HOLY FUCK I HAVE JUST DISCOVERED THAT THE PHONE APP IN ANDROID 13 VIBRATES WHEN AN OUTGOING CALL CONNECTS
AN *OUTGOING* CALL
THERE IS NO WAY TO TURN THIS OFF EXCEPT TO DISABLE ALL VIBRATION ON YOUR PHONE
SO YOU MAKE A PHONE CALL, YOU PUT IT UP TO YOUR EAR, AND THEN THIS THING THAT YOU'VE PUT UP TO THE SIDE OF YOUR FACE VIBRATES INTENSELY. IT IS THE MOST DEEPLY UNPLEASANT, UNNECESSARY THING. I ALREADY KNEW I WAS MAKING A FUCKING PHONE CALL I PRESSED THE BUTTON
Please excuse the capital letters I am just SO FUCKING SICK of how Google is so deadset on taking what used to be a basically fine phone OS and finding constant new ways to punish me for using it. This has been going on for so many years now
Actually this might be something specific to [carrier]'s branded phones and not Android. Seems a little unlikely, that would require [carrier] to have put any work into this at all
I guess the intended use case is I press the call button, and then I wait for a vibration to indicate the other party has picked up, and *then* I put the phone up to my ear. And then I just don't hear the first three seconds of the call. Nobody ever says anything important in the opening seconds of a phone call, right?
I see another potential usecase: telling the user that they need to raise the volume if they hear nothing, because someone is probably trying to speak to them now. I usually set my call volume to minimum reasonable for the place I'm in and then when I call someone from a totally different location I somewhat nervously await the ringing tone so that I can adjust the volume (and when the ringing tone is late I run the whole "look at the screen to see what the problem is" dance).
