randomly losing system sound after the latest Tmo update.. - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

I got this problem after applying the Tmo update. The system sound (the water ripple sound on lock screen, sound when restart/reboot) randomly goes muted. There is a slash across the system icon in settings/volume. There is no way I can turn that on again unless I restart the phone (set all the way up doesnt help since there is a slash indicating that it's muted). And this happened to me 3 times now. After restarting, the slash disappears and the system volume goes to Zero. Pretty sure the update causes this since I didnt have this problem before the update. anyone has the same issue?
P/S: all other sounds work fine, just the system sound messes up and now it works again...randomly.. gosh what happened to my phone (
Im suspecting the app "hide it pro" causes some kinda conflict since it also has the function as audio manager... not really sure...

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[Q] Messaging notification doesn't always sound.

Just wondering if this was a common occurance? When my phone is on a lower volume at work, I've noticed when I get messages the notification sound doesn't always play. The phone still vibrates and I've made sure its loud enough to hear, it just doesn't play until I restart the phone.
Anyone else getting this?
Currently everything is stock apart from using Nova launcher. (haven't had it long enough to start playing with ROMs )
ive noticed this sometimes, but i think changing it from the message/emails settings will fix the issue

UI sound missing

This is very strange. When I first started playing with the phone I noticed the remove app ui sound. I rooted with purpledrake and made a few changes but seeing no real benefit to rooting besides UI changes I decided to go back to stock with the TOT method. The method seemed to fail because I was sent to the miniOS without the large 1 2 3 referred to in the walk though. I was able to reboot and everything seemed fine but I noticed that particular ui sound was gone. Any ideas?
I am having the same issue, with my ui sound for removing apps from my home screen going silent. (It sounded a bit like the old recycle bin trash sound.) I noticed it stopped working after I tried and uninstalled a few live wallpapers, one of which had rain sounds. I have a feeling that knocked out my ui sound. I did a factory reset and the trash sound returned for a time, but once I resumed trying new tweaks and personalizations, it went silent again. Any ideas?

[Q] A Couple VERY Weird Glitches Occuring (Need help!)

Hey all,
So I'm posting this thread regarding a couple pretty weird glitches and bugs occurring on my G3, 3 specific ones.
The first: (Probably the least serious but still REALLY annoying) At EXACTLY 12:00AM every night no matter what timezone I set the phone to (I'm in AU on the AEST GMT+10 timezone but it does this at the same time on any timezone) the phone will switch it's WiFi off automatically without warning, reason or explanation. It just goes off and then I have to manually turn it back on. Sure I could use an app such as Tasker or AutomateIt to turn it back on but I don't see why this is occurring in the first place?
The second issue (Most recent): Lately after updating to the V20E firmware for my D855 I've noticed that a graphical glitch (Specifically related to the colour Blue) occurs when there are fast moving elements on my phone's screen (Such as when I move a chat head around on my phone from Messenger, or when I'm scrolling Facebook or my App Drawer fast, there's just a blue box around whatever object/s appear to be moving on my phone's screen. I've not dropped the phone at all, and it has only been present since updating from the V20D ROM. Not sure what could be causing it.
The third and by far the MOST ANNOYING of the issues I'm having, is that for no apparent reason, whenever I am listening to Music with the stock Music player, and I lock the screen (The screen goes off) about 5 seconds later weird stuff starts to happen..
The song will pause, play or even stop completely, seemingly on its own. The "phone" will change songs, artists and sometimes complete albums and playlists completely by itself, with me doing nothing but staring at the lock screen (It keeps doing it until I re-enter the Music app, then when I lock the phone the whole cycle just repeats itself.)
I've done some looking around and careful observations on the phone itself, and it seems that before the weird stuff starts happening to my music, the phone opens Voice Mate by itself, and then if I'm not present, it apparently closes it and then that's when the stuff happens. I've tried everything I can on a non-rooted phone to stop this. I've tried re-installing the Music app, Uninstalling all updates to the Voice Mate and it's packages to the factory version, force-stopping Voice Mate, everything and no matter what I do the phone still opens Voice Mate and the weird stuff starts happening (It's like it's taking commands from Voice Mate to do something but I'm not even doing anything ) It's been doing this since I got my phone when it came with Android KitKat 4.4 (I was on the D10M ROM until I moved to the D20D Android L ROM) and I moved ROMs doing a completely fresh start ( I factory wiped the phone and then upgraded via a CSE flash and put all my stuff back on it manually) and I would've thought a completely fresh start would have fixed it but apparently not... Either it's a bug that's been present for a while, or it's something deeper than the ROM.
So yeah some pretty weird issues, if someone knows what could be causing them, please let me know, especially if you know a way to solve them.
Cheers guys.
I'm having a very similar problem with regards to #1 but it's doing it with Bluetooth for me!
At midnight on the dot, it will disconnect my connected Bluetooth devices. It doesn't shut Bluetooth off, it just drops the connection. I posted about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/bluetooth-disconnects-midnight-t2973187
Your phone sound possessed! Call 1-800-Exorcism now.
You right, weird/unusual.

Phone Call Sound Problems

Hello. Does anybody have an idea why there is no sound whenever I send/receive calls? Also, the UI/related app crashes whenever I do the same.
No problems when I uses SMS though, so I don't think it's a signal problem.
erickh0 said:
Hello. Does anybody have an idea why there is no sound whenever I send/receive calls? Also, the UI/related app crashes whenever I do the same.
No problems when I uses SMS though, so I don't think it's a signal problem.
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Maybe a theme issue?
Nope. Just reformatted the phone and did not install any theme/launcher apps
Same issue
I've been having the same issue and I have no idea why. Performed a factory reset. Tried running the phone in safe mode. It seems like it works briefly after a restart but then cuts out after a few minutes. I never had any issues like this before the update.
Problem for me goes as follows.
Receive phone call
Try to answer
Either the phone answers the call and there is no sound (mic or speaker) but otherwise acts normal or the phone refuses to answer the call and the "swipe up to answer" UI keeps reappearing. When the later happens the phone crashes and goes through a restart that takes longer than a normal one.
Make a phone call
No sound (mic or speaker)
The issues with the microphone seems to affect other parts of the system as well, such as ok Google and voice typing.
Speaker seems to work fine other wise
Putting the phone in safe mode seems to delay the problem sometimes.
Andre... said:
I've been having the same issue and I have no idea why. Performed a factory reset. Tried running the phone in safe mode. It seems like it works briefly after a restart but then cuts out after a few minutes. I never had any issues like this before the update.
Problem for me goes as follows.
Receive phone call
Try to answer
Either the phone answers the call and there is no sound (mic or speaker) but otherwise acts normal or the phone refuses to answer the call and the "swipe up to answer" UI keeps reappearing. When the later happens the phone crashes and goes through a restart that takes longer than a normal one.
Make a phone call
No sound (mic or speaker)
The issues with the microphone seems to affect other parts of the system as well, such as ok Google and voice typing.
Speaker seems to work fine other wise
Putting the phone in safe mode seems to delay the problem sometimes.
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same here
Andre... said:
I've been having the same issue and I have no idea why. Performed a factory reset. Tried running the phone in safe mode. It seems like it works briefly after a restart but then cuts out after a few minutes. I never had any issues like this before the update.
Problem for me goes as follows.
Receive phone call
Try to answer
Either the phone answers the call and there is no sound (mic or speaker) but otherwise acts normal or the phone refuses to answer the call and the "swipe up to answer" UI keeps reappearing. When the later happens the phone crashes and goes through a restart that takes longer than a normal one.
Make a phone call
No sound (mic or speaker)
The issues with the microphone seems to affect other parts of the system as well, such as ok Google and voice typing.
Speaker seems to work fine other wise
Putting the phone in safe mode seems to delay the problem sometimes.
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Me too. Bumping in hopes of a fix.
Same. I'm running a custom ROM and haven't upgraded to 8.0 yet. Does the issue persist with 8.0? Google told me today to revert to stock and upgrade to see if that fixes it.
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Andre... said:
I've been having the same issue and I have no idea why. Performed a factory reset. Tried running the phone in safe mode. It seems like it works briefly after a restart but then cuts out after a few minutes. I never had any issues like this before the update.
Problem for me goes as follows.
Receive phone call
Try to answer
Either the phone answers the call and there is no sound (mic or speaker) but otherwise acts normal or the phone refuses to answer the call and the "swipe up to answer" UI keeps reappearing. When the later happens the phone crashes and goes through a restart that takes longer than a normal one.
Make a phone call
No sound (mic or speaker)
The issues with the microphone seems to affect other parts of the system as well, such as ok Google and voice typing.
Speaker seems to work fine other wise
Putting the phone in safe mode seems to delay the problem sometimes.
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Same thing started happening for me yesterday!
I was sending a voice message on Whatsapp.
The msg was sent but no audio was recorder.
I received a call but there was no audio (both in & out)
I tried making a call and the same happened.
The "Phone" app would even hang after hangup and would crash. I get a white screen with the G logo and a loading bar beneath it, then it would start.
Starting the phone app is also sluggish.
If I make a call (and get no audio) I try to switch to loudspeaker and I could hear the other party but for a couple seconds then it's muted, then comes back for a couple seconds, and keeps doing it intermittently.
Sound from music app and videos works fine.
SOMETIMES after a reboot phone audio&mic would return but temporarely.
SOMETIMES when I try rebooting and it doesn't work, I try safe mode and it work (not all the time though)
SOMETIMES switching from LTE to WCDMA only fixes it temporarly.
This is really unpredictable.
I reverted back to a 7.1.2 stock. At first the issue persisted then it was fixed for a couple hours.
I updated back to O and audio worked for some time but after a few minutes, the issue returned.
Now I am on a clean stock install of O. without any apps installed. The audio comes back for a few minutes, then it's gone for hours.
Hopefully this thread will grab the attention of someone who might be able to help
Having the same issue on a regular Google Pixel. Also Google Assistant is not working using the "Ok Google" voice command and the phone app - answering and ending calls lag - same issue mic and speaker do not work. In Safe work, they work but on rebooting same issue persists.
xbiggyl said:
Same thing started happening for me yesterday!
I was sending a voice message on Whatsapp.
The msg was sent but no audio was recorder.
I received a call but there was no audio (both in & out)
I tried making a call and the same happened.
The "Phone" app would even hang after hangup and would crash. I get a white screen with the G logo and a loading bar beneath it, then it would start.
Starting the phone app is also sluggish.
If I make a call (and get no audio) I try to switch to loudspeaker and I could hear the other party but for a couple seconds then it's muted, then comes back for a couple seconds, and keeps doing it intermittently.
Sound from music app and videos works fine.
SOMETIMES after a reboot phone audio&mic would return but temporarely.
SOMETIMES when I try rebooting and it doesn't work, I try safe mode and it work (not all the time though)
SOMETIMES switching from LTE to WCDMA only fixes it temporarly.
This is really unpredictable.
I reverted back to a 7.1.2 stock. At first the issue persisted then it was fixed for a couple hours.
I updated back to O and audio worked for some time but after a few minutes, the issue returned.
Now I am on a clean stock install of O. without any apps installed. The audio comes back for a few minutes, then it's gone for hours.
Hopefully this thread will grab the attention of someone who might be able to help
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I've starting having this problem too... its very frustrating. Im on Stock O (OPR3.170623.008), Verizon,with unlocked bootloader.
me too
jasona08 said:
I've starting having this problem too... its very frustrating. Im on Stock O (OPR3.170623.008), Verizon,with unlocked bootloader.
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stock O, Rogers.
bump - hoping someone has heard something somewhere.
Same here for my regular pixel, this is really annoyed. It just starts happening after almost 12 months since I got it.
Andre... said:
I've been having the same issue and I have no idea why. Performed a factory reset. Tried running the phone in safe mode. It seems like it works briefly after a restart but then cuts out after a few minutes. I never had any issues like this before the update.
Problem for me goes as follows.
Receive phone call
Try to answer
Either the phone answers the call and there is no sound (mic or speaker) but otherwise acts normal or the phone refuses to answer the call and the "swipe up to answer" UI keeps reappearing. When the later happens the phone crashes and goes through a restart that takes longer than a normal one.
Make a phone call
No sound (mic or speaker)
The issues with the microphone seems to affect other parts of the system as well, such as ok Google and voice typing.
Speaker seems to work fine other wise
Putting the phone in safe mode seems to delay the problem sometimes.
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I have been having these same issues with my phone. I noticed it happened after I downloaded the what's call app to make a WiFi call. I noticed another user had the problem after installing what's app to her phone. Could this somehow be the problem? I am not super tech savvy but I am convinced it is related to my downloading the what's call app. I have uninstalled the app. Still the problem remains. Any ideas? Thanks.
Has anyone that posted in this thread was able to resolve this issue? I also have this problem, I'm currently waiting for it to happen again so I can pull logcat but no idea what I should be looking for since I have no idea what can cause not being able to hear the caller so randomly.
I was originally suspecting V4A, but last night I flashed stock system img, did not install V4A and same issue occurred.

Several sound issues, I believe they are related. Welp!

Some info: Pixel XL, one-year-old, rooted with Magisk, android up-to-date version 9, Build number PPR2.181005.003
Some weeks ago I started to see some weird behaviour related to sound. First, while listening to Spotify and Google Podcasts (from now on called "The Apps"), the phone would simply stop producing any sound through the headphone (or speakers when the headphones are then unplugged). A restart would fix it until the next random time it would happen again.
After a while, I've decided to factory reset the phone and reinstall the Android system from scratch and root it again (I've been doing this kind of stuff for years now, so I'm pretty knowledgeable about these procedures), to no avail. The problem was still there.
I've started to try to pinpoint what the main problem would be, and then I've started debugging other stuff. What I've found is:
- If I restart the phone and immediately try to play Spotify or Google Podcasts, it will not work and only a restart will fix it.
- If I restart the phone and wait a few minutes (around 5 minutes) everything works, until the next random failure.
- After a restart, my widgets on the home screen will take a few minutes to load (Google Calendar and The Weather Network)-- if I try The Apps before that, no sound will come out through the headphones (or speakers if I disconnect the headphones)
- Sometimes the sound will come out through the phone's speakers, even if the headphones are connected. Only a restart will fix this.
- Sometimes a loud cracking sound will come through the headphones and after that, no sound is played whatsoever by the phone -- a restart fixes this.
- Both The Apps would randomly stop playing (as if the pause button is pressed). Pressing the Play button again restores the sound, but with different volume level. If it was lower, it will become louder, and vice versa. I didn't test this without the headphones as I would need to isolate myself from the world LOL.
- No sound is produced during phone calls either. A restart fixes this until the next random failure.
- The volume indicator will randomly lag to display after pressing the volume buttons.
- The volume indicator will appear randomly and change small amounts (up or down) while I'm using the phone.
I am slowly removing less-used apps to try to pinpoint which one could be the offending factor, with no luck so far.
I've unrooted my phone today to try and see if this has any effect on those problems (no effect).
Any ideas what I can try next? Any idea what can cause these problems?
daniel3ub said:
Some info: Pixel XL, one-year-old, rooted with Magisk, android up-to-date version 9, Build number PPR2.181005.003
Some weeks ago I started to see some weird behaviour related to sound. First, while listening to Spotify and Google Podcasts (from now on called "The Apps"), the phone would simply stop producing any sound through the headphone (or speakers when the headphones are then unplugged). A restart would fix it until the next random time it would happen again.
After a while, I've decided to factory reset the phone and reinstall the Android system from scratch and root it again (I've been doing this kind of stuff for years now, so I'm pretty knowledgeable about these procedures), to no avail. The problem was still there.
I've started to try to pinpoint what the main problem would be, and then I've started debugging other stuff. What I've found is:
- If I restart the phone and immediately try to play Spotify or Google Podcasts, it will not work and only a restart will fix it.
- If I restart the phone and wait a few minutes (around 5 minutes) everything works, until the next random failure.
- After a restart, my widgets on the home screen will take a few minutes to load (Google Calendar and The Weather Network)-- if I try The Apps before that, no sound will come out through the headphones (or speakers if I disconnect the headphones)
- Sometimes the sound will come out through the phone's speakers, even if the headphones are connected. Only a restart will fix this.
- Sometimes a loud cracking sound will come through the headphones and after that, no sound is played whatsoever by the phone -- a restart fixes this.
- Both The Apps would randomly stop playing (as if the pause button is pressed). Pressing the Play button again restores the sound, but with different volume level. If it was lower, it will become louder, and vice versa. I didn't test this without the headphones as I would need to isolate myself from the world LOL.
- No sound is produced during phone calls either. A restart fixes this until the next random failure.
- The volume indicator will randomly lag to display after pressing the volume buttons.
- The volume indicator will appear randomly and change small amounts (up or down) while I'm using the phone.
I am slowly removing less-used apps to try to pinpoint which one could be the offending factor, with no luck so far.
I've unrooted my phone today to try and see if this has any effect on those problems (no effect).
Any ideas what I can try next? Any idea what can cause these problems?
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I'm sure you have already looked into this - but just in case....make sure that the "Apps" are NOT set to Optimize Battery nor to Restrict Background Usage. There was another thread recently about a user having Spotify stop playing randomly for them and the issue was the app was set to Restrict Background Activity. Good luck!
sb1893 said:
I'm sure you have already looked into this - but just in case....make sure that the "Apps" are NOT set to Optimize Battery nor to Restrict Background Usage. There was another thread recently about a user having Spotify stop playing randomly for them and the issue was the app was set to Restrict Background Activity. Good luck!
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Thanks for the confidence you projected on me LOL, I had NOT looked at it! Indeed, both apps are set to "optimize battery". I'll change this setting and give it a go.
Thanks!
sb1893 said:
I'm sure you have already looked into this - but just in case....make sure that the "Apps" are NOT set to Optimize Battery nor to Restrict Background Usage. There was another thread recently about a user having Spotify stop playing randomly for them and the issue was the app was set to Restrict Background Activity. Good luck!
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I must say a LOT of the related problems are, if not completely, at least partially solved. I've seen way less problems since I disabled the battery optimization for Spotify and Google Podcasts.
Thank you so much!
I'll keep tracking them and running some more tests just to be sure, but it seems this was the main issue here.
Amazing how one single app and setting can bring a phone to an almost useless state!

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