Is it me or is the motor not very strong. I have the vibrate key press on and I can barely feel anything. Also today I had it on vibrate and I could not feel my phone ring. Am I the only one that thinks this?
txmade said:
Is it me or is the motor not very strong. I have the vibrate key press on and I can barely feel anything. Also today I had it on vibrate and I could not feel my phone ring. Am I the only one that thinks this?
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Do You have the power save mode on?
all device like this if you were in a very loudly and noise environment, you can not feel that .
Mines strong. Stronger than all my previous phones.
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flash a stock 4.2.2 keyboard and the haptic will rattle your phone, I scare people when I type on mine lol
Mines is so strong some times it scares me when it's in my pocket
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joshyy_rey said:
flash a stock 4.2.2 keyboard and the haptic will rattle your phone, I scare people when I type on mine lol
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Swiftkey lets you set the heptic levels and it does get pretty strong ..the ringtone vibrate is set pretty low in comparison
I have this same issue. It's because HTC in it's infinite wisdom decided to put the vibrate motor at the top of the phone near the camera. The S3 I came from however has the motor directly behind the soft keyboard so it feels a lot stronger and natural. They also use different types of motors oscillating v. rotational in the S3 and One respectively. The oscillating motor feels a lot more sharp and crisp IMHO. Unfortunately HTC most likely used the rotational motor because it's a lot smaller in comparison.
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Just got my 3VO and I have to say the haptic feedback feels great. It was something that bugged me ever since the Mogul days and every phone has done it wrong since up to this one from HTC. It was always that BZZAAP feeling that had varying degrees of length. Now it's nice and subtle and gentle like my friend's old voyager from back in the day. I was always jealous of his haptic feedback.
i turn my haptic feedback off
The intense vibrations from the keyboard are annoying; only haptic I'm using is capacitive buttons.
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Yeah, I don't use haptic feedback either.
Speaking of good vibrations.... How is the general vibration on this phone?
Sometime on the Evo I cannot feel it vibrate if its in my pocket or on the belt clip.
Is it better or same as the Evo?
Any incite in exchange for TY points?
i360 said:
Speaking of good vibrations.... How is the general vibration on this phone?
Sometime on the Evo I cannot feel it vibrate if its in my pocket or on the belt clip.
Is it better or same as the Evo?
Any incite in exchange for TY points?
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I feel like the vibrations are way too strong. I'm probably going to turn off capacitive buttons soon maybe ill save some battery. The problem is that it vibrates way to hard lol
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dirkyd3rk said:
I feel like the vibrations are way too strong. I'm probably going to turn off capacitive buttons soon maybe ill save some battery. The problem is that it vibrates way to hard lol
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You will save battery and the motor from wearing out too soon.
I hate that stuff and always turn it off, its sucks like a rumbling PS3 controller.
I just use the regular vibrations so my phone isn't ringing when im out and about.
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else noticed their vibrator motor starting to feel "gritty"? I don't mean actual debris, but the vibration, particularly in short bursts, has a gravelly, gritty crackle to it. It's slightly audiable. Sustained vibration (with the app "Vibrate" set to full power) is perfectly fine, but haptic feedback is affected.
To test, press your menu button a few dozen times in rapid succession, or play a teeter style game where you frequently have short bursts of feedback. Mine sounds fine the first few times but quickly gets a nasal, gritty noise.
Just wondering if I've got a defective motor, as my OCD really picks up on this.
UPDATE: I made a recording from my laptop mic. Notice now the vibration starts normal, then after many small vibrations it gains an added crackle. It might seem unusual to hammer away at the softkeys this much, but this is just for demonstration.
Full duration: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21884233/linked/all.wav
Two normal vibrates, then two wonky ones: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21884233/linked/compare.wav
Thanks.
Maybe some chick took your phone when you weren't looking to get off, and took it too far.
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Mine sounds fine bro... Sorry to hear that happen. Warranty!
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I have the same issue, searched for others who might have experienced this, and ended up here. This thread is the only complaint I found about it when doing a quick Google search, so I guess it's pretty rare. I don't know if maybe some debris somehow made its way into the housing that holds the vibration weight, or what. Doesn't seem to be causing any other problems (other than the vibration feeling kind of funny).
Anyway, I'm not adding anything any more useful than the last two posters had to say, just wanted to let OP know that you're not the only one experiencing this.
Smoke could do this. 420 smoke sticks to everything real bad and it gets in everywhere, just like cigarette smoke.
the haptic motor is actually exposed in the back of the phone right above camera if u have case off. take a look at it while vibrating and see what u see.
Mine is same way which is why I turn off haptic feedback and keyboard vibration. Its just cause the 3d vibration is far too high. If you want download smart keyboard, you cab adjust vibrations
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Not the best example but look, this is how the vibrator works (it's smaller in our phones, of course)
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question368.htm
It sounds like part of the gear might have chipped off and as the object spins it makes the sound. That or you actually have some grit inside the vibrator! lol.
Take this with a grain of salt, it's only my assumption.
Warrenty should cover this, but I see no reason for it to be such a bother (I don't use vibrating cap keys)
Yeah I have this problem also. It doesn't happen all the time I think it depends on the duration of the vibrate. I had this same problem on my OG Evo.
My OG EVO did that exactly after about 6 months, The vibration was loud enough to hear the haptic feedback and it was Super "gravely" when unlocking the screen... It never seemed to affect anything really, so i never thought much of it.
My new 3D is nice and smooth though, I noticed right away when using it, I even had to get used to it for a day or so, since i was used to the Rough, semi-inconstant audible rough-ness my haptic feedback provided in my OG EVO.
Hey guys, my phones vibrate function has slowly been getting worse and worse, I can hardly feel haptic vibrate when I hit keys on the keyboard and it sounds like absolute hell when a text vibration happens or if someone is calling me. Any suggestions? I don't want to have to unroot and bring it to Sprint just yet..
PaulB007 said:
Hey guys, my phones vibrate function has slowly been getting worse and worse, I can hardly feel haptic vibrate when I hit keys on the keyboard and it sounds like absolute hell when a text vibration happens or if someone is calling me. Any suggestions? I don't want to have to unroot and bring it to Sprint just yet..
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Is it every ROM? I know for a fact that on some ROMS the haptic feedback is nearly non-existent and others its fantastic.
Semantics said:
Is it every ROM? I know for a fact that on some ROMS the haptic feedback is nearly non-existent and others its fantastic.
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This is good to know, I am using clean rom and am going to check with the rom handler.
I just swapped my vibration motor because it was weak. HTC shipped more than one type of motor and when I replaced the motherboard it came with the weaker type. You can tell the difference visually, the stronger motor looks like two domes (big and small) while the weaker motor has one dome and two ridges on the other side of it.
Anyways, I wanted to explain how to replace a dead/weak motor. It's really easy to do. There is no need to solder or unclip it. You can find motors by searching google. They are under $5. If u buy a motherboard it will come with one too. Use the description I gave to discern what type ur buying.
Remove your battery and sd card. Search youtube for the evo 3d teardown video. Follow the first two steps: remove the 6 screws and crack open the back wit your fingernails. Now you can see the motor.
Unplug the motor connector. Lift the motor straight up and out of it's cradle/box using ur fingernails. It's not secured in any way. It just slides out.
I think there will be a few people doing this now that we have a good ICS & sense 4 rom. The vibration on these new roms is much softer and I couldn't feel it with the weak type motor. It just made bump sound.
Damn, we should switch vibration motors. I actually prefer a softer one like how it was on the Evo 4G, but mine has insanely strong vibrations.
yousefak said:
Damn, we should switch vibration motors. I actually prefer a softer one like how it was on the Evo 4G, but mine has insanely strong vibrations.
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I agree with you on this. Mine was so strong it even felt like it rattled! found a solution though. Remove one of the scripts (soft or medium) from the attached zip file and place it in your init.d folder to decrease vibration. Stock value is 3000 but I adjusted the script to 2500 and it is close to perfect for me now.
Personally don't have a problem with that but good fix just in case
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Could I increase my vibratory power with this script?
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lpjzfan2005 said:
Could I increase my vibratory power with this script?
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I would think that is certainly possible. Maybe increase to 3500. Try at your own risk since this is actually increasing voltage to the motor. i have no idea what the motors top voltage is rated.
troyboytn said:
I would think that is certainly possible. Maybe increase to 3500. Try at your own risk
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I'll try this and report back, my vibration is decent but not as strong as when I got the phone, will report back
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troyboytn said:
I agree with you on this. Mine was so strong it even felt like it rattled! found a solution though. Remove one of the scripts (soft or medium) from the attached zip file and place it in your init.d folder to decrease vibration. Stock value is 3000 but I adjusted the script to 2500 and it is close to perfect for me now.
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That's awesome didn't know this thing was around. Lol I like a stinger vibration at least for the vibrate and ring the rest could be whatever.
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As I type this I can feel a small difference in the keyboard, haptic is almost the same with 3500,which side of the phone is the vibrator on?? I'm charging and the part above the camera feels hot
Edit: just got a text, omg the vibration is strong! And I like it lol (no homo)
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lpjzfan2005 said:
As I type this I can feel a small difference in the keyboard, haptic is almost the same with 3500,which side of the phone is the vibrator on?? I'm charging and the part above the camera feels hot
Edit: just got a text, omg the vibration is strong! And I like it lol (no homo)
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Awesome. Glad it worked out for ya.
troyboytn said:
Awesome. Glad it worked out for ya.
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Hopefully this doesn't burn out the motor... You get a thanks sir!
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faiyo said:
I just swapped my vibration motor because it was weak. HTC shipped more than one type of motor and when I replaced the motherboard it came with the weaker type. You can tell the difference visually, the stronger motor looks like two domes (big and small) while the weaker motor has one dome and two ridges on the other side of it.
Anyways, I wanted to explain how to replace a dead/weak motor. It's really easy to do. There is no need to solder or unclip it. You can find motors by searching google. They are under $5. If u buy a motherboard it will come with one too. Use the description I gave to discern what type ur buying.
Remove your battery and sd card. Search youtube for the evo 3d teardown video. Follow the first two steps: remove the 6 screws and crack open the back wit your fingernails. Now you can see the motor.
Unplug the motor connector. Lift the motor straight up and out of it's cradle/box using ur fingernails. It's not secured in any way. It just slides out.
I think there will be a few people doing this now that we have a good ICS & sense 4 rom. The vibration on these new roms is much softer and I couldn't feel it with the weak type motor. It just made bump sound.
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Dang it, I just purchased one to replace my old vibration motor (I accidentally left mine on vibrate for an alarm and slept through it for about an hour and a half) and realized it's the weaker of the two you described.
Hello ive got a Samsung galaxy s2 and just updated to ics. Just wondering if anyone else experiences a vibrate noise on the higher vibrate intensity levels, its not a general solid vibrate noise, more of a little rattle that goes away if you hold the top part of the phone. Although there's no rattle when you shake the phone.
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yeah i noticed it to, i thought it was kinda, "ugly" is a word you can use,
to get rid of it go to
setting>sound>vibration intensity>low it down as much as you feel like
Do you think this is meant to be like this, I've read things about vibration motors, autofocus mechanisms etc. It just seems strange that to have a strong vibrate intensity you have to have this noise as well which will only go away by holding the top half of the phone
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I can barely feel it vibrate, anybody experiencing this? Its 2 light vibrates and thats it. And right now my gmail account is not syncing at all
Makaveli1490 said:
I can barely feel it vibrate, anybody experiencing this? Its 2 light vibrates and thats it. And right now my gmail account is not syncing at all
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if anything i think stock vibration is too strong...reminds me of my og inc
can be modded to lower/increase in framework
Yeah, mines pretty strong as well.
I can definitely feel it vibrate, but hearing it vibrate is a different issue. The original Incredible definitely vibrated with a deeper sound, so I would hear it go off from many rooms away. The Incredible 4G produces a higher-pitched vibration sound which is a lot harder to hear. But feeling it I haven't had a problem with.
polarimetric said:
I can definitely feel it vibrate, but hearing it vibrate is a different issue. The original Incredible definitely vibrated with a deeper sound, so I would hear it go off from many rooms away. The Incredible 4G produces a higher-pitched vibration sound which is a lot harder to hear. But feeling it I haven't had a problem with.
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Ahh trying to hear the vibration is a different story. Few things go into being able to hear it.
1) its slightly rubberized on the back so it doesn't make as much noise on a hard surface
2) less vibration within the phone (i.e., parts inside the phone dont rub together as much), better build quality
Keep in mind, most people don't want to hear the vibrate. They turn it on during meetings, so hearing it is an overall distraction.