# Normal push notifications are silent on Android **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** homey-pro\ **Created:** [April 4, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661 "2024-04-04T15:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mroek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mroek/32/38044_2.png) [@mroek](https://community.homey.app/u/mroek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/1 "2024-04-04T15:34:52Z")
My phone is a Galaxy S21, and the Homey app is version 8.0.2. Homey Pro 2023, but the issue was there also on the old Homey before I migrated. I’m having an issue that normal push notifications generated from a flowcard have no sound. The phone vibrates when the notification is activated, but there is no sound. Sending a push notification with morse (not something I’d actually use, but I tested it now) also just cases vibration (with the correct morse pattern), no sound. What is weird is that if I generate a push notification with an attached image (from an IP camera), there is both sound and vibration, so there shouldn’t be any permissions issue (all permissions are on, and I even tried disabling and re-enabling them again, but that made no difference). Has anyone had this issue, and found a solution? ---
**Author:** ![RonnyW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ronnyw/32/10879_2.png) [@RonnyW](https://community.homey.app/u/RonnyW)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/2 "2024-04-04T15:48:06Z")
Go to Android app settings for Homey App. Select “notifications”. Scoll down to “categories”. Select a category (on the left, not the toggle button). There you can choose independent settings for categories. Nothing has changed. This are Android user settings. So perhaps you changed something accidentially. ---
**Author:** ![mroek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mroek/32/38044_2.png) [@mroek](https://community.homey.app/u/mroek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/3 "2024-04-04T15:51:49Z")
No, I did not. All categories (there are four on my phone, Image/Text/Vibrate and TSLocationManager) are turned on, and always has been on. ---
**Author:** ![mroek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mroek/32/38044_2.png) [@mroek](https://community.homey.app/u/mroek)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/4 "2024-04-04T20:34:56Z")
I deleted all the app data, which basically is the same as a reinstall, and that fixed it. However, the normal push notification and the push notification with an attached image has different sounds. Probably always was like that, but I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/5 "2024-04-04T23:37:19Z")
Interesting… I never change sounds, So I just checked, and the all sounds are the same: “Standard Sound”, except for the text-notification, it has a “Sound delivered by app” setting. I’m on app version 6.x, but I assume they didn’t change the sound settings on v8.x ![Screenshot_20240405-012206_QuickPic](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/0/d0b2f66777f396b77d2571d921c2d1ae63e5760e.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20240405-012048_Settings](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/6/b66d4a38ffecc51a98f4336cc57581e44696c466.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20240405-011909_Settings](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/6/367ae83d0b3949123f5fcf9d039128c656771eb3.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20240405-012012_Settings](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/c/4cd4b59ad1c6bd5b3be5558331a3c3779eb22af1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![mroek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mroek/32/38044_2.png) [@mroek](https://community.homey.app/u/mroek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/6 "2024-04-05T00:00:11Z")
Aha. I didn’t actually go all the way into that sub-menu (it is easy to forget that even if there is a slider button on the right side, pressing the line itself gets you into a sub-menu), so it is possible that somehow the text notification had been set to silent (not on purpose), and when I wiped all the data to start over, I got all the default values again. And now you also explained why that sound is different, it is simply because Homey for some reason decided to have that as a “Sound delivered by app” instead of the standard system sound. Now I only have two categories as well, “Text” and “Image”. The other two (“Vibration” and “TSLocationmanager”) have disappeared, not sure why. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/normal-push-notifications-are-silent-on-android/107661/7 "2024-04-05T00:08:09Z")
Thanks. > [@mroek](#): > > The other two (“Vibration” and “TSLocationmanager”) have disappeared, not sure why. Yeah they become available after the first notification. > [@mroek](#): > > Homey for some reason decided to have that as a “Sound delivered by app” instead of the standard system sound. No clue what’s the reason, I also can’t find a sound setting for text-notifications from within the Homey app.