Braveheart motor buzzes with pinch

[Charims]

If I gently but firmly pinch slightly above the lower left corner of pinephone braveheart, it starts to buzz. Sometimes I have to take the back cover off or power it down to get it to stop. It easily triggers from a pocket or when picking it up. Sometimes even putting the back cover on triggers it.

I would be happy to upload a video of it.

Seems as if maybe something is making contact that shouldn't. If this is a widespread issue, hope we can get it resolved for future builds.

Otherwise, everything hardware seems to be checking out. Love the device! I want to pass along my thanks to the Pine64 team.

First time aware on this issue, please upload the photo and will fix if it is design flaw.

I experienced similar behavior. The issue was that a wire to the vibration motor was crossed over into the battery compartment.



Moving the wire fully into its channel resolved the issue for me -- tested with:

Code:

fftest /dev/input/event3

Thank You Hall,

I was able to remove the battery case, and then the back case as per http://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pinephone/PinePhone%20Exploded%20Diagram%20ver%201.0.pdf

I also found that the wire was over the channel wall into the battery compartment and being pinched by the back case. I was able to gently use my fingernail to push the wire back over into its channel. The motor finally stopped, but still works as expected under Factory Test image.