"media box/speaker" doesnt work - Desire General

Hi there guys,
Since today the speaker on the back of the Desire seems to be broken.
First I thought it was something like a driver bug or whatever because I flashed my Desire to Froyo (DeFrost 0.7) yesterday evening, but even after reseting and flash back to the stock ROM, it still isnt working.
Could this be a software error in ANY way or is the speaker just broken and I have to send it to HTC?

lol.. allright guys. The Desire seems to be made of pretty cheap plastic.. i removed the battery cover and pressed on the speaker a few times.. suddenly the music began to play. Looks like "kicking against stuff to make it work" works with the desire

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Sound doesn't turn back on after headset was plugged in + playback speed too fast

Hello
I have a peculiar problem with my Artemis (Xda Orbit). I have 2 situations, some times one, sometimes the other.
Situation 1: Plugging in the headset deosn't turn off the sound of the loudspeaker. I can hear through the headset but also through the loudspeaker. In this situation the sound plays about 5% faster that normal.
Situation 2: After having had the headset plugged in, the sound output is not restored to the loudspeaker when I plug it out, when playing with Media Player. It stays mute. I installed TCPMP (another player) and it is the same problem there. But when calling to the phone, the call signal plays well enough through the loudspeakers. I have a MP3 as ring sound (the same MP3 will not play through the loudspeakers when I unplug the headset). However, when picking up the phone, I can not hear the caller nor can they hear me, without the headset. Only a reset restores the sound to the loudspeakers and then I can also call normally. The Radio sometimes recognizes the headset, sometimes not. Once the sound was briefly back to the loudspeakers, as I was shutting down Media Player. I even tried a hard reset to fix these problems, to no avail.
This evening I have Situation 1 but this afternoon it was Situation 2.
There was a problem before, where the speaker would stay on during a normal call, like in hands-free mode. Perhaps the problem was there already. This problem went away by itself but did it really? I didn't use the headset for a while so...
I did two things recently that may have caused this. I did it at the same time, so I don't know which of the two that may have caused the problem, if any of them.
1 I used SDHC-Artemis.cab from Bepe, to be able to use a 8GB card. Worked fine.
2 I tried two adaters I had bought on ebay, which give sound out on a female mini-jack.
Can any of you super-gurus guess what the problem is?
i dont have a ready answer - but you might need to tell us more about your rom - do you have shipped or cooked? details pls.
All shipped. But like I mentioned, I did have the patch from Bepe installed. But I actually now think that the problem was there all along, right from the time I got it used a few months ago.
ARTEMIS (Xda Orbit): Windows Mobile 6.0
ROM: 3.4.207.2 GER
ROM Date: 4/18/07
Hope this helps
your situation 1 has happened to me before, why i dont really know but i felt a complete plonker sitting on the train with my ear phones on and my phone making one hell of a racket!
to fix it i did a soft rest an bam stopped, might hav something to do with plugging in headphones whilst audio coming out, thats about the only thing i may have done and since then ive not had any further problems.
i have since flashed to 6.1 as well that may have been it, i do sometimes get this odd audio error with the FM player, sometimes its very quiet and refuses to be more than a whisper, but if i turn the volume up and down using the hardware buttons it fixes its self.
Windows Bugs im guessing!
It does seem like a Windows bug. Although, once, by fiddling with the plug, the problem went away.
Resetting doesn't do it for me. I would love to flash to 6.1 but my current ROM has Tomtom Navigator built in, with support for the internal GPS and as far as I can read here and there, you can't install Tomtom over a new ROM and expect internal GPS recognition.
Somewhere in a thread I once read about someone who had a link to O2, the provider of the Xda here in Germany, with the 6.1 Update. I haven't been able to find it again, only the 6.0 update. Perhaps I remember wrong...
no worries there mate, ive installed Tomtom on several ROMs and all have worked with the internal GPS, on tt7 you set it as an internal GPS on COM 4 in my case with something like a 56000 rate, on tt6 i think it was called other NMEA or generic NMEA on com 4 56000
just be sure to copy all your favorites, i upgraded to tt7 and silly me lost them all!
Right on dazza! It works just like you said with Tomtom. Thanks mate.
I tried it on another Artemis. I probably have to send in the first one for repair, to see if there might be a hardware problem, before flashing anything, including the guarantie!
No problem mate, it could be hardware, but im sure it happend to me only because i plugged in the headhones whilst it was playing FM radio, perhaps i shorted a couple of pins or coursed it to glitch somehow, to be honest, it might have been just the wrong day of the year! however, im pretty sure that if you flashed the lastest official ROM from the website of your mobile phone provider it will overwrite the modded USPL and put the device back to an original state.....so if you fancy giving the new 6.1 ROM ago you can recover to standard ROM for an RMA if it makes no difference.
Aha, flashing back to normal... "pretty sure" sounds a bit like "not completely sure". I wonder about that and if those tech people who would repair the thing might find traces of the other ROM somehow. Besides, I don't know where to find the original ROM.
Come to think of it, I don't understand how you could have played radio without the headset plugged in. On mine it needs the headset to do anything, saying it needs it as antenna and if you unplug it, it will complain.
yeah it wont work without the hardphones in, but the program launched as i plugged it in.
the only reason i say pretty sure is because im a bit confused by the manual
When the USPL cracks came about there was a thread that said it would revert back to normal after an official flash but i cant find that any more, also the manual for USPL states that it will not survive a reflash, but im confused because on mine ive flashed several ROMS without redoing the USPL so it clearly does remain after a flash.
Did you take out insurance on it? you could always say your dropped it in the bath, they will send you a new one and take the old one at the same time. No need to worry about it then!
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No insurance.
Are you saying that the original ROM will permanently reside somewhere, no matter what you flash?
I found the official Xda Orbit ROM now:
http://rs177.rapidshare.com/files/56...88.90_Ship.rar
No, well yes, kinda..
Im not sure of all the tech lingo but there are several parts to an artemis, the ROM its self where the version of windows is installed, the Radio ROM for the wireless part and the SPL which is something like a boot ROM, used mostly by mobile operators to lock the phone to their software
to update a phone thats Locked, not sim locked thats something different, they developed a patch if you like, that kind of by passes it, so you install this USPL which stands for something im sure, which basicly then lets you flash what ever ROM you want,
if your phones locked you have to do this otherwise you could end up with a brick, ive only ever changed the USPL once and ive put several ROMS on it perhaps my phone is unlocked already so it makes no difference
Anyhow, to warrenty it, if you changed the USPL, you would have to re flash the original USPL and ROM back, BUT and this is why im unsure if flashing a new ROM would work, according to the manual for this USPL it says that you have to run the USLP patch everytime you want to change the ROM, which means that its not perminantly changed at all which means if you put a original ROM back on it, it should be back to stock default...
its a bit vague im afraid, most of the threads seem to have vanished, the poor artemis forum used to be a busy place.

Crashing on orange

Hi all,
Has anyone else had a problem with there desire locking up and restarting by it self on orange?
Ive had the phone since the day after orange released it and its great coming over from winmo but mine still seems to be as unreliable as winmo.
Sometimes when I want to use apps that go online, last fm, nav launcher they just dont seem to connect, when i switch off the device and restart it they then connect and work all ok.
I use the device in my cars hands free kit as a mp3 player (mixzing) via bluetooth, I jump out the car, it registers the bluetooth hand set has disconnected and then the screen freezes and it reboots its self after 10 secs.
Have I got a dud or it s it oranges ROM, ive been tempted to flash it over to the generic one to see if that fixes it but without an orange rom to flash back to if it doesnt work so i can send it back to orange for a replacement I dont really know what to do.
Has anyone else had a similar problem, any advice would be great. Its not really making my 1st impression of android a very good one
I have not experienced any problems like that with mine are you sure there is not a newer ROM out try checking for updates from the phone, pretty sure there was an update near launch, I am running build 1.15.61.10.
Failing that probably best to get Orange to replace it before messing about with it too much.
Yep im running the latest version. I dl the update this weekend and thought it may fix it but nope
I think you've got a dud one mate, mine's never frozen or re-booted.Ring Orange and get it replaced.

[PROBLEM] Random freezes/crashes on Desire

Hey,
I know theres a lot of threads about htc/android phones freezing and crashing/rebooting but none of them really described my exact situation. And since it's getting worse and worse and driving me crazy, I wanted to ask for help.
As the title suggests my HTC Desire keeps freezing and crashing (sometimes rebooting, too).
It all probably started shortly before I first rooted my device, following the great sticky noob-tutorial. First problem was, that sometimes my phone wouldn't wake up from standby, especially after I a missed call (rooting didn't solve that problem).
Some time later, now rooted and with a custom ROM, I noticed, that sometimes when I wanted to use my phone, it showed the PIN-screen, which obviously means, that it rebooted quietly (don't remember if this also happened before rooting).
A few days ago it started to completely freeze, when connected to the charger. Orange LED showed it was charging but no reaction to pressing any buttons or disconnect the charger.
Since yesterday it also crashes randomly in standby mode (can't wake it up) or e.g. when watching a video (just freezes the device, no reaction to button-pressing, screen stays on etc.)
now I am running the stability test with the charger connected - no problem for 1h10min til now...
The ROM I am running is the latest cool sense (problems also existed before the latest update)
No modification of CPU (I used to use SetCPU but since I thought that would cause the problems I uninstalled it -> no improvement)
What could be the problem here? (And how can I solve it, of course?)
Anything else than a full wipe, which could help? (that would be my last option...)
Thanks for helping...
it just happened again -.-
I was just backing up some apps with titanium backup and in the middle of scrolling through the list - freeze!
dunno what to do...
is this hardware or software related?...
Hello.
It would be pretty easy if it is a soft problem. This kind of problems are usually dealt with by installing another ROM and see if the problems persist. So if you want to try and eliminate the last option, go and install another ROM, it can be a Stock ROOT-ed ROM, Sense or anything.
The fact that you mentioned your phone was crashing even before rooting got me thinking it is a motherboard fault. I've read some threads in which people had the same problems, and in the end they all got to the same conclusion: motherboard fault. The only resolve with this is to get it to guarantee.
So first of all try installing another ROM and if the problems persist, you will need to install a RUU and see if this one eliminates your problem. If not then I don't know if there is anything else you could do, besides getting it to the guarantee.
I wait for your progress.
Hi,
thanks for your reply.
The funny thing is, that I didnt have those problems with this ROM in the beginning. Everything was fine, that's why I was using it the whole time. But as I said before, it became worse by and by... thats why I thought it could be an app or so...
that would be a recent list of apps: appbrain.com/user/marioiram/
Cannot even sync my newest list, because after freezing while watching a video, it froze again shortly after reboot... still getting worse
Try reinstalling the ROM or installing another ROM.
hm.. just when I was thinking about following your advice, my desire stopped freezing xD
no crash, no freeze oder reboot since my last post.
I even tried to force it by watching videos, playing games, connect to the charger etc.
everything is fine... strange.
Will see for how long
Well this is good news. Just keep in mind what you can do if the rebooting comes back. Hope it doesn't
Well, it did xD
Now even shortly after reboot. I'll try ROM changes as soon as I get home but there's something I noticed: it often freezes when it's supposed to display a whatsapp notification and sometimes it seems there's a problem with the sdcard (just bought a new one because my old one went nuts). Sometimes the notification 'sdcard was removed unexpectedly' (translated from German) is appearing, but after waiting a few minutes everything is fine again...
Well I'll try some stuff when there's time...
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Hi:
I just wanto to let you know that I had the same issue, so I decided to send it to SAT, they changed the motherboard...
my problem now (with the new motherboard) is everytime I root my phone and use a cooked ROM, then freezes/crash again... ONLY works with the official ROM...
please let me know if you solved you problem pls... and how? of course...
I copy the link of my post (just in case helps to you)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15103560#post15103560
best
SCeesarin
Hmm... I don't know what i did (nothing, actually) bit since my last post it runs stable... Absolutely nothing like freezing or crashing... Strange
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

[Q] Internal Ear Speaker Not Working

OK so this has been an issue for several months now and its gotten worse.
The ear speaker has been working intermittently and will usually not come on at all.
This seems specific to CM7 because flashing back to CM6 it works fine.
Problem is: Speaker works randomly, at first i thought it was hardware issue but every time a loud sound or voice was played through it would come on.
I would use a saved voicemail and play it a couple times and that would usually kick the speaker to work. But as of recently its doesnt come on at all, only when it wants to.
I have no idea if this would help, but using OSMonitor's log, whenever i tried to play a sound through the ear speaker it would always log audio_disable().
Sometimes reboot works, mostly it doesn't. Ive done clean wipes, fresh installs, and reverting back to previous nightlies and stables. it only has gotten worse with newer updates.
I've looked everywhere for an answer. I dont mind uploading a log, just dont no what to exactly copy for the speaker.
it happpened to me too.
Called tmobile.. pretended to run the test they told me to run.. they then agreen that it was broken internally, and sent me a replacement.
Then I un-rooted my phone, sent it to them, and life is good now
lol
do it..
any other ideas on whats causing this??any solutions besides the return?? ha
I dont know if this is a coincidence or not.. but my speaker died as soon as I flashed the Salsa Slide ROM.
I have had no issues previously.... and I am not trying to pin the blame, it just seems coincidental.
I do have a slide that I bought right at launch, so I dont know if that has anything to do with it...
Either way, I will be calling today to get it replaced because when I flashed back to NB-mod I still could not hear from the internal speaker.

[Q] [HELP]HTC hub not working properly

okay, a rather strange issue. Not too annoying but make my Desire HD feel "not perfect"
I recently flashed ARHD 5.2.5 with matching radio, super wipe and stuff, everything went smooooooth and working flawlessly. And when i began customizing the phone to my taste, i stumbled into this little problem
I try to get more notification sound from HTC hub, but it keep saying that it couldn't connect to HTC sense server, but if i open ringtone page, (in fact anything beside notification sound), it worked fine. So, it seems like my phone cannot access notification sound in HTC hub.
tried wipe cache, but no luck, tried delete htc sense account still no luck. Anybody can help me ?
bumpy bump
I've got the same thing going on and I didn't do a full wipe, just up from 5.2.4. My guess would be it's an HTC related issue.
Yes mate, HTC hub has been behaving strange since the day it launched. the notification sound you accessed was already downloaded before its got disconnected.

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