Hello everyone, Name's syg_tk & this is my 1st post on XDA although I've lurked around here since the i930 & Touch Pro days.
To my question,
Has anyone else experienced a serious loss in vibration after installing MA7? At 1st, I thought it was bc I rooted & played around with the Wallet hack but my girlfriend is experiencing the same thing. We got our phones at the same time & her's isn't rooted. It's never been toyed with.
If this is an issue, is there some sort of workaround?
Settings > sound > vibration intensity, turn it up
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Settings > sound > vibration intensity, turn it up
I like to break stuff!
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LOL me too! but the settings are maxed out. I wish it were that simple...
I'm having the opposite effect. My vibration has gotten really stronger than before since the update that I had to lower the setting. Felt like an earthquake in my pocket!
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So are you abusing your unlimited texts LOL?
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I've been having an issue with my ringer since the upgrade. It seems to be weaker than it was before the update, and this is a big issue for me. I leave my ringer on vibrate because of school or work, and it's so weak that I cannot feel it in my case. This has rendered my phone almost useless.
My question is, is there any way to increase the intensity of the vibration ringer? I don't care if I need to root or anything like that, I just want to be able to do it. I know if there is anyone that can help me this is the place. Also I'm on the stock rom, not rooted. Thank You guys.
I feel the same way.
My friends mytouch3g might as well be ringing when it vibrates.
He likes to say "The epic is too pretty to vibrate like that. It has to be elegant!" lol
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Did you turn the vibration intensity all the way up under sounds?
Yea but that only changes the haptic feedback. I need the vibration for the ringer and notifications. I know there is a way to change it, there has to be.
Bump. Has nobody else experienced this?
birdturbo said:
Bump. Has nobody else experienced this?
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+1. I have missed so many calls and texts because of it. I wish there was a way we could up the intensity on the vibrator and i'm sure there's is a way...maybe theimplare747 or k0nane know?
I feel the same way...miss many calls and texts because of this. I would love to be able to increase the intensity of the vibration during calls/texts.
shahin26 said:
+1. I have missed so many calls and texts because of it. I wish there was a way we could up the intensity on the vibrator and i'm sure there's is a way...maybe theimplare747 or k0nane know?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing this. I took it to a sprint store, and the rep swore that his was the same on his phone. If they can do it with an update, there has to be some way to do it manually? Any help would be appreciated.
Same here, it seems like right after I upgraded to EC05, the vibration module switched to a different one.... It's like the phone has 2 different vibrating mechanisms.
EDIT: I'm on EC05 with SyndicateROM Frozen with the Twilight Zone Kernel, if that makes any difference
I thought from the title you were using the vibrator feature.....
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epicblows said:
I thought from the title you were using the vibrator feature.....
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Nope, just one of the many that are experiencing a now useless phone due the the lowered intensity of the vibrate function.
MrBeefy84532 said:
Nope, just one of the many that are experiencing a now useless phone due the the lowered intensity of the vibrate function.
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Add me to the mix. I'm sitting at my work desk right now and have the intensity on max... I just missed a text and its sitting right in front of me. I used to have it to about 75% and was fine. Darn update!!
preston411 said:
Add me to the mix. I'm sitting at my work desk right now and have the intensity on max... I just missed a text and its sitting right in front of me. I used to have it to about 75% and was fine. Darn update!!
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So, shortly after typing my last post, my phone had a meltdown. Everything force closed, if I tried to swipe screens too fast it would vibrate and then reset itself for about an hour, nothing would load, the dialer froze up when I received calls, text didn't go through, etc. I took it to a Sprint store, and the tech eventually gave me a brand new phone. I took it home and installed the update, without a hitch. Everything works fine.
And guess what? The vibrate is just as strong as it was pre-update. I'm thinking this is an issue with only some of the updates?
Excuse me for my ignorance, but wouldn't the vibration intensity have more to do with wear over time than updates?
I assume that the vibration intensity, if identified as a software issue, could be updated and integrated with developer roms.
Granted, I have noticed the weak vibration on my epic, but this is something I noticed from the beginning and chalked up to dampening from the slider mechanism. If the phone has a case, it would also reduce the vibration in conjunction with a slider mechanism.
I have had a few slider phones (HTC Mogul, Palm Pre) and each has has significant loss of vibration due to a split body dampening the vibration. Of course these are only my observations with products and reflect in no way a professional or coherent opinion.
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I love this phone...but for my purposes, having it on vibrate = having it on silent. I missed TWO job interview calls having my phone on vibrate in my pants! I barely had time to call 'em back today to set up an in-person!!!!
I found a program a few weeks ago to handle my volume problems....is there a program that handles the vibration problems??? I guess I'm one step away from changing the vibration to just one long vibrate for texts and calls....but this soft motor probably still won't help it out!
Anything? Or am I doomed to putting this on craigslist and waiting for the next big phone???
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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ljwnow said:
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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I think it agitates everyone pretty well actually.
To be on topic, though, I don't know of any apps, or software mods at all really, that will increase the power on the vibration. That's a hardware thing.
ljwnow said:
Samsung has the worst agitator.
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Really? Seems great to me. Way better than my previous HTC phones.
Apparently Light Flow has settings where you can set particular vibrations for particular notifications (i.e. how long & how frequent you want them). Haven't tested it myself, but I've read about it. Link. Perhaps if Light Flow doesn't work, try Sound Manager V2?
anton2009 said:
Apparently Light Flow has settings where you can set particular vibrations for particular notifications (i.e. how long & how frequent you want them). Haven't tested it myself, but I've read about it. Link. Perhaps if Light Flow doesn't work, try Sound Manager V2?
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I tried light flow but I could never seem to get it to play nice w/Handcent.. It'd always stutter my ringtone. Even when I turned notifying for Handcent off...
On a table, it works fine. On a bed or couch or pocket...it's garbage. And I really didn't notice it until last week when I needed it on vibrate. Now, I wish I'd noticed it during the 30 day period of returning the phone....
Shoot!
I have searched threads on XDA and could not find a solution specifically for my Epic 4G Touch. The problem I am having is I will just be sitting there and receive a voice mail. The phone did not ring previously and I check my call log and there is not a missed call. What I have found by researching is it has something to do with the phone when it is in deep sleep. I am rooted using Blu Kuban FE10 1.0.3.6 Rom. Also using Caulks FD26 Kernel with FF02 modem. I have tried several kernel and modem combinations. I do not believe it is Rom, Kernel, or modem related. What I have read it seems to be somewhere in the dialer waking the phone up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's sprints sub par service...
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We are on the same boat I have the same issue with not getting calls trough I hate to say it but its samsung for us. They are not taking care of all the bugs
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I've seen a few reasons for this:
1) A ringtone specified for someone was not on the phone - this caused it to misbehave when I called my wife. She changed the ringtone and it fixed.
2) The tower couldn't reach the phone in time - now in my wife's case her old phone will still ring when her new phone does. I'm not sure if that's playing into the problem or not. But other times I've had both phones next to each other and you can tell when the tower reaches the phone as the ring changes abruptly.
ive been having same issue which is a big problem cause i use phone for work..
that's y I'm thinking of going back to htc phone never had an issue with htc or blackberry phones
The more and more I think about it. Your probably right. It must be a Samsung thing because I have 3 other phones on this contract and they are all HTC phones with no problems. The only thing is they are completely stock with no mods.
i have a htc tp2 on boost mobile which runs on sprint but more water down of a service but the reception for calls is 90% better than this phone
dont get me wrong love this phone just hate the reception issue.
Yeah you would think if Samsung is making phones at least the phone function would work properly.
I have been having the same problem forever with this phone. I have even had threads on here asking for help. I have gone as far as having sprint swap my phone out and that still did not help.
What I would recommend doing is using Google voice as your voicemail provider. Go to the options menu on the website and have it send you an email when you miss a call.
Google voice will always log the call even if your phone does not ring. For somebody like me who uses this phone for work, it definitely helps. You may miss the call but you will at least know that you missed the call and you can call them back.
It has saved me many times!
Are you running Kobridge's tweaks? I have noticed great battery life with his tweaks, but on my phone and the wife's we both are missing some calls when the phone goes into deep sleep. It may just be a coincidence. Not saying anything bad about the tweak.
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pdaddy said:
Are you running Kobridge's tweaks? I have noticed great battery life with his tweaks, but on my phone and the wife's we both are missing some calls when the phone goes into deep sleep. It may just be a coincidence. Not saying anything bad about the tweak.
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I have had this issue on stock rom with no apps installed. It is definitely a phone thing!
cmdauria said:
I have been having the same problem forever with this phone. I have even had threads on here asking for help. I have gone as far as having sprint swap my phone out and that still did not help.
What I would recommend doing is using Google voice as your voicemail provider. Go to the options menu on the website and have it send you an email when you miss a call.
Google voice will always log the call even if your phone does not ring. For somebody like me who uses this phone for work, it definitely helps. You may miss the call but you will at least know that you missed the call and you can call them back.
It has saved me many times!
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Thanks I will give that a try. Half the problem solved anyway
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Thanks I will give that a try. Half the problem solved anyway
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That is the only thing that has stopped me from smashing this phone against a wall.
pdaddy said:
Are you running Kobridge's tweaks? I have noticed great battery life with his tweaks, but on my phone and the wife's we both are missing some calls when the phone goes into deep sleep. It may just be a coincidence. Not saying anything bad about the tweak.
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I believe that The Blu Kuban is running some kind of variation of Kobridge tweaks, but what I've read on that, the full version of Kobridge tweaks don't play nice with this rom.
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That is the only thing that has stopped me from smashing this phone against a wall.
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I feel your pain
Im on the uvlh1 darkside v0 rom and cant find any other roms that work well with my phone. Its a little wonky and for some reason this is the only rom i have found that goes into deep sleep and gets good battery life. Essentially, i cant switch roms. My issue however is that notificarions dont make my phine vibrate. They come in just fine and when my ringer is on, they make noise as they should. I have gone through the menus and told it to vibrate so the "duh" solution has been tried. What else can I do?
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What type of notifications are not vibrating? This could help. My friend had an issue with his Galaxy Nexus where it wouldn't vibrate for anything at all, so I just told him to reset it and it worked like magic
Text messages is(was!) the big thing. I went into the messaging settings and it said it would "also vibrate when notified" but when i tapped it, it said "never". Odd. Anyway I told it to always vibrate and it's workig again. Thanks
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I find this phone to have weak vibration. I rarely feel it.
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I originally posted this on the androidforums.com site but I read that people have moved over here so I'm hoping crossposting will get us people with this problem so idea on how to fix it.
Anyway, when I first purchased this phone through TMobile, not only were the vibrations weak for texts and calls, but the sounds were also a problem and hard to hear in a pocket at max volume. My friends phone had most of the same ringtones but a different model phone so I copied their tones over mine and theirs were much louder sounding on my phone compared to the ones in my list that didn't get overwritten. I've Googled on and off over the months looking for a way to up the intensity level of the vibrations for texts and calls but haven't found anything, not even and app for that. I haven't rooted or altered this phone yet beyond installing apps.
Called into Tmobile tech support this week and factory rest it to no avail. They sent me a new phone in the mail and it's the same, low db ringtones and notification tones and very weak vibration.
The GS2 phones on a particular Canadian network are build a bit differently and have a good vibration mechanism and the GS2 phones on Sprint are a bit different too because I believe they have the flashing LED light on the front, so that means that not all GS2 phones are built with the same hardware. This makes it hard to figure out if it's a software problem or a hardware problem.
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I haven't rooted or installed a different ROM before so has anyone had this weak vibration problem then installed a different ROM and this fix it? I ask this thinking that maybe the mechanism has the ability to vibrate with more intensity but has been engineered down for some reason.
I'm babbling now and not really educated enough on what all could be gained to combat this problem via a new ROM.
Any thoughts or comments from others with this problem?
Im on AOKP JB and volume and vibration seem normal. Learn to flash and enjoy the wonderful world of ROMs !!
LoopDoGG79 said:
Im on AOKP JB and volume and vibration seem normal. Learn to flash and enjoy the wonderful world of ROMs !!
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Okay so your phones vibrations seem normal, hmm. I see your on the T989 as well as being on T-Mobile so I'm wondering why I've gotten 2 in a row with a weak vibration mechanism. Do you remember if yours was weak before you modified it?
Anyone else with a weak vibration mechanism, post so we can figure this out.
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Okay so your phones vibrations seem normal, hmm. I see your on the T989 as well as being on T-Mobile so I'm wondering why I've gotten 2 in a row with a weak vibration mechanism. Do you remember if yours was weak before you modified it?
Anyone else with a weak vibration mechanism, post so we can figure this out.
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I thought there was a setting in sound...where you can adjust the vibration
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I thought there was a setting in sound...where you can adjust the vibration
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There are 3. One for ring vibration, one for notification vibration, the last on is haptic feebback; I have maxed the sliders out on ring and notification. Still pretty low intensity after that.
I saw Jelly Bean on an GS3 at the T-Mobile store today and in that version there is an additional setting where you can choose your type of vibration other than just the one short vibration that happens now.
Does anyone that installed the Jelly Bean ROM for the GS2 have this additional vibration setting where you can choose a different vibration pattern?
Use any Jedi Rom and you should be fine.
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