EA, stop turning my push notifications on after I turn them off.
I have the same thing happen. Always at the most inopportune time during a meeting. Fortunately I work with a good group of people and they all get a chuckle out of it. Especially when Homer says "Ooooo, visitors. Better put some pants on."
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On Android, go to Settings, Apps, Tapped Out, and uncheck "Show Notifications."
Dunno about iOS, but I'm sure someone can explain that process if that's what you're using.
I didn't know it was this big of a problem though. It definitely needs to be looked at.
PS: How come you're not a Moderator anymore? :shock:
I was thinking the same thing. :!:
Also I've never seen Bravewall get so mad and cuss before either. I remember when Bravewall gave me warnings when I did!
Odd things are happening here!
I doubt I gave you any warnings about swears. You would have needed to be maliciously habitually swearing every other word for me to even raise an eyebrow. Of course I'm sure many people will remember mod actions I made in a very profound way, but for me... it was Tuesday. :P
That makes sense though. Real life comes first. I just didn't expect it I suppose.
I have that one off as well. Pretty much all my notifications are off except gmail and hangouts. But I'm not having a problem, and while it's being reported frequently, it's also not widespread.
I've been doubting other reporters having both settings (in game and app settings) set to off, but I trust you as a competent (ex)mod should be able to handle that. Only other thing I could suggest is the old stand by, uninstall/reinstall? Then of course switch them back off and see if they take effect.
Really weird...
I thought you were a good moderator. Whoever said you're a control freak must be smokin something or broke too many rules on here. I honestly don't come on here for gossip, so I must have either ignored a comment like that or didn't even see a thread that it was in. I just come here to read new things or ideas about the game and move on. I even stopped going on the off topic section. Well mostly stopped. I check in from time to time. Point is I think all the moderators are doing an excellent job. Maybe I just don't notice the little things as much because I'm not on here 24/7, and avoid annoying the mods.
Then I went to work. The first time it went off, everyone, including me, was saying "What was that?". I helpfully offered the info that I'd heard it at home over the weekend. The next time, I realised that it was my phone. I tried to make it stop, but it went off again. And again. One of my colleagues had lived in New Zealand for a while, and she said it was freaking her out because it was the same sound as the NZ earthquake alarm.
I eventually found that the only way to stop it was to go Settings>Apps>TSTO and uncheck the Notifications box. The weird thing was that I had never had this problem before on that device (Android phone), and that it wasn't happening on my Android tablet, even though all I'd done there was turn down the volume.
Its just incredibly frustrating, after how many times these notifications have popped up at really inconvenient moments in the last few weeks, while I've been under the assumption that turning the app notifications off would keep them off. After all the spam I've removed from this forum, the least EA could do is not spam me and my livelihood.
Meanwhile, the app settings switch controls notifications coming from the game servers, like when someone visits your town. Two different sources of notification alarms and two different switches to control them.
So a third possible source of alarms could be the play store, which also could push announcements from the game developer.
I agree, idk if the play store switch is associated. But I'm not the one having notifications trouble me. Both of my droid tabs are quiet. Just trying to think what else you could try.
Good luck!
Wow, that's weird. I've never had the App turn back on the notifications from the Android settings. Usually it just resets its internal settings. Did you uninstall/reinstall recently? That might have caused the notification reset...
Is Tapped Out the only app you've got that's turning its notifications back on? I wouldn't think an App has any ability to change that setting on its own. Might be a bug on your device.
I finally got them to stop after a troubleshooting frenzy, so I don't know what specifically did the trick. One thing to try, though, is to intentionally turn the notifications on in both the in-game and app setting menus, cycle the game and/or device off and on, and then turn the notifications back off again.