The reminder alerts are driving me crazy on the TP2!

[NYC Guy]

Originally Posted by SecretAgentMan

Here is an almost perfect hack. Basically, all you need to do is change the value of one registry key so that TouchFlo does NOT find the .dll that is driving this:

In HKLM_SYSTEM_Shell_Notification_OEM:

Change value for CustomUIDLL from NotificationLayout.dll to NotificationLayoutXX.dll

When you do this you'll notice that when an alarm goes off, you'll now get a Windows generated notice box instead of the TouchFlo generated box. Not quite as pretty, but it's a pretty good tradeoff. You should now be able to select the time to snooze using the menu on the lower right.

This fix worked perfectly.
Thanks again!!!

[rorytmeadows]

how do we turn these notifications off completely?

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by SecretAgentMan

Here is an almost perfect hack. Basically, all you need to do is change the value of one registry key so that TouchFlo does NOT find the .dll that is driving this:

In HKLM_SYSTEM_Shell_Notification_OEM:

Change value for CustomUIDLL from NotificationLayout.dll to NotificationLayoutXX.dll

When you do this you'll notice that when an alarm goes off, you'll now get a Windows generated notice box instead of the TouchFlo generated box. Not quite as pretty, but it's a pretty good tradeoff. You should now be able to select the time to snooze using the menu on the lower right.

I changed mine to NotificationLayoutOld.dll, and I got no notifications at all. I have to click on the little alarm icon up by the time to get to that page to get it turned off. I just put it back to the other way, and still no pop-ups. I wonder if some other software I installed caused this issue?

Any ideas?

[8notime]

Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

how do we turn these notifications off completely?

In the sounds & notifications settings you can disable reminders.

[SecretAgentMan]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

I changed mine to NotificationLayoutOld.dll, and I got no notifications at all. I have to click on the little alarm icon up by the time to get to that page to get it turned off. I just put it back to the other way, and still no pop-ups. I wonder if some other software I installed caused this issue?

Any ideas?

Was it working fine before the change? What you rename the .dll to shouldn't matter as long as it doesn't exist, so that shouldn't account for no notifications at all. Double check to make sure they're not turned off as 8notime suggested.

[GoodThings2Life]

My preferred method of restoring "classic" notifications is to add a DWORD entry called Flags to the HKLM\Services\NOTIFICATIONMANAGER ... set the value to 4. Soft reset.

I definitely discourage the method documented of using different/non-existant DLL's.

Beyond that, 8notime's advice is definitely the easiest.

[NYC Guy]

Originally Posted by TheBundo

I changed mine to NotificationLayoutOld.dll, and I got no notifications at all. I have to click on the little alarm icon up by the time to get to that page to get it turned off. I just put it back to the other way, and still no pop-ups. I wonder if some other software I installed caused this issue?

Any ideas?

Mine is working perfectly after this tweak so I am puzzled as to why you are having this issue. Did you do a soft reset after making the registry change?

[TheBundo]

My goof, I had also somewhere along the line turned off pop-up notifications. It wasn't any of the software I installed, it was "user error".

Thanks

[8notime]

The thing that drives me crazy is that there's no way to turn off the reminder repeats. The option is completely grayed out in the setting screen. So the reminder dings every 30 seconds or so until you acknowledge it. I've cabbed up the solution to this and attached it. This solution disables the repeat and makes this option available/configurable in the settings screen.

Only tested on the Verizon TP2, but should be compatible with the others as well. The .cab makes the following regedit:

HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications\{15F11F90-8A5F-454c-89FC-BA9B7AAB0CAD}\Options change value to decimal 1073741837

[redd214]

ur awesome dude, testing now!