After having the phone for a few weeks all of a sudden the microphone has gotten very very low, no one can hear me on the phone and Google Voice commands barely register. I almost took the phone back (unrooted & cleaned up) and at the last minute I decided to blow the microphone hole out with compressed air and all of a sudden it worked great. After a few days its went back to low again...I blow it out again and it goes bad again a day or so later.
Anyone else having this problem? Probably just some lint stuck between the microphone hole and the actual microphone itself but I can't see anything.
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similar problem, if the microphone isnt pointed towards me, I cant hear much. have you found a fix?
Taking the battery cover off makes it very easy to clean, and the speaker. Also the noise mic at the top.
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The screw faintly circled in red holds the speakerphone and camera assembly in place. I noticed that the volume when using the phone normally, not on speaker or with a headset, started to decrease about a month ago and tried every software tweak and fix to no avail. Yesterday I noticed a rattle in the phone. I took it apart and that screw had come loose. It seems that it holds the earpiece speaker in place and pushes it towards the front of the phone ensuring good volume. I tightened the screw and my volume increased immediately. It is a small phillips head. Hope this helps anyone else having the volume issue.
Some days ago my Touch2 started acting up - I guess after it got a bit too humid when I was wearing it under my T-Shirt while walking. The Touchscreen did not work. When I removed the battery cover I noticed the phone was a bit wet inside (sweat), so I figured that was probably causing the issues. After turning it off, removing the battery, and leaving it to dry for a day it was working OK again.
Next day I got a phone call (first one since drying after the the touchscreen issue), I answered, heard a pretty loud and distorted sound out of the speaker for less than a second, and then I didn't hear anything anymore. The other person could not hear me either. Since then I cannot hear people making calls, and they cannot hear me - but the loud sound was only heard once, now I hear nothing. The alarms and ring tones are playing normally, though.
I already figured out that the phone seems to think there is a headphone plugged all the time, since the headphone icon is present all times. With the headphone everything is working OK as well. So I guess it is the detection acting up. I am guessing this is a mechanical detection (opening switch when plugging in), but I am not sure. Does anyone have any idea? I will also try to look inside the earphones hole, trying to see if anything is mechanically broken or stuck... repeatedly plugging/unplugging didn't help, neither did blowing inside there...
Any ideas?
Edit: My Mega has a HK CHT Stock ROM, flashed over the Taiwan CHT ROM after hard SPL. I tried resets etc. but no hard reset yet.
OK everything been fine with my phone until this evening. My phone comes from the 2 week delivery estimate from the Nov. 27/2012 order batch
I needed to look for a local restaurant. Pressed the mic on google search bar and it would not recognize that I was talking. Tried a few times. Then reset the phone. Tried again. Turn the phone off and on. Tried again. Downloaded a voice recorder. It recorded static but no voice at all. Downloaded sound meter. It flux between 20-30db. I then called my wife. She couldn't hear me. Switched to speaker phone and she could hear me just fine. So now I reset my phone to factory and same results.
Any ideas? I know it worked earlier because I used voice recognition to send some texts without problems. I visually checked the mic hole in case lint or smeg might have blocked it. But it's clean. Blew into it just in case too. The top noise cacellation mic seems to work picking up ambient noises according to the gray rings around the google search mic icon. But it doesn't light up red.
Same issue. I used to be able to make it work better by plugging a cable in the charging port. Now nothing.
Does anyone know if there is a way to set sensitivity of the mic? I am assuming the same mic is used for speaker phone as with every other app including phone.. Since speakerphone seems to work..
So I decided not to waste any more time and get the RMA process going before I am outta my 15 day return period.
Was quick and easy. Exchange will arrive with in 3-5 days. Return label was in my email before I hung up.
on the iphone 4s and the gs2... speakerphone uses different mic. i could be wrong, but the reason i say this is... in my iphone.. i got sand on/in my phone and was blowing it out with air compressor. i ended up dislodging the bottom mic and had to use speaker. then on gs2 the leaked roms, specifically showstock... needed noise reduction turned off in order to use bottom mic. had something to do with the 'mic swap' from international to att version. but the end game was... i had to use speaker.
as far as maybe getting it back in shape before your rma arrives... did a piece of lint or something get lodged in the mic hole?
phermey said:
on the iphone 4s and the gs2... speakerphone uses different mic. i could be wrong, but the reason i say this is... in my iphone.. i got sand on/in my phone and was blowing it out with air compressor. i ended up dislodging the bottom mic and had to use speaker. then on gs2 the leaked roms, specifically showstock... needed noise reduction turned off in order to use bottom mic. had something to do with the 'mic swap' from international to att version. but the end game was... i had to use speaker.
as far as maybe getting it back in shape before your rma arrives... did a piece of lint or something get lodged in the mic hole?
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Running a sound tester app or recording, initially it gets sound, but it seems to be static. It looks like what you are talking about with the gs2, the noise suppression kicks in and stays that way.
I really wish I could troubleshoot it before having to send it back, just to know what caused it and not repeat it on the replacement..
I looked at the bottom mic again, looked like a grain of sand. Got it out but still same results.
Hi all,
I just got a Nexus 4 recently and I've been racking my brain with what on earth is happening with the microphone.
The problem is that the microphone WORKS PERFECTLY when doing a google search, voice call in normal mode, or voice recording. It does not work at all if I enable the speakerphone during a voice call. This seems to be exactly the opposite problem that others are having with the Nexus 4. I can still hear the person in the call but when I talk, they can't hear me. Not even white noise, just total and utter silence.
I have tried 2 flex cables (trying replaced the initial one whose microphone didn't work at all, at the time I had CM11) and tried flashing everything (baseband, recovery, system) to stock 4.2.2, tested it with no luck. I then flashed everything with the latest version 4.4 off google's developer section and tested with the same issues. I've tried factory resets, unplugging the headphones, and also soundabout and nothing resolves the issue.
When I look at the flex cable and the phone housing, it seems to me that there is only one microphone on the bottom. On the top, there is the noise canceling mic, but I don't think this has anything to do with the speakerphone. Am I wrong? Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? I don't know whether this is a hardware problem or some low level software issue.
UPDATE:
I noticed something super strange. If I plug a headphones w/ a mic into the headphone jack, I can actually hear very loudly and in great detail the friction from my fingers moving up and down anywhere the case of the phone, and if I tap on the body of the phone (anywhere, even near the USB port on the bottom) it's like stuffing paper into your ear canals. I can still hear the person on the other end fine, and they can also hear just as clear and loud when I touch the phone body. This phone is a science experiment now. The closer I move my fingers to the bottom of the phone near the mic, the louder it gets.
've tried everything. You also changed the Kernel, I do not know ... Maybe it's a problem RADIO, but I doubt it.
Eventually contact Google support
Typical factory problem....when i bought my Nexus 4 (S/N shows production date is October 2013 so its the newer batch with little nipples and camera lens offset fix) the microphone was dead and i could've only talk through headphones and speakerphone....took it to the repair shop and everything works now. Don't know what they replaced, maybe it wasnt the microphone.
My Nexus 6p just started experiencing a weird speaker issue. My top speaker is now much quieter than the other speaker. I hadn't changed or updated anything on the device when it happened. The speaker is still working, so it's not blown, but it's very quiet. I didn't spill anything on it or get it wet, it hasn't been dropped, and it's always lived in a full body Unicorn Beetle case. I tried all the usual fixes, rebooted the phone, reinstalled the kernel (ElementalX), and tried adjusting the speaker gains. As a point of reference, to get both speakers to put out an equal amount of sound, I had to lower the right speaker volume dramatically by setting the speaker gains in EX Kernel Manager to Left: 20 (which is default), and Right: 5. This kind of makes the phone unusable though as the total sound output is so low. Any ideas what's wrong here? I'm thinking about tearing it apart to replace the top speaker (or earpiece speaker as the part is called), I've already done a battery replacement awhile back so I'm confident I can do it, I'm just not sure if that would fix the problem.
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My Nexus 6p just started experiencing a weird speaker issue. My top speaker is now much quieter than the other speaker. I hadn't changed or updated anything on the device when it happened. The speaker is still working, so it's not blown, but it's very quiet. I didn't spill anything on it or get it wet, it hasn't been dropped, and it's always lived in a full body Unicorn Beetle case. I tried all the usual fixes, rebooted the phone, reinstalled the kernel (ElementalX), and tried adjusting the speaker gains. As a point of reference, to get both speakers to put out an equal amount of sound, I had to lower the right speaker volume dramatically by setting the speaker gains in EX Kernel Manager to Left: 20 (which is default), and Right: 5. This kind of makes the phone unusable though as the total sound output is so low. Any ideas what's wrong here? I'm thinking about tearing it apart to replace the top speaker (or earpiece speaker as the part is called), I've already done a battery replacement awhile back so I'm confident I can do it, I'm just not sure if that would fix the problem.
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I had the same problem.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/low-left-speaker-volume-t3687640
You can try the suggested solution. However, the problem is most probably due to gunk stuck inside ear piece. You could try canned air first. In my case, I took the phone to a repair shop which disassembled the back and applied some kind of solvent to clear the earpiece. Now back to normal. Good luck.
Ps. Nothing to do with speaker. I replaced mine and it was still the same. If speaker blown, there would be no sound or broken sound, but not soft.