I use my Kyocera 7135 as a pager and phone. When I am at parties and can't hear the phone ring (either a call or a text message) I set the phone to vibrate. Unfortunately, the vibrate is neither long enough or intense enough to feel when I am wearing it on my belt. Does anyone know how to prolong the Vibrate Mode, or intensify it?

Alan

Alas, this has been an annoyance since the first adopters of the 7135. As far as I know there is no way to increase the intensity or length of the vib. The best solutions were to put the phone against ones skin to better feel the vibe (not going there). And I recall one poster that dissasempled his 7135 and re-wieghted the little weight in the vibe motor so the vibration was stronger. I don't recall what the results were though.
mg

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when you go to a party, put it in your pocket.

for the length, it seems that if i use a longer ringtone (15 seconds of a song v 10) it vibrates longer, but i have not properly tested or proven this

i just wish there was a vibe and ring option not just vibe then ring

Hi...

I like the vibe then ring feature so I don't have to go back and forth and I too thought the vibe was too short. I called my carrier (Bell) for how to increase the length of time my phone rings before going to voicemail. This seemed to increase the vibe portion of the ring before going to ring.

ST

Ummm... This won't increase the vibrate duration. The cell system simply sends the phone an "alert" signal for some amount of time. If the phone hasn't answered the call within that duration the network switches the call to voice mail (if you have vmail).

Many people have a problem when the ring duration from the network is too short. When the phone is placed in vibrate-then-ring mode it will, while receiving the "alert" signal from the network, vibrate for a fixed amount of time and then switch to ring for the rest of the time. If the "alerting" time is too short the phone never gets to the ring part before the call has been switched to voice mail (or it only rings once or so).

Note that "# of rings" is not how things are done. The network simply sends an alerting signal for a fixed amount of time (or tells the phone to go into alerting mode and then some time later takes it out of it). The "rings" are done locally on your phone. It plays a ring tone. The ring tone is defined as pattern with tone, time-on, time-off, etc. Now days most devices (like ours) let you use your own "tone" and the device simply plays the recording until the alert is lifted or the recording ends (or loops it). So ring times are simply time and not really a number of rings.

-Quick

Exactly..... so if your rings are set too short.... extending them out will increase your vibe length if the ringer is set way too short. Thus if vibe is too short for certain people then by simply extending the length of time the ringer goes for may extend the vibe.

ST

This thread is a bit old, but caught my eye. Three things I did to help this problem:

I keep my phone on silent mode, and it vibrates with intervals rather than continually until voicemail picks up. The interval certainly helps to detect the virbration.

I use the standard belt clip and with a little wear the phone will buzz audibly in the clip- you can't feel a thing. I got some aluminum foil tape and put a couple layers inside the clip and a layer on the back corners of the phone to tighten it. Looks kinda shabby, but after missing half my calls, I didn't care what it looked like.

I got a busted phone from a friend, a Nokia 3590, and really straightened the Kyo out. both phones come apart really easily with a T-6 Torx bit (available at House of Tools), and the vibrator from the Nokia pops right into the 7135. It turns slower and has a larger weight on it, and the results are impressive. Most phone repair centers will have a bucket full of old phones, I would think. This is pretty simple surgury; the vibrator is just inside the back frame, right underneath the word "RESET". Plug in the charger while you do it, and you won't lose any data.