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disable stacked smart notifications on an FR235 paired with an android 6.0 phone

I am using my fr235 as a smartwatch to receive and read messages and incoming calls. When receiving a message, it is displayed in the watch's screen. However, when i receive multiple messages, the message is changed to "2 messages" and i have to push some buttons to scroll through these.

It gets messy when receiving multiple messages, and even more messy when receiving messages from different people or applications. then the only option is pick the phone and read/dismiss all notifications to clear the message buffer on the watch.

I suppose i am not the only one facing this problem, but cant find a solution.

0 ASmugDill over 9 years ago

However, when i receive multiple messages, the message is changed to "2 messages" and i have to push some buttons to scroll through these.

I'm seeing this type of notification from the Gmail app on my phone (running Android 5.0.2), both on my FR235 and in the Notification Centre on my mobile handset itself. Unless you can convince Google to change the behaviour of the Gmail app, there is nothing you can do to get a separate notification per unread incoming message. However, if you just want to disable stacked smart notifications from that app to the watch, I suppose you can simply disable all notifications from that app (and others that do the same kind of thing) using the toggles in the Garmin Connect Mobile app under Settings_›_Smart·Notifications – that solves the problem without giving you the outcome you most likely have in mind.

0 marcel.struijk over 9 years ago

Disabling all notifications isn't exactly a solution of course, this feature is one of the reasons i chose the FR235 over the FR225, which doesn't have smart notifications at all.
I'v been trying to find a cause, as far as i can find its is mainly a way of programming how the garmin connect apps reads the notification queue and the way they are relayed to the watch.
search engines point to the developer area of android.

I can't imagine i am the only one facing this issue. Since changing to IOS is quite a dramatical solution, IOS does relay the meassages like you would expect.

0 ASmugDill over 9 years ago

Disabling all notifications isn't exactly a solution of course,

All I'm saying is that it achieves what you stated in the thread title (which is limited in length, and hence the detail it may contain).

I'v been trying to find a cause, as far as i can find its is mainly a way of programming how the garmin connect apps reads the notification queue and the way they are relayed to the watch.

Notifications are sent to the watch more or less as they appear in the Notification Centre on your Android handset. If you want the notifications to be handled differently, you need to look at the operating system environment and settings, not the Garmin Connect Mobile app.

I can't imagine i am the only one facing this issue.

We (Android phone users) all face the phenomenon. How much of an issue it is to us individually is subjective.

Since changing to IOS is quite a dramatical solution, IOS does relay the meassages like you would expect.

I'm not a big fan of looking at Apple, Fitbit, etc. as some sort of de facto standard in UI/UX design on which to set one's expectations. I'm not saying they aren't good; I'm saying nobody need follow suit or try to surpass them in order to have a viable, competent and competitive product in the same space. Your “like you would expect” seems more a statement about to what you're accustomed, and not what is the “right” thing or the “no-brainer” decision for a competitor to do or make.