Possible to disable screen on when receiving texts?

[spyder560]

I'm on VZW and using the standard Messaging app for texts. I used to use Handcent but then came the ads.
Is there a way to disable screen-on every single time I receive a text?

 

[Miklb58]

Are you saying that you don't want notifications when you receive a text, or that you don't want the lock screen to wake up?
My Note 4 came with two apps for texting. The Samsung Messages, and the Verizon Meassage+.
Which are you using?

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[spyder560]

Are you saying that you don't want notifications when you receive a text, or that you don't want the lock screen to wake up?
My Note 4 came with two apps for texting. The Samsung Messages, and the Verizon Meassage+.
Which are you using?

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Yes I just don't want the lock screen to light up whenever I receive a text. I use the standard Samsung Messaging app.

 

[Miklb58]

I've not used that app, but I just enabled it as default so that I could see what settings are there.
Did you already go inside the Messages app settings to "Notifications"?
In there, at the bottom is a setting for "Preview messages" that was enabled in mine. This says when enabled, it will show a preview in the status bar and on the lock screen.
Try un-checking that (if you hadn't already) and test to see if it solves your issue.

If that doesn't do the trick, there's a couple other places to experiment with.

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[GoCliffGo05]

Edit.. already said

 

[spyder560]

I've not used that app, but I just enabled it as default so that I could see what settings are there.
Did you already go inside the Messages app settings to "Notifications"?
In there, at the bottom is a setting for "Preview messages" that was enabled in mine. This says when enabled, it will show a preview in the status bar and on the lock screen.
Try un-checking that (if you hadn't already) and test to see if it solves your issue.

If that doesn't do the trick, there's a couple other places to experiment with.

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Yeah, I've messed with that setting/check box. All that does is when the screen does light up, no message notification appears.
But the screen still lights up.

 

[Jonny Kansas]

Personally, I use Google Hangouts for texting. It doesn't turn the screen on every time I get a text. That bugged me for a long time too. There are quite a few decent replacement apps out there though, depending on exactly what's important to you. Google Messages, or whatever it's called, is a nice basic texting app, textra...

 

[jstafford1]

Do you use lock screen widgets? Might try looking at your lock screen setting as opposed to text settings.

 

[Jonny Kansas]

AFAIK, there's no way to turn the feature off. My wife's old s3, my old (now her new) s4, and my current Note 4 all turn the screen on when you get a text using their stock apps and I've yet to find any sort of setting or anything without using a third party texting app.

 

[Miklb58]

I assume that you are using s Note 4, and that you are on Lollipop. My only remaining suggestions are:
(try these one at a time, since I can't say why there are options in two places, and I haven't proven how each works)
1) go into Settings>Applications>Application Manager, then slide the screen over to All. Scroll down to your messaging app and click on it.
There's a check box for Show Notifications. Un check it and test for the result.
If that doesn't work, go back and re-check the box, and try:
2) Settings>Device>Sound & notification. Scroll down to Application Notifications. Click and scroll down to your app, click on it and turn on "block notifications"

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