Email screen alerts interrupt video recording

NYC Guy · #1 (**permalink**) 10-10-2009, 11:02 AM

Last night I was at Giants Stadium to see Bruce Springsteen's final performance there and was recording a video on my TP2 of one of the songs. Twice an alert popped up on the screen saying I had received a new email and I also received another popup alert informing me how many emails were upopened. These screen alerts stopped the video recording each time. I had to start the recording all over again which is a PIA. Short of unchecking all alerts is there a work around for this so when you are recording videos they don't get interrupted?

NYC Guy · #2 (**permalink**) 10-12-2009, 01:39 PM

Sorry to bump this post but these alerts when I am shooting videos are driving me crazy. Does anyone have a fix?

bluruld · #3 (**permalink**) 10-12-2009, 01:46 PM

I would say there isnt an easy solution. You may have to look into running a mort script which can uncheck alerts, execute camera & then recheck alerts upon exiting camera. This thread may become your friend.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567049

tomc585 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-12-2009, 02:23 PM

What about putting the phone in airplane mode before initializing the camera. Not a fix but a work around.

NYC Guy · #5 (**permalink**) 10-13-2009, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by tomc585

What about putting the phone in airplane mode before initializing the camera. Not a fix but a work around.

If you can't receive data it will stop the popups for new messages received on the screen. I like it!

I'll just have to make sure that there are no unread emails or text messages that will still give me a screen alert that were received prior to my switching over to airplane mode.

BeanAnimal · #6 (**permalink**) 10-13-2009, 10:30 AM

It is not just video...

The modal notifications prevent you from answering or hanging up on a phone call... they interrupt voice during a phone coversation, etc. What nitwit came up with this crappy UI feature.