New S25 Ultra - Notifications not working

[Squeaky369]

Howdy!

Received my new S25 Ultra yesterday, set it up via SmartSwitch. Everything transferred correctly but none of my notifications are working. 

Zero.

I have gone though forum postings that other people have posted looking for solutions and most of those has been DND or a routine turned on blocking notifications. 

Things I've checked:

• Do Not Disturb is TURNED OFF.
• No Modes or Routines are running (there aren't any setup).
• Sound is on.
• Vibrate is on.
• No icons or app badges show up on the top.
• The apps that I am testing with I have confirmed that notifications are turned on.
• All the options are selected for the notification options (Lock Screen, App icon badge, Notification pop-up).
• This happens if the phone is sleeping or awake.
• My old phone is still using Wi-Fi and notifications work fine on that one (other than messages and phone cause that's tied to the SIM). Turning off the old phone and waiting a few minutes and trying on the new phone, same thing happens.
• If I open the offending app, I can see the unread messages.

Other than wiping the phone, skipping the SmartSwitch and starting from scratch, I am not sure how to move forward.

Thanks.

[1trev27]

Yeah it's a pain. I tried the adb dumpsys deviceidle fix and it seems to have broken gmail notifications altogether. That's a critical one. Not sure what to do now as the samsung engineer said a new device won't solve the issue.

Might try going to an old android 14 device like the s24 but unsure if that will solve the issues.

Completely at a loss. 🙄

[Swamidaw]

I got a new S25 Uktra yesterday and set everything up using smart switch but still went throwing each and every setting because I find that fun anyway. This morning, I noticed that Gmail notifications worked weird. I still have my old phone and have been using it as a reference point as to how to set up the new one but the notification settings are a bit awkward.

To be clear, everything is exactly the way it is on my old phone (moto g stylus 5g). I even went and added the glitter border which I find really fun, but the notifications for Gmail specifically show up later than they should. For example, I tested this by sending myself emails to confirm the issue and it kept happening, I would send the email at 8:10am and receive the notification on my old phone immediately but I wouldn't get the notification on the S25 Ultra until about 8:12am. It's a consistent 2-3 minute delay between the time of receiving the email and getting the notification. I also noticed that the phone doesn't vibrate for email notifications. I have my ringer on but I like to keep my notifications audio off because I don't want the sound to disrupt my lectures. My old phone would usually do a light vibration but the S25 Ultra doesn't seem to do so. The second one isn't as big of an issue as the first one is as I do get urgent emails fairly often and need a faster way of being informed about them.

I have DND turned off.

There are no modes active.

The ringer is on.

Notification audio is turned off.

[Tom6068]

In the end it is a Gmail thing and not a Samsung one. I tried the same thing using my PC (which is where I do most of online activity) and sent my Gmail account a test email form my primary account from my ISP. It still has not shown up in my email client nor in my online Gmail account. But I tested my primary email to a Hotmail account and it was right away in the Hotmail inbox.

[RaeBaeRae]

Can anyone tell me how to get the life360 app notification on the s25 ultra? I know how to have different notifications fir different apps but it seems like the s25 no longer has the life360 sound anymore ???

[jessicam85]

Same issue here.

[Members_b0y1gqN]

I'm having the same issue. It "looks like" an app issue, but I'm not sure.

[Darkmage2160]

I just got my new phone, but I'm having an issue where notifications aren't popping up when they should be. Discord, Gmail, messages, lots of other apps. I thought my friends had all stopped talking to me all at once until I went in and saw I had at least 3 missed messages on each app, and no notification popup for any of them. I've checked to make sure my do not disturb is off, notifications are allowed, and even un-installed and reinstalled all the apps in question. After reinstalling, I now get some notifications, but not all. Like I'll get a discord notification about one message, go in, and see I actually had three messages from different people but only the first one notified me. Same for emails and texts. I've heard bad things about the smart switch app, which I had used to swap from my s20 note to the s25 U, but since I sent in the old phone for trade in, I can't swap back and factory reset the 25 like other posts mention.

[Tom6068]

This is a Samsung pinned thread regarding this issue, so they are working on that fix along with many others. They will more than likely all be addressed with the next software update (or even in the next security update as they always have software fixes included in them). Since some the previous Galaxy phones are eligible for the UI 7.0 already on the S25, I am thinking that all of the fixes will be included across those eligible devices as well and the S25 series will be updated at the same time (just thinking out loud here) as to not break up the UI 7.0 into separately functioning OSes for each device.

Anyway, this is the thread...

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S25/New-S25-Ultra-Notifications-not-working/m-p/3126970#M...

[S_McGuire25]

I have tried all of that and still not getting notification sounds for text messages. THis is very annoying. I am beginning to hate the new samsung. I never had this problem before. I hate the google messaging. I have always had a Samsung, but this Galaxy 25 not having sound for notifications is becoming a deal breaker. This needs fixed asap.

[Pattig144]

That didn't change anything for me. The individual apps have the ability to have notifications/ sound/ vibrations, but no way to choose the notification sound.