Vibrate makes it sound like it is falling apart

[Landsharkk]

Mine has a slight rattle as well, didn't really worry me though. I'll keep using it for a week. If it gets worse then I might consider exchanging it. I had just assumed it would get better over time, once the mechanical parts wore in.

 

[clmbngbkng]

It seems that it might be from the crummy motor they used for vibration.

I found this link from another thread here.

Maybe it is the cause but I would be pretty sad if it was true.

 

[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

You know what else isn't normal? Exchanging a product 14 times.

AT&T wouldn't "test" the phones. I had to exchange it to open it & test it.

 

[corsica]

Not all nokia phones rattle when they vibrate. In fact, the first time I heard that was with the 900 .. and Nokia phones have been vibrating across the globe for decades before that

that doesn't excuse it for soundling like cheap crap, really.

 

[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

It is pretty bad, I'm going back today to exchange it, I refuse to put up with that

 

[karmamule]

I was surprised that my 920 did NOT rattle like my 900 did. Now that I'm reading how many people's 920s are rattling too I'm even more surprised.

It never really bothered me on the 900 in any case. As a prior post pointed out, it makes for a very noticeable vibrate, which I appreciate.

In any case, it seems like many, but not all, 920s sound the same way.

 

[Residing]

Lol! Personally, I would welcome a rattle for the vibrate on my phone. I currently use a N8, and the vibrate is virtually non existant since I purchased it - it is very faint. My pay go phone even had a more substantial vibrate than my N8. I've heard the Blackberry vibrate fumction, and I think it's ideal.

 

[goldie_rt]

I've got the same thing (it's actually the only reason I found/signed up for this forum), I was excitedly playing with the phone and a call came in and I couldn't believe how terrible the vibration sounded. It sounds like there's a thin air gap between the back of the case and the vibrating motor, and it's just rattling against the case. I think I'm going to head back to ATT today and see about an exchange, it really makes the phone feel/sound like cheap hardware.

 

[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

Demand they test the phone first

 

[clmbngbkng]

I might go in and do this in a few days because the only way I could live with this for anything long term is to turn off the vibrate function.

 

[txaggies07]

This thread makes me sad for humanity.

 

[independentvolume]

This thread makes me sad for humanity.

Why is that? Is it because they expect a quality product?

 

[goldie_rt]

Well, I went in to the store, both of the display models and both of the stocked models had the exact same sound.
I went ahead and replaced anyway since I think I may have had a faulty battery (only charged from 23 -> 97% in 9+ hours. first time I plugged it in it went from 14 -> 17% in 2 hours).
Not too happy about the vibration, but we'll see if it either stops bothering me or becomes less buzzy.

 

[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

Must be. I guess we have no say on the quality of something we pay for.

Anyway, just went to AT&T, they had one left & it did the same thing. I'm going to go back in a week.

 

[corsica]

so I guess the sound it produces is considered normal, that rules the phone out for me. Is it too much to want a clean vibrate? Feature phones did this for years and years, I don't see why we have to take steps back here

 

[karl11]

Yea I noticed this too. The phone seems to heat up after the vibrate also. It seems to vibrate longer than my HTC Surround did.

 

[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

Its not normal

 

[dlrohm]

What I don't understand about all of this is that MS/Nokia gave out these phones to everyone at Build and not a single person mentions the vibrate oddness? Nothing was even mentioned in Daniel's review here on WPCentral. No one experienced this except for people who bought the phone on launch day? Seems a bit hard to believe.

 

[clmbngbkng]

What I don't understand about all of this is that MS/Nokia gave out these phones to everyone at Build and not a single person mentions the vibrate oddness? Nothing was even mentioned in Daniel's review here on WPCentral. No one experienced this except for people who bought the phone on launch day? Seems a bit hard to believe.

That's exactly what I was thinking and is why I think the phone shouldn't be doing this. If the motor was this loud on the review units, it most likely would have been mentioned.

 

[Alex Rodriguez Jr.]

Same story as the 900s, about half experienced it