SimpleMobileTools / Simple-SMS-Messenger

An easy and quick way of managing SMS and MMS messages without ads.
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Add an at least optional persistent notifcation #771

Closed Gabr-F closed 11 months ago

Gabr-F commented 11 months ago

On almost all Chinese phones and now maybe even the Samsungs (https://dontkillmyapp.com) the only chance to have a messaging app function correctly, delivering notifications timely and not losing messages, is for the app to set a persistent notification.

Maybe theoretically it wouldn't be necessary for sms messages, and maybe it will indeed not make a difference, but it seems absolutely appropriate to at least try making it an option to enable one.


I have a budget Oppo, I tried this app for a few weeks and I verified that it's tragically even less reliable than the default Google's sms app, and by a large degree.

I probably lose half the incoming messages (lose completely, without them ever arriving or being displayed in a notification).

The Google's app is getting worse and less reliable with every release, with frequent losses there too, so I was praying to find refuge in your app, the only maintained sms one on F-Droid.

But disgracefully it's indeed significantly worse than the Google's one, at least on my phone, so I can't keep using it.


A persistent notification will not be an absolute guarantee of reliability, as even them get killed under strong memory pressures, but they then get restarted automatically so it's usually enormously better than without one.

So, please consider adding it; the service should use as little memory as possible (not a problem given the size of the entire app), and I would actually enable it by default since it would unlikely to be a problem for anyone, and very likely to improve the app dramatically for a very large amount of users (who probably wouldn't know that that they have to enable it if it were disabled by default).

I will for sure make a (unfortunately modest, at this time) contribution if this gets added and I'll be able to rely on an open source sms app.

tibbi commented 11 months ago

thats how it is set already, the notifications are displayed until someone dismisses them.