iPhoneUtils.Vibrate power

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hey,

I was wondering if there was a way to change the vibration force??

iPhoneUtils.Vibrate ();

cus all this do is let it vibrate for like 1sec.
Are there more parameters you can control?

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No, there is no way to impact it

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well all we managed to do is keep the vibrate in a loop so it keeps vibrating (basicly increasing the time) on sertain functions

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slightly OT:
I always wondered what the vibration module’s lifespan in phones might be, or specifically the iphone ?. I guess there is some wear tear the more often you let it “vibrate” - for which purpose ever may do this ;-). But it’s all about moving parts in the end, and i have some limited lifespan statement of PS2 forcefeedback controllers in my memory… Any more insight on this ?

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Hello,

Can you give some advice on how you make the vibration loop?

Thanks!

Pierre

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I would worry less about the lifespan then more the bad reviews from pissed iPhone owners that want to game and not massage their hands :wink:
Also the battery lifetime prefers if you don’t rumble away its energy.

I personally disable vibrate on anything I can with the one exception for which it is and thats vibrate on call in / text message, cause I always found it darn annoying since the N64 got the rumble pack, really

@elpierrot: the trivial way is just to let it vibrate and vibrate again. on iOS vibrate is nothing that special, if you switched to use ObjC to do you would realize its a “few liner” only

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Hello dreamora,

i’m agree with you but this is a client demands and aswe say, the client is the king…
My need is to make the iphone vibrate when my vehicle (racing game) is outside the track.
My problem when I loop the vibration is that this is not constant but sinusoidal…

So I was just hoping that there where a way to modify this, maybe in the Xcode project direclty but I search for this with no luck at this time.

Thanks for your answer

Pierre

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Thats unhappily impossible. Vibrate is a fixed sound, fixed length

technically vibrate is a single line of code: http://reecon.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/vibrating-your-iphone-in-objective-c-iphone-sdk/

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ok thanks anyway!