Looks like this will come to a hardware problem.
I noticed I was missing calls because the vibration on my G3 was not working.
I downloaded a vibrate test app and it has two options. One long vibration and one constant short vibration.
My phone refuses to vibrate sometimes, but if I shake it, it starts vibrating for a short time (testing the short vibration option)
If I use the long vibration and shake it, it vibrates "infinitely".
When it works properly, the vibration looks stronger.
In other words, it's look like a battery that it's not properly placed.
It's weak/not working but works sometimes.
TBH, it has been very weak/not working in the last few days.
Should I search for a assistance center and ask for a changing on my G3 vibrate motor,
or should I try anything special (Lollipop bug)?
Hey, I have the EXACT same problem. Everything you described... how you shake it on long vibrate it will vibrate infinitely regardless of shaking it afterwards. The app you're using is "Test Your Android" am I right? Well I have the exact same problem as you and it's causing me to miss calls and notifications every day.
I doubt it is a hardware problem because shaking it allows it to vibrate forever. I tried shaking it while vibrating to see if there is something loose or not well placed, but shaking as hard as I can while it was vibrating did nothing. Maybe software errors involving shaking the phone and vibrating?
Theory # 2: Maybe the "Long Vibration" allows it to constantly come "unloose" thus why when under long vibration it doesn't stop, but the short vibration stops because it pauses every so often.
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So I've searched everywhere and I haven't seen anything for this issue. Even though all the settings are correct and i have vibrate checked in the messages app, my phone won't vibrate for notifications like text messages all the time. Sometimes it will vibrate and sometimes it won't. So my phone will be in my pocket and I'll check it 30 minutes later and see 3 or 4 texts but it never vibrated. I exchanged my phone and am having the same issues. Everything is stock. Has anyone had this problem?
the phone vibrates, it just does it too softly for you to feel it... that's the problem with light phones, the original epic 4g could cause an earthquake but that's because it was gigantic, I never felt the epic 4g touch, and this one I feel it at times...
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no it definitely doesn't vibrate. I've set it on the table and texted it and it'll vibrate on every 10th text or so. usually it'll just light up for the notification but it won't vibrate.
m3meems said:
no it definitely doesn't vibrate. I've set it on the table and texted it and it'll vibrate on every 10th text or so. usually it'll just light up for the notification but it won't vibrate.
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menu/settings/sound...........make sure sound and vibration are checked. that is the default for the entire phone even if vibration is enabled in messaging. also make sure your vibration intensity is all the way up.
t3project said:
menu/settings/sound...........make sure sound and vibration are checked. that is the default for the entire phone even if vibration is enabled in messaging. also make sure your vibration intensity is all the way up.
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Yes that's already been checked and vibration intensity is all the way up. The phone does vibrate on some texts, but not most, which is what the problem is.
I've noticed it'll vibrate normally when the screen is on and I get a text, but it won't when the screen is off?
I've definitely seen bugs in phones in which things like notification LEDs didn't work when the phone was in sleep mode. Whaddya know, I recall one of them being a Samsung (Intrepid). Granted it was years ago and Windows Mobile 6.5, but whoever was coding notification and power management back then wasn't fully aware of the point of "notifications".
Then again I just sent myself a test to the Note 2 while the screen was off... phone vibrated, screen turned on briefly (I hate that), blue light started blinking, heard my notification sound, and screen turned back off.
So there's something interfering with your phone's ability to wake up while it is trying to notify you. Have you done any power management modifications or installed anything designed to save battery power?
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I've definitely seen bugs in phones in which things like notification LEDs didn't work when the phone was in sleep mode. Whaddya know, I recall one of them being a Samsung (Intrepid). Granted it was years ago and Windows Mobile 6.5, but whoever was coding notification and power management back then wasn't fully aware of the point of "notifications".
Then again I just sent myself a test to the Note 2 while the screen was off... phone vibrated, screen turned on briefly (I hate that), blue light started blinking, heard my notification sound, and screen turned back off.
So there's something interfering with your phone's ability to wake up while it is trying to notify you. Have you done any power management modifications or installed anything designed to save battery power?
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I haven't changed any power management settings or downloaded any apps designed to save power. I've tried factory resets several times. The phone will vibrate for texts but after about 30 minutes or so goes back to not vibrating. I've called samsung and taken it to the sprint store and no one can figure it out. I first thought the motions was causing te problems but it still doesn't vibrate when those are off. I'm completely out of ideas.
EDIT: I may have figured it out, if I turn on "Wake up in lock screen" in the settings in S Voice, the phone stops vibrating on texts. When I turn it off, the phone vibrates again. Toggled it on and off and the changes were immediate. Does anyone else have this problem??
I keep my stock phone, USA-TMO, on mute and vibrate only. I’ve noticed recently that the phone ringer will go off on its own. There is no incoming call, no alarm that is set. I get to the screen and there are no indications of what is making it ring. None of the controls seem to mute the sound either. I have to reboot the phone to get it to shut-up.
It’s happened a few times in the last several weeks. Once I left the phone sitting on my desk and came back and it was in this state. Now this is where it gets strange. I’ve had it happen 3 times when I’m standing in front of one of those hands free urinals. The ones with the sensor, IR?, that detects a warm body standing there. But I’ve also been standing there and it didn’t go off several times. I’ve got Wi-Fi enabled, GPS is off, Mute-enabled, and Bluetooth-enabled.
I’m going to start turning off interfaces, Bluetooth first, to see if it’s one of those interacting with the “warm body detector”.
Any ideas on what’s going on?
It has nothing to do with the IR sensor on the urinal. LOL
The phone is paired with a pebble smart watch via Bluetooth. I'm figuring out that it is when I leave pebble sitting on my desk and I walk away with the phone. Somehow the un-pairing of the pebble with the phone causes the ringer to start up. It takes about the time it took me to walk to the restroom.
When the ringer goes off, I went about stopping every running application I could, but no help there. It keeps ringing until I reboot.
Solved!
My pebble has a Pebble Reminder app that has a "Phone alarm on disconnected" setting.
DOH!
Funny that it takes a reboot to disable the alarm though. That's kinda goofy.
On another thought: We always imagine some exotic source to a problem. Nuclear radiation, cosmic rays, IR ports on the urinals. But it usually comes down to some simple source. Occam's Razor?
I got a T-Mobile G4 on June 1st, and have been having kind of an annoying issue with it. I have haptic feedback turned on so my phone vibrates when I hit the on-screen buttons or long-press on apps, etc., and I also use Swiftkey with haptic feedback as well.. Whenever the phone vibrates like this though, it has a little clicking sound it makes, like the motor is hitting something when it rotates. I don't have any button volume on either, so it isn't audio feedback. I tried searching elsewhere on the internet to see if anyone was having this problem but I figured the phone was too new for there to be a whole lot of information about it. I'm trying to determine whether I should just get over it or go into a T-Mobile store to see if their units do it as well, and exchange if I need to. Thanks for any help!
Yes! Mine does that too I had to shut haptic off. Pisses me off so bad because I like haptic
Mine did this, intermittently. It was OK at first, but after maybe a week, it would intermittently make sort of a "click" noise when the haptic would turn on. I had vibration feedback turned on for the keyboard, so while typing it might be smooth 4 times, then make a weird sound, then smooth some more, then click again.
I also found it very annoying I got a different unit, and this one has been fine. I hope it stays this way. I don't know if you can easily replace just the vibration motor assembly, if you wanted to fix the issue.
Hello,
Is anyone having trouble trying to change volume while in a call ?
It's not properly registering the up or down clicks on the rocker. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
It is only happening when the phone is close to your face and the screen is off. When I take the phone away from my face, it works flawlessly.
In all other situation outside of a call, it works as intended
I've got one answer from the support telling me that this is a normal behaviour due to the proximity sensor . An other answer from them ask me to reset the phone... (the phone is 2 days old..)
This one really grinds my gears.
I use wired headphones a lot. and whenever I do and the phone is in my pants pocket, the thigh touching through the fabric of pocket turns on the screen many times. So I disable double tap to wake.
Every time I receive a call and phone is in my jeans front pocket, random buttons would be pressed. call would go on hold, or mute itself, or turn on speakerphone, or open keypad, turn on record etc.. and it is extremely frustrating. even more so when a business client calls me and I accidentally put him on hold because my phone is so stupid it does not understand not to turn on the screen touch. The proximity sensor works fine because when talking on call it will turn off the screen. just not the touch. My torch gets activated pretty often when pulling the phone out of pocket. this is so stupid infuriating.
The rest of the phone is amazing. I love the hardware. its pretty fast, runs games fine. camera is also very good. but the bloatware and the bugs are getting on my nerves.
This bug is from the day I got the phone.
Realme UI 3 update did not affect the bug but actually made it worse as the torch triggering issue has gotten worse.
I have not encountered any major bugs in the new update apart from a bluetooth volume fluctuation bug.
Am I alone having this issue?
PS: I forgot to mention that several times the quicksettings toggles are also triggered Like Data/Wifi turning off, VPN getting activated, Airplane mode turning on etc.