Turning off the vibrate when key pressed

[Guest 900SS]

Here is a little app to deactivate and reactivate all vibrations.

It requests root rights which are needed to set the permissions of the system file.

If you can't or won't give these rights, it will only be able to test the vibration feature.

Note: as mentioned before, vibration will always be enabled after a reboot.

The Test button uses the normal API function for vibrating.

The Enable/Disable button runs the "chmod" shell function (and nothing else).

Get Streak Vibrations and stop trembling. :lol:

How do I load this onto the Streak?.

[Guest rameses]

If anyone would like it, I've got a custom boot.img that disables the vibration on boot. No more need to turn it off. I'll post it upon request.

Stephen, could you post your boot image. These vibrations are driving me nuts.

[Guest JFDee]

How do I load this onto the Streak?

Either use a PC or your Streak browser to get it on the SD card.

Then use any file system explorer (I have AndExplorer from the market) to navigate to the APK file and open it.

[Guest natash]

I try to enable vibrations and it does not work for me, rebooting the devices either.

Any ideas?

[Guest navidna]

I got rid of the key vibration. ;)

There is an attribute in the sysfs tree named "/sys/class/timed_output/vibrator/enable".

It's actually fun to make the Streak hum by saying on the adb shell:

echo "100" > /sys/class/timed_output/vibrator/enable

If you are root, you can change the permissions of the attribute to read-only:

chmod 0444 /sys/class/timed_output/vibrator/enable

Et voilá - no more shivering when opening a menu !

Of course, this disables vibration globally. But I personally could not care less.

I used the "chmod" line in the Autostart app (see Market) to make the setting boot-proof.

It should be easy to write a little app to switch key vibation off and on. We'll see ...

hi!

sory to buzz you, i just bought my dell streak 5, 3 days ago, and i found that even i DISABLE the vibration on setting, it's still always vibrating when im texting and press the 3 buttons on the front,

do you know the simple solution to fix this? because i dont get what you posted above, i dont how to apply that, plz help me!

thanks

Sory typo!

Edited June 14, 2011 by navidna