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Dropped G2, Now Speaker sounds weird

Hi everyone.
I accidentally dropped my phone as I was getting out of my car (damn that new coat with all it's pockets!).
Now I noticed that at full volume, the speaker is really hard to understand, and at about 1/3 volume it becomes clearer- but the person becomes harder to hear in terms of loudness.
At full volume it's as though the person on the other side is talking with their lips on the mic and really loudly.
Does anyone know if it's possible to replace the speaker, or what could have caused this? I am familiar with taking the phone apart. I've done it a number of times, but I'm just wondering if it even makes sense to try at this point.
thnx
EDIT: I found this.
http://www.repairsuniverse.com/htc-desire-z-earpiece-speaker-replacement.html
anyone install one of these? requires desoldering, I guess?

I dont think it requires anything really besides opening. I believe that when I swapped my spring the speaker is on the back side of the phone and the entire motherboard is seperate on front side.

thanks scott.
you're correct. no soldering. it has two spring-bent type contacts and it looks like there is a metal bracket around the speaker that has 4 indentations to hold the speaker down over 4 small cavities in the speaker body.
should be easy.
and i found it for 2 bucks to boot!

Yea, replacing the speaker is very easy. First take off the back (4 screws) and then I think there is one more screw to get the speaker loose. But I don't remember exactly. Might be none.

Tiny Hole On Top Left of Phone?

So, I might of been quite tired and not concentrated when this happened...
But, I was removing my SIM when I realised that I was actually inserting the SIM opening tool into the tiny hole in the top left not the top right. Does anyone know what this hole is exactly for?
I was thinking it was either a microphone (wrong end of phone?) or some sort of water damage detection hole?
Either way it definitely didn't open my SIM slot

jpart091 said:
So, I might of been quite tired and not concentrated when this happened...
But, I was removing my SIM when I realised that I was actually inserting the SIM opening tool into the tiny hole in the top left not the top right. Does anyone know what this hole is exactly for?
I was thinking it was either a microphone (wrong end of phone?) or some sort of water damage detection hole?
Either way it definitely didn't open my SIM slot
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I believe it is another mic for stereo video and background noise cancelling when phoning
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i personally think its a mic for calls to help when on loud speaker

that would be the secondary microphone for noise cancellation

Thanks for your help guys, I just hope me prodding it with the HTC Sim tool has not broken it haha...

I too wasn't concentrating in the store when they were giving me the sim, i'm pretty sure it's a reset button as the phone restarted when I poked a paperclip in the wrong hole.

I did exactly the same thing yesterday. Wasn't concentrating properly. I pushed it in pretty hard too. Have you noticed any problems since in call quality or video sound?

da_darkest_ninja said:
i personally think its a mic for calls to help when on loud speaker
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Noticed that many say the hole is for a microphone. After searching I cannot find that mentioned by HTC anywhere.
However beneath that hole is a push button switch.
I don't what it is for and am willing to try, however recently my phone decided to become a brick, so after that is fixed...... :good:

little hole
its is a mic i damaged my bottom one so i opened my hox to repair and its the very same as the mic i replaced

jpart091 said:
Thanks for your help guys, I just hope me prodding it with the HTC Sim tool has not broken it haha...
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My First thought too !
And I'm sure at some point most of us have done it. :fingers-crossed:

Question about "loose" speaker grills

Wondering if others have noticed that the speaker grills on the sides of the new note 10.1 are loose- ie if you tip it on the sides can you tap the speaker grills and they kinda move back and forth? Not a big issue, just wondering if it was just my device or if they are all like this? Appreciate the feedback.

94scorp said:
Wondering if others have noticed that the speaker grills on the sides of the new note 10.1 are loose- ie if you tip it on the sides can you tap the speaker grills and they kinda move back and forth? Not a big issue, just wondering if it was just my device or if they are all like this? Appreciate the feedback.
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Mine is like that too, but it doesn't bother me. I didn't notice it until I read it somewhere else on the forums.

Mine do not seem to move at all so its not all of them.

94scorp said:
Wondering if others have noticed that the speaker grills on the sides of the new note 10.1 are loose- ie if you tip it on the sides can you tap the speaker grills and they kinda move back and forth? Not a big issue, just wondering if it was just my device or if they are all like this? Appreciate the feedback.
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Mine is like that too. Not a big issue for me either.

One of my Notes does that, I took a small piece of tape and used it on both edges and they don't move anymore. It helps my ocd lol.
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Mine don't move

mine rattles if I tap it. s I ddon't tap it, lol.

Not having this issue everything is stuck like it supposed to be.

madsquabbles said:
mine rattles if I tap it. s I ddon't tap it, lol.
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yea thats like mine, only moves if i touch it

I have the same issue with one of the speakers, and both the power and volume buttons. There is enough of a loose fit, that any touch results in a metal clanking type noise. Rather disappointed at the build quality. My first Galaxy Tab (two years and running) has never had any of these build quality issues.

ChrisNee1988 said:
yea thats like mine, only moves if i touch it
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I recommend you do something because my speaker is nice and tight when I touch it
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mine only clacks if i tap it. but my tap is louder than the click and i generally don't spend my time tapping my tablet.

My tablet does not have this problem. Well ... it did not have any loose speaker grills last night. However, today the right grill is now loose. I have been treating this thing very carefully as I do not have a case for it yet. So nothing traumatic happened to it that would cause the grill to become loose.

I have two 32 GB tablets and the speakers are not loose.

Mine actually felt I don't know where and I cannot find it.
I wanted to fix that, so I contacted Samsung support. I'll skip the disappointing conversation with the support person, but at the end my best option according to the tech support is to go to samsungparts.com and buy it there.
I put all the info there, but I cannot find the specific one that actually is required. Has anyone replace this part? If so, which part should I buy?
Thanks

Half Loudspeaker?

Hello dudes,
My question is, your loudspeaker work all of it or just half?
When i put a finger tapping the left side of the loudspeaker the sounds dont came ou, but if i place my finger in the rigth part of it the sounds came out normal, what makes me think, is my with a problem or he just use half of it???
did you people face the same situation, or should i go to the garantie?
Rigth now thx you all,
and for the grammar nazis, i am not a english speaker so i am sorry if i made some mistakes
Italo Maeda

It's the same on my phone. I think it's normal.

zxz0O0 said:
It's the same on my phone. I think it's normal.
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my iphone 5s is like that too. even though there are two distinct speaker grills, one is for the mic (that picks up your speech) and the other is for the speaker. i am thinking that per your comment, the z1 functions the same way.

[Q] No sound in call

Hey guys,
I am having problems with a htc one x after repairing the display and digitiser.
First of all the repaired worked like it should but I noticed the top and bottom speakers didn't work afterwards... So I opened it up again and noticed that I placed a piece off tape over some connectors of the speakers at the bottom, so I removed it and i had sound again, but now for some reason there is no sound while calling... Anybody knows if the call speaker is the same as top speaker and which connectors are used for the call speakers? Cause there is no sound at all... Although the other side of the call does here everything, so the mic is doing fine.
Greetings
FGOD

Nvm, problem solves, i forgot to take out the earphone from the old casing for the screen and place it in the new casing
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