Hey everyone.
I am new to these forums and new to Android in general. I finally got an Xperia S a few weeks ago. After a lot of reading and trying things out, I was able to successfully flash some roms (and unlock the bootloader, root, etc).
I have learned a LOT in the last 3 weeks. I really like the Paranoid Android and now, Nova roms. However, something is troubling. The sound was not working on viber (maybe it never did... i just used it like 2 weeks ago, so maybe it's the Xperia S, roms, or a setting). I flashed a baseband, using flashtool and it solved it mainly. I still could not change volume (slider bar moved, no change audibly). Anyways, I flashed to Dark Passion PA a couple nights ago. It worked well for the most part.
No audio on Play previews prompted me to try youtube... resulting in the same error. All the while internet radio apps were not working. I finally got one to work ('Tuned in'), but Xiialive said "Failed to set volume". Anyways, eventually, no audio was being heard anywhere except via earphones, and in call. The speakers (internal and loud) are silent on any setting and in any media (ringing, youtube, net, radio, mp3's etc). I can hear calls though.
I tried plugging earphones in and out (as per search suggestions). This did not bring a positive result. I am considering flashing back to stock. My phone keeps leaving flash mode, on flashtool though. Emma is not working (Sony's newest tool). I hope I don't need to send it back to Sony or Amazon (where I bought it).
If it matters, I am on Nova RC2 and was most recently on Dark Passion PA. Both are quite cool. The sound problems (no sound at all sans earphones) started yesterday, as far as I can tell. Both clean installs.
I really appreciate the hard work and innovation of the developers, and the support of these forums. This is my first post, but tireless reading enabled me to learn how to flash and troubleshoot better, for that I am grateful. Any guidance in resolving the lack of sound, will be sincerely appreciated. Thank you.
Seems like even a flash to Official ICS does not solve the problem.
Strange behavior. Old rom's background was showing up after a few clean installs of NOVA rom. I am not blaming the rom, it may happen with any. Now, post-flashing the Official NL ICS firmware (which didn't work in many attempts) It seemingly worked, with sill NO SOUND. It died (battery) and now it won't boot. It doesn't even charge, all the time. Just an orange light sometime. I'll give it to Sony.
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I'm having the same problem for a week now...
I was on the street with my BA making calls and all went ok. I use it for my work, so I do lots of calls a day. Suddenly, I realized, when I call, that the other can not hear me, nor can I hear them! The counter is running, the screen says "Connected". I haven't done anything to change the configuration, nor it have dropped it from my pocket.
I'¡m getting crazy. I don't know what I've done wrong.
Things tried unsuccessfully:
-Lots of device resets..... Between tryes and Updates.
- Reinstalled WM5 using a different ROM. Now I have TM 1.3. [http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42632]
- Upgraded Radio to 1.15 (previously, I had 1.13)
- Used a Bluetooth headset. It worked, I could hear the sound from the phone, at least. Only thru the bluetooth headphone. Still, I could not hear any phone-sound from the loudspeaker when I turned off the headphone and the bluetooth headset were disabled, even with the Bluetooth signal ON, as suggested on other post. Each try with a new call.
- "Installed" the Unidirectional patch (copied the AudioGW.dll file over the old one successfully, reset, etc..)
- Turned off the device and leave it off for a while. Take off the SIM card, touch it (cosmic vibrations ) Sometimes, before, the SIM card went a little nuts if I resetted the device too much -maybe :?- or if I got the battery off...
Sorry if this has been posted before, but, at this point, when I've been tried almost (I think) everything, i couldn't find anything relevant using search.
Please, any help will be greatly appreciated!!! Maybe I can use at least a link to another thread..
Thanks
come on, people, a little bit of help here Still making calls with my old Nokia
Out of interest... do you have any wisbar apps installed?
No wisbar apps installed. Thanks
I'm having the same problem. Most of the time this occurs the first time I use it in the morning. The other side can hear me, but I can't hear them. I softreset and it works again.
Yes, I've checked and there's lots of posts about this problem. It differs from mine in the sense that the other CAN hear you. In my case, nor I or the other part can hear us....
As you can read, I've done lots of soft-resets, now I have also 3 hard-resets with everything "at 0" (clear Registry Hive and format Storage). But the problem remains. The only thing I see I can do now is downgrade to wm2003 and see.......
Thanks for your answer.
mutho said:
I'm having the same problem. Most of the time this occurs the first time I use it in the morning. The other side can hear me, but I can't hear them. I softreset and it works again.
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I've moved to the "BA upgrade, etc" forum. Please, help me from there!! Still looking for an answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=44440
there is an issue with BT and this behaviour. Either you need to always have BT activated or once you have deactivated BT you need to reboot your device. I have the same problem myself.
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Fredrik
This is a post I found after searching for my issue regarding headphones volume problems. I couldn't find anything anywhere on the XDA Forums. Please see my response at the bottom, and any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Ok so I went ahead and upgraded my mobile with the OTA update that has showing on my mobile. I wanted to upgrade ASAP due to the fact that I have run out of space for apps on the internal memory and this upgrade will resolve it (apps can be moved to the SD card).
However I think I may have jumped the gun as now whenever I use headphones the volume is stuck at max and even when the phone software says the volume is silent it’s still blasting out! Unfortunately spotify doesn’t have an internal volume control at all so it’s a no go there too.
I’ve had a search on Google and it looks like people are not experiencing the exact same issue, however there are a lot with issues with the volume in some way or another.
Hopefully this will be fixed pretty quickly as it now makes the phone unusable as a media player and I have to go back to using my iPod.
UPDATE: After searching for a resolution to this and not coming across anything much I managed to find someone saying recessed headphone jacks are quite problematic. The Desire doesn’t actually have a recessed jack but I do use a silicon case that makes the jack a bit recessed. This has not been a problem before, but I thought I’d give it a go without the case. Low and behold the volume buttons seemed to be working fine. I thought this was a bit strange so out the case back on and what’s even stranger is that is still worked fine. Now I have no idea why this happened and to me it seems a bit strange that this would even cause it in the first place (I would assume that it would be lower in volume or only one channel). Unless of course I came across a bug that has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of hitting. Anyway I’m glad it’s working now!!
My reply:
Hi, I'm having the exact same problem after doing the froyo update. I too searched everywhere but found nothing until now. Unfortunately removing my case doesn't resolve the issue. I thought it may have been ROM related issue, but after trying several different ones the problem still exists. The strange thing is this has only started happening over the last week but I've had froyo for 4 weeks now! Can anyone out there help me ???
I had the exact same issue on the OpenDesire ROM after I flashed a file. The headphone volume was deafening every time it was on with no way to turn it down. But my issue clearly started when I flashed the DSP Manager file floating around. When I switched back to a clean ROM, the issue was no longer there.
I also experienced the issue when I moved between ROMs and updates of ROMs without full wipes. Even when I moved from stock T-Mobile to stock HTC, I experienced the issue. The resolve was simply doing a full wipe.
On HTC 2.2 I don't have this issue at all, thankfully.
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Now you come to mention it I did the DSM Flash Zip about a week ago after flashing LeeDrOiD V2.1a, so it looks like thats the cause. Is there a quick way around this ? i.e. uninstalling the DSM flash or will I have to Full Wipe? Many thanks BTW
i have been having issues with no sound coming from the LG nitro , all of a sudden it cut out yesterday and have hard reset numerous times and 1 out of 4 or 5 reboots the sound comes in but if you power off then on the sound disappears .. this is a stock phone with only root , anybody have any ideas or similiar issues ?
This is not any kind of development related topic but I'd suggest that you bring it in for repair or replacement as that sounds like a hardware issue. Maybe try flashing another rom.
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I had a similar issue and ended up returning the phone to bell for a new one.
Here is the long story just in case it helps some one. Like all good Android users I started by rooting my phone, installing ROM Manager and making a nandroid backup. Once this was done I ran rooted stock for a few days. All was well.
Then I started to debloat my phone. After which everything seamed good. Then installed and played with RAM Manager and SD Speed Increase. TBH i did not notice any particular increase in speed on my phone but that might be due to the following issue.
After all this I decided to run a few test by using the phone into the ground. Added a bluetooth headset, while using navigation and making several calls. It was all running very well until I rebooted. Once rebooted whenever I connect my bluetooth headset I was no longer able to make calls. The phone dialer would completely lag out until I de-activated bluetooth. The the 10 or so test calls I tried making would all go through at once. This wasn't the end of the word for me so I continued to use the phone as everything else was working fine. The things started degrading by which time I was on the new CM9 nightly build. The phone had started being really sluggish. I finally decided to return my phone after it would no longer play any sound and whenever it called to any sound related function would lag out and/or reboot. The same behavior happen in stock, cm9 and NO! NO! ROMs. I tried flashing a few roms in a last ditch effort.
I could be wrong by my conclusion is that the audio portion of the snapdargon chip fried and since these phone are basically just 1 chip the phone simply degraded from there.
I would like to know of anyone else has had similar issue or if I just got a lemon and also your take on the cause of the issue.
Hope this can help someone.
Thanks!
Edit: Returned my phone for a new one and I've been flashing CM9 since the first release and no issues. I'm actually really happy with the replacement and would recommend the phone as long as you don't get a lemon ;-)
This problem just started for me and I have experienced nothing like it. I'm running the LG p930 with CM10.1.3 RC2. Yesterday, the phone began restarting whenever it tries playing a sound. This happens in Netflix/ Youtube once a video starts, Pandora when it attempts to start playing a song, even the sound panel when I use the volume rocker to try changing my volume and it attempts to play the little beep. It also happens no matter what speaker it tries using - headphones, speakerphone or earpiece, meaning I can't actually use the telephone functionality of the device either..
As far as fixing- I've tried clearing the cache and dalvik, fixing permissions, and even flashed several other ROMs. Everything seemed to have the same problem. Does anyone know what could be going on?
This exact thing happened to me. I couldn't find any information on it.
I had to completely format and un-brick the phone. I'm not even sure that it worked the first time. But after completely wiping and un-bricking a couple of times, it was back to normal. I think this is the guide that I have always used for that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597488
Hope this works for you. I know that problem can really suck.
Thank you so much! I'll try this. I can't believe someone else had this issue, it seems incredibly rare. Can you tell me more about it? What ROM were you running? could you play any sounds at all?
Thanks again
I know what you mean. I was surprised to stumble across this post about it. I feel like I have had a few issues that just seemed very strange with this phone.
Mine was just like you described. I couldn't even change the volume without it crashing. If my phone was on vibrate, I could see the call come through. When I answered the call, the phone crashed.
I was probably on a PAC-ROM or CM10 Nightly. But like you, I probably went through every available ROM, stables and nightlies at that time. I think I even tried to flash a stock ROM.
Thank you so much. Actually, you don't have to follow the whole guide. All you need to do is download the image files, and skip to step 4 in the section "Restoring the original Nitro HD images:" Then get cwm working, and move on from there with whatever ROM you want. I would never have thought to try this. Thanks again.
Hello,
First I apologize for opening a new thread instead of posting in the CM11 thread, but till now I don't have write privileges there.
I recently unlocked and permrooted my Desire HD then installed Mustaavalkosta's CM11, but as a newbie, I have some issues I require assistance with. To note that I did an extensive reading before I did any rooting and installing a new rom.
1- I find myself not hearing anything during calls. It's sort of like my internal speaker got muted somehow after installing CM11. I tried multiple apps to no avail. I read somewhere that if u fail to flash the boot.img in the rom u might get this issue, but thing is I did flash the boot.img after I installed the rom and the recovery and wiped the cache. I can hear the calls with the external speaker turned on and with the headphone, so I think it's not a hardware issue but a software one. Any fix to this?
2- After each restart, the UI somehow resets itself. I mean many of the settings and widgets I use either get reset or vanish like the sleep option in seetings for example (I put the screen to turn off after a 1 min and it resets to 15 sec after each reboot which is annoying as hell). Also, many apps like Dolphin and GoSMSPro shortcuts vanish from the home screen after each reboot, while whatsapp for example doesn't. I'm not able to figure why some app shortcuts vanish while others don't.
3- I tried to use ART instead of dalvik, but yet again after each reboot, dalvik is back. So effectively, I can't benefit from ART.
4- other minor bugs which I will not mention for now till I solve the 3 main ones.
If someone can provide some assistance (mainly for the first issue which is the major one), I will be very grateful. It's becoming increasingly annoying and embarrassing to turn the speaker on every time I receive a call, bc most of the times I am in a room with other individuals or in a meeting, and I am forced to have them hear the conversations bc not always I can excuse myself.
No one has any input on this?
After wiping data, dalvik cache, android secure, etc... and reinstalling the stock rooted 2.3.5 Rom, I still had the same internal speaker issue on calls. The heaphone icon was on even though there were no headphones plugged. I installed 2 widgets (togggleheadset 2 and headphone fix) and the issue was fixed. To note I had this problem back on my unrooted stock Desire HD before I rooted it and upgraded to CM11 BR3 thinking the new rom will fix this problem.
So after I made the calls work on Gingerbread stock rooted rom, I did a clean wipe once more and installed CM11 BR4. The problem reemerged. And the 2 widgets couldn't be redownloaded bc they are not compatible with kitkat. The other issues mentioned in the OP disappeared, only the incall volume issue remained.
I need to mention that many Desire HD owners have had this problem on their Froyo and Gingerbread stock builds, and usually the 2 widgets I mentioned above helped fix the issue. On 4.4.2, it seems some android users have complained of in-speaker audio volume being very low, so maybe this worsens the issue I had instead of fixing it.
I'm leaning to think that it's mostly a software/code issue, otherwise why would the widgets fix the problem on an earlier version if it's hardware related? hence, there could be a workaround for it on Kitkat if someone knowledgeable cares to look at it. Maybe the code turns off the internal speaker or lowers the volume so much it becomes unhearable. The headphone and external speaker are just fine, I can hear the other person in the call without any problem. It's when I rely on the internal speaker that I hear nothing.
Hope someone can offer some assistance here.