Question

So I am trying to simulate that the phone is receiving a call. I have successfully extracted the phones ring tone and played it. Now I want to simulate the vibration. While I can make the phone vibrate, I want to emulate the exact pattern that the phone vibrates with as when it receives a call. Is there some setting or class that I can use to extract this pattern, and also detect if vibration is turned on?

Answer 1

You have to vibrate it in a pattern.

Vibrator v = (Vibrator) getSystemService(Context.VIBRATOR_SERVICE);  

// 1. Vibrate for 1000 milliseconds  
long milliseconds = 1000;  
v.vibrate(milliseconds);  

// 2. Vibrate in a Pattern with 500ms on, 500ms off for 5 times  
long[] pattern = { 500, 300 };  
v.vibrate(pattern, 5);

http://www.androidsnippets.org/snippets/22/

I’m not sure what pattern is used as standard, you could probably find it in the source, or else keep trying different patterns yourself until it is satisfactory.