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Can't hear conversation unless it's on speakerphone

So, my phone stopped working a few days ago. I've been running WM6 for quite some time now and I've even tried going back to Tmobile's ROM. Basically, when I receive/make a phone call, I can ONLY hear the person if I put them on speaker. They can hear me regardless, but I can't hear them. Pretty annoying.
Any ideas?

Heh! Quite a coincidence!!! I cannot hear anything from the headset either and it happened a short while after I upgraded to XDA6. It work fine with the stereo headset as well as with a BT one. The difference in my case is that I cannot switch to speakerphone. The phone is deaf without a hands-free device.
I have posted a separate thread on my problem - here it is

i have the same problem. phone is dead without a handsfree it happened to me last night all was good, i was listening to music to handsfree and removed them to make a call and it didnt work anymore..i reinstalled the rom, but no sound..any help anyone?
maybe the phone is stuck on handsfree..it things that the handsfree is plugged in or something?

problem solved trustworthy, i've put the jack in and out a few times..and now the sound works there is a switch that is pressed when you plug in the jack and maybe it got stuck on handsfree..try pressing it a few times..i don't know. now my phone works. i'll never plug in a handsfree again

I had the same problem--it was still under warranty...new MDA was the solution.
By the time it goes again I hope the next generation will be here!

I have the same problem as lilcam, the earspeaker is dead. I had the same problem once, and the service chage the speaker, first and the ringer, later and stars working just fine. Now, the silent speaker hits again and service says is not the same problem and they cant repar it. Does anybody have a clue?

Sisqo said:
problem solved trustworthy, i've put the jack in and out a few times..and now the sound works there is a switch that is pressed when you plug in the jack and maybe it got stuck on handsfree..try pressing it a few times..i don't know. now my phone works. i'll never plug in a handsfree again
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Thanks for the hint, but I REPLACED the handfree jack and it still wouldn't work without the headset
The people, who got it serviced told me that there was a problem with the mmainboard, that they cannot deal with. As I've mentioned in my thread, they also told me that a faulty handsfree jack was a frequently occurring problem with the 9100. I would recommend to pdebeitia and Sisqo to try replacing the jack. Hopefully it might help...it did not work for me though...
BTW, pdebeitia and Sisqo, what ROM are your MDA's running or were runnig at the time when it happened?

Phone automatically dials with headphones

Hi all,
Not sure why this happens but when I have my adapter (eBay link: http://tinyurl.com/l9maca) plugged into my car (phone<->mini-jack cable<->adapter<->car stereo) I either have voice dial launch automatically or the phone dialing the last number in call history. The voice dial isn't too bad since it launches and idles but the redial is really annoying. The headphones it came with did that too after a lot of wear and tear. Any know what causes it?? Is there a pin in the plug that I need to ground/disable? I would like to enjoy my music going without having to frantically grab my phone and hammer on the end call button while I'm driving.
Thanks.

holy crap i have the same problem with my phone, i dont have a car adapter but the headset thing is really annoying, i dont have the problem solved though....just figured i need to get a new pair of headphones which i havnt got around doing it

i have the same problem when i use headphones and i'am using them on my motocycle althought i lock the touchscreen, not even aplications like pocketshield didn't solve the problem. i hope that someone will come up with a solution that just disable the redial double tap function of the headset button or speed dial hold function. this functions also unlocks the touchscreen.

Audio dies on my Uni... then is resurrected!

Yesterday, something strange happened... The speaker and microphone on my Universal stopped working - all of a sudden, out of hte blue, and completely inexplicably!
I spent 4 hours on a train yesterday, and was listening to music on my Uni nearly all the way through. I had also used it to make calls and it was working fine. Since I was using normal headphones rather than the bundled hands-free headset, making a call involved unplugging the headphones and holding the phone to my ear - so I know that, for at least part of the day, the phone's speaker and mic where working perfectly!
I kept on listening to music on my cans until the journey ended. I then check my phone and find 9 missed calls, from various people. "Strange," I thought, "I had the headphones on all the time - why didn't I hear it ring?"
I try to call back some of the people who had tried to get to me. As I watch "dialling..." switch to "connected", I hold the phone up to my ear and say "Hello...?" and hear nothing in return! I try again several times, with the same result. I try soft-resetting the phone a few times. I try switching from 3G to GPRS in case it was a radio problem. Nope, not a radio problem, as I can still send and receive texts. A few start coming in. They read "I CANT HEAR U! R U ALLRIGHT?" Great, so it's not just the speaker, it's the microphone too. I try making another call, but using speakerphone: doesn't work, and in fact won't even enter speakerphone mode! I press "Speakerphone on" on the touchscreen but it just doesn't want to go there - the speakerphone icon doesn't appear on the status bar, and the button doesn't change to "Spreakerphone off" as it should do.
I get home, do several more resets. No result. I try plugging in the headphones and playing an mp3 file. As I suspected: I can hear just fine through the 'phones, but when I try to unplug them to see if there would be music coming out through the phone's speakers as well, they stay mute.
Great, I thought, phone's busted! Well, still works... but not as a phone! Unless I permanently use some hands free solution. So, an unwieldy device just got more awkward to use!
I leave it disassembled (battery and sim card out) and put it in a drawer. I'm already thinking about new phones to buy when I go to sleep. The next morning, I decide I need to check my calendar, so I put my phone back together and switch it on. The battery had run down completely: it now thinks it's January 1st 2006. Happy days, I remember them: my phone worked back then. Then, all of a sudden, someone calls me and, oh joy of joys! It RINGS! I can HEAR it! It's 2006 again! I answer, casually have a conversation on a working phone, and hang up. Problem solved! Phone shopping averted!
The question is, why would this weirdness happen? The speaker and mic stopped working LITERALLY in the middle of using them! I was sure that they had gone, that it was a hardware problem and it would need repair or replacement, but no, it turns out it was some kind of software problem which leaving the phone off overnight fixed! Why would it break so suddenly, and why would just leaving it off fix it? Anyone vaguely tech-savvy want to hazard a guess?

If you use earphones, your 3.5 plug is simply shorted when you pulled the earphones out. What I suggest you do is start playing some music or sound files on your media player and insert a very fine thin screwdriver into the earphone plug then wiggle it lightly until the sound from your speakers comes back.

Yea i had same problem ... and as Enigma said it is due to some left over of 3.5 m jack....the phone still thinks the jack is plugged in, hence no sound from built in speakers.... just take a toothpick and wiggle it in the 3.5 m earphone socket or you can just blow it with some air.....

Headphones autodials number?

Hey all,
Bit of an issue. Whenever I have my headphones connected to the jack in my touch, it will randomly dial the last number that I dialed. This happens if I am listening to music or I have the phone locked and have the phone in my pocket. The result obviously is annoying as I will repeatedly dial someone 20 or more times before I realize what is happening.
This just started happening recently, I have had the phone for about a year now. I can wiggle the headphones in the jack and it will autodial the last number. Only happens when the phones are in.
Somehow it triggering the dial function/mechanism Do I need new headphones? Is there a short somewhere in the phone? Maybe it is triggering the green button internally to dial? Can I disable the green button?
Thanks in advance

The issue has gotta do with the button of the headset. (The button refers to the microphone part of the headset, where you can pick up phone easily).
You can download a program to change the function of the button of the headset.

Thanks jeremy. Any idea what this program is called or where i can find it?

http://www.google.com.sg/search?cli...g+mic+button&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Heh Heh, see the results and play it with yourself!

HD2 Randomly Calling Last Contact Called

Is anyone having a problem where their HD2 is calling the last person you've contacted?
I've been having this problem for a little while now, whenever I plug in my headphones with mic it seems to think I've pressed the action button on them and it starts dialing.
This is not only relevant to headphones with mics, or headphones at all.. because this seems to be happening with my brother as well, except he never uses headphones
I feel that maybe the static build-up, from the friction while having the phone in the pocket, reaches the headphone port sending a pulse, where the phone interprets it as an action.

Mine does it all the time. When the headphones are plugged in it ques up voice dial and calls the last contact as well. It has done this with the default HTC music app and with pocket music and slacker radio. It is so friggin annoying.

is there a way to disable it? it's a little annoying.

Not that I know of. I think it may be a bug in the os of the phone. At first I thought it may be the cookies home tab app i was running but after a while of not using it and running the phone just like it came outta the box it did it again. It doesnt always do it though. It seems almost random. But I really dont know either. maybe it could be a app that we have installed that might be causing it. i wish someone here knew what it is that is causing this. BTW i am using a launch phone. it was one i bought the day it launched. it even has a slightly pinkish hue compared to my friends who bought his 3 months later than me. i will ask him if he has experienced any of the random last contact calling while hooked up to head phones.

Om so I talked to my friend and he said his phone does it too. I am using headphones that did not come with the phone. Could that be why?

keepzero said:
Om so I talked to my friend and he said his phone does it too. I am using headphones that did not come with the phone. Could that be why?
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No it's a weird bug in the phone, sometimes when you plug in the headphones and spin the jack it does the "action button" which means music or redial or starts the MSVC

It's not exactly a software bug. It is more of a hardware problem. It may have to do with the headphone that you are using. Usually with a headset, there is button to make the phone dial or hang-up. That button is missing in a regular stereo headphone. When the headphone is plugged in, it can inadvertently be sensed by the phone as though the dial button has been pressed. There might be a way to deactivate this function in software. Maybe someone who knows how can chime in.

like you said... it's a hardware problem... I searched for a solution... because for some reason my father's phone keeps re-dialing by itself... AND HE DOESN'T USE HEADPHONES! Stupid phone...
The problem happens to me from time to time... once it kept doing it every 3 seconds, it would play music.