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Help KitKat update disabled phone's vibration

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sactown23

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First thing in the morning, the phone performs a software update. After it was finished, it let's me know that it's the KitKat update. Layout and some other tidbits have been changed which I always hate, but we as humans can adapt to anything.

However, the phones vibration and haptic touch does not work. Its turned on and I've tried restarting, but nothing helped.

Anyone else have the same problem?
 
Sounds like a glitched OTA update. Bring it to your carrier and ask them to reflash it. (The odds of a 500MB file being transferred with an error that's not caught are VERY small, but not zero.)
 
You have to dig to adjust it. It is on by default but the duration is so short that you cannot feel it. Go to the following:

Settings
Language & Input
Under Default, touch the little slider icon to the right of "Android Keyboard"
Scroll down to "Advanced Settings"
Scroll down to Keypress Vibration Duration

At that point you can adjust the duration. I found my defaulted at 30ms and I could not feel it. I adjusted it to 60ms and it the vibration feedback is perfect for my likes, but you can take it up higher if you want.

Hope that helps.
 
decraig2000 said:
You have to dig to adjust it. It is on by default but the duration is so short that you cannot feel it. Go to the following:

Settings
Language & Input
Under Default, touch the little slider icon to the right of "Android Keyboard"
Scroll down to "Advanced Settings"
Scroll down to Keypress Vibration Duration

At that point you can adjust the duration. I found my defaulted at 30ms and I could not feel it. I adjusted it to 60ms and it the vibration feedback is perfect for my likes, but you can take it up higher if you want.

Hope that helps.
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That option was grayed out for me and I couldn't change it.
 
I noticed this change too. Touch-vibration on my phone was not disabled, but rather diminished. After digging through all settings under the sun, I also found the vibration duration settings.

After experimenting with this setting, I'm of the opinion more has been changed than just the default vibration duration.
Previously, the vibration was, for lack of a better way to describe it, "sharp". When I touch a key, the vibration would start and then stop quickly, but the vibration was rather prominent.

In the new (P)OS (ha ha:-) the vibration is weaker, regardless of duration. (In fact, longer duration settings make the weakness more noticeable.)

Simple analogy. A "sharp" speedbump vs a smooth one.

While I hate harsh speedbumps, the stronger touch-vibration on my phone was better for typing.

Yet another strike against KitKat.

And separately, I also notice the duration setting seems to apply only to the Keyboard, and not the 3 regular buttons at the bottom of the screen (Back, Home & whatever the thing on the right is.)
 
I've just discovered why: if the energy saving is enabled, those idiot-savants thought it was a good idea to remove the keyboard vibration, giving us no other option than disabling the energy saving mode to have it back.

This iss the fifth deeply-dumb change I've found in kitkat. It's really unbelievable they can do sh*t like this.
 
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