Root lost haptic feedback

[PowerBomb]

I've been rooted and running eclipse for a few days now. Everything was fine. Then this evening haptic stopped. Four hardware buttons still make the phone buzz and the ringer will still vibrate. at this point I went into bootstrap and made a backup then wiped and restored it.no luck. Then I went back in and wiped and restored a backup from two days ago of the stock ROM. This its what i'm using right now but still no haptic. Even my n64 emulator has a rumble option where using the on screen controller will make it vibrate and even that works, so my screen can still communicate to whatever works the feedback. What are my options when even going back to a stock backup didn't fix it. And of course I know where the feedback option is in the options menu and I know when I was running eclipse it had its own toolbox under settings where it had its own tick box for feedback and I made sure it was on and wasn't contradicting the regular settings menu. Doesn't seem like a hardware issue but something got out of whack somewhere.

 

[Thom]

Try asking your question in ... Bionic - All Things Root - Android Forums.

... Thom

 

[PowerBomb]

I'll see if I can get a mod to move it for me.

Actually after messing with this all night all I need is for someone to even confirm for me what the normal haptic feedback operation is like. If you're at your home screen and you simply click on an app icon, do you get a little feedback? Or only when you long press an icon? How about when scrolling through a settings menu and clicking on an option, do you get any haptic feedback? I should already know these answers but after trying to figure this out for most of the evening I can't even remember what is normal lol.

Edit: I just powered up my old Ally and on that phone, when you press an icon on the screen or make a selection in an options menu, the haptic feedback operates. I'm not sure if the Bionic always did the same thing and I messed something up, or if I just had some weird flashback to using the Ally and got myself confused. After messing around with the Bionic most of the evening, I've gotten it to the point where typing on the multitouch keyboard causes haptic feedback, as do the 4 Android buttons, as well as long pressing on an icon or text message. If I play a game with the option to vibrate on screen presses, it works. But still if I just tap on an icon or choose something in an option menu, no feedback, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to or not. I would think not, I don't see what I could have done that only some weird percentage of the haptic feedback isn't triggering, but once someone can confirm for me how their Bionic behaves, I'll know.

 

[Thom]

If you're at your home screen and you simply click on an app icon, do you get a little feedback? Or only when you long press an icon? How about when scrolling through a settings menu and clicking on an option, do you get any haptic feedback? I should already know these answers but after trying to figure this out for most of the evening I can't even remember what is normal lol.

If you're at your home screen and you simply click on an app icon, do you get a little feedback?

No.

Or only when you long press an icon?

Yes on long press. You get the haptic feedback on a long press even if you have Haptic feedback disabled.

How about when scrolling through a settings menu and clicking on an option, do you get any haptic feedback?

No.

You also get it when you press any of the four permanent icons (in black) at the bottom.

This feature always seemed a little ... er. ... un-useful to me and I always have it disabled.

... Thom

 

[PowerBomb]

Thanks for your help thom. I don't think I completely imagined that my feedback was acting weird at some point last night but I guess I was imagining that it ever worked on basic home screen presses. Must have been thinking of my ally for some reason.

As a side note to all this, I found you can download the kickback accessibility option in the market, which will make the haptic operate for all sorts of screen presses, if anyone actually desires that functionality.

Sent from my DROID BIONIC