Assign custom vibrations to your Android contacts

My Samsung Android phone is set to vibrate throughout most of the day regardless of whether I'm at home or on the way. I may be a bit old fashioned in this regard but when my phone's ringtone starts to sound in public, I'm starting to feel embarrassed. There are others who do not seem to care though and enjoy a loud talk in a crowded or public space.
One of the limitations of muting your phone is that you do not really know who is calling if someone is calling until you look on the display of the phone.
It does not really matter if you have set the phone to vibrate or be completely silent, both do not reveal information about the caller until you pick up the phone and look at the screen.
While you could say that this is true for calls as well, you can assign different ringtones to different contacts.
Update: Vybe is not available anymore. You can try comparable applications such as Good Vibrations instead which offer that and more.
Tip: You can configure Android's Priority Mode to get calls or notifications from select contacts only.
Vybe
Vybe is a free application for Android that enables you to create custom vibrations for your contacts so that you can identify them correctly based on that without looking at the phone.
The application displays a short tutorial first that walks you through its feature set. You are taken to the application's main screen afterwards where you can start to create custom vibration patterns.
To do so click on the red record button first and then with your finger on the vibration circle at the top. You can now create a series of long and short vibrations that make up the new pattern. The application indicates those in a graph at the bottom of the screen.You can play the created pattern here for testing purposes as well. If you are satisfied with your selection, you can save it to the phone or use the undo button instead to start over.
A tap on the people's icon on the right bottom of the screen opens your contacts list. Here you can select one or multiple contacts you want to assign the vibration pattern to.
To throw two ideas in the room: you could create vibration groups, e.g. work, family, friends, and assign them individual vibrations, or you could go all in and assign different vibrations to the most important contacts in the list, e.g. your mum, boss or children.
All contacts you have assigned a custom vibration to show a specific icon afterwards indicating this. While that is convenient for a general overview, it lacks clarity in terms of which vibration was set to which contact as there is no distinction made here.
An option to assign names to vibration patterns and display the list of contacts with custom patterns based on that would have been handy, especially for users who have lots of contacts in their address book.
Verdict
Assigning different vibration patterns to contacts is a useful feature that will help Android users like me who have their phone on vibrate most of the time.
It can help you identify a caller in situations where you can't take out your phone, for instance if you are in classroom, in a cinema watching a movie, or stuck in a meeting. It is a new app and for that, it works reasonably well already. The developers should consider adding the custom name option to the application to improve the identification of assigned patterns.






Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.