Apparently muscle twitches and spasms. Perfectly normal and common. Before phones, we all got them but just ignored them and filtered them out. Phones trained us to monitor for them so we now notice them.
Yes
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 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.
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
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’m sure Android (well, Samsung anyway) had this years ago… I remember it on my i7500 back in the 1.5 days.
I wonder when it went missing…
Like, distinctive vibration patterns.
Hmm, surely it’s been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.
there are, back from polyphonic times
I think nothing phones have it
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The ridges of the weave in my pants sometimes produces a vibration that is similar frequency and intensity as my phone vibrate. It totally triggers the check the phone reflex even if it happens while my phone is in my hand.
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
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.
Yeah. Sometimes I hear the message ding too. Guess I’m lonely.
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.
Used to when I had a flip phone. But my phone now has been on silent for years.
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 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 don’t cause I don’t use vibration that often
