10x When you say you killed hildon-status-menu, have you tried step 4 completely, as described here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=104 ? both "-9" and without it? How did you try to check notifications? Sending SMS to yourself from the phone won't work. Best way is to call yourself or sending SMS from another phone (calling from Skype / Google voice or sending SMS from gmail also works).