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[Q] Buzzing noise?

Has anyone else noticed a buzzing or popping sound coming from their Epic? It doesn't do it durring a call, its while its charging form my computer or even just sitting there on the table. At first I thought it had to do with the ROM I was running (Viper), but when EB13 was released, I flashed back to stock and still had the same problem.
At the moment I am rooted with CWM installed, but otherwise still stock. Have I missed a patch for this, do I have a bad phone or do I just need to try something else?

I don't hear a buzzing noise from my.phone. sorry
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I have had this happen from time to time. It was totally random. It was a slight popping sound. The first time it happened I thought I ruined my Epic by rooting and flashing a custom ROM but I rebooted and it was gone.
UFE (Unidentified Flying Epic)

Happens to me sometimes. It can get annoying... Anyone knowledgeable that can help would be appreciated.
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At least I know Im not alone in this now...glad to hear it...now if someone can tell me the cause and a solution I will be extatic!
Just to clairify, this is totally random as far as I can tell. It will go days without making any sounds and then it will come back with a vengence and make noise for hours.

I too would like a dev to chime in with a possible answer. I don't know if its app related, kernal related, etc. It would be nice to be able to narrow it down somehow. The fact that it seems so random is what worries me. I mean am I going to be using my phone some day and have a big pop and have it blow up on me? Sounds extreme but...
UFE (Unidentified Flying Epic)

this happens to me when i'm streaming over bluetooth, then take a call then end the call.
After this, the audio will not route properly and the phone's earpiece will sometimes pop and/or buzz randomly.
no fix for it yet. showed up for me on DK28 and it's been bugging me since.

Yup, a2dp is completely borked in froyo.
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daddymikey1975 said:
this happens to me when i'm streaming over bluetooth, then take a call then end the call.
After this, the audio will not route properly and the phone's earpiece will sometimes pop and/or buzz randomly.
no fix for it yet. showed up for me on DK28 and it's been bugging me since.
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Exact same problem over here! Always have to restart my phone
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Ive had this problem pop up on me randomly 2 times... thought I broke my speaker or something. Nothing a reboot couldn't fix.

Crackling noise when I touch the screen

I've been having this issue with my epic for the past month or so. If something (other than a phone call) is playing audio (game, music) through the speaker or the earbuds I hear a crackling noise when I touch the screen and only when I touch the screen. It's very easily reproduced too. For example, I'll have pandora playing through the speaker and it'll play fine until I touch the screen to change the song or do something else. If I keep my finger on the screen it'll continue making the crackling noise until I lift it off. Doesn't happen if I touch the screen while it's off. The same thing has happened on every rom I tried including odin to stock eb13 and ec05. Since I've had the phone for less than a year, can I take it to a sprint store and get a replacement? Or does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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This may not make the most sense, but it sounds like you've got some exposed wires or something on the inside, my guess would be that the capacitive touch screen is causing some feed back when the field is broken and you touch it. May be a bad capacitor, or just some crossed/exposed wire, but we have had a similar issue with a wall touchpad in one of our class rooms. they control a Audio visual box and once it was damaged would produce a crackling over the speaker system when you would use the touch pad to change source or adjust volume and the AV box was turned on. The unit had to be replaced, I'd be willing to bet the same would go for the phone as replacement parts wouldn't be the easiest to come by.

gearless said:
This may not make the most sense, but it sounds like you've got some exposed wires or something on the inside, my guess would be that the capacitive touch screen is causing some feed back when the field is broken and you touch it. May be a bad capacitor, or just some crossed/exposed wire, but we have had a similar issue with a wall touchpad in one of our class rooms. they control a Audio visual box and once it was damaged would produce a crackling over the speaker system when you would use the touch pad to change source or adjust volume and the AV box was turned on. The unit had to be replaced, I'd be willing to bet the same would go for the phone as replacement parts wouldn't be the easiest to come by.
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Do you think I should call Sprint first or just go into a store?

dieselg5 said:
Do you think I should call Sprint first or just go into a store?
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Go into the store so they can see the problem personally. They will most likely order you a refurb.

dieselg5 said:
Do you think I should call Sprint first or just go into a store?
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Go to a store, Sprint will tell you that over the phone. haha

This is a well known issue around here. Hold up ill dig up a post about it. I am happy to say that as of Bonsai 4.1.1 this issue no longer exists.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026971
dieselg5 said:
I've been having this issue with my epic for the past month or so. If something (other than a phone call) is playing audio (game, music) through the speaker or the earbuds I hear a crackling noise when I touch the screen and only when I touch the screen. It's very easily reproduced too. For example, I'll have pandora playing through the speaker and it'll play fine until I touch the screen to change the song or do something else. If I keep my finger on the screen it'll continue making the crackling noise until I lift it off. Doesn't happen if I touch the screen while it's off. The same thing has happened on every rom I tried including odin to stock eb13 and ec05. Since I've had the phone for less than a year, can I take it to a sprint store and get a replacement? Or does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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p3dr0maz said:
This is a well known issue around here. Hold up ill dig up a post about it. I am happy to say that as of Bonsai 4.1.1 this issue no longer exists.
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Must be various on a per phone basis then, because I've flashed EVERY single ROM to date and I've never experienced that.

p3dr0maz said:
This is a well known issue around here. Hold up ill dig up a post about it. I am happy to say that as of Bonsai 4.1.1 this issue no longer exists.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026971
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It doesn't sound like a software issue, therefor a rom won't fix the issue. If he goes back to stock, and the issue persists its hardware. Sounds like a loose wire, but I can't be sure...
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XtaC318 said:
It doesn't sound like a software issue, therefor a rom won't fix the issue. If he goes back to stock, and the issue persists its hardware. Sounds like a loose wire, but I can't be sure...
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We were trying to track down the cause, but never did, we still think it might be vodoo sound related when its built into the kernel...
But if it happens on stock, it could be something else, only happens to me on modded kernels.
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I've never expiernced this either

Not sure what to say if it happens on stock. Proud to say i've never ran stock except for the 2 minutes before I flashed a custom ROM. And yeah I mentioned the ROM because it does have a custom kernel and even though we've all heard arguments that it's this or that i still have to say it's gotta be something in how voodoo is compiled into the kernel like ecooce says.

So I odin back to DI18 and let it update before I took it to the store and of course it's not happening anymore
I remember going back to stock after ACS 1.1 destroyed my phone a few times (my phone would freeze a lot and since there's no journaling in 1.1 everything would get corrupt) and I still had the issue. Playing air attack hd with the crackling was horrendous. Anyway, thanks for the support everyone. Sorry for the scare

dieselg5 said:
I've been having this issue with my epic for the past month or so. If something (other than a phone call) is playing audio (game, music) through the speaker or the earbuds I hear a crackling noise when I touch the screen and only when I touch the screen. It's very easily reproduced too. For example, I'll have pandora playing through the speaker and it'll play fine until I touch the screen to change the song or do something else. If I keep my finger on the screen it'll continue making the crackling noise until I lift it off. Doesn't happen if I touch the screen while it's off. The same thing has happened on every rom I tried including odin to stock eb13 and ec05. Since I've had the phone for less than a year, can I take it to a sprint store and get a replacement? Or does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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I am glad you fixed it.

Kernel bug. Likely not a hardware issue.
I have the same exact behavior with Genocide 1.0. I'm unaware if this occurs in other Voodoo sound enabled Kernels but it sounds like it does.
On stock EC05 the problem goes away. For me anyways.

It does for most. TWZ 1.4 doesnt have the problem and neither does Bonsai 4.1.1 kernel AFAIK. There might be other known good combos.
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Kernel bug. Likely not a hardware issue.
I have the same exact behavior with Genocide 1.0. I'm unaware if this occurs in other Voodoo sound enabled Kernels but it sounds like it does.
On stock EC05 the problem goes away. For me anyways.
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I have the same issue on certain kernels. I was just about to ask, too. VERY noticeable when I'm playing music in my car and need to do something onscreen, makes the audio sound terrible.

I had this issue on several roms, including acs and the previous bonsai. In fact, my experience with acs was identical to yours. My phone just didn't play well with it. I don't have this problem with stock plus rom, even with the genocide kernel. Give that one a shot.
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greezestain said:
I had this issue on several roms, including acs and the previous bonsai. In fact, my experience with acs was identical to yours. My phone just didn't play well with it. I don't have this problem with stock plus rom, even with the genocide kernel. Give that one a shot.
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or its loose wire on your audio jack could be short to graounf when you tap the phone

TheDub said:
Kernel bug. Likely not a hardware issue.
I have the same exact behavior with Genocide 1.0. I'm unaware if this occurs in other Voodoo sound enabled Kernels but it sounds like it does.
On stock EC05 the problem goes away. For me anyways.
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Mine also crackles when the brightness adjusts. This includes when the screen fades out when I turn it off.
I hadn't noticed it when simply touching the screen though, just with the brightness. Also, I never noticed it until I started running custom roms with voodoo built in.
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Download voodoo control and turn down headphone amplifier or turn down volume limit. Might do the trick.......

Low mic volume?

So I am sitting here trying to talk to family from my Epic to their landline. They can barely hear me. I have been getting reports lately more and more of people saying they cannot hear me.
So I grab my wifes stock epic and call them back. They state it is soooo much better that they can hear me now. I call back from mine and same exact low volume to them. I can hear them fine though.
I have Bonsai on my phone. I haven't tried flashing back to stock yet to see if that fixes it but I highly doubt it will. Is there any hidden setting to make my voice louder?
I am guessing I will go to the store and use my insurance to swap my phone.
Anyone else heard of this issue with the epic?

Odin back too stock and try it. If its better flash srf 1.1.1 with ee03 modem. Try that.

Or might just be a bug with your phone. Obviously if stock odin doesn't fix. Time too take it too sprint

I also had this problem with using sfr. I think that it had somthing to do with voodoo sound. Went back to stock with odin and reflashed sfr. I also changed some settings in the voodoo sound control app. Something that I did made it so that people can hear me without me yelling into the mic.
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Ever since I moved to EE03, my mic has gone to crap when using the speaker. Same issue as in OP, very low volume and folks on the other end complain they can barely here me. Doesn't occur when I toggle the speaker off.

Clear Voodoo Control's data and don't mess with any settings except the ones in the first section. I had the same problem and doing this fixed it. Report back.
I'm pretty sure that its when you change the default setting in the Recording Presets menu but I'm not really sure. I don't really have any use for using my phone as a recorder so I just leave them alone anyways.

DUDE! check the mic hole and clean it
no lie it worked on mine

Change the Recording Preset in Voodoo Sound to Original. That should get you the same "volume" that others hear you at when using your wife's stock Epic.
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Never thought about the mic hole. Will try that first..something so simple. I remember when I got my TP2 I forgot the sticker over the mic hole.

Mic hole was clean. Odin to latest stock. Mic volume is back! Woot! I don't have to go to the sprint store. It was the Bonsai Rom causing the issue.

Were you using a voodoo sound kernel?
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ee03
Hey guys personally i think its a bug with ee03. Ive tried the swiss cheese, ive tried marcusants both v5 and v6 and midnightroms ee03 rom. I started a thread in q&a with almost 100 people who saw it and 1 who commented. It has nothing to do with cleaning the mic or buying a new headset.(although bluetooth solved the problem for me, but i prefer my wired headset...)I was using the stock wired samsung headset that came with the phone. All my phone calls had a low mic volume. I odined back to ec05 and my mic volume went back to normal. The only time ive noticed the problem was when i was using ee03. If some devs could look into it, im sure alot of us would be grateful. I now know im not alone with that problem. Also ee03 doesnt come with voodoo sound. So there is nothing to adjust, as there is no voodoo sound...However as much as i miss the smooth transitions and battery life of ee03. i had to go back to ec05 and for those of you who odined back down, well you know what i mean when i say i miss ee03. But the biggest problem is one that cant be overlooked.....MIC VOLUME....

stir fry a lot said:
Clear Voodoo Control's data and don't mess with any settings except the ones in the first section. I had the same problem and doing this fixed it. Report back.
I'm pretty sure that its when you change the default setting in the Recording Presets menu but I'm not really sure. I don't really have any use for using my phone as a recorder so I just leave them alone anyways.
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Blankrubber said:
Change the Recording Preset in Voodoo Sound to Original. That should get you the same "volume" that others hear you at when using your wife's stock Epic.
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digiblur said:
Mic hole was clean. Odin to latest stock. Mic volume is back! Woot! I don't have to go to the sprint store. It was the Bonsai Rom causing the issue.
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You could of saved yourself a lot of trouble had you bothered to read your own post lol.

Never had any voodoo programs. Always try to keep the voodoo out of my devices

digiblur said:
Never had any voodoo programs. Always try to keep the voodoo out of my devices
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Bonsai has voodoo built in, all you gotta do is get the voodoo app from the market and change the recording preset back to normal.
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Just thought I would let everyone know ef02 doesn't have the low mic volume issue and I also found and app in the market for gingerbread devices that really helps with audio volume. Besides using voodoo control plus you can also use volume+. I use both......
Sent from my anonomous ef02......

how do you clean the mic hole?
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nvertigo said:
how do you clean the mic hole?
Edit:nvm
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Sounds like a personal problem.
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Major EF02 improvements from EE03.

- Smoothness
- gps works
- radio works flawlessly (I'm using ec05 modem.)
- when unplugging aux cable while playing music w/ stock music player, it stops music.
- LED notification light is working now.
- Removal of Clear level 2 RAM so newbies don't break anything.
Netflix IS working!
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This update might now keep Epic users from throwing their phones out the window

nimaim said:
This update might now keep Epic users from throwing their phones out the window
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Or keep them from jumping ship so soon!
Op did you try the EF02 or EF10 Modem?

Audio has been completely scratch/stutter free, even with voodoo audio on so far. That alone makes me love this update.

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Audio has been completely scratch/stutter free, even with voodoo audio on so far. That alone makes me love this update.
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Might the bluetooth routing bugs (where all audio comes out of the ear speaker after disconnecting) be fixed too?
But THAT is wonderful news and what I was hoping for. I have had way too much trouble making my Epic a reliable media player which can multitask, and it's Touchwiz bugs taking most of the blame for the stuttering, in my experience. Has the stock music player changed at all? They did away with some features from the Eclair one which were actually better, which I didn't appreciate...

Ffc still sideways while video chatting?
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DroidApprentice said:
Might the bluetooth routing bugs (where all audio comes out of the ear speaker after disconnecting) be fixed too?
But THAT is wonderful news and what I was hoping for. I have had way too much trouble making my Epic a reliable media player which can multitask, and it's Touchwiz bugs taking most of the blame for the stuttering, in my experience. Has the stock music player changed at all? They did away with some features from the Eclair one which were actually better, which I didn't appreciate...
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Looks like it's the same one as Froyo. I use Poweramp so rarely ever touch the stock player.

CapsLockKey said:
Looks like it's the same one as Froyo. I use Poweramp so rarely ever touch the stock player.
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Thanks. Now can you or someone else test the bluetooth routing? (To test, play something through stereo BT, then switch to voice headset mode on another device by placing or taking a call, then see after you disconnect both devices if media audio is routed incorrectly through the phone ear speaker like it is in Froyo.)

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Thanks. Now can you or someone else test the bluetooth routing? (To test, play something through stereo BT, then switch to voice headset mode on another device by placing or taking a call, then see after you disconnect both devices if media audio is routed incorrectly through the phone ear speaker like it is in Froyo.)
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Audio is routed correctly. I just played Pandora in my car over Bluetooth for about 30 min, placed a couple of calls over Bluetooth, and then placed a call when I got home. All worked great!

Anyone else notice that ram usage is crazy high? Mine is at 285mn
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jfharden said:
Audio is routed correctly. I just played Pandora in my car over Bluetooth for about 30 min, placed a couple of calls over Bluetooth, and then placed a call when I got home. All worked great!
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Yayuh. ^_^

Noticing a SEVERE battery drain when in a dead area (searching for signal constantly). At 15% and made one phone call for 1 minute in a period of 7 hours.
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Has anyone tested to see if the FM radio works with EF02?
There were reports of some people had it working under EE03.

monke30butt said:
Has anyone tested to see if the FM radio works with EF02?
There were reports of some people had it working under EE03.
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I'll test it right now.

monke30butt said:
Has anyone tested to see if the FM radio works with EF02?
There were reports of some people had it working under EE03.
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I tried but couldn't get it to scan any channels. Feel free to try it yourself. Flashable zip right here.

No FM radio for me.
My LED notification light is working now.

RSPC said:
No FM radio for me.
My LED notification light is working now.
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Almost forgot about that, added to OP.

Overstew said:
Noticing a SEVERE battery drain when in a dead area (searching for signal constantly). At 15% and made one phone call for 1 minute in a period of 7 hours.
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Was that with the Ec05 modem or the ef02 modem? I get fairly bad battery drain while at work. From the reports that I've heard, it sounds like the ef02 modem has greatly increased signal strength.

how can i use radio on ef02?
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Overstew said:
Almost forgot about that, added to OP.
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Led noifications didn't work for you guys?
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Jawbone ERA and EVO 4G

Hi,
I have searched for bluetooth and did not come up with anything useful. I am using a Jawbone ERA which used to work pretty well. But, recently the people I call have been complaining so much about the voice quality that I have to switch to the handset and turn the bluetooth off. They say that the voice keeps getting choppy, dropping off all together. I was wondering if anyone else is having similar issues with Jawbone in particular or any other bluetooth headset that they are using. I think the problem is probably with the handset's bluetooth stack updated with the GB. This has been such a bugged release that Sprint/HTC shouldn't have even bothered subjecting the users to this load of crap. Anyway, would appreciate if any one can help with this issue. Thanks.

Jawbone does the same thing from time to time but I'm running MIUI so I don't think the update has much to do with it
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My jawbone icon works fine other than it losing connectivity more than I like.

So not much I can do I guess. I've emailed both HTC and Jawbone let's see what I hear back from them.
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I use the jawbone icon on Mikg, among others. I have not had any problems with it. I did use stock rom for a few days when the gingerbread release came out. I don't recall any issues then either.
What have you done to troubleshoot? Have you unpaired and then paired the bluetooth device again? Have you done a factory restore to see if that fixes it?

I haven't done much yet. I will try the repairing. I am also trying it out with the noise assassin turned off, but haven't had a chance yet to test that much. In a brief conversation, the drop off went away after turning off the noise assassin. But, I'll need more testing to confirm that noise assassin is the culprit. A2DP is turned off too. I might try turning that back on as well. Now, that I think about it the problem probably starting occurring after I turned off the A2DP but I can't recall exactly. Thanks for the suggestions.

A2DP seems to have been the culprit. After turning that back on the voice quality seems to have gotten better.
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I have the ERA also and the EVO4g, and no problems here. I'm on Synergy.

Yeah so far turning the A2DP and noise assassin back on has solved the problem. You could try it on your end by turning them off one by one and
see if that reproduces the problem.
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