I have an Imate & Orange M1000, when I use the M1000 in the car not a single rattle, but with the I-mate there is terrible rattles. The noise appears to come from inside the unit, after I've removed the battery.
Does anyone have any idea what maybe the problem, are there any disassembly photos guides etc that may help. Both devices work perfectly, I just cannot stand the imate rattling on long jormeys.
Cheers
There should be nothing rattling, the phone consists only of the main board really, why do you remove the battery, you say it rattles after you remove battery.
Maybe you have a Fly into your Xda2? lol
Just kidding guys.. 8)
Try removing the Stylus.
It causes ratteling sounds with my MDA II too.
But they are very quiet with my device, so I didn't do anything about it.
Hope this helps.
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It's not that something rattles inside, instead something is rattling outside!
Try and hold the volume slider and shake your xda for a moment! The sound stopped for me though.
Is this what you've meant? What i've seen from pictures inside the xda there can't be anything loose.
You're both right (thank god).
Ever since my MDA fell, screen forward, naked, to the street i've been in denial. Didn't want to believe the rattle was from the drop.
It wasn't ! !
After the removal of the styles, it rattled less. After holding the volumeslider it was gone !
Thanks for saveing me :lol: :roll:
Hey,
glad we could provide a little help to you
But please tell us, what you are doing to prevent the stylus and the volumeslider from ratteling.
I think you're not holding the pen and the volumeslider while driving :lol:
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I do nothing, it's not as loud in the car..
(as if it would ever be heard if i switch my car radio on)..
I just hear the rattleing if i shake the MDA...
jpiek said:
I do nothing, it's not as loud in the car..
(as if it would ever be heard if i switch my car radio on)..
I just hear the rattleing if i shake the MDA...
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yeah, like mine.
and I very rarely shake my MDA :lol:
Sorry, thought you were the original poster...
never mind...
Bye...
I seem to have located the source of the rattle if I squeeze the front & back around the speaker all is quiet. This would imply that the speaker or the SD socket maybe loose.
Is it pretty straight forward to remove the covers, are there any howto guides, picture by picture stuff?
Cheers
a18041967 said:
I seem to have located the source of the rattle if I squeeze the front & back around the speaker all is quiet. This would imply that the speaker or the SD socket maybe loose.
Is it pretty straight forward to remove the covers, are there any howto guides, picture by picture stuff?
Cheers
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Yes it's pretty straight forward, just make sure you take the battery out and remove the screws there first. Then the plastic piece around the camera pops off there next. Under that piece are 2 more screws to take out before you can take the case apart. I don't have any pictures as of yet but I need to take mine apart again in the next day or so as I have a mic problem, and I will try to get pictures then.
a18041967 said:
I seem to have located the source of the rattle if I squeeze the front & back around the speaker all is quiet. This would imply that the speaker or the SD socket maybe loose.
Is it pretty straight forward to remove the covers, are there any howto guides, picture by picture stuff?
Cheers
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Hi,
yes, there are pictures from someone disassembling the MDA II in this forum, just can't find where right now...
Maybe someone can point a way, or try searching.
Good Luck and keep us posted.
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a18041967 said:
I seem to have located the source of the rattle if I squeeze the front & back around the speaker all is quiet. This would imply that the speaker or the SD socket maybe loose.
Is it pretty straight forward to remove the covers, are there any howto guides, picture by picture stuff?
Cheers
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Of course there is a guide to the guts of the MDA2, I made it myself when I fixed my speaker problem (it didn't rattle, it just refused to work, however, the problem was fixed)...
Check it here.
Regards,
Rayan
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hi everyone
can you please do me a little favor.
can u please shake your magician and tell me if there is somthing that sounds loose inside, specifically inside where the speaker is. i dropped my magician today, and im getting paranoid if i damaged something inside. it perfectly works though, but when i shake it, a sound coming from inside makes me nervous. :shock:
There's a slight rattle coming from my S100. Holding down the buttons on the front makes it go away.
:shock: same as mines, i noticed it ages ago, but didnt think much of it.
mines a charmer.
I think the rattle comes from the vibrator.
Dandie said:
I think the rattle comes from the vibrator.
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:twisted: 8) :lol:
Uh, or whatever this thing is called in english (actually, in german it can be both).
HBK said:
There's a slight rattle coming from my S100. Holding down the buttons on the front makes it go away.
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Confirmed on my o2 xda mini. It's the D-PAD.
Dandie said:
I think the rattle comes from the vibrator.
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I never saw a phone with vibration function that had rattling installed by factory default. Actually, as far as I know a vibration engine has no loose parts. It is just electric motor with an excentic wheel on the rotating shaft. This puts kinetic energy into the phone and the actual rattling comes from the phone bouncing up and down on the tabletop or whatever.
Look at this to understand me:
http://www.handyersatzteilservice.de/artikel/Vibrationsmotor_Nokia_3100.html
the sound doesnt come from my imate's d-pad, but it comes from where the speaker is.
Its from the sd card loader. I have a brand new jam and a used one and they both have this rattle. Annoying but it works great.
There's a slight rattle coming from my spv m500
There's no rattling on my unit even after changing the housing.
The rear speaker of my JAMin blew... I need a replacement so I can do the work myself and not have to send it over for a week to the lab. Where can I get one?
Thanks,
Nir
How to repair the sound issue on Prophet
Hi
I could read a lot of posts on that issue and found this solution:
Remove the battery cover. Then the camera cover: to do so, lift up the gently the cover starting from the side of the battery.
You will see something looking like a fan. This is the speaker. the problem is with the red wire whixh connect the speaker.
Turn on your prophet and run your favourite MP3 song.
then touch the red wire with your stylus. The sound should come back. Insert a piece of folded paper to keep the cable properly fixed. that's all
Watch out not to wish to fix it too nicely, you could damage the wire !
Hope this help, otherwise a return to the service department will be necessary !
Hope this helps
Regards
Régis
Hay the paper trick works!
I went here to learn how to remove the flap to the speakers:
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=240109
Well, my speaker had the voice coil broken... touching the membrane would bring it back to life but that is no real solution. I replaced it with a speaker from a used old cellphone with some minor use of hot glue to fix it in place and seal around it.
It works now just as new.
Nir
yeah it is a real Problem.
mine is broken twice in 6 months.
tried the paper thing. but it sometimes sounds weird and there's some hissing. maybe I did it wrong. so I tweak it a bit and just lost it completely. no sound whatsoever now.
went to the service center today. they said that they have a new batch of speaker which supposed to be better than the previous one. if anyone can confirm.
rlou77 said:
Hi
I could read a lot of posts on that issue and found this solution:
Remove the battery cover. Then the camera cover: to do so, lift up the gently the cover starting from the side of the battery.
You will see something looking like a fan. This is the speaker. the problem is with the red wire whixh connect the speaker.
Turn on your prophet and run your favourite MP3 song.
then touch the red wire with your stylus. The sound should come back. Insert a piece of folded paper to keep the cable properly fixed. that's all
Watch out not to wish to fix it too nicely, you could damage the wire !
Hope this help, otherwise a return to the service department will be necessary !
Hope this helps
Regards
Régis
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That's great, this fixed my problem. After I touch the red wire with my stylus, the speaker just works fine, don't even need a folder paper.
starrayfly said:
That's great, this fixed my problem. After I touch the red wire with my stylus, the speaker just works fine, don't even need a folder paper.
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I'll try this one myself - my speaker just died again - it's been back once already.
Well, I followed the instructions above and now I have a working speaker again. A very low tech fix to a high tech device.
I have found a small bit of sponge does the job better than folded paper.
what is the type of speaker.
i mean can i use any speaker?
what's the best?
Mohammad, you seem to have missed the point of the replies in this thread. We don't know where to get another speaker from but we do know how to make the existing one work again.
oh, dude!!!
sorry
What a piece of ugly Speaker: O2 xda Neo!
Hay Guys,
I am suffering from this nasty problem since sometime. My brother has tweaked the speakers with a metal piece seem to work. However if I use speakerphone, it goes off.
Is there a permanent solution to this constant spurce of unhappiness.
Incidently I have been blessed with a on & off camera problem as well. I think I will never buy a DOPOD product in my life again.
My Camera has those colour matrix instead of proper images. Occasionally it behaves normally. I have tried hard reset already.
Any body? help !!!!!
Ugly Speakers: O2 xda Neo
Hay Guys,
I am suffering from this nasty problem since sometime. My brother has tweaked the speakers with a metal piece seem to work. However if I use speakerphone, it goes off.
Is there a permanent solution to this constant spurce of unhappiness.
Incidently I have been blessed with a on & off camera problem as well. I think I will never buy a DOPOD product in my life again.
My Camera has those colour matrix instead of proper images. Occasionally it behaves normally. I have tried hard reset already.
Any body? help !!!!!
I tried this....when i touched the red wire i got the sound back i was happy.. but not for long cause touching the wire now doesn't help anymore so i have to send it back
drdeepak said:
Hay Guys,
I am suffering from this nasty problem since sometime. My brother has tweaked the speakers with a metal piece seem to work. However if I use speakerphone, it goes off.
Is there a permanent solution to this constant spurce of unhappiness.
Incidently I have been blessed with a on & off camera problem as well. I think I will never buy a DOPOD product in my life again.
My Camera has those colour matrix instead of proper images. Occasionally it behaves normally. I have tried hard reset already.
Any body? help !!!!!
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I wedged in a piece of foam. That's worked a treat.
The manufaturing quality of HTC is bad
I also have the speaker problem. And thanks for all of you to suggest that sponge and folder trick. I did it and i have put a small slice of ear plug sponge. For past 2 days my spearker is working. But dont know how long will this sponge give my speaker lifesupport. I am sure after few days again its going to be problem. Hey,...... is there anyone in this thread who has used sponge/paper and the speaker is working for long time.. at least a year ?.
These HTC products seem really bad quality products.
that worked
http://www.4shared.com/file/6894706/ca35cee6/altavoz_s200.html
motorola l7 speaker is too a candidate
It's too bad they saved on the speaker. Guess the manufacturer of the speaker had a very nice presentation @ HTC
Trying to download that pdf file, but it's not working :/ However I've read on other occasions that people talk about that motorola speaker as a replacement. Might be worth giving a more detailed look into that.
What exactly is the problem with the speaker btw? Did anyone narrowed that down already? Why is the speaker not functioning properly?
pdf
The file contains instructions to change the original speaker using the spk of a motorola v525.
I did it yesterday, and works fine, but isn´t easy to do it
I was just wondering, on the back of the Hero, there are two "Speaker holes", one at/near the top, and one on the bend. With my hero, no sound directly come out of the lower hole, EG: I can hear sound from it - but that's probably just the other speaker - and is MUCH quiter than the "upper" speaker.
http://www.androidtapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/HTC-Hero-Back-View.jpg
^You can see the two speaker holes..
Anyone else have this "problem", is that just the way heros are? WHY-O-WHY then are there two holes, implying stereo sound...
Ya know what I mean?
i don´t want to destroy your dreams but it has only one speaker
Ok, so why is there ANOTHER hole lower down on the phone?
i can´t explan this in english but i try...
there you can put this "rope" in it. see here
http://www.pid-handy-fit.de/Fotos/P..._Wildleder_Trageschlaufe_lang_schwarz_neu.jpg
Look in the manual, there´s a picture around page 30
I got mine from, ugh, fleBay... SO no manual, and a wrist strap defenatly doesn't go in there... But - there is no direct speaker sound coming out from there, on everyone's Hero?
If you have sound coming out of your lower hole, you need to see a doctor, or possibly Simon Cowell.
Go to the HTC homepage under support you can download your manual.
cauli said:
If you have sound coming out of your lower hole, you need to see a doctor, or possibly Simon Cowell.
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Haha, but seriously, I Don't, what I'm asking is - Does sound come out for you? There is no speaker there so why did they put a hole there? In the battery holding 'bay' there are channels which may 'channel' the sound from the main speaker?
As long as no-one else has sound there, it's fine, I though the hero might have two speakers and one of mine was broken..
Thanks
n00b001 said:
I got mine from, ugh, fleBay... SO no manual, and a wrist strap defenatly doesn't go in there... But - there is no direct speaker sound coming out from there, on everyone's Hero?
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Yes, a wrist strap DOES go in there.
The wrist strap goes through there and onto the hook on the back of the phone, you have to take the cover off before you can do it.
There's no sound coming from it on mine. Could it be anything to do with the mic? I've not bothered looking at a disassembly guide yet as I haven't needed to.
So I opened the back of the A500 and looked around abit and switched places with the microphone and the noise canceller. And now at least when I record, peoples voices can be heard pretty decent. Plus I drilled a hole in the 'hole' to open up the space for the sound to come in abit.
So even with the Acer case on you can hear the voices pretty well
Before you couldnt hear anything. But now the whole google voice thing isnt so easy to use since the mic is face the opposite way but I never used it anyways, plus for VOIP calls its much better to use a headphone.
Just sharing
Please feel free to ask any questions.
Cheers!
Edit: From what I saw in the back I believe the microphone could be changed to a better one some day. Just a matter of finding a good replacement.
(01/08/2011)Add: Here is a sample of the sound when you record a person speaking infont of the iconia now with my mod.
Link sample with modded microphone: [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33166156/Test.3gp
This is my son and as you can see you can hear him perfectly well
I think the noise canceller could be adjusted to 'muffle' the screeching sound abit.
Cheers!
Edit: Link was broken, fixed now.
i am really thinking about doing that. Iit easy to open the case?
mnaderi said:
i am really thinking about doing that. Iit easy to open the case?
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Yes its actually very easy, you have to begin at the corner either left or right on the bottom of the A500 (meaning the Dock port area) you take something very thin and sturdy but be careful not scratch it up or bend to hard just make an opening maybe 2,3mm then stick something plasticky (like a protective shield cover slate) but strong and stick in the opening and drag slowly to the right until the entire left side is open (left to the Dock port I mean) and then from there you just gently lift up up until you have the whole bottom open and then you just again you the plastic tool to drag the sides (left and right) and just gently lift with the plastic tool and slowly it will loosen bit by bit once you have left and right and the bottom released then you just hold the whole thing and lift it and with will click off by itself from the upper part.
Here is a video showing pretty much what I described, its very easy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIvbWo_p3KI
That tear down video makes things look easy
UnicornKaz said:
That tear down video makes things look easy
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...there's a tear down vid?
thanks, i opened it up and did some tweaking unfortunately it's only about 30% better, i also made a hole for the case as well. how much did yours improve when you did your mods. i'm guessing the rear mic has to be tweaked as well. thanks
Did you switch places with the mic and the noise canceller?
Pull the Mic out take it to radio shack and get a better set of mic to go in there.I have done this with Michael and internal speakers on notebooks. But I have Bluetooth high def headset. So no need here
this mic problem is seriously killing me.
I often use my tabto record videos but i can never hear any voices cause they are really low. So i am ready to do anything to the tab for a better microphone experience.
As far as drilling holes is concerned, i would want to know where is the mic suitated if there are two. I do noe that one is on the top of the screen in the middle gap between the metal cover n screen glass. Is there another one?
And what can be possibly done to fix or better this issue?
I even tried voip and no1 could hear me, very disappointing pls help sum1.....
i found a kind of solution on youtube...
WuS47cbxyC0
Hi,
Has anyone encountered any issues with their speaker apart from that infamous volume balance?
My right speaker refuses to play anything but if I press the chassis of the transformer together the speaker works but stops working as soon as I let go. To me it sounds like some sort of loose connection/contact.
How easy is it to dismantle? Has anyone encountered a similar issue?
Thanks.
neoghio said:
How easy is it to dismantle? Has anyone encountered a similar issue?
Thanks.
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My left speaker doesn't work, but very occasionally will momentarily come to life. Squeezing the edge doesn't make a difference. I assume its a loose connection, but I have'nt done anything about it yet.
My left speaker doesnt have any sound at all
Hey OP, I have the same issue, except mine still plays at times, gets fuzzy and buzzy at loud volumes, then stops. However, if I press the right side together, it plays again, so it's not noticeable if I use a really tight sleeve on it, but with the loose sleeve I normally use on it .. :/
Same here, when it does play, its very buzzy. I am inclined to open it up and check if its some loose contact or something but I don't fancy messing my Transformer up as of yet lol.
No problems with either of my Transformers myself, but there were a few reports in the past of poor connections to one of the speakers on some TF units. (Right speaker, if I remember correctly.) Forum search will find them.
If my TF had these issues I would send in for repair
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118010&highlight=speaker
My left speaker quit working all together and right speaker from the start was extremely weak. I sent it to ASUS for repair with less than one week turn around and both speakers are nice now. Well worth the time to have done properly.
I'm scared of the RMA process tbh :/
I Managed to fix mine if you people are interested.
It involved disassembling the Transformer.
I took the speaker out of the "compartment" it was in, switched on the tablet and put on some music. No music came out. Pressing the speaker in sound came out but as soon as I let go the sound disappeared. I cut out a small piece of paper and folded it a couple of times and placed it in the compartment the speaker goes in.
When I put the speaker back in the paper sort of squashed the speaker in a bit which in turn kept playing music.
Its not the best of explanations but if someone has a similar issue they may be able to use that as a guideline lol
How hard is it to disassemble the tablet? Also, what tools would I need?
asdfuogh said:
How hard is it to disassemble the tablet? Also, what tools would I need?
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Its not very hard. You just need some patience as removing the bezel is the only bit you need to be careful with.
You would need a Phillips screw driver (one of the small ones) and a Torx T5 I believe was the correct size.
I used this video as a guidance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9gEYRALtU
To remove the bezel he uses a plastic tool with a very thin edge but many people have had success simply using a guitar pick to remove the bezel. Luckily I had one of those plastic tools and was able to remove it.
Once you can see the insides:
That little black rectangle on the right is the speaker, inserting the small screwdriver in the compartment its in, you should be able to take it out and if your encountering the same problem as me, just press and hold the speaker from both sides to see if audio works.
Picture credit goes to hybridau
neoghio said:
Hi,
Has anyone encountered any issues with their speaker apart from that infamous volume balance?
My right speaker refuses to play anything but if I press the chassis of the transformer together the speaker works but stops working as soon as I let go. To me it sounds like some sort of loose connection/contact.
How easy is it to dismantle? Has anyone encountered a similar issue?
Thanks.
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This happened to me tonight while watching a youtube vid! Been looking through the forums for successful speaker replacements and messaged one guy already who might have the correct replacement speaker part.
Will update when I know more.
Cracking it open is very easy as long as you take it slow. I did it to fix my power button. It is pretty well known by now that the TF101 was one of the most cheaply built but still amazingly performing tablets on the market.