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Is anyone getting these slight clicking noise from the speaker whenever the phone is in use, like opening an app for example. I got my phone phone from the launch event (5th in line!! ) and i only noticed when it was really quiet in my room these noises came from the speakers.
To check, open an app and quickly put your ear to the speaker and I hear a hissing noise then a soft click. Always happens when i open an app!
I went back to Phones4U, the guy could tell it was faulty so I got it replaced..now same problem!! (not as loud as before, but still there)
Anyone having the same problem? can anyone check for me? this can't be normal!
saffad said:
Is anyone getting these slight hissing noise from the speaker whenever the phone is in use, like opening an app for example. I got my phone phone from the launch event (5th in line!! ) and i only noticed when it was really quiet in my room these noises came from the speakers.
To check, open an app and quickly put your ear to the speaker and I hear a hissing noise then a soft click. Always happens when i open an app!
I even went back, the guy could tell it was faulty so I got it replaced..now same problem!! (not as loud as before, but still there)
Anyone having the same problem? can anyone check for me? this can't be normal!
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Yeah I have that problem. It's one of those things that you don't really notice until you know it's there, then you hear it all the time
Someone on another forum posted they had the same, so it might not be an isolated problem.
Isn't that just the touch click?
Try Settings/Sound/Touch sounds.
Personally I rather like it..
TonyHoyle said:
Isn't that just the touch click?
Try Settings/Sound/Touch sounds.
Personally I rather like it..
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No, I have that turned off.
It happens whenever the speaker is used - when the sound stops there is a quiet hiss, followed by a pop as the speaker switches off.
Try it - hold the speaker right up to your ear, and use the volume rocker to hear the beep. Afterwards there is hiss followed by a pop.
It's not noticeable enough to be an issue (for me) in normal use, but you can hear it if you're in a quiet room.
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No, I have that turned off.
It happens whenever the speaker is used - when the sound stops there is a quiet hiss, followed by a pop as the speaker switches off.
Try it - hold the speaker right up to your ear, and use the volume rocker to hear the beep. Afterwards there is hiss followed by a pop.
It's not noticeable enough to be an issue (for me) in normal use, but you can hear it if you're in a quiet room.
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I can hear it on my G2x... I'm sure it's not an issue and your just being paranoid because you dropped a whole bunch of cash on a new phone
TonyHoyle said:
Isn't that just the touch click?
Try Settings/Sound/Touch sounds.
Personally I rather like it..
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The click comes like 3 seconds after you make an input, so it doesn't sound right and it just sounds random (and annoying).
thanks tho!
Edit: Turning off Touch sounds, seems to stop it, whenever im using the phone..but yeah still happens whenever the speaker is in use but that i can live with that!
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No, I have that turned off.
It happens whenever the speaker is used - when the sound stops there is a quiet hiss, followed by a pop as the speaker switches off.
Try it - hold the speaker right up to your ear, and use the volume rocker to hear the beep. Afterwards there is hiss followed by a pop.
It's not noticeable enough to be an issue (for me) in normal use, but you can hear it if you're in a quiet room.
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Happens with my OG Droid. I only started noticing it one late night when for no reason I had the speaker right up next to my ear.
I don't think it's anything to worry about
KiNG OMaR said:
I can hear it on my G2x... I'm sure it's not an issue and your just being paranoid because you dropped a whole bunch of cash on a new phone
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Heh, that's certainly got something to do with it
As I say it's not really an issue, and it's not unique to this phone (as you point out). Just one of those annoying niggles - it depends on how sensitive you are to these things
Yes - I have the same problem with my new Galaxy Nexus. In fact, even if it's not a problem for most people, I'd say it is a problem for Samsung because I returned my phone yesterday and got it swapped out. The new one has the same problem, so I assume it's an Android software problem rather than a hardware glitch.
So that's at least two returns caused by this problem. Hope we get a fix at some point!
p.s. Phone is great by the way, even with the annoying click.
Guys
This is hardware problem. And it happens on most of the speakers however its more or less noticeable on some devices.
I have quite good quality monitors (studio speakers) and i can hear something hissing in the back.
Let me put it that way.
Every speaker needs electricity to work. The noise you are hearing is the actual electric current coming through the speakers. The sudden pop and lack of the hiss means that speaker has been turned off. For obvious reasons there is no point for the speaker to work constantly....
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I can't hear any click when I plug headphones in, so maybe you're right - the click could be when the amplifier that powers the internal speaker turns off...
However, for some reason I still get a click if the phone is in silent mode. I guess putting it in silent mode doesn't guarantee it keeps the amplifier turned off.
I hope it's just the speakers; the DAC in my HD2 hissed for a few seconds after any sounds even through my headphones. The hissing was always there when there was sound. It was quite depressing. I'm hoping for a good DAC in the Galaxy nexus.
I've got a click (sounds just like a quite speaker pop) from the back cover.
Turn your GN over and push the back cover, on the "Google" logo (below the camera flash). Then quickly release your finger.
Sometime it can happen with only the lightest of touches. If i put my phone down on my chest, the pick it up.
If you look really closely you can see the cover moving just below the camera surround.
Issue has been reported to google.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22307
I have this issue on my gnex. Its def a sw problem. I took the back cover off and still have the issue.
slightly different, but also hiss related...
my rezound does the same thing when headphones(or aux to car) are plugged in and nothing is playing. once you start to play something you don't notice it. and its a confirmed issue.
It's a hardware issue guys, depends on the audio chip I believe. Impedance-related.
Here is the other thread with this annoying sound
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20087759
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It isn't just on the speaker either. Atleast on my Galaxy Nexus, I can hear it when listening on high end professional in-ear headphones. I can verify that it is almost certainly a signal isolation problem. The activity causes the DAC (the thing that makes a digital signal into an analog signal that speakers and headphones need) to kick on for a few seconds and until it shuts off you can hear the noise coming out of the DAC. It's pretty substantial on mine though, so I'm wondering if I got a bad unit. I'll have to stop by a Verizon Wireless store and plug in to the display unit to see if it is any better. I never noticed this on my Galaxy S (Fascinate).
My unit is also affected, it was made in Vietnam. I checked the Google Code issue tracker link (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22307) and I can see many people confirming this also. This is definitely not how the speaker should work - I checked another Samsung phone (SGS II) and there's no such "clicks". There's some silent noise but not the click.
I can hear it from the speaker only, not through the headphones.
I think many users are unaware of the issue because it is often only noticeable in a silent environment.
Yes getting same issue. Have tried different ROMS to no avail
Hi guys,
If anyone can check for me.Please go to settings>sound>system>and enable touch sounds. Then just hit the back button.You can hear the "click" sound from the speaker or the headphones.After milliseconds you can hear and a "clack" sound from speaker or the headphones?Please do the test for me because i think i have defective device.
edit: page with the issue
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22307
Thanks a lot
Are you sure you are just not hearing the phone vibrate first? That what it sounds like to me.
El Daddy said:
Are you sure you are just not hearing the phone vibrate first? That what it sounds like to me.
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Go somewhere very silent.Its not the vibration.I can "hear" the vibration and lets say at the same time the "click" and after milliseconds the "clack"
I just hear the vibration and then the sound.
El Daddy said:
I just hear the vibration and then the sound.
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OK thanks a lot.So looks problem with the speaker of the device
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I bought two galaxy nexus units from unlocked-mobiles. They both do the clack sound, one just much louder than the other .
I can only hear it if I put my ear right beside the speaker with one unit but with the other unit, it's quite loud. I can clearly hear it from arm's length with this second unit.
If I plug in my headphones, I can barely hear the clack sound from both units. Therefore I think the clack sound is either part of "click" sound file or it's just the speaker terminating the "click" sound file. If you can hear it loudly, you either have a defective speaker or low quality headphones. Either way, it's annoying to hear on the one unit whose external speaker "clacks" loudly.
Samsung's quality control is pretty disappointing. The unit that "clacks" loudly has already suffered from the "sleep of death" twice, and I've only had these phones for 24 hours! I'm all the way in Canada and so it's a pain to mail the defective unit back to the UK.
mdh007 said:
I bought two galaxy nexus units from unlocked-mobiles. They both do the clack sound, one just much louder than the other .
I can only hear it if I put my ear right beside the speaker with one unit but with the other unit, it's quite loud. I can clearly hear it from arm's length with this second unit.
If I plug in my headphones, I can barely hear the clack sound from both units. Therefore I think the clack sound is either part of "click" sound file or it's just the speaker terminating the "click" sound file. If you can hear it loudly, you either have a defective speaker or low quality headphones. Either way, it's annoying to hear on the one unit whose external speaker "clacks" loudly.
Samsung's quality control is pretty disappointing. The unit that "clacks" loudly has already suffered from the "sleep of death" twice, and I've only had these phones for 24 hours! I'm all the way in Canada and so it's a pain to mail the defective unit back to the UK.
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Thanks a lot for the feedback.Both doing the same clack ****??So its not only me.By the way earphones are apple earphones,so its not low quality.I think that we may have more devices with click-clack!!!Guys check your devices.I ll call today, the reseller (expansys France) and I ll ask replacement because I have the device for just 6 days.
I ll post feedback later
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Ι hear that sound too but its barely noticeable...come on guys give us more feedback
DJTaurus said:
Ι hear that sound too but its barely noticeable...come on guys give us more feedback
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Expansys opened a case for replacement or service.I also called samsung and waiting their feedback during the day
Update:
Result. EVERYONE has this sound "clack". Just spoke with Samsung and this is how speaker works.No reason to worry.
Case closed
afilopou said:
Expansys opened a case for replacement or service.I also called samsung and waiting their feedback during the day
Update:
Result. EVERYONE has this sound "clack". Just spoke with Samsung and this is how speaker works.No reason to worry.
Case closed
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I definitely have it.. any fix mentioned?
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ChongoDroid said:
I definitely have it.. any fix mentioned?
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They mentioned no fix.They said this is how speaker works BUT i asked supercurio for this issue (he doesnt have the device, he just read the thread) and here the answer
"Looks like pop-in and pop-out.
Means through hardware design or sound driver design are not very good for this codec."
I wouldn't say case closed.
With one of my devices, it's hardly noticeable (which is the way it supposed to be) so I don't mind at all. With the other I can clearly hear it from arm's length so it's a problem.
mdh007 said:
I wouldn't say case closed.
With one of my devices, it's hardly noticeable (which is the way it supposed to be) so I don't mind at all. With the other I can clearly hear it from arm's length so it's a problem.
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Obviously.Case closed goes for my case .Its not so loud.But in your case you must ask for replacement. The think is that everybody has it (other lower and other louder) and google/samsung must look at it.Maybe the solution is "simple" as supercurio quote (codec) or harder (bad hardware).If the problem (yes its a problem, i had sgs1,htc desire hd,nexus s, sgs2 and none of them has this issue and believe me from day one i check for pixels, speaker quality etc etc) is hardware then google/samsung you have a problem
Hello guys this is also my fault if we want to call it, but on a page of code.google there is a page to know the problem at the big G.
Who has this problem can visit this page and present it.
Bye
lordarus said:
Hello guys this is also my fault if we want to call it, but on a page of code.google there is a page to know the problem at the big G.
Who has this problem can visit this page and present it.
Bye
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You have this issue?
Also in which page can report it?I am a daily user but i can report it
Regards
afilopou said:
You have this issue?
Also in which page can report it?I am a daily user but i can report it
Regards
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here is the case:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22307
Yes i have this issue, thanks for the page wollyka i forgot it for posting.
All I hear is the sound it's supposed to make, nothing after. I turned off vibration and held it right to my hear and tried loads of times... all I hear is the single touch sound!
They're called Touch Sounds, its a feature, and you disable them under the sound settings.
Settings>Sound> uncheck Touch sounds.
This isn't a new feature either...
Either:
a) I'm just lucky because I don't have it; or
b) You guys are incredibly stupid and don't realise that the first sound you can hear is the vibrate and the second is the touch sound which you turned on
I am on my third replacement phone (last one the LED notification didn't work) and now I am noticing that there is a very faint 'Pop' sound emitted from the speaker phone 3 seconds after there is a system audio sound. For instance, every time I hit the Home button or unlock the phone, I hear the 'Pop' three seconds later.
Does anyone else have this problem? If I have headphones plugged in, I do not hear the sound through the headphones.
Thanks!
Dude is it possible that u have the lock n unlock sounds enabled?
sheek360 said:
Dude is it possible that u have the lock n unlock sounds enabled?
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Yes I do have the sounds enabled and I hear those fine. I am hearing an additional click/pop noise 3 seconds later. It makes the sound pretty much every time the phone makes noise. It's very faint.
From what I've read this is a pretty common problem. Mine does this as well but honestly I can only hear it when its quiet.
There's also another thread on this topic but I don't believe there was really conclusion.
Mine and a bunch of nexi at my local best buy suffer from this. It is not dependent on lock sounds it's a problem with the DAC I believe
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ChongoDroid said:
Mine and a bunch of nexi at my local best buy suffer from this. It is not dependent on lock sounds it's a problem with the DAC I believe
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Gotcha. Are you boosting your volume with volume+ or any other app?
Thank you for the replies. I'm glad to hear I'm not alone.
I have the same problem. I posted a thread yesterday, and there's another one (i didn't see it before posting mine).
That's a pretty annoying issue, i used to have the same thing on my unibody MacBook (fixed with an unofficial software patch), and once you hear it, well, you can't unhear it.
I hope this is not a hardware issue and can be fixed by some patch, but no one seems to care about this one (maybe not all GN have this problem?)
I decided to just disable all touch tones since it was bothering me too much. Just out of curiosity I checked another Nexus and the pop is still there but could only be heard by literally holding the speaker phone to my ear. Not nearly as loud as mine.
skottema said:
I am on my third replacement phone (last one the LED notification didn't work) and now I am noticing that there is a very faint 'Pop' sound emitted from the speaker phone 3 seconds after there is a system audio sound. For instance, every time I hit the Home button or unlock the phone, I hear the 'Pop' three seconds later.
Does anyone else have this problem? If I have headphones plugged in, I do not hear the sound through the headphones.
Thanks!
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Yeah dude.... same. I actually started the original thread on this. Its so annoying hey.... I hear ya man. I dunno, I did the same as you, disabled touch sounds. Its sounds cheap doesn't it.
I really hope its software related. I was trying to find out if, just a bit of 007 work, Haha, if it was maybe the build? Seeing if the people with a Google updated nexus's had the issue compared to people with the Samsung updated ones. I wonder if there a connection....
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it is only my phone? or do you guys find this phone has the earspeaker volume too high, even when it is set to the lowest?
People next to me can hear the other person as if i had it on speaker phone. With the volume so high, i dont need to use the speakerphone anymore. I somehow feel i do not have privacy. I can literally put the phone in my desk and hear it. I have talked to my mom like that while i worked.
EDIT: I think is an issue with AOSP. The volume on the Sammy ICS rom in my wife's phone worked as expected. At its lower setting, it was very decent, i couldnt hear it when I put the phone down.
I haven't really noticed... perhaps you should try different earbuds (that won't disturb neighbors so much)?
For what it's worth too, not sure if you're running a custom ROM, but I just saw something about CM10 adding a 30-stage volume meter (instead of the stock 15) on at least one device. Not on the S3 yet, but I'd expect we'll see this soon. That should give you finer control of all volume ranges, including low volumes.
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I haven't really noticed... perhaps you should try different earbuds (that won't disturb neighbors so much)?
For what it's worth too, not sure if you're running a custom ROM, but I just saw something about CM10 adding a 30-stage volume meter (instead of the stock 15) on at least one device. Not on the S3 yet, but I'd expect we'll see this soon. That should give you finer control of all volume ranges, including low volumes.
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im running AOKP. The earbuds are actually fine. Is the phone ear speakers themselves which are too loud.
Agreed with above, my earbuds are fine.. Stock volume is too high though
Agreed also, volume way to high for lowest settings, i cant listen anymore to my music when i want to go to bed since my gf can hear it so much and see cant sleep with music.
disappointing that Samsung didn't catch that.
I think is an issue with AOSP. The volume on the Sammy ICS rom in my wife's phone worked as expected. At its lower setting, it was very decent, i couldnt hear when I put the phone down.
Hey XDA,
I absolutely love my G4. Recently, my phone started acting up. Sometimes, when I receive a call, the volume gets muffled/muted. Speaker phone works, but not the in-ear volume.
I fix this by restarting my phone, but I have no idea why this happens. Any fixes?
Info: Verizon, Rooted and received my G4 sometime late June
It could be the protection set in place that knocks the volume down a few notches to protect your hearing.
If you go into your home screen and press the volume up button it should go back to normal (max). Assuming by in-ear you mean by headphones.
If it's the speaker piece that you put your ear too, idk
spartan268 said:
It could be the protection set in place that knocks the volume down a few notches to protect your hearing.
If you go into your home screen and press the volume up button it should go back to normal (max). Assuming by in-ear you mean by headphones.
If it's the speaker piece that you put your ear too, idk
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I meant the speaker piece that I put my ear to. Should I call LG about this? Warranty it? Should I unroot it before I do?
I have seen this, on my 2nd (Verizon) G4, running software 610B.
I had a call on my car's Bluetooth. I took it off BT, so the other party could hear better. But all I got was silence out of the phone's little speaker for your ear (as you called it, the in-ear volume). Put the call back to BT, and it was fine. Back to the phone, and I just heard a bit of garbled stuff. Went back to BT, and it was fine again. I assumed it didn't like transferring a call back to the phone for some reason.
Then a few days later I took a call, with no BT involved, and I could not hear the other party. Then I tried checking my voice mail, using Verizon's Visual Voice Mail, and I couldn't hear that either, unless I turned on the speakerphone, in which case it was fine. I tried placing a call, same result. No audio (or just some intermittent garbled audio) when using the phone's little speaker for your ear, but it would be fine when I'd turn on the speakerphone during that same call.
It was not cell-signal-quality related. Visual Voice Mail has already been downloaded to the phone, and that didn't play through the little speaker either.
I rebooted, and it was fine. But I didn't really trust it after that. It's supposed to be a PHONE, after all. The fact that a reboot made it work again implied it was somehow software-related, but that's still not an acceptable issue for a phone, IMO. This was a stock, non-rooted phone, on 610B.
I exchanged it, and the replacement has been good. So I did not determine a root cause, but you're not alone in seeing this issue.
Edit for the post you made while I was typing: Given that you're outside your carrier's return period, I'd talk to LG about warranty. I'd probably un-root it before sending it in, just to avoid muddying the waters with whether rooting caused it. That's based on my experience, seeing this stock, without rooting, implying it was some sort of issue with the phone itself.
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I have seen this, on my 2nd (Verizon) G4, running software 610B.
I had a call on my car's Bluetooth. I took it off BT, so the other party could hear better. But all I got was silence out of the phone's little speaker for your ear (as you called it, the in-ear volume). Put the call back to BT, and it was fine. Back to the phone, and I just heard a bit of garbled stuff. Went back to BT, and it was fine again. I assumed it didn't like transferring a call back to the phone for some reason.
Then a few days later I took a call, with no BT involved, and I could not hear the other party. Then I tried checking my voice mail, using Verizon's Visual Voice Mail, and I couldn't hear that either, unless I turned on the speakerphone, in which case it was fine. I tried placing a call, same result. No audio (or just some intermittent garbled audio) when using the phone's little speaker for your ear, but it would be fine when I'd turn on the speakerphone during that same call.
It was not cell-signal-quality related. Visual Voice Mail has already been downloaded to the phone, and that didn't play through the little speaker either.
I rebooted, and it was fine. But I didn't really trust it after that. It's supposed to be a PHONE, after all. The fact that a reboot made it work again implied it was somehow software-related, but that's still not an acceptable issue for a phone, IMO. This was a stock, non-rooted phone, on 610B.
I exchanged it, and the replacement has been good. So I did not determine a root cause, but you're not alone in seeing this issue.
Edit for the post you made while I was typing: Given that you're outside your carrier's return period, I'd talk to LG about warranty. I'd probably un-root it before sending it in, just to avoid muddying the waters with whether rooting caused it. That's based on my experience, seeing this stock, without rooting, implying it was some sort of issue with the phone itself.
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This is the perfect answer. THANK YOU. It's people like you, why I continue to come back to XDA. Does rooting void the warranty? If so, how should I unroot?
LG has said that unlocking the bootloader voids your warranty. I don't recall mention of whether rooting voids your warranty.
Someone I was talking to at Verizon said that rooting voids your warranty, but that wasn't really an official statement, I don't think. And it's possible that he was really referring to unlocking the bootloader, I don't know. But I'd prefer to not be rooted when bringing/sending it in for service or help.
I haven't rooted, so I can't tell you the best way to undo it. From what I've gathered, you flash a stock system image of your software version, similarly to how you flashed the rooted image. But I do not know the details, sorry. I'd look in the Low Effort Root thread, assuming that's the method you used.