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I just "upgraded" from a dinc to a dinc2 and I'm pretty disappointed. I am trying to see if I can get some help from you guys before my 14 days are up.
1) The external speaker is horrible. On my dinc I used the speaker phone for all calls and 3-5 hours of XM Radio a day. The speaker was loud, clear and oddly amazing. The dinc2 -- I can kind of make a phone call, but it's not very loud and there is a nasty 'tin can' sound to it. Playing music through this thing is just horrible compared to the dinc, it's not loud enough and sounds like gibberish.
2) In call quality through the headset speaker has the same tin can sound and I swear I can hear myself talk through the headset sometimes.
3) The size -- love it
4) Software -- love it
I actually love everything about this phone other than the audio quality. I brought it back to the Verizon store a couple hours after buying it and they told me that it just had a lower quality speaker. After reading some reviews I think he is full of it. Please help/advise!!
Thanks
neal
I an pretty disappointed with mine as well.
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The speaker does seem to be a bit lower quality. I came from an Eris, though, which had an even worse speaker, so I didn't really notice it. However, the general consensus seems to be that the speaker is not as great as other devices.
What kind of headset are you using? I use headphones plugged into the 3.5mm port and it sounds pretty great to me. Bluetooth isn't as high fidelity, but it's still not bad (I assume this is due to compression over A2DP), and definitely not tinny. I haven't tried bluetooth communications as I actually don't use my phone as a phone very often (so much for being a phone!).
I thought it was just mine with the external sound speaker problem.
VZW is sending me a new one. Should be here today.
Will test the new one, but based on this thread, I'm not optimistic that another one solves the problem.
I also requested a new one because my GPS takes 5-8 minutes to lock on.
roadratx said:
I thought it was just mine with the external sound speaker problem.
VZW is sending me a new one. Should be here today.
Will test the new one, but based on this thread, I'm not optimistic that another one solves the problem.
I also requested a new one because my GPS takes 5-8 minutes to lock on.
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Gps status fixed my gps issue..I'm waiting on root to see of that makes my gps better. It's still not super accurate
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knipp21 said:
Gps status fixed my gps issue..I'm waiting on root to see of that makes my gps better. It's still not super accurate
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What do you mean by "GPS status?"
disregard....i found the gps status app
replacement phone just as bad....sent it back
I ended up with another incredible 2, it was worse. I traded that one for a charge. I really miss senseui, but I rooted this and put stock android on it. Still getting used to it but I am really happy with the hardware.
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qazew said:
I ended up with another incredible 2, it was worse. I traded that one for a charge. I really miss senseui, but I rooted this and put stock android on it. Still getting used to it but I am really happy with the hardware.
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Surprised they let you trade it for the charge.
I had to pay the difference plus 35 restock
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Any one else have volume issues when playing videos. Can't get sound off of videos on card. Any advice?
hello all. i was just wondering if anyone else has this happen on their gnex. I went to plug it into my cars aux in port for the first time so I could listen to some tunes and noticed a lot of background hissing and clicking noises when the device came in contact with any part of me. If the phone was just chillin in the cup holder it was gravy but the moment I picked it up or set it on my lap the clicking would start again, being most pronounced when touching the back battery cover. Knowing that I had nfc on and that the chip for it resides in the battery I tried turning it off, and low and behold the clicking stopped. has anyone else noticed this issue? Granted its not a big deal by any means but if it's a hardware defect on my device I would like to know. thanks for your time
No, but I will try it tonight after work and see what it does and report back. This is the first I've seen/heard of this issue. Stock battery, extended? I have the extended on mine FYI.
This happens to me randomly, even without NFC enabled. I normally can fix it unplugging and plugging the headphones a few times.
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im using the stock battery, i will switch this gnex battery out with the battery from my first nexus that had defective radios that ive yet to send back to amazon. just to see if that makes a difference
actually, this is a 4g issue guys. I noticed this with my thunderbolt
Since swapping from my GS2 i have noticed signal loss issues when streaming music from my HOX to my Bluetooth headphones. Previously i used my GS2 everyday to play music via one of 2 pairs of Bluetooth headphones whilst training. Never had any issues with signal loss even when I left the phone on the other side of the gym temporarily. Now when I use my HOX I get massive skips sometimes if i merely put it in my pocket upside down or more commonly if i put my hand over the top end of the handset or swing a weight and/or my arm etc over top of it. I swapped firmware to aokp to see if it helped and it may have slightly but still it is unacceptable for a newer handset to do this let alone a flag ship. I have seen some others noticing this too and sorry if it has been already discussed lots, just wondering if anyone has found a fix or workaround? Or do I just need to go back to Sammy and swap to an s3?
Thanks in advance
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Go swap it for an S3. You'll fit right in over at the whiniest forum on xda.
Chill, no need for that dude I'm not trolling or IMO excessively moaning over nothing as it seems like I have a legit hardware issue I was trying to work around, other than that I'm very happy with my change back to HTC.
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I've had similar problems with my bluetooth headset on my One X - fairly frequent signal dropouts which appear as pauses / skips in the music. This is in contrast to my HTC Desire which always had a good signal to the same headset, and very rarely (if ever) dropped out.
i use bluetooth headphones when training and also catching train to work and i notice it too mate. In fact i had something similar in my desire HD. The range of the signal and also strength is exremely poor in recent HTC phones for some reason. I thought it may be my Senheiser headphones, but i tested them on my friends SG1 and they work perfectly even at long ranges, no skips or pauses.
I don't think there is a fix as i think the problem is in the poor hardware itself......hopefully HTC address this in their future phones
Cheers for the replies guys, yeah assumed that was the case just was hoping I could some how increase the buffer size or something along those lines so when the signal is interrupted it could stream through it somewhat. Obviously this would only work if the interruption was relatively short but still may just be enough for a bit smoother playback, providing this was possible at all in the first place of course. I tried to fiddle with power amps settings to do this in a very basic way but had no real success.
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It's probably obvious, but have you tried unpairing and then re-pairing your BT headphones? I used to have a similar problem with my Legend, and doing that solved it (along with rebooting the phone). BT reception on my HOX has been near flawless, on the other hand, so not sure what causes your problems. Hope the above helps.
PS. The HOX does have skip issues when turning the screen on/off, and I suspect this has to do with switching to and from the companion core. Wonder if that will be fixed in JB.
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It's probably obvious, but have you tried unpairing and then re-pairing your BT headphones? I used to have a similar problem with my Legend, and doing that solved it (along with rebooting the phone). BT reception on my HOX has been near flawless, on the other hand, so not sure what causes your problems. Hope the above helps.
PS. The HOX does have skip issues when turning the screen on/off, and I suspect this has to do with switching to and from the companion core. Wonder if that will be fixed in JB.
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My bluetooth headset signal is getting worse and worse.. even having it about 30cm away it'll still lose signal.
and if i put it in my pocket and walk, basically every step i lose signal...
I assume it's software issue and it didn't have such a bad problem when i was on ICS
This is a hardware issue
Check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688538
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I am running the 681 rooted.
Yesterday I noticed that Bluetooth is sucking WAY too much power. I used the phone normally, had about 50-60% power left when I went to bed, forgot to plug it in, went down to 30% during sleep. When I looked at the consumption chart BT was accountable for 30% of power usage, screen only 14%.
This is very weird. I use BT seldomly for handsfree vehicle calls. But it is on all the time, as I use it to fire up apps through Tasker whenever it detects my cars handsfree. This was never a problem or power hog on my HTC.
Anyone know whats going on there?
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I am running the 681 rooted.
Yesterday I noticed that Bluetooth is sucking WAY too much power. I used the phone normally, had about 50-60% power left when I went to bed, forgot to plug it in, went down to 30% during sleep. When I looked at the consumption chart BT was accountable for 30% of power usage, screen only 14%.
This is very weird. I use BT seldomly for handsfree vehicle calls. But it is on all the time, as I use it to fire up apps through Tasker whenever it detects my cars handsfree. This was never a problem or power hog on my HTC.
Anyone know whats going on there?
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+1 here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51970875
I've bluetooth and wifi switched on all the time but look at my screenshot at above link, wifi only consumed 3% while bluetooth 47%!!!
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Are you on the same version of Android?
Well, as others have the problem too it is obv. not something unique to my configuration.
I just upgraded to .757 and will keep an eye on it. Hope the problem is eliminated in the new versoin.
I'm on .757 and have this issue, not notice this when I was on Android 4.3.
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Hi guys,
I've had the same issue I believe there is a bug in the KitKat update which causes bluetooth not to switch off even after you disconnect as you can see from your battery information your phone has been awake I haven't been to sleep please follow this link for a partial solution,
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...-Touch-amp-Go-No-Deep-Sleep/m-p/640793#M22841
wilpang said:
Hi guys,
I've had the same issue I believe there is a bug in the KitKat update which causes bluetooth not to switch off even after you disconnect as you can see from your battery information your phone has been awake I haven't been to sleep please follow this link for a partial solution,
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...-Touch-amp-Go-No-Deep-Sleep/m-p/640793#M22841
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Thanks for the info, just as I had suspected. My wife's z1c don't have this issue, the only thing different between our phones is that I'm pairing with My Ford Sync and hers is Nissan.
I'm so regret in buying this phone, especially that I've traded in my beloved HTC Butterfly for this piece of cripple phone, even my other cheap chinese phone is much better and stable than Sony and only costs half the price of z1c.
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ykkhern said:
Thanks for the info, just as I had suspected. My wife's z1c don't have this issue, the only thing different between our phones is that I'm pairing with My Ford Sync and hers is Nissan.
I'm so regret in buying this phone, especially that I've traded in my beloved HTC Butterfly for this piece of cripple phone, even my other cheap chinese phone is much better and stable than Sony and only costs half the price of z1c.
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Just do a further test, looks like Throw could be causing the problem. Notice that whenever I switch on bluetooth Throw will pop up running and asking to connect to Sync, wtf my car is not even started or power up outside my house?!!!
Any one know how to disable Throw completely?
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ykkhern said:
Just do a further test, looks like Throw could be causing the problem. Notice that whenever I switch on bluetooth Throw will pop up running and asking to connect to Sync, wtf my car is not even started or power up outside my house?!!!
Any one know how to disable Throw completely?
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Try deselecting the Auto select wireless option in your settings and see how that goes...
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Try deselecting the Auto select wireless option in your settings and see how that goes...
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Nope, it makes no difference that Throw is still running. Come to think about it, Throw may not be the problem as it is also running at my wife's z1c and her bluetooth doesn't drain so much battery. I think the problem is z1c's Bluetooth doesn't goes well with My Ford Sync... so it's not only Toyota's TG. Switching Bluetooth off and then on does help.
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ykkhern said:
Nope, it makes no difference that Throw is still running. Come to think about it, Throw may not be the problem as it is also running at my wife's z1c and her bluetooth doesn't drain so much battery. I think the problem is z1c's Bluetooth doesn't goes well with My Ford Sync... so it's not only Toyota's TG. Switching Bluetooth off and then on does help.
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My car well my works car is also a Ford so you are right might be the make but I'm surprised it's not more widespread
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My car well my works car is also a Ford so you are right might be the make but I'm surprised it's not more widespread
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Notice also on and off NFC consume some battery, like 3~4%, and I don't even use or have any NFC device. I can't believe after 2 up updates and the phone still has bug.... It's really a bad ideal to buy this phone, especially for a user like me who switched from a premium phone (HTC Butterfly) to this cripple phone and paid for a premium price.
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I have 2 issues with Bluetooth on this phone. (Verizon version)
First, it does disconnect and occasionally with my Kinova head set. (Never with the M8)
Second, it has horrible range compared to my M8. I put the 10 in the exact same spot on my toolbox at work as my M8 with the same headset and I don't get nearly the same range as before. I honestly could go about 30-40 yards with the M8, I am lucky to get 15-20 with the 10, sometimes it even breaks up just 15 feet away! One of the greatest things I personally liked about the M8 was how far bluetooth range was.
Hopefully there will be an update to improve this.
I agree BT is kinda ****ty. It doesn't totally lose connection to my truck stereo but it starts to glitch out if I handle the phone while streaming music has to be put down to keep a solid signal
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dandan2980 said:
I agree BT is kinda ****ty. It doesn't totally lose connection to my truck stereo but it starts to glitch out if I handle the phone while streaming music has to be put down to keep a solid signal
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that's odd, I cant comment on the range. but ive streamed for a couple hours, while using as a mobile wifi hotspot along side the streaming, while driving on a long drive and it didn't have one hiccup, worked the whole time. also received a couple calls that switched over audio perfectly to the stereo speakerphone and then switch back to music without issue.
BT audio is used everywhere I go in my car, I cant stand normal radio.
I have Verizon version
It could be my radio i have an alpine 265bt but it also happened in my wifes Malibu 2015 on stock radio also. It will stream fine if i just set it down but once i start using the phone will streaming it seems to interupt the signal. Its weird i have to kinda shake the phine to stop the glitch
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I've also found the range to be rather poor, and also sometimes connectivity is temperamental about what it will connect with.
BT has worked well for me. At least in my car, it's probably the best sounding implementation I've used to date.
My problems have been with the WiFi - all the problems you guys have mentioned.
BT Power
Another thing I'm noticing is that in the battery-usage stats, BT power consumption is considerably higher than the Screen's!
On my M8, it never mattered whether I left BT on or off as far as battery life was concerned.
FYI Alpine recently released a bt firmware update for my 149 that really helped. I've had excellent luck thru many portable speakers like TDK and SB roar2 but the car was glitchy. Now it's smooth and fast. No issues here
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BT loses connection
I have a similar problem but it happens when
1) Phone lose signal due to poor cell signal.
2) When Wi-fi automatically connects (when I drive into my garage).
When this happens internal speaker kicks in. Only way to fix this issue is to disable and enable Bluetooth.