[Q] Help Please, External Speaker Not Working - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My external speaker intermittently no longer makes noise. If I plug in headphones or do not turn on the speaker, I have no issues. However, when someone calls me or when I play music or use the speakerphone during a call, I sometimes cannot hear anything. I don't mean that there are crackles or hisses. The phone is just quiet as though it is on silent. I have had this issue for maybe a week, but I just realized yesterday that my phone doesn't always ring. Once yesterday I was able to hear a Shutoff animation noise, but that's been it for the last 36 hours. I switched roms and odined back to stock. Didn't help. Anyone have any advice? Thank you.

What rom?
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I was on Syndicate Frozen 1.1.1 when I first noticed it yesterday. I tried Viper, and that didn't help. I odined to stock EC05 prerooted just now and that hasnt helped either.

nbutala said:
I was on Syndicate Frozen 1.1.1 when I first noticed it yesterday. I tried Viper, and that didn't help. I odined to stock EC05 prerooted just now and that hasnt helped either.
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Bring to sprint.
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[Q] Bluetooth disconnects while playing music in car

I looked and wasnt able to find a answer having to do with a evo. When I play music from bluetooth to my radio in my car it disconnects. Its never at the same time, just random. If i shut down bluetooth and turn it back on it works for a short amount of time. Any one having this isue with their evo? Im running Fresh 3.3 and king kernal cfs11. Any help would be great.
Anyone having this problem, and its there a fix?
I do get this too but happens only occasionally. Running netarchy 4.1.9 with myns Rom rls 2.
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Yea? Today I was able to play almost the while song then a disconnect. Then a song and half. Last try I got mayb 15 sec into a song then bam! Silent. Idk if its a phone issue or rom, kernal. I just updated to fresh 3.4 and kept the stock kernal when I tested it today. I ended up flashing kings cfs #11 and the problem still occurred. I just dont know!
shdwboy said:
Yea? Today I was able to play almost the while song then a disconnect. Then a song and half. Last try I got mayb 15 sec into a song then bam! Silent. Idk if its a phone issue or rom, kernal. I just updated to fresh 3.4 and kept the stock kernal when I tested it today. I ended up flashing kings cfs #11 and the problem still occurred. I just dont know!
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Having same problem on Myns RLS 1 and RLS2, using Kings Kernel #11. Cant seem to get bluetooth to stay connected for more than a couple minutes. Once it disconnects I need completely unpair and repair and same problem happens again.
I am having the same issue, i have tried several Sense roms including stock and the issue persists with all of them. And yes, i have tried wiping several times and still no dice. I have been contemplating flashing an AOSP rom to see if it happens with those too.
I know for a fact that its a problem with 2.2 as i flashed a 2.1 sense rom and bluetooh worked without issues.
I have been having the same issue with stock 2.2 on the EVO. It happens when I am listening to music via bluetooth and ford sync and a call comes in. Afterwards, It will disconnect and won't stay connected even after a factory restore. The only fix I have found is to reload the stock 2.2 via ruu. This will work until I get a call while listening to music. Repeatable.
I'm having this same problem too. I've read that the Cynogen BT stack works but I'm in a 4G area and don't want to switch from Fresh.
Is there any way to grab the BT stack from Cynogen and blow it into another ROM?
Nope. AOSP only.
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Try turning off WiFi and see if it helps.
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scoobdude said:
Try turning off WiFi and see if it helps.
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nope, never have WiFi turned on in the car anyway...

Problem Lately

My phone has been hanging up whenever someone calls me during a call. It's doing this on CM7, Stock rom, and the new leak. I don't know why it's doing this. Have anyone else been having this problem? The phone doesn't beep it just disconnects the call.
I haven't...just called my girl last night, on nightly 39, no problems. No rogue app enabling your data during the call? And I'm sure you installed fresh?
I installed after a full wipe, no mods, and installed about 5 apps downloaded
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I had this problem. I was starting to think maybe it was an issue with the rom I'm using... (Destroyer Rom v2) Turns out each time I tilted the phone at just the right angle the screen would come back on and my cheek would hit the end button. Not saying this could be your problem but just sharing my experience.

[Q] Caller Can't Hear Me

This has been happening on my Epic 4G for awhile now and it's really frustrating. I'm pretty sure this hasn't been happening the whole time I've owned the phone, but at this point it's hard to really remmber.
Basically, when I make or receive a call, within a couple\few minutes of the phone call the caller suddenly can't hear me - this happens whether it's using the phone normally, in speakerphone mode, or even a headset. As soon as it happens and the other caller starts the "Hello? Are you still there?" I can fix it by toggling the speaker on and off (or off and on) and it fixes it - but it can suddenly start again at anytime...couple of minutes later, five minutes later, etc.
Right now I'm slowly removing apps from my phone after every call this happens on - my goal is to determine if a particualr app is confusing my phone. I don't think it's the ROM or modem I'm using (Frozen 1.2, EC05) as I did a stock flash and flashed to those just recently and others aren't having the same problem. I DID restore some data so if I can't narrow down an app that's causing it, not restoring any data is my next option (but even more time consuming to figure out specifically which data is causing issues).
I'm pretty sure the phone hasn't always done this so I don't want to exchange the phone considering I don't have any other issues and I think this is software, not hardware related. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
Have you tried switching Roms, I have this same problem on EC05 when I moved to gingerbread it stopped happening.......
Do you voodoo installed?
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I was having the same problem with EF02 and the EF02/EF10 modems. I switched back to the EC05 modem and haven't had the problem since (knocking on wood)...
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Try ee03 modem..
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masaidjet said:
Have you tried switching Roms, I have this same problem on EC05 when I moved to gingerbread it stopped happening.......
Do you voodoo installed?
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I do have Voodoo installed (since it comes with Frozen 1.2). I haven't tried switching ROMs yet but I have started looking again (I was pretty content with Frozen but if no one had a similar issue and changing the modem doesn't work then a ROM switch is my next try).
Thanks to others who suggested changing modems - I'm going to do that now and see if EE03 fixes this....*crosses fingers*
evancg said:
I do have Voodoo installed (since it comes with Frozen 1.2). I haven't tried switching ROMs yet but I have started looking again (I was pretty content with Frozen but if no one had a similar issue and changing the modem doesn't work then a ROM switch is my next try).
Thanks to others who suggested changing modems - I'm going to do that now and see if EE03 fixes this....*crosses fingers*
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Go into you Voodoo sound settings and change recording setting to Original. Shoul fix your issue.
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Sure you are not hitting the mute button by accident? Sounds dumb but I've done that before.
Blankrubber said:
Go into you Voodoo sound settings and change recording setting to Original. Shoul fix your issue.
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I have the SAME EXACT PROBLEM and just like the OP it hasn't always been like that, did this work for you?
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I was having the same issues so I just applied this. People couldn't hear me on speakerphone at all...seriously. hopefully this helps. Thanks for the tip
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evancg said:
Basically, when I make or receive a call, within a couple\few minutes of the phone call the caller suddenly can't hear me - this happens whether it's using the phone normally, in speakerphone mode, or even a headset. As soon as it happens and the other caller starts the "Hello? Are you still there?" I can fix it by toggling the speaker on and off (or off and on) and it fixes it - but it can suddenly start again at anytime...couple of minutes later, five minutes later, etc.
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Yes! Mine started doing this a couple months ago, and I resolve it exactly the same way (though I have to hit the volume button once, either up or down, then toggle speaker on then off). It's definitely not the ROM because I've had it with both Froyo and GB ROMs. Unfortunately, I haven't found any other solution, yet. I'm hoping it will go away with official GB, but I have no real reason to think it will work. I'm going to play around with the Voodoo sound.
edonnelly said:
Yes! Mine started doing this a couple months ago, and I resolve it exactly the same way (though I have to hit the volume button once, either up or down, then toggle speaker on then off). It's definitely not the ROM because I've had it with both Froyo and GB ROMs. Unfortunately, I haven't found any other solution, yet. I'm hoping it will go away with official GB, but I have no real reason to think it will work. I'm going to play around with the Voodoo sound.
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you guys shouldn't be having this problem make a backup then odin to ec05 stock and check if you still have the issue if you do just take it to sprint and show the tech your problem they should fix it or get you a replacement phone.
I have the same issue. I am completely stock. It usually happens 10 to 15 minutes into a phone call. I've already called sprint, taken it to a store but only reflashed the os, and I just recently spoke to someone on chat, who said the problem has been solved. If it happens again should I get a replacement phone?
Blankrubbers fix actually worked for me
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steviee7 said:
you guys shouldn't be having this problem make a backup then odin to ec05 stock and check if you still have the issue if you do just take it to sprint and show the tech your problem they should fix it or get you a replacement phone.
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I had this problem as well. I odinned stock and problem solved. Now I'm back on bonsai with no problems.
Edit: I just noticed that I don't have voodoo sound installed, I know that I used to, maybe deleting that solved my problem and not odinning back to stock.
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evancg said:
This has been happening on my Epic 4G for awhile now and it's really frustrating. I'm pretty sure this hasn't been happening the whole time I've owned the phone, but at this point it's hard to really remmber.
Basically, when I make or receive a call, within a couple\few minutes of the phone call the caller suddenly can't hear me - this happens whether it's using the phone normally, in speakerphone mode, or even a headset. As soon as it happens and the other caller starts the "Hello? Are you still there?" I can fix it by toggling the speaker on and off (or off and on) and it fixes it - but it can suddenly start again at anytime...couple of minutes later, five minutes later, etc.
Right now I'm slowly removing apps from my phone after every call this happens on - my goal is to determine if a particualr app is confusing my phone. I don't think it's the ROM or modem I'm using (Frozen 1.2, EC05) as I did a stock flash and flashed to those just recently and others aren't having the same problem. I DID restore some data so if I can't narrow down an app that's causing it, not restoring any data is my next option (but even more time consuming to figure out specifically which data is causing issues).
I'm pretty sure the phone hasn't always done this so I don't want to exchange the phone considering I don't have any other issues and I think this is software, not hardware related. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?
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speak up i can't hear you
Sadly even after changing modems and making the adjustment in Voodoo Control I still have the same problem. Going to uninstall Voodoo all together and see if that resolves anything.
I just discovered that I'm having the same problem after I Odin'd back to stock EC05 for a different reason. So, EC05 and EC05 modem, and I'm having a problem that I didn't think I was having before I tried EF02.
Could something have been changed that going back to EC05/EC05 modem didn't resolve?
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evancg said:
Sadly even after changing modems and making the adjustment in Voodoo Control I still have the same problem. Going to uninstall Voodoo all together and see if that resolves anything.
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This problem is not generated by Voodoo. I have a stock Epic (rooted) and have never had Voodoo installed on my device and I have intermittently had this problem in the past (haven't seen it for a while, though). My friend has an Epic (never rooted) and also has this problem.
About the only thing I've heard that people have said fixes this is to wipe cache and dalvik and then flash something using Odin. Stock or custom I don't think matters.
As others have noted, uninstalling Voodoo didn't fix it for me. I think what must be causing this is everytime I wipe and install a clean ROM I restore some data through TiBackup and SOMETHING I'm restoring is causing this. Guess I'll just have to wipe and be very careful about what I'm restoring.
This might be completely random, but by chance did other people that experience this problem happen to install NZBAir?

Speaker on by default for calls?

I'm on stock rooted EL29. This issue is so annoying. As soon as I pick up a phone call it goes straight to speaker mode. Anyway to turn that off?
are you using voxer? that app effs with the calls and speakerphone
I'm not using voxer and I have the same issue. Whats voxer? Stock Epic no mods nothing, phones been on since day one, Oct. 29, 20011. No issues since day one suddenly speaker on while answering calls. (not my phone - wifey's phone) my rooted phone does not do this.
Anyone ???
Pp.
Dnt know what Voxer is but this problem is annoying the **** out of me. I'm thinking of maybe using the Go Dialer to see if that works.
That happen to me when my car charger was going bad it would activate car mode.. So annoying and it will throw my calls into speaker mode.. A reset cured mine along with a new charger
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Will try reset.
Thanks,
Pp.
ive since moved to ics and dont get this anymore. im pretty sure its related to el29.

FrostyJB+Kroonsez= bad phone call quality?

Ever since I've flashed this rom and kernel, i've noticed bad sound quality while on a call. Especially if I'm plugged to my car stereo via aux- I have to turn up quite a lot than usual and I can still barely hear. The call quality through the hand set is a little more forgiving but the volume is lower than usual. Another thing I noticed is that when on a call, the call volume settings slide, but seems to be nonresponsive in regards to functionality (i actually turned volume way down during a call and remained the same volume). Any fixes or thoughts?
Could try flashing some different kernels and radios
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Reflash the rom to overwrite that kernel. I use the same rom wit stock kernel and all is well.
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liberalswine said:
Ever since I've flashed this rom and kernel, i've noticed bad sound quality while on a call. Especially if I'm plugged to my car stereo via aux- I have to turn up quite a lot than usual and I can still barely hear. The call quality through the hand set is a little more forgiving but the volume is lower than usual. Another thing I noticed is that when on a call, the call volume settings slide, but seems to be nonresponsive in regards to functionality (i actually turned volume way down during a call and remained the same volume). Any fixes or thoughts?
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I had the same setup yesterday. I noticed the bad sound quality as well. It was fast but not as stable as with the stock kernel. I wiped cache and fix permissions after full day of use to see if that would help any and then my phone got stuck in a boot loop, lost recovery, and root. Had to flash samsung recovery and stock rom with odin.
Just a tip. But I never flash a kernel when trying a new build for at least the first day. That way if you have problems its much easier to tell if its rom or kernel related.
If you're running one of the jb based roms, djintrigue posted the stock kernels yesterday.
Flash one of those and see if it stops.
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