[Q] In Ear Speaker Problems - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

So the speaker on my phone is giving me problems. Its kind of hard to explain, but it kind of crackles/pops some times... Maybe really high pitched at times. and other times it cuts in and out. With very occasionally i cant hear anything out of it.
Little back story. it was kinda crackling a few months back nothing major. Then I set it on the top of my dresser and it fell onto a metal step ladder. (fell about 6-7 feet and hit on the top of the phone) As always i have a case and the screen didnt break thankfully. But it made the speaker started acting up to the point where phone calls are almost impossible to get through. I went ahead and replaced the speaker, put it back together, and its slightly better, but still not sounding right, and still makes making phone calls unbearable. I Unrooted my phone, just to see if it was the rom and still nothing. so I went ahead and re-rooted again. (couldn't hurt right? ) Am i missing something?? It seems to me like a hardware problem but i dont know what else I'm missing?
Thanks for your help.

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weird speaker rom upgrade issue

So about a week after getting my phone I dropped it in some water. Did everything I could to save it. Luckily all that went wrong was my speaker stopped working. Technically it works but it barely plays unrecognizable farting in a tin can type sounds. I ws looking at replacing the speaker untill I tried the sprint ROM flash. Somewhere in the middle of the process, i think before I acctually got the sprint part on, my speaker all of a sudden started working fine. I was so happy! Continue on with the sprint ROM, and now nothing but the tin can again. My brain hurts from trying to figure this one out. Anyone?
bryceschutte said:
So about a week after getting my phone I dropped it in some water. Did everything I could to save it. Luckily all that went wrong was my speaker stopped working. Technically it works but it barely plays unrecognizable farting in a tin can type sounds. I ws looking at replacing the speaker untill I tried the sprint ROM flash. Somewhere in the middle of the process, i think before I acctually got the sprint part on, my speaker all of a sudden started working fine. I was so happy! Continue on with the sprint ROM, and now nothing but the tin can again. My brain hurts from trying to figure this one out. Anyone?
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There's at least two speakers in this gadget. Odds are, you've only damaged one. In that case, it was the other speaker playing sounds during your moment of bliss.
Definatly, get it fixed. Send it out for warranty work, or pester your phone company for a new one.

[Q] HTC Desire Z: No sound from speaker, media/ringtones/notifications

Just yesterday night I found out that I can't get any sound from my phone. Not even notifications sound work, or those ticky sounds what are heard when you turn ringtone volume up or down to hear the level. I have no idea how they are missing now... I dropped my HTC Desire Z in the water weeks ago and some say there can occur problems a long time after water damage, is this true?
I don't remember dropping my phone lately, but I may have dropped it yesterday by accident, but it was not a big drop. There could be a slight possibility tha the speaker died?
When I plug my earphones in, I get sound normally. This indicates to speaker damage indeed. What do you think? Does warranty cover this? I have no idea what causes this. Task killer maybe?
Sorry for the double post, but just bumping and reporting about this issue. Just tested calling from other phone, and the speaker mode won't work. I hear voice normally from internal speaker. I use Automatic Task Killer and there was "Music" -app in kill list, but it adding it to the white list did not affect in anything... besides plus music nothing else with sound works, without plugging in the headphones of course.
I really don't use ringtones that much, but I would like to show some youtube videos to friend with sound sometimes, or speak with speaker on if my hands are not available... this really sucks. ANY thoughts? What should I do?
The unexpected happened!
Haha, this is unbelievable! My 2 year old daughter got my phone for some reason and as soon as I noticed of course I told her "no! give it back" and as soon as she noticed I noticed she's having the phone, she threw it to the wall! (she was standing on the bed and the phone fell down quite a long way). The back cover fell off and I thought the phone is broken for good... since I had already dropped it to the water couple of months ago as you may know.
Well, shouted at my daughter for what she did. Then picked up the phone and put back the back cover. And guess what? The sounds work! Nothing wrong with them, or the phone! Tested out and everything works like charm! Haha I'm laughing my ass of, miracles sure happen!
If YOU have sound problems, don't start to bash your phone please
can u gimme the winning lottery numbers
pimped out g2
Today I went to swimming and dropped while changing to swimwear dropped my pants down while my phone was in the pocket. At home I noticed the sounds are not working again! So I recalled what happened and dropped my pants again in the same way, and the sounds were back again..
So I guess my phone can't stand any more knocks or drop downs... so I try to be really careful in the future. Thank god there is no touch-problems like in bad earbuds when the wire go bad and the sound comes only from the other one, like that I should always keep the phone in right position sounds to work... that would be nightmare.
Just reporting if you out there possibly have similar problems. It can all be symptomps from dislocated speaker like in my case.
Sound is back ...I'm a hard head
I too had lost sound after dropping ...After reading the warning about no trying to bang it back .............well what can I say , I put on the media with music and tapped it on the counter , NO Luck . Being hard headed I then started to slap it into the palm of my hand with a good snap ...Presto magic sound is back . Do not try this at home kids .

[Q] Phone Speaker Not Working.

So the speaker on my phone is giving me problems. Its kind of hard to explain, but it kind of crackles/pops some times... Maybe really high pitched at times. and other times it cuts in and out. With very occasionally i cant hear anything out of it.
Little back story. it was kinda crackling a few months back nothing major. Then I set it on the top of my dresser and it fell onto a metal step ladder. (fell about 6-7 feet and hit on the top of the phone) As always i have a case and the screen didnt break thankfully. But it made the speaker start acting up to the point where phone calls are almost impossible to get through. I went ahead and replaced the speaker, but its still not sounding right, and still makes making phone calls unbearable. I Unrooted my phone, just to see if it was the rom and still nothing. so I went ahead and re-rooted again. (couldn't hurt right? ) Am i missing something?? It seems to me like a hardware problem but i dont know what else I'm missing?
Thanks for your help.
As a side note i went on a road trip and used my headphones for the first time since i got the phone 8 months ago. But come to find out the jack doesnt work... It recognizes the headphones being plugged in, but no sound comes through the earbuds. I dont know if its related.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
Take05 said:
So the speaker on my phone is giving me problems. Its kind of hard to explain, but it kind of crackles/pops some times... Maybe really high pitched at times. and other times it cuts in and out. With very occasionally i cant hear anything out of it.
Little back story. it was kinda crackling a few months back nothing major. Then I set it on the top of my dresser and it fell onto a metal step ladder. (fell about 6-7 feet and hit on the top of the phone) As always i have a case and the screen didnt break thankfully. But it made the speaker start acting up to the point where phone calls are almost impossible to get through. I went ahead and replaced the speaker, but its still not sounding right, and still makes making phone calls unbearable. I Unrooted my phone, just to see if it was the rom and still nothing. so I went ahead and re-rooted again. (couldn't hurt right? ) Am i missing something?? It seems to me like a hardware problem but i dont know what else I'm missing?
Thanks for your help.
As a side note i went on a road trip and used my headphones for the first time since i got the phone 8 months ago. But come to find out the jack doesnt work... It recognizes the headphones being plugged in, but no sound comes through the earbuds. I dont know if its related.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
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First, this will most-likely be moved to the Q&A section, so just be aware of that for future posts.
Second, it sounds like it's purely a hardware issue. It sounds like the 6-foot fall jostled some components around. I'd suspect it's a faulty connection to the motherboard, but I really cannot tell. As far as sound issues with various ROMs, I haven't heard of any issues remotely similar to this. There have been issues with sounds on various ROMs, but not of this nature.
As far as solutions go, do you have TEP? This is really the type of replacement that is perfect for TEP.
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[Q] HTC ONE X LOW mic issue

Hi everybody, I've been googling and looking into all the posts (here in xda) I could related to my problem.
Currently I'm in Nepal, and bought a second hand One X International version; the unit was barely used with very minor wear signs. A couple of weeks ago I was driving on the road and it started pouring rain, made it home in about 5 mins. Phone did not appear to have gotten very wet, however I took the silicon case of and dried the screen with a piece of cloth. I forgot to turn the phone off and as everything seemed fine, I continued using it for the next couple of days.
Two weeks later I start getting complains from people I was on the phone with stating that they could barely hear me, but oddly enough at times they mic volume went up and all the sudden they could hear me crystal clear.
If I turn the phone into speaker mode then they can hear me, the same happens with headphones.
Tried getting rid of stock Sense (not sure what version I had, I know it was JB 4.1.1 and Sense 4+), flashed IceColdJelly 3.5.1
Also left the phone off in rice for about 2 days (it was too late to do it but tried it anyways)
My phone does not have warranty and I'm reluctant to send it into a Repair Center here as I've heard friends and their terrible experiences with them in here.
So I decided to open my phone to see if the MIC was clogged/dirty or something (plus I have the WiFi signal issue) but everything on the inside seems fine. The phone itself seems to have never been open.
The MIC still sounds muffled (no it is not completely dead), tried the stock android Sound Recorder and barely pics up my voice if I speak directly into it.
Could it be a software issue? If not, how can I test and know which MIC I need to buy???
Any help, tips or thoughts will be much appreciated!!!
P.S. I also tried doing a Factory Reset. Nothing changed
problem apparently solved
so last night I managed to restore the phone into it's original state with a nandroid backup. Haven't been able to fully check the issue properly because I did not put the phone back the bezel yet. But now volume in video recording is normal, and have been told that I can be heard on a call

Volume goes out,smack to fix

I have a issue with my xl....my sound randomly goes so low it's barely hearable if I put my ear up to the bottom. The volume goes back all the way up once I smack the back of the phone in the middle. Anyone seen this before?
Lip smack or hand smack.........LoL
slayergreg said:
I have a issue with my xl....my sound randomly goes so low it's barely hearable if I put my ear up to the bottom. The volume goes back all the way up once I smack the back of the phone in the middle. Anyone seen this before?
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Your speakers could be blown, idk approximately what level do you have the volume at?
If you generally smack your phone to try to fix things, there's a chance that you've smacked something loose.
One day it just stopped working and I set it down on the table then noticed the sound came back....then it went out the next day. I tapped it on the back kinds by the g logo on the back. My sound came back.
slayergreg said:
One day it just stopped working and I set it down on the table then noticed the sound came back....then it went out the next day. I tapped it on the back kinds by the g logo on the back. My sound came back.
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Probably speaker connection not seated or bad speaker.......will have to disassemble phone to repair.

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