so im on my 3rd external speaker...any reason why they keep blowing? I dont use DSP manager and my vol is say 60%, i use stock ringtones..i obtained the dInc in june, the speaker blew the first time in oct..replaced it, blew again in dec, now again! the life expectancy is aparently 2-3 months...what gives?
im glad globalparts sells these speakers in quantity of 5...forget replacing the handset as others have done..I read on droidforums, some guy was on his 5th! phone cause his external speaker kept blowing. Any advice is greatly! appreciated.
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I have a blown rear speaker in my Evo. I am going to be getting it replaced next weekend when my local Sprint store gets some in. I have my phone rooted via Unrevoked and i also have S-off. With the new updates (3.29, Radios, PRIs, Desire rom, MIUI) I have been a little worried about flashing anything new before I take my phone in for repair, because I have heard that either the newest radio or NV will not allow for the S-on tool to work. So what would you recommend? Should I leave my phone rooted and flash away and just install a stock (rooted) rom and uninstall SU before taking my phone in, or should I run a RUU to unroot and leave S-off, or should I go for the whole nine and turn S-on and then run RUU and start over after the speaker is replaced? Any thoughts, suggestions, experiences, or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Are you getting just the speaker replaced or the whole phone? I had to get my screen replaced last week and I was fully rooted running CM6 AOSP. They didnt even ask any questions about it. Replaced screen free of charge along with the bezel around the volume and power buttons which were cracked. Im not telling you what you should do just sharing my experience.
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Are you getting just the speaker replaced or the whole phone? I had to get my screen replaced last week and I was fully rooted running CM6 AOSP. They didnt even ask any questions about it. Replaced screen free of charge along with the bezel around the volume and power buttons which were cracked. Im not telling you what you should do just sharing my experience.
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I am just getting the speaker replaced. I would rather keep my phone then get a refurb and have to possibly deal with new issues. I am thinking that I can just flash a stock rom but leave S-off just to make things easier. Thanks for sharing this. I have read somewhere that Sprint will do repairs for free even if you are still rooted, but it is possible for them to flag your account that you have a rooted phone and can possibly cause you issues. I hope that this doesn't happen to you.
I've got the blown speaker problem too. But it is a rattling problem. I can still hear people fine. I had decided to live with it because I didnt want to risk getting a refurb phone. Do all the sprint stores actually replace the speaker? Also, is the replacement a better quality one? Or would I wind up with another blown one within a couple weeks?
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I've got the blown speaker problem too. But it is a rattling problem. I can still hear people fine. I had decided to live with it because I didnt want to risk getting a refurb phone. Do all the sprint stores actually replace the speaker? Also, is the replacement a better quality one? Or would I wind up with another blown one within a couple weeks?
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Yes mine just sound really rattly and poppy, thats how they do when they are blown. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they all do that when they blow. Not all Sprint stores will replace the speaker, just go to sprint.com, click find a store, enter your location, check to see if any of the stores in your area have "repair store" checked, if they do call that store and ask them if they have any speakers in stock. If they do you will likely have to get them to order one and wait about a week and a half for them to receive it, when they get it in go by the store and they will replace it for you in just a few minutes. As of now there is no aftermarket speakers, so you are stuck with HTC's low quality speaker for now. So it is possible for it to blow again soon, just try your hardest not to turn your volume all the way up as much as possible. Also try to keep metal shavings away from the phone. My phone and a co-worker of mine's Incredible blew within 2 days of each other, I think it is because of the metal shavings from drilling while at work. I would say it is a design flaw on HTC's part to have the speakers exposed enough to where the magnet draws metal shaving in.
4 months.... 4 blown speakers... Thankfully the Sprint store in my area seems to keep them in stock... the first phone got swapped for a new one per 30 day return policy... the next two speakers were replaced in store (after the 1 hour mandatory waiting period for a 5 mintue fix)... and the speaker blew again today.
Yes I use speaker phone a lot
Yes I listen to Pandora/Slacker radio
Yes I have custom ringtones/notification sounds
Yes I watch Youtube and Sprint TV
and Yes I have it at 100% volume.... the hardware should exceed the capabilities of anything the end-user could put it through...
I am just so darned frustrated with the whole process at this point that I ordered and paid for replacement speakers...
so the next question would be.... is there a replacement speaker that can handle the intended use of this phone?
If you are concerned about having a rooted phone repaired, you could just fix it yourself. Replacing the speaker is incredibly easy. Just buy a housing assembly at an online store or eBay. Should come with a speaker. Pop it off and swap it with the one in your evo. The entire job, including opening and closing your phone, should not take more than 5 or 10 minutes.
Just yesterday night I found out that I can't get any sound from my phone. Not even notifications sound work, or those ticky sounds what are heard when you turn ringtone volume up or down to hear the level. I have no idea how they are missing now... I dropped my HTC Desire Z in the water weeks ago and some say there can occur problems a long time after water damage, is this true?
I don't remember dropping my phone lately, but I may have dropped it yesterday by accident, but it was not a big drop. There could be a slight possibility tha the speaker died?
When I plug my earphones in, I get sound normally. This indicates to speaker damage indeed. What do you think? Does warranty cover this? I have no idea what causes this. Task killer maybe?
Sorry for the double post, but just bumping and reporting about this issue. Just tested calling from other phone, and the speaker mode won't work. I hear voice normally from internal speaker. I use Automatic Task Killer and there was "Music" -app in kill list, but it adding it to the white list did not affect in anything... besides plus music nothing else with sound works, without plugging in the headphones of course.
I really don't use ringtones that much, but I would like to show some youtube videos to friend with sound sometimes, or speak with speaker on if my hands are not available... this really sucks. ANY thoughts? What should I do?
The unexpected happened!
Haha, this is unbelievable! My 2 year old daughter got my phone for some reason and as soon as I noticed of course I told her "no! give it back" and as soon as she noticed I noticed she's having the phone, she threw it to the wall! (she was standing on the bed and the phone fell down quite a long way). The back cover fell off and I thought the phone is broken for good... since I had already dropped it to the water couple of months ago as you may know.
Well, shouted at my daughter for what she did. Then picked up the phone and put back the back cover. And guess what? The sounds work! Nothing wrong with them, or the phone! Tested out and everything works like charm! Haha I'm laughing my ass of, miracles sure happen!
If YOU have sound problems, don't start to bash your phone please
can u gimme the winning lottery numbers
pimped out g2
Today I went to swimming and dropped while changing to swimwear dropped my pants down while my phone was in the pocket. At home I noticed the sounds are not working again! So I recalled what happened and dropped my pants again in the same way, and the sounds were back again..
So I guess my phone can't stand any more knocks or drop downs... so I try to be really careful in the future. Thank god there is no touch-problems like in bad earbuds when the wire go bad and the sound comes only from the other one, like that I should always keep the phone in right position sounds to work... that would be nightmare.
Just reporting if you out there possibly have similar problems. It can all be symptomps from dislocated speaker like in my case.
Sound is back ...I'm a hard head
I too had lost sound after dropping ...After reading the warning about no trying to bang it back .............well what can I say , I put on the media with music and tapped it on the counter , NO Luck . Being hard headed I then started to slap it into the palm of my hand with a good snap ...Presto magic sound is back . Do not try this at home kids .
I'll cut right to the chase~
I switched roms today, after having too many problems with my AOKP install since the latest update, and everything was working fine until just now when my headphones literally stopped being detected, all music coming out of the speakers no matter what, and all i can hear on the headphones is a constant, rhythmic throbbing sound, similar to when the headphones try to connect.
I get this noise throughout boot too, and never used to.
I am honestly fearing the worst that my audio is F***ed.
Rom WAS HydrogenICS 27.04 with SiyahKernal 3.1, it is now NEAT Rom with the same kernel.
Please, if you can help at all do so, i have tried all 4 headphones i have.
Did the phone fall in a toilet for the past 24 hours?
Do you take your phone with you to shower?
Did you take it with you to swim?
Answer this questions and it may be resolved....
Otherwise just fix it with the warranty
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Did the phone fall in a toilet for the past 24 hours?
Do you take your phone with you to shower?
Did you take it with you to swim?
Answer this questions and it may be resolved....
Otherwise just fix it with the warranty
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None of this has happened, after my first S2's USB PCB died i've been extremely cautious with this one~
As for the warranty, i have no idea how long i'm covered for, or even if my rooting it would jeopardise it seeing as its not software, but i dont know what checks would be done so i really am quite confused. Thanks for the reply by the way.
Hey guys...
So I noticed since day one of getting my kick ass phone that if I had the volume say 75% or higher on the ear piece that I would get what sounded like distortion. I chocked this up to the speaker not being able to handle the volume, and quite frankly neither could I - at least for the people who like to yell into their phone... Anyway, I found today that it seemed to be more pronounced, even at what I would call moderate volume. After messing around a bit - I am fairly convinced that the speaker in the phone is loose! If I tap on the back of the phone right on the camera, I can hear whats sounds and faintly feels like a vibration. So naturally if the speaker is loose and some point it would start to vibrate, which in a sense could sound like distortion.
So... with that said - anyone else notice this with theirs? Normal? I'm thinking not but thought I would ask. If in fact it needs repair, how has one gone about getting theirs fixed? I know it is under warranty since it is maybe 30 days old bought from the Play Store. Will they send a new unit or does it go in for service and I have to find some clunker to use in the mean time?
Thanks - you guys are a great bunch to be a part of
... and gals
Update--
In case this helps someone in the future...
I was 2 days past Google's 14 day return policy
So after 18 days! The problem they found was that my phone would not take a charge? WHAT?
So the status said that they were sending me a replacement. I was concerned that they might send someone's refurbished phone and being that mine was only 16 days old - I would hope that it would be new. So... I called CS and asked if the phone they were send was a refurb or new and he assured me that is was new. I hope.
So, one last question...
Anyone that has gotten a replacement phone lets say within 30days of buying it new... was it a new phone or did they in fact send a refurb?
I could use some help!
Here's the issue. The headphone icon is on all the time on my phone. Which in turns causes me not to be able to hear phone calls. For a short term fix I used an app to disable the headset, but the icon is still there.
It thinks there is headphones plugged in all the time, when there isnt. The phone is two weeks old. Hasn't been dropped or abused. I called AT&T and they are seeing if I can get an in store replacement. But I may have to be given a refurb already after two weeks
Anyways. The phone thinks there is headphones plugged in all the time. i tried pulling the battery, power cycling, using different headphone and plugging them in, pulling them out thinking something got stuck. But nothing.... It still thinks there is headphones plugged in. Now when I plug in head phones some google voice thing pops up asking me to speak into the phone, when I hit the back button my music will start playing thru the head phones....
Anyone else have this issue? I have looked down instead the headphone port and there is nothing in there that would be causing a blockage from the hardware detector that I could see (not to say there isn't something causing this)
Please help! AT&T is going to be calling me back and letting me know about a replacement sometime, but if someone knows what's going on I'd rather just fix it then start over with a new phone...
My guess would be that there is still some sort of short. I think you were right to suspect something stuck down in the jack, but it sounds like something inside the casing may be shorting on the terminals. Since you said it opened up the voice command thing, I would suspect that the 4th pole was triggered (or whichever the microphone button would be for a 4-pole headset). As far as I know, the microphone/media button is activated when the jack senses a short on a specific pole. But, it would have to think that you have inserted a 4-pole plug. I don't know for sure, but I assume it does this by checking opposite sides along the plug shaft to see how many distinct conductors are present. If it thought your typical 3-pole plug was a 4-pole, there would probably be another "conductor" present, i.e. the trouble-making short-circuit.
Unfortunately, it sounds to me that you have a hardware problem. If you were adventurous, you could open up the case and inspect for the short. It may be something simple lying across some solder joints or something. However, it is probably safer to simply get the warranty exchanged refurb. I have one myself since my original one had this obnoxious echo that the caller on the other end would complain about. The refurb unit works great!
It's a bummer, but I doubt you'll even know the replacement is a "refurb". Sorry I don't have better news or advice. Good luck!
I had a simile issue a while back...mine was resolved with a couple of swift taps on the table on the corner of my phone closest to the ear phone Jack.....
When the f*ck did we get ice cream??
Thank you.
I figured it was something to do with the little pegs inside. Luckily for me, since it was in the first 30 day period I was able to get a new in store replacement. normally for people its 14 days, but since I have a company account it's 30 days in store replacement. It was replaced with a brand new device.
The guy there was actually a little tech savvy and was saying the same thing. He tried a few things also, even looking inside and poking the pegs with a needle to see if one was lodged. Everything was OK though. Strange.
New device in hand! Works much better. It raises concern over a design defect though. I hate to go thru this again and get a refurb phone in a month because of the same issue.
Guess I will stop using it for a music player hooked to the stereo in my car and just use my old ipod touch for that.