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Dismissed reminders not syncing

Does anyone else have a problem with reminders that you've either snoozed or dismissed on your desktop not updating when you sync so that they keep reminding you on your Kaiser? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Anyone?...

I don't understand the problem...
If you've dismissed the reminder on the PC, it means that the set alarm time has passed.. which means the alarm has already started sounding on the phone by the time you sync again, no?

Correct. Now given your scenario, the event will still be active on my phone if I haven't dismissed it on the phone (I disable notification popups, but occassionally manually check reminders by tapping the alarm bell in the top bar). Shouldn't the sync dismiss the event on the phone if it was already dismissed on the PC?

No. If you removed the alarm and synced before it went off then yes, but once the alarm has gone off you need to dismiss it on the device itself. Once the alarm it's triggered it's not handled by the calendar anymore but at system level.

Oh, OK. But if I dismiss it on the phone, it won't dismiss it on the PC?

Pre-Purchase questions

Hi, before I buy one wanted to find out three things if someone could assist.
-With voice commands and driving, is it true I still need to press an on screen button to send a message to someone via SMS
-With voice commands, can you schedule an appointment with a synced calendar other than Googles. I sync to an exchange calendar and when I played with google now a while back, it only created appointments via voice to the google calendar.
-with active notifications, what happens if you have three notifications? Does it also always show the screen when you take it out of your pocket. Hoping that it does?
thanks all

Voice commands will work similar to how they have on other Google NOW capable devices. So yes, you still need to press "Send message" to send it. As for the exchange stuff. If you could do it on another device, you can do it on this one.
Active notifications will show what you tell them to show. There are settings that allow you to choose what apps display. As the active notifications use the proximity sensor to decide when to display, it will indeed show whenever it's removed from your pocket. If you have multiple notifications, dragging your active lock upward will bring you to the app that produced the most recent notification.
Is that about as clear as mud? I suck at explaining things. Lmk if you need any clarification.

Thanks, just curious on two parts. If you have multiple notifications, the only icon you see is the most recent. The only way to know the others is by swiping the status bar I assume?
If you have no notifications, I assume the screen will not turn on, is that correct?
thanks
AdhvanIt said:
Voice commands will work similar to how they have on other Google NOW capable devices. So yes, you still need to press "Send message" to send it. As for the exchange stuff. If you could do it on another device, you can do it on this one.
Active notifications will show what you tell them to show. There are settings that allow you to choose what apps display. As the active notifications use the proximity sensor to decide when to display, it will indeed show whenever it's removed from your pocket. If you have multiple notifications, dragging your active lock upward will bring you to the app that produced the most recent notification.
Is that about as clear as mud? I suck at explaining things. Lmk if you need any clarification.
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If you have no notifications the phone will show you the time when you pick it up or pull it from out of your pocket.

mpovolo said:
Thanks, just curious on two parts. If you have multiple notifications, the only icon you see is the most recent. The only way to know the others is by swiping the status bar I assume?
If you have no notifications, I assume the screen will not turn on, is that correct?
thanks
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If you have multiple ones the others (older) show up at the bottom of the active display.
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[Q] Any way to make Google Now Reminders more noticeable?

Right now, when I asked my phone to set a reminder for X at X time, it adds it to the Reminders section of Google Now. If the reminder is far away, I won't even see it on my phone unless I click the Reminders button at the bottom of Google Now.
Is there any way to make these reminders more obvious or more persistent?
For ex, if I add an event to my calendar, I can view my calendar events for the next X weeks with my Chronus clock widget right on my homescreen. Is there anyway to have my reminders show up on this widget too?

There's probably a better solution than this, but Google Keep widget displays reminders. You would set the reminder in keep rather than Gnow, but Gnow will still detect the reminder
Sent from my Nexus 10

Similar issue
Hi, I have a similar issue: the reminders are not persistent and intrusive enough. My phone may often bee a room away. When it rings, I'll hear, for sure, and most major Calendar/sms/email reminders too, but, the Google Now reminders are sort of "humble", "quiet", very much gentle and in the background. Also, they are not persistent. They will go off, and, if I'm not near the phone, they'll simply go away after a while. This makes it very unreliable, while I believe Google Now could be an amazing tool! Any way to make the reminders keep nagging with noise until you actually click "quiet" or "postpone"?

[Q] Did Google Now just get...... stupider?

I noticed that since yesterday, Google Now seems to have gotten reduced functionality, namely, in setting reminders.
I used to use voice commands all the time to leave reminders, specially location-based ones.
I noticed now that whether I say "reminder" or "alarm" it sets an alarm... and can no longer set them to a specific location like "remind me when I get home to..." and only at a specific time.
I also noticed that it appears to be hooking into HTC's own Alarm app instead of using it's own alarm/notification system.
Is this something HTC updated in it's internal apps that is taking over the reminder/alarm feature of Google Now? Or is Google Now itself doing this from adding support for notifications from 3rd party apps? Any way to revert it back?

same here
Cyber Akuma said:
I noticed that since yesterday, Google Now seems to have gotten reduced functionality, namely, in setting reminders.
I used to use voice commands all the time to leave reminders, specially location-based ones.
I noticed now that whether I say "reminder" or "alarm" it sets an alarm... and can no longer set them to a specific location like "remind me when I get home to..." and only at a specific time.
I also noticed that it appears to be hooking into HTC's own Alarm app instead of using it's own alarm/notification system.
Is this something HTC updated in it's internal apps that is taking over the reminder/alarm feature of Google Now? Or is Google Now itself doing this from adding support for notifications from 3rd party apps? Any way to revert it back?
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it's driving me crazy! I need my reminders back!

Known issue for the past few days. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/websearch/vu0eMzw83MU[1-25]
From what I've read you can type in the reminder and it'll work. It's when you do it via voice and it has to go out to google servers does the bug pop up. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.

[Q] lollipop lock screen issues

Ok, just upgraded to Lollipop over the weekend and now I'm getting no notifications on my lock screen.
All settings look correct to me and it was working before the upgrade. The "When device is locked" is set to Show all notification content and "Notification Access" is set for the Style Cover app, the only one present. No apps are set to Block, Sensitive or Priority.
Per company policy the device is set to use a pin. This is required when connecting to our Exchange server so no options to change that.
All I really need or want is the notification icon for missed calls, texts, or emails. I don't need the actual content or who called and all that. Super annoying right now to have to unlock the phone to see if a work email came in or text. I was waiting for the old lady to let me know about some test results for our son and I was sitting here waiting for an hour on pins and needles and didn't see that she had already text that all was good. Woe is me!! haha!
Spotify is also not working. Shows the album art but no controls.
Anyway, any ideas? This is super irritating. TIA

from the sony mobile official support forums
When the PIN is enforced you will not see notifications on the lock screen. I suspect that's how it's intended to work as the enforced PIN is there to protect company data but i will forward the feedback internally.
It may perhaps work if you download a 3:rd party ActiveSync client but i do recommend that you check with your IT-department if this is allowed.
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meaniez said:
from the sony mobile official support forums
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Thanks for this. I had done some testing before seeing your reply by dumping the Active Sync account and checking notifications. As you verified, they stop working after the policy is applied from Exchange.
3rd party AS client is a good idea. I'm going to give that a try.
Sounds like a small thing but unlocking just to see if I got a text or call is getting old fast...

Ok, here is the fix I used in case somebody else runs into this.
Deleted stock active sync account, cleared credentials, and removed PIN settings.
Installed the Nine email app which allows you to apply the security policy only to the app or to the device. Chose the default of apply to app. Setup active sync on Nine. Notification all work! Yay!
Only downside here is that you now have to use a pin to open the Nine app. I did change the timing on the Nine pin settings to be the longest allowed which is 30 minuted I believe. During a normal day this should work and eliminate frequent pin requests while accessing the app. Small price to pay I guess.
Lock screen and PIN is now not enforced for the device but I elected to have a pin here as well. I prefer to have my device not be wide open. Notification on the lock screen now all follow the normal settings found under Settings>Sound & Notifications>When Device is Locked. Perfect...
I did attempt the same process but changed the Nine security model to Device Level but after that I couldn't even get it to sync my account. I might mess with this later but for now I'm good to go.
Thanks for the help