When touch screen vibration is active (In profiles) on my n97, I am getting scratching like sounds like its rubbing up against some part of the inside of the phone when the phone vibrates. It doesn't sound normal.
Anyone else have this issue? Is everyones n97 vibration sound normal when they have the touch screen vibration active?
You can even hear the noise of it by going here: http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=smartphones&thread.id=142277
That sounds more like rattling than scratching to me.
Keep a finger on your lock switch and make it vibrate again. Does that stop it?
Nop, the sound is coming from the inside.
there have been other threads on this; initial thought is that it is due to insufficient battery power to power the vibration motor to create the feedback.
I suffered similar symptoms with mine.
Basically I found that the touch vibration worked accurately when battery was good.
But when it went down to two bars it became less accurate... ie. it would vibrate on every other touch... hard to explain but say I was dialling 118-118 it would vibrate on the first 1, miss the next and then vibrate when I touched 8. For every vibrate it missed, it would make the scrath-like noise!
Personally I believe that this is caused by low battery as explained by Halon here in this thread I started:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/85276/
I've now turned off touch vibrate anyhow, and have noticed that battery life has improved a little... just a little.
Sorry, but why would anyone want touch vibration on? It seems completely pointless to me. Regular phones dont need to vibrate everytime you touch a button, i turned it off right away
Well the scratching vibration happens when a phone call is coming aswell...not just on touch vibration.
When you have a real button there is feedback from you actually pressing something; when you press something on the screen there is no feedback and at times it can be difficult to know what you have pressed. Hell it's hard to type on the N97 without key tones on lol. So haptic feedback was created for people who wanted some type of feedback to know they pressed something.