[Q] Vibrate Mode - RAZR HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As a police officer I like to keep my phone on vibrate while working. However with it attached to my belt I can rarely feel it vibrate, and therefore I miss a number of calls and text unless I'm constantly checking it. I know on my old phone I was able to increase the vibration, as well as make it vibrate longer. I have searched through all the phone settings and don't see a way to do it, so I figured I'd ask here in case I'm missing something.
Thanks!!

rescuetink said:
As a police officer I like to keep my phone on vibrate while working. However with it attached to my belt I can rarely feel it vibrate, and therefore I miss a number of calls and text unless I'm constantly checking it. I know on my old phone I was able to increase the vibration, as well as make it vibrate longer. I have searched through all the phone settings and don't see a way to do it, so I figured I'd ask here in case I'm missing something.
Thanks!!
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If you install an app like sms pro, you can edit the vibrations ie, make them shorter or longer. At least that would take care of text messages. As far as other notifications, you might have to try tasker or use a custom rom
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If you can, install CM 10. I have a developer edition so I don't know if you can.
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[APP] SmartPhoneCallVibrate

SmartPhoneCallVibrate is an application for Android Phones 2.0+ .
With this application when you receive a phone call, SmartPhoneCallVibrate will check if you have your phone in your pocket/holster. If your phone is in a closed environment (in your pocket/holster), then the phone will vibrate. If your phone is in a open environment (on the table), then the phone wont vibrate.
This is done using the proximity sensor.
You can find this app on the Market - "SmartPhoneCallVibrate" or "Carsten"
More info can be found on my website:
http://carstendressler.com/smartphonecallvibrate/
If you like this app, you might also want to check out "SmartSMSVibrate". Similar functionality, other than it handles SMS/Text Messages. FREE
http://carstendressler.com/smartsmsvibrate/
This is a really cool feature.
Is it possible for you to integrate the functionality of SmartSMSVibrate in this app so I donĀ“t have to install two separate apps?
The SMS functionality is good and you can choose the vibration patterns, one, two or the vibrations.
The phone settings can't be the same.
I want the phone to vibrate the vibration pattern until I pick up the call, not as it is now, one, two or three vibrates and then nothing.
Geggan said:
The SMS functionality is good and you can choose the vibration patterns, one, two or the vibrations.
The phone settings can't be the same.
I want the phone to vibrate the vibration pattern until I pick up the call, not as it is now, one, two or three vibrates and then nothing.
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Yea I am looking at how I can see how often it Rings. I'll will push an update once I get it figured out.
Anyone running this successfully with a Droid X?

Interesting Notification Bug - Stock

I have found a weird bug that I can't seem to find reported anywhere else. I'm fully stock, fully updated, rocking a custom tone, but that's just an audio file so that probably doesn't matter. I did, though, delete it, redownload it, switch to defaults, everything along those lines before stumbling on one last guess.
Okay, here's the bug. The notification tone gives only an extremely short portion of the notification before going silent.
Solution - and tested - The person you're getting that messed up tone from has reached it's limit of text messages stored on your phone. Simply delete the text messages and you're golden.
Theory: Educated guess here, I think the phone receives the text, sets off the notification process, then does the deleting process. When the deleting process is triggered it stops the tone. Having less than maximum texts gives a full notification.
I actually had 2 people on my phone at full messages, both of them were getting partial tones. Now they are, one at a time deleting the texts, receiving texts and giving full notification alerts.
funny that i found this thread and my phone just started doing it, will delete the txt and reply back with confirmation
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but this issue was kinda already covered in Q&A...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804949&highlight=cut+short
Vorfidus said:
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but this issue was kinda already covered in Q&A...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804949&highlight=cut+short
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No buzz kill here, I couldn't find the solution myself so I'm glad there is one... now I go to read that thread.
On second thought... since I came up with the exact same solution, it' smuch the opposite of a buzz kill, it makes me happy to have figured out the actual and correct thing.
Then in that case, glad I could help!
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The best solution I found was to put the ringtone as a silent one for msging and use tasker to play your notification sound whenever a msg is received.
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The single most ridiculous thing about stock Android.

The notification and call volume are the same. It has been the case ever since ICS and the only way to over come the issue is to use a custom rom, even rooting doesn't do anything to over come it.
I always sleep with phone on silent but I have started missing important unknown calls and was thinking that I should just keep my notifications silent when sleeping. So how do I do that on a nexus? Well I can't lol. Even if I select silent ring tone for notifications in the settings some apps like whatsapp have their own notification tone setting and will over ride whatever you have selected in settings. So basically I need to change the setting for every app everyday lol.
Now with iOS 6 even iPhone gives you higher control over notifications than stock Android. In the day of increased push services and what not a smartphone really needs to offer robust control over all this.
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Gambler_3 said:
The notification and call volume are the same. It has been the case ever since ICS and the only way to over come the issue is to use a custom rom, even rooting doesn't do anything to over come it.
I always sleep with phone on silent but I have started missing important unknown calls and was thinking that I should just keep my notifications silent when sleeping. So how do I do that on a nexus? Well I can't lol. Even if I select silent ring tone for notifications in the settings some apps like whatsapp have their own notification tone setting and will over ride whatever you have selected in settings. So basically I need to change the setting for every app everyday lol.
Now with iOS 6 even iPhone gives you higher control over notifications than stock Android. In the day of increased push services and what not a smartphone really needs to offer robust control over all this.
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First world problems.
"There's an app for that"
The same iPhone that I have to hit multiple buttons just to activate/deactivate the WiFi/Bluetooth and other functions. When Android been able to do it in one or two taps.
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I have no idea what your talking about in T-Mobile stock Rom for the s3 you could control between notification, volume, and ringtone sound all separately no custom Rom required
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neim81094 said:
I have no idea what your talking about in T-Mobile stock Rom for the s3 you could control between notification, volume, and ringtone sound all separately no custom Rom required
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"Stock" on a SIII would mean TouchWiz, wouldn't it?
He means completely stock Android.
neim81094 said:
I have no idea what your talking about in T-Mobile stock Rom for the s3 you could control between notification, volume, and ringtone sound all separately no custom Rom required
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I think he's complaining about just stock android, no touch wiz or sense or anything.
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Yea i was just about to say it's probably just a different Android version well as the dude said previously there is probably an app for that or if you dig around you might find a flashable audio control tweak.
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Elixir 2 lets me unlink the notification volume from the ring tone volume. I use this on my stock Galaxy Nexus (mine is rooted, not sure if that is required for this function in the app).
Tasker?
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That's ax actually my favorite feature
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Gambler_3 said:
The notification and call volume are the same. It has been the case ever since ICS and the only way to over come the issue is to use a custom rom, even rooting doesn't do anything to over come it.
I always sleep with phone on silent but I have started missing important unknown calls and was thinking that I should just keep my notifications silent when sleeping. So how do I do that on a nexus? Well I can't lol. Even if I select silent ring tone for notifications in the settings some apps like whatsapp have their own notification tone setting and will over ride whatever you have selected in settings. So basically I need to change the setting for every app everyday lol.
Now with iOS 6 even iPhone gives you higher control over notifications than stock Android. In the day of increased push services and what not a smartphone really needs to offer robust control over all this.
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If you're sleeping why not just turn the phone off?
barondebxl said:
If you're sleeping why not just turn the phone off?
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He already said that making the phone silent made him lose important calls. He sure doesn't want it to be switched off
I used an app called volume control in the past to control notification and ring tone volumes individually. There's a free version on the play store. Give it a try
slimfady said:
He already said that making the phone silent made him lose important calls. He sure doesn't want it to be switched off
I used an app called volume control in the past to control notification and ring tone volumes individually. There's a free version on the play store. Give it a try
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Oh for the calls.... got you!
dbolot1 said:
Tasker?
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Solution to every problem out there. Go spend that $6. It's totally worth it.
I think a much bigger problem with vanilla android is the lack of a T9 dialer. This is one of the most useful and important features on a phone for me and i don't think there's any way to fix this without a custom ROM.
I wish google would just add this and get it over with. I see no reason why they haven't already done so.
i have no idea if the stock from has this feature but im running paranoidandroind 2.54 on my gnex and there is a option to link ringtone and notifications together or have them separate. But even before using this rom i remember when you go to setting->sounds->Volume you can change ring and notifications separately.
InvalidUsername said:
I agree; Android definitely needs better sound/LED notification controls. For an OS so heavily invested in "personalization," it certainly lacks any here But oh wait, the Android fanboys and Google nuthuggers say its fine, so I guess it must be, right?
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there's ton of apps that let you "personalize" sounds and led notifications if you just look for them in the play store not to mention the countless roms that include these features. no need to start insulting people because of your ignorance.
I agree; Android definitely needs better sound/LED notification controls. For an OS so heavily invested in "personalization," it certainly lacks any here But oh wait, the Android fanboys and Google nuthuggers say its fine, so I guess it must be, right?
tatltael said:
I think a much bigger problem with vanilla android is the lack of a T9 dialer. This is one of the most useful and important features on a phone for me and i don't think there's any way to fix this without a custom ROM.
I wish google would just add this and get it over with. I see no reason why they haven't already done so.
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You can get t9 with third party dialor you don't need custom rom or even root for that. I use touch pal contacts its a brilliant app and you can theme it as well. The best thing about android is that you can change default system apps.
And people I have used several profile applications but all of them are riddled with bugs. The more powerful an app is the more bugs it seems to have. And some of those bugs can be so severe its not even funny. Like one of these apps "profile scheduler" would sometimes disconnect my network after a phone call lol wut.
However of course I am not giving up I am searching for apps that can unlink the notification and ring tone volume and seems like some of the devs have been able to do it now.
I am rooted btw so I will look into the recommendations put forward by a few posters.
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neim81094 said:
I have no idea what your talking about in T-Mobile stock Rom for the s3 you could control between notification, volume, and ringtone sound all separately no custom Rom required
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Because Samsung was never stupid enough to link the notification and ring tone volume. Bleh android oem's can be good at times lol.
I am also amazed at the blocking mode in jelly bean galaxy S3. I would like to see Samsung add profiles to blocking mode but in any case it trumps every other phone in terms of the sheer control it gives you. I have realised it really is better for such critical features to be built in instead of using an "app".
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Phone puts itself in silent mode. Any ideas why?

Short version: my default setting is vibrate. But recently my phone has been setting to silent without my doing anything. I'll leave me phone alone for an hour or so and when I unlock it I'll have missed calls and texts because it didn't vibrate, and my sound setting will have been changed to "silent" . This doesn't happen all the time, probably about half the time.
Some notes:
- the physical vibration works, I don't believe it's a hardware issue.
- persistent apps I am using: 1 tap quick bar, covinent eyes, onavo extend.
- no custom roms, not rooted.
- I always set my phone back to vibrate. I did to one experiment where I set my ring tone volume at max to see if it would still set itself to silent. Which it did.
- I also did a test where I left my phone out of my pocket to see if maybe I was accidentally hitting the screen and volume rocker. Still changed on its own without me touching it.
- there are no crash reports or force closes as far as I know, and I don't use app killers.
Rant: I'm very disappointed in HTC. The software on this phone is buggy and jittery. And where the heck is my jelly bean?
I uploaded screens of my software information incase anyone's interested.
Please help me with my mystery. I searched the forums for people with similar problems and haven't really found anything.
Thanks!
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its because you have installed onavo extend for sure. same problem here

Quiet Hours-like solution for Stock Z3?

I'm not at the point where I'm considering putting another ROM on my shiny (literally!) new Z3, but the biggest thing I miss from Slimroms is the apparent total lack of Quiet Hours or anything like it. (In case you don't know, it lets you prevent the phone from making a noise, vibrating, lighting up etc when an incoming text, phone call etc occurs). Apparently, when I'm sleeping I'm always one piece of spam, or an alert that someone's replied to one of my posts here, from being woken up. And i'm not desperate to mute my phone because then i'll miss (potentially) important phone calls.
How are you dealing with this?
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poldie said:
I'm not at the point where I'm considering putting another ROM on my shiny (literally!) new Z3, but the biggest thing I miss from Slimroms is the apparent total lack of Quiet Hours or anything like it. (In case you don't know, it lets you prevent the phone from making a noise, vibrating, lighting up etc when an incoming text, phone call etc occurs). Apparently, when I'm sleeping I'm always one piece of spam, or an alert that someone's replied to one of my posts here, from being woken up. And i'm not desperate to mute my phone because then i'll miss (potentially) important phone calls.
How are you dealing with this?
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there is lots of planner/tasker app in play store for you to manage almost everything you want
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Does the Z3 have the "Smart Connect" app? If so there are automation options there. For example, you can set it to go to complete silent, start the alarm and clock app IF the phone is plugged in and it is between x and y hours.
Smart connect set new event based on time, set time start, volume off, vibrate off, set end time volume up, vibrate on.
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Smart connect should work fine, but if you want choices I use Agent and it works great.
Got what you need right here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.epsilonlabs.silence.ads&hl=en
Been using this on my Galaxy S3 for a long time before I upgraded to the Z3. Works great, and is very very low resources. I use it to set my phone to silent at work automatically.
skywalker6705 said:
Got what you need right here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.epsilonlabs.silence.ads&hl=en
Been using this on my Galaxy S3 for a long time before I upgraded to the Z3. Works great, and is very very low resources. I use it to set my phone to silent at work automatically.
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Just tried it, but it's no good because I can't silence notifications without silencing incoming phone calls at the same time. The app suggests what I want isn't possible without a custom rom.
Have a look at this absolute fantastic app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nightskeeper
This is the best quite hours solution in Play Store imo and should be exactly what you need. btw you can define whitelists and the app has an excellent emergency function: when someone calls e.g. more than three times in 5 minutes, the app lets the phone ring although quite hours are activated
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Paulikid said:
Have a look at this absolute fantastic app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nightskeeper
This is the best quite hours solution in Play Store imo and should be exactly what you need. btw you can define whitelists and the app has an excellent emergency function: when someone calls e.g. more than three times in 5 minutes, the app lets the phone ring although quite hours are activated
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Thanks, tried that out but needs too many permissions and it's way too complicated.
skywalker6705 said:
Got what you need right here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.epsilonlabs.silence.ads&hl=en
Been using this on my Galaxy S3 for a long time before I upgraded to the Z3. Works great, and is very very low resources. I use it to set my phone to silent at work automatically.
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Tried it; looks good but doesn't work.
corallus said:
Smart connect set new event based on time, set time start, volume off, vibrate off, set end time volume up, vibrate on.
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Using this for now. Limited but at least it works. Using it to turn off data and sound so it's basically like turning the power off.

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