Do you used to tap the things when they don't work properly !!

That is a very effective way to make any electrical device work. There are so many different ways of tapping too. I tap a lot of things. Like you, my remote is almost useless and needs tapping every now or then or it becomes very lazy and doesn't do anything. I tap the TV as well, because recently it stopped displaying anything unless it was tapped(or sometimes slapped) a few times. Then there is my head, others' head which need tapping from time to time.

Yes AKP always as today now its been raining since morning in DELHI and i had my mobile in my shirt's pocket and water went in to it, display of the mobile was not working so i tap it once it started displaying i said wow but then again it did not work and again i did not tap it hahaha But you are talking about remote i say when even our Tv don't start we have the habit of tapping it by hand on the top of it does not matter it starts or not. But really it sometimes work. HAHAHA

hi akp oh yes I used to thump my mouse when it was not working properly but it really did not help much. once it would not obey me at all and when my son came to see me he just picked it up and waved it around and voila it worked perfectly. I no longer tap things as its never been effective anyway and just might break something instead. lol lol

we do it too. we have this tv remote control which do not function properly and when we tap it, it will work. if it will not work in slight tap we will make it harder. even the little kids get sick of the remote when they are the ones watching tv.

I am not sure but this kind of habit is very common for most people. I also tap TV remote control,but not the TV itself...thu I've seen people doing that thing and soon after they tap the thing it works again ... do you think there is any wonder about tapping? any magnetic force I haven't tried it, because the last time our TV sets doesn't work I throw it out of our window. have a good day jaiho®

Well, i might tap things a bit, but not too hard though. Depending on the mood.

Yes, tapping it or pressing the buttons really hard when the batteries are about to die. also with the mobile phone, kind of shaking it until the screen moves to the position I want it to, as it's a bit tricky.

Hello akp100, hah, time flies, I used to remember our very old JVC television which was bought by my dad since 1992. seven or eight years after it started showing signs of cable trouble or some thing freaking wrong with the lead inside the television. i think youshould buy a new tv or simply just check the cables on your atenna. have a nice day

Hi akp, Yes, we certainly do, and I think sometimes it works because some contact points are loose somewhere, so when we tap it or shake it, sometimes, the contact points got connected again and the appliance works again. However I think it is an old-fashioned way of doing Nowadays, things are more intricate and high-tech, I wouldn't want to spoil it by tapping it hard. I would try to find out the place where it came loose and connect it back properly. Isn't that better?

I guess that is like a habit that most of us just don't think about. It's like if the TV has some wavy lines, we just go over to it and tap the sides. Funny.

That habit has been very common in our house as well. I observed that even our neighbor and relatives do that tapping too. Our remote actually was almost broke because of this tapping and sooner we’ll have to replace it. We have a washing machine and I always tap it whenever it behaves suspiciously. Most of the time, this tapping makes things work. Haven’t tried tapping cellphones but I have tried throwing one out of the window because I couldn’t get any reception.

Haha! This is so me! I always try to tap things first and see if it will work after that like magic. I do it in remotes, cd and dvd players, calculators and many others. I do that because I am thinking that there maybe some loose batteries or mispositioned parts within the gadgets that made them work improperly, and tapping it might get those loose parts or batteries back to where they need to be. Haha! I really made a habit of doing that so often. Now you made me realized some funny moment before when our defunct television is already blurring and I tapped it to work pretty god again. I had fooled some other kids into believing that what I did was magic.

hi:) yes I'm doing that too on our tv remote when it's not working then i take out the battery then put it back again, what's funny is I even saw my grandpa before tapping the back of our radio when it's not working then put the battery under the sun if it doesn't work anymore, but what shocking is it started to work again after he done that.

yer~I used to tap the television and mobile phone when they are out of work,sometimes it's a useful means,but the most time I'm getting more boring as the mothode didn't work .

Yes, I always tap things that doesn't work...I've never broke anything, but the risk is high because I get really angry when something doesn't work as it has to. Most of all I tap my computer.

In my case...when my computer stops working...i often bang it on the ground and it starts working... silly loose connections u know... apart from that i bang many more things for it to work... wish i could use the same theory on people... things would be so much easier...lol

Hi akp, I used to tap the TV and when I get really frustrated I tap it even harder. The remote control and even my mobile phone will always be a victim of this tapping behavior.

yes i do... and it gets me pissed off... wen im watching my favorite tv show then the tv is keep on changing the channel.. sicjk of it.. i tap it then its getting worst LOL... we need to buy a new one i think :P

Oh yeah I do it a lot and not only tapping remote controls that don't work but also people too. Of course, the latter I do but not as violently as I do to remote controls. If I'll do a count, I must have broken more than 20 remotes because of this bad habit. I guess the tapping is more of a reflex reaction mixed with a hope or desire that somehow the act of tapping will fix the problem. Of course, more often than not, the problem with the inner mechanisms of the remote gets worse and worse. After that, I just throw the thing away out of desperation. Good thing people are not remote controls.

Same thing in my house too..i just cant figure out whether its the problem of the remote or the battery. But most of the time it is that we are not hitting the infrared or the Radio waves right on the Sensor ;-)