[ankoil]

Hello. Merry Christmas.

I'm on day 6 of my 7 day phone upgrade trial. Going from a Torch to a Note 2. I love the apps/browsing/camera/watching videos. However I'm really missing the BB emailing, notification and messaging system. Is there something I can do to make it closer to BB? I'm not sure if I love this phone or not, I'm 50/50.

[hondateg91]

What features exactly do you miss from the BB notifications? I've been using Android for over 2 years(BB on and off) and the notifications are one of the best IMO. Most android phones have customizable LED indicators too.

[AbuYazeedUK]

I don't know what type of notification you mean but if you mean like the little red circle with a white star (on BB) then check out this thread

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sho...d.php?t=199709

[tsells]

See post above by AbuYazeed and also check out an app called Glowfly. Glowfly allows you to have a popup notification for Text Messages and you can customize the notification sound and the look of the popup for individual contacts.
Give your Android some time to get used to it. I was a BB user for many years and I hated my S3 when I first got it (and the whole Android experience). It took me at least two weeks to figure everything out. And now I cannot see myself ever going back to BB (even if BB10 is as good as it appears to be). Android just does things differently than BB and I have not found one thing that BB does any better.

[pantlesspenguin]

As far as emailing, I'm not a fan of the stock Samsung email client at all. I use a third party app called Mail Droid and I absolutely love it. There is a tiny add that appears on your unified inbox, but it doesn't show in your individual emails. I'd love to get the pro version, but it's like $17!

As you've noticed by now, the LED indicator is nearly as large and bright as on BB, and can flash different colors for different notifications. However, I can't find any setting that allows me to change the colors to my own preference. I found what events you can choose the LED setting to flash on (Settings - Display - LED) but that's it.

As far as customizing the volume of each notification on the fly, hit your volume rocker once either direction, and the volume bar will appear on the screen. Off to the right you'll see a settings gear. Tap that, and you'll get volume bars for ringtone, media, notification, and system sounds.

All of your notifications appear visually in the notification tray, as I'm sure you're aware. They stay there until you clear them out. You can clear all of them at once by tapping the clear button, or if you want to keep some to return to later but delete others, swipe the ones you want to delete off the task bar by dragging it off the screen on either direction.

Did that answer some of your questions?

[grunt0300]

As far as emailing, I'm not a fan of the stock Samsung email client at all. I use a third party app called Mail Droid and I absolutely love it. There is a tiny add that appears on your unified inbox, but it doesn't show in your individual emails. I'd love to get the pro version, but it's like $17!

As you've noticed by now, the LED indicator is nearly as large and bright as on BB, and can flash different colors for different notifications. However, I can't find any setting that allows me to change the colors to my own preference. I found what events you can choose the LED setting to flash on (Settings - Display - LED) but that's it.

As far as customizing the volume of each notification on the fly, hit your volume rocker once either direction, and the volume bar will appear on the screen. Off to the right you'll see a settings gear. Tap that, and you'll get volume bars for ringtone, media, notification, and system sounds.

All of your notifications appear visually in the notification tray, as I'm sure you're aware. They stay there until you clear them out. You can clear all of them at once by tapping the clear button, or if you want to keep some to return to later but delete others, swipe the ones you want to delete off the task bar by dragging it off the screen on either direction.

Did that answer some of your questions?

I think that "light flow" allows you to change the LED colors to whatever you want.

[pantlesspenguin]

I think that "light flow" allows you to change the LED colors to whatever you want.

Thanks! I'll give that a shot!

[kilted thrower]

As far as emailing, I'm not a fan of the stock Samsung email client at all. I use a third party app called Mail Droid and I absolutely love it. There is a tiny add that appears on your unified inbox, but it doesn't show in your individual emails. I'd love to get the pro version, but it's like $17!

What don't you like about the Samsung email client? I tried Mail Droid but it wouldn't sync with Outlook 2003. I tried Extended Email but it didn't do much more than the stock email setup for Outlook Exchange.

$17 is quite a bit for an app. I finally broke down and spent $10 on an app. I bought DW Contacts pro and absolutely love it as a contacts manager.

[pantlesspenguin]

What don't you like about the Samsung email client? I tried Mail Droid but it wouldn't sync with Outlook 2003. I tried Extended Email but it didn't do much more than the stock email setup for Outlook Exchange.

$17 is quite a bit for an app. I finally broke down and spent $10 on an app. I bought DW Contacts pro and absolutely love it as a contacts manager.

It seemed slower in retreiving mail than MD. TBH I haven't used it in awhile now, and I do know that stock apps continue to be updated. Plus, Mail Droid now has an option to delete from server as well as device, and I don't think the stock client has that option yet.

[kilted thrower]

It seemed slower in retreiving mail than MD. TBH I haven't used it in awhile now, and I do know that stock apps continue to be updated. Plus, Mail Droid now has an option to delete from server as well as device, and I don't think the stock client has that option yet.

It does. In fact, I can pretty much do everything from my phone outlook exchange mail, calendar, contacts, etc and Google stuff as well on my phone as the client on my desktop/laptop.

[pantlesspenguin]

It does. In fact, I can pretty much do everything from my phone outlook exchange mail, calendar, contacts, etc and Google stuff as well on my phone as the client on my desktop/laptop.

Nice!