vivo Y17
vivo · catalog updated 2026-10-21
- Brand
- vivo
- Kind
- Android phone · released 2019-04 · last update Android 11
- Model codes
- vivo 1902
Ships with Funtouch OS 9 (Android 9) per vivo Indonesia spec page; install the Android 11 update first. PiunikaWeb reports vivo India saying no Android 10 update was planned (September 2020) and the Android 11 update in greyscale testing (May 2021). Google Play lists vivo 1902 as the Y17. Release month: India launch in late April 2019 (IANS report of 27 April 2019).
Gestures on the vivo Y17
No gesture specific to this model is known. We only list what the manufacturer or reliable sources document.
Plus what the app offers on every Android phone: In-app button, Widget, Quick Settings tile, Shake, Volume keys, Voice phrase. How to set those up
Recommended presets
- Shake ×3Sends a signal
Three sharp shakes within 2.5 s: hard to do by accident, easy to do without looking.
Shake ×3, 0.15–1 s apart · whole gesture within 2.5 s
- Widget ×2Sends a signal
Two taps on the home-screen widget within 3 s; a single accidental tap does nothing.
Widget ×2, 0.1–3 s apart · whole gesture within 3 s
Gestures are set up in the phone settings as shown, then combined into a trigger recipe in the app, where practice mode shows step by step whether a gesture would trigger.