iOS5 - Text tones & vibrate not working

I had to go back into settings > sounds and turn my vibrate back on becuz for some reason only the vibrate for silent as on and not the other one that is above ringtone and text tone. hope tat helps!

I have noticed this both on my iPhone 4s and my wife's upgraded iPhone 4. When a custom tone is selected both the vibrate and the tone do not work but if you select one of the stock alerts, it works as it should. Sounds like a bug in iOS 5.

Not much help I guess, but I have the same problem. It works with text alert sounds that were part of the previous update, but won't work with an alert that I bought after the latest update. It was fine but it just stopped making noise and vibrating when the text arrived.

My ringtone works - but not off the other alerts work. I turn all of the vibrates off - select a new 'tone' no preview - nothing. If I turn on Vibrate with the sound - I get the double brr, brr - but still no sound. this is on an UPGRAGED 4 to iOS5.

OK - reboot fixed the problem - in case anyone else is having the problem.

I'm having the same issue. I downloaded the R2D2 Curt text alert tone. Worked for about 3 days and now not working. I can select other tones and they work fine but not the one I purchased. Hope Apple or someone can find a fix for this soon.

OK I have had some success by downloading the text alert tone again on the phone. The tone now appears twice on the list but the tone is working for now. Let's see how long it continues to work for...

In my case the text tone stammers/ repeats itself. i switched the phone off and on but still no luck.

I'm having the same problem with my iphone...Please do inform if you get any solution to it...

I was having these issues as well on my phone, like Dukeh said previously, resetting the phone will fix the problem. I am not sure if it is a permanent fix, but it sounds like it's a bug in the iOS.

I am having the same problem. On my iPhone 4 upgraded to iOS 5 I bought and downloaded the R2D2 Curt and R2D2 Happy tones and set them for calendar reminders and text messages, respectively. If I set them to one of the default tones, the vibrate and alert tones sound like normal. But if I select one of the purchased tones, there's no vibrate and no tone played, just a message on the lock screen.

This is very frustrating. At least iOS is supposed to support bite-size and/or over-the-air updates, right? So that this kind of thing can be fixed quickly and easily without having to download 700+MB of update file?

Please fix this, Apple.

Just so everyone is aware, I opened up a case with Apple yesterday regarding this. So hopefully this gets some attention and will get fixed soon.

So I was having the same problem and it was really ******* me off since I dLed all these text tones and they worked maybe once and then nothing but silence when my test messages came in. But I think I found the fix and it seems to be working smoothly now.

I looked up the requirements for making custom text tones and it says "a ringtone of 2-5 secs." Well, a lot of the nice text tones are 1 sec or less, e.g., 0.914ms in length. So I opened the file up in a wav editor, added another 1.25 sec of silence for good measure to get above the 2 sec requirement, reencoded to .m4a and then changed extension to .m4r. Boom, it seems to be working perfectly now, so far so good. Let me know if it works for you guys.

I have no idea what caused this, but I resolved it by resetting all settings. Hope it stays fixed.