Motorola Nexus 6 Turning Off Vibration For Message Notifications Does Nothing

[jkassels]

Thats about it...My phone always vibrates with incoming messages whether or not i have vibrate checked on or off in message notifications. The send vibrate notifications however does work just fine. This is only for incoming message notifcations. BTW im using the very latest update version.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

I'm guessing you must have also enabled "priority notifications, new in 5.0" -- AKA "heads up notifications".

Although not documented, these "heads up" notifications only work (i.e. show as "heads up") if an application requests vibration, so Aqua has to do this even if "vibration" is off in its notification settings...

Please check and turn off (and feel free to report this to Google, i.e. make it so that posting a priority notification doesn't require vibration).

[ecp5]

I'm having same issue with Moto X 2nd Generation, it always vibrates even though I turned off vibration in notification. I'm not using priority notifications, but if that affects it, how do I turn off?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Please check the optional account level override settings *and* app level settings *both*.

- App level settings: Menu -> Settings -> Message notifications. The natural, obvious place.

- Per account: Long press the account in the app's main window (account list) -> Special settings. These will optionally override app level settings just for that account.

If it's off in both places, it might be something outside the app. Such as (just ideas): silent notification mode and the phone replacing sound with vibration, or maybe a third party notification enhancement app?

[TDome]

I'm having this issue as well on an LG Nexus 5X running Marshmallow (6.0)

In another thread in this forum there was a discussion about a potential problem (feature?) with Android OS (5.0 and above) --- when you select "priority notifications" for any app, the OS forces a vibrate notification.  Is that the issue at play here?  Seems odd to not be able to turn off vibrations for notifications...

[Kostya Vasilyev]

It's not "OS forcing vibration" -- it's "OS ignoring app's request for heads-up style unless the notification also has vibration".

So I force vibration from my code.

As I recently found out, a sound is enough too, and already made the changes, but not released yet.

But yes, it's one of those Android "burning hoops" that I have to jump through.

If you find the connection "odd", feel free to file a bug report (link below) where it can be ignored for a year or two and then get closed with "obsolete" (when Android 7 or 8 comes out).

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list