When i have a conversation on my desire hd people complain I'm very very low sound like I'm far away from the phone is there not a Mic in the bottom of the phone??? If I put my mouth to the top of the phone they hear me more clearly... what could the problem be????? Please help
Andersmalik said:
When i have a conversation on my desire hd people complain I'm very very low sound like I'm far away from the phone is there not a Mic in the bottom of the phone??? If I put my mouth to the top of the phone they hear me more clearly... what could the problem be????? Please help
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there is a mic on the bottom of the phone, just to the right of the usb port
hmm
Well my desire hd must be messed up the Mic hole is to the left of the Ian entrance also I thought this was weird cuz I bought otterbox defender and the hole in the casing is to the right as you said so my casing dont match my phone ... any ideas*????
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.
I found a video of a Vietnamese testing the death grip of HTC One X. The signal drops to 3 to 2 bars when he holds the bottom of the phone; when he hold the top, the signal went back. As you can see, the way he hold the bottom of the phone is very normal/common to many people.
Anyone can test this pls, this seem to be worse than the iPhone 4 death grip issue back in 2010
I think many people in this forum have mentioned about the reception issue of this phone already
Its only drops by one bar if it does at all ... not a big problem imho
Just played around for 5 mins doing what he does. Mine goes right down to no bars lit from two, but ringing from another phone wakes it up and it goes back to the original number of bars it had.
Rang it a number of times whilst on no bars lit and it did this every time. No problems in getting through on the call.
No problem from what I can see.
Slim
silversun92 said:
I found a video of a Vietnamese testing the death grip of HTC One X. The signal drops to 3 to 2 bars when he holds the bottom of the phone; when he hold the top, the signal went back. As you can see, the way he hold the bottom of the phone is very normal/common to many people.
Anyone can test this pls, this seem to be worse than the iPhone 4 death grip issue back in 2010
I think many people in this forum have mentioned about the reception issue of this phone already
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I'm the one who posted this video. Yes, HTC One X has Death Grip and it affects real life experiences. Maybe 1-2 bars drop in good reception area doesnt make any difference but in poor reception condition, it's the difference between connect and disconnect. I'm reviewing an One X for almost a week now and already have experienced more than a few dropped call because of Death Grip. Death Grip on One X can make 3G speed drop significally if you hold the phone at the bottom.
The battery sucks, too. Goes from 100 to 0 for a little bit over 7 hours of using with some web browsing, music listening, push mail and gaming (not very much). I think HTC still doesnt take the battery serious enough.
Let it be clear that I'm a prof. reviewer, have been using (almost) every HTC phones out there to date. And I'm a long-time fan of HTC, I love HTC One X's design and its power, however I'm not going to recommend any HTC phone, One X or others, to my friends and readers until they fix the battery and death grip issue on their phones.
No wonder why HTC isnt doing so good huh?
After seeing this I wondered if this was why I was seeing my signal bar drop and it seems that way. It isn't holding the bottom that does it though, it's holding the left side and the bottom. If I put the phone in my right hand and hold it the same way there doesn't appear to be an issue. It's confusing because the phone's body is polycarbonate and holding it should do nothing to the signal.
Dyonas said:
After seeing this I wondered if this was why I was seeing my signal bar drop and it seems that way. It isn't holding the bottom that does it though, it's holding the left side and the bottom. If I put the phone in my right hand and hold it the same way there doesn't appear to be an issue. It's confusing because the phone's body is polycarbonate and holding it should do nothing to the signal.
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It's your hands that blocking the signal, regardless what the back cover made of.
love_4ever1810 said:
I'm the one who posted this video. Yes, HTC One X has Death Grip and it affects real life experiences. Maybe 1-2 bars drop in good reception area doesnt make any difference but in poor reception condition, it's the difference between connect and disconnect. I'm reviewing an One X for almost a week now and already have experienced more than a few dropped call because of Death Grip. Death Grip on One X can make 3G speed drop significally if you hold the phone at the bottom.
The battery sucks, too. Goes from 100 to 0 for a little bit over 7 hours of using with some web browsing, music listening, push mail and gaming (not very much). I think HTC still doesnt take the battery serious enough.
Let it be clear that I'm a prof. reviewer, have been using (almost) every HTC phones out there to date. And I'm a long-time fan of HTC, I love HTC One X's design and its power, however I'm not going to recommend any HTC phone, One X or others, to my friends and readers until they fix the battery and death grip issue on their phones.
No wonder why HTC isnt doing so good huh?
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hi there,,
i own a htc one x for 1 week now and i have no problems on the death drip what so ever.
it only affects some on the one x ?
the signal drop by just one level. So does not seem to be an issue here.
no death grip here. my one x does not show a change in strength. tested using signal widget
no change in signal strength here, no matter how i hold my phone it stays at full signal strength. Although i did not use a special widget just the standard indicator in the status bar.
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Let it be clear that I'm a prof. reviewer, have been using (almost) every HTC phones out there to date. And I'm a long-time fan of HTC, I love HTC One X's design and its power, however I'm not going to recommend any HTC phone, One X or others, to my friends and readers until they fix the battery and death grip issue on their phones.
No wonder why HTC isnt doing so good huh?
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Let it be clear, I am a nobody and I hate mobile phones. For this very reason, I will ask all my friends to buy a HTC One X (heck, a HTC phone; others might be crap as well).
Thanks for your pathetic over-reaction, you made me laugh. By the way, did you try that new tin foil cover case? Apparently, it does wonders!
globiboulga said:
Let it be clear, I am a nobody and I hate mobile phones. For this very reason, I will ask all my friends to buy a HTC One X (heck, a HTC phone; others might be crap as well).
Thanks for your pathetic over-reaction, you made me laugh. By the way, did you try that new tin foil cover case? Apparently, it does wonders!
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Come on, just sharing my thought. I did not over reacted , it affects real life using situations (drop calls, slow 3G etc...) and I'm just describing what I experienced on my sample HTC One X (with proofs). If you dont agree with it or didnt experienced it, just say it like the others. There's no need to be sarcastic...
This will happen with any phone if you put your hand over the area where the antenna is - your putting something between it and the mast so it will drop in signal strength. Hands - like most of the human body are good as absorbing/blocking rf energy.
I noticed this - but how can it be considered 'worse than the iPhone 4' issue? On that the signal just went completely, on the One X there is a drop of one/two bars. Sometimes.
I noticed this as soon as I first had a play with it, but weirdly, this didn't appear to be an issue when I went up to London by car - just when I was sitting in my office chair at home. Which made me wonder if it is to do with grip, or my rural lifestyle not working very well with the One X!
Just tried this on my HD2 and got a similar result. Never noticed it in real life, but I am with Telstra so generally get a good signal. Perhaps it happens with all phones to some extent.
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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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
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Tapatalk
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?
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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
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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:
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.