Nexus 4- No Longer Vibrates - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My nexus stopped vibrating
Hello!
I just realised that my phone does not vibrate anymore at all - not when I recieve a call nor when I recieve a notification of any sort. It doesn't even vibrate when I'm setting the volume to vibrate mode with the rockers. I checked the profile and it is set on Default just like always (I haven't touched any profile settings ever). I downloaded a massage app and even with it running the vibration motor doesn't work at all. I haven't ever dropped or hit my phone in any way, it just randomly stopped vibrating. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this issue? I'm running the latest CM 12 nightly build with a stock CM kernel (I have some doubts that it might be causing the problems) and have been running the nightlies even before the issue.
Thanks in advance!

Have your tried reflashing your rom, first without wipe and then with? If that doesn't work, please return to stock 5.1.1 through fastboot. If that doesn't work, then it seems the vibrate motor is dead.
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Phone wont vibrate for text message

I just noticed today, that my Nexus one wont vibrate when i receive text messages. I first thought it might of been Handcent SMS so i deleted that and started to use stock. Yet the problem continues. I checked the settings and i have it set to always vibrate. Any fix around this?
make sure that you have vibrate checked in settings for the messaging application. other than that, i think sometimes apps mess around with the vibrate settings. try the app Sound Manager from the market place and then in the context menu they have a vibrate setting. if it's not already selected, which explains what's been going on, select "vibrate whenever possible." that's what worked for me...
I had this problem with 2.2 on my G1, would vibrate sometimes then would never vibrate again.
I think it must be possible to burn out the motor that makes the vibration.
Do you use any apps that vibrate heavily often?
Use Ringo Lite. Works for me. You can even set a vibrate pattern.
I had a similar problem except i had no vibrations; all settings squared away, hard reset, basic troubleshooting. Turned out the motor burned out. Sent it to HTC and they repaired it for me.
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Vibrate gone, what the hell?

This afternoon, I was getting text messages when I noticed that my phone had stopped vibrating, despite being set to vibrate and ring.
The only app I have installed to manipulate the vibrating function is SMS Popup. When I went in to that to test vibrate patterns, it still wasn't working.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be? Is there some setting I could have accidently hit to stop vibrate?
I have no idea how that would happen, though, so I'm just hoping it's not hardware.
Cheers
Same here...am using chompsms
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Any ideas anybody? The vibrated last night during a call, so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem
Figured it out.
"GOT IT!!
as per another thread, download Sound Manager
In the vibrate settings, theres an option to "never vibrate"
Changed it to "Always" and voila system vibrates again!
Must be an option DEEP in android that normal settings dont cover.
Good news is it works at least!"
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Phone is leaving silent mode by itself. Constantly!

Having issues the past couple of days, my phone is leaving silent (or vibrate only in fact) mode by itself. At first I thought the volume up key was being pressed in my pocket but I've had it sitting on a desk for an hour and it's left silent mode, so now i'm sure it's an issue with software rather than tight jeans... Anyone have any ideas?
Running VR2.4.2
Update: it's now doing it every 5 mins or so. It gives a tiny vibrate then the vibration icon disappears... Has anyone else experienced this?
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What screen locker are you using?
Bad contact in the volume button?
I thought about a physical problem but i left it alone for a while after it jumped out and it didn't turn up the volume again. I'm not using any special lockscreen, i have winamp controls when winamp is on but that's it. Any other ideas? I could just reflash I guess but it's bugging me not knowing the issue
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Solution for the problem
Hi,
I had the same issue with my Galaxy Nexus but i found a way to solve the problem not permit solution but by using app called " Volume Locker " which will force the device to turn the volume up once it goes silent by sudden.
I had this.Rebooted and it was fine afterwards.
CM10/SGSII International
Or maybe its a women, just wont shut up
Try using a different rom (dont restore all the apps, might be some volume control or music app doing it) , if the problem still exist then its hardware issue.
Most likely an app is causing this problem...
If you are rooted, make a nandroid, then do a full wipe.
If the bug is fixed you know an app is causing it restore the nandroid and uninstall apps one by one untill its fixed
I had the same iussue with RR 3.0.6. Maybe is related to your custom rom, try changing it.

[Q] "black screen of death" and first step to solution

Hi there,
Many of you know that nexus 4 is experiencing random "black screen of death". What happens is that the phone freezes while in sleep (stand-by) for long time, for example over night. It is not a complete freeze, as the notification light keep blinking (if there are notifications); when you call the phone the caller hears a proper "ringing" tone (so the phone is not off), but the nexus 4 itself doesn't make any sounds. Alarms also don't sound, which makes Nexus 4 a horribly unreliable alarm clock.
The only way out of the freeze is holding the on/off button for 10 sec, which turns off the phone, and then holding it again for usual 1-2 sec to turn the phone back on.
What I discovered is that these freezes happen 1-3 times a week, but only if I have pattern password on lock screen. When I turn password off (so I have the "slide to unlock"), freezes are gone. Maybe this information will help others, or provide some insight to a complete solution to the problem? Does anybody have other experiences with black screen of death on their nexus 4?
Just a note, I have stock but rooted nexus 4. Internet reports that these problems happen on stock unrooted, stock rooted, custom roms, even on phones freshly out of factory reset with no apps installed.
Here are some threads talking about the problem:
Google Product forum
AndroidCentral Forums
I've always been on SlideToUnlock and mine has been doing that for some time since I started playing with custom roms (w/root)
What fixed it for me was to disable the PlayStore "Auto Update Apps".

Nexus 6p Vibrate Problem

Hi,
Touch feedback or vibrate when i press on the navigation keys (back, home or app switch) sometimes stop vibrating randomly. This also happens with the keyboard (stock google keyboard) in which you can't feel any sort of vibration.
Unlocking with fingerprint also have this problem.
Again this happens on a random basis, and for the most of the times vibration works ok.
Someone else has this issue?
Running stock?
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yes... full stock with 6.0.1
i´ve found more users with this issue here
I have the same problem, second device same problem..
Nexus 6p 128gb 6.0.1
Vibration keep going "weak" random, and then back to normal for a while and back to weak...
More users reporting inconsistent vibration
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3x45lz/nexus_6p_sometimes_unlock_without_vibration_the/
It seems a software issue and some users says it only starts to happen on 6.0.1
Seems to happen to me in the morning
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