What I see is that when I install a Notifyer app, this app will make the badges visible.
This lead me to the conclusion that the different apps (FB, Whatsapp) do indeed send notifications, but that these are not picked up by my device.
This can have several causes:
- My settings are not correct. (then please tell me which settings I have to set/use to do this)
- The Z5 device is not picking up these notifications ever
- The thing that apparently is happening now: Sony does not pick up stuff with notifications that are done by using obsolete code.
The latest Sony software definitely has changed something, since I had whatsapp badges before that update.(so between the upgrade to marshmallow and this latest update, i had working whatsapp badges)
But the fact that my colleague has notifications for FB, which I never ever had on my device, lead me to the assumption that either my settings are incorrect, or that my device does not pick up stuff that my colleague’s (older) device does.
Whether that is due to obsolete function methods still being used by whatsapp/FB is in my opinion irrelevant.
The notifyer app I use now was last updated in april, so apparently they still keep these obsolete code parts in mind in their software.
It is a pity that I need to resort to third party apps to do the things my device's OS should be tackling.
While I understand that Sony moves away from obsolete code when programming their own software, this could have easily been avoided by talking to the most important app providers about this issue.
The fact that even the Gmail app, which is inherent to the Android system, does not show badges, is quite disturbing to see.
Customers are unhappy because on other manufacturer devices, and on older Sony devices, things are not disappearing. This can i.m.o. be solved quite fast and well by Sony, but only if they decide this issue is important enough.
Only thing I know is that my decision to buy a new Sony device in a few years will be influenced by this kind of decisions.
