Comments on: iPhone vibrating loud and loose- broken vibrate mechanism!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:30:40 +0000

Ok after several hours I figured what the rattle is… The vibrating motor hits the back of the LCD screen. There is metal piece on the back of the LCD screen and the clearance is too tight. I took some electrical tape and cut it into strips about an inch long and an 1/8 inch wide and I taped the spot on the motherboard parallel to the vibrating motor itself. Works perfect!!

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:04:04 +0000

Thanks so much for the post! I’m going to get mine looked at right away.

By: Hardinbc

Hardinbc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:22:43 +0000

I am also experiencing this problem with my iPhone 3GS (vibrating mechanism sounds like a mini chainsaw). I have an appointment with an Apple Genius on Saturday to have it looked at. Hope I get some good news since silent mode is no longer really silent…Yesterday in a meeting, my phone went off and everyone looked at me, even though it was on vibrate only…an of course, my boss was present also…LOL.

By: sickrupi

sickrupi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:27:11 +0000

Hi,
I am having the same problem with vibrating. But my warranty has expired and on top of it my phone is unlocked/jailbroken to a non-ATT carrier. Would like to know if Apple will still replace it ? Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance guys.

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:19:04 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:23:08 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:50:09 +0000

My phone just stared doing that and I am taking it in tomorrow

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:04:15 +0000

Last month I bought the 3g. Had to have it replaced twice before I got one that was good. I guess 3rd times a charm. Then the 3gs came out, and I took it in for a swap.
After a day of thinking the speaker sounded weird when getting text messages, I noticed its the vibration and something in the phone slightly rattling when it vibrates.
Is this a problem, or just annoying?
I just don’t know if it is worth it to go all the way to the Apple store out of my way and take more time out of my day to get it replaced AGAIN.
Any suggestions? Should I just suck it up and get it replaced and hope for the best?

By the way- the 3gs rocks. Minus the rattling vibration…

By: Aph!d!

Aph!d! — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:19:59 +0000

Same thing here!! bringing it in tmrw. Bringing my laptop to show the article aswell so they don’t try and tell me that its MY fault.. always turns out that way.. anyways.. just 1 more person to say its common.. thnx crapple..

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:18:11 +0000

Thanks for this post, found it when I googled “iphone crazy vibrating”. Mine started doing this last night and its incredibly annoying and disruptive. I’ve got a Genius appointment this afternoon…

Thanks again!

By: stuart

stuart — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:15:42 +0000

I had my iPhone replaced yesterday and the new one i got has this problem. atleast i can get it replaced again.

By: aj

aj — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:57:13 +0000

how about this !!!!!!!!!! the bat was at 10% the i phone turned off and started to vibrate, and now it is 6 hours later i phone is still virbrating. what the f**k, also i have just taken the sim card out, and yes still going!!!!!!!!!

By: hm

hm — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:30:04 +0000

I have the same problem, but i got my iPhone as a gift a day ago, I have no receipt or anything, I hope they still swap it out for me because its really annoying, I had the 2G phone too and over time i noticed the vibration sounded different, so I’m assuming this is very very common

By: alex

alex — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:25:42 +0000

so ive dropped my 3g a couple of times but my vibrate stopped working at random i did not drop it when this happend will apple jsut say that because ive dropped it that they cant help me?

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:11:04 +0000

I had this happen to me. Along with many other things. I wrote about this in my blog:

http://www.pwrmac.com/2008/09/28/iphonefrustrations/

By: Devin

Devin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:45:34 +0000

I have had my iphone for about 7-8 months now and it has just started to not vibrate about a day ago and makes weird michanical sound around where the camera is. Im not sure what i can do as i got it shipped from the states to Canada. Any suggestions?

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:56:59 +0000

Just got a band new 3g iphone (4 hour process)… vibrated super loud from the first call a recieved… louder than some of the standard ring tones… taking it back tomorrow… great phone, problem sux… thanks for the heads up every1

By: errrrg...

errrrg... — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:45:19 +0000

I have this problem also. This is a replacement phone… also. My first phone would not connect with the docking system so i lost all my songs and photos that were not syncd prior to the mishap. But this time my vibration mode is doing the same thing. Some times it just goes crazy and rings and rings and rings and no one is calling, so picking up the phone is not an option. I hoped it would go away but it hasn’t and since i see this is common. Back to the genius bar i go…

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:09:43 +0000

Thanks, found this because my iphone stopped vibrating for about a week, then started this rattling. Off to the apple store tomorrow:)

By: nic

nic — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:58:29 +0000

shit my phone is unlocked from Canada and I have the same problem. Did the guys at apple store seem to care about anything like that. I assume you jailbreaked your phones?

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:22:26 +0000

Update , I went back and the guy i Talked to replaced the phone with no questions asked
Shane

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:41:21 +0000

Hey, here is my story… My phone started Buzzing last week… I took it in to an apple store yesterday and the genuis that i talked to me was rude and said there was nothing to be done. I am going back today now that I read this Post thanks… Oh and im takeing a copy of this postto them to show them that this is not an uncommon problem…
Shane

By: dark_thug

dark_thug — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:59:32 +0000

well mine was like *buzzzz* *buzzz* *buzzz* like what u guys have lose vib motor and d*amn now it got more worst the vibrator of my iphone stopped slowly then its gone i mean it does not vibrate any more and that the most important thing for me mostly on office hours well i cant return it coz i left U.S. already well just my luck

By: Kerry Smith

Kerry Smith — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:27:39 +0000

Here is my story. Bought the iphone 3 days ago. A pixel went out in the middle of the screen today so I took it back and they exchanged it for me no problem. Brought the new one home and now the F*ing thing is vibrating super loud. The one with the dead pixel did not sound anything like that. Now I’m taking it back for second time to hopefully swap them out again. I’m so angry I hate the iphone!

By: Alo

Alo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:27:11 +0000

Stumbled on this the same way! am going to the Apple store this afternoon, if i dont have a new phone by tonight im gunna go APESHIT

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:16:50 +0000

Same story here, except…

Mine “vibrated loud & loose” only 3 or 4 times. Now it does not vibrate at all.

Will be taking mine to the same store where I purchased it,To exchange.

I just hope that in another month I won’t have to replace it again.

There is so much info on the phone, I worry about just handing it in.

Thanks for your Post.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:23:12 +0000

Excellent! I just started experiencing this problem yesterday! I couldn’t believe it! Thanks for all the help

By: Thanks

Thanks — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:56:47 +0000

My iPhone just started buzz rattling! Googled “iPhone loud vibrate” and found this blog. Thanks for the post.