ive only had my universal for 3 weeks now and the speaker ontop of the headset seems to have gone.
the nowmal speakers work and the mic is fine.
is this an RMA job to O2 or can this be sorted with an easy fix?
cheers guys
You mean the Spkear on top of the device while you keep it closed?
If yes then its not only you... everyone have the problem...
The speaker on top of the device while its closed it having disturbance and even some time makes some funny noice, but if you keep the screen fliped and open, u can hear it clear.
mniko said:
You mean the Spkear on top of the device while you keep it closed?
If yes then its not only you... everyone have the problem...
The speaker on top of the device while its closed it having disturbance and even some time makes some funny noice, but if you keep the screen fliped and open, u can hear it clear.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not true. My Exec works perfectly with all four speakers. The speaker that's used when the lid is closed (and screen hidden) is the one I use most often. No problems for me, and I haven't seen anybody else on this forum mention this problem until you two.
my mic packed up after about a week
NXSmiggy said:
ive only had my universal for 3 weeks now and the speaker ontop of the headset seems to have gone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My MDA Pro worked fine for a few weeks. Have literally just sent it off to T-Mobile to get it repaired...
its the speaker on the screen side.
the one on the outside is fine , its the one inside hats packered
Related
There was a thread here about that the voice from the earpiece is distorted. I experienced to have a similar problem. From the first day the sound was excellent but in 2 months it changed to distorted and then become very-very weak. At the same time the sound was good if a loudspeaker is on or if the hands-free is connected. Thus, I supposed that the contact becomes bad. To fix it, I disassembled the device. The *.pdf-file how to do that is included (33 megs). When the contacts were formed so they touch firmly the corresponding places on the printed board and the device was assembled, I heard nice voice from the earpiece.
So, in some cases the problem with the sound may be due to weak contacts. I suppose the contacts may become poor because the material for the outputs on the earpiece is not so elastic plus influence of vibration from the vibromotor plus influence of humidity.
Backup the system before disassembly because during this the backup battery may discharge completely!
Sorry wasn't logged on...
Thanks a lot I got this problem long time ago but I don't know how to disassemble it so I always try to shake it to fix ......
Great ! Very useful
Thanks
thanks for the guide..... very useful
Where can I find the 33meg pdf? I need to disassemble the device too...
regards
That is what I thought th first time I opened my MDA Compact! Believe me I am the very first one I did when the device first came out! After lots of research let me tell you this:
IT IS NOT THE CONTACTS! IT IS THE SPEAKER! The membrane is of low quality when you open the device and "fixing" the contacts it will only make it to work for a few phone calls up to a couple of days at most! The speaker is burnt by the high amount of volume the motherboard of JAM gives to the speaker! If you want to solve your problem then you ll have to find a Nokia Center and buy a speaker for a Nokia 6610! Nokia 6610 and HTC Magician have exactly the same speaker! The only thing you have to do is to change nokia's black cloth ribbon on the top of the speaker with HTC's black rubber get it into your magician and there you are! You have a perfect sound again! My only advise is to use the call volume just a click less than the maximum volume so you won't blow away your new speaker!
I dissasembled and reassembled my MDA compact more than 11 times trying fixing the contacts with no permanent result! After replacing the speaker with a Nokias's 6610 speaker everything seems to work like a dream for at least a month now! :wink:
Its much more easier to get Nokia's spare parts than HTC's! The speaker cost me 18euros!
any chances you could post us nice pictures of these manipulations ?
I would love to do that but please I don't think that my magician could survive one more disassembly! :twisted: In case of replacing a friend's speaker next week who has the same problem I will make sure I get those pics! Magician is extremely easy to be taken apart! The only hard parts in the removing process are the upper backplate which has to be removed very carefully in order to be fitted back in its place afterwards and the front faceplate where you will need something very thin like a thin knife or even better a razor to take it away from the black plastic on the sides! :wink:
where is the link to the pdf
Hey guys,
I cannot see the link to the pdf. I need to disassemble my Jam too.
Thanx, Martido
Sorry, I found it. Just woke up....
Oh, thank god, I'm not the only one, with this problem. But first i have two questions? Will i loose my warrenty when i open the device? Can O² discover that i opened it?
Did this contact fix solve the problem entirely, or not? Because katsj says the problem is the speaker!
Thank you in advance, such a great community!
Bauer
Edit:
I read the PDF File and i have to say .. this is simlply impossible! You can cause so much damage .... i dont know where to begin. One small mistake and you can't forget your PDA. I think this is highly to dangerous. Is there no easier way to solve the problem ... some ideas??
Or do the pictures lie and it isnt that complicated??
Bauer
My sound disappears during call...
Strange, during a call after a few minutes my sound disappears. I can hear the other caller, the other calleer can't hear me anymore...
But now I found a strange solution: when I pull up the volume button n the left a few times (it was already at maximum!) my sound is back!
Has anyone the same experience or a better solution?
I think when you pull up the volume there is this small tone and you hear this tone from the loudspeaker.
After you hear the tone, you cant here anything again, right?
I'm driving really crazy, i loved this XDA Mini since this prob occured and i want to find a solution as soon as possible ! I really dont know what to do
When i push against sd-card slot from inside, i hear everything .. again, so this is just a really small prob ..
I hope sb. find a solution quickly otherwise ... i dont know
Bauer
JackBauer said:
I think when you pull up the volume there is this small tone and you hear this tone from the loudspeaker.
After you hear the tone, you cant here anything again, right?
I'm driving really crazy, i loved this XDA Mini since this prob occured and i want to find a solution as soon as possible ! I really dont know what to do
When i push against sd-card slot from inside, i hear everything .. again, so this is just a really small prob ..
I hope sb. find a solution quickly otherwise ... i dont know
Bauer
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think it's a contact problem, so maybe the problem isn't that small... I don't want to open my device.
I don't think it has anything to do with the ROM or with the software.
(I wish it would, then there would be a solution in the end)
I had this problem too and found a fix:
I assume that while you are making a call, there is no audio from the earpiece. While on the call, adjust the volume up or down with the volume slider button. if you hear faint beeps and faint audio right after the beeps, your earpiece is working but there is a software glitch caused by the headphone jack.
Reset your device. Make a call (i.e. to your voicemail) and make sure there is audio incoming. Connect the (wired) headset. Disconnect the headset and you shoud now hear audio from the earpiece. You may have to reconnect/disconnect the headset a few times.
thanks
thanks for the pdf. ill check it right away!
U ROCK
THX GUYS>>>U ROCK...........I was soo worried.....
thx again..
Thanx dudes for the nokiaspeaker tip!
Just received my on ebay ordered nokia speaker and within a few minutes I fixed mine magician thanx to the pdf & already gainted knowledge on this page!
I bought this phone a year ago for a very nice price because of the damaged speaker and now at last I repeared it just for €3,- (instead of sending it to Orange risking over €100; I`m Dutch ya know )
hi guys...pulling this one out from the past....my magician has all the symptoms above, but with no luck, the replacement speaker did not do the trick...any other ideas/details/downloads....anything to get the audio back???\
BTW, i can hear glitches of sound if i play with the volume tab. That is to say, if i push it up, i hear the tone "ding" and i can hear the voice on the other end for a split second! So i must be close, no????
I dropped my magician when i stepped out of my car. :shock:
The problem now it that my sound isn't working anymore. The back speaker as well as the ear speaker are both dead. I disassembled the phone, cleaned all the contacts with alcohol and bend the ear speaker contacts a little bit up, but still nothing. When i connect the headset i can hear sound and make a phonecall.
Another thing is that i hear a high frequenty sound coming from the screen. I only hear it when my ear is near the screen. Never had that before.
Maybe you can help me! I want my baby back working again. So if you have any suggestion i can try.. :idea:
Jewcookie said:
Another thing is that i hear a high frequenty sound coming from the screen. I only hear it when my ear is near the screen. Never had that before.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My refurbished MDA does that [t-mobile replacement after my one 'went wrong [see below]']. I dont remember the previous out of box one doing it though.
Cant help with the sound problem - everyone seems to drop the magician though.. even me once[belt clip sucks]! and then my 2 other friends.
Tom - www.mouselike.org
??
Since disasembling my phone, cleaning everything and putting it back together not fixed my problem I put the phone on my desk. It just layed there not working. Till this morning... i picked it up again and knowing it is not working but out of frustration I just try again. And to my suprise. It Works again! :shock: My sound is back?? How the hell is that possible... I tried shaking the device to see if there was maybe a lose contact. But how hard i shake the damn thing. It keeps working. 8)
Anyway, I'm happy again Only thing left is the strange sound coming from my screen, but I can live with that.
Turn your phone to the back to the camera is facing you, put the speaker next to the camera against your ear, do you very faintly hear some kind of static coming from it? Mine does that but I have no cllue why...
Is it noticeable when playing a video/music without putting it directly to your ear?
and is it noticeable when using headphones?
Some speakers pick up radio waves.... And speakers also make static when any type of airwave data passes thru the speaker...
**try putting ur phone right next to a computer speaker, while sending/ receiving a text... Bet you'll here some static..
Swyped©from my Sammy
I noticed this too, the earpiece is supposed to be shielded from the RF. Never heard this on any phone I had since my nokia 5190.
No one listens to their phone like that, so why should it matter...
And no, I don't hear this. Maybe you left you phone in a bad place and something happened to the speaker?
Its big brother reprogramming the neurons in your brain!!!
I just realized I sounded like Steve Jobs in my last reply: "No one listens to their phone like that, so why should it matter..."
I need a cocktail, or few...
I've had this since day one. Not a big deal. It only happens while in a call and it's so faint I don't notice it anymore
my g1 used to do that
just radio interference
I can only barely hear it when the screen is on...
I could care less, no real issue that I can think of.
speedysilwady said:
Turn your phone to the back to the camera is facing you, put the speaker next to the camera against your ear, do you very faintly hear some kind of static coming from it? Mine does that but I have no cllue why...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
its the ocean dude!
OMG... I was doing this and thought I looked pretty stupid and then an email came through! Nearly made me go deaf! Ouch!
I tried it and couldn't hear a thing. But maybe I've just attended too many concerts...
Good find, yeah I hear it
Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk
I misread the op's post. I have interference coming through the normal earpiece you use for phone calls.
On a side note, google talk has a bug where it will play the alert you have set for it through the ear piece when you are in a phone call instead of making a descrete beep. Almost made me deaf today while on a call.
I haven't heard it since I flashed v5
Still flashing , thanks to odin & tw
First 1,gps needs around 10 mins in clear sky to lock my position , with gps fix(from the market) it takes 5-20 seconds.
Second and most important,all the people that i talk with cant hear my voice clear,i hear them clear tho,there is a really low pitch sound in the background when noone talking even on the road with full bars,i tryed 2g and 3g networks, i even tryed calling my phone from someone else phone and i couldnt hear his voice clear,when i used the headphones my callers heard my voice crystal clear.
I am thinking of taking my phone for replacement in the next 3 houers so i really apriceate any fast feedback especially for the second problem.
GPS fix is usually very quick on my X5 with data connection on, usually under 30 sec.
I've had one or two instances where a geocaching app wouldn't get a fix in 5 or 10 min. A reboot solved that every time.
As for the sound problem: sounds like your microphone is defect. No such problem on my phone...
1. You need to enable gps xtra for faster lock, in the same menu where you enable gps.
2. Some say that B160 rom creatly improves call quality, id try that from. Look from the dev section.
so gps is normal but microphone defective?
anyway,i got it back at the shop for a replacement i ll have a new in 4-5 days ,but im a bit woried if it will be defective again as there are some known problems like gps,wifi,light bleeding,burned pixels,flash player random reboots and i think i ve got 60-70% chance of geting a working one
I have a similar problem...
When people call me they tell me that my voice is very low. This changes when i hold the phone in front of my face, then it becomes better. But it is only good when I switch to the loudspeaker mode. Then you hear my voice clearly. Is it possible that this phone has a certain voice activation level and that this is set too critical?
And if it is so, can I set this threshold value anywhere?
edit: And can I edit the volume of the microphone itself too?
I find that if I have the phone tucked between my ear and shoulder (like you do when you are using both hands for something but still want to talk on the phone), noone can hear me at all.
But if using it "normally" (ie: by holding it to my ear with my hand) it works fine.
Does this device have a noise cancelling mic that is affecting things when the entire back panel is covered or something?
i have the same mic problem... i sent it for replacement...
7s10u said:
i have the same mic problem... i sent it for replacement...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My replacement came yesterday and mic is ok
True about GPS, just need to enable the option sanpsa said.
Mic, never had a problem so far.. touch wood.
Notwithstanding the fact that flipmodegr's microphone was obviously faulty, something to consider when others say they're having difficulty hearing you is the noise-cancellation microphone.
I suspect that those who're having problems might be covering or scraping the second microphone hole, or have a cover of some sort over it.
I haven't encountered the problem at all, but I'd be interested in knowing if those of you who have (outbound) audio problems are using any sort of cover on the 'phone while you're actually using it.
Cephalus said:
Notwithstanding the fact that flipmodegr's microphone was obviously faulty, something to consider when others say they're having difficulty hearing you is the noise-cancellation microphone.
I suspect that those who're having problems might be covering or scraping the second microphone hole, or have a cover of some sort over it.
I haven't encountered the problem at all, but I'd be interested in knowing if those of you who have (outbound) audio problems are using any sort of cover on the 'phone while you're actually using it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm pretty sure it's not a noise cancelling mic. It's just a directional mic for use when recording video.
Cephalus said:
Notwithstanding the fact that flipmodegr's microphone was obviously faulty, something to consider when others say they're having difficulty hearing you is the noise-cancellation microphone.
I suspect that those who're having problems might be covering or scraping the second microphone hole, or have a cover of some sort over it.
I haven't encountered the problem at all, but I'd be interested in knowing if those of you who have (outbound) audio problems are using any sort of cover on the 'phone while you're actually using it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well,i never covered the hole of the second mic i have even tryed touched the phone from the side with 2 fingers in each side,tryed every holding position and i was also carefoul to dont touch any holes or the main body of the device,also no phone case was used
Poulsen8r said:
I'm pretty sure it's not a noise cancelling mic. It's just a directional mic for use when recording video.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Google search mentions a noise cancellation microphone exists.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App
sanpsa said:
1. You need to enable gps xtra for faster lock, in the same menu where you enable gps.
2. Some say that B160 rom creatly improves call quality, id try that from. Look from the dev section.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I unfortunately don't have the option for xtra GPS - I only see Use GPS Satellites, and beneath that is GPS Source (which gives me only one option - Use internal GPS)
I am on Gingerbread - CyanogenMod 7.2.0.
Can you or someone else suggest a way to get around this problem? I am trying geocaching and the lack of GPS fix is really frustrating!
for me the GPS fast fix was only solved with replacing the gps.conf file, with this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=905377&d=1329444560
tempius said:
for me the GPS fast fix was only solved with replacing the gps.conf file, with this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=905377&d=1329444560
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Excuse my ignorance but where do I need to change this? Or can you direct me to the right thread with the instructions?
Hi!
A few weeks ago my Nexus 4 fell down and the front display cracked right under the camera.
At first there was no problem and the crack wasnt disturbing. But since last week my microphone doesnt work properly anymore.
It doesnt work in several apps (Skype, Teamspeak, Google Voice Search) and also not when Im trying to make a phone call.
I can only take a phone call when Im turning the call into the "speaker mode". So then the caller hears me but everyone around me hears my call..
The support says that it isnt a warranty case because I let it fall down. But I cant imagine that the microphone is defect 1 month after it fell down.
Also I think that the german support engineers are not the best educated ones because they have so many devices to analyse.
Do you have any ideas?
mastgraphics said:
Hi!
A few weeks ago my Nexus 4 fell down and the front display cracked right under the camera.
At first there was no problem and the crack wasnt disturbing. But since last week my microphone doesnt work properly anymore.
It doesnt work in several apps (Skype, Teamspeak, Google Voice Search) and also not when Im trying to make a phone call.
I can only take a phone call when Im turning the call into the "speaker mode". So then the caller hears me but everyone around me hears my call..
The support says that it isnt a warranty case because I let it fall down. But I cant imagine that the microphone is defect 1 month after it fell down.
Also I think that the german support engineers are not the best educated ones because they have so many devices to analyse.
Do you have any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The mic probably got misplaced from the pins when you dropped your phone. You have to open the phone and place it in the right place
mastgraphics said:
Hi!
A few weeks ago my Nexus 4 fell down and the front display cracked right under the camera.
At first there was no problem and the crack wasnt disturbing. But since last week my microphone doesnt work properly anymore.
It doesnt work in several apps (Skype, Teamspeak, Google Voice Search) and also not when Im trying to make a phone call.
I can only take a phone call when Im turning the call into the "speaker mode". So then the caller hears me but everyone around me hears my call..
The support says that it isnt a warranty case because I let it fall down. But I cant imagine that the microphone is defect 1 month after it fell down.
Also I think that the german support engineers are not the best educated ones because they have so many devices to analyse.
Do you have any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The mic is broken so you can't talk. Nexus 4 has 2 microphones and maybe the 2nd one works on speaker mode
As denpei above said here, the other mic will probably function when you're in speaker mode.
In that case your phone has to filter out the voice of the one who's calling you from the speaker, since its a noise cancellation mic.
There's no defect. You dropped your phone and you broke your screen and the mic. Duh, put two and two together. :good:
mumaster20 said:
As denpei above said here, the other mic will probably function when you're in speaker mode.
In that case your phone has to filter out the voice of the one who's calling you from the speaker, since its a noise cancellation mic.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah in Speaker mode i can call normally like i said above.
Is there a tutorial how to replace the microphone? I only find some teardown videos
EDIT
Ok i found a video where it is shown where the main mic is. And i found a way to replace it if its really broken.
Thanks