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Just placed something on top of my mobile and it (the object placed on top) started moving randomly across the screen. Tried another object, same thing. I would have thought it was something to do with magnetic forces, but same thing happens to a plastic pen top
I'd post a video, but don't know how
Phone is a Samsung a15. Doesn't happen on my work iPhone! What sorcery is at play here?
It's called heat
Mine does that too - open the STW forum and after thirty seconds all the threads jump all over the place, and I end up opening some random thread about chain waxing or some shit.
Mine does that too – open the STW forum and after thirty seconds all the threads jump all over the place, and I end up opening some random thread about chain waxing or some shit.
No, I mean physical objects placed on the screen move about randomly! Ie, I place the phone on a flat surface, place an object on top of it, and the object moves. I genuinely thought I was imagining it but my OH is also intrigued by it.
I can't feel any motor vibration or anything but I assume it must be related to that
How do I post a video to demonstrate?
Uninstall the poltergeist app.
Is it definitely flat? The glass is very slippery so a slight tilt (e.g. because of the camera protrusion) could allow an item to slide slowly.
Try standing on your phone and see if it moves you.
I’d post a video, but don’t know how
Use another phone to take a short video. Convert it to a gif file. Upload gif as a picture.
I'll try to post one later..
Yes it's definitely a flat surface. And it's on multiple flat surfaces that it happens.
Now you have tested a number of flat surfaces...
... How about some level ones?
Video required.
Right..I have a video of this witchcraft..
I have even turned it into a gif
How do I post it? I don't have a photo sharing account
Link to gif above.
No idea how to embed it in here
That's a plastic headset spacer that's moving about..
I can't remember what it was now, but one glass backed phone I had was so slidey that it would routinely jump off tables all on its own.
Is it live? I have a laptop that the case goes live when it's charging
Nope not charging..
But it's switched on..
At the risk of asking the obvious, does it do it when switched off?
Probably microvibrations. Bill Gates injecting 5G nanobot vaccinations into your brain, or something.
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Does the object always move towards the bottom of the screen ?
It’s just sat on a (very, very thin) cushion of air so it’s moving because of the residual kinetic energy from when you dropped it onto the screen, sliding in the direction the screen in sloping.
Sorry to be a killjoy, but I'm guessing that if you can disable 'haptic feedback' in the phone settings the magic movement will stop
I think its the spinning of the earth, try going to the equator and it will move faster 😉
(unless you are a flat earther - in which case its the elephant which is holding the earth up having a scratch)