Up until yesterday, the N97 was working fine re the SMS notification. The usual message tone sounded, the screen shows that have 1 new Message.

However, yesterday morning, I was waiting for a text message, and it didn't arrive. Checked my phone, went into messages, and saw that the Inbox had a little red star indicating a new message. So wondered why it didn't sound the chime, didn't show on the home screen that I had a new message,and even the home screen widget didn't show a little red star ( I guess this is just an icon with a shortcut to the messaging application? )

This morning, same thing happened ( I get a text same time every day from a service I subscribe to ). Once I re-started the phone, I generated a text message for myself from y network, and then it was back to normal

Anyone else had this problem, and how likely is it to repeat itself.

In the setting for notifications there is a pick for how long it should try to give you a notification....default setting is 1 HOUR.

Menu -> Settings -> Phone -> Notification lights -> Notification light -> Blink light for: 1 h

Yes, i did consider this aspect, and thought that if it's been more than an hour then the notification will have disappeared off the home screen, but I checked the text message just minutes after it arrived. The re-start seems to hace done the trick but it seems odd that there is still some re-starting and messing around with the phone to get it function properly.

I had exactly the same thing. I realised I hadnt received any txts all afternoon a few days ago, as I hadn't had a notification. Went into Messaging to find 5 or 6 unopened txts. This went on for a few hours with txts arriving but no notification, and then suddenly fixed itself.

For the life of me I cant work out what triggered this or what fixed it. I just accepted it was now working and figured Id have to wait for a firmware update.