Turn On Status Bar Notifications for Unsent Messages on HTC One

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Video: Turn On Status Bar Notifications for Unsent Messages on HTC One

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Hello, and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to turn on or off the option to show a notification in the HTC One M8 status bar when messages can't be sent.

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   To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the 'power' button located on top of the phone

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   Once the phone is activated, we'll see the lock screen.

   

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   To unlock the phone press down on the screen

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   Hold down and swipe up. Once the phone has been unlocked, we'll see the home screen.

   

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   We need to enter the 'Messages' section, and to do that, we need to find the 'Messages' icon

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   We can see the icons at the bottom of the screen. It is a speech square with three green horizontal lines in the middle. Press down on the icon to enter the 'Messages' section.

   

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   We need to find the settings menu

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   To do that, we need to press the icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. There are three small white squares in a vertical line. Press this icon and it will open up a menu.

   

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   Press the second option from the bottom, 'Settings'

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   It will take us to the 'Settings' menu.

   

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   Press the top option

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   It should say 'Notifications' in black text. It's going to open up our notifications options.

   

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   Let's scroll down now to the 'Sent Messages' section

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   This is the 'Sent Messages' menu, and here we have our different options. We want the 'Failure notification' option. It says "Show notification in status bar when messages cannot be sent". Currently, this option is active, and we can tell because there is a blue check in the box on the far-right side of the screen. If there is a blue check, it means that the function is active and is being used right now.

   

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   We can turn it off by pressing down on the box until the check is gone

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   Once the check has disappeared, we no longer have these options here. We can see these options have faded into the background, and they can't be selected. What this means is that we will not receive a notification in the status bar when messages can't be sent. It's obviously quite a useful function to have turned on, because if you send a message and you don't know if it's been sent successfully, then you're left in limbo. If you've arranged to meet someone for example, you're not going to know if they're actually going to be there because they haven't received your message. We want to activate this function, and if there is a problem with the message, or if there is a problem sending the message we want to know about this, so that we can call the person or convey information to our contact in a different way.

   

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   This concludes our tutorial on how to turn on or off the option to show a notification in the HTC One M8 status bar when messages can't be sent

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   If you have any questions or comments about this video or about the process you have seen in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below, and we shall answer them for you. Thank you for watching VisiHow, and goodbye.

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