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Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:14 pm (Last edited: Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:16 pm)
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An interesting piece on the BBC website about high amplitude vibrations posing a risk to cell phones directly attached to a motorcycle...some kind of damping could help I suppose, if this is true. |
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I'm surprised people keep an iPhone long enough to notice.
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Zitat von gc141x im Beitrag #1 I can tell you, one cycle in the washing machine is a killer.... I'm not sure damping is the correct/best approach for high frequencies, but you could just stack thick fender washers and double-sided carpet tape to jury-jig a damper.
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This is nothing new, it's been reported many times over the past few years. I remember watching Itchy boots on one of her many worldwide adventures and she had killed 3 iphone camers on one trip, and that was in a Royal Enfield Hymalayan!!! hardly high powered or producing very high amplitude vibes. Apple have been in denial over this issue for some time, same as with the reduced performance built in to earlier iphones. |
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I was out last week with a friend of mine on the bikes and he told me he had wrecked an iPhone by attaching it to the bike, although it seems to be just the camera it affects. Got on to Apple and they denied any responsibility he then phoned quadlock and they refunded his money for the original purchase and sent him a new mount complete with a damper. Not sure I would trust the damping capabilities to chance using a very expensive iPhone to test it. |
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For other reasons I had switched to iPhone from Android maybe 3 years ago and lost 2 iPhones to this vibration-induced camera failure issue. The solution is to either keep the phone in your pocket or if mounted on the handlebar, use a vibration reducing mount to change the natural frequency of vibration.
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Is this the product of just having the iPhone in the mount or of trying to record video while riding?
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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #7 It's just from having the phone mounted on the bike, you don't need to be using the camera for it to be affected. |
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Zitat von Grumpy Goat im Beitrag #6 I thought that was the purpose of the inside chest pocket of my jacket............ BTW - there are freeware apps that will perform FFT's and spectrum analysis of the vibration. That way, you can report which frequency may have killed your phone........ Old Forum Orphan |
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Zitat von Harry im Beitrag #9Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #7 Kind of validates the position of using a motorcycle-specific GPS and actual camera system than a $1,000 smartphone.
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