Does anyone ever get random weird sounds from their Samsung/Android phone?

kissenger · 2 Aug 2019 at 20:15

My other half used to get these weird sounds like a call ending — just a couple of beeps, but not a notification beep or anything like that — intermittently on her S7. I could never work out what was causing it, and now I'm getting them too!

They happen maybe once every couple of days, so no big deal, but just a really weird bug. Anyway, anyone else get this?

the_r_sole · 8 Aug 2019 at 13:35

I had something happening on calls, random beeps, advice was to switch off the NFC which seems to have worked

ttaskmaster · 8 Aug 2019 at 13:44

LOAM · 8 Aug 2019 at 20:45

I've had a few recently, they sounded like the noise it makes when it's expecting you to say something into it's nice. I thought that's what it was actually.

LOAM · 8 Aug 2019 at 20:52

Reading around it's when an NFC card is near enough to be read by the phone. Makes sense in my situation as I had both my office access card and bus pass near it when it occurred.

matt100 · 8 Aug 2019 at 20:54

LOAM said:
Reading around it's when an NFC card is near enough to be read by the phone. Makes sense in my situation as I had both my office access card and bus pass near it when it occurred.

Yeah if it's like a quiet bloop it may well be that. My S10+ does it when it's next to my wallet

Dazstoke · 9 Aug 2019 at 09:24

I keep my phone in my top pocket and occasionally feel a vibration like I've got a notification but there's nothing there when I look

d_brennen · 9 Aug 2019 at 09:27

Dazstoke said:
I keep my phone in my top pocket and occasionally feel a vibration like I've got a notification but there's nothing there when I look

Mine does that occasionally, couple of times I've just glimpse it saying it can't recognise me, so something has upset the screen or fingerprint reader

matt100 · 9 Aug 2019 at 09:40

There's also something buried in the settings somewhere that gives a small vibrate when you pick it up if there's a new notification. That drove me mad for ages.

Settings > Advanced Features > Motions and Gestures > Smart Alert

L33 · 9 Aug 2019 at 13:23

You could install Samsung's "nice catch" to find out what is causing it. It is a part of the good lock suite.

Article: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...ry-of-app-actions-on-your-phone-apk-download/

When installed and running, Nice Catch shows a detailed history of when apps (or the Android system itself) made vibrations, changed the ringer mode, changed call mode, displayed ads, showed toast popups, and/or woke up the screen, along with time stamps for all instances. For instance, if you enter vibration history, you'll see a list of the apps that have vibrated your phone and how many times they have done so in the past seven days. Items are deleted after that same span of time. When you click on an app, you'll see a list of exact times when it vibrated. While it's most useful if you have apps that you don't particularly trust, it's useful regardless if you're trying to sleuth out when and what app performed certain actions on your phone.