FP3 not vibrating

Help Fairphone 3
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No vibration. Both settings under notifications are turned on ("also vibrate for calls2 and “haptic vibration”) but nothing. I do remember at least haptic vibration working initially, not sure about call vibration. I turned haptic vibration off then though.

This is a bit annoying because I often do not hear my phone ringing. Any ideas anyone what might be wrong?

Thanks!

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Please go to #dic:developeroptions (click to find out how to unlock it) > Service Menu > Service Tests > Test Single > Vibrator. Is the phone vibrating?

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Hey, thanks. I was looking for that but couldn’t find info on how to turn the dev options on in FP3. Figured it out now. YES. It vibrates. So it’s a software issue??

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Yes, the hardware works fine if the Vibrator Test passes. Are you sure that all other relevant settings are activated? What are your settings, e.g. for calls?

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Check all the following settings and turn them on if necessary:

  • Sounds->also vibrate for calls
  • Sounds->Advanced->other sounds and vibrations (5 options)
  • Accessibility->Vibration (2 options)

It seems the options unter sounds and accessibility have in part the same outcome, but the sliders are somewhat independent of eachother. Maybe this helps.

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Someone had had this issue before, turned out the battery saving option was on. A tell tale sign will be that the battery icon will be red if so.

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So I’ve gone through the settings again, yes, as far as I can tell they’re all on.

  • Sounds->also vibrate for calls
  • Sounds->Advanced->other sounds and vibrations (5 options)

Update:

  • Accessibility->Vibration (2 options) - this one I didn’t know about, turned it on, now it works. Apparently that was the issue. Actually it works for calls/messages but not the haptic vibration but that’s fine since I’m going to turn it back off anyway was just for testing :nerd_face:

Thanks for your help!

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Thanks but that wasn’t it, I saw that thread too :wink:

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Excellent advice, works now. See below. Apparently it was the accessibility settings (bit weird that) which I didn’t know about.

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@maakroberts For the future: Rather respond to multiple people by quoting them:

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or mentioning them @username :slight_smile:

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Continuing the discussion from FP3 not vibrating:

One of my FP3 does not vibrate, even if all these settings are set to “on”.
The vibration device passed the check in the test mode (* # * # 66 # * # *).
Device: Fairphone 3 (without +)
OS: 6.A.028.1

What could be the reason for the behavior ?

Update
The problem seems to the the default settings for vibration strength. If the strength is changed in the keyboard settings from “Standard” to - for example - “65 ms”, the phone vibrates on every keyboard input. Why is the strength set to zero, if haptic feedback is enabled ?

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I reopened the topic and merged them

Those 2 settings are not connected and have different functions

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Why it wont work if haptic feedback is enabled and the vibration device is working correct ?
I tried a reset to factory defaults and it wont fix the issue.

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this has nothing to do with vibration of the keyboard.

Haptic feefdback can be off and still I can have keyboard vibration and vice versa. I dont really understand what actually is not working: calls, messages, haptic feedback, keyboard vibration?

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None of them.

Keyboard vibration only with the workaround I mentioned above.

I assume a software bug.

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I have to correct myself: it seems at some point at least with GBoard this changed and general haptic feedback setting is relevant for the haptic keyboard/Gboard to work, so for Gboard it must be enabled as well to get keyboard haptic feedback.

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