For the last 5 days, I have been unable to get my Forerunner 265 to vibrate when I get a text every time, it will only do so intermittently with no reason as to why it would vibrate sometimes and not others. It still shows that I have a text when I look at my notifications on my watch, and I can read the text and reply and do everything as normal, the vibration just does not come. I am using Google Messages for texting and have a Samsung Galaxy S22. There were no issues since I bought this watch about 8 months ago, but this lack of vibration for texts just started last week when I updated from Version 20.26 to Version 20.29. Here are the steps I have already tried:
- Ensured Do not Disturb is not turned on
- Ensured the Message app notification is ON in the Connect App
- Ensured under Notification & Alerts > Smart Notifications > General Use > Texts is set to Vibration.
I have also toggled these settings on and off to see if that would fix it.
I have unpaired and repaired the watch to my phone, but the problem persists.
Notifications work fine (including vibration) for all other apps – Teams, WhatsApp, Calendar, etc. This is just an issue with text messages.
The only thing I can think to do that I have not yet done is to Factory Reset the watch. I only want to do that as a last resort as I will lose all my customized settings. What else should I be doing first? Can I revert to Version 20.26?