Hey guys (and gals)
I picked up a Nexus 6P on eBay and I'm having a couple of issues with it. I've searched around (and tried some stuff myself) and can't seem to figure this out. I have 2 separate issues but I'll put them in the same thread since they may be related.
Problem 1:
My microphone is completely silent. Whether I'm in calls, recording voice clips, or trying to use Google Now, my audio levels are always at 0. This isn't the "muffled audio" I've read so much about. This is 100% pure unadulterated silence. I have searched for a replacement microphone, however there are 3 microphones on the device and I can't figure out which one I need (or where they are located)
What I've tried:
-Factory reset/flash stock
-Changing Fluence settings (in build.prop)
-Editing mixer_paths
-Using a USB microphone (works for everything except phone calls, albeit it's VERY quiet)
-Using a wired headset (nothing - you'll see why in problem 2)
-Using a bluetooth headset (works fine in calls, but won't work for Google Now or WhatsApp, both of which I need for work)
What I'd like to know:
-Where the microphones are located (ie "on the daughterboard/motherboard/LCD assembly etc)
-If anyone has had this issue
-How to force phone to use a specific mic/USB mic
Problem 2:
My headphone jack operates intermittently. If I'm playing audio and plug headphones in, the audio plays correctly. If I then pause the audio then play any audio source, I get what can only be described as the screams of robotic banshees. This sound will play in place of any audio, whether it be music, ringer, or simple UI sounds. Normally I would just replace the jack, but I can't find it anywhere. All I'd like to know for this one is where to find a new headphone jack.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Any and all responses will be appreciated.
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Hiya, my wifes Atom has developed a problem with the output through the headset.
While listening to MP3's it's filtering out bass (well the effect is like its turning all songs into Karaoke the low voices disappear!).
Using the phone speakers the audio is fine.
Pushing the headphones in slowly, with no clicks you can hear reasonable audio in both earphones but quietly - low levels are audible.
First and second click, one ear piece audio, with distortion.
In all the way - both ear pieces give audio at full volume but without the bass and some distortion.
So, things I've tried so far. Different headset, same prob. Adapter and normal earphones, same prob. Installed different audio software (tried mort and gsp), same prob. Enabling and disabling the equaliser. Adjusting the volume, same. Soft reset, same. Restore to previous backup, same. Hard reset, same. Opened it up and checked all plugs, and cleaned the headset socket with some isopropyl, same problem.
Anything else I can try? The service centre for these things is on the other side of the country and this is her only phone/media player (it would take minimum 2 weeks an a stack of dough for a service repair).
Firstly, you could provide us with a bit more information on the handset itself? say....
Model and ROM?
Also what kind of handsets you are using?
The stock wired headset? or a third party headset?
name of the media player?
Hi, i ve have the same problem since yesterday , maybe i used some shortcut keys - had a lot of windows opened, now i canot hear people talking in a movie or mp3 - karaoke efect, if i push headpshones out just a little bit the sound is almost normal. I have this problem on my laptop and am using USB headset-- its the same problem with or without USB modul.
many thanks for help
ps: first i made system restore then i reinstalled the codecs - klightmegacodecpack , no help
Anyone else get this issue?
Is this a known issue?
Is there a fix?
Gets annoying, as I use my phone as my radio source and plug it into my stereo via headphone jack. Two out of three times it will not pipe the headphone audio out, but will when I reboot it (a 4-5 minute process as you can imagine).
For clarity, the following takes place:
4+ hours elapse since last phone reboot..
I start Pandora or similar audio program,
Music, talk, etc begins playing out speakerphone,
I turn on stereo and plug phone into stereo,
Audio stops.
I unplug headphone jack,
Audio resumes playing out speakerphone.
I reboot phone,
I start Pandora or similar audio app,
Audio plays out speakerphone,
I plug in headphone jack,
Audio plays through stereo as it should.
Rinse and repeat every 4+ hours.
Bump.
Does nobody else have this issue?
Sent from my SCH-I500
I did, it was getting shut down by my text to speech services. Instead of rebooting, I can go to the settings, text to speech, and play the sample, it will kick the headset connection back on.
Buji said:
I did, it was getting shut down by my text to speech services. Instead of rebooting, I can go to the settings, text to speech, and play the sample, it will kick the headset connection back on.
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Sure enough, that worked perfected to get the sound routing correctly again without a reboot. The new question is.. how can we prevent this requirement? Obviously this isn't normal behavior. What causes the headphone routing to choke in the first place?
Heeeeeellifiknow. I don't even know what made me think to check the tts output of all things. I do have a call announcer (not using the stock tts call announcer). I was mostly just resigned to see if the problem stayed after the delayed froyo update, or if we end up getting a gingerbread rom.
I, too, use a 3rd party announcer (Call Announcer). I'm betting the option for call announcer to use its own TTS settings is what screws it up. I'll let you know once I test the theory (after I get a call).
Sent from my SCH-I500
The issue is definitely caused by Call Announcer, not the fascinate software. I had headphone working, then had someone call me, and the headphone stopped working. No options in Call announcer changed the issue.
I filed a bug report with the author of Call Announcer, but until then, uninstall Call Announcer if you want the bug to go away.
Ok this is an issue that's plagued this phone since 2.2 came out(at least that's when I noticed it) and I'm asking if anyone knows of a workaround, fix, or otherwise to resolve this. My issue is that when I have headphones plugged in, listening to music, playing a game or whatever, I want(and expect) notification sounds(ringers, new text, new e-mail, etc.) sound to play through, and only through, the headphones. Instead what I get is that it plays through the external speaker(huh?) AND the headphones. I would expect that with anything plugged into the 3.5mm jack that the external speaker is entirely muted and remains that way until whatever's plugged into it is removed.
I work in a fairly quiet environment and sometimes forget to turn my ringer off when I get to the office. I am almost always listening to a podcast with my headphones though and it's disturbing to those around me and startles me, lol, when my phone rings, blasting it out to those around me. I have experienced this issue on the official 2.2 froyo build(and it's patches). I installed SFR(all versions) hoping it might do the trick but so far no. Is this something that might be fixed in a different kernel? I know I have options to run a different one and am not averse to trying it out if this is fixable. SFR has Voodoo control pre-installed which I checked to see if it had any settings for this type of thing and found none.
Help?
This is an issue with Android itself (all versions) and it is the same on every phone. I think Cyanogenmod is the only "solution."'
Hi all...
My daughter has a ZTE Blade that I flashed originally to a custom rom running Froyo... for Xmas she got some new headset in ear headphones (one's with a mic)... The sound through these when plugged into the Blade is similar to listening to music underwater (muffled and echoing).... if you press the mic button the volume increases but is still poor quality. However plug in a normal earphone 3.5 connector (two bands rather than three) and everything sounds fine... I tried the earphones on other phones/computers and there is definitely nothing wrong with them. We also bought a second pair for my other daughter and they were exactly the same, I then tried my supplied Samsung Galaxy SII headset... again same thing... muffled and echoing sound.
So the problem was with the phone.
I decided to re-flash the phone this time with a Gen 2 Cyanogen Gingerbread rom... I tried the audio again after flashing and it seemed to have been fixed (admittedly I only played a track for a few seconds). Over the course of the day my daughter has reinstalled her apps etc... went to listen to some more music and again the same problem... muffled and echoing sound - pop in some normal headphones and everything is fine.
I have searched around and the problem seems to have come up before a few times but no one has really been able to track down what the issue is. I was actuallt thinking it might be app related (Skype or Tango for example) but I have stopped (not uninstalled yet) these apps but it makes no change.
So it seems that the Blade will not work with any wired headset/mic - any idea's please?
I found it wouldn't work with a headset that has a mic on it, but I got it working fine with my £5 jvc gummi headphones although I'm not getting much in the way of sound quality and volume. Still miles better than the stock headphones in the box though
Sent from my ST18i using XDA App
I know this is an old topic but I found the solution and some others may have the same problem:
There are two kinds of connectors, they have ground and mic signal switched.
If you get the wrong one it will work but sound (mostly speech) will be very bad, this results in a very poor audio quality.
So just get the correct ones (Apple-Style) with mic or the ones withour mic will also work fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#Mobile_phones
Hi,
I've just bought a pair of Sennheiser Momentum Headphones for the Galaxy series (M2 IEG) and i'm experiencing some very weird distortions.
Best description would be a compression effect, taking out all the base and highly accentuating highs and mids.
First thing i though was there's some handsfree sound option, like a voice preset, that gets activated if there's a 3 pin 3.5mm jack detected, but i can't find anything.
I've tried the following permutations:
- New headphones with PC soundcard and with older HTC One -> no issues (other than volume up/down, next track etc commands were mixed up on the One)
- S7 with another pair of headphones -> no issues
- switched on/off pretty much all audio settings on S7 (equializer, surround, upscaling, adaptive sound etc), factory reset -> no change.
What i did notice after a factory reset was that when i started the first track, it worked fine for a few seconds, then the sound got distorted as soon as i turned the volume up (timing might be a coincidence). This leads me to believe it's a software issue. Maybe i'm blind, but i can't find any more sound options to change.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
This is strange. Never heard of this as a software issue with any device. The description of ur distortion almost sounds like when I dont put the headphone fully in the jack. Could a phone case maybe be preventing the jack from going fully in? Otherwise I'm at a loss.
I managed to fix it, but it's a weird one.
I cut a thin strip of scotch tape and isolated the bottom pin on the jack, so that the remote commands were blocked out. As i was expecting (since the remote commands are the only difference between these headphones and the other ones i tried), it worked just fine.
What i didn't expect was that after removing the isolation, it kept working fine. I am now several reboots and updates later and everything seems to be ok.
Maybe someone more tech savvy can figure out what it was, because i sure can't.