My vibrator is broken!

dulpit

So i think the vibrator on my phone is broked... if someone rings my phone ro texts me or whatever it does not vibrate, except the odd time where it will make a rather feeble effort... This sucks big time, as i travel on the buses all time i can rarely hear my phone ring, but can always feel it in my pocket...

The phone is a Nokia 6103, not flash but it does the job... Is this a regular problem? Can it be fixed or anything? What say ye?

Ruu_Old

What a title! How old is the phone?

dulpit

Thanks, thought long and hard about a witty title....

Anyway, i don't know how long exactly i have the phone, but i think its under a year, the earliest pictures on it are from July of last year... So it might have been then when i got it...

Random

LOL @ the title. Thanks

If it's under a year go back to the shop you bought it in and get it sent off for repair. If you don't know where it was bought ring up the network who should be able to help you find out.

dulpit

ciaranfo wrote:

LOL @ the title. Thanks

If it's under a year go back to the shop you bought it in and get it sent off for repair. If you don't know where it was bought ring up the network who should be able to help you find out.

Might do that alright, only thing is that the last time that i had to get a phone repaired i was without a phone for a few weeks, and the replacement phone was utter crap, something from the 088 era nearly...

I'll pop in on my way home, see what they say...

culabula

dulpit wrote:

Thanks, thought long and hard about a witty title....

Thinking long and hard is quite apt.

Time Magazine

dulpit wrote:

I'll pop in on my way home

Careful to not do that while driving.

dulpit

Hilarious all round lads...

Anyway, called into Meteor (where i bought it) all they said was that they could send it off, would take 2 weeks... They did say i could try the Nokia centre, so might give them a ring tomorrow, see what they say, would prefer not to be without my phone for 2 weeks...

Ruu_Old

It is still under the manufacturer (Nokia) warranty so you can send it to MPRC and it will be repaired with no charge. The turnaround is pretty quick too.

laoisfan

isn't the vibrator part of the battery? that was my understanding. if so should it not be easier to replace the battery?

just my 2-cents! i always though it was part of the battery and not the phone.

dulpit

Ruu wrote:

It is still under the manufacturer (Nokia) warranty so you can send it to MPRC and it will be repaired with no charge. The turnaround is pretty quick too.

Not quite in Dublin though... (Cork to be precise)

Anyways, i'm gonna ring the Nokia Service centre in town in a while, and i'll see what they say... Hopefully it'll be a quick job... (and hopefully they'll honour the guarantee and not send me back to the Meteor shop, where i'll have to wait 2 weeks )

dulpit

Ok, so apparently its a quick & easy job to fix the vibrator, so i'll hand my phone in this evening and they'll have it ready tomorrow afternoon... They'll honour the guarantee as well

So hopefully by tomorrow evening i'll get to play with my vibrator again

drdre

dulpit wrote:

Ok, so apparently its a quick & easy job to fix the vibrator, so i'll hand my phone in this evening and they'll have it ready tomorrow afternoon... They'll honour the guarantee as well

So hopefully by tomorrow evening i'll get to play with my vibrator again

If you bring it to MPRC, it should only take them 3 hrs to repair it. Now thats quick

dulpit

drdre wrote:

If you bring it to MPRC, it should only take them 3 hrs to repair it. Now thats quick

As i've already said I don't actually live in Dublin, surprising as that may seem to some on these boards...

And the crowd told me over phone that it'll only take a few hours, but seen as how i'm at work now, won't get it into them in time to be finished by close...

Gran Hermano

Dont Anne Summers have an online shop?

Have a look on nowgsm.com, they stock replacement parts
for most phones and ship cheaply from Hong Kong. I've ordered
several times from them over the years without any problems.
Delivery is usually less than a week and cheap enough.

Sam Vimes

laoisfan wrote:

isn't the vibrator part of the battery? that was my understanding. if so should it not be easier to replace the battery?

just my 2-cents! i always though it was part of the battery and not the phone.

its not. the battery is just a battery and has no moving parts. the vibrator is a motor with a cam attached to the rotor and is built into the circuit board of the phone

whisht

laoisfan wrote:

isn't the vibrator part of the battery? that was my understanding. if so should it not be easier to replace the battery?

just my 2-cents! i always though it was part of the battery and not the phone.

These were done a few years ago, but only on a few Nokia phones, mainly the 5110, 6110, 6150, 6210, 6310 etc They switched to a little internal vibrating motor after that.

Ruu_Old

dulpit wrote:

As i've already said I don't actually live in Dublin, surprising as that may seem to some on these boards...

And the crowd told me over phone that it'll only take a few hours, but seen as how i'm at work now, won't get it into them in time to be finished by close...

You can still post it if you are stuck and you will still have it back faster than you would by sending it through the shop.