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How to use Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?

A complete guide on mastering Android Lollipop's notification and interruption

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1) I. What is the new Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system?
2) II. What’s the meaning of the three modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?
2.1) Mode 1: All mode
2.2) Mode 2: None mode
2.3) Mode 3: Priority mode
3) III. How to setup and change the 3 notification modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruptions?
3.1) Method 1: Tap volume button.
3.2) Method 2: Go to Settings–Sound and Notification –Interruptions.
4) IV. How to set up downtime in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?
5) V. How to configure the priority mode in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?
6) VI. How to set App notifications for Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?
6.1) Can you use Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption now?

I. What is the new Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system?

One of the biggest changes in Android Lollipop is the notification system. To certain extent, the Android Lollipop’s notification is totally new. It is fundamentally different from the notification system in previous Android devices.

Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system treats all notifications and alert as interruptions. You can control when and how you receive notifications and alerts so that  you will get interrupted only when you want to be.

The major new features in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system includes:

  • Choose from 3 modes: all, none and priority.
  • View and respond to messages directly from your lock screen.
  • Hide sensitive content in notifications.
  • Prioritize notifications from apps.
  • Rank notifications based on who they’re from and the type of communication.
  • Stop interruption of incoming calls.
  • Setup and use downtime.
  • Hide sensitive notifications from lock screen.
  • and more…

II. What’s the meaning of the three modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?

When pressing the volume button (volume up or down), you can quickly switch among the 3 modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system.

Mode 1: All mode

In All mode, as suggested by the name, you turn on all notification and alerts in your device.  In other words, you will get notifications and alerts  from the system and all apps except those that you turned off notifications explicitly.

There are a few settings will overwrite the All mode in Android Lollipop’s notification. One is individual app notification setting. If you set notification from certain apps as Block, you will not net get notifications or interruptions from these apps in All  mode.

Downtime settings will also overwrite this All mode.

In All Mode, you can lower the volume all the way down to vibrate mode. This essentially silence your Android Lollipop device as in old Android versions.

In Android Lollipop, there is no separate vibrate mode. You just lower the volume down to silence the device.  In this vibrate mode, you will still get notifications and alerts without notifications tones.

Mode 2: None mode

None mode is the other extreme. In this mode, all notifications tones will be turned off, including the Alarm and the ringer.

Please note, none mode stops audio interruptions only. In other words, text notifications and notification icons will still shown on the screen. For example, when a SMS message arrives, it will notify you on the screen.

If you want to turn off all notifications, you need use downtime feature.

When None mode is activated, you will see a special icon in the stats bar as shown below.

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Mode 3: Priority mode

Priority mode allows certain notifications to interrupt you. You assign which app is in your priority list so that it may interrupt you in the Priority mode.

Similar to that  in All mode, you can also lower the volume to vibrate mode. But vibrate mode under Priority mode still obeys the priority rules. In other words, apps that are not in your priority list can NOT vibrate the phone.

If Priority mode is activated, the stats bar will show a star icon as shown below.

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III. How to setup and change the 3 notification modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruptions?

There are at least two ways to setup or change the  3 notifications modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system.

Method 1: Tap volume button.

Once you tap the volume button (it doesn’t matter it is volume up or volume down), in addition to  normal volume level settings on the top as shown below, you get the options  to switch among the 3 notification modes: None, Priority and All.

This is the quickest way to switch the notification modes in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruptions.

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If you tap any of the notification modes, you  will also be offered the option to set the duration for this change as (as shown below):

  • Indefinitely. The notification will stick in this mode until you manually change it again.
  • A few hours.  After this period, the notification will change back to current mode automatically.  For example, you have a meeting and you want to change the notification to None for next 2 hours. After 2 hours, the notification and interruption mode will revert back automatically.

As shown in the screenshot below, you can adjust the duration by tapping he + or – button accordingly.

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Method 2: Go to Settings–Sound and Notification –Interruptions.

You can access  Settings either from quick settings panel or from the Settings app in the app drawer.

In the Interruptions page, as shown below, you can tap “When calls and notification arrive” to select the notification and interruption modes quickly.

  • Always interrupt means All mode.
  • Allow only priority interruptions means Priority mode.
  • Don’t interrupt means None mode.

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IV. How to set up downtime in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?

Downtime is another useful feature in the new Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system. It turn on Priority mode automatically in the specific time automatically, and repeatedly.

Some Lollipop users like to compare Downtime with Do Not Disturb in iPhones. They are similar. But Downtime is more powerful as  you can fine tune Priority interruptions.

The Downtime can save you a lot of time by avoiding to turn on/off Priority mode  again and again. For example,  you can specify your sleeping time or school time as Downtime so that only notifications from certain apps, or calls from certain contacts can distract you during this period. After this period, the notification mode will revert back to the one before downtime. It is not necessary for you to change it manually.

You can access Downtime settings to configure it from Settings—Sound and Notification —Interruptions.

As shown in the screenshots below, you can set the days and time to enable Downtime automatically based on your scedule.

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V. How to configure the priority mode in Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?

It is very easy to  configure Priority mode in Lollipop. You only need configure:

  • Do you allow events or reminders? These interruptions are from your calendar or Google Keep.
  • Who can call you? Nobody or specific callers?
  • Who can message you? Nobody or specific callers?
  • Which apps can send notifications in Priority mode? You need set it in App notifications (see below)

When you enable calls and messages in Priority mode, you can allow calls or messages from certain people. You have 3 options (as shown below):

  • Anyone.
  • Contacts only. Only people matching contact info in your Contacts app can interrupt you.
  • Starred contacts only. Only contacts which you starred in your Contacts app can interrupt you.

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VI. How to set App notifications for Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption?

Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption system also allows you to customize the notification of individual apps. In old versions, you only have the option to turn app notification on or off. The Lollipop’s notification system allows fine control on notifications from all apps, including pre-installed apps.

To configure app notifications, you can go to Settings—Sound  & notification—App notifications as shown below.

Select the app as shown below. For example, we use Motorola Assist as an example.

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After tapping  Assist, you will get the app notification page for this app.

You can choose

  1. Block. You essentially disable the notifications from this app. The app will not send any notifications forever. In other words, notifications through this app are automatically blocked.  This setting has identical effects of those of turning off notifications in Settings —Apps. Actually, once you choose Blocked in app notification page here, you will find the show notifications in App info page in Settings—Apps will be turned off automatically.
  2. Priority. You will get notification from this app in both All mode and Priority mode. Notifications from this app can go through even you are in the Priority mode (and of course, during downtime.

These two options are mutually exclusive. Once you enable one (drag the switch to right to enable it), the other one will be disabled automatically.

If you set screen locks to PIN, pattern or anything except swipe or none, you have another option to declare notifications from this app as sensitive as shown below.

Sensitive notifications will be hidden from the lock screen.

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Can you use Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption now?

If you have any questions on using Android Lollipop’s notification and interruption or encounter any problems with the notifications in your Android Lollipop, please let us know them in the comment box below.

The community will help you.

For more Android Lollipop guides, please visit on Android Lollipop Guide page.

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Comments

  2. jaz says

    My notification tones are pretty low n i cant find an option to increase it. Where as the ringtone is good. Is there a solution?

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  3. Matt says

    Just switched from iOS to android lolly pop. So far so good. Just noticed an exclamation point next to WiFi symbol. Does anyone know what this means an how to troubleshoot?

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  5. Miche says

    Thank you. I’m three days into my Android experience, so the curve is steep. So, there’s no way to just turn all alerts off/on with a single button, the way iPhone does with the side button? Going in to set up each app alert each time I want to turn my phone alerts on/off with this setup seems overly complex.

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  6. Dennis Quinlan says

    How would I stop all notifications between the hours of 10pm until 7.30am with the exception of my alarms in Lollipop? I use Extreme Alarm if that makes any difference?

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  7. Dennis Q says

    Hi Simon. I have the Samsung S5 with Lollipop 5.0 installed just the other day. Have had nothing but trouble since then. I still cannot find Do not disturb or Downtime under Interruptions. Heck I cannot even get my phone to update the apps I have on it right now. I now wish I was still on KitKat as the Blocking Mode was very easy to use.

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  8. Kate Randall says

    I’ve got a Moto G, updated it to the ‘lollipop’ version yesterday. But, I’ve come across the problem that I cannot switch it to completely no vibrate. On the old version I had the the options of: sound, vibrate, nothing (just the light to flash up). If you could tell me how to do this in the new version, that would be great! Thanks!

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  9. Joanne swan says

    I am sooooo confused by this update 🙁 I have “accidently” done something and now im not being notified to text messages . Can anyone tell me how to turn them back on please ?
    Joanne.

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  14. Annette Sternberg says

    Galaxy S6 with Lollipop, I cannot find a setting to switch off notification alerts during a call

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  16. Benjamin says

    Thank you for this guide, it goes some way to explain what seems an overly confusing system. Although still I can’t for the life of me work out how to get it how I want it!

    All I want to be able to do is have it how it was before. To have notifications appear only as an icon in the bar at the top. And then when you pull down you can see the content.

    All I can seem to do at the moment is either have notifications plastered all over the middle of the screen, or get no notification at all. Which seems like the most stupid, backward system imaginable. I must be missing something, I can’t believe there would be a big Android update only for the system to have far less functionality than it used to.

    Is it possible to get notification icons to appear at the top but not all over the screen? Please someone tell me it is!

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  17. Benjamin says

    Thanks. Unfortunately I’m on an Oneplus One and I don’t think that feature exists. As far as I can make out there isn’t a way to get lockscreen notifications without the full pop up.

    Nor is there a silent mode (without muting everything on None) so the way I like to have my phone – on silent with notifications appearing with an led light and visible with an icon only in the menu bar seems an impossible dream.

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  18. Tee says

    Can I switch off the vibration somehow? In the evenings I would like to turn off all the notifications but keep the alarm. I find the vibration quite noisy and I would like to turn that off completely.

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  19. Moon_Walker says

    I updated my Samsung s4 to lollipop a few days ago. Now I don’t receive any notifications on my home screen when I miss a call; before update…missed calls number used to show on “phone icon”. It’s working fine with messages on “messaging icon” by the way.
    Any one can help please….

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  20. amaleena says

    i only can access my quick setings if i lock my phone. i cannot access the quick settings if i am using it. how can i solve that?

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  21. Kim says

    Hi all my text moves to the right hand side also once sent so my messages instead of being alligned to the left.
    Also a big and confusing problem is that every text I send and recieve are all in grey and white so there is no distiinction between what I’ve sent and what is received. Could you tell me how to change this so that I have some blue and yellow like my samsung 4.

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  22. anonymous says

    Hello..
    I just bought motog 2 few days before. Previously when I used to get any notification n if I tap on them the screen takes me to the app for which the notification was. But now I am not taken to the respective app even if I try tapping on the notification. Also I am not able to answer any call if I get notification of the cal. Can you help me sort out this problem.

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  23. Nitin says

    In my moto g2 when any spam call is blocked by true caller it as, tomatically goes to priority mode and it also goes to silent mode for further calls automatically….. What should I do to deactivate this…..

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  24. manish says

    LOLLIPOP-when somebody calls me,my phone doesn’t lights up…i can hear ringtone but can see only if i unlock my phone…plz can anyone help me??

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  25. Carl says

    Hi,

    This is very confusing!

    I’m trying to put the phone on silent with no vibrations, so I can take it into meetings. But I can’t see a way to do that.

    You can turn off vibrate for calls etc., but you can’t seem to turn it off when it’s on silent.

    Apparently the old version had “silent”, “vibrate” or “ring” as options – can you tell me where silent has gone?

    Thanks in advance, Carl

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  26. QuentinS says

    Hi

    I don’t get this…

    Samsung Galaxy S5. Updated Lollipop 5.0 last week. Since then the lovely notification system described above has gone. A pity, it worked, was intuitive and easy to use.

    Now we have “Do Not Disturb” which can be set to do the same thing as the above but not, in my view, so elegantly.

    That wouldn’t be an issue, can live with it.

    The biggie though is this… I like the priority mode detailed above. In order to emulate it in Do Not Disturb, you need to have DND on all the time. No problem there. BUT, in their wisdom, the developers think that having DND on is a notification item that needs a notification all the time. This takes up space on the notification screen and on the lock screen it covers useful things like – the owner name, pedometer, weather, etc. So, DND on 100% of the time in order to have the above priority mode features = notification all the time.

    How do I get rid of this notification? If you set all notifications to off then that works but then, of course, you don’t get useful notifications.

    Thanks

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  27. QuentinS says

    That’s the point, why does it “of course give a notification”? It means you can’t use it effectively or you lose useability of other functions. Its a real nuisance.

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  28. QuentinS says

    My point exactly which is why this is so frustrating, is that it DOES affect useability:

    “This takes up space on the notification screen and on the lock screen it covers useful things like – the owner name, pedometer, weather, etc. “

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  29. Thavamani N says

    Hi,
    I cannot assign ringtone from internal memory to the phone (moto 2g) and if I assign tone from SD Card it does not play whenever I get a call.It rings default tone .Can u help me from this.I bought this phone before 2 months.Moreover Images not displayed in the gallery.

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  30. twsf says

    Is there a way to temporarily and quickly set the phone to ‘vibrate only’, as in KitKat, which is very useful as I step into a meeting?

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    • twsf says

      Finally figured out answer to my own question: using volume button to push volume indicator all the way to the left sets “vibrate only” for ALL notifications, and then additional step of pressing “none” or “priority” screen button below volume indicator on that drop-down screen sets silence always or for all except ‘priority’ triggers.

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  31. steve says

    I have the Moto X and I preferred all of my icons at the top vs. on the face centered. How can I get this feature back after the update? Thanks.

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  32. Ken says

    Hi
    I just had the LeTV X600 supposedly running Lollipop.

    But I couldn’t find the notification settings ？

    Under Settings I only see ‘Sounds and Vibrations’ ？I spent the last few days tearing my hair out trying to figure out why my notifications are non existent and no way to configure it ？

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  33. Sharon Ng says

    Since the upgrade to Lollipop, I had so much trouble and frustration to get my S4 to work normally. Took it to the service centre to reset it yesterday and I still encounter the same problem.

    My S4 was set to:

    1. Sound Mode, Always Interrupt
    2. Priority Interruptions: Events & Reminders, Phone Calls, Messages. Allowed Contact – All
    3. Allowed only priority interruptions: Days – None, Start time – 10 pm, End time – 7 am next day

    Why do my S4 goes to Silent mode on its own after 10 pm? Notification for text messages are heard. What have I done wrong?

    I need it to ALWAYS allow phone calls, messages, events & reminders to be heard except when I manually put it to silent mode.

    Please do help.

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  34. Ashry says

    I’ve HTC ONE M7; just updated yesterday. I couldn’t find the “Do Not Disturb (DND)” option and I went (literally) crazy. After some searching, I found your page.
    1- Thank you very much! It (somehow) helped.
    2- The “Downtime” option is by no means equivalent to the DND… even when I mark all the weekdays and set the time between 10:am and 9:59am in the next day, I still can receive calls (with no audio, of course; which renders “Downtime” more or less the “Silent” mode [i.e., why to bother? it’s already there]).
    DND, on the other hand, used to prevent the phone from receiving any calls at all (moreover, it notifies the caller that my phone is busy).
    3- How to get the DND back? 🙁

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  35. teapengP says

    I m on Nexus 5 Lollipop 5.1.1, I have set to Priority Interruption but my Whatsapp still making sound on alert. Why is that so? Whatsapp is not marked as Priority notification.

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  37. Ozay says

    Hi, i have asus zenfone 5 Lollipop 5.0. when i receive a message, phone ring, but second message, phone is vibrating only. why is it? Can i change this? i want to always ringing. voice notification. thanks.

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  38. Akis says

    hi
    i choose to not have the lock screen ..i choose “none” from lock screen options (eye-d, pin etc) but when i close the phone with double tap there is no sound. Is there an options or it is a default setting? i have alcatel idol 3. I prefer to have sound.

    thanks for advance

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  40. Ben says

    Is there a way to disable lock screen notifications for incoming calls, with the exception of my starred contacts? It seems to be an all or nothing approach regarding the visual notification, and the audio appears to be the only thing that is affected when allowing starred contacts to interrupt me in priority mode.

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  41. Scarlett says

    So about a year ago my son was hit by a car (he’s ok now) and a stranger stopped to help, and he told her my number to call me. His phone had been destroyed in the accident. For the rest of my life, I’ll never limit calls. I got an app called nightskeeper, which made my controled the volumns on my phone so that only a “white list” of people could get through, then anyone who called twice, would get through. So in an emergency, if the first call was rejected, the second call would ring through. The app also sent a txt msg i pretyped syaing I was sleeping or busy, and that calling again in an emergency would get you through ect. It was an app I bought. I was worth every penny. Now it does not work. The new lollipop conflicts, and i can only get all or none. I don’t want to limit to only “starred” contacts, as in an emergency, no one would be able to get through. How do i disable the new lillipop volumn control? the nightskeeper app has updated a few times, non of the updates have helped, and i think i upgraded to the new lollipop about a month ago. what are my options? if i turn on my nightskeeper, my lollipop activates priority mode and only starred contacts get through 🙁

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  42. Sakura says

    Is it possible to be on “None” mode but still have the “Pulse Notification Light” turned on. I work in a quiet office so I don’t want the phone to make any sounds or vibrate but I want to know when there are notifications by the light flashing. This was possible before I updated to Lollipop.

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  44. Jade says

    My word the lollipop ui is irritating as hell and so childish looking! My private messages pop up in a pop up notification while I’m showing people pictures – how do I stop this? I don’t want to completely block app but don’t want a preview of my message showing unless I scroll the screen down like I used to. And no tabs in chrome now? Or any way I can go back to previous version and get rid of lollipop?

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  45. Mark says

    So…….since the recent 5.1.1 update, I am no longer able to answer any incoming calls. My incoming call screen is nonexistent. In addition to this, my alarms are automatically pushed to snooze without ever sounding. I need help please!!! This is on my Galaxy S6.

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  46. nishad says

    Hi friends, when I “locked” the phone, it should still ring or if you get a message it should notify me, but I could not see who the call was from until you unlocked it. So while the phone was ringing I would enter your code and then once unlocked, I would see who the call was from and at that point you could either answer it or not. simply when my phone rings I really don’t want them to be looking over to see whose calling me if I cant get to it in time. So I wanted to know if this phone can do something similar, where it will notify you that someone is calling or you are getting a text…but without anyone being able to see it, until you unlock it? Maybe there’s an app or something that will do it? Thanks again

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  47. Michael says

    How can you reply to text messages from the lock screen or notification banner without having to enter the messaging app in Lollipop 5.1??

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  48. Steve says

    I use a calendar for meetings. I would like to use Lollipop to automatically turn the phone to silent or vibrate mode while in meetings so I don’t have to worry about setting it manually. The phone tells me I’m in a meeting or sleeping, but I can’t figure out how to set the phone (Moto G) to do this.

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  49. Steve says

    Ok, I have solved my problem with help from Motorola. I have tested it and it works. It is a workaround but it works. The fix is to not have any starred contacts in your contact list and to set interruptions to starred contacts only. Assist is then set to use downtime. This way, any call or interruption will not come through when meetings are set in calendar or you are sleeping.

    Not a good solution if you must have starred contacts though.

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  50. todd says

    I like to keep my phone on vibrate all day but when I go to sleep I want it to ring for favorites both calls and text. Is there a way to have priority change phone from vibrate to ring for just favorites?

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  51. Bogdan IOnescu says

    Hi, I want to use notification and interruption over nights, but I want to leave alarms active (like was before 5.1.1). Even If I set The downtime to next day or next alarm, the alarms doesn’t sound. This is after update to 5.1.1.

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  52. Khadija says

    Hi Simon, I’m using the Moto X Pure Edition. Is there any way I can reduce the intensity of the vibration for notifications?

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  53. Vikas says

    When i uncheck notification in setting…app..then lolipo os also stop the whatapp mesg tone but in kitkat mesg tone doest stop, how can this resolve in lolipop.

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  54. loshakova says

    Thank you so much for posting this. My bleeping phone is blessedly silent now. I tried for two days, and even called my service provider. All of my app notifications are now turned off forever…or at least until the next Android update.

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  57. David says

    Hi , I have moto g 1st generation with lollipop. I am not able to switch it to vibrate mode. It is either all or none with no vibration. even if i put in the vibration symbol mode it is not vibrating when both calls or notifications arrive. My vibration alert for calls is switched on only. But still it is not vibrating. Can u please help

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  60. Tim Wright says

    I just updated to Lollipop 5.1 on my Android and I can’t hear my phone ring or hear my notifications and my volumes are all the way up. Any idea what I’m doing wrong. Otherwise, I enjoy it.

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  61. Jim LInk says

    Priority mode doesn’t seem to work for starred contacts anymore after this latest update.. Very annoying how they continuously break things. Seems like after most hangouts updates I can’t send picture messages for a few days either. Do they not beta-test?

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  62. Jo-Boo says

    I have a MotoG (3rd gen) on 5.1.1. I always want my Notifications to be set to Priority only. I choose the ‘indefinitely” option and Priority, but at least once a day I find that it has switched back to All. I have always selected the Priority/Indefinitely option after tapping the volume button. Any idea why it switches back to All, and how do I stop this? Many thanks

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  63. karthi says

    Notifications is not came from whats app and Facebook. When I open this apps that time only msg is came.. Pls give me the solution..

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  64. Zo says

    Please help. I have the moto e with lollipop. No matter what I do, when my phone is on my moto assist sleep mode, notifications still make sounds. My app notifications arn’t set to priority and I’ve even set the lollipop down time to the same time as my sleep mode but it still sounds the notifications during this time…. What’s the point in it… It drives me crazy. I’ve done everything possible and the only thing that works is to manually turn everything to block at night then reset in the morning. But that defeats the object of having down time and sleep mode which is supposed to do it automatically for you. It’s shows that sleep mode is on but it obviously isn’t. Arrrrrrgh…. Tia

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  65. TJ says

    Hi, I have moto g 1st gen running 5.1. My problem involves priority notification mode. When I have that set I don’t want text notification noises. I have looked at every setting on the phone to stop these noises whilst in priority mode but I still keep getting the sounds even though priority interruptions messages slider is set to off. I still need Ringford in case anyone rings me at night but I do not want text notifications waking me on a regular basis. Is there something wrong with my phone?

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  66. Arun says

    Hi there,

    How can I turn off the ringtone sound of all my incoming calls, but at the same time want the ringtone sound (along with vibration) for just the notifications? I need vibration for all the incoming calls though.

    TIA

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  67. jyothi says

    Hi,
    I am not getting any notifications for whats app, messenger and hike…when i open that particuler app that time only i am getting…i have upgraded to version 5.1. can you plz help to me..

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  68. pankaj soni says

    Hello .i hv mircomax canvas spark with lolipop 5.0 .my problam is that when i call any person then there calling mode like hold key,end key,etc shows at the upper part of disply.so how can i chng at lower part

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  69. DJ says

    I think I’ve finally officially changed from tech savvy to tech incompetent because I didn’t understand anything in this article and am literally 100% lost. What I want is to block all calls except favorites from Friday at 2pm to Monday at 9am but still view text messages (without audible) from everyone else all the time. But I want all text messages and call volume blocked during evening hours every day. Is this possible to do? If so could someone tell me specifically how because I haven’t a clue. Thanks.

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  70. DJ says

    HTC One. I have downtime mode and priority modes but have no idea how to use them or how they interact with each other.

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  71. Aloysius says

    Hi, my notifications from some app like clash of clans makes my phone vibrate. I already turn off the vibrate, how can i turn off the vibrate?

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  72. Anil karri says

    Hi, I was unable to access msgs and calls directly from notification panel in android lollipop 5.0. Do I need to change settings for that.

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  73. Kyle says

    I bought my fiancée the Asus Zenfone 2 roughly 2 weeks ago. It came with Lollipop & its features. For whatever reason, the “no Interruptions” setting will turn on whenever it wants & when we try to manually turn it off, it’ll stay off for 15 minutes. On top of that, it disables her internet access. She attemps to go back on the internet but it says she has no connection..unless we get it turned off or she hooks up with WiFi. What the hell is causing this? We’re clueless

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  74. Imogen says

    I have a Moto G on Lollipop 5.1 (I think) and I wish to turn off the keyboard vibrations. I have tried going onto Sound & Vibration, Other sounds, then turning off Other sounds however it only turns off the Home, Back and Open Apps buttons. Is there any way to turn it off? I could do it in KitKat but I can’t find a way on Lollipop.
    Thanks!

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    • Andre says

      Hi Imogen,
      In my phone (moto G3) I can turn it off under settings, Language & input, keyboard & input methods, Google Keyboard, Preferences, Vibrate on keypress. Good luck.

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  75. Shivangi says

    I am unable to find none,priority and all option after pressing volume button in my Moto g3. what can i do to get those options? plese help.

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  76. Uag says

    After tapping volume button , i dont see three options. Only one option of no interruptions is seen. Can post a screenshot if possible.

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  77. maddz says

    Hi Simon, i have lollipop version. Plz tell me hiw to remove interpreted app installation notification..

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  79. CHIRU HARSHITH says

    Any new notification from my applications say whatsapp. I appers on my screen for some time and later displays onto the notification bar when i slide the notification bar. Initially when it displays onto my screen i can’t open my application by tapping on it. How can I include a screenshot of this issue to you?

    Please help me in solving this issue of my notification app interruptions.

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  80. Angie says

    I have moto x with android 5.1. I want to keep my notifications to stay in “all” with volume set high, but every now and then every day the volume turns down all the way off and “all” becomes priority. How can I keep it from changing on its own?

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  81. Angie says

    I give up. It even happens on its own. I don’t use the phone much and even when it is idle and I check it, I find it has moved. I know there are background things going with some apps, so I have no idea what may be causing it. I can even put it on the charger overnight and the next morning it will have moved. It will be where I want it and after I have used a phone call and check it later after not having used the phone for anything else and it will have moved. I give up. Just need to check it often so I don’t miss any calls when the volume is off.

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  82. Neha Kulkarni says

    I am unable to receive notifications on phone reboot on lollipop 5.1.
    Broadcast is not getting called at all.Does these settings have to do anything with this issue.I have set my app as priority.

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  83. Smrutiranjan swain says

    I have micromax canvas 6 e485 model lollipop version when my mobile locked it automatically changed all mode interruption to none mode and when call comes it does not vibrate please help me

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