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Microphone and speaker stop working!?

It seems about every day I notice that my phone is no longer making any noises, won't play music, no speakerphone if I make a phone call, and NO MICROPHONE! If I soft reset the problem goes away.
I'm starting to isolate the problem by removing some related programs, starting with Resco Audio Recorder (automatic phone recording) but has anyone else seen this problem?
It's soooo frustrating when someone calls and the microphone is dead.

Hi --
I've seen a similar problem: twice now, in the morning after the phone wakes me up with the alarm, I've gotten calls, where the phone vibrates and shows the incoming-call screen, but there is no ring. I go to answer, and I can't hear anything, and neither can the calling party hear me.
A while ago I put in the Windows directory the new AudioPara3.csv file that's floating around these forums, so I thought that might be the culprit. However, the phone was fine for over a week after loading the file, until I loaded HD Tweak and made a couple of changes with the volume settings. Right now I still have AudioPara3.csv loaded, and have dialed back the HD Tweak volume to the following:
Acoustic settings: Normal
Increase sound: Medium
The last two days the phone has not shown the issue. Now I'm going to try to set Increase sound to High and see if it's still o.k.

Same thing happened to me today as well. I had just installed nitrogen audio player earlier that day. Not sure if it was related.

Same thing happens to me if I increase the acoustic setting in HD Tweak to intermediate level. Revert back to "normal level" and phone works normally.

Interesting, so a sound volume might do it? That's very odd that it affects the microphone too! Anyone have any idea which specific volume might be doing it? I have PhoneAlarm set my volumes based on the time or if there is a current event going on based on its category (ie: work meeting). I wonder if it could be messing with it.
So far no problem after removing Resco Recorder, however... I'm going to leave it off for a week or so then re-install it and see if the problem recurs.

[Q] Speaker Randomly Stopped Working?

Howdy all,
The other day my other halfs' Wildfires' speaker decided to stop working for no reason. Can still make phonecalls etc, and the headphones work, but its like its stuck on silent all the time!
Read somewhere it could be to do with a recently installed app, so factory reset it but no change. Also saw it could be something to do with something in the headphone socket not clicking back properly when they are removed, but she's never used the headphones, but tried that anyway, still with no luck.
Never been flashed or anything, totally standard.
Any ideas?
Many thanks, Tarq

Tarquin76 said:
Howdy all,
The other day my other halfs' Wildfires' speaker decided to stop working for no reason. Can still make phonecalls etc, and the headphones work, but its like its stuck on silent all the time!
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Perhaps it is me, but what do you mean by this?
1. You cannot go out of silent mode in terms of "set phone volume to vibrate or noice" by using the volume buttons. In that case:
- make sure that your volume buttons work (by using them to regulate audio of, for example, your radio).
- try if you can solve the problem by going into "options of your phone - sound".
If they do not work, try to flash a ruu. If still not solved, I'm afraid you should open your phone to see if the connectors of the volume buttons are still in place (i've had this with my previous phone). But perhaps wait for other advice before doing so
2. You can get out of the silent ringer mode, but still the phone doesnt make any noice. My best guess then is that it related to software in the system folder which controls your device at the system level, or perhaps with the kernel?
I do not know if the the systemfolder is restored when you do a factory reset..
It couldn't do harm if you flash a ruu in my opinion. The all software related issues are ruled out then.
It can't be the hardware as you can still hear people talking to you while phoning without headset. Nor can it be a messed up jack-in, as all the sound should be transfered to the headphone, and it shouldn't be possible to call and here people without headset.
To summerize: I think it is still software, and that it should be possible to solve it by flashing a kernel or restoring bynusing a RUU.
Erwin

[Q] Bluetooth Car Kit Issues

Hi,
I am having problems with the HTC One X and my car kit. It connects ok and allows outgoing calls no problem. However incoming calls were automatically answered (worked out it is the stock installed car mode),and a message played to the caller "the person you are calling is currently driving". After that, it is not possible to connect to the caller.
I have now disabled the car mode app and done a hard reset. The phone now still works for outgoing calls. It works for incoming calls, provided it is not plugged into the charger.
If plugged into the charger (cig lighter with non-HTC usb cable),hitting answer (whether on phone or car kit) picks up the call and then the audio goes silent after about 2 seconds. The call can then only be recovered by selecting the audio out as handset, and then re-selecting the car kit. After doing that, everything works fine (provided the caller hasn't hung up in the meantime!).
Has anyone else had similar issues? Any ideas are welcome.
I have tried installing no dock and a tonne of similar apps to no avail.
I have tried enabling the car mode app and answering calls through it (but does the same as above - 2 seconds of audio then audio goes until carkit disconnected and then reconnected during call).
I am running a stock phone, not rooted, with 1.26. I am not encrypting the storage or anything else (I notice there have been threads about enryption and bluetooth problems prior to 1.28).
Thanks
TS

You may have solved this by now but I had a similar problem with my One S. It turned out not to be the phone at fault.
In my case the phone would ring once then fall silent and the car audio would go silent while the incoming caller received the message that I was driving. I had not changed any of the settings on my car so assumed that the phone was at fault.
After trying to change phone settings I had a look at the settings for the Bluetooth on the car, where I found a setting for placing calls on hold. I found that this was set on automatic so I changed it to manual and everything worked properly.
What had been happening was that all incoming calls were being put on hold, which is why the incoming caller received the "driving" message. The caller was actually connected but on hold and if I had pressed the button to swap between callers on hold I would have been connected.
It appears that the setting had always been on automatic but my old phone didn't use the automatic call hold function, which is why I only had the issue when I changed to the One S.
Hope this helps.

Bluetooth call volume is too low

I rarely make calls in my car, so I do not know if this was much of an issue on my older head unit*, or if it was a symptom prior to root.
I have a new unit from Pumpkin - MTC8-KLD6-V2.81
Rooted with Malaysk's latest ROM
My phone (HTC M8) is connected through bluetooth. Music plays just fine through the system.
When I make a call, however;
1) Music Stops and head unit goes silent (not a problem)
2) I hear a bit of static (I have had low volume static since I upgraded to Malaysk if the head unit is on and nothing is playing)(again, not really a problem)
3) Phone starts to make a call.
4) Static suddenly goes away, as if the volume was suddenly turned down
5) I can barely hear the phone ring through the head unit.
I have tried turning up the volume all the way on the phone (volume on the phone seems to do nothing when in a bluetooth call) and turning up the head unit. If I have the head unit all the way up, I CAN hear reasonably well, but that's at a volume of 30 when everything else plays loud enough at 5.
I have looked for different setting on the phone and on the head unit and have found nothing. I have adjusted the Factory Settings -> Audio, but that changes bluetooth as a whole and make the music play too loud.
I would say that the issue is is similar to switching the phone from "regular" (where 1-10 is set for being near one's ear) to "speaker" (where 1-10 can be heard across the room) and the phone is telling the head unit to stay at "regular".
Actually, on my first head unit the problem was just the opposite and phone calls were always way too loud.
Anyone have ideas on other settings I should try?
Thanks

I think there are options in the factory settings are for individual volume controls.

singlecell83 said:
I think there are options in the factory settings are for individual volume controls.
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There are, but the option is for "Bluetooth" in general.
Bluetooth itself is fine, and I can listen to music from my phone through Bluetooth at whatever level I choose. The problem is that when it switches to phone (dialing out or coming in) the volume drops drastically and I have to turn the head unit's volume up all the way to hear at all. That means the music from Bluetooth will come back at speaker (or at least ear) damaging levels once the call ends.

If adjusting the BT volume is not enough, test with others volume settings lowering/raising some of them.

the norm is the hands free on these units are not the best and there are some mods out there on the forum..

Alarms not sounding

This is a problem I've had on and off for a while, maybe since Wear 2.0 but can't be sure
More often than not, the alarms I set on the watch vibrate but no sound.
If it's relevant I have Watchmake installed and usually have one of WM faces showing
Also, I don't really use it for connections or notifications from my phone, so Areoplane mode is usually on for the watch and the watch is disconnected in Wear OS on my phone. Also, I tend to switch off the screen to save battery, but alarms do work in this scenario and when they work, I get vibration, display comes on and sound. When they don't work properly, I just get vibration, no sound and no display.
As I say, I had it working most of the time for about a year but recently its gone belly up again and I only get vibration for alarms. I've done factory resets on the watch and sometimes I get sound etc, sometimes I don't.
Anyone else experiencing this and/or any suggestions?
Thanks