Android 9 clock position XZ2

[Neilr1975]

Xz2 just revived the offical Android 9 update and the clock has moved from the traditional right side to the left. 

This was a development for notched devices and since Sony doesn't carry a notch why is it baked into our SW. 

No option to change position and now makes the "live" side of the notification tray look like there is an active notification on a quick glance. 

Muscle memory has us look instinctively to the right side for the time so now that needs to be re learned  

Yeah not a massive failing but frustrating and surely easy to fix 

[Jonas]

Hi @Mal-NZ, welcome to our forum!

That sounds very strange, would it be possible for you to get back to with a screenshot of how it looks for you? You can take a screenshot if you press and hold the power button and then you tap on "Take screenshot".

I just want to make sure that I understand exactly what you mean and I think a screenshot will explain it the best.

Thank you!

[Mal-NZ]

Hi and thanks for your reply

To further explain the symptoms, the notifications system has a specific order it sets app notifications (not in the order that they are received).  Email first, SMS second etc.  the Email app notification icon never displays anymore because the first icon (email) seems to be obscured by the clock (e.g. notifications bar hasn't moved enough to the right to accomodate new clock).

I expect this is because Google have set formatting boundries (for want of a better description) based on phones with larger screens / bigger resolutions (more pixels wide).

I've collated a series of screenshots which show various notifications coming in and demonstrating the icon ordering, as well as notifications settings screenshots that show notifications are configured correctly and Email notifications ARE being "sent" (phone's terminology)

Screenshots can be found here (word document)...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2fwpvflm3drhua/SONY%20Compact%20Email%20Notifications%20Bug_Screenshots_M...

... I'm an engineer and work on phones, phone apps, dev and testing etc. all the time ... so have an insight to what causes these types of 'bugs' more-so than just an end-user

A further response from SONY would be appreciated as it took considerable effort to pull together this information to assist SONY Support.

Regards

[Jonas]

Hi again @Mal-NZ and thank you so much for the information and the screenshots!

I see now that I forgot to ask you a very important thing. When you receive a new Email and the icon is not shown in the status bar, do you still get a notification and you can drag down the notification bar/see the notification on the lock screen? I just want to make sure that it's "only" the icon that is missing and the rest of the notifications for the application are working correctly.

Thanks again!

[skycamefalling]

@Mal-NZ 

How about the notifications for music playing? When the Music of Spotify is playing the icon is ranked on the left even before the Email-icon. Can you see the music player icon when the phone plays a song?

[JV8]

Hi there!

Is there a chance the clock position will ever change or be customisable? The opeator id pushed the clock off my screen so i cannot see it,this is highly inconvenient

See the printscreen, the 1:... after Vodafone is 1:21 am

Thanks for any advice

Johnny

Ss:https://gofile.io/?c=O0s9Oi

[Jonas]

Hi @JV8, welcome to our forum!

That looks very strange indeed. To my knowledge, the name of the operator should not be shown in the status bar, only when you drag down the quick settings. I haven't been abroad with an Android 9 device though, but I'm pretty sure that is not how it supposed to look, even if you are roaming.

Are you in Sweden at the moment and you are with Vodafone normally, but you are now roaming on Telenors network in Sweden? If that is the case, do you remember if it was the same when you aren't roaming?

It may be something special with the customization you are using because I have never seen this before and I'm fairly sure that someone would have mentioned it before.

Let me know how it was without roaming!

[Alaa]

@Jonas 

Why Sony removed the AM / PM icon with Android 9 ? 

At least add an option to show / hide it .