im sure everyone knows that the mt4gs vibration is a bit excessive. is there any way we can get a mod to lower the intensity?
My guess would be no.
The only thing that could change the intensity of the vibration would be the alter the voltage to the vibrator motor. (If you're not aware, all the vibrator is is a little motor with an off balance thing on the end)
If you give it 12v (or 5V, whatever the case may be) its going to vibrate the same amount every time.
What I think controls the motor is just a simple switch that allows power to flow to the motor or not. I don't think that switch is adjustable in a way that would allow it to alter the voltage going to the motor.
I could be wrong. But I don't think I am.
Now, what you could do is make something that turned that switch on and off really fast so that the vibrator motor got small pulses of power instead of a steady flow. That MIGHT keep it from ever getting up to full speed and result in lowering the intensity of the vibration. But it might back fire too. Vibration and oscillation are a quirky thing. Some more power could make it more intense while a lot more power could smooth it out. Conversely a little less power could make it more noticeable and a lot less power could make it less noticeable.
Think of your car. At idle speeds the engine might shake, but at highway speeds it might run smooth. But at 30 mph it might shake more than stopped or 60mph.
In other words....if it could be done it would be a work around. And there's no telling how well the work around would work.
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Hi all
Does anyone know if there is a way to control the length of time that the phone vibrates for? I rarely use my phone with the sound on (meetings etc.) and I realise that it is easy to recognise the difference between an incoming phone call and a notification by the length (and repeat) of the vibration going on in the phone's holster....
The notification vibrate seems to go on for about 5 seconds, whereas the fone ringing vibrate is much shorter and repeats at reasonable intervals.
Is it possible to modify this so that it does short pulses instead of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!! I don't know what the battery consumption is like if one would receive say 30 notifications per day as opposed to just a few. It feels like a reasonably serious motor that is turning for this vibration.
I had the same thoughts, but little research as I am struggling with more serious issues of my TyTN...
Registry does not seem to have anything concerning vibration length.
It would be surely nice to control vibrations... some much less complex devices have such a feature from ages
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Hi Rich,
This has been my number one bugbear since I first got this device. I've posted a couple of times here and on Modaco, but not a lot of feedback apart from the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=281543&highlight=vibrate
I've not tried it yet but let me know how you get on.
PaulB
Although I usually have this option turned off because of battery life concerns, how much of the batt juice does this option actually use? I know there is a setting to set the intensity to low. I would like to start using this option because.... because I like it.
Thanks!
haptic vibration is created by a tiny motor.
motors tend to draw a lot of power (compared to other electrical components).
so while haptic vibration is nice to have it will have a noticeable effect on your battery.
only way to tell for sure it to run your battery down without it on, then run your battery down with it on, and see what the difference is.
Berserk87 said:
haptic vibration is created by a tiny motor.
motors tend to draw a lot of power (compared to other electrical components).
so while haptic vibration is nice to have it will have a noticeable effect on your battery.
only way to tell for sure it to run your battery down without it on, then run your battery down with it on, and see what the difference is.
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Lol, that is definitely not a way to tell, I doubt their person can properly create a perfect control group.
In short, the more stuff your phone does, the quicker you kill the battery. So almost every additional feature you add will affect your battery life negatively.
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Lol, that is definitely not a way to tell, I doubt their person can properly create a perfect control group.
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you don't need to have a perfect control group.
run the test a couple times, check the averages and compare them.
I'm guessing that what with haptic feedback on the results will be obvious.
I had shut mine off (which was in full intensity) yesterday afternoon to test this very thing. Will report results today.
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If you like it, turn it on. Its for tactile feedback after all, and turning it off would be crippling the phone's functionality, leading to more typos and more frustration. Its a small vibration, not the ring+vibrate that makes your phone leap past the edge of a coffee table. If you are really dying for battery life, I highly doubt the haptic feedback is the culprit or be a gamechanger.
I'm fairly certain that haptic feedback drains a substantial portion of the battery juice. One of the first thing I did after a few days of playing around with it was to disable haptic feedback. I use the softkeys a lot and having the phone vibrate each time i press then surely can't be good for the power supply. nothing scientific, but just a strong, common-sensical hunch.
appreciate the answer guys. I guess it only makes sense to try it out. Thought it might not be super accurate, it should be fine I actually have very good battery life right now. Even playing an hour or two of games like homerun 3d and armored strike I can usually last for over 15-18 hours. Will post back with the results.
Under Settings>Sound and display>Vibration Intensity you can adjust how strong the haptic feedback is.
Ive always had Haptic feedback on all phones that had it, i like it i mean yeah im sure it does help drain the battery faster but i would just turn the Intensity down a little. oh and the haptic feedback doesn't effect the keyboards btw (guessing this all has to do with which keyboard you are running but im not sure)
Believe it or not, audio generated from the speaker actually consumes more power than haptic feedback or vibration from most devices. You won't really notice any significant battery gain from disabling haptic feedback on the Vibrant. Screen brightness and backlight duration, radio operation, and media sound consume the most power on your device.
At this point, I choose not to believe that. Servo motors love juice.
-bZj
I'd just be curious if anyone would care to develop an app that could read hardware draw like we can on apps. I'd pay for that.
I dun use haptic also but if it helps to type more accurate.. Why not
Is it possible to change the general Vibration intensity?
I'm not talking about the keyboard key vibration duration, I talk about the general strenght of the vibration motor wich is way to high with this device!
Even if I disable all vibration settings within an app, and just use a short pattern in lightflow, this phone is waking up the hole house if it lays on a desk.
Is there any custom Kernel or a root method, with a way to change the intensity like it is known from Samsung, CyanogenMod, LG or all the others? This little simple slider under Sounds wich let you set a percentage value for the intensity.
I love this phone, but this drives me crazy...
This was discussed quite a while back and I never saw any solution to it.
Is there any way to tune the vibration (eg. notification, touch, global vibrations separately)?
Previously I've used Xposed modules, but Xposed is not available on Android N afaik.
I'm using EX kernel, and there are two settings for vibration in the EX kernel manager app, but the only that works is the first option "Vibration" which is the global setting.
The second "Notification vibration" slider doesn't have any effect whatsoever.
Also, I'm using Swiftkey as my keyboard, and the lowest setting for key press vibration is still too high, 1 or 20, there is literally no difference.
The only way I see it is to tweak the global vibration down, and then raise the notification/call vibration intensity.
I'm on Android N stock, rooted, EX kernel.
I have the same issue. I hate the vibration so much that I turned it off completely for all notifications. Anyway to tune the vibration to the effect that it's closer to the vibration of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I'm looking for a softer vibration as opposed to the rattling strong vibration the Nexus 6P currently has.
thdaddy34 said:
I have the same issue. I hate the vibration so much that I turned it off completely for all notifications. Anyway to tune the vibration to the effect that it's closer to the vibration of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I'm looking for a softer vibration as opposed to the rattling strong vibration the Nexus 6P currently has.
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I hate that I almost can't feel the vibration while the phone is in my pocket, and also hate when typing on the keyboard instead of getting nice haptic feedback, there is just an annoying sound.
That's why I'm looking to tweak it, it's really badly calibrated, at least in my case.
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I hate that I almost can't feel the vibration while the phone is in my pocket, and also hate when typing on the keyboard instead of getting nice haptic feedback, there is just an annoying sound.
That's why I'm looking to tweak it, it's really badly calibrated, at least in my case.
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I am starting to think that maybe they just put a cheap vibration motor in the Nexus 6p.
It's really pissing me off now, the weak vibration when you press the back, home or recents button, it makes the phone feel so cheap.
Is there a mod to increase speed and decrease time etc ?
BrokenROM and some others have an option built in to increase vibration.
Not by much, but the little bit helps.
It's still pretty weak compared to my old Samsung Galaxy phones with their custom kernels.
AOSP/CM Kernel development for this phone has been mostly nonexistent, so nobody is competing/learning against/with each other to come up with cool kernel features.
Somewhere deep in the preferences should be a vibration intensity adjustment. This phone has a little spinning vibration motor so all you can do is find a speed that works best. The stuttering buzz during boot is top speed. I find that 68% speed in CM13 is best for me.
I did notice it was a little better in Cyanogenmod 13 so that's what got me wondering, I'm on stock rom with root as I missed all the quirky gestures.