# No notifications from Android app? **URL:** \ **Category:** Anova Precision® Cooker\ **Created:** [May 4, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985 "2023-05-04T00:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Claghorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Claghorn](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Claghorn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/1 "2023-05-04T00:02:50Z")
I just did a (wet) “dry run” with my new Nano 3.0 connected and controlled via wifi using the android app. I got no notification on the phone when the target water temp was hit. I got no notification on the phone when the cook time hit zero. I would have expected notifications would be one of the reasons I’d want wifi so I could do some work around the house and have my phone tell me when to put in or take out the food. Is the app really that lame, or am I missing some setting somewhere? I’d actually expect it to have a constant notification I could pull down to see the status a lot like the notifications media players provide when they are in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Douglas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/douglas/32/7533_2.png) [@Douglas](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Douglas)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/2 "2023-05-04T12:39:03Z")
Welcome @Claghorn Are you confident of the continuing connection? Did you start the ANOVA cooker remotely? Mine certainly does send notifications and sets time and temperature remotely. ---
**Author:** ![Claghorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Claghorn](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Claghorn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/3 "2023-05-04T12:46:35Z")
Did everything via the app. It certainly seemed to remain connected. Every time I opened the app it said it was connected and showed me the current temp, but no notification of any kind showed up when it hit the target. I was closing the app in order to do other things on my phone, does it only work if I leave it open in the foreground? ---
**Author:** ![Claghorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Claghorn](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Claghorn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/4 "2023-05-04T18:04:44Z")
I’ve just done the old “uninstall and reinstall” trick, and now a new test run is indeed giving notifications (why is it so hard to install apps?). Two things I had previously noticed and did differently on the 2nd install. 1. When installed, the app defaulted to notifications blocked, so before I ever opened the app after the second install, I unblocked notifications. 2. When trying to login, the “login with google” button apparently does log me in, but doesn’t indicate the login was successful, so I tried several times. On the second install, I just trusted that it worked and didn’t make the multiple login attempts. ---
**Author:** ![Claghorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Claghorn](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Claghorn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/5 "2023-05-04T20:56:09Z")
I got a notification when done as well, seems to be mostly working now, but when I ran it with just barely enough water, it didn’t give me a low water notification, it just stopped cooking and set the time to zero. I didn’t realize it had run low till I tried to restart it, then I got the low indicator on the top of the cooker. I doubt I’ll run into this in real life (unless I want to do a 50 hour brisket or something). ---
**Author:** ![Douglas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/douglas/32/7533_2.png) [@Douglas](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Douglas)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/6 "2023-05-04T21:44:22Z")
You must have a tight cover. I do 8h@180ºF and that’s enough to give me a low level alarm without a cover. ---
**Author:** ![Claghorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Claghorn](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Claghorn)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/7 "2023-05-05T01:49:40Z")
I mostly make sure there is extra water, then use lots of plastic wrap if I’m going a long time. Thought about getting one of the covered containers from amazon, but the anova containers are way too expensive to consider. (I just use my stock pot for now). ---
**Author:** ![MrGus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@MrGus](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/MrGus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/no-notifications-from-android-app/31985/8 "2023-05-12T11:39:29Z")
Plastic wrap sucks, from both a “plastic waste” perspective as well as not holding all the moisture in well, to accessing the pot for whatever reason. If you have an instantpot (mine is 8 litre capacity, this 4-5 litres of water for a typical uk cook) their silicone lids are tough & hold well, easy to cut to shape allowing it to remain tight & retain moisture, especially useful for early models where steam got in the vents… this is written all over the place, as evaporation is only a big problem as long as you ignore it. the stainless steel inner pot holds heat pretty well (reflective surface etc etc) & is easy to creatively improve the heat retention & reduce energy consumption / heat up / heat loss times significantly… it’s another reason I sous vide. I also like the fact that the instantpot inner can be used elsewhere rather than being an expensive, one pop item.