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.

[Squeaky369]

Are you using a private DNS that YOU set, or one that Samsung chose? Cause I will use Google or Cloudfare, but manually set the IPs. But I didn't check this setting when I set the S25 up.

[mrbart]

its my own DNS i setup

[D_A_N]

I can't believe this!

The "fix" worked indeed! How could you even think of this as a possible solution? 🙂

[KaMaLL]

I also used dns on my Note10 plus. 

nextdns

And when moving it, it copied the configuration. 

After disabling private dns I was able to trigger push notifications.

After switch DNS completely off I could set up apps like ING.NL - Bankieren. It didn't work before. Now it works with and without dns. 

[zapadee]

Holy **bleep** - removing my own private dns allowed me to enable push notifications on several third party apps. Interesting bug! I do hope Samsung fixes this quickly.

[D_A_N]

Excuse me, I think I had them all enabled, but they were just not coming through. 

What do you mean by “enabling” push notifications?

[eMKei_]

If anyone experiencing this issue with gmail only this helped me: 

Clearing storage and cache adds a message at the top of the Gmail says "Inbox Sync is off" even though it's turned on everywhere in the settings.
FIX as stated in this thread:

You have to REMOVE THE ACCOUNT and THEN CLEAR CACHE/STORAGE. If you do it in a different order it won't work.

Now notifications for gmail are OK, before I did not get any notification mobile or watch from gmail inbox

[Chipotlewalay]

Did you check Notification Categories? Check out this thread: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S24/Notification-category/m-p/2948508 . Try also turning On Airplane Mode, which can also reset the notifications. 

[Squeaky369]

Yes. That has been covered and they are properly turned on.

[rockkcg]

All I had to do was turn on airplane mode, for 10 seconds then turn it off, then instantly tons of notifications appeared.