Ios 6 iPhone 4S won't tell me when I have a text?

I checked all the settings an everything is fine and the do not disturb thingy is off and all that I have a tone set for messages too. Whenever I get a text my phone doesn't tell me and it doesn't even have a badge icon, literally no noise, vibration, nothing! I rebooted, restored, updates and everything but it seems that it's ios 6 according to many other users with the same issue. I literally need to be on the messages app for it to work and actually make a sound. I can't downgrade to ios 5 because I don't have the saved shsh blobs and I bought this phone from amazon so I can't give it to AT&T or apple what do I do? Do you know of any possible jailbreak tweaks that may help? Something to disable or forever delete do not disturb maybe? Anything that might help would be appreciated.

Dude just upgrade to iPhone 5 or s3 it's way better trust me bro!

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