Notification Audio/Vibrate glitches

[barryl85]

I have my S3 set with Dew Drops as the notification tone (came with the phone).

Sometimes the full tone doesn't play you get a blip of noise and that's it, I also have my S3 set to vibrate while the tone plays and also the full vibration does not happen when the sound doesn't fully play. I have tried custom notification tones and others and different vibrate combos and no vibrate but still the issue persists.

One of my friends S3 does the exact same thing.

Its a real gripe of mine and its random when it does it and it happens quite often.

Anyone else got this annoying issue?



P.S. I'm not rooted the phone is as it came in the box.

 

[durarian]

Yep, I just found this same problem myself. Though for me, it seems like whenever the vibrate stops is when the tone stops playing. It is quite annoying. I am finding a ton of little bugs in this phone. Sometimes the full tone plays, sometimes it doesn't. I have tried multiple tones and even factory reset twice. Nothing works.

Other than that, the bugs I have found are: the keyboard causes the screen to flicker every so often (its really quick, if you blink youll miss it). Also for some reason the notification tone always plays through the speaker, even if you have headphones connected.

 

[barryl85]

Yep, I just found this same problem myself. Though for me, it seems like whenever the vibrate stops is when the tone stops playing. It is quite annoying. I am finding a ton of little bugs in this phone. Sometimes the full tone plays, sometimes it doesn't. I have tried multiple tones and even factory reset twice. Nothing works.

Other than that, the bugs I have found are: the keyboard causes the screen to flicker every so often (its really quick, if you blink youll miss it). Also for some reason the notification tone always plays through the speaker, even if you have headphones connected.

Its so annoying, I have tried to fix it myself but cant ! Definitely a software issue.

I haven't seen the screen flash issue but the second one with the earphones plugged in is annoying. I sometimes listen to music while at work and keep my phone on silent but when earphones are in and phone rings / message the notification tone will play and it is played at the volume your listening to so if the volume is up full it will ring at full volume through the external speaker.

 

[durarian]

The screen flash issue is difficult to see, but once youve seen it you don't miss it. I as well always listen to music at work and for that sole reason do not like my phone to play notifications through the phones speaker. Hopefully these issues get worked out in a update but....I doubt it.

 

[barryl85]

The screen flash issue is difficult to see, but once youve seen it you don't miss it. I as well always listen to music at work and for that sole reason do not like my phone to play notifications through the phones speaker. Hopefully these issues get worked out in a update but....I doubt it.

Yeah hopefully they do get updated but I haven't seen many people complaining about these issues !

 

[durarian]

A quick google search and I found people complaining about the issues. Not many but the phone hasnt been released that long on all carriers. I was more worried about the notification sounds because I couldnt find anyone with that similar problem but I am actually glad i have now. I thought my phone was glitched so many times today. These forums relieve me of my worry though!

 

[barryl85]

A quick google search and I found people complaining about the issues. Not many but the phone hasnt been released that long on all carriers. I was more worried about the notification sounds because I couldnt find anyone with that similar problem but I am actually glad i have now. I thought my phone was glitched so many times today. These forums relieve me of my worry though!

Yeah I was hoping I wasn't the only one too !

I really hope this issue gets priority, i've missed notifications due to this, it makes me feel like I cant rely on my phone and i'm constantly checking it !

 

[barryl85]

I'm guessing nobody cares that this phone is unreliable at notifications?

 

[MalikBear]

I'm using my Jawbone ICON BT (original) and when I get a notification it plays through the headset as well but it will stutter on the phone...

 

[Manpon]

Ya I have the same problem with my phone. Drives me mental. I switched from an iphone and this is one issue that really gets under my skin. I really hope they fix it with an update.

 

[MalikBear]

I ended up turning media off in BT settings, I lose the option of hearing notifications if i'm 20 ft away in my ear. But on a good note, i no longer have to fumble with BT settings when i want someone to see and HEAR a video/music because i forgot to turn it off beforehand

 

[barryl85]

I have now came across another notification glitch, if I receive a text message whilst using my phone and i'm currently within an app or browsing the web, the phone vibrates for a long period of time, much longer than its suppose to and until it decides to stop I cant do anything about it.

 

[Chandria]

I have actually turned off vibrate for notifications and it seems to be working fine now. I think it has to do with when both notification sound and vibrate being on at the same time.

 

[barryl85]

I have actually turned off vibrate for notifications and it seems to be working fine now. I think it has to do with when both notification sound and vibrate being on at the same time.

Although its not the ideal solution as I prefer having Vibration+Notification I will give this a try ! Thanks for the info

 

[Zcwv32]

Not sure if anyone else has this problem but whenever your phone whistles when you get a text mine sometimes doesnt whistle all the way and sometimes it does. Why is it doing this?

 

[AntimonyER]

Zcwv32 - I merged your thread into one regarding the same issue. Thanks for understanding.

 

[Chandria]

Although its not the ideal solution as I prefer having Vibration+Notification I will give this a try ! Thanks for the info

Yeah, I know...it was just getting so annoying, I had to turn it off.

 

[Zcwv32]

Turning vibration off on mine didn't help..

 

[rafian]

I am thinking... if this phone has an issue multi-tasking.... It kinda hangs, skips commands while it's connecting to WiFi or refreshing SIM data or waking-up one of its internal processes.

Try some of these settings and let us know if it helps.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/581958-my-galaxy-s3-phone-settings.html

 

[barryl85]

Ok tried turning off vibrate and found a new glitch...

The notification sounds stopped working all together, tried going into select a different notification and they weren't playing at all, only way I got them to come back on was to play some music through external speaker then they worked again but when receiving texts sometimes i would get the notification and sometimes it would do nothing !!!

Its starting to really annoy me now.

 

[barryl85]

Ok just tried something else and its so apparent that there is an issue, I will film it on my ipad later and post it up.

I am texting myself over and over and a lot of times i am getting no notification. Its very random when it works the way its suppose to.



[edit] I will only film this if I still have this handset later, going to go directly to the vodafone shop at lunchtime from work and show them this pathetic glitch.

[second edit] Just played about with it some more, the default notifications work just fine, any custom tones is where it cant handle it, this is no good !!!

 

[bunchy]

Turn off the Delete Old Messages setting in the messaging app. This should take care of the problem.

 

[Ricardooo]

Guys,
I had the same problem as you. Notifications were not coming up and I was missing a lot of messages and emails.
I talked with Samsung support and got the solution for the notification glitch. I tried it and it is working well so far!
Try it out.
Go to settings and then application manager. press "all" on top of the screen. then go to the application that you are not getting its notification such as msgs, emails, Whatsapp, etc.. Let's say you start with text messages: scroll to it, then clock on it, then press "clear data". This will not erase your messages. Once you do, go to the other applications and do the same. For emails press "clear cache".

After you do all this all the notifications should be working again.

Best,
Ric.

 

[Ricardooo]

Guys,
I had the same problem as you. Notifications were not coming up and I was missing a lot of messages and emails.
I talked with Samsung support and got the solution for the notification glitch. I tried it and it is working well so far!
Try it out.
Go to settings and then application manager. press "all" on top of the screen. then go to the application that you are not getting its notification such as msgs, emails, Whatsapp, etc.. Let's say you start with text messages: scroll to it, then clock on it, then press "clear data". This will not erase your messages. Once you do, go to the other applications and do the same. For emails press "clear cache".

After you do all this all the notifications should be working again.

Best,
Ric.

 

[Ricardooo]

Guys,
I had the same problem as you. Notifications were not coming up and I was missing a lot of messages and emails.
I talked with Samsung support and got the solution for the notification glitch. I tried it and it is working well so far!
Try it out.
Go to settings and then application manager. press "all" on top of the screen. then go to the application that you are not getting its notification such as msgs, emails, Whatsapp, etc.. Let's say you start with text messages: scroll to it, then clock on it, then press "clear data". This will not erase your messages. Once you do, go to the other applications and do the same. For emails press "clear cache".

After you do all this all the notifications should be working again.

Best,
Ric.

Ok just tried something else and its so apparent that there is an issue, I will film it on my ipad later and post it up.

I am texting myself over and over and a lot of times i am getting no notification. Its very random when it works the way its suppose to.



[edit] I will only film this if I still have this handset later, going to go directly to the vodafone shop at lunchtime from work and show them this pathetic glitch.

[second edit] Just played about with it some more, the default notifications work just fine, any custom tones is where it cant handle it, this is no good !!!