Android Notification vibrates with NotifiationChannel.enableVibration(false)

Question

With API 26 (Android 8.0) we need to define a NotificationChannel for each Notification. Each channel has its own settings of disruptions (e.g. vibration, light, sound).

Problem: When I disable vibration for this channel and deploy this on a Android 8.0 (security update September 2017) phone (Nexus 5X), the notification triggers vibration anyway and is opened automatically (pop-in) which I did not set and want to disable.

1. I register a NotificationChannel in my MainActivity:

   // Register NotificationChannels needed for API 26+ to display notification messages
   if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
       NotificationChannel runningChannel = new NotificationChannel(NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID_RUNNING,
               getString(R.string.notification_channel_name_running), NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW);
       runningChannel.enableLights(false);
       runningChannel.enableVibration(false);
       mNotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(runningChannel);
   }
   

2. I set the NotificationChannel for the Notification:

   notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
               .setContentIntent(onClickPendingIntent)
               .setChannelId(NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID_RUNNING)
               .setOngoing(true)
               .setWhen(System.currentTimeMillis())
               .setAutoCancel(false)
               .build();
   

Update (security update 5th October 2017)

Now everything works as expected without workaround so I can choose targetSDK 26 (before, I used 25 to avoid this false behavior). For the case when other releases have a similar bug of other phones did not yet receive the newest update, I marked the workaround below as accepted answer.

Answer 1

This seems to work:

runningchannel.setVibrationPattern(new long[]{0, 0, 0, 0,0, 0, 0, 0, 0});

Yes, it's weird