https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_vibration_syndrome
One of the names given on Wikipedia is a “fauxcellarm” which I love.
“Researcher Michelle Drouin found that almost 9 out of 10 undergraduates at her college experienced phantom vibrations” so it’s certainly common.
Vibration “ringtones” should be a thing. Less likely to confuse with phantom sensations and other people’s phones vibrating.
This has been a feature on iOS for a long time—I’ve still got some custom patterns from back in high school
Like, distinctive vibration patterns.
Hmm, surely it’s been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.
I’ve got a thing in my drawer that’ll do that. Doesn’t take calls, though.
Just imagine if it had Bluetooth so you could use it as a silent ringer though
I have a different vibration pattern for my wife’s calls and messages, work calls and messages, and all others. I swear I will get phantom vibrations from a specific set randomly.
I think nothing phones have it
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I cannot believe buttplugs have phones beat in this area.
Innovation industry!
I thought I was getting these but then realized that my Fingerprint reader was triggering in my pocket and it does a very light vibration on a failed Fingerprint attempt.
Yes, but additionally I started getting actual random vibrations from my phone with no notifications. After a while I discovered that if I put my phone on a library book, my phone will buzz. I tested it over and over before believing it. Guess it interacts with the electronic tag the library uses for checkouts.
I keep my personal phone in one pocket and my work phone in the other, I frequently feel the vibration in the wrong pocket and end up checking the wrong phone
Not since I turned off sound and vibration in my phone.
Before that, yes.
Yeah. Sometimes I hear the message ding too. Guess I’m lonely.
A long time ago.
These days, I keep both audio and vibration turned off. If somebody needs to reach me they will want to message and then wait until I check.
Yes
Used to when I had a flip phone. But my phone now has been on silent for years.
Assuming I’m understanding what you mean, I did somewhat recently. I don’t remember what game it was but it was caused by a game I downloaded from the Google Play Store. The game never gave me notifications as I actually had them disabled, but the game would cause my phone to vibrate randomly for seemingly no reason. As soon as I uninstalled the game, the random vibrations stopped.
Yes, I was in a friend’s pool yesterday, so obviously without my phone, and I felt a vibration that felt exactly like Snapchat. I just chalk it up to muscle twitches.
I don’t cause I don’t use vibration that often
I started getting those daily a few years ago. It annoyed the crap out of me so I decided to use ringtones instead of vibration. Took a few weeks for the phantoms to get out of my leg.
I remember talking about this with friends 10+ years ago. Haven’t noticed it or heard anyone else mention it since, but I don’t know why.
