Completely lost audio - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

So has anyone else had this problem? I'm on CM9 and I noticed my alarm didn't go off the other day, or at least I didn't hear it. I've been playing around and I discovered I have no speaker audio at all (phone still works) but Pandora, audio notifications and even touch sounds produce no noise through the speaker. Audio through the headphone jack works fine but speak audio is completely gone. I tried CM10, same problem. Nandroid back to CM9, still no audio. Starting to think maybe a hardware issue? I'm going to try to ODIN back to stock but if that doesn't work I guess its hardware unless anyone else has an idea.

So back to stock EL29 rooted and no speaker audio. SOL?

No ringer either?
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My e4gt did the same thing. Hardware issue. Try hitting the phone near the speaker and it'll probably start wprking
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Music playback stops randomly

Music playback is stopped at random times. Usually the phone is in my pocket. I thought my headphones were getting unplugged. But it seems to be something else. Has anybody experience this issue?
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I've had it happen when streaming music over the air (Pandora or Slacker); I have pretty poor reception in my yard. I have not had any stops/skipping with music I have downloaded to my phone.
I think it does have something to do with the headphone jack. It seems to be a little out of spec. I have like 2 headphone plugs that will stay in securely, while the rest, if twisted, will pop slightly loose, enough to kill playback.
mcfhsieh said:
Music playback is stopped at random times. Usually the phone is in my pocket. I thought my headphones were getting unplugged. But it seems to be something else. Has anybody experience this issue?
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It's a design flaw. Check this thread for more info.
You may need to try a new pair of headphones.
good find gunther lol
i got tired of the app altogether some time ago so i use ZPlayer.
check it out..its pretty dope!
I had the phone sitting on my desk and the music stopped again. There was no way I moved the headphones chord to make it fail. All I noticed was that the the synch notification was displayed on the status bar. Could the playback be stopped by incoming data? Is it even possiblle?
Thanks
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Certain notifications will momentarily disrupt media playback, but will not stop it.
The issue with the jack will require pushing the plug back in so that it is reseated properly.
All I have to do is press play again. So its definitely an interruption caused by the phone and not a jack related problem. I guess ill just have to deal with it.
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If the contact of the headphone jack is disrupted, but not dislodged, it could be enough to cause it to pause.
The headphone jack must really suck in mine because it randomly pauses playback over bluetooth regardless of which application I'm using to play music with. Even sometimes just playing music over the phone's speaker it happens for me. At first I thought it was a bug in CyanogenMod... but I guess not.

Your bluetooth streaming experiences

I stream my music from my phone to my car's JVC stereo unit via bluetooth. And I've noticed something and want to check with the community.
On TW gingerbread builds the audio stream is very poor. Lots of static and overall poor quality.
Then came the first few ics leaks. All of a sudden music over bluetooth is magical. To the point where I can't tell its being streamed via bluetooth and not aux.
Then came CM9 and AOSP, which also worked magically so I've been using them. But they have semi-poor battery life and issues with SD cards.
So I go back to a TW base ics leak because I like that everything just works and wanna be simple for a while, some of the new FE ones to be specific. And now all of sudden the bluetooth streaming sucks like it did on gingerbread.
Why? What changed? I'm pretty sure that around the FD teens leaks the bluetooth streaming was still fine. Not sure when it started to suck cause I mostly have been on AOSP. Does the modem affect the bluetooth radio? kernel?
I have exhausted all my knowledge and testing and scenarios that I can think of and cannot figure it out. Anyone know why this might be happening?
Anyone have similar experiences?
My Bluetooth music streaming has always been solid. Idk what happened in your case but i believe BT Stack libs were updated or something like that lol
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I stream via BT to my factory VW deck. I've had great experience on GB and the latest ICS leaks.
The early ICS leaks I noticed some popping, but I haven't heard that in awhile.
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Really? What modem do you guys prefer?
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locoboi187 said:
My Bluetooth music streaming has always been solid. Idk what happened in your case but i believe BT Stack libs were updated or something like that lol
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You are correct.
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You are correct.
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Could you direct me on where they might be located? Would you think it feasible to switch them with ones from cm9 and that might fix my issue?
You think modem is the culprit?
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I think a bad bluetooth experience has to do with your receiver. I drive a ford with all the myFord hoopla and it used to work more of less but there were bouts when it was terrible and unusable and i had to pull the fuse to reset it. However there was a huge update to the software and I have not had a single problem with it since then. Streaming music, answering calls, phonebook download, receiving and sending texts all work great for every rom i have tried.
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I think a bad bluetooth experience has to do with your receiver. I drive a ford with all the myFord hoopla and it used to work more of less but there were bouts when it was terrible and unusable and i had to pull the fuse to reset it. However there was a huge update to the software and I have not had a single problem with it since then. Streaming music, answering calls, phonebook download, receiving and sending texts all work great for every rom i have tried.
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This is what I thought at first. But it doesn't explain why AOSP roms always work perfectly. Doesn't matter which one. No problems, perfect audio Yet GB and now the new ICS leaks work so terribly. It doesn't make sense. And it doesn't explain why TW ICS used to work great and now they don't. I can't figure out what is changing that is causing the difference.
I hated the GGB BT streaming. Too much popping and crackling.
ICS has been very good to me streaming, quality is superb. I haven't noticed a reduction in quality with FE10 from FE07 and earlier ICS builds. What I did notice is that with FE10, the pause/play button on my remote now works again for Google Music, which is nice.
No issues streaming siriusxmonline through Ford sync
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Head sets?
I'm a fan of noise attenuating ear buds, ala JVC ha-fr50 whilst I'm driving for podcasts and phone calls.
Are there any decent BT ear buds like that? Something that blocks out a fair bit of the external road noise. As for the mic, I've had some folks say I sound fine but a little distant with the mic on those ear buds, but normal and clear when I practically eat the thing. I've never used BT ear buds or the streaming but from what you guys say, it seems sound quality isn't much of an issue.
No issues streaming BT on GB strongsteves ROM to my Sony receiver.
EL29 modem I think
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Thanks for the responses guys. Apparently somethings changing on my phone with each flash or my Bluetooth radio is faulty in a slight way. Not in a big enough way to warrant a replacement uunfortunately. I'll see what I can figure out.
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What are you streaming through? My vw is a pita, but after some slapping it around I can usually get it to work.
Early leaks of ICS had popping, but that is gone in the later leaks.
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Streaming just music from my sd card. The deck also supports bluetooth calling and connects to that at the same time. I never use it though, unless someone calls me. Connecting to the unit works just fine for all roms and versions, just the streaming quality is drastically different.
I was actually gonna see if i could get the unit to connect just the media and not the phone and see if that helps. I really don't know what else could be causing it. I can't pinpoint anything thats common or reoccurring each time the quality is bad.
All I know is AOSP works. Everytime. But why?
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Streaming just music from my sd card. The deck also supports bluetooth calling and connects to that at the same time. I never use it though, unless someone calls me. Connecting to the unit works just fine for all roms and versions, just the streaming quality is drastically different.
I was actually gonna see if i could get the unit to connect just the media and not the phone and see if that helps. I really don't know what else could be causing it. I can't pinpoint anything thats common or reoccurring each time the quality is bad.
All I know is AOSP works. Everytime. But why?
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Look around. I believe someone else was having a similar issue but backwards.
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After some digging I found these threads here and here. Both by the same guy.
It appears he was onto a solution or at the very least a cause. Unfortunately, it appears that once ICS came out, the problem was solved by Samsung and it was quickly forgotten with no solution.
Except now, for me at least, the ICS TW roms don't stream properly anymore.
Also, just had a thought. When going between roms, I have skipped over flashing Caulks format all and just wiped data. Never had any problems, but I remember reading back in the hero days that not formatting every partition leaves some old files on the phone, and possibly bluetooth files are stored there? Should I try flashing a tw ICS rom after an AOSP rom without running format all?
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After some digging I found these threads here and here. Both by the same guy.
It appears he was onto a solution or at the very least a cause. Unfortunately, it appears that once ICS came out, the problem was solved by Samsung and it was quickly forgotten with no solution.
Except now, for me at least, the ICS TW roms don't stream properly anymore.
Also, just had a thought. When going between roms, I have skipped over flashing Caulks format all and just wiped data. Never had any problems, but I remember reading back in the hero days that not formatting every partition leaves some old files on the phone, and possibly bluetooth files are stored there? Should I try flashing a tw ICS rom after an AOSP rom without running format all?
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I don't think that would be the case, but def worth a try. Lets us know since I would LOVE to be using my BT audio, but it reduced the quality too much for me, no popping etc, but, too poor quality for a good stereo/speakers and my prude-ears
Well I did try everything I could but came up empty handed. Theo only way I can get good Bluetooth quality is by running an AOSP ROM.
That itself isn't a bad thing because I love AOSP, but its a weird occurrence.
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Re-enable media audio

Lately my phone has been disabling media audio after coming back from mute/vibrate. My ring tones and notification return to normal but media audio is disabled not matter how high I se the volume. Is there any setting within the menus that will allow me to re-enable it?
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I'm surprised that no one else is coming across this issue. So far only way to fix it is restarting the phone.
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Mine was doing that after taking a call while listeningbto music. The fix was play it over the speakers then plug the headphones in or else you couldnt hear anything. Maybe try something similar to that

Headphones and speaker play at same time

So today I at work and my boss walks over and ask me to turn down my music..... I had my headphones in and did not have it up very loud.
Several min later I get a phone call, a few min in he walks over and asked if I was on a personal call. I said no and the person continued to talk, what I didn't know was all the sound coming through the headphones was also being played on my phone speaker.
No looked it up and many people have the notifications sound problem, but couldn't find one that really had the same problem as me.
No matter what watch on YouTube or listen to in my music player the phone will play the sound on both headphones and speaker.
Any help with this problem guys?
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Who's rom are you using? Also try a different pair of headphones. If the jack on your headphones is bent or not connecting correctly it will cause that to happen.
That happens when the headphone jack is not pushed all the way down!
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I think you might also want to be sure the Phone is not in "Driving Mode"...
I just had the same problem. I was listening to Google music for a few hours no problem, but one track decided to play threw the speaker and not the headphones. Not sure what happened, I skipped the track and all was good again.
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That has happen to me recently, it varies at one point it was when I was using YouTube but it left after I kept plugging headphone jack out and in a couple times try that.
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Funny, when I play games and have music playing at the same time I have the same thing happen. Perhaps the next update in May will fix this?
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[Q] Popping sound comes from speakers when video plays

I am on the latest S3Rx 4.1. When a video plays whether volume is muted or not, the speaker makes popping sounds like when touching the end of a 3.5 mm plug that is connected to powered on speakers. I have changed multiple settings with no fix.
Is only with videos? How about audio only?
Might need to replace the speaker module. I'd Odin back to stock and test first to be sure though.
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It does it when I start Play Music as well.
Sounds like the speaker may have a problem. Only way to know for sure is flash stock firmware and test.
If it is, it's very easy to replace and you can find oem replacements for under $10.
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