XA2 Plus odd vibrating

answered 2019-07-04 18:09:23 +0200

DrYak
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updated 2019-07-04 20:49:02 +0200

Solution: turn off NFC in Settings.

TL;DR: While you're in the bus, you're probably storing you phone in same pocket or in a hand back were the touchless bus card is too.

The longer explanation:

Since version 3.0.3, Sailfish X for XA2 finally has drivers to support the NFC function of the hardware. But currently, it isn't used for anything - thus it's also an even for which you will get a vibration pulse, but nothing appearing on the screen.

You bus card (or whatever else happens to be in the same pocket at this moment) has some contactless functionnality (you probably validate the card without needing to put the chip inside a reader. See also contactless payment credit cards) is also using RFID. Your phone sees the card, the NFC chips gets the message from the RFID card (thus triggers a vibration) and then nothing happens, because nobody has written software yet to handle that peculiar card (nor anything else... it's very new tech in Sailfish X for Xperia, there isn't much NFC software written on Silfish except a few "Other Halfs" on Jolla 1 phones).

Either shutting down NFC on the Settings, or simply keeping the phone on its own should solve "the problem".

Note: my train card (contactless) triggers the exact same behaviour, and as there's currently no Sailfish-to-Android forwarding of NFC, the train's android app doesn't react to it so I also only get the vibration and nothing else.