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Weird Speaker whisper

When things get a little louder playing music or watching videos.... there this weird hissing sound coming from the speaker? Is that the metal sheet between the speaker and the hole in the case? Or what is causing that?
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Never understood why weird is spelt weird.
I always thought, I before E except after C.
Wheres the C!

Wilks3y said:
Never understood why weird is spelt weird.
I always thought, I before E except after C.
Wheres the C!
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Seriously... [Sarcasm] thanks! [/Sarcasm] :S

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Great Speaker

Do I just have a bunk device or does the speaker on the back just suck a large amount?

Maybe bunk? Mine's fine. It's louder than my old S2 and no distortions or anything.

Delakit said:
Do I just have a bunk device or does the speaker on the back just suck a large amount?
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Same as above, speaker works great, better then my S3 for sure.
Check out Fauxs kernel and his app Faux sound if you want to improve it even more.
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First, i apprecuate the responses. I downloaded some music to my phone with different bitrates abd they all sounded good. Its only YouTube videos audio that is constantly distorted. Anyone know what that's all about?
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Strange nexus 4 water damage

So I was in a fishing boat that had a small leak and an inch or so of water was in it. I noticed my phone had fallen in that water and I immediately pulled it out. Everything seemed to be working fine. But here's the weird part: Notification sounds play just fine on the loud speaker but music and media like videos and youtube refuses to make any sound. Does that make any sense at all? Ringtones and text tones playing out that speaker but no music or anything? Can someone please explain how that's possible?

Was the device completely submerged?
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Chance Ill said:
Was the device completely submerged?
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yes it was. alright now for some reason the top speaker is suddenly working and now the bottom speaker is even playing music. That was really weird. I guess my phones a survivor.

I've had this issue before. Seems to me to be an communication error with playback. Certain apps use different algorithms to relay sound. Obviously, the water disrupted that string. In my case, sound completely died shortly thereafter.
Hope that's not the case for you.
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Yeah, it takes a long time for speakers to dry out. They should be fine once dry.
Dam you got so lucky!!
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BravoMotorola said:
So I was in a fishing boat that had a small leak and an inch or so of water was in it. I noticed my phone had fallen in that water and I immediately pulled it out. Everything seemed to be working fine. But here's the weird part: Notification sounds play just fine on the loud speaker but music and media like videos and youtube refuses to make any sound. Does that make any sense at all? Ringtones and text tones playing out that speaker but no music or anything? Can someone please explain how that's possible?
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Was it salt water?

androidsnax said:
Was it salt water?
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No just lake water
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Put your phone in Rise. Rise will grab all the water from your phone. It is scientific. Will work for sure.
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BravoMotorola said:
yes it was. alright now for some reason the top speaker is suddenly working and now the bottom speaker is even playing music. That was really weird. I guess my phones a survivor.
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congrats on getting it to work, i am in the exact situation as you, my ringtone, email sound etc works but youtube, music etc dont. it is currently in rice and i am praying it works, how long did yours take to fix? thanks

RahulRa said:
congrats on getting it to work, i am in the exact situation as you, my ringtone, email sound etc works but youtube, music etc dont. it is currently in rice and i am praying it works, how long did yours take to fix? thanks
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That same night it was all working again. Really weird.

Does it has or not dual front facing speakers?

Some sources says it does, other says it doesnt...
Does it has or not?
Louder or quieter than the Moto X Pure's?

It looks like there are two speakers on the bottom.
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Posting on my turbo 2 and it has 1 loud front facing speaker on the bottom front.
There are 2 slots that look like a right left speaker setup but the left one is not a speaker and would guess its a mic

Correct. 1 speaker, not stereo.
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So, GSMArena's description is wrong.

Csetoue said:
So, GSMArena's description is wrong.
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Yes. It only has one speaker on the bottom right. It does get fairly loud though. Decent sounding speaker

Csetoue said:
So, GSMArena's description is wrong.
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Correct. Their description is wrong.
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I was going to post about this. Pretty silly design choice.

I don't think it is silly at all... But each to their own.
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So what's the left one for? Aesthetics?!
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theprfct10 said:
So what's the left one for? Aesthetics?!
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Left mic, right speaker.

And even if it were just aesthetics.... What's wrong with that?
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JasonJoel said:
And even if it were just aesthetics.... What's wrong with that?
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Then why not throw another speaker in just makes sense to me better audio.
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Off the top of my head...
1. Because it adds cost
2. Because almost no one listens to/watches media with the phone in portrait mode anyway, and that is the only time that 2nd speaker would be useful
3. Because you get almost no real stereo separation with a 2nd speaker 1 inch away
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THANK YOU!
I thought I had a broken phone until I read this thread. I was playing around with stereo and it came out of one speaker and not the other. Was just out of my 2 weeks too. THANK YOU!

JasonJoel said:
Off the top of my head...
1. Because it adds cost
2. Because almost no one listens to/watches media with the phone in portrait mode anyway, and that is the only time that 2nd speaker would be useful
3. Because you get almost no real stereo separation with a 2nd speaker 1 inch away
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What the hell does portrait mode have to do with it.
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bigv5150 said:
What the hell does portrait mode have to do with it.
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Ummm.... Because the speakers would both be on the bottom front, so the only way you would have stereo sound is if the phone was in portrait orientation. If the phone was in landscape, then both speakers would either be on the right or left therefore not stereo.
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JasonJoel said:
Ummm.... Because the speakers would both be on the bottom front, so the only way you would have stereo sound is if the phone was in portrait orientation. If the phone was in landscape, then both speakers would either be on the right or left therefore not stereo.
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Stereo is stereo two speakers is stereo one is mono. Of course if they were at either end it would be better. You can't tell me two speakers wouldn't be better. And it wouldn't cost that much for a small speaker. As it is my only complaint is the volume is lacking on this phone at times.
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bigv5150 said:
Stereo is stereo two speakers is stereo one is mono. Of course if they were at either end it would be better. You can't tell me two speakers wouldn't be better. And it wouldn't cost that much for a small speaker. As it is my only complaint is the volume is lacking on this phone at times.
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Look up the definitions of stereo and stereophonic and you'll see your not actually right. Stereophonic sound requires being able to separate the source of the sound - which 2 speakers both on one side does not do. 2 speakers on one side is effectively just dual mono.
No argument that 2 speakers would likely be louder than one, though. Seems loud enough to me as is, but everyone has different needs.
Regardless though, it is a moot point. It has one speaker and will always have one speaker at this point.
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screen distortion at edges while watching full screen movies.

is anyone else bothered by the edges of the display when viewing full screen movies?

No. Deal with it
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Nope. But I'm not ocd or very picky either.
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no, and I don't watch movies on such a tiny screen

I watch Netflix a lot and I'm not bothered by it.

I actually like the 3d effect it gives...
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I'm bothered that it creates two lines that kind of cut off the video. It's much more enjoyable watching Netflix on my Note 4.
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