I have a Moto G6 Play that vibrates like it is getting notifications but it's not. The vibration is inconsistent and seems random so I would like to know if there is a logcat or something I can run to log which app is calling the vibration so that I can shut it off? The same thing happens on my wife's phone, same model, and it does my head in. The device is running Android 9.
In addition to the dumpsys method explained in the other answer, you can use Android's hidden (kind of) permission manager appops to get recently allowed vibrator requests, e.g. in last minute. From adb shell:
for pkg in $(pm list packages | sed 's/package://')
do
echo "$pkg $(appops get $pkg VIBRATE)" | grep 'time=+[0-9]*s'
done
pm is the package manager which lists all installed packages. appops determines when last time each package made a vibration request and if it was allowed or rejected.
Result can be further filtered by piping output through awk '{
printf "%-12s%-20s%s\n",$3,$4,$1
}
':
allow;
time=+15s659ms
com.termux
allow;
time=+6s458ms
com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
Termux made a vibration 15 seconds back. Also the request can be denied:
~$ appops set com.termux VIBRATE deny
Now the output will be like this:
deny;
time=+9s500ms
com.termux
allow;
time=+6s392ms
com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
And a shameless self-promotion. If not comfortable with CLI, you can use my open-source app Permission Manager X to get and set AppOps:
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