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Audio messages just played on loud speaker - Android 8.1.0

Hi all,
Last Saturday my Nexus 5x was updated to Android 8.1.0 and after that all audio messages are only played from the loud speaker. I mean, the only app I use for messaging is Whatsapp, but it started happening after the OS update. Do you know when you bring the phone closer to the ear while an audio message is being played, so the system changes the speaker and reproduce from the top speaker(call speaker)? It's not working for me anymore. Instead of that, plays from the bottom speaker but even louder.
Before someone ask, the top speaker is working fine during calls. So it's not broken.
Can someone give me a hand on this? It's really annoying.
Thank you all in advance.

same here
vitor.rego said:
Hi all,
Last Saturday my Nexus 5x was updated to Android 8.1.0 and after that all audio messages are only played from the loud speaker. I mean, the only app I use for messaging is Whatsapp, but it started happening after the OS update. Do you know when you bring the phone closer to the ear while an audio message is being played, so the system changes the speaker and reproduce from the top speaker(call speaker)? It's not working for me anymore. Instead of that, plays from the bottom speaker but even louder.
Before someone ask, the top speaker is working fine during calls. So it's not broken.
Can someone give me a hand on this? It's really annoying.
Thank you all in advance.
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Same issue here for me. I found a workaround for it tho, when you put closer to your ear press the power button as if you're locking the screen. It makes it sound again at the top. It's super annoying tho and have been waiting for an update from WhatsApp. I had to become a beta tester for it on the play store since we're in beta too. Hope it fixes soon with an update from either WhatsApp or Google on the next beta.

I left the beta tester program
amir7777 said:
Same issue here for me. I found a workaround for it tho, when you put closer to your ear press the power button as if you're locking the screen. It makes it sound again at the top. It's super annoying tho and have been waiting for an update from WhatsApp. I had to become a beta tester for it on the play store since we're in beta too. Hope it fixes soon with an update from either WhatsApp or Google on the next beta.
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I left the Beta tester program because I thought it might impact on the issue. I've been a tester for more than a year

vitor.rego said:
I left the Beta tester program because I thought it might impact on the issue. I've been a tester for more than a year
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But still the problem persisted?

Yes, persisted.

After updating to 8.1 OPP5.170921.005, Alarm clock, Youtube, Whatapp and notifications can't be played on the speaker, through the P2 headphone jack works fine. Might be something related with this version.

The same here

Same here.
Contact Google and Factory Reset done. Nothing help.

I got this also on 8.1, but just when I'm getting a notification or other sound played (as if the other chatting guy sent another message while I'm listening to the audio message..) its through loud speaker.. otherwise, on earpiece

Experiencing same problem here =(
Has anyone found a solution?

Now in telegram too
with the last security update of android 8.1 on my nexus 5x i've the same problem every time in Whatsapp and sometimes in Telegram too...

Problem with Android 8.1 Beta and WhatsApp

Hello everyone, someone had problems with the Android 8.1 beta and the WhatsApp application? Since I updated, by pressing Play and taking the phone to my ear to listen to an audio message, it sounds through the external speaker (not the internal one). As if that were not enough, by plugging the proximity sensor the audio sounds with the volume of the Telephone application (not the multimedia one), which is usually quite high. If I discover the sensor, it sounds with the multimedia volume. Is it just a beta problem? Did someone else have this problem? Thank you all!

Sensor
I had the same problem. And issues with the camera too !! The photos with flash get black.

The final version of Android Oreo is also having this problem

Yes, same problem but I don't know a fix.
Did you report this to Google?

Same here, 8.1 final, got the OTA yesterday. A factory reset didn't help. I found this post on google forums about the issue: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/mlFRoZ07yq8;context-place=forum/nexus

I have the same problem, but in additon to that, while listening to a voice (coming out from the speaker whilt near my ear), if I receive any notification, the voice switches to the earpiece.
Before the OS update it was the othwr way arround, the voice was coming out of the earpiece correctly, but switches to the soeakerphone when I reveive any notification
I am using a nexus 5x

This is a known issue. It was first noticed / introduced in Android 8.1, around Dec/17.
It's not a problem with Android per say, but how the app implement or work with the platform. In other words, the app need to get fixed, adjusted to the new platform. Other apps, like Google Allo and Telegram have been reported to have the same problem, by some users.
I submitted a bug report myself to Whastapp and got this response:
Hi,
Thanks for your message.
Sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware of the issue and we are working on fixing it in a future update of WhatsApp. Unfortunately, we can't comment on any future release dates at this time.
Best Regards,
Murdock
WhatsApp Support Team
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Lot's of other people have experienced this problems as evident in googles forum. I'm new so I can't post the link here.
I recommend submitting a bug report in Whatsapp to influence them to make an effort to fix this as soon as possible. It's been 3 months already. To submit, in Whatsapp got to settings> Help> Contact us. Post a quick description of the problem, click next.

[Help] Galaxy A3 Speakers Bug

Hello my friend has a Samsung A3 2017 and he said that the speakers are not working.
He can receive calls but do not hear them incoming because Speakers have some bug. No water or phone dropped on ground / any physical problem.
I told him to try the dial code *#7353# to test the functionality.
He replied that the
1. Melody works fine, the music is played
3. Speakers doesnt work at all.
This is probably some software bug, he already resetted the device without success. Any similar problems?
Thanks in advance

galaxyA3 said:
Hello my friend has a Samsung A3 2017 and he said that the speakers are not working.
He can receive calls but do not hear them incoming because Speakers have some bug. No water or phone dropped on ground / any physical problem.
I told him to try the dial code *#7353# to test the functionality.
He replied that the
1. Melody works fine, the music is played
3. Speakers doesnt work at all.
This is probably some software bug, he already resetted the device without success. Any similar problems?
Thanks in advance
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No have 2 a3 2017, no issues.
Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-T810 met Tapatalk

galaxyA3 said:
Hello my friend has a Samsung A3 2017 and he said that the speakers are not working.
He can receive calls but do not hear them incoming because Speakers have some bug. No water or phone dropped on ground / any physical problem.
I told him to try the dial code *#7353# to test the functionality.
He replied that the
1. Melody works fine, the music is played
3. Speakers doesnt work at all.
This is probably some software bug, he already resetted the device without success. Any similar problems?
Thanks in advance
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I actually had the same problem in my a7 2017, just randomly the speaker stopped working. I tried factory resetting it with no success, then turned it off for a while and rebooted in secure mode. Then the speaker worked again. It happened again a couple days ago and I tried the whole secure mode again. It didn't work. Then I turned my phone off and waited a couple of minutes. Turns out that to fix the problem, you only have to turn the phone off for about 5-10 minutes and reboot. This fixes the problem, but I still don't know what causes it

Do a hard reset and restore your phone to its initial configuration.
Hard reset stepsMod Edit
In this way, any app interfering with your sound and speaker settings should be deleted.

Just had the same issue on the most recent stock 8 ROM. Turning it off for ~10min cleared the issue. Is the root cause already known by now?

dandreye said:
Just had the same issue on the most recent stock 8 ROM. Turning it off for ~10min cleared the issue. Is the root cause already known by now?
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Maybe headphone jack is damaged from water. Try a phone call with and without speakerphone.

MaDaLiNoSt said:
Maybe headphone jack is damaged from water. Try a phone call with and without speakerphone.
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Hi, sorry I missed it somehow back then and just noticed it... better late than never. The phone is actually being used w/o headphones (perhaps only by previous owner if at all). Fortunately the issue has never come back since then. When it was still there a phone call would only have one way audio while on speakerphone (Tx only) and switching to the earpiece would fix Rx.

So, I just got a SM-A520F with a similar issue - speakers simply emit loud a white noise instead of Ringtones, Notifications, Youtube, Music, etc. I tried the dial code *#7353# and was surprised to see that melody works fine.
Had no issues at first, flashed the official Lineage 17.1 - still everything a okay. I decided to try Magisk, and that's when the problem started. I went back to stock android, but the problem is still there.
Any ideas what could have gone wrong?
--Edit--
I just restarted the phone with earphone plugged in. This seems to work for now. I will see for how long this will work & report back later.
--Edit 2--
No further problems. I reinstalled Magisk, everything still seems to work. Booting the phone with earphones plugged indeed fixed the issue, hope this will may help someone in the future.

Problem with honor 7x bottom speaker after oreo 8.0 update

After honor 7x oreo 8.0 update i have issue with bottom speaker.The bottom speaker volume goes down to very low where it can't heard untill you put the speaker next to your ears when we close the music without pausing/closing any app(running music in background) directly or force quiting without quiting the app properly.After it i can't hear the ringtone of phone calls and notification sound of any app.I want to reboot every time when i get this problem to fix it ,it's very frusting to use this phone after the oreo 8.0 update.Does any one had same problem? If any one had solution to it please post it.

No such issues should occur unless you have frittered with the phone by rooting or flashing custom ROMs, etc. Send your device to Honor service center for repair if in warranty.

Problem with voice messages

Hello Buddies,
I've just recently noticed that when I hold the phone near my ears to listen WhatsApp or Telegram voice messages privately, proximity sensor doesn't switch the voice sound into earpiece and after a 1 sec stop, it will play loudly again through the loudspeaker. I think this issue has appeared after Oreo 8.1 update. As I searched on internet, the factory reset would not help.
In other cases just calls, proximity sensor works well and the issue is only with voice messages to be heard through earpiece.
Anyone got the point?
My device: Nexus 5X - Android Oreo 8.1

UP!
Same problem for my brother's Nexus 5X, also after the latest update (december 2018) for this device. No solutions?
I've installed the latest versions of Magisk, ElementalX and TWRP.