My US Cellular V20 had a loudspeaker failure as a result of a close encounter with a bowl of melted ice cream... Of course LG Service wouldn't touch it as it's now OOW. After watching Witrigs video, the fix looked straightforward so I tried it with seemingly no problem, but purchased a non-OEM speaker which did not work. Before the installation I had low sound from the speaker but since then, zero sound.
Is this probably due to the non-OEM speaker (I'm being sent a replacement) and worth getting the OEM part? Or just have the repair done professionally?
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Hey guys! I'm reaching the end of my rope with this... so if anyone has had any experience with this, please let me know!
About a week ago, I dropped my S4 into a toilet! Anyways, everything came out fine besides the loud speaker. Now, the speaker isnt completely dead. It produces a low, constant hum (like some sort of electromagnetic interference). It produces different sounds as I use the touchscreen. It will ring and play music, but the quality is horrible. Ive replaced the Speaker ( it was easy since the housing pops on and off) and the USB Flex Cable. I am still getting the horrible hum and bad sound quality from the speaker. For the time being, I have a small piece of paper in front of the positive and negative of the speaker. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!!!
I shouldn't be so harsh on LG. Maybe some of their phones don't mess up as much as the lg's that I had. But anyways..
The issue started a few days ago. Its a common problem for sure, with no real fix besides replacement. I'll be listening to music through my headphones, and the slightest touch of the 3.5 jack/the base of the headphones will cause the music to stop.
The issue has happened with my lg p769, my lg g pro, and has happened to two of my lg g2's. I do listen to music for an average of 7 hours, for 5 days a week. You could classify that as heavy usage. But I never had this problem with my nexus devices, or my cheaper zte devices. And they all went through the same routine my LG'S have
But in my job, the phone sits in my lap the whole time. So there is no pressure on the phone or the jack.
I'm pretty sure the g2 thinks the headphones are being disconnected so it pauses the music, but I think it could be a false "media button signal" being sent to the phone. Is there a log for me to look at to determine the reason for the music stopping?
Also, is there a way to delay such events? E.X: if headphones disconnect for 2 seconds, then pause music. ?
Also Also, is there a way to force the phone into constant output for music? Like make the phone think the headphones are/ are not plugged in?
Sent from my FOURTH lg g2. These phones are great with horrible reliability, much like mazdas rotary engines.
One more thing, I have two unused g2's sitting around (both manufacturer defect devices) could I swap 3.5mm jacks out and into one? I've only tooken one lg g2 apart, seems like a simple process.
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I replaced the dock piece from a white vs980 variant and it fixed my provlrm. I also replaced the camera lens. Lg made this phone super easy to take apart.
Someone can close/delete this thread if they feel the need to.
G2 D802 terrible sound quality from earpiece, which replacement part?
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I bought a used D802 for around $95 yesterday. Screen and everything in perfect shape, almost too good to be true, right? Well, turns out the sounds quality is **** during phone calls. Called my dad yesterday and the earpiece speaker just buzzed as soon as he talked louder than whispering.
I looked up how to replace the earpiece and it doesn't seem too difficult and I already ordered a kit of tools for that from DealExtreme. However, I need to find a new speaker too. Etradesupply has way too expensive shipping to Sweden so that's not an option.
Another option is ebay, where I could get one including shipping for like a 10th of the price compared to buying from etradesupply. But how is the quality? Will it be just as bad as my current earpiece or will it actually sound better?
Does anybody have any experience with this?
Thought I'd post an update. I bought a cheap speaker from Ebay and I also bought some cheap tools from Ebay, or maybe it was from DX. Changing the earpiece took maybe 20-30 minutes using a video guide I found on youtube. Sound quality is great and has been working great ever since I swapped it. Would definitely recommend!
I haven't seen anything posted on this and so, I'm hoping it's just my phone. Received my LG V20 last night and the first oddity was an audio one. When the T-Mobile jingle came on at boot, I noticed that the jingle had a slight crackling/distortion effect to it but I didn't think anything of it. Got the rest of the phone setup and I'm super happy with it but the issue showed up again as soon as I tried to test out the speaker outloud via YouTube. Anything with a high frequency results in crackling and people's voices have a slightly robotic effect to them. The issue isn't isolated to YouTube because it happens with anything.
It's not noticeable... if let's say you have the phone a few feet away from you at mid volume but it's super obvious when holding it and irritating when having it against my ear. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm thinking about stopping by a T-Mobile store to see if they have a model one that I can test out. Hoping it's not just a crappy speaker featured in a very audio featured phone. Thanks for any feedback ya'll.
Sounds like you have a bad unit. I haven't heard anyone mention the same issue so I think you should warranty it.
Mine has begun doing it whenever i run an app or a video. Even with the volume turned all the way down. For example, writing this post is producing very noticable static from the speaker even with all audio muted, all keypress audio disabled and haptic feedback disabled. Opening a game like clash of clans produces noise at the same level as a mistuned television.
I get the distortion as well on my T-Mobile variant.
Same issue
My phone just started with the cracking noise, but mines sounds like the speaker has blown out!! T moblie as well! Please post what you guys plan to do next
I have a Verizon variant and mine does the same thing. Recorded video of my daughters softball game and noticed the blown out speaker sound i was getting. Seems like poor quality speakers possibly.
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I have a T-mobile LG V20 also coming from the Note 7 and tonight my speaker has the same static & blown speaker sound on high or low volume everything was fine until I used headphones and etc today I don't know if this had something to do with it or not I am really hoping this is not a big issue across the board. I am gonna swap it out and pray for the best LG is my last hope since there are no other good android phablets out right now.
Out of the blue
I have the Sprint version and mine just started cracking out of no where tonight for no reason. I was listening to music but it wasn't even turned all the way up. What in the world?
I have only had my V20 for 7 days and now the speaker is doing the same thing everyone else is saying (distortion, cracking, sounds like a blown speaker). Called LG they said factory reset it but that did not resolve. Went to Best Buy where they thought at first it was a software issue but quickly realized it is a hardware issue. Tried calling LG back but cant get through as the line says all circuits are busy. I just turned in my replacement Note 7 and now I think LG may have inherited the Samsung curse.
My phone just started doing the same thing!!! I was just listening to a song on SoundCloud and the sound suddenly became distorted. I tried YouTube and and same thing happened. I restarted the phone and the T-Mobile jingle was... You guessed it: distorted. Idk what happened for this functioning model to suddenly start doing this, but I'm very disappointed. I'll be going back to the T-Mobile store to try to turn it in and get it replaced.
You guys are scaring me. I really hope this isn't widespread!
My ATT LG v20 is audio has gone crazy just as described by others out of the blue!! Im not looking forward to the ttio to the ATT store as I doubt if anyone will knowcwhats going on! Has anyone's phone audio been fixed? The distortion. crackling makes the phone useless and makes me cry!!!#
Too many people are reporting this problem. Meaning that eventually we're all going to experience this. This does not sound good at all.
Happen to me today. Just turned on DAC and it went away. T mobile.
ughhh
Koont said:
Happen to me today. Just turned on DAC and it went away. T mobile.
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Ugh I had high hopes but this did NOT work for me. Sprint. I waited so long for this phone and now dealing with this ....makes me pretty upset. I got mine on the 25th and it started on Nov 1st.
trashy audio after awhile WILL put me off on this device...
I have noticed it seems to get worse the more the battery is drained.
Got mine on 10/28 and until now (knock wood) the sound is pretty good!
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LG V20 speaker issues
I was within the 14 day Best Buy return period. They have ordered me a new V20. I'll see if it was just a fluke??
Some posts on reddit suggest that the speaker becomes crappy when the phone is being charged.
I've recently noticed that my left/top speaker is incredibly more quiet than the bottom/right one. It's almost as if it's stuck in "phone call" mode.
I'm rooted, still on Marshmallow (last available version). I've tried rebooting in safe mode, nothing changed. I've tried disabling all Xposed modules, nothing changed.
The speaker is not dead. It simply plays extremely quiet when compared to the other one. Could it be broken or is there something still left to try via software?
I have the exact same issue. Unfortunetly restoring stock Google image didn't help either. I think it's the hardware
same, but mine is bottom/right speaker. it will come on intermittently, usually if i flip phone around a bit into landscape....
am on 7.0 stock/rooted...battery issue has become an annoyance to...ugh
I had this happen after a drop of oil (skin treament oil, not motor oil) must have landed on the grill. At least that is what I hypotheseized. Problem was, because it was an oil, it wouldn't dry any time soon. It was actually so quite, when I made my first call the next day, I thought my phone wasn't working, then I heard a very, very, very faint noise from it. Compressed air in a can helped clean some of it out, and it got better- tolerable. Over the next few months it's very slowly improved, but it's still a little muffled sounding compared to the right, but the volumes almost match now. The grill in that speakers still gathers more junk than the bottom one, and I have to keep it cleaned out regularly. So, any chance a contaminant of any kind got in there? Try canned air, or gently use a clothing pin to remove any dirt/debris.
I think it's a poor design, because my Moto X Pure never had any issues with speakers getting wet or dirty.
Edit, I'll add that the entire speaker was muffled, not just one part of it, the whole thing sounded like it was broken, and I thought it was a hardware issue at first. Until the canned air got a little tiny bit of liquid/oil out. It improved by 50% with the canned air, then over months it slowly evaporated.
Check for metal shavings in the grill as well. I work in a factory and get it all the time.
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I've recently noticed that my left/top speaker is incredibly more quiet than the bottom/right one. It's almost as if it's stuck in "phone call" mode.
I'm rooted, still on Marshmallow (last available version). I've tried rebooting in safe mode, nothing changed. I've tried disabling all Xposed modules, nothing changed.
The speaker is not dead. It simply plays extremely quiet when compared to the other one. Could it be broken or is there something still left to try via software?
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Hello... Don't know if you're running stock kernel, but you could try to change the gain of the top speaker with a kernel manager app: Kernel Adiutor, EX Kernel Manager, etc... If your kernel supports it. Most custom kernels do.
Good luck...
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Hello... Don't know if you're running stock kernel, but you could try to change the gain of the top speaker with a kernel manager app: Kernel Adiutor, EX Kernel Manager, etc... If your kernel supports it. Most custom kernels do.
Good luck...
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I could do this but I fear that to get acceptable results I would run the speakers entirely out of specifications limits.
If opening it was easier I would have checked for oil/water/anything inside.
It's supposedly still covered by its warranty but that would lead to an undefinable period of time with no phone... and that's unacceptable for me.
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I could do this but I fear that to get acceptable results I would run the speakers entirely out of specifications limits.
If opening it was easier I would have checked for oil/water/anything inside.
It's supposedly still covered by its warranty but that would lead to an undefinable period of time with no phone... and that's unacceptable for me.
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Hey. Sorry, I didn't think about the "out of specs thing". The warranty won't cover water damage anyway. Though a repair seems to be the only way to get it to work.
I fear myself the day I'll have to open mine...
Goos luck...
Success! Re-reading everything that was written here I tried remembering if something happened that could justify what I was experiencing. And I remembered a cocktail spilling on the phone. Back then I didn't give it much thought because the phone kept on working and I wiped away everything almost immediately. I tried blowing hard inside the speaker grill and blowing and blowing, I noticed some liquid coming out of the speaker, very little drops obviously. Then I "slapped" the phone against my thigh repeatedly.
Thanks to everybody chiming in and especially @HikingMoose that made me think about this.
And now volume appears normal from both sides of the speakers. Using GoneMad Music Player I can adjust speaker balance and both seem to be playing at equal volume.
I have the solution for that
I'm pretty sure I have the solution. That's not b cause I'm claiming smart lol but thats because exactly what has happened to my nexus 6p recently. I got this nexus 6p as a replacement so it was new. A month later the top speaker got extremely low. If you go to YouTube and type stereo speaker test. You would here the difference. I thoughts it's the Oreo update/hard reset/ google support but no luck.
Anyways I thought of taking of the speaker grill to see if any dirt is blocking it. Believe it or not: as soon as I took the top speaker off I noticed the speaker got back to work asbestos loud as the bottom one. So it's the grill mate.
JUST BE CAREFUL THOUGH, it's hard to put the speaker back in. You might not be able too unless you glue it or something. I could not find anywhere to buy a replacement. Just be careful
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I'm pretty sure I have the solution. That's not b cause I'm claiming smart lol but thats because exactly what has happened to my nexus 6p recently. I got this nexus 6p as a replacement so it was new. A month later the top speaker got extremely low. If you go to YouTube and type stereo speaker test. You would here the difference. I thoughts it's the Oreo update/hard reset/ google support but no luck.
Anyways I thought of taking of the speaker grill to see if any dirt is blocking it. Believe it or not: as soon as I took the top speaker off I noticed the speaker got back to work asbestos loud as the bottom one. So it's the grill mate.
JUST BE CAREFUL THOUGH, it's hard to put the speaker back in. You might not be able too unless you glue it or something. I could not find anywhere to buy a replacement. Just be careful
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I'm having the same problem on the top/left speaker, sounds seem muffled after accidentally poured chili oil on it (lol). Anyway, how did you managed to take out the speaker grill?