K-9 new email notifications no vibration on Galaxy watch
As far as I can tell, I’ve turned everything on in the app and on the phone that’s related to notifications. That’s including the notifications options inside each account within K-9. And the notifications settings in the Galaxy phone for K-9.
I really think it’s a coding issue within K-9 because all other third party apps cause watch to vibrate on notification. Something in the K-9 code is making notifications go to background on the watch. Keep in mind the notifications are correct on the Galaxy phone itself, with vibration and sound.
I don’t have a Galaxy watch but a plain one without SIM card and the email notifications work just fine here.
Did you make sure to add K9/TBird to the notification list in the watch? For me it doesn’t do it with the default Email alert the watch has listed, I have to go into the list and manually find/add the app itself.
Yes I’ve literally dug into every corner of the phone, the app, and the watch to turn on everything. And the watch does show a notification dot when the app throws up a new email notification on the phone. It just doesn’t vibrate or light up the watch screen like every other app’s notification. It’s like the alert goes into background or silent mode, except I’ve made sure the Android notifications settings for K-9 are not on silent.
I gave it a shot right now, just in case, even though I’m pretty sure that’s not the issue because this problem is only affecting the K-9 app. Every other third party app notification vibrates on the watch.
So I restarted both the phone and the watch. No change.
By the way, I’m using the original K-9 app, updated to the latest version. Not the new Thunderbird for Android. While googling for solutions to my problem I only just found out that Mozilla has bought K-9 and are developing both the K-9 app and a new Thunderbird for Android app in parallel. I was gonna try the Thunderbird app but the “Data Collected” list in the Google Play Store is extensive. The original K-9 app has no data collection necessary in the Play Store, and only two permissions in the Android settings, and one of those is just Notifications. So anyway, I’m avoiding Thunderbird for Android for now. (Edit: I went back into Play Store, and I see now that each data collection in Thunderbird is marked as “optional”…I prefer it didn’t request any data beyond necessary but I might give it a shot)
Edit 2: So I went ahead and installed Thunderbird…lol it’s literally the same app just different name and color scheme. K-9 is red and Thunderbird is blue.
Unfortunately, the behavior is still the same in Thunderbird. No vibration on watch.
