matter what? Even if chats are muted in the app or the app is closed? If so, this would be a pretty big issue for me. I hope the developers can fix this soon.

[damian1]

Thank you! That is super helpful!
If other people are interested, this is the way you can turn on/off notifications for your sideloaded apps, or change their notification tone / vibration.

[dominick]

Can you explain this a bit more because I am new at this and cannot figure out what to do. I tried the activity launcher but then I am stuck…

[damian1]

Here’s how I did it, hopefully you can follow along.

How to access notification settings for sideloaded apps
This lets you change which sideloaded apps send notifications, which tone they use, whether they’re silent, vibrate, etc.

Step 1: Sideload the app “Activity Manager” (I got it from F-droid)

Step 2: Open Activity Manager

Step 3: Find “com.android.settings”

This is how it looks after opening com.android.settings

Step 4: Find Settings$NotificationAppListActivity and open it

Step 5: Click on the app you want to change notification settings for

Step 6: Now you can just turn on and off the notification settings. Or click on the little bell to the left of any notification type, and you can configure its sound/vibration

[miiiiiiiiiiiii]

@david-ger Circling back to the original topic, I found there’s also something called Mediatek DuraSpeed that’s enabled…

[nilss]

Thanks for the info! I had to do this for Beeper. Even though I disabled notification in-app for both WhatsApp and Signal, it still chimes.

[csllr]

It’s funny to see so many people asking to silence the notification sound of their messenger while I desperately look for a way to get a visual queue so I don’t need to check the phone so often. People are different. And that’s great!

[simonepsp]

+1 to this! Mudita could also make use of the RGB LED.
We have a beautiful e-ink screen that could easily display a simple lockscreen with notification counters for enabled apps, while still maintaining the phone’s minimalist purpose.

Like I described here: https://forum.mudita.com/t/lockscreen-notification-counter-for-signal-and-whatsapp/

It seems like this is becoming a recurring request on the forum!