hey, I just noticed a faint ticking sound whenever the screen refreshes on my kindle. I'm not sure if it just started or I just started hearing it, but now that I know it's there it's kind of annoying. do you guys get the same thing, or does it mean something's up?

hey, I just noticed a faint ticking sound whenever the screen refreshes on my kindle. I'm not sure if it just started or I just started hearing it, but now that I know it's there it's kind of annoying. do you guys get the same thing, or does it mean something's up?
Weird! You might want to contact the bomb squad. :D

I am sure you don't mean the sound of the actual button itself?

Otherwise, absolutely no ticking on my Kindle, but just to be sure, had the wife and a young friend listen carefully. Quiet as a church mouse.

no ticking here

Don't worry, that's just the meter on the EVDO running. :wink2:

huh, well that's kind of discouraging. it's not the button clicking itself, it's coming from inside the device and it happens just when the screen goes black to refresh. the tick is pretty audible from reading distance, and if I put my ear right up to it I can hear a whirry-squeaky sound from the hard drive at the same time. somebody on amazon has the exact same thing so I hope it doesn't mean the drive is about to fail or something.

You'll know when it stops. You'll hear a loud BOOM!

huh, well that's kind of discouraging. it's not the button clicking itself, it's coming from inside the device and it happens just when the screen goes black to refresh. the tick is pretty audible from reading distance, and if I put my ear right up to it I can hear a whirry-squeaky sound from the hard drive at the same time. somebody on amazon has the exact same thing so I hope it doesn't mean the drive is about to fail or something.

Seriously (for once), you really should contact Amazon tomorrow via phone or email, and get it replaced. Something is wrong, and no sense in waiting for it to fail. Good luck.

huh, well that's kind of discouraging. it's not the button clicking itself, it's coming from inside the device and it happens just when the screen goes black to refresh. the tick is pretty audible from reading distance, and if I put my ear right up to it I can hear a whirry-squeaky sound from the hard drive at the same time. somebody on amazon has the exact same thing so I hope it doesn't mean the drive is about to fail or something.

I share your concern about hard drive failure. That's why I am glad the Kindle doesn't have one. :)

You are correct, though. The Kindle does make a sound. I never noticed before because my Kindle is virtually silent. I had to hold it up to my ear in order to hear it.

If you can hear the sound when holding the kindle at arms length, then your Kindle is in some way defective. It was probably assembled wrong.

Seriously (for once), you really should contact Amazon tomorrow via phone or email, and get it replaced. Something is wrong, and no sense in waiting for it to fail. Good luck.

well aren't you guys a bunch of jokers with your nice quiet kindles that aren't going to explode. :) I just sent them an email, I guess I'll see if I'm just being nitpicky or not.

I share your concern about hard drive failure. That's why I am glad the Kindle doesn't have one. :)

You are correct, though. The Kindle does make a sound. I never noticed before because my Kindle is virtually silent. I had to hold it up to my ear in order to hear it.

If you can hear the sound when holding the kindle at arms length, then your Kindle is in some way defective. It was probably assembled wrong.

ahh, good deal, I guess the whirring is probably just the screen painting or something. do you get the tick at all though? that's the part I can hear from reading distance. it's probably nothing, just me being easily irritated.

ahh, good deal, I guess the whirring is probably just the screen painting or something. do you get the tick at all though? that's the part I can hear from reading distance. it's probably nothing, just me being easily irritated.

I think I get a series of ticks, about 5 or so. I'm not sure because i can barely hear it.

If I were in your position, I would get the Kindle replaced.

ahh, good deal, I guess the whirring is probably just the screen painting or something. do you get the tick at all though? that's the part I can hear from reading distance. it's probably nothing, just me being easily irritated.
Vizplex does not make any sound when updating the screen.

hey, I just noticed a faint ticking sound whenever the screen refreshes on my kindle. I'm not sure if it just started or I just started hearing it, but now that I know it's there it's kind of annoying. do you guys get the same thing, or does it mean something's up?


From 'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE':

"Papa says everytime you hear a click another angel gets its wings"

or was it "Bezos gets another buck"?

I think I get a series of ticks, about 5 or so. I'm not sure because i can barely hear it.Vizplex does not make any sound when updating the screen.I'm thinking it could be a capacitor discharging as part of the refresh cycle -- they do make sounds some times, but it certainly shouldn't be as loud as you're describing. That's not the only thing it might be, just the first thing that springs to mind. I'd agree that something is out of order, regardless, and getting them to swap it would likely be better for you in the long run. :yes:

well, I just called and the guy tried to hear it on his own kindle for a while, then eventually decided the kindle just isn't supposed to do that. I was kind of surprised, I thought they'd tell me it was normal and quit complaining but I guess they're going to send out a new one. oh well, at least I'll be able to check if the new one does it too.

I have to say Amazon is doing customer service well. I got straight through to a friendly support guy. I didn't even have to speak my order number into some voice recognition or anything.

so yeah...thanks for the input everyone. :)

Excellent! I must say, Amazon is making a very good showing on the tech support side for these things. :yes:

It might have been produced by apple ... since apple computers usually make weird noises too, like screetching, whining, clicking and clonking :D

Hey, that clonking took huge teams of developers to get just right, and it's thoroughly shielded from infringement. :rofl:

... apple computers usually make weird noises too, like screetching, whining, clicking and clonking :D

Oh, they do not!!!! That's just us apple die-hard users, complaining when you try to take away our macs, prying them from our clinging fingertips. (I started with an Apple ][e ! ) :sweethear

My first was a ][c -- they actually lost me when they went with the Mac thing. :shrug:

I cut my binaries on an apple ][e but they lost me when they tried to charge me as much for a new keyboard as it cost to get a PC. Never looked back.

Maybe it's one of these... (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/zoom/)

Heh, I was just ticked that they took the command prompt away. :grin:

They took the command prompt away?

BASTARDS!

How does anybody get anything done without a command prompt? I mean, you can't just draw pictures all day can you?

Back to the topic, when I read my Kindle while driveing it keeps making a weird "honking" noise.
:blink:

They took the command prompt away?

BASTARDS!

How does anybody get anything done without a command prompt? I mean, you can't just draw pictures all day can you?

Back to the topic, when I read my Kindle while driveing it keeps making a weird "honking" noise.
:blink:

Actually the prompt is back now with version 10 since it is Unix based.

Actually the prompt is back now with version 10 since it is Unix based.Only took 'em 18 years. How could I be so disloyal to not simply trust them that it would be back? :jester:

I'm now so much in love with Linux it's unnatural. Ubuntu taste great. Less filling.

got in on this late:

I like the capasitor theory, especially if you are in a dry climate, but it would still be a sign that there is a discharge across air, (the noise could be the expansion of a small pocked of air in a tight place...) You will get the same thing on tvs sometimes.

as far as os 10, the change to unix core makes my pine for a mac os box. I have tried to jump ship to *nix but my 2-3 brief trips have ended with needing one of my windows only utilities. Heck I used open office exclusively for over a year till book designer required that I install MsWord :smack:... Right now I'm performing daily negotiations with Vista Ultimate... and sometimes it demands a sacrifice of blood, time or money... luckily if it demands more I have 2 first born.

well, the final word is that I can hear the tick-during-refresh clearly on a replacement kindle too, so either there are a lot of devices that do it or you guys are just deaf. :)

it sucks to have wasted Amazon's time, but now maybe anybody else who's curious can check here too. I'm happy just tuning it out, now that I know it's normal.

MS Vista is not as bad as a lot of folks make out. MS bashing has been a favorite pastime of nerds for years now.

I have a Vista Ulti/Ubuntu dual boot Dell M1210 laptop and I really like it. The only proprietary thing I have on it is my ZUNE so that is really the only time I go to the Vista side anymore.

As far as the clicking goes, I think it may go away when you pass 40 or if you play drums for a few years. :D

I've never heard any clicking from my Kindle but then again after too many years of hard rock concerts my hearing is probably compromised.

you're definitely not alone, my Cybook does the same and there are more people hearing the faint sound. You need good hearing, though... ;)

see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20380