Notification vibrate

[josh_deibler]

So I noticed that there is a vibrate option when receiving a notification. However, when I turn it on it still doesn't vibrate. Is there a way to make your phone vibrate when you receive text messages and emails?? Seems really stupid that they have this feature on the phone but it doesn't work. I even went to verizon and they couldn't figure it out either.

 

[Thom]

Did you go to ...
Settings
General
Vibrate
... and choose the right option?

... Thom

 

[josh_deibler]

yes, and the people at verizon tried it as well. Does anyone have a bionic that vibrates when they receive a text?

 

[doogald]

Just to ask the question, did you set vibration notification in the Messaging app itself? In other words, start messaging, menu->messaging settings->vibrate (at the bottom, under "Notification settings")?

I don't use the email app, but I am fairly certain that there is a vibration option there as well.

 

[wichita6]

mine only vibrates....no ring tone. Go figure?

 

[Reverence]

You need to enable vibrate both in general settings and in each individual app where you want to have a vibration for notification (ie: e-mail, messaging, facebook, etc).

 

[Thom]

You need to enable vibrate both in general settings and in each individual app where you want to have a vibration for notification (ie: e-mail, messaging, facebook, etc).

... and choose the way it should vibrate in general settings ...

... Thom

 

[josh_deibler]

Yeah I tried that, I went into general settings and vibrate is set to "always". I then went into message settings and vibrate when notified is checked. Yet still no vibrate. Do I have a defective phone or is this just a glitch in droid phones?

 

[doogald]

Yeah I tried that, I went into general settings and vibrate is set to "always". I then went into message settings and vibrate when notified is checked. Yet still no vibrate. Do I have a defective phone or is this just a glitch in droid phones?

It sounds like you have a bad phone - this worked fine for me. All of my Android phones handled this perfectly.

 

[johnlgalt]

I have to agree - mine does it right now...er, I mean that mine works the way intended, with no problems.

 

[calberry]

You need to enable vibrate both in general settings and in each individual app where you want to have a vibration for notification (ie: e-mail, messaging, facebook, etc).

I just got a new Bionic and had this same problem. Googled the issue and found this thread. This post was spot on and I now get vibrate with all notifications.

Thanks

 

[thamac]

My daughters phone had the same issue. No matter how the settings were set the phone would not vibrate when receiving a text. She ended up taking it to the V-store and they had to download something to her phone. I don't think it was a simple update. She didn't know for sure what was d-loaded but everything worked after that.