Hi all,
I have been using LineageOS 14.1 on my Moto G5 for the past year without any issues. However, of late, I am having problems with the audio. I can't figure out what is happening or why it is happening. What has happened is that the phone speaker is not working at all. No matter what I do, whether it is taking a call, listening to media files, or playing videos on YT or in the browser, I cannot hear anything at all. I can hear the audio if I plug in a headset. I have never had this problem before and then it suddenly popped up a few weeks ago. Thinking it was a major problem and wanting to upgrade, I wiped the ROM and installed LOS 15.1. That got the speaker working but it was giving me other issues so I went back to 14.1 about two weeks back. The speaker was working fine until today when it has died yet again. I have tried restarting but it hasn't fixed the issue. Is this a know bug? Is there any standard way of dealing with the issue? After the last time I needed to reimage my phone, I have been taking regular backups so I can do yet another reimaging and reinstall everything but I really don't want to do that. Please help.
Update: I did a factory reset, did a fresh reinstall of OS 14.1 but still no sound Please help!
aksnitd said:
Hi all,
I have been using LineageOS 14.1 on my Moto G5 for the past year without any issues. However, of late, I am having problems with the audio. I can't figure out what is happening or why it is happening. What has happened is that the phone speaker is not working at all. No matter what I do, whether it is taking a call, listening to media files, or playing videos on YT or in the browser, I cannot hear anything at all. I can hear the audio if I plug in a headset. I have never had this problem before and then it suddenly popped up a few weeks ago. Thinking it was a major problem and wanting to upgrade, I wiped the ROM and installed LOS 15.1. That got the speaker working but it was giving me other issues so I went back to 14.1 about two weeks back. The speaker was working fine until today when it has died yet again. I have tried restarting but it hasn't fixed the issue. Is this a know bug? Is there any standard way of dealing with the issue? After the last time I needed to reimage my phone, I have been taking regular backups so I can do yet another reimaging and reinstall everything but I really don't want to do that. Please help.
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Does the sound work with the stock Nougat/Oreo?
Andrej_SK said:
Does the sound work with the stock Nougat/Oreo?
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Hey,
I have never used the phone with the stock ROM. I bought it over a year ago and immediately installed 14.1. I can tell you the speaker was working both on the stock ROM out of the box and on 14.1 as well. It ran perfectly fine till a month ago when the speaker stopped working out of the blue. I did a factory reset and installed 15.1 and the speaker started working again. Then I went back to 14.1 a week later as mentioned. The speaker was working fine till yesterday when it conked out again. After that, I did a factory reset and reinstalled 14.1 which didn't fix it.
Sorry if I'm repeating myself too much, I'm just trying to give a clear timeline of events. Right now, I am using the phone with my handsfree. Everything other than the speaker is working. I can make calls and listen to media on my headset, just not on the speaker.
If you need me to run any diagnostics or terminal commands for testing, let me know. I would very much like to resolve this without another reinstall if possible.
Second update - I was so sure this was a software issue that I didn't even bother to check the hardware. Turns out the G5 has a contact problem with the speaker which has to be fixed by squeezing the top half of the phone to get it to make better contact. I did that and problem solved. Consider this thread closed.
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Hello everyone.
I broke a display on my Xperia S some time ago. Yesterday, I got a new display with frame. So I changed it, and it's fine now, but my MIC is not working anymore. I connected everything accordingly, at least I think so. When I try to record sound, I can't hear voice, just rustling. I tried several times to disconnect and connect everything, but the problem persists. Everything else is working fine, as far as I tried it. ROM is stock Jelly Bean.
Any solutions?
Hi there,
I have been using the CloudyG3 2.5 ROM on my G3 (D-855) for the past month and something strange is happening to the phone. I must admit, the phone fell of a couple of days ago, but this shouldn't have any relation to my issues. All of a sudden, the sound just stopped working everywhere, even when I use the Music Player it gives me a Playback error and the Messaging and Phone Apps crash all the time. Even ''system'' crashes. Then I decided to use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089 and flashed a stock ROM. This did not solve the issues with sound and Messaging and Phone crashing all the time. I have a SIM card in the phone but it doesn't allow me to make phone calls, it just hangs. Weirdly enough, I get mobile internet and full bars of reception everywhere I go. WiFi also works fine.
Please help a brother out, I really don't know what to do at this point!
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Tried different stock and custom ROMS, but the same processes and apps crash, mainly System process and com.android.phone.
Anyone have a clue? I am really stuck as I can't use my phone for anything.
Hello everyone,
A few weeks ago I was running an optimized version of CM 12.1 on my TMobile Galaxy S4 (this one) http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-orig-develop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696
It was working completely fine until I downloaded and installed an OTA update for it, and ever since then my phone has been acting wonky (not sure if updating actually caused it, but it happened around the same time)
Some of the problems included:
- Phone consistently crashing/freezing. I need to reboot multiple times a day to get over it.
- Soundcloud sometimes doesn't work. Usually it just doesn't load even though I have LTE, and other times it shows the song is playing but I don't hear anything. After a hard reboot, it works temporarily. Phone also crashes occasionally when I open Soundcloud
- Youtube also sometimes doesn't work. It's the same problem where it doesn't load even though I'm in WiFi. Also crashes occasionally when I open it
- Music player sometimes doesn't play songs I have saved
After experiencing all this, I took it as an omen to upgrade my ROM so I downloaded and flashed Resurrection Remix 6.0 for my S4 and I experienced the same problems. As a final straw, I downloaded and flashed a rooted stock 4.4.2 firmware (which I'm running now). The phone doesn't crash as much thankfully but I still have problems with Soundcloud, Youtube, music player, and just persistent freezing.
My phone was fully functional and suddenly I experienced this array of problems. If anybody can help me out or point me in a right direction, I'd be incredibly grateful as I love this phone and I don't want to abandon it (well...until the S7 comes out)
ODIN back to stock with the full firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...in-firmware-kernel-modem-recovery-tw-t3276231
dirkdigles said:
ODIN back to stock with the full firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...in-firmware-kernel-modem-recovery-tw-t3276231
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Okay, thank you very much I'm downloading it as we speak.
I was wondering if you have any idea of what the cause of these problems are as I'm looking to experiment with more ROMs in the near future but I don't want to make the same mistake again.
fmaster12 said:
Okay, thank you very much I'm downloading it as we speak.
I was wondering if you have any idea of what the cause of these problems are as I'm looking to experiment with more ROMs in the near future but I don't want to make the same mistake again.
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Can be a variety of things depending if you tweak stuff, install xposed, etc.
Generally if you make sure to do full wipes between roms you should be OK...
One more thing to check might be your microSD card. They can go bad on occasion. Try running without or with a different one and see if issues persist.
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i noticed this with my s4 as well, but mine has to do with the sim card error. when i'm on stock tw 4.4.4 i rarely get a sim card error. then i flash other roms and i get the sim card error more frequently. for instance i just installed the Resurrection Remix rom last night an i've already experienced the sim card error at least 6 times already. i really like this rom so i'll have to deal with it, but if it gets the error too frequently, i don't mind going back to stock KK 4.4.4.
Hello XDA,
I have reviewed everything that is out there on the internet and have not been able to resolve my issue.
I have LG G3 Rogers version, unlocked, never rooted. It used to work fine before. I started noticing my Youtube videos from the app stopped playing giving an error message (Error code is different every time) Youtube videos from the browser play but without sound, Instagram videos/live streams/stories (anything that has sound; IG videos with no sound when posted by the user works fine) stopped playing, spotify wouldn't play music but the timer of the track would keep going. This is with headphones, without headphones. Doesn't matter. Then when I restart my phone, the issue is completely fixed, for some time until it starts again. The way I know it will mess up is my pattern unlock sound goes out first. Then my lock sound and eventually certain key taps are not recognized. But again, when I restart the phone, everything is fine. I use Action Launcher 3, I've tried without it. I have factory reset my phone and I am running Marshmallow.
Any ideas? Much appreciated.
Thank you.
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bluinitro said:
Hello XDA,
I have reviewed everything that is out there on the internet and have not been able to resolve my issue.
I have LG G3 Rogers version, unlocked, never rooted. It used to work fine before. I started noticing my Youtube videos from the app stopped playing giving an error message (Error code is different every time) Youtube videos from the browser play but without sound, Instagram videos/live streams/stories (anything that has sound; IG videos with no sound when posted by the user works fine) stopped playing, spotify wouldn't play music but the timer of the track would keep going. This is with headphones, without headphones. Doesn't matter. Then when I restart my phone, the issue is completely fixed, for some time until it starts again. The way I know it will mess up is my pattern unlock sound goes out first. Then my lock sound and eventually certain key taps are not recognized. But again, when I restart the phone, everything is fine. I use Action Launcher 3, I've tried without it. I have factory reset my phone and I am running Marshmallow.
Any ideas? Much appreciated.
Thank you.
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If you have been using it for more than three years in a row, The android version wears out... (gets old)...
you might have to check for system updates or (in rare cases (or) you cannot tolerate kinda case) you can flash another rom on your LG G3.
Android ROMs give you a better battery life (which also eventually wears out after three years of usage) and better performance...
Hello,
I got a new battery about 6 months ago so not so worried about that part. Is there any to troubleshoot and deduce what could be causing this issue?
Hello,
Quick update: I have not had any issues with the phone for about 2-3 days now. I had pattern unlock set on my device with rain dew drops as the dots. Since I've removed the dew drops, this issues has stopped. Currently I have knock code set on as screen lock. I will now try pattern unlock again, but with basic dots only to see if this occurs again. Keep you posted.
At first this started a few weeks ago. I was on LOS then. Now I've switched different roms and they all got same problem. My mic will stop working after random time. It works normally after reboot but then it just stop working. First noticed this on the calls as I couldn't here anything and neither the other one who called me.
Tried to record voice message on whatsapp and the record was full of silence. Same thing on the video recording. No voice, but works normally after reboot.
So what could cause this as its not rom related. I've tried LOS and now I'm on OOS and the problem remains. And I think it's not a physical issue as it works right after reboot. I'm confused here.
I'm on 4.1.6 firmware and currently on Latest OOS with Bova launcher. No exposed or any other tricks. Same problem with latest Los.