There are many reasons why a mobile phone may have problems receiving notifications. Today we review the most common problems and solutions that can occur. It is a complex issue, as each layer of personalization manages notifications and these problems in a different way, so it will vary depending on the mobile you have. If the notifications do not reach your mobile, you may have a misconfigured setting or a problem with the Internet connection. If after reading this article you still have the problem, there may be more than just a mistake.
Main problems in notifications and solutions
There are several well-known customization layers on the market, each with different settings. Not all manage multitasking in the same way and neither do notifications. The main problems for which notifications do not reach your mobile are the following:
- Active battery saving
- Background app limitation
- Bad notification settings
- Problems with Internet connection
We will review all of them and also the possible general solutions that you can carry out. It is difficult to speak in a general way with the different layers of personalization, but if you know how to search, you will surely find the problem.
Do you have battery saving active? Therein may be the problem!
The battery-saving is not something wrong with Android, but I can always use the experience changes or not adequate. There are many users who always have energy-saving active, and this can be the cause of the lack of notifications. This saving mode limits, in some layers of personalization, the activity of the background applications.
If battery saver is active, the customization layer may limit the background apps to 2 or 3, which can result in the rest not having access to the Internet and therefore not being able to receive notifications. When you connect the device to the charger do you get many old notifications? This is almost certainly the problem you are having.
Check your device’s background restrictions
Certain layers of customization don’t get along very well with Android multitasking. This makes them restrictive when closing background applications that have not been used for a while. This can cause certain applications to close and not show notifications on your device.
Do you only get notifications if you open those apps? Chances are your customization layer is limiting background processes in order to improve performance. You can look in the notifications section to see if there are any settings that allow you to not limit applications in the background.
If you have activated this limitation so that your device has a better performance it may be the cause of this lack of notifications. Background limitation is the most common problem when there is a lack of notifications.
Configure notifications app by app well
Another problem that you may have -and that occurs a lot in layers like MIUI- is a bad notification configuration. You must enter the settings, ‘Notifications’ and check how they are configured. If everything seems normal, you must enter the application by application to see what happens. It is very likely that the applications from which you do not receive notifications are misconfigured on your device.
This is not something you caused, it may be the layer of customization you are using. If you go into an app and notifications are turned off, you know what happens. There are also some customization layers that have an ‘Always show notifications’ option or similar. We recommend activating this option to ensure that all notifications arrive when they should.
Internet connection, another big problem for notifications
Most notifications you receive on your Android mobile are subject to the Internet connection. Most are from social networks or WhatsApp messages, so they need a connection to receive data. One of the reasons your device is not receiving notifications well can be a bad connection.
If your connection is very poor or slow, you may not have enough connection to receive notifications. If from time to time you get several at once it may be because this connection improves and can load them. It is a fairly common problem in areas where connections are limited or have little support.
You can consider a factory reset
If none of the above solves your problem there may be something more serious that is causing the lack of notifications. In this case it is highly recommended that you reboot the device from the factory. This will erase all the data and leave the device as new, so we recommend that you make a backup beforehand.
Now it only remains for you to check what is causing the failures with the notifications of your Android device. Have you managed to fix it? Still unable to receive notifications? Tell us more in the comments or on social media!