Hey everyone,
Just received my Transformer today. Overall the hardware/software quality of the unit is pretty good.
HOWEVER, I'm a bit bugged by the issue with the sound/speakers where the audio is louder on the right speaker than the left. The sound balance is quite off.
Anybody else experiencing this issue? I've read a review a month ago regarding this and the reviewer references this problem as well, just wanted to see how many other people (if any) are exeperiencing this.
Thanks!
I actually noticed the same thing today, but thought it was the song I was listening to. Probably will be resolved with software update.
speaker only or does this happen with earphones too?
shabs52 said:
speaker only or does this happen with earphones too?
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Just ran a test and its only an issue with the speakers.
Wasn't this fixed with the latest update? Or am I thinking something else? :/
It seems most people have this issue and I'm hoping it will get dealt with in a future firmware update.
Drethis said:
Wasn't this fixed with the latest update? Or am I thinking something else? :/
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To my knowledge it wasn't.
I think I really lucked out with my unit. I received it yesterday and after reading the reports from other lucky owners throughout the week I was really worried. However both my speakers play perfectly. And the screen has very little lightbleed on LCD test at max brightness.
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Hi guys,
I was a (very) happy Galaxy S2 user and wanted to do the bump with the S4. I've got it with a very expensive price plan from Vodafone (yeah, blame me on that) and now I'm having a hard lifetime concerning payments and all that nasty stuff nobody wants to know about. I'm just explaining this to add for the disappointment I'm having with this new phone.
First it was the poor audio quality (yeah, I do really think S2 sounded better even if it had a poorer DAC), then it was the greyish LCD look of the screen (AMOLED, right?), the purple smearing & the slow response of pixel drawing... So, Today I've received the MEA OTA update and the phone got worse: faster battery draining, 1s camera lag, Adapt Sound (ace utility if you ask me) stopped working and never came back, some UI mistakes... issues well long and discussed in here.
Thing is, this phone is brand new, just got it for 6 days and I was also thinking of buying HTC ONE at first because audio DAC quality and, why not, to taste another Android flavour.
So my question would be: Would you recommend to exchange/switch it with somebody else for the HTC ONE on secondhand market? Or is it just a matter of lazy samsung devs? Will it get better (ie issues resolved) in some time? I'm just asking for oppinions, certainly nobody can give us those answers for real, but for the sake of wellness...
Cheers,
Slit.
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Hi guys,
I was a (very) happy Galaxy S2 user and wanted to do the bump with the S4. I've got it with a very expensive price plan from Vodafone (yeah, blame me on that) and now I'm having a hard lifetime concerning payments and all that nasty stuff nobody wants to know about. I'm just explaining this to add for the disappointment I'm having with this new phone.
First it was the poor audio quality (yeah, I do really think S2 sounded better even if it had a poorer DAC), then it was the greyish LCD look of the screen (AMOLED, right?), the purple smearing & the slow response of pixel drawing... So, Today I've received the MEA OTA update and the phone got worse: faster battery draining, 1s camera lag, Adapt Sound (ace utility if you ask me) stopped working and never came back, some UI mistakes... issues well long and discussed in here.
Thing is, this phone is brand new, just got it for 6 days and I was also thinking of buying HTC ONE at first because audio DAC quality and, why not, to taste another Android flavour.
So my question would be: Would you recommend to exchange/switch it with somebody else for the HTC ONE on secondhand market? Or is it just a matter of lazy samsung devs? Will it get better (ie issues resolved) in some time? I'm just asking for oppinions, certainly nobody can give us those answers for real, but for the sake of wellness...
Cheers,
Slit.
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I am also one of the guys who upgraded from s2..so far i am very happy with it..if u r talking abt the music playback audio quality then its way better than s2..so either u got a faulty device or u should factory reset and then apply the update again..no lags here..
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thanks for your thoughts guitarmafia.
about sound quality: yeah, it appears so, and I do believe this Qualcomm DAC is way better than the Yamaha one in S2, although I do really hear it worse. Sounds more nasal, more resonant than the S2 was. Maybe I need to get used to it?
lag: I do have lag now, sunday night I was making pictures with Zero Lag alright (very impressed coming from an S2) and today, after the OTA update, I've got the camera firmware update and started to have shutter lag. My girlfriend's S3 does pics almost instantly, way faster than this.
Perhaps you should do what everbody does, and root it with a good Romsuch as Cyanogenmod or a good touchwiz one and you'll appreciate it.
I'm also disappointed since i feel my S2 was just as fast and as good.
S2 with NeatROM 4.8 was just as fast and as good as this S4, indeed. I do appreciate the FullHD screen compared to these 480x800, but instead we've got a greyish screen... and I do expect a quality product when I buy the flagship of Samsung, tbh.
Try a MF8 rom. Might fix some issues. Using it and have no problems. Smooth and fast. Dont know about cam lag because I dont have a reference point.
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thanks for your thoughts guitarmafia.
about sound quality: yeah, it appears so, and I do believe this Qualcomm DAC is way better than the Yamaha one in S2, although I do really hear it worse. Sounds more nasal, more resonant than the S2 was. Maybe I need to get used to it?
lag: I do have lag now, sunday night I was making pictures with Zero Lag alright (very impressed coming from an S2) and today, after the OTA update, I've got the camera firmware update and started to have shutter lag. My girlfriend's S3 does pics almost instantly, way faster than this.
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My apolozies..i did not realize that u were talking about the sd600 version..i own an octa core version so my experience does not apply here..
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My apolozies..i did not realize that u were talking about the sd600 version..i own an octa core version so my experience does not apply here..
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Oh, I see. Don't worry. I'm more confident with this screen and its response, although this isn't the phone I was expecting... and getting a i9500 is out of the question.
About MF8 rom, well, changelog doesn't look more promising than this MEA I have now.
Thanks for your thoughts, though.
Had s2 and s3 now have s4 for playing music its way better than the previous phones, more warmth and bass and more equalizer room to tweak through for ex with poweramp
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jody2k said:
Had s2 and s3 now have s4 for playing music its way better than the previous phones, more warmth and bass and more equalizer room to tweak through for ex with poweramp
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I see that you have the i9505, are you an audiophile by any means? Not asking rudely, just wondering about a fellow music addict and i9505 audio quality compared with HTC One
Dear all,
I just Bought the Lg G pad 8.3, 5 days ago and want to tell you my story i faced.
I just purchased and i was too excited for its screen, light weight and good specs.. But when i bought within 2 days without installing many apps i got Over heating issues with watching you tube. my tab used to restart with a msg that its over heating and needs to restart. Even i was not able to move my brightness of screen to its max level. Then finally i thought to order a replacement. and after 3 days i went back and Replaced it with other one. New of course. and this time again my bad luck the hearing issue still exits but not as bad as earlier also speaker sound comes disturbing there is kind of glitches and sound is not good in full volume...
I don't know if anyone else here is facing over heating problem? or other issues or its only me??
Do shoot your stories and comments here..
Thanks,
Sounds like you are having bad luck. While there are some shortcomings on the unit mine has been solid and my main complaint is purely the screen gama issues. I'm hoping someone can inject a fix into a customer kernel like they did for the V510
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Sounds like you are having bad luck. While there are some shortcomings on the unit mine has been solid and my main complaint is purely the screen gama issues. I'm hoping someone can inject a fix into a customer kernel like they did for the V510
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Ditto. Never had any overheating problem.
Mine gets warm after an hour or two of straight gameplay but not watching a movie.exchange it again.
I had no idea they even shown an Overheating Msg.. Maybe you should try a different Vendor if you have that option.. Try to get one from another batch.. Are you also saying you have speaker issues with the stock LG ROM? In most cases, it's the loudest speaker option without adding something like Viper..
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I had no idea they even shown an Overheating Msg.. Maybe you should try a different Vendor if you have that option.. Try to get one from another batch.. Are you also saying you have speaker issues with the stock LG ROM? In most cases, it's the loudest speaker option without adding something like Viper..
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Yes i 1 had the 12/2013 batch now i got 11/2013 batch. This one seems ok regarding the heating issues...but the speaker on this batch in not as good as i had in my earlier tab which i replaced.. sound feels Shaky voice from thje left speaker..
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Yes i 1 had the 12/2013 batch now i got 11/2013 batch. This one seems ok regarding the heating issues...but the speaker on this batch in not as good as i had in my earlier tab which i replaced.. sound feels Shaky voice from thje left speaker..
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May I ask you.. Where are you purchasing your G-Pads from?
This is the screenshot of the error i got in my last tab (Sorry its in Chinese) ..It says that I cant turn the brightness to full because of high temperature of tab...
I am (was?) all set to buy a 6P, so doing some research on them. And I've run across the multiple threads on different forums with 100's of user complaining about call quality. But it's hard to tell if it's only affecting a few unlucky souls or if it is pretty much everyone. I like the idea of this phone since I'm a programmer and want to be able to use a rootable phone with any carrier I choose, but it has to do the basic things a smartPHONE should do, too. I'm coming from an S5 which has great call quality, and do not want to downgrade in that area at all.
So any user feedback would be welcome.
TIA
For what it's worth, in Perth Australia with Vodafone I find the call quality no better or worse that any of my previous phones (see my signature for that list).
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My 6P has fine call quality on both ends of the conversation. I've asked those on the other end of the line how the sound was and have consistently been told it's very good.
if your talking about the noise cancellation issue, you can easily fix it with a simple build.prop edit
What "quality issue"? There is none, most issues are network related, hell mine sounds just fine using the car Bluetooth while doing 70 on the highway
Yeah no problems with call quality on any of mine or my friends and families 6p
No issues with my call quality....
Mines running perfect out the box ... Verizon here .. Made several calls no issues yet
You should be more worried about the screen issues than the call quality of this phone.
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if your talking about the noise cancellation issue, you can easily fix it with a simple build.prop edit
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Yes, the noise cancellation issue. I'd read about that tweak, but pretty much no feedback about if that was a true fix or not.
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What "quality issue"? There is none, most issues are network related, hell mine sounds just fine using the car Bluetooth while doing 70 on the highway
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Yeah, it seems to work fine on Bluetooth. It's when it's using normal mic that it has issues.
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You should be more worried about the screen issues than the call quality of this phone.
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What screen issue? I guess I got caught up reading 500 or 600 posts about the call issue, and didn't see anything about the screen. I'll have to do some more looking.
On Verizon here.. My fiance said that I sounded a bit odd when I first started using the 6P (Call sounded normal from my end). I discovered that the HD calling option was turned on. I tried it with the HD calling off, and she said I immediately sounded "normal" again. Funny because I bet it actually sounded better in HD mode, and she probably just wasn't used to the clarity.
The only sound quality issues I have experienced are with the noise cancellation mic on the back of the phone. I have a Tetded flip case and if I call with it opened up on that mic people say I sound muffled. If I uncover it I can be in a very noisy room and all people can hear is me even though I can bearly hear them because of the volume of the background noise.
Sorry for the generic title, so I own a Nexus 6 (Shamu). Not a 6P. My question for all you beautiful people, what are some very common problems with the 6P? The Nexus 6 has very bad hissing crackling feedback when the battery starts to get to lower percentages, many people have this issue and it seems to be a hardware issue. The WiFi for some people (me included) is VERY slow ever since updating to Marshmallow, it's like a 10 second wait before a web page loads. These are just some well known issues of the Shamu, so what issues does the 6P face? And the 5X if you have that knowledge as well! Thanks all! Happy flashing!
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Sorry for the generic title, so I own a Nexus 6 (Shamu). Not a 6P. My question for all you beautiful people, what are some very common problems with the 6P? The Nexus 6 has very bad hissing crackling feedback when the battery starts to get to lower percentages, many people have this issue and it seems to be a hardware issue. The WiFi for some people (me included) is VERY slow ever since updating to Marshmallow, it's like a 10 second wait before a web page loads. These are just some well known issues of the Shamu, so what issues does the 6P face? And the 5X if you have that knowledge as well! Thanks all! Happy flashing!
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The most common issue is probably uneven screen tinting. Some people will try to tell you that the phone bending is a common issue, but in reality the number of affected devices would make up such a miniscule percentage, it's just gained a lot of attention. Some people have reported uneven speaker volume. All in all there's nothing really major though.
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The most common issue is probably uneven screen tinting. Some people will try to tell you that the phone bending is a common issue, but in reality the number of affected devices would make up such a miniscule percentage, it's just gained a lot of attention. Some people have reported uneven speaker volume. All in all there's nothing really major though.
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That all sounds manageable so long as it isn't too bad. The Shamu has some really annoying issues! Bummer for such an expensive phone with a 6" display! Thanks for the reply! I was torn between the 6 and the 6P because I wanted the bigger device, didn't know it had such drawbacks unfortunately.
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That all sounds manageable so long as it isn't too bad. The Shamu has some really annoying issues! Bummer for such an expensive phone with a 6" display! Thanks for the reply! I was torn between the 6 and the 6P because I wanted the bigger device, didn't know it had such drawbacks unfortunately.
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Yeah, and even if you do get a device with one of those issues the return/replacement process through Google is ridiculously easy.
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Yeah, and even if you do get a device with one of those issues the return/replacement process through Google is ridiculously easy.
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I got with google about that, maybe I waited too long. They said I could only get a refurbished one, when I paid the super high release price for this device. Real bummer. Refurbished devices are hard to trust, could have been a cracked screen or a blown processor, no way of knowing.
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I got with google about that, maybe I waited too long. They said I could only get a refurbished one, when I paid the super high release price for this device. Real bummer. Refurbished devices are hard to trust, could have been a cracked screen or a blown processor, no way of knowing.
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I believe the cutoff for a new replacement is 15 days.
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I believe the cutoff for a new replacement is 15 days.
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Well, there was my error then! Thanks for the information on the 6P!
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Well, there was my error then! Thanks for the information on the 6P!
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No problems.
For me battery is a big issue! When i just got my phone i had like 6 hours sot maybe more. Now i hardly get 5.5 hours. Plus one issue that just annoys me is that battery skips percents during discharge. It can stay on 78 and then suddenly drop to 76
I am now on my 2nd axon 7 after returning my previous one for the same issue. The issue is that my speakers frequently crackle/pop when I play music at high volume levels or bass heavy songs. It happens mostly on the top 4 volume levels and is more noticeable with certain songs. I also played the same songs on my brothers moto X pure and it didn't have any crackling.
This is the perfect phone for me apart from this issue so I want to know a few things.
1. Is anyone else having this issue?
2. Is this a hardware or software issue?
3. Can flashing arise or viper fix this?
I have this issue, except as far as I can tell, it is only on my top speaker. Mine is an Australian A2017G Axon 7 Quartz Grey. Currently waiting for a reply from R&D as they are on their Chinese New Year holiday. Not sure if its a software or hardware issue. Haven't tried flashing a A.R.I.S.E/VIPER so not sure if that could solve the issue, however if its just over-gain on the speakers, you could possibly just lower it. But yeah I haven't played around with it. Don't want to do anything till I get a response back from R&D.
Same here, but just the bottom one
Really annoying..
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Verequies said:
I have this issue, except as far as I can tell, it is only on my top speaker. Mine is an Australian A2017G Axon 7 Quartz Grey. Currently waiting for a reply from R&D as they are on their Chinese New Year holiday. Not sure if its a software or hardware issue. Haven't tried flashing a A.R.I.S.E/VIPER so not sure if that could solve the issue, however if its just over-gain on the speakers, you could possibly just lower it. But yeah I haven't played around with it. Don't want to do anything till I get a response back from R&D.
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I thought mine was due to over-gain but I've noticed that it still happens on lower volumes too so I think its a hardware issue. However, I also noticed that theres crackling over bluetooth too so that's software. When you get a reply let me know what they say.
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Same here, but just the bottom one
Really annoying..
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Yeah its annoying, everything else about this phone was perfect but I'm gonna have to return it.