And it shows up in white so it's easy to tell what part is whitefonted.

Okay, so I'm on Jellybean, and there appears to be some weird bug.

When I'm on vibrate, my phone will vibrate for calls and Facebook notifications, but it won't vibrate for text messages. It will only vibrate for text messages if I turn on text message vibration all the time, which is irritating. I've done some Internet searching, and none of the proposed fixes (turning on haptic feedback, using the Audio Manager app) have worked. Anyone have any suggestions?

Hmm. I leave vibrate on all the time but it does appear that the Samsung settings don't give very good control over notification vibrations. I think the "vibrate" mode it let's you set will control only the ringer, not the notification vibrations.

I will play a little more.

What does text message vibration bleed over into other than vibrating for text messages? I only vibrate for calls. Which might explain why I suck so much at returning texts.

Hmm. On that note, my Android phone used to vibrate for texts on silent, and does so no longer. I thought I had accidentally flipped a setting somewhere, but now I suspect it happened on my last OS update. Not that it bothers me at all, but now I too often don't notice texts for several hours.

So it appears that in older versions of Android, there was a universal "vibrate on notifications" setting that got turned on and off through the general Android settings. In Jelly Bean, whether or not a specific app vibrates on notifications is controlled by the app, not a system-wide setting. I see why they did this, but it's not well implemented; if vibration-on-notification is enabled for an app, it is enabled in all sound profiles, at least for most apps.

Solution: no good general one that I can find - you could probably create something with Tasker that would work, but if you aren't already a tasker user that's annoying. The best solution for you in particular might be to install a different SMS app. I liked GO SMS Pro a lot back when I actually used normal text messaging, and it has the ability to vibrate only in vibration mode, which seems to work fine at least on my Note II.

Alternative: Install this app [link] which allows you to set up custom vibrations for various contacts, and set in which modes those vibrations will happen. It's overkill for your needs but might allow you to set a default vibration for ALL contacts that only vibrates on vibrate mode.

Gris, thank you!! The Good Vibrations app totally worked. The default is to vibrate for all contacts, and now, hell, I can even set different vibrations for people if I want to. Thanks!! I really didn't want to switch to another messaging app because that's annoying.

Does the stock messaging app have a pop up quick reply now? That was the main reason I used go SMS in the past.

No, you still go to the app to reply.