Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds

NastyNative@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So? Put it on vibrate.

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  • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know about other people, but I often miss vibration notifications. If I’m doing basically anything at all, even just walking, it’s a good bet I’ll miss it. The pattern of vibration, etc., doesn’t seem to make much difference, either. I basically to be doing nothing before I’ll detect it. This has been true of every phone I’ve had - flip phones, iPhones, and Androids. I keep it in a front pocket, too, so it seems like that should work.

    I still use vibrate all the time. If there’s something I’m specifically waiting for that I don’t want to miss, I’ll turn on the sound.

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    • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I set the notifications to vibrate and set a ringtone for all calls.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same. I also get phantom vibrations sometimes so it’s a toss up for me.

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      • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, there are times when I’m like, “Aha! It’s definitely vibrating now!” Pull it out of my pocket and look, no notifications or anything.

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think it’s a modern phone thing? I used to always be able to feel my phone vibrating. But when I got a new phone several years back, I was frustrated to find that I couldn’t feel the damn thing vibrating in my pocket and I’d miss calls and texts.

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      • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I always thought it was just me, but maybe not. In the push to make everything smaller to cram more in, maybe the weight they use to generate the vibrations is just too small.

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    • leadore@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, if I’m walking around outside with it in my pocket, I don’t notice the vibration or even hear it ring over the background noise and wind.

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  • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    women’s pants typically don’t have pockets, so you’d get NO notification.

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  • NastyNative@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Vibrate is worst than ringing for him.

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• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We are but I’m gonna have my phone on vibrate cuz I have a shred of self awareness

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  • NastyNative@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My dad will not feel the phone vibrate… it sucks getting old. I have tried it all with him even with the loud ring tone still doesnt hear it.

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m not a boomer but sometimes I don’t feel the vibration, especially if I’m wearing looser clothes. But if I have it on vibrate all the time I also start getting phantom vibrations when nothing actually happened. Sometimes when my phone isn’t even in my pocket, I’ll think I got a vibration notification.

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