Hi all,
My phone fell in the ocean this weekend, so I rinsed it with fresh water and dried it as best as I could... and it works like a charm... except for the bottom mike! Callers cannot hear me, and I cannot record audio from that microphone.
Any ideas? If I blow hard on the bottom mike, it does pick that noise up, but not normal volume voice. Help please
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Hi,
So today I was watching a movie in bed and holding my transformer with 1 hand. The bezel (or thing that separates the screen from the sides) suddenly moved up so it was now disconnected from the screen. My headphones had stopped working. I pushed back on the screen/bezel area and it got back into place but now anything connected to the audio jack doesn't work properly. There is no notification that anything is connected another sound comes out of the tablet as well as the headphones. Please help, as I am going on a 12 hour flight in 2 days and really want it for movies.
Thanks
Do the sounds thought speaker still works? Do your headphones still working with other device?
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sounds like the spring connector in the headphone socket might have bent, had the same problem but in reverse years ago on an xda exec a little plate that makes a contact when the headphones are inserted got jammed in the open headphone position so no phone speaker. Yours sounds as if the contact might have bent when your bezel loosened and is not making the contact when inserted. Looks like an Asus job. The contact is doglegged so that when the jack is in it closes the contact, if yours/has bent straight when the jack is in it still won't contact.
But then again could be wrong.
maybe clean ?
ilan354 said:
Hi,
So today I was watching a movie in bed and holding my transformer with 1 hand. The bezel (or thing that separates the screen from the sides) suddenly moved up so it was now disconnected from the screen. My headphones had stopped working. I pushed back on the screen/bezel area and it got back into place but now anything connected to the audio jack doesn't work properly. There is no notification that anything is connected another sound comes out of the tablet as well as the headphones. Please help, as I am going on a 12 hour flight in 2 days and really want it for movies.
Thanks
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This happened to me too. After I mod my tablet to add 2.5mm barrel plug charger my speakers stopped and the audio jack worked in only one side. Then a few hours later after I pressed on the bezel in the same place as you the audio jack did not work in either side. I read about reboot the tablet to reset audio and tried but it did not work for me. I opened my tablet and unplugged my speakers from the board and the audio jack now works 100%. I have replacement speakers, so I will soon be reinstalling and testing the original speakers and my replacements and maybe get to the bottom of this problem.
So maybe a tablet reboot (off and on) will do same for you without opening. Maybe there is another trick to reset the audio, but I do not know. It may be something else, but I do not know. Good luck.
If you want to open and unplug & plug speakers you need a torq #5 to open the two screws. Put thumbs on screen and finger nails over edge and under bezel lip and push/pull gently - starting a one of the top corners. If you get hung try wiggling a small plastic tool under edge and try again, carefully. The speaker plug on mobo is small white socket mounted on board in bottom left. Careful to not void warranty.
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Thanks everyone for your replys but I have a couple other irreparable problems so I'm sending it back to amazon
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.
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.
Hi there
4 days before this my s8 got wet in the washing sink... A while after drying it with towel, and turning it on, I heared some cracky wheezing sounds when calling and even during ringing...
I put it upside down on a towel to be dryed more... it became well, and was sounded without any problem... but again after some time it began to sound that way...
Now it's a day that a put a silica pack in front of my off s8, but it's still sound the same...
I've got that soon after when i put the phone in front of cold hair dryer, during that terrible speaker sounding period, it becomes well...
Any advices or helps...?
Any similar experiances...?
My S8 has been operating in dusty and damp environments and the other week the call speaker became muffled and quiet. I tried compressed air but this made it worse. Got to the point I couldn't hear a call on the speaker. Sent it back under warranty and has had both front and back replaced, the battery and vibration motor too but no mention of speaker. But they have repaired that too and is now working fine. So send your phone back under warranty.
Why they changed what they did I don't know as were all fine but whatever the speaker now works.
I don't know why so sudden my V20 got problem with it's mic.. There is even a bigger problem which is I don't even know what to be replaced now..
There is 2 situation here :
1 - When in call, with normal mode..everything is working fine but whenever i'm trying to put my phone to loudspeaker mode.. The people whose in call with me is claiming that there is a dead silence when i'm in loudspeaker mode..
Same goes when i'm in Whatsapp Videocall as example, i can hear them but they can't even hear me..
2 - When i'm doing recording with HD Voice Recorder app, the left channel won't even got anything recorded.. Only the right channel does the job..
Same goes with video recording, only right channel does the job while the left channel sound records nothing..
I'll be informed that V20 have 3 mic and it is obviously one at top and one at the bottom while another one is inside the phone nearby the earpiece if i'm not mistaken.. so now, i'll need help.. Which mic should i'll replace to get everything working again?
I'll believe my top mic is broken but which one? The one at the left before the earpiece or at the right next to earpiece? HELPPpPpppPpppPp
nevermind, got mine fixed.. just replace the new mic at the top and now i have back my fully functional V20 again..
i'll never know that phone is using a different mic for normal call mode and loudspeaker call mode.. Now i'm feeling like an idiot because everytime i'll do loudspeaker, i do scream at the bottom mic while it is using top mic ATM.. gosh
I just got mine and no one could hear me, i pushed a thumb tack in the bottom mic hole because it looked like a little plug or plastic was blocking it and and now it works fine, mine was a refurb phone
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My phone mics worked in speaker phone calls but not talking through the regular in-call mic. I had a repair man change the bottom mic today. He had to install 4 mics to get it and the one that worked was out if a Samsung phone! Cost me USD$60. Apparently my phone had water damage before I bought it used. That's annoying but I'm back in business!
I am in the same exact situation. Replaced the main loudspeaker, top two earpiece speakers and still my voice won't come through on the other end of a normal headset mode call. Only can speak through loudspeaker. What part must I replace? I'm thinking normal headset mode sound is received through the pinhole area next to the 3.5mm jack. What part do I replace?! It's getting personal now. I will fix this phone!!
Not counting the two earpiece speakers up top on the mainboard, and the large loudspeaker on the bottom what other speakers are there for me to replace?