stock 7.0, Version: V52120g, unlocked bootloader but I haven't done anything yet (no TWRP, etc). I swear it used to work but today it doesn't. I don't use this daily so perhaps I'm insane.
I've tried speaker/channel test tool and both R and L channels come from the right speaker so I get all the sound but only from the 1 speaker. Headphones are fine. I've toggled the Accessibility -> Hearing-> Audio Type -> Mono / Stereo but it didn't fix it.
The fact both channels are coming from the 1 right speaker makes me think its software/firmware related.
Thoughts?
Thanks for any feedback.
Unfortunately the speaker grill on the left side is just for cosmetics. It's only 1 speaker on the right side so it's just mono speaker not stereo speakers.
As long as you're getting sound, your tablet's working fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Hello all. I have a Telus provided stock S3. My headphone jack has started having issues and I'm not sure if it is due to the firmware upgrade that Telus rolled out a few weeks ago or not because it has been at least that long since I last used the headphone jack (I think). On the old firmware the phone used to have a little icon in the notification bar when I plugged them in. Now, it does not do that. It also doesn't seem to be redirecting the sound to the headphones, although I think it may half recognize that they are plugged in. I say this because if I load a youtube video, it plays on the main speaker, and then I plug in the headphones, and while the external speaker goes silent there is nothing coming through on my headphones. I have rebooted the phone. The headphones are known good. Help?
EDIT So, apparently, even though I combed the main settings menu, somewhere on this damned phone (and I mean that lovingly, I just wish the settings were all in one gd spot) there is an option to mute the headphones. How did I stumble upon this? I went to test out the headphone issue by playing a video I recorded with the phone with the headphones plugged in and, lo and behold, on the video, I see an option for volume which was set to mute. Turned it off mute (how it ended up on mute in the first place is beyond me) and it is fixed. I have no bloody idea where else this little icon is located in the vast menus on the phone, but hopefully this will help the next poor soul with the same issue.
tl;dr: Played video recorded with phone with headphones plugged in, found there is a headphone mute setting. Who knew?
Hi! Every one who has a Z1C, I got problem that my Z1C's External Speaker is Mono! Only Left Channel can be Heard!
First of all, I think the Right Channel is broken! To test it, I download this mp3 file, the sound start from left then go to right, you can find it here:
address: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1dDf4QK5 Pass: ibwa
if it tell you input a pass, then input the pass above!
Then, Sure! It's Mono! The External Speaker broadcasts all sound of both Channel!
And some more I should tell you is that, I root my Z1C following the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634196
Is there something wrong? Or the Z1C's External Speaker is just MONO?
It's mono. I was dissapointed too
The other side is a microphone AFAIK.
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bimbar said:
The other side is a microphone AFAIK.
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Oh, my ...
Sony's Genius Design!
If you use Poweramp you can set the sound outpout to mono so you here both channels on the speaker
There isn't any single-speaker phone out there currently that isn't mono, AFAIK, so I'm not sure what you were expecting. Even iPhone is mono, and has a microphone under the other speaker grill ... you'll need to look at dual speaker options like HTC One or Xperia Z2 if you really need stereo on loudspeaker.
Also questions should go in the Q&A forum - read the stickies.
Played a game and thougt my speaker broke, after i realize that my finger cover the hole speaker
u make me feel like sony cheated us with the big grill.
zapp_prefect said:
Hi! Every one who has a Z1C, I got problem that my Z1C's External Speaker is Mono! Only Left Channel can be Heard!
First of all, I think the Right Channel is broken! To test it, I download this mp3 file, the sound start from left then go to right, you can find it here:
address: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1dDf4QK5 Pass: ibwa
if it tell you input a pass, then input the pass above!
Then, Sure! It's Mono! The External Speaker broadcasts all sound of both Channel!
And some more I should tell you is that, I root my Z1C following the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2634196
Is there something wrong? Or the Z1C's External Speaker is just MONO?
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In your phone, your speakers are max 12cm from eachother. In order to perceive the true stereo effect, your ears should be like 12 cm away from the phone. Additionally, sound quality from speakers of this size can never be anything better than incredibly bad, so honestly: why bother?
You want stereo? Use a headset. You want stereo and quality? Use a decent headset.
Hello everyone !
My M8 went mad today. It recognizes all headphones/earphones except the stock one that came with the device. The stock one works perfectly fine with all the devices except my M8. That sounds really strange, but it did happen.
I googled some forums and found that soundabout app on the play store could solve this issue by routing the audio to headphone jack. It worked.
I was tinkering with the settings of the app. I routed the audio to the earpiece(top speaker) only.
I'm somewhat skeptical that the top speaker now has less volume compared to the bottom one, when playing music/videos.
Does this mean that I have a partly damaged speaker ?
Also, can tinkering the settings damage the hardware(speakers) in any case ?
Thank you for reading.
Tej XFire said:
Hello everyone !
My M8 went mad today. It recognizes all headphones/earphones except the stock one that came with the device. The stock one works perfectly fine with all the devices except my M8. That sounds really strange, but it did happen.
I googled some forums and found that soundabout app on the play store could solve this issue by routing the audio to headphone jack. It worked.
I was tinkering with the settings of the app. I routed the audio to the earpiece(top speaker) only.
I'm somewhat skeptical that the top speaker now has less volume compared to the bottom one, when playing music/videos.
Does this mean that I have a partly damaged speaker ?
Also, can tinkering the settings damage the hardware(speakers) in any case ?
Thank you for reading.
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I think that the earpiece speaker is actually less powerful than the bottom speaker. I use SoundAbout myself as I have an issue with one of my friends old stereo's. The phone doesn't recognize that I have plugged in the aux cable but it only happens with that stereo. So I have to use the SoundAbout app to change the setting to Wired Headphones.
I'm not sure if tinkering setting can damage the speakers, but I have damaged the bottom speaker myself by flashing one of the first CM12 nightly's that came out. The speaker is quite easy to replace yourself and same goes for the earpiece.
Hello,
I have nexus 5 with stock 5.1.1 not rooted.
I started to use soundabout because my phone didn’t recognize AUX-IN from my car audio.
Everything was ok for long time till yesterday.
Now, after I will use soundabout I can’t hear any call conversation. I need to restart nexus.
I am wonder If someone know some similar program that I can test.
Regards from Poland
A quick search on Google and sample videos on YouTube reveal that the G3 is capable of and should record video with stereo sound, and yet I was disappointed to find out that my new G3 D855 does not record stereo sound in video no matter what I try.
I am also not able to record stereo sound on its own, any app that claims to be able to record stereo sound does not do that. ("Sound & Voice Recorder" by NLL, for example)
I am running official LG firmware (v21a) and I have rooted it in an attempt to modify /etc/media_profiles.xml to fix the problem, to no avail. I have also tried custom camera apps such as XCam LG, but that didn't help either.
Thanks for any help troubleshooting this.
Even thought its capable in my opinion yes it has 2 mics but 1 is for noise cancelling technicly u cant record stereo without 2 mics again in my opinion u need both a left and right channel. It might be stereo quality but tru stereo should need two mics for 2 diffrent reffrence points on sound i may horribly wrong and someone please correct me if im wrong
The mics are placed at two different points - one at the bottom of the phone next to the headphone jack, and the other is on the top of the phone next to the IR blaster. In this video you can see that there are separate L and R channels and you can hear the direction of the sounds that were recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrVcgr3Ps8
See everyone every told me that the top mic was only for noise canceling
https://m.reddit.com/r/LGG3/comments/2bvciq/weird_bug_i_found_after_watching_a_video_that_i/
I tried this same thing to so thats the mono sound in videos
I guess this could be a possible solution:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/732125509/ss07-high-quality-stereo-microphone-for-android
This might not be as much of an issue for most people as it is for me, but I've noticed that my Mi Max isn't recording stereo audio when filming video or when using audio recording apps.
I've attached screenshots form Sony's Audio Recorder showing the microphone test function. You can see on my old Meizu the levels are different for the top and bottom microphones, whereas on the Xiaomi both microphones are being combined into a mono track (both levels are the same).
If possible, it would be great if someone could confirm that this is the same for their device too. I've attached a link to the Sony Audio Recorder on the Play Store. The mic test function is in the settings menu.
I'm using a Hydrogen 32GB/3GB with the latest unrooted/unmodified global ROM. 8.1.6.0
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.androidapp.audiorecorder
Yep same. It has a mono speaker so it's normal that it has a mono recorder.
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Yep same. It has a mono speaker so it's normal that it has a mono recorder.
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Hi RedFox. Thanks for confirming that. It's true that the handset has a mono speaker, but the phone has two microphones, one at the top and one at the bottom.
Like most modern handsets it uses both microphones to record audio when filming video. When the phone is held in landscape one microphone (usually the top) records on the left and the other (usually the bottom) on the right. The issue is that it mixes both left and right channels into one mono track. That is actually pretty uncommon, as most handsets keep the stereo separation to give you a more immersive experience when watching on a laptop or listening on headphones.
Maybe it's an issue they'll fix with a future update. Who knows! Thanks again for checking it out! :good:
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Hi RedFox. Thanks for confirming that. It's true that the handset has a mono speaker, but the phone has two microphones, one at the top and one at the bottom.
Like most modern handsets it uses both microphones to record audio when filming video. When the phone is held in landscape one microphone (usually the top) records on the left and the other (usually the bottom) on the right. The issue is that it mixes both left and right channels into one mono track. That is actually pretty uncommon, as most handsets keep the stereo separation to give you a more immersive experience when watching on a laptop or listening on headphones.
Maybe it's an issue they'll fix with a future update. Who knows! Thanks again for checking it out! :good:
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Thanks for this! Hope that lineage os will fix this eventually
hi MikusP, my mi max also having this issue, not only the mi max series device, most of the all Mi mobiles are in the same problem, because this is not a mobile hardware problem, its depends on the (OS) software, by the software only we could rectify this problem, these process has to rectify done through only mi xiome manufacture, the manufacture also know this problem, most of the people didn't like stereo recording, even though many people they dont know about this problem we could not modify this problem. and also one more problem is FM radio not play in stereo mode, i checked in most of the mi series, these also can modified only by (OS).