My phone is making a sound I don't recognise

[Throbbing Angel]

Is this summat to worry about or just a shit app?

No visual alert.
No message.
No nowt.

Just a noise at random intervals.
Sometimes a few times a day, sometimes nowt for a week.

I have Sophos installed and a VPN so am not mad worried, yet

 

[A380]

Is this summat to worry about or just a shit app?

No visual alert.
No message.
No nowt.

Just a noise at random intervals.
Sometimes a few times a day, sometimes nowt for a week.

I have Sophos installed and a VPN so am not mad worried, yet

Do you work for Hamas?

 

[MickiQ]

If it's an android phone then it could be Gmail alerts

 

[Throbbing Angel]

If it's an android phone then it could be Gmail alerts

Nah - it'd never stop if it was that.
This only happens now and then and completely at random. Plus there would be a visual alert of some sort for that iirc.
Had them on when I got my first Droid in 2014 and switched them off in the first 30 minutes.

 

[Elpenor]

My iPhone does this over the last year or so. Either a noise or vibration depending on whether it’s set to make sound or not

Not sure why

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Is this summat to worry about or just a shit app?

No visual alert.
No message.
No nowt.

Just a noise at random intervals.
Sometimes a few times a day, sometimes nowt for a week.

I have Sophos installed and a VPN so am not mad worried, yet

I ask this Q because I am loathe to do a factory reset and reinstall apps one at a time to find out.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

My iPhone does this over the last year or so. Either a noise or vibration depending on whether it’s set to make sound or not

Not sure why

Annoying innit

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Looks like a factory reset and reinstall stuff slowly from what I've read online.
FFS.
searching the Notifications History was of no real use

 

[two sheds]

Can you not disable app by app rather than factory reset and reinstalling app by app?

(haven't really got a phone so I don't know)

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Some apps make an alert noise when there's an update, or when they want you to do / buy something.

May be a case of going in to settings and turning alerts off. Doing a factory reset will make some of them re-set to default which includes alerts.

I'm still steadily turning them off on the phone I got last month...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Can you not disable app by app rather than factory reset and reinstalling app by app?

(haven't really got a phone so I don't know)

It would need to be happening every day or a few times a day for me to be able to track it down/notice.

It hasn't made this noise for around 48 hours at the moment.

Is there something like the equivalent of Window's Event Viewer in Android does anyone know? That way I can hear the noise and then look at that log.

 

[pogofish]

Have you got the voice search switched-on in Google? That is always giving me annoying pings and pops when it kicks-in at various times, despite the phone being set to silent/vibrate.

Then there are the buzzes when the other types of alert come through.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Some apps make an alert noise when there's an update, or when they want you to do / buy something.

May be a case of going in to settings and turning alerts off. Doing a factory reset will make some of them re-set to default which includes alerts.

I'm still steadily turning them off on the phone I got last month...

But they tell you about way too, no?
They don't just make a noise. There's an alert too. That's the annoying bit and why I haven't a clue what's causing it. Just a noise. No other indicator.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Have you got the voice search switched-on in Google? That is always giving me annoying pings and pops when it kicks-in at various times, despite the phone being set to silent/vibrate.

Then there are the buzzes when the other types of alert come through.

Yes, but it isn't that or it'd have been doing this for 2 years, which it hasn't.

 

[two sheds]

If it were Microsoft you could just uncheck the "Sound random annoying alerts" box

 

[pogofish]

True - the older version of Android/Google on my old phone behaved impeccably but the newer version on my new phone is bloody annoying because of this.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Place it in some uncooked rice?

 

[Ted Striker]

Does the notifications log show anything? Go to "App Notifications" (from the Notifications Settings page) and sort by Most Recent.

Or do you have any apps that have a permanent presence on the notifications page, like Samsung Health showing the step count (so they don't indicate all events/notifications).

One last thing, it doesn't coincide with voicemails? They can be overzealous with notifications ime.

 

[hash tag]

Just a noise at random intervals.
Sometimes a few times a day, sometimes nowt for a week.

It is people trying to Call/scam you. it's an incoming telephone call.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Place it in some uncooked rice?

And slowly bring to the boil, until all of the water has been absorbed?

 

[Throbbing Angel]

It is people trying to Call/scam you. it's an incoming telephone call.

Nah. Totally different noise. Nothing in call records.

 

[hash tag]

An app updating?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Reckon Throbbing Angel is being monitored by MI5.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

 

[hash tag]

Reckon Throbbing Angel is being monitored by MI5.

But, if it's a Chinese phone.....

 

[Throbbing Angel]