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OREO update on S8 on 19.03.2018 no badges are working with notifications
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urzicaoliver
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Last week my phone updated to the newest Oreo what is a real shit. Phone works slower and even if my all apps notifications and badges are allowed it is not working. This is a big problem, without notifications with badges it is not usable for my work.
Anybody knows what to do?
Anybody knows what to do?
urzicaoliver
Lurker
I have the same problem, just phone has.done some update and is not working anymore even if all apps notifications are allowed with number badges.
urzicaoliver
Lurker
5 days ago due some system update my badges are not working anymore, even.if.they are allowed all notifications with number badges. Why? What to do?
Duplicate topics merged. 
First thing is to find out whether everyone has the same problem. If they have it's a feature of the update (not the OS - Oreo works fine - but possibly of what Samsung have done with it, or something your carrier added). In that case switching to a third party launcher may solve your badge problem.
If it's just you, or just a few people, then backing up and doing a factory reset may be worth a go. Major OS updates are sometimes not fully compatible with old data, which can cause odd problems.
I've read other people say their Samsung phone is faster after the Oreo update, so it certainly isn't true that it is slowing everybody's phones down.
If it's just you, or just a few people, then backing up and doing a factory reset may be worth a go. Major OS updates are sometimes not fully compatible with old data, which can cause odd problems.
I've read other people say their Samsung phone is faster after the Oreo update, so it certainly isn't true that it is slowing everybody's phones down.
run2eat
Newbie
i texted with samsung support, and turns out the way badges work is a "feature". the functionality is that the badges are tied to notifications, so when you dismiss notifications, the badges go away. And when you open the app, badges go away. So, there is no way to have a static badge where the number counts up. for example, in nougat, the badge for email would read, say, "2" and then in an hour it would read "12" - reflecting 10 additional emails. now, the only way to get to "12" is to allow AND leave 10 notifications AND not open the app. if you dismiss notifications OR open the mail app, the badge COMPLETELY disappears. this is completely ridiculous because the whole point of badges is not to have to receive notifications.
I'm really upset, disappointed, angry -- and after texting with samsung, also sure there's nothing i can do. if someone knows a fix, please share!!
I'm really upset, disappointed, angry -- and after texting with samsung, also sure there's nothing i can do. if someone knows a fix, please share!!
Switch launcher.
That may be how the Oreo default implementation of these badges works (I've checked: the Pixel launcher is the same), but Nova Launcher supported these things its own way, using an add-on called TeslaUnread, and that keeps badges (including counts) until you actually read the message - you can open the app, swipe the notification away, whatever, and the badge is still there. And I've just tested that Apex Launcher + it's add-on, Apex Notifier, work the same.
So there is a way of getting the behaviour you prefer back, if you are happy to change launchers (I've not used a phone's stock launcher for more than a few minutes since 2010, so for me this is no hardship
).
That may be how the Oreo default implementation of these badges works (I've checked: the Pixel launcher is the same), but Nova Launcher supported these things its own way, using an add-on called TeslaUnread, and that keeps badges (including counts) until you actually read the message - you can open the app, swipe the notification away, whatever, and the badge is still there. And I've just tested that Apex Launcher + it's add-on, Apex Notifier, work the same.
So there is a way of getting the behaviour you prefer back, if you are happy to change launchers (I've not used a phone's stock launcher for more than a few minutes since 2010, so for me this is no hardship
).
I've been using it with my Pixel 2 since October, never noticed any problem.
And I used it for 5 years before that with my previous phone.
Edit: Curious coincidence: I just got an update to TeslaUnread, which said the reason for the update was to "improve reliability of GMail count". I've never used the GMail app for very long - certainly not long enough to notice any problems - so can't say how much of a problem this ever was. But maybe that's what the reports you'd read referred to? If so, it sounds like something they've been addressing.
And I used it for 5 years before that with my previous phone.
Edit: Curious coincidence: I just got an update to TeslaUnread, which said the reason for the update was to "improve reliability of GMail count". I've never used the GMail app for very long - certainly not long enough to notice any problems - so can't say how much of a problem this ever was. But maybe that's what the reports you'd read referred to? If so, it sounds like something they've been addressing.
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I'd edited my post since you replied. Doesn't change my conclusion, but might be relevant information.
BTW I've opened TeslaUnread for the first time in years, and see that it says that for apps it doesn't support directly it will try to work out counts from notifications. So for those it's possible that swiping a notification might make a difference - there aren't any of those I can easily test. However the list of apps it directly supports includes every email, SMS, message or social app I've installed, so that has never been an issue for me.
BTW I've opened TeslaUnread for the first time in years, and see that it says that for apps it doesn't support directly it will try to work out counts from notifications. So for those it's possible that swiping a notification might make a difference - there aren't any of those I can easily test. However the list of apps it directly supports includes every email, SMS, message or social app I've installed, so that has never been an issue for me.