Can't get my S5830i to vibrate when I get a text.

[wccanard]

Whatever am I doing wrong?

I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy GT-S5830i running a stock rom, Android version 2.3.6.

Home screen->Settings->Sound->Vibrate is set to "Only when not in silent mode."

The phone is not in silent mode.

Within the stock messaging app, Settings->Select Ringtone is set to some silly mp3 file I found on the internet.

I can't find any mention of vibration alerts within the app options.

When I get a text, I hear the silly noise, but the phone never vibrates. I've tried setting Vibrate to "always" and this doesn't fix the problem.

 

[Gammer]

Have you tried it with one of the stock message alerts to see if it vibrates? It could be the the mp3 you have selected.

 

[wccanard]

I don't know what it was (changing mp3's didn't fix it), but I know that doing a factory reset fixed it(!) This is sort-of obvious in the sense that if a factory reset hadn't fixed it then the phone would probably have been actually broken.

For what it's worth, I wrote down pretty much exactly what I did

http://androidforums.com/ace-all-things-root/713295-what-do-after-factory-reset-rooted-phone.html

there [back up everythingl, factory reset, restore everything]

Goodness knows what was wrong.