Earphone Shutting Galaxy GP off Problem
My entire family just got the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime this weekend. The phone is great in all but it seems to not work with ear phones. When my dad plugged his earphones in his, it shut the phone off and turned it back on. I tried his ear phones on my phone and it did the same thing as soon as I plugged it in. My young brother left for college already, but he tested it with his ear phones and says it freezes his screen for a bit and then doesn't work. Has anyone had problems with using earphones on the Grand Prime? Any solutions?
I'm going to test more earphones and see what happens but I think I may have to go and take all these phones back. Really hope I don't have to since I'm not sure how I'll get my brother's back.
Are you using the stock headset included? If you're using a casing for your phone try removing it. I have this problem with ATH-M50 headset it freezes and reboots if i have a casing on. Some other headphone or earphone i tried will just freeze the phone no matter if i have the casing or not. Just try other headset it is certainly a headset problem not getting enough contact causing it to ground the phone.
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Are you using the stock headset included? If you're using a casing for your phone try removing it. I have this problem with ATH-M50 headset it freezes and reboots if i have a casing on. Some other headphone or earphone i tried will just freeze the phone no matter if i have the casing or not. Just try other headset it is certainly a headset problem not getting enough contact causing it to ground the phone.
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Ya your right. it's a contact problem. After taking the risk and shoving the audio jack harder, it went in one more level. At that point, the earphones started working again and the phone didn't reboot.
I thought that might be the problem when I first saw a hint of silver still showing from the audio jack, but ignored it because the whole cellphone rebooting was something i've never seen happen to a phone from plugging in an earphone. I didn't want to have to push the headphones in really tight but it turns out that they needed to be pushed in one more level. None of us have cases for our Prime's yet but ya, I realize from what you pointed at that we weren't pushing the audio jack completely in. My gosh, you have to push hard.
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AnneLane said:
My entire family just got the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime this weekend. The phone is great in all but it seems to not work with ear phones. When my dad plugged his earphones in his, it shut the phone off and turned it back on. I tried his ear phones on my phone and it did the same thing as soon as I plugged it in. My young brother left for college already, but he tested it with his ear phones and says it freezes his screen for a bit and then doesn't work. Has anyone had problems with using earphones on the Grand Prime? Any solutions?
I'm going to test more earphones and see what happens but I think I may have to go and take all these phones back. Really hope I don't have to since I'm not sure how I'll get my brother's back.
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my galaxy grand prime resets too. not sure what the problem is. was considering taking it back too and getting a different phone. still trying to fix the problem. please let me know if you find a solution. thanks
thanks so much! you really do have to insert it with a little force. I was too afraid to , but it worked!!!
TheBobcat said:
thanks so much! you really do have to insert it with a little force. I was too afraid to , but it worked!!!
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Wow thats an interesting solution, I have not had this problem though its really good to know.
We can't all be buying headphones that cause the same problem. It has to be the phone. Sometimes mine gets stuck in a restart loop until I unplug the ear buds.
Same thing is happening to me a few minutes ago. Never had a problem with my earphones plugged in until now. I don't know why it's something that happens to Galaxy Tabs or phones, but apparently it is. It always freezes and then turns off when I put in my earphones. My Galaxy Tab A only turns on when I take out my earphones. This has never happened before, because I've had the same earphones plugged into my tablet for months now. It's definitely a device problem.
My Samsung Galaxy J5 just freezes when I plug in the stock earphones in. It has almost been a month since I been using the same pair of earphones for the same phone but this issue has only popped up recently.Any idea as to why this happens and how to fix this?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 & everytime I plug in my earphones my phone freezes then shuts off. My ear phones are new &when I first used them my phone wasn't shutting off. Now all of a sudden it messes up. It started happening recently & I have no idea what to do. Please help.
What rom you used?
Try delete caches and davilk caches.
If still not work flash again your boot.img.
If hw, ?
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What rom you used?
Try delete caches and davilk caches.
If still not work flash again your boot.img.
If hw, ?
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I am having G531H (GPVE)
sometimes the phone freezes and I cannot reboot or anything so I take off the battery and re back it turn on phone
I have no freezes with headsets when you use the phone sometimes it just freezes
what can I do/
Did you ever find a way to fix the issue? Just today it started happening to me today and I've had this thing for almost a year.
Phone Hanges
i have samsung galaxy grand prime. the problem is everytime i plug-in earphones. it hanges and when i unplug it it starts working .. what is the reason behind this ..???
I m using grand prime g531h..it always freezes when any videos is played using external video player ..dont know what to do...i formated my phone and updated firmware too... i have no idea what to do ..plz help
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I m using grand prime g531h..it always freezes when any videos is played using external video player ..dont know what to do...i formated my phone and updated firmware too... i have no idea what to do ..plz help
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Hi everyone,
up to today, I was totally happy with my HTC Hero (unbranded).
However, the LED's (both on top and the trackball) do not show any sign of function any more.
The phone has not dropped and was not exposed to heat or anything.
First I thought this might be a software bug, but even after a hard reset, the LED's don't come up at all any more (even not if charging the phone).
Anyone else here with a problem like that? Any solution yet?
I almost can't imagine this is a hardware fault but on the other hand if the hard reset doesn't fix it, what could?
Thanks for your help,
Chris
Hi.
I can ask the very same question too... I have had the HTC Hero since the friday before yesterday and after a couple of days the LED's simply stopped working. I had thoughts about trying a factory reset but with your posting it seems it would be in vain... :-(
So yeah... count me up on this one...
UPDATE:
Today it is Sunday and the time here in Sweden is 22:05 and I had to do my very first hardcore hardware reset (HOME+BACK+POWER) since every radio in the phone simply stopped working. After the reset was done the led's still won't light up when charging...
The LED at the top doesn't light up for missed calls/texts/emails anymore (the trackball still glows)... although it does still flash for batt.low/charging it doesn't for anything else... I'm pretty sure it used to... or am I mistaken??
mine died 2 days ago, also did a hard reset and still nothing....today my headphone jack stopped working, just plays the music through speakers and ignores the headphones totally :/ not amused :/
suisen said:
mine died 2 days ago, also did a hard reset and still nothing....today my headphone jack stopped working, just plays the music through speakers and ignores the headphones totally :/ not amused :/
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My headfone jack stopped working some 3-4 days ago too... what is going on??? And the 7 days grace period is over for me...
lol, i bought it in Netherlands, live in Croatia, my fall from grace is beyond yours
http://androidforums.com/htc-hero/7102-htc-hero-headphone-jack-problem.html
write to HTC, i did
i'm hoping it's a software thing, can't be that so many people have hardware issues at the same time :/
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mine died 2 days ago, also did a hard reset and still nothing....today my headphone jack stopped working, just plays the music through speakers and ignores the headphones totally :/ not amused :/
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You just made me realize it's the same with mine
- LED's don't work (top and trackball)
- Button lights don't work
- headphone jack doesn't work any more either
So all these things seem to belong together...
Greets
Chris
What software have you got installed? Is this a similar thing like TasKiller that killed the clock so Alarms didn't work?
Then again, you said you did hard resets... But if you did a hard reset, it shouldn't be the software of the phone as thats back to normal.
Try taking the memory card out, only thing I can think of!
suisen said:
mine died 2 days ago, also did a hard reset and still nothing....today my headphone jack stopped working, just plays the music through speakers and ignores the headphones totally :/ not amused :/
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This happens when a bluetooth connection has been made. It ignores the headphone jack. Close the connection in bluetooth settings and it ill be fine.
Don't quote me on this, but I think I remember seeing an option in the phone setting section that controls the track ball and what not. It may be worth having a look.
cdyat said:
This happens when a bluetooth connection has been made. It ignores the headphone jack. Close the connection in bluetooth settings and it ill be fine.
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Well... no :-/.
BT isn't switched on, 3,5mm headphones aren't even recognized after a hard reset any more.
This is not a software thing as it seems, at least not one the user can repair on his own.
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Don't quote me on this, but I think I remember seeing an option in the phone setting section that controls the track ball and what not. It may be worth having a look.
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Yeah, you're right, there is an option for that. I've switched that back off and on a thousand times before and after hard resetting the device, that doesn't help unfortunately.
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What software have you got installed? Is this a similar thing like TasKiller that killed the clock so Alarms didn't work?
Then again, you said you did hard resets... But if you did a hard reset, it shouldn't be the software of the phone as thats back to normal.
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Yeah... I only got standard soft like shazam and streamfurious installed. Then after the hard reset, only stock software was on it of course...
Seems like it's a hardware defect or something the user cannot influence software-wise. May hard-resetting doesn't reset everything in the phone, who knows. I even took out SIM and SD card, no luck.
However this is a bug HTC should look at closely, people are complaining in several forums and it seems like I'm not the only one with this issue...
i don't use BT, never turned it on and just checked, it's obviously off :/ don't remember coming across a trackball option in settings, but Notification option is on :/
let's just assume that it's not our doing since so many people have same 2 problems
Mine packed up last night must be a tech issue I think heat
sorry for asking a silly question though. is the led supposed to flash on missed calls or messages? cause the only time mine works is when charging.
I have the same problem. after a few days the headphone simply wasn't recognized. And at the same time the LED's and trackball lights were broken.
Hard reset didn't work.
It was after I rooted the phone.
How was that with you?
For the headphone problem I found a workaround. This switch-widget turns the headphone back on and the speaker off.
http://code.google.com/p/toggleheadset/
same here, check topic Q&A but here also the alarm doesnt work correctly...djeezes;..
same here!
well i have the same problem whit the LED's.... just stop working aften 3-4 days of use
maybe we should all write to HTC to complain as a group, this definitley looks like a manufacturing fault to me , esp as it is happening so soon after buying and using
My phone has been acting very strangely for the past hour. I've been making dinner in the kitchen for awhile while the phone sat on my office desk, screen side up with the screen turned off.
I heard the phone ringing so I ran upstairs to answer. A client of mine was calling to ask me why I had just called him. I hadn't even touched the phone for atleast a couple hours so I just apologized and hung up. I start making my way back downstairs when the phone rings again. This time it's a friend of mine asking the same thing. After apologizing again and hanging up, I check the call log only to find there's 15 outgoing calls in the past 40 minutes or so.
What the hell is going on? I soft reset the phone and so far it hasn't called anyone. Most of the people it called were my clients or business associates who I can well imagine don't appreciate being called on a sunday evening. Has any other HD2 owner had a similar thing happen to them? I'm running a stock 1.66 ROM, if that matters.
Hi, I bought a cradle for my HD2 and it started to call various numbers in the wee small hours (when in the cradle)- much to my friends' annoyance. I put it down to a poor power supply for the cradle (it was a european 2 plug transformer so I had to use an adapter). Since changing the power supply, the phone has behaved itself.
Was your phone on charge - if so, maybe check the quality of the charger, if not, then sorry but I have no suggestions.
Good luck!
Jesus, that's a nasty fault. Keep us updated...
same here
I had the same, some days ago. I was listening music on my hd2 with the earphones. Suddenly the phone interrupted the music, to make a call. Some minutes later my colleague called me to ask me why I needed him.
Soft reset, and it seems stable. but such jokes are expensive, since am mostly abroad.
I sort of had the same thing my hd2 was sending txts to ppl for 1 day till Idid a softreset. but it dished out 20 txts before I found out.
i think the reason of this is the big touchscreen sensitivity bug. sometimes my touchscreen has also his own life and dials numbers or changes tabs.
maybe it appears more often in cradle because the phone is not locked while it is docked to it! for me it mostly happens when the device is connected by usb to my notebook - because it is unlocked... i hope you understand what i mean.
maybe the reduction of sensitivity will be a solution for you!
I'm getting this! my mate played me a 4 minute voicemail of me telling the kids off today!
My mrs has also said i've rung her (and she stayed on and listened in!!! NOT GOOD lol) it's happened a few times with her
Now, this could be that i forgot to lock the phone before i put it in pocket, but it's happening a bit too much now, i will monitor it from now on making damn sure i lock it before pocketing it
Ha! Had the same happen this morning - driving to work, plugged my headphones in as the cd player in the car isn't working, 20 mins down the road it decided to ring a friend - 3 times in quick succession. As it was in front of me in my car phone holder I saw it happen and cancelled the call as it was very early!
Restarted the phone and it didn't do it again.... until driving home from work, same thing, same person... he was the last person that I had called previously, but even so... a bit odd!!
I pulled the headphones out and it didn't happen again....
Weird, eh?
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Ha! Had the same happen this morning - driving to work, plugged my headphones in as the cd player in the car isn't working, 20 mins down the road it decided to ring a friend - 3 times in quick succession. As it was in front of me in my car phone holder I saw it happen and cancelled the call as it was very early!
Restarted the phone and it didn't do it again.... until driving home from work, same thing, same person... he was the last person that I had called previously, but even so... a bit odd!!
I pulled the headphones out and it didn't happen again....
Weird, eh?
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i got the same problem once.. it happened only with the earplugs pluged in Oo
well doesnt matter, it did it never again.
but i noticed that the phone called only the last number i called.. only the last one, i even called my home number, and tried it again.. it called automatically the last number then -> my home
but yea, like i said, it never happened again, and its like 2 months since then
The exactly same thing happened to me too. I was listeing to music with my earplugs and it suddenly started calling my girlfriend (I guess it was lonely) but the interesting thing is that It never finished the call. It started dialing and after 1sec it automaticly disconected. SR did the trick.
The funny thing is that this happened to me when I was just having the worst morning ever (With cold I went to school for final exam and I forget my jacket (suit) in train and even that I woke up 1hour early I still came late because the bus i was supposed to be in crashed before my bus station, well but thats offtopic)
I've since spotted other forums with people saying the same thing when headphones are plugged in - my experience was with non Htc headphones - not sure if that's relevant? Also - just before it happened I had the audio skipping problem - again, not sure if that's related either - I've seen a thread on here somewhere regarding music player skipping issues, so will check that out....
Cheers folks!
steve
same thing here,phone calls last dialed number, while listening to music with non htc headpones...
has noone found a solution by now?
eh just found out, its not relevant, that one is listening to music, its just the connected headphones ;/
Correct. It has got something to do with the connector of the headphone.
the connection-plugs are too narrow. It doesn't matter if you have a 'real' or immitation headset..
It is an htc disfunction which also was caused with the HTC Diamond and other htc phones.
Seems that htc aren't able to fix this!
btw The best thing to do is to call a fake number first; like 0000001 or so because the htc (when touching the wire / connector wrongly) will only call the last number used, which is very annoying when it calls your wife in the middle of the night going to work...
Cheers
qs
I no it doesn't help, but I have never had this problem, with using any headphones I have I got 3 different sets and non of them do this ,
you dont have a dodgy program installed like that crazy game that was making international calls do you
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I no it doesn't help, but I have never had this problem, with using any headphones I have I got 3 different sets and non of them do this ,
you dont have a dodgy program installed like that crazy game that was making international calls do you
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no not at all, just flashed a new rom (miri+dinik) and task 29 inbefore.
@qs2010: so buying a stock headphone, doesn't solve ?
urgh too bad i just ordered one :/
i am pretty sure, it was behaving normally, the time i used the stock ones (lost them)
Weirdly, since formatting my memory card using the onboard function on the phone (to try to cure the music stuttering problem) my phone hasn't called anyone randomly when using either of the two sets of headphones or audio out cables! It also cured the music stutter issue!
I have the same problem when I plug in/out earbuds or headphones, but it's intermittent; basically the jack plug messes with the buttons wire and cause the Call button to be sent multiple times, which should (depends on your ROM) cause the phone to call the last contact on your history.
To quickly check if you have it, try plugging in/out your headphones, maybe with a video playing, or turning the jack plug while they're connected.
Doesn't happen with me right now. Not sure if it's because of the ROM or the humidity.
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Absolutely the same thing is happening to me. I watch films on my HD2 very often(using non-HTC headphones) and sometimes it starts dialing the last dialled number from the call history list.
What I am doing now to fix it is calling myself after all phone conversations (
I hope there will be a hotfix or something because that is really annoying.
I've had this problem occur with headphones and without. I walk regularly and use the HD2 to listen to music. Over the last 6 months it's dialed people randomly on maybe a dozen occasions. Once it starts doing it it will continue to attempt redialing until a reset.
Today however I had no headphones on, the phone was in my back pocket, and it dialed my nephew who happened to be standing right beside me. He said it was me who had phoned him, so I checked my phone and it was in the process of dialing another person entirely.
Extraordinarily annoying.
These occurred on stock rom, and more recently Energy.
From what I've read in this thread, people are describing two problems, both of which I've experienced.
Firstly, I have a non-htc charger that I have discovered causes random points of the touchscreen to act as though they have been touched. Basically, if I plug in to this charger with the phone on I can watch the screen go crazy as though someone is randomly touching and swiping it. I think this is the kind of problem people would be having if the phone calls randomly when on a charger or cradle.
Secondly, I have found that when headphones get plugged in they sometimes trigger hardware button presses. The most common problem here being that it calls the last dialled number when I plug in headphones. I've had the problem intermittently with anything I plug into the headphone jack, but some things are more likely to trigger it than others. For example, a battery-operated FM transmitter I use causes lots of problems, unpowered headphones cause only a few. My suspicion is that small voltages shorting across contacts in the headphone port as the plug is inserted mimic the functions of the HTC headphone control buttons. This might make problems more likely when there are sources of static electricity around your headphone wires, or when you plug in something powered.
I just bought the device yesterday new, and from the first use i had a weird issue, the sound is muted, all sounds , music play, calls with speakers on and screen sound, sometimes it works and sometimes not, when i plug the headset i can hear everything
Any solution ? i won't wast my time to go the warranty, is it software or hardware issue ? i did factory reset and still the issue come back
Seems much like software issue, have you downloaded and installed latest N7100 firmware? With odin you can do it "officially" without losing warranty.
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I will do it hopefully it solve the problem
i did it and told me PASS, but after booting up the device i found the same background and all my settings still there like nothing happened , and now the the all mobile sounds are gone forever even with restart not working
Please guy i need a solution !!!
Still no one to help ?!!! where's the experts ... can anyone at least tell me for sure is it software or hardware issue ? and the warranty can detect that issue ? cause sometimes the sound working fine for hours
tantan911 said:
Still no one to help ?!!! where's the experts ... can anyone at least tell me for sure is it software or hardware issue ? and the warranty can detect that issue ? cause sometimes the sound working fine for hours
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Wow, this stinks. If it were my brand-spanking new phone, I'd return it. It almost sounds like a solder issue. My Note 2 has a very loud speaker with excellent quality (nice bass) while listening to podcasts. When on a call using the earpiece, it's actually too loud. I haven't figured out how to turn it down yet, not a critical issue.
Do you get sound at the Samsung logo when you restart the phone? If not, it's a hardware fault and exchange it.
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Do you get sound at the Samsung logo when you restart the phone? If not, it's a hardware fault and exchange it.
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The weird thing , sometimes the sound of Samsung logo working at the start up and sometimes not ... when i just got the device and start to unbox it and turn it on .. it didn't make a logo sound .. but later sometimes it does !!!
i gave it to Samsung today and they told me it will take 5 days .. they will make new software format and then check the hardware . i hope they detect the problem cause sometimes it works fine for hour and the sound disable just happen for minutes !!
Any Ideas ?
Thanks for reply
Also, go into the dialer, type in *#0*# and go to the Speaker to see if it works.
I went to the warranty and they told me it will take 5 days for troubleshooting, they said first we are going to install new software then you will have 48 hours for testing, if the problem persist they will change it for me , i don't know if they can discover it, Also here's some link for some users have the same issue :
http://www.askmefast.com/Sound_on_my_galaxy_note_is_muted_without_my_setting_it_why-qna3532721.html
http://www.askmefast.com/No_sound_on_my_Galaxy_note_appears_to_be_muted-qna3527305.html
http://www.askmefast.com/Galaxy_note_turn_mute_automatically-qna2745005.html
http://www.askmefast.com/My_Galaxy_...len_did_not_have_this_problem-qna3975985.html
Thanks
I received it from Samsung Maintenance and they implemented new software installation and told me the problem solved, anyway i took it and just going to my car the issue happened again, i back to them they told me they will troubleshoot it again !!! to be sure that the problem persist !!! WTF
Any ideas will be appreciated
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try pressing on the main speaker, the point of contacts of most phone speakers are just behind or sides of the actual speakers just to rule out loose contact. also try to master reset if it doesn't work try reinstalling the rom to rule out software problem. Otherwise, I would return it for a replacement. Good luck.
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If pressing on the speaker temporarily solves the problem, I would still ask for replacement.
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try pressing on the main speaker, the point of contacts of most phone speakers are just behind or sides of the actual speakers just to rule out loose contact. also try to master reset if it doesn't work try reinstalling the rom to rule out software problem. Otherwise, I would return it for a replacement. Good luck.
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I already asked for replacement but 5 days passed and they still trying to troubleshoot it before going to replace ... damn idiots !!!
Anyway , so you saying it's mostly a hardware issue , right ?
Thanks for your support
Did they get this issue fixed for you? Mine is doing basically the same thing, but only the media volume, it gets muted randomly and I can't adjust it, so I reset the phone and then it works.....any ideas???
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my galaxy s3 get a issue like ur problem (( at now i have GalaxyNote2))
after 1 months work with GS3 sounds gone randomly, i flashed my cell with every rom costume and official but no success some nighte when i work with my s3 without sound i hear badly noise from speakers and i turn off my cell and phone gs3 dead complletly
i do everything for recover my cell and i found way to turning on my phone with sound !!! i must warming galaxy s3 to work perfectly when gs3 get cold at first sound gone and second complletly dead
iam so confused on this issue and i forget my s3 and bought galaxy note 2
HI there,
recently my sound has stopped from my S4,
I get sound on startup on the SAMSUNG screen 8 times out of 10 but nothing else once the phone is booted
no sound from videos or music with or without headphones!
on calls i managed to gain my sound back by unplugging and plugging in the headphones several times but nothing else, my music is now 'incorrect audio file' when infact they are all the same files that previously worked
Any ideas?
Thanks alot guys
danay said:
HI there,
recently my sound has stopped from my S4,
I get sound on startup on the SAMSUNG screen 8 times out of 10 but nothing else once the phone is booted
no sound from videos or music with or without headphones!
on calls i managed to gain my sound back by unplugging and plugging in the headphones several times but nothing else, my music is now 'incorrect audio file' when infact they are all the same files that previously worked
Any ideas?
Thanks alot guys
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I have exactly the same problem since Sunday. I was originally running the Antares One/Alucard CM12 build and the sound stopped. I reflashed it, reflashed the official CM11 and now I reflashed the stock rom, all with factory resets, but nothing.On the stock ROM it is the same thing as you - startup sound 80% of the time but nothing after. The sound worked once for maybe 30 seconds but that's it. Also phone is always rebooting/freezing with system ui stopping. It is really frustrating.
I am using the SGH-I337M (Rogers Canada) Galaxy S4.
Thank you.
Flash those modems that are supposed to solve sound/wifi problems?
I can't seem to find one for my version?
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Also my wifi is working fine?
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go to sammobile firmware checker
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/checker/
Here you can get the latest modem for your phone. The idea is that it MIGHT fix the sound problem. Many people say it does.
The only other thing I can suggest is that you flash the stock rom again, via Odin.
I did this for my phone and now stuck at the Samsung bootscreen with know waranty void 0x1
I installed a new speaker - still no sound. So except if it comes from the inside connectors, it seems to be a software issue. But I don't understand how it persists after wiping everything and reinstalling any ROM - stock, CM11, CM12....
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I installed a new speaker - still no sound. So except if it comes from the inside connectors, it seems to be a software issue. But I don't understand how it persists after wiping everything and reinstalling any ROM - stock, CM11, CM12....
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Not sure, but... Did you try to re-flash any "new" Kernel (stock or custom) and what about flashing the modem?
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Not sure, but... Did you try to re-flash any "new" Kernel (stock or custom) and what about flashing the modem?
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Yes I tried everything...
So I took the phone apart to verify that everything was well connected on the logic board, everything was ok but i still reconnected everything and nothing. From what I understand the problem is the Audio IC on the logic board [1], that's why I can't play any videos also.
The audio IC needs to be reheated, but I do not have the tools/experience to do it. I looked for logic boards, they were 70$ on iFixit but are now discontinued, and I am not sure if they will be available in the future. On eBay they sell around 200$, and at that price it's not really worth it considering the age of the phone and it also doesn't guarantee its gonna work. I prefer to add more money to buy a One Plus One or Moto X, even if I don't have much money.
[1] http://www.sebertech.com/2014/10/troubleshootingfixing-samsung-galaxy-s4.html
Still no sound after various room flashes, I get random restarts and booting with no signal/inoperable screen until the phone restarts again, once in a while I get sound on start up of the Samsung logo.
I've triedwiping cache partition and factory wipe, flashing wifi fix and bootloader
Don't know where to go next!
I
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topantiquark said:
The audio IC needs to be reheated, but I do not have the tools/experience to do it.]
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Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-audio-section-t2878524
Looks like the problem is the "Audio IC" Chip, but a really don't know either. I would try heating it like said at the link you sent.
It might sound really nuts, :silly: but....Home made solutions "I Would Consider" doing is heating "re-soldering" the chip: (It depends how desperate you are).
- Try some "small repair shops". They might have some tools for it, and usually are cheaper.
- A Blow-dryer, some can get really hot, depends how long, how close, etc; I would also try covering some other parts;
- The Oven. LOL. Seriously, I did this with a friend. Was a old laptop mother board with problems with the video. (Pretty much soldering problem). We did "baked" it, don't remember how long it took, something between 20 to 40 minutes i guess. We used a tiny piece of a solder wire, we left it in a easy spot to see it, when when it was melted we considered that the rest was also in the same condition. We left it cool down, and...... Voialá, the laptop was back alive. Some months later the problem came back. This process was done arround 4 times before the board died for good.
Search for this "oven" solution.
Good Luck!! :good:
GusBH123 said:
Check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-audio-section-t2878524
Looks like the problem is the "Audio IC" Chip, but a really don't know either. I would try heating it like said at the link you sent.
It might sound really nuts, :silly: but....Home made solutions "I Would Consider" doing is heating "re-soldering" the chip: (It depends how desperate you are).
- Try some "small repair shops". They might have some tools for it, and usually are cheaper.
- A Blow-dryer, some can get really hot, depends how long, how close, etc; I would also try covering some other parts;
- The Oven. LOL. Seriously, I did this with a friend. Was a old laptop mother board with problems with the video. (Pretty much soldering problem). We did "baked" it, don't remember how long it took, something between 20 to 40 minutes i guess. We used a tiny piece of a solder wire, we left it in a easy spot to see it, when when it was melted we considered that the rest was also in the same condition. We left it cool down, and...... Voialá, the laptop was back alive. Some months later the problem came back. This process was done arround 4 times before the board died for good.
Search for this "oven" solution.
Good Luck!! :good:
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Thank you for your answer.
I tried the blow-dryer, but it didn't work.
So I finally found a friend who had a heater + experience in soldering electronics. We heated the chip carefully, waited for it to cool off and it worked! The sound was back, except the mic didn't work on calls but worked with the voice recorder (but didn't have much gain). It was working until maybe an hour ago - and back to the same problem.
I guess we'll have to reheat it again and apply a bit of pressure on the chip.. it is risky but i don't see other solutions - it really is the problem.
im 99% this is software, there surley wouldnt be any sound on startup if the chip was at fault
and various rom flashes semi cured the problem before crashing again
i dont know if theres a way of completely wiping the phone and reinstalling the firmware rather than flashing?
would re partitioning do anything?
im literally stuck
danay said:
im 99% this is software, there surley wouldnt be any sound on startup if the chip was at fault
and various rom flashes semi cured the problem before crashing again
i dont know if theres a way of completely wiping the phone and reinstalling the firmware rather than flashing?
would re partitioning do anything?
im literally stuck
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I dont know about re partining, cant help you with it.
Did you tried to format/wipe via recovery?
There's a post about getting all the way back to stock, you might try it, since you had semi cured the problem before, even for a while.
Have you tried any "repair shop"? At least to hear what the guy has to say.
Good Luck!
GusBH123 said:
I dont know about re partining, cant help you with it.
Did you tried to format/wipe via recovery?
There's a post about getting all the way back to stock, you might try it, since you had semi cured the problem before, even for a while.
Have you tried any "repair shop"? At least to hear what the guy has to say.
Good Luck!
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i use stock anyway ive tried various stock flashes :/
ive taken it into several and they either have no idea or say its the speaker which i really dont believe!
i gave tried factory reset and wiping the cache
Hi,
I have the same problem i guess, first symptom i had was glitch on the speaker when phone overheat, then days later earpods distrsion sound, then they wont work anymore, the remote button on it too, did some flashes roms and back to stock, now it s random sound on boot logo sometimes, and the sound will work for 30 sec or 1 minute after, then every sound stops
Whats weird is that apps that require sound make the phone lag, it s like they can see there's a sound problem...
Anyone figured out whats the problem would be great. Pleaaase
Did u try repartitioning when flashing via ODIN?
hello everyone , im having a really strange problem, phone says there is a headset pluged in , but i haved pluged in anything . i reseted the phone but problem still persist . i got the phone less than a month ago and havent used headphones a lot. i keep my phone clean so i ll esclude there might be dirt or anything inside , hope to get some help here
I've had an issue like this with my iPad, after water got into headphone jack. My attempts to dry it with napkins and cotton were unsuccessful, but I eventually solved the problem by turning iPad off and putting it onto a heater (which was set to about 50-60 degrees) for about 15 minutes.
orgert said:
hello everyone , im having a really strange problem, phone says there is a headset pluged in , but i haved pluged in anything . i reseted the phone but problem still persist . i got the phone less than a month ago and havent used headphones a lot. i keep my phone clean so i ll esclude there might be dirt or anything inside , hope to get some help here
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Try to plug and unplug headset several times, it may help, I had this on Redmi Note 3 and this trick helped.
this morning when i woke up it was fixed by itsefl, lets hope it wont happen again, thnx for replying guys :victory:
Headset is plugged in
I was using Instagram and suddenly the voice stopped and now i am going through this problem, anyone help me please?
Razasahu said:
I was using Instagram and suddenly the voice stopped and now i am going through this problem, anyone help me please?
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does it show as headphones are conected or just the voice stoped ?