N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

so here is the thing, my N900 stopped vibrating whether when i touch the screen or when recieving calls. i really dunno what happened, it fell 4 me once but it was fine and all of a sudden it stopped making vibrations so any idea how to restore the vibration?! :(

P.S: i checked the settings and the vibration is set on ON and i rebooted it several times and still no use :S

PLZ HELP :(

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Can you try the suggestions here?
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=51280&page=2
It worked for me and the guy who asked about it.

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Try to install "health check" .you can find it on extra repos.. then try to check there if the vibrator is really not working.

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mohammad thank u for ur answer but there is one thing is that when i wrote this in the terminal "com.nokia.mce.request.req_vibrator_pattern_activa te" it returned not found so what should i do??

chase 15 thank u, i installed the application but when i clicked test vibrate nothing happened? so what shall i do?!

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Browse to the page on the N900 and copy the code, you might've missed something while typing :)

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

ok i re-wrote the code again :)...& i recieved the following:

"method return sender=:1.4 -> dest=1.213 reply_serial=2"

so what should i do again? :D...sorry for disturbing! :D

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

could re-installing the software help?!

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

did you updated to power kernel .28 today?

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

no, i don't even know what that is :D

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

did you overclocked your n900?

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

no i deleted all the alarms that i had...if that what u mean

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

*kick

Got the same problem since a day: my vibration don't work anymore. What ive found is that there 's still something turning coz i hear a high buzz sound when alarm goes of, but i think the exentric wight that coz the vibration is come loose of it's ax.

Dont hope so coz it means my phone must be send to be repaired...

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

No one any idea???

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Vibrator's Dead today. Ran the vibrate dbus command too, but nothing.
Any ideas?

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

A quick reboot fixed the vibrate. But it stopped working within a few moments thereafter.

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Damn, so im not the onllyone... Go to my phoneshop and send him for reapair i think. This isnt cool foor an second N900 next the firstone has dead pixles... Bad hardware???

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Do you have DEV and Testing repos enabled?

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Yeah an overklocked it, so?

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Realised it was due to the ULV profile. Using the default power profile fixed the issue.

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

could u plz explain more cuz the vibration is dead again :( and i can't fix it anymore!!! thnxx :)

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

my vibration stopped working as well. i tried the code that's written in the other thread but nothing happened. do you guys have any other ideas what should i do?

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everything failed with me actually i dunno what 2 do! :(

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Hi...
I was experiencing same problem after installing Custom Rington for Each Contact.

Uninstalling the application, solved the problem, for now... ;)

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

remove custom ringtone .. i just installed it and i have my vibration back :)

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

I have my N900 for over 4 years now and I am still happy with it. Two weeks ago my vibrations were dead, I could only hear a slight buzz and no tactile feedback or any shake happened, and yesterday the same.
My fix was entering in x-term
dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=com.nokia.mce /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_vibrator_pattern_activat e string:'PatternIncomingCall'
and whilst is vibrating just hit it with the back cover on my knee and the vibrations came back.

cheers!

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

Ouch...

I thought my vibration was dead, because I enabled it in profiles, and it still did not work.

So, I sent dbus command. MCE says: do not know anything about vibrator.

And then, I recall... How, long ago, I disabled vibrator module in /etc/mce/mce.ini... between keypad and led...

Hooray. Hopefully, vibrator will work soon, after mce restarts.

Best wishes.

Re: N900 vibration is DEAD!
 

It sounds like you had the same problem I had once. That's how it begins, you can only hear a small noise and it will work again if you hit the device. Eventually, it will not work altogether. This is not a software issue, the problem is that after 4 years or so pocket lint may accumulate inside the device causing the motor to stop spinning. You'd be surprised, I certainly was!! The solution is to disassemble your n900, find the small motor and clean/rip off the lint obstructing it from rotating. I'm sure this will fix your problem and you'll be doing yourself a favor for the futue.

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Yeah, sure, it happened again a few times before, twice or so, but now I have no more problems, it fixed by itself!
Haven't opened it in a couple of years and I don't have the nerves to do it again...although I am getting mad because of No Sim card problem..but meh.