Vibration and permissions on Android

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For the life of me I can’t get my android package to vibrate/use force feedback.
Play Dynamic Force Feedback / Client Play Force Feedback / Vibrate, none of these have any effect when played on an Android device (but they do work running in my project on PC (through the controller).

Do I need the VIBRATE permission for these to work? Or is something else amiss?

Regarding the VIBRATE permission, I can’t for the life of me get it to activate.

I’ve created an androidperms.xml in my project’s source forlder containing

?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“utf-8”?
root xmlns:android=“http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”
androidManifestUpdates
addPermission android:name=“android.permission.VIBRATE” /
removePermission android:name=“android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” /
addPermission
android:name=“android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE”
android:maxSdkVersion=“18” /

/androidManifestUpdates
/root
(all greater/lesser than signs deleted to be able to block quote it here)

which I reference in my build.cs with

  if(Target.Platform == UnrealTargetPlatform.Android)
    {
        		string manifest_file = Path.Combine(ModuleDirectory, "androidperms.xml");
       		AdditionalPropertiesForReceipt.Add("AndroidPlugin", manifest_file);

  	string PluginPath = Utils.MakePathRelativeTo(ModuleDirectory, Target.RelativeEnginePath);
  	AdditionalPropertiesForReceipt.Add("AndroidPlugin", System.IO.Path.Combine(PluginPath, "AddRoundIcon_UPL.xml"));

}

but the apk always shows “no permissions allowed” with only “Notifications” listed under “not allowed”. And I don’t even mention notifications anywhere.

What am I doing wrong? I’ve been stuck on this for weeks, help!! (_ _!)

EDIT: omg omg I am an idiot. Ignore this post. Tocuh Feedback was switched off on my phone. Holy moley I need to turn in my developer card because I do not deserve it.

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Is adding the vibrate permission necessary after you resolved the problem on your phone?

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Apparently not, no.