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Guys I have my desire hd ear piece speaker sounding distorted when I turn the in call volume to its max. Any idea why It's happening? I have full wipe the custom Rom and re flashed my phone but still the problem is there. So any idea ?
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Guys please help I have tried flashing back to original Rom but the problem is not solved yet.
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puri1 said:
Guys please help I have tried flashing back to original Rom but the problem is not solved yet.
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Hi. try flashing back the stock rom. If still same prob, then and take it back frm where you bought it. They should fix under waranty, or exch it. it may be faulty
btw did the issue started happening after u flashed a custom rom?
I had the same problem...
...searched all over trying to find a solution relating to Desire HD but eventually found my answer in a thread relating to an older HTC phone.
I doubt I'd find it again so I can't give the credit where it's deserved but the poster suggested a couple of possible causes and solutions as I recall;
1. The speaker in the earpiece naturally contains a magnet and could over time pick up bits of metal fragments (swarf) from dust, in your pocket, off tables, etc. He suggested using a stronger magnet to stroke it off perhaps, or even easier (and perhaps safer for other components) just blow!
2. The speaker will have a thin plastic diaphragm that resonates to form the sound. If this becomes malformed somehow it will produce crackling/tinny noise and poor volume. The solution here is to close your mouth over the earpiece and either blow or suck If one doesn't work then try the other and test again.
Sounds comical I know(!), but it worked for me. I can't remember if it was blowing or sucking in my case but I was very glad I had avoided having to go through customer services and being without my phone. Instant fix and it's been fine since.
Like I said, this isn't Desire HD specific advice - it could happen to any cellphone really. I hope you have the same joy as I did ;-)
Funny but it works!
I was just going to unroot and return my Desire Z Vision to stock, and try to get it fixed under warranty. What a hassle!
I'm not sure whether the blowing or the sucking was it, but it fixed the terrible sound distortion coming from the phone earpiece speaker at higher than minimum in-call volumes.
Thanks so much! I love the XDA community!
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Sounds comical I know(!), but it worked for me.
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I have been searching for a replacement earpiece speaker and found your post.
The blowj** did really help me.
regards
Guys thanks for advice but I have got rid of my desire and now a happy camper with inspire 4g
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Hey guys!
I had this issue too, trying the blowing, sucking thing and now I have NO sound at all coming from the earpiece speaker
Any solution?
Thanks in advance
DanteGR said:
Hey guys!
I had this issue too, trying the blowing, sucking thing and now I have NO sound at all coming from the earpiece speaker
Any solution?
Thanks in advance
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To me I have tried blow trick but it messed up the ear piece more. But there is no way you going to loose the sound unless you drop the phone , try the magnet trick or using a vacuum cleaner ( I was once thinking of doing that ) try to re flash your DHD may be it will help and try to go with stock Rom first with mod kernel .
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puri1 said:
To me I have tried blow trick but it messed up the ear piece more. But there is no way you going to loose the sound unless you drop the phone , try the magnet trick or using a vacuum cleaner ( I was once thinking of doing that ) try to re flash your DHD may be it will help and try to go with stock Rom first with mod kernel .
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I just blew on the earpiece mate. Nothing more.. I have never evr dropped the phone not even once in 7 months...
I will try the things you suggest and get back if I have any luck.
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply though
Hi, I am on a t-mobile branded stock DHD which has never been rooted and the in call volume is amazingly low, I can barely hear people when I'm outside and most of the time I have to put it on speaker, I never had this problem with my n95 or bb 9780, can anyone help or offer any suggestions, is there a chance my handset could be faulty. Also does call quality improve in gingerbread as I am still awaiting that update.
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loyal32 said:
Hi, I am on a t-mobile branded stock DHD which has never been rooted and the in call volume is amazingly low, I can barely hear people when I'm outside and most of the time I have to put it on speaker, I never had this problem with my n95 or bb 9780, can anyone help or offer any suggestions, is there a chance my handset could be faulty. Also does call quality improve in gingerbread as I am still awaiting that update.
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What I can tell you my friend is that when I first got the phone for a while (about 2 months) the in-call volume and quality was very decent. I did not have a single problem. That is until the sound distortion started....
DanteGR said:
What I can tell you my friend is that when I first got the phone for a while (about 2 months) the in-call volume and quality was very decent. I did not have a single problem. That is until the sound distortion started....
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Yh I got mine earlier this year but I can't even remember if the in call volume was even any good to begin with
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HTC Desire HD weird sound from earpiece
Hey guys
I am experiencing something really weird. On my desire HD, when I start a call (make/receive) the sound is at max and is fine, after sometime the calls sound is all distorted as if the speaker is burst, once I lower the sound its fine i.e. <50%. If i keep my phone upside down for some time, the sound gets normal on the earpiece but again after sometime it gets distorted again.
What is going on? My speaker (earpiece) sounds okay for a few mins and then gets distorted, and after sometime it gets back to normal and then again distorted.. help me out guys i cant figure out and cant fix it.
I have tried:
1) Magnet in front of earpiece to pull out fragments of small metals on the speaker
2) Left the phone in an air tight jar with a dessicant on the earpiece
What next?
uma1rkhan said:
Hey guys
I am experiencing something really weird. On my desire HD, when I start a call (make/receive) the sound is at max and is fine, after sometime the calls sound is all distorted as if the speaker is burst, once I lower the sound its fine i.e. <50%. If i keep my phone upside down for some time, the sound gets normal on the earpiece but again after sometime it gets distorted again.
What is going on? My speaker (earpiece) sounds okay for a few mins and then gets distorted, and after sometime it gets back to normal and then again distorted.. help me out guys i cant figure out and cant fix it.
I have tried:
1) Magnet in front of earpiece to pull out fragments of small metals on the speaker
2) Left the phone in an air tight jar with a dessicant on the earpiece
What next?
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The earpiece has failed and needs replacing I'm afraid.
iridium21 said:
The earpiece has failed and needs replacing I'm afraid.
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Maybe yes, but its like alright for a few mins, e.g. in a 10 min call, 6 min its fine, then its like something is gradually appearing on the speaker to make it sound bad, slowly and gradually the sound gets from OK to bad as if something is vibrating with the speaker.
What I dont understand is that how does it get okay after a few mins rest?
I live in Pakistan, no Official HTC Support here, everything is either smuggled or people order from abroad... If it fails its a pretty tough situation for me !
Last resort is to blow in the earpiece or to use the professional air spray blower, but none of these trials is curable, this info is from HTC support website, mine requires repair, or I can use it for gaming and chatting, in that way an itoutch is quite enough.
Actually it was a great "phone" but now it's just an itouch or game&watch, or may be elastic baloon according to the technician solution.
Thanks htc ... No more purchases
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same problem
marins116 said:
Last resort is to blow in the earpiece or to use the professional air spray blower, but none of these trials is curable, this info is from HTC support website, mine requires repair, or I can use it for gaming and chatting, in that way an itoutch is quite enough.
Actually it was a great "phone" but now it's just an itouch or game&watch, or may be elastic baloon according to the technician solution.
Thanks htc ... No more purchases
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same problem with me.. it happened suddenly 2 weeks ago after searching/formatting/ changing some tweeks i decided to repair my phone with following available spare parts..
http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Ear-Piece-Ea...ltDomain_0&hash=item3f14a47875#ht_2453wt_1037
if i succeed i will tell you how difficult it was
Hi everyone,
Have a HTC One X, on holiday at the moment and the weirdest thing happened, the audio (speaker) on my HTC One X has suddenly stopped working, the audiojack still works so head phones work however if I want to play any music with the speaker no sound is played.
I have tried fresh wipe and also installing a new rom, this hasn´t fixed the issue.
Any tips on what I can do? I have tried turning up the volume (just in case lol), phone displays audio is maxed but no sound comes through, perhabs a faulty speaker?
Thanks for your help!
-Super bump!-
P.S. anyone know how to replace speaker or where to get replacement part in the UK?
My speaker died too, I sent it off for a warranty repair (and got them to do the wifi fix while it was there). That was last week, it's now listed as 'repair complete' so I'm just waiting for it back.
Before sending it off I looked at doing it myself, you can just pop the cover off and remove the speaker with a small screwdriver (it's stuck in place with some sticky tape).
Hi there guys, just to let everyone know incase someone reads this thread for future references, I fixed my speaker on the HTC One X, what I did was I opened it and then moved the connecting pins near the speaker, when I popped everything back on the speaker was fully working
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions though, hopefully this thread helps someone else in the future that might need to fix their One X speaker
Mine speaker sometimes does work and sometimes not. Or it works and after a while the music becomes less loud and stops. Most time it start working again after a tap on the speaker...
I could resurrect my dead speaker by tapping/blowing into the grille sometimes.
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.
benitorios said:
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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OK..so here it goes... When I try to make a call all I hear is ridiculous static... This is through the earpiecec, wired headse, BT headset and speakerphone.. This has happened on multiple roms, kernels & radios... What's really weird is that when I use Grove IP it works fine... Ive searched & searched & can't seem to find a solution... I just returned the phone to 100% 4.2 stock (jdq39) & the problem persists... This all leads me to believe its hardware related... I guess my next step is to take it apart... If anyone can point me in the right direction or tell me what I should be looking for when I take it apart it would be GREATLY appreciated!!
I just finished replacing the screen on my GNEX after a bad drop and water damage. Everything worked except for the earpiece and microphone having static during calls. Strangely though, unlike in your case, it's crystal clear on speaker phone and with a head set, in both directions (they can hear me and I can hear them). I have even replaced my earpiece, leading me to believe something on the motherboard is fried.
Thankfully, it's only a backup phone/media player at this point.
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I just finished replacing the screen on my GNEX after a bad drop and water damage. Everything worked except for the earpiece and microphone having static during calls. Strangely though, unlike in your case, it's crystal clear on speaker phone and with a head set, in both directions (they can hear me and I can hear them). I have even replaced my earpiece, leading me to believe something on the motherboard is fried.
Thankfully, it's only a backup phone/media player at this point.
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yeah...Im starting to think that maybe my problem is the antenna that recieves signal from verizon... since Voip calls work fine & when I make a call using verizons network I get static through earpiece, speaker & headsets as well... Im trying to do as much research as posible before I go craking the phone open and poking around inside... Im just using it as a media player now like you but I really wanna fix it! Its not a bad phone and dev support is still strong... Thanks for the reply by the way...
Hi,
got my M8 (dual-SIM) for a few days, and noticed that someone people can't hear me properly. I was sure it is network coverage related problem.
However, today I have decided to test the microphones using phone diagnostic tools and using sound recorder.
In most cases microphone works. But sometimes instead of my voice I hear noise and NO VOICE at all.
What is the conclusion, is this software or hardware related problem? Don't want to do factory reset for nothing.
Thanks in advance.
Anyone ?
My microphone started acting up about 2 weeks ago on my Att model.
When using headset no one can hear me, switch to speaker and they can. Record a video and I can hear background noise but voices are so low they are nearly inaudible.
Hell, I have to scream at the phone to get OK Google to work.
Wish I had an answer, but like like it's going to be a warranty issue. Till then, I'm using tasker to turn on speaker phone for all calls lol
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SpineSurgery said:
Hi,
got my M8 (dual-SIM) for a few days, and noticed that someone people can't hear me properly. I was sure it is network coverage related problem.
However, today I have decided to test the microphones using phone diagnostic tools and using sound recorder.
In most cases microphone works. But sometimes instead of my voice I hear noise and NO VOICE at all.
What is the conclusion, is this software or hardware related problem? Don't want to do factory reset for nothing.
Thanks in advance.
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It sounds like a hardware problem.
Are you rooted and do you have s-off?
If you are, you could try flashing the newest firmware and/or adsp to see if that fixes stuff.
Are you rooted? What ROM are you using? Have you updated you ROM to 4.4.4 without updating the firmware?
Give a quick list of tweaks you've made. Also, go to adb and enter "fastboot getvar all" (no quotes) and post the read out here. Please remove your IMEI and serial# for your own security.
If it is software related, this is pertinent information.
Hi,
My phone is 4.4.2 official, not rooted and it is S-ON.
I am waiting for official 4.4.4 update for my dual-SIM M8 (it is expected in next few days).
P.s. in last 2 days nobody reported they cant hear me...
Today, problems returned........ 50% of the calls today people can't hear me well, or they can't hear me at all.
However, it seems that turning speakerphone ON and OFF during the call completely solves the issue (for each call separately).
Just a head up, anyone having this microphone issue should try cleaning out the left side of the bottom speaker grill with a toothbrush and some 99% alcohol. About 5 min of scrubbing pulled out allot of crud and now it's back to normal.
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I really dont understand how did you manage to pull anything from the bottom speaker... holes are so tiny. Please try to explain or take some pics.. as my mic is driving me crazy.
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I really dont understand how did you manage to pull anything from the bottom speaker... holes are so tiny. Please try to explain or take some pics.. as my mic is driving me crazy.
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Can't take pics as I only have the one phone but I'll try to explain what worked best for me.
Isolate the front most bristles by using your thumb to sort of bend them away from the rest.
Instead of using a scrubbing motion, lightly place the tips of the bristles against the grille at about a 70° angle. Keeping that angle, move the brush slowly across the grille keeping just enough pressure so the bristles go into the holes. Don't put so much pressure that they flatten out.
Do that going both from left to right and right to left.
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