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Common questions

Q1. Can I dismiss or snooze notification from notification panel without opening app?

A1. Yes you can. There are two views for many notifications on Android: expanded and compact. Compact notification in case of this app would only show event basic details: title, time and location (if event has one), but Expanded view would also show "SNOOZE" and "DISMISS" buttons allowing you to act on the notification directly from notification panel.

Android decides on its own on what particular view to use for particular notification based on total number of notifications currently active and many other parameters, so by default SNOOZE and DISMISS buttons could be not visible. But you can always manually "expand" app notification (and any other expandable Android notification), there are two standard Android gestures for that:

Q2. Sometimes app shows "SNOOZE" and "DISMISS" in the notification and sometimes it doesn't. Is it a bug?

A2. Android automatically switches notification to compact views under certain conditions. You could always expand any particular notification manually to show these buttons - see Q1 for details.

Q3. App just says no notifications to display, nothing is shown in the app window. How to turn it on?

A3. Purpose of this app is to replace Calendar notifications with more advanced notifications with extended functionality like flexible snooze options, reminders, etc. So this app is not scanning Calendar for ongoing events, not displaying it on the main window since it was never a purpose of this app. On the main window app would only display fired calendar notifications - active and ones you've snoozed. If you don't have any such notifications - main window would be empty.

Q4. Can I use swipe gesture to dismiss notification, instead of using 'Dismiss' button?

A4. Yes, you can un-select "Show 'Dismiss' button" option under Settings->Notifications and app would allow swiping event off to dismiss it.

Q5. What's heads-up notification?

A5. These are small popups that are showing brief information about notification over the top of the current activity. This is only supported on Android 5 and above.

Q6. I'm seeing notifications from both, Calendar Notifications Plus and original Calendar app. Can it be fixed?

A6. It is normally doesn't happen, but could happen on some devices. The most appropriate way of doing that would be disabling notifications in your main calendar app:

In the Gooogle Calendar:

Open Settings -> General -> Unselect "Notify on this device"

In Samsung's S-Planner:

Open Settings -> Notifications -> Set it to "Off"

In Android AOSP / CyanogenMod calendar:

Open Settings -> General Settings -> Untick "Notifications"

Q7. I don't like default snooze times. Can I have 5 minutes snooze option?

A7. Snooze presets can be edited under application Settings -> Snooze Settings -> Snooze presets. Snooze preset string is a comma-separated strings of snooze preset values, each value should be minutes, hours or days, e.g.:

  • 5m
  • 10h
  • 3d

Also negative values are supported, negative values (and zero) are interpreted as "time until the event time".

So snooze preset string "5m, 5h, 10h, -1m" would produce the following snooze options:

  • 5 minutes
  • 5 hours
  • 10 hours
  • 1 minute before event time

If event time already in the past - "until event time" options are omitted.

You can add up to 6 snooze presets in the app.

PLEASE NOTE: since Android 6.0 intervals less than 10min are not always reliable. First reminder would work just fine, but if event snoozed again for a short period of time - next reminder are don't likely to fire earlier than in 10 minutes. This is a restriction imposed by Android to save battery power. In some cases it might not apply (like phone charging or actively being used). Google "android doze standby" for more details.

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