So I just got back from a camping trip and I turned my phone on and the speaker sounds horrible. It sounds like it might be blown or have debris in it. My phone sat in my hot car all weekend so my two questions are
Did the heat mes up my speaker?
How can I clean debris out of the speaker?
I rarely use the speaker to listen to music so it seems pretty weird that it is blown. Any advice would be great!
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the speaker has a mesh over it, its very unlikely they are debris on the driver. it is likely that the sealant used to hold the cone to the coil, or surround melted. theres no way to fix this short of replacing it. if it did indeed melt, things would sound muffled and muddy.
cvbcbcmv said:
replacing it isn't a big deal, read my thread. It's a 10 dollar quick, easy, and 5 minute process. The hardest part is undoing the screws on the back. Easy as pie. Way easier than it sounds, and it sounds easy. Don't worry about it, just replace it.
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Hmm when people say its easy, you sometimes have to worry. It may be easy to you, but maybe he doesn't have the precision hand or nerves of steel it takes if you accidently poke a hole in something while your doing it. I have never taken my dinc apart, but if I did, I would be extremely careful. I followed an online tutorial on how to replace an ipod battery once and I mutilated that case. It never fit right after that... Just be careful, if you decide to do this and take your time, don't force stuff appart!
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My speaker used to be perfect then degraded to only playing perfect at half volume and no degraded to even a little volume being total crap. It sounds all scrambly and I don't seem to have the correct word for it right now. Anyone know of a solution or why this is happening?
Having trouble with AOSP? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
ur speaker is most likely shot...this might help u so that u dont have to take it to a sprint store to get it fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126195
Yep, your speaker is blown. You can get them on ebay for a few bucks if you are comfortable replacing it yourself.
Might be the same problem i have, metal dust and shavings. I work construction and this is a common problem for me. Sounds real scratchy, blown. Take out the speaker and you can fix it by rubbing a strong earth magnet on it. Most ppl will say just replace it while you have it out, but if this is the problem then it'll just happen again.
xcpefrmreality said:
Might be the same problem i have, metal dust and shavings. I work construction and this is a common problem for me. Sounds real scratchy, blown. Take out the speaker and you can fix it by rubbing a strong earth magnet on it. Most ppl will say just replace it while you have it out, but if this is the problem then it'll just happen again.
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I do woodworking but I don't think it could be that. I'm gonna buy a new speaker since the earth magnet actually costs more
Having trouble with AOSP? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
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.
Has anyone successfully taken apart the headphones that come with the m8? I have got a bit of wax in the "grill" bit, if I can take them apart I can fix them, if not. I guess I have to go back to my earbuds :/
Thanks
So it turns out its a pretty easy fix. If one of your earphones is a bit quieter than the other, it could be because you have got wax in the "grill" or "net" or whatever the technical term is, but basically I just took it off CAREFULLY as I didn't want to pierce is using a safety pin, and then just rinsed it under a tap for a few minutes, chucked it back on the earphone, left it to dry and wollah! I now have two evenly sounding earphones might try it with the right one to just give it a clean
It's not "and wollah", it's "et voilà". Perhaps your ear wax prevents you from hearing that correctly [emoji12]
A small issue thats bugging me is that the top speaker grill gets easily clogged up when using the phone. as they are so small to even clean correctly and already mines looking horrible and dirty but no way to get into the grills to pick it clean or blow it out.
a fine needed however slow and sometimes painful as the needle needs to be so small you end up hurting your thumb.
tape over the grill doesnt seem to be collecting it
ive read compressed air may not work if it cant blow it up due to the size.
The only thing i can think of would be something like cyber clean putty so has anyone got some and does it work?
iStasis said:
A small issue thats bugging me is that the top speaker grill gets easily clogged up when using the phone. as they are so small to even clean correctly and already mines looking horrible and dirty but no way to get into the grills to pick it clean or blow it out.
a fine needed however slow and sometimes painful as the needle needs to be so small you end up hurting your thumb.
tape over the grill doesnt seem to be collecting it
ive read compressed air may not work if it cant blow it up due to the size.
The only thing i can think of would be something like cyber clean putty so has anyone got some and does it work?
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Worth trying a Dyson vacuum or the likes
I have a normal Dyson but and tried it but doesnt seem strong enough to get it out the gril. hair products probally didnt help the grill
I have an Axon 7 and I heard using a clean toothbrush to clean the speakers helps. Maybe the same can be done on the Razer phone
I have used a strong magnet to get metal and a kneaded eraser to get some of the rest. I would not use compressed air, blowing into the speakers may ruin it.
Flicking the holes with a needle a few times and then a very soft tooth brush has worked good enough nice to have a pair of awesome speakers again
Try getting a small bristles paint brush guys, I've had front firing speakers on phones since the HTC One M7 and it works so well
Covlinuxguy said:
Try getting a small bristles paint brush guys, I've had front firing speakers on phones since the HTC One M7 and it works so well
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Thanks for the tip, got it looking a lot cleaner now with a normal tooth brush but had to apply a little more pressure and cover screen just to prevent any damage
Another method i found useful is using those sticky gel to pick up the dirt, works for me, call Gulu cleaner gel, pick them up from amazon real cheapie
How do you prevent it from happening in the first place
How do you prevent it from happening in the first place
Dropped the phone and no damage to the actual unit, but no sound and no microphone were working. And the camera app crashed when switching to video. the video camera was loose so i plugged that back but the only other thing i can see that is *damaged* was this little thing that came loose. I can't think what else might have happened.
Anyone have any ideas? This really can't be the lynchpin for sound in the phone
Any drop sufficient to do all that could damage traces on the mobo, crack solder joints even internally damage chipsets.
Always use a good case to keep G force loading from a fall in a survivable range.
blackhawk said:
Any drop sufficient to do all that could damage traces on the mobo, crack solder joints even internally damage chipsets.
Always use a good case to keep G force loading from a fall in a survivable range.
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The only issues i face are:
No sound
No Mic
Headphones won't register.
The coax cables are all in, everything "looks" normal but that one little thing in the picture. Surely there would be more noticable damage, or more issues with the phone. All disassembly videos are either not in english or not the Mi 10 Lite
It may be a simple issue.
Many of the conductors and semiconductors are measured in microns on the chipsets. Hundreds of thousands of them... and more.
That was certainly enough force to fracture solder joints. Even with visible solder jionts detecting cracks can be extremely hard to do.
There's no way to even examine BGA chipset solder joints. You can try gently flexing the mobo to see if you can find the fault but even if you localize it... fixing it may prove much harder if it's even possible to do.
blackhawk said:
It may be a simple issue.
Many of the conductors and semiconductors are measured in microns on the chipsets. Hundreds of thousands of them... and more.
That was certainly enough force to fracture solder joints. Even with visible solder jionts detecting cracks can be extremely hard to do.
There's no way to even examine BGA chipset solder joints. You can try gently flexing the mobo to see if you can find the fault but even if you localize it... fixing it may prove much harder if it's even possible to do.
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Balls. My next step is to buy a new speaker unit for the bottom as i think that is where it landed and might make sense for the headphone jack to no register etc. Though why that would effect the top speaker i don't know. Would rather fix than bin since the camera is hard to beat without going up in price and there is absolutely nothing else wrong. Such dumb luck
Yeah... John Wicked the phone.
The case is the only thing that's saved me. I'll go for months with no drops then...
Might be easier to get a professional estimate on the repair. Replacing it may be a better option for you especially if the mobo is damaged.
Keep it as a parts queen.
blackhawk said:
Yeah... John Wicked the phone.
The case is the only thing that's saved me. I'll go for months with no drops then...
Might be easier to get a professional estimate on the repair. Replacing it may be a better option for you especially if the mobo is damaged.
Keep it as a parts queen.
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yeh i put my bag on and didnt know the zip was open. It's either buy the same phone, for £30 more as it was on offer, sell this for "it kind of works 70%" Or i could just get a bluetooth headset for calling
neiltring said:
yeh i put my bag on and didnt know the zip was open. It's either buy the same phone, for £30 more as it was on offer, sell this for "it kind of works 70%" Or i could just get a bluetooth headset for calling
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BT works well for calls on the 10+, it's what I use most of the time.
Another same model is a great option if you really like that model.
I got a 2nd new 10+ last week as a backup.
Without a good case my 10+ been long dead by now though. Lots of accidental drops on concrete... it's going to happen.