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No sound except for phone

I cannot get any sound out of my MDA-compact...except for the phone.
So I do not get:
-ring-tones
-calender event sounds
-keyboard sound
But I am able to hear someone speak on the phone.
I set all sound on.
Disabled mute
Put all slides on maximum...checked several times if they stayed there.
It worked a week ago, or so.
Since then installed:
-wisbar
-expcal
-Tom-Tom
-Sprite
Tried setting back a backup...but problem persists.

There is 2 ways to mute the Magician if you have wisbar advance installed. Try to quit WA and disable mute. Depending on the skin you use it could be difficult to merge Magician and skin volume sliders.
If you are not success desinstall WA and try again. Then install it again and remember is better to use the volume hard keys instead WA Skin slider.
Good luck!

This may sound stupid, but I had a similar problem and found that something was Stuck in the headphone jack socket. Try it with the headphones. Also, have you installed the new bluetooth stock with A2DP support?

Works with headphones
Thanks admisi....it works with the headphones...but after pluggin in and out it still doesn't work without.
Might this be some registry setting?

Unlikely to be anything in the registry. If all sound working with headphones, then likely that inside headphone jack is stuck. I plugged and unplugged many times until eventually it freed up, only other thing is that the actual wiring to the main speaker has come away!

I do not think is is the headphone jack.
If someone phones me...it doesn't ring (it does through the headphone), but I am able to hear the other person through the normal speaker!
If it would be the headphone jack, I wouldn't be able to use the phone without the headphone.
It must be something with software, unless the phone-speaker function is hardwired different from the rest.

I had exactly the same problem with my magician. i could hear through the phone speaker and use as a phone fine, but the external loudspeaker did not work.
It was a hardware issue, and t-mobile UK simply replaced it for me
unfortunately, this is a well known problem with the magician and the easiest way is just to send it for repair.
Hopefully, your operator will do this free of charge. If you are still within warranty that is!

I hope not...this is already my 3th MDA-compact because of hardware issues.
I had loads of trouble with Tom-Tom because of having to reinstall 3 times already. Furthermore ActiveSync is ****...it doesn't let you install on an identical device with a different IMEI...so no restoring backups. That's why I purchased Sprite...which screwed my MMS database.
And the bluetooth headset seems to have a dead battery after 2 month's.
If I've gotten money for each hour of installation I would have had an additional month's income.

restoring to another device from activesync is simply a case of doing it as a guest the first time.
Cancel the partnership wizard, and then start the restore. it will ask you to select which partnership has the backup you wish to use and then it starts. that should work fine.
as for the MMS database, all backup programs seem to do that. I had it with activesync, Sprite and SPB, just stick with whichever you prefer, but don't restore the mail database when you do a restore. Otherwise you get the problems reported on the forum of having drafts and unread items which do not appear anywhere.
to be honest, if it works fine through the phone speaker, but nothing else, and there is no mute anywhere, it is most likely hardware. Easiest way to double check:
1 - back up using sprite/async/xbackup/whatever
2 - hard reset the device. when it reboots, do you get the bell noise when the 'tap here to set up your device' screen appears
if yes - is a software glitch
if no - your speaker is fecked, return for repair.
like was already said, the wiring for the speaker has come away. I remember reading somewhere that when someone took one of these apart, they found that the speaker is not actually soldered, but clipped to the main board, and the clip breaks easily. That swhat happened with mine anyway, t-mobile report said the speaker had broken off of the mainboard, and because it happened so often they replaced it without question.

I had a similar problem with mine. After using speakers plugged into the headphone socket I got no sound - but still got sound when phoning someone.
I found that there is a problem with the headphone socket so that after plugging something in then removing it, it still thinks it's plugged in. To solve it i started something with sound (I used a track playing in Media Player) then used my stylus to wiggle inside the headphone socket. Hey Presto the sound returned!

Go to Start, Settings, Sounds & Notifications. My systems sounds also disappeared last week when going from one profile to another on phonealarm, and my options was unticked for some unknown reason.

speakers
if none of thier ideas work, ITS A HARDFWARE PROBLEM, ur speakers are busted, the back speaker, happend to me, ended up bringing it to a service center, they replaced the speaker, after 3 hrs went back, gud thing i tested it there coz the speaker was working but it was God awfull, it was still busted, so i told the customer service rep, she rbought it to the technician, she daid come back the next day, i did, it was fixed, audio was flawless, she said they replaced the MAINNOARD, so as i f i got a new unit

Hey team,
I had the exact same problem today and fixed it by putting headphones in and pulling them out quickly once the music played!
Hope it helps!

Help! Big problems with all audio!

Hi
First post here so please excuse any ignorance.
O2 XDA Exec - standard Rom from O2 website.
Problem started a few hours ago after using the audio out for listening to music via mediaplayer.
My unit was working fine while playing, but later after it had been disconnceted from the stereo I noted that there were no tap sounds.
I first checked the audio settings, all normal the way I always have them.
Next I tried the reset button on the back of the unit, no help there.
I tried plugging in the headphones in and there is perfectly normal audio over the headphone but once removed nothing at all.
Getting more extreme I tried a rom update/fresh start, no luck there either.
Getting even more hardcore I downloaded the assembly/disassembly pdf from this forum to check if there was a physical fault with the 3.5mm audio port. I checked to make sure all the tabs were springing back after an audio jack was removed all seem fine (although at this point I lack a comparision).
Then for a test I rang my own phone from my land line and it seems to ring fine but there is nothing from the mic or either of the earpieces during a call.
I am fast running out of ideas and the last test really perplexed me.
I am almost certain that it is a case of one of the contacts inside the audio port not springing back and therefore cutting out the external audio, giving the device the impression that there is still a headset connected.
I don't want to poke around inside too much as I have so far been able to keep security tabs intact, just in case I need to send it off.
Anybody have any ideas on how to get around this? Is it possible that it is software and not hardware?
Please help as phone is a bit useless sans headset, which I don't really want to be permanetly tied to.
Thanks
Thom

keep plugging and unplugging the headset until it works or you get tired, if it works great, otherwise sent it in for repair.

Does nobody out there have a registry hack workaround for this problem?
When I receive calls its rings and any other sounds come through whilst the phone rings.
There must be a workaround here somewhere???

Had exactly the same problem. No sound but rings ok,
After the first time I plugged in the headphones, no sound. Its probably cause the headphone socket is so big in comparisson, that it gets dirty. Just spray some anti static cleaner on the headphone plug and keep plugging it in.
Worked perfectly for me!!

There is no registry hack because this is a hardware issue, not a software one.
The ringer will ring whether the earphones are plugged in or not, which is how you would expect a phone to function. The problem lies with the connectors in the headphone jack socket not recognising the headphones are unplugged. Resetting and even dare I say a hard reset will not sort it as the issue is not software related.
This has also been covered several times on the forum. The only way (short of taking the thing apart) is to keep plugging / unplugging the headphones until the sound reappears.
Cheers
Ant

This just started happening on my JasJar today (system audio returned after poking the headset in/out a few times), after 11 months of use. Does this get worse over time? Should I bite the bullet and try to get Imate to repair it?
Please advise!

A2DP reconnection issues

I'm curious if I'm the only one... I use Jabra A2DP headphones at work. When I walk away from my desk, I usually take my phone with me. When I come back to my desk, one of these things happens (I can't predict which one will happen, either):
1) Phone and headphones pair right up and it starts working (very very rare)
2) Nothing happens until I power off/on the headphones
3) It says connected, but no audio to headphones until I power them off/on
4) It says connected, but plays music out phone speaker (very very annoying)
5) For no apparent reason it may pop up voice dialer, and I'll say G*DD*MN*TWTF.. and then it tries to call someone.
I've had this problem with stock ROM/kernel, and every ROM/kernel combo I've tried. Right now I'm running EViO2-1.7.7. I think this could be an issue with the Jabra headphones, and if that's the case, I have no problem buying new headphones.. I just don't want to spend money unless I know it'll fix my problems. If you can confirm that you do or don't have the problem, please let me know what ROM/kernel you're running and what brand/model of headphones you have. Thanks!

Earphones give Commands to phone

This might sound strange, but when i still used to use my old HD2 earphones with the little buttons to go to next track, answer phone etc. it was obviously able to send commands to my phone that way.
Now i dont use them anymore and use Sennheiser ones instead, no buttons, just earphones.
but when they move in the 3.5mm jack sometimes they enable Shuffle or keep switching through tracks extremely fast.
I dont need my HD2 to be able to get commands from the 3.5mm jack is there ANY way to get rid of this?
its driving me nuts.

IndigoHD said:
This might sound strange, but when i still used to use my old HD2 earphones with the little buttons to go to next track, answer phone etc. it was obviously able to send commands to my phone that way.
Now i dont use them anymore and use Sennheiser ones instead, no buttons, just earphones.
but when they move in the 3.5mm jack sometimes they enable Shuffle or keep switching through tracks extremely fast.
I dont need my HD2 to be able to get commands from the 3.5mm jack is there ANY way to get rid of this?
its driving me nuts.
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IndigoHD said:
I dont need my HD2 to be able to get commands from the 3.5mm jack is there ANY way to get rid of this?
its driving me nuts.
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This has come up several times this past 18months, myself included with a low end pair of sennheisers that (under winmo) scroll thru my call history and select dial randomly. (Called up an ex gf in Australia once, lol. I had no idea till days later when i saw her in the call log.)
In my case, it seemed to get worse as the phone warmed up, adding weight to my suspicion (guess) that it is caused by signal bleeding into the wrong pickups, maybe a fractionally misaligned jack during construction, perhaps a noisy signal from a dodgy soldering job tricking the phone into thinking it has the third pickup and is a headset. I even half noticed that it would be more likely to happen with particular mp3's, but didnt really study it much, i just used different 'phones until i moved to android.
Under android, however, they work fine. I use them daily.

It does not matter wether i use Android or Windows Mobile.
It has happened on both.
Can this be disabled somehow?
There must be software in the phones operating system that enables it to interpret these commands that are recieved. Can it not somehow be disabled then?

on my nokia n95 i could set the default accessory profile, but i dont remember seeing anything similar in winmo, and cant see anything in the cm7 rom im on currently.

Before you get all tied up with hardware.
If the headphones don't support the options, then the most likely source of your problem is dust/debris in the headset port, try a bright torch and have a look, it only take a very small amount to raise the plug a fraction of an inch and cause these types of issues.
Make sure the battery is out before you insert a pin or someting to loosen any muck
This used to be a common problem befor larger smart phones came along, especialy for the guys, keeping phones in dusty pockets

hd2 3,5 jack problem

Hi guys, i have an hd2 with nand android, and i have a problem when i plug in the aux cable or earphones: the phone during the play of a track sometimes changes automatically the song or it restart the song a lot of time without that i touch the phone. I already had the plug in problem too when i had wm 6.5 on the phone, but the problem were not the "music shuffling", but the problem were that the phone autodialed the last number called by me.
Someone has the same issue? Any solutions?

I've had audio jack problems as well.
I use a mp3 player from the Android Market called Tiny Player.
Occasionally while playing songs in Tiny Player through headphones or an FM transmitter, the Android music player will start up and begin playing a random song while Tiny Player is still playing.
It must be something about the way that the audio jack is designed to work with the HTC headphones that have the in-line mic built into them for calling. Some regular headphones must be causing a connection to be made which makes the phone think that a button on the HTC headphones has been pressed.
I can usually solve this problem by unplugging and re-plugging the headphones, or turning the plugh in the jack a little bit.

this has come up fairly often over the yrs, to a greater or lesser extent. I have a pair of senheissers which do exactly what you describe, but only on winmo roms. My other phones (tested four or five pairs, cheap and expensive) all work fine. the senheissers work fine on wp7 and android.
Odly enough two (that i can think of) other threads like this also mentioned senheisers, , , what you using, OP?

@samsamuel: i'm using android MIUI.
@huggs: sometimes i do like you, i unplug and replug the cable to solve the problem, but i want to permanently solve this problem, even at the cost of replacing the input jack, you say that it solves?

Its also worth removing the battery and then looking into the jack to see it there is any debris in there, remove with a pin

Same problem, except my Android powered HD2 also likes to randomly dial the last person I talked to when I have the headphones connected. These are the original HTC phones that came with the device. Today it managed to leave my boss eight voicemails. Nice. Fortunately, my boss has a sense of humor and it'll probably be OK. What can I do to prevent this from happening again?

I have a problem with 3.5 mm jack. When I turn on the headset, the phone restarts. And the problem is not with all handsets

I think I found a fix for misbehaving headphones:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/headset-blocker/com.idunnolol.headsetblocker
If anyone has used this please comment.

@imrazor : Thank you very much, I'm using it for two days and since I installed it I've had no problems.