How to disable notifications when you're in your sms app...

[Ivan34]

I have had an Android since the nexus one came out, but work forced me to get an iphone this summer. Well I ditched the work phone and went on my own and got the new Note.

Now the only thing I really liked about the iphone, was that when you had the sms app open it didn't set off your notification when you got a text.

I have searched the internet, and I'm either not searching with the correct phrase, no one wants this feature, or I'm just an idiot and am blind, but I can't not find a way to do this.

FTR I have go sms, but have no issues using handcent if it can do it but not go.

 

[femgoth]

Not sure it is 100% what you are after but using llama you can set it to mute notifications if 'user present' so if you are like me and lock the phone whenever not using it (as opposed to just putting phone down) then if you are looking at the screen it will just show the icon or the go sms pop-up.

 

[Ivan34]

If I'm texting my wife back and forth and I'm looking at the conversation the screen I don't want the default "whistle" to go off every time she sends me a text while i'm looking at the conversation.

Does that make sense?

 

[femgoth]

Yeah I know what you mean. The only way I can think of doing it is using llama. If you set up an event to silence notifications when user present it will not beep/ping but it won't do it when in other applications either. You would then need another event to turn it back on when user not present as well.

It has a system where you can change the notification sounds of other apps as well (the ones that have their own ringtone) but it is a little tricky to set up for that if you hasn't used it before.

Let me know if you need help with it.