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Bad sound quality

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!

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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
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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
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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????

Front Speaker with Problems. Can transport to Back speaker??

Hi all.
My Imate Jam have the front speaker with some kind of problem... When using it as Mobile Phone I can speak but I cannot hear the other person because the volume is tooooooooo low. I think it's a hardware problem after some times it felt on the ground.
I understand that the front speak sends the phone sound and the back speaker sends the media (mp3, video, etc) sound... Is this correct?
Lets assume this is correct and my front speaker is broken. Can I send the phone sound (voice) to the back speaker and use it like a "hands-free" phone?
ThankS!

Just press the green phonebutton for 2 à 3 secs and voilà you use the back speaker.
But now for another question: where to find some replacement speaker?
It starts being irrtating that a the people in the room in wich i am calling can hear the whole conversation :x
Someones got a clue? I opened my phone already to clean the speakerconnections according a helpfile form this site, but nothing happened!

THANKS for the tip!! So simple!!! Very thanks.
I couldnt find a replacement... I live in Brazil and doesnt have support for Imate here.
Can you send me link to the post that explains how to open to try to clean mine??

Check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=26370&highlight=speaker+nokia
In the lower part one guy claims the speaker is the same as on certain Nokia devices. You should easily be able to find replacement speakers for those Nokia devices (or salvage a defective one from ebay where the speaker is functional).
Hope it helps.

Or buy a cheap BT earpiece. Got one yesterday for just €25 from Vivanco. Till Now it works fine & no big phone in your hands as well
Regards, M

I bought a HS850 BT from Motorola and works fine... But I like having choices... I will try to open it and check the speaker.
Thanks for all the tips!!!

I already tried a nokia 6600 speaker but that one is bigger than the phonespeaker .I think he ment that it fits as the rearspeaker, but Im not sure on that (didn`t pay attention on that, though my rearspeaker is fine).
I think I will go for a stereo bleutooth headset, because Orange thinks that it maybe will cost me over 100€

Whoah! Back up there!
SOrry about the interruption to this thread, but did I read that you can have the phone-call sound seperate to the mp3 output?
I need to have the phonecalls on bluetooth and tomtom instructions from the speaker AT THE SAME TIME.
Does anyone know if this is possible? I tried it on a XDAIIs earlier this year, but failed miserably.

The same problem occurred with a phone I just bought on EBay.
And I just found the solution elsewhere on this Forum.
Remove your SD card and the problem is solved. At least for me it is solved.
I don't know if it will work in your case or not.
Good luck.
Jeff

Just done it today after reading this thread, my I-Mate Jam internal earpiece (only used to hear callers in phone conversations) has been out of action since it went a bit flakey six months ago, been using headset and handsfree ever since! First I didn't want to send it to the UK service depot for fear I'd be without it for months, and then I couldn't find my proof of purchase!
I opened it up about a month ago to find the earpiece speaker had died, but I couldn't find a replacement anywhere. After reading this message though I thought I'd check the speaker in my old Nokia 6600, and lo-and-behold, it was identical!
My Jam is now working again as good as new, and the donor Nokia will hopefully be back on it's feet when the sub-£5 replacement comes from the ebay shop!
Thanks all who've contributed to this post!
Leef3

Sound doesnt works but works at the same time!!

Hello, ppl im having this problem first time, i guess u have the sol. to it one day i plugged in my Handsfree and listen some songs then plugged it out and NEXT day i found tht its speakers arnt working, no matter wht i play no sound, not even in calls, but whn a call comes it rings the ringtone f9, i dont know whts happening if any one of u knw thn please tell me. THNX in Advance.

The title is interesant...
Maybe... a problem with the conector
one day i read this freaking thread that many people has this issue... and it seems that the audio plugin has trhe or four litlle pins inside and they has a little trash inside making contact betwen them and the solution was.... blow up inside of the conector...
Amazing isnt it...
The ringtone sounds because with winmobile 6.1 the ring sounds in your earphone or freehands and in the speakers too so maybe it is your problem..
Check it men and... if you wish disassembly your device.
see pimp my wizard on my signature link I have upload a tutorial for diassembly it

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Maybe... a problem with the conector
one day i read this freaking thread that many people has this issue... and it seems that the audio plugin has trhe or four litlle pins inside and they has a little trash inside making contact betwen them and the solution was.... blow up inside of the conector...
Amazing isnt it...
The ringtone sounds because with winmobile 6.1 the ring sounds in your earphone or freehands and in the speakers too so maybe it is your problem..
Check it men and... if you wish disassembly your device.
see pimp my wizard on my signature link I have upload a tutorial for diassembly it
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U ROCK!!! It WORKED, THNX ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT MAN!!! Really Really THNK U!!

Think about it...
Just a little second men!!!!!
Its So Funny Men!!!!!!
Glad to see you happy men!!!

[Q] Loud Speaker Replacement part? D800

Hi all, I've had a broken speaker for a while now and recently went to see if they could replace it. Turns out they wanted $150 not even to fix the phone, just to ship it back and get a new one... I figured it wouldn't be too hard to replace as I already know how to remove it, but I can't actually find the part online... I'm not certain what it would look like, to be honest. Could someone please link a loudspeaker replacement part for sale?:fingers-crossed:

I've seen a lot of these (http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-AT-T-LG...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item1e8f58f506), but I'm not sure if that's just the frame or has the loudspeaker in it.

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zub74 said:
I've seen a lot of these (http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-AT-T-LG...e_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item1e8f58f506), but I'm not sure if that's just the frame or has the loudspeaker in it.
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yes that is the part with the speaker(speaker is built into the right/left side of it depends on how you look at it) if you look at second image of listing the area where it says a bunch of letters and numbers(EMH383 EA862912001) is the speaker area

Mic problem

I have P9 lite from last week. Everybody is telling me that they can't hear me well. I tested it by myself and it seems that microphone sucks., sound is disappearing. If I speak directly in mic the sound is still quiet. I found similar problems on google, but no solution.
What can I do? Is there any way to boost the mic?

Considering your device is new my suggestion is: send it in for repair.
No sense in trying to "boost" your obviously broken mic. You paid money for your device and it should come in perfect condition.

Schlengge said:
Considering your device is new my suggestion is: send it in for repair.
No sense in trying to "boost" your obviously broken mic. You paid money for your device and it should come in perfect condition.
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Thank you. I'm going to T-mobile tomorow.

Mic is not there
The mic of the HUAWEI p9lite is not at the bottom of the phone. Yes! Its not. Its on the top of the phone on the right coner. So when u make calls just put the phone on loud speak volume a little bit down and then turn the phone upside down.. then people will hear you very clearly.. and I know its a sucky thing but that is how it is. Sorry guys??

Oh man, i think the mic on top is 2nd one and it is used for noise canceling.
I resolved problem by getting new p20 lite xD