Hello Community,
recently I got that violett line of death. I tried to fix it, but without success.
Now another problem occurred, probably because I was a little bit messy when I tried to fix the pink stripe from within.
The speaker sound remained the same and is still fine, but the sound output through aux got coruppted (sound distortion).
The louder the sound is set, the more scratchy it becomes. If it's set very low, it sometimes isn't distorted.
I assume I damaged something of the board, because it can't be the aux port itself (I changed it) also I don't think it's something to do with the software.
Is there any way you can think of to fix this problem? Maybe though heating the board or putting a special solution on the circuit components that are responsible for aux sound?
I thank you in advance for any reply.
Edit: I also tried different earphones
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Hi,
I've noticed an audio output distortion of some frequencies when listening to music, in the sound coming out of the 2.5mm jack.
When the speakers on the device is used, there is no problem.
When I plug the headphone, there is sound output, I hear the music, but some frequencies are lowered so much that I can't hear the singers voice. When I unplug, the speakers work fine and I can hear the singer again.
In additon that, most of the background instruments can be heard as well as the backvocals, if they are female.
It's like the sound is being processed (like an equalizer) when I plug the headphone, some frequencies are lowered, given some echo, reverb etc.
I don't understand how this is possible. I am thinking of a hardware contact problem, but it's hard to believe if this is a hw problem.
I've tried two firmwares (2.16.x, 2.25.11.1) and made hard reset also. No result.
Any ideas?
Note: I can try to actually record the sound tonight if anyone wants to hear.
Best regards,
Fast
maybe try a different headset first?....could be a short in the cable, because what you are describing is a phasing issue with the headset speakers......
Thanks for the response Kiru,
Just tried a different headset plugging it into my HAMA 2.5 --> 3.5 adapter. same result.
I will try the original headphone came with the Wizard. If the source of the problem is the HAMA adaptor, this should resolve it. (i hope it is)
Could you please elaborate on the "phasing issue" ?
fastguy said:
Could you please elaborate on the "phasing issue" ?
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Hmm....how can I explain.....Let's start with the speaker itself. A speaker has two terminals on it, one postive and one negative. What we want is to have the positve from the source (ie. Amplifier) to the positive terminal of the speaker, and the same for the negative. Since there is a pair of speakers, we want them to be hooked-up correctly. If hook-up correctly then the speakers are in phase with each other, and this is called constructive interference, hence in phase. When ONLY ONE of the speakers is hooked-up backwards, we call this destructive interference, hence being out of phase. Being out of phase causes frequencies to cancel or sound muffled. Hope you kind of get what I mean, but I highly doubt that this is the problem with headphones because heaphones nowadays rarely get manufactured with this problem. This is just the electrical part of phasing. Also, you can have one speaker, and it could sound out of phase because of the distance it is firing from walls or the shape of the room due to the reflections of sound, this is called acustical phasing.
A short in the cable, meaning the positve and negative wire are somewhat touching, can cause a similar effect, and I suspect that this is problem for you. As you now state that you are using an 2.5 to 3.5 adaptor, I would agree with you that most likey you have a faulty adaptor.
Hope this helps! and keep me posted!
Hi again,
Thanks again for the explanation Kiru, I know a bit of electronics so I got the problem.
However, I'm now home and tried to original headset, no result. The same problem is existing.
This makes me believe that I've broken something inside the Wizard which shortcircuits something. I'm very dissapointed.
Maybe the only way is now to buy a stereo bluetooth headset...
Thanks for your help
Any reason that you can't return to orange for repair/replacement?
PROBLEM SOLVED
I got this unit from priceminister second hand. It's origin is not France, I don't have a purchase receipt neither.
By the way, I solved the problem. I disassambled the unit using the info given in one of the posts in the forum. I played a little with the contacts, there was oxidation in the outer solders, i cleared them up etc, it 's working at the moment.
I'll post some pictures afterwards.
and I hope i will be able to reassamble it, I already have a piece of thing which I don't know where to put
I got the same problem. Was working fine for 2 months then all of a sudden the headphone plug is all messed up. Volume is all distorted I can sometimes hear a song but quality is no where near the original. Usually everything sounds echoed. I think something is wrong with the plug
I've had the same problem. The headphone jack on the Wizard is crap. If you have your Wizard in your pocket with an adapter, as you move, the adapter pries back and forth on the jack. This breaks the cheap jack.
If you want to listen to your Wizard as an music player, you should invest in a nice set of bluetooth headphones and only plug the jack in when the wizard won't be moved around a lot, like a home or car stereo.
I recommend Nextlink Spider headphones. They double as a headset and you can navigate through your library with the button on them.
MUSIC Speed
I got the same problem here. The SE stereo btooth headset isnt yet in our place.
Anyway, i experienced this one with ROM2.16 Imate. The sound speed or music speed seems to being played faster than normal. But when i tried to plug the 2.3-3.5 adopter and quickly pull it out, the sound is played in normal speed then. strange.....
are you all sure that the wizard has a stereo output ? I thought it was mono.
Anyway you can get earpieces and headphones with a 2.5mm jack so you don't need a 2.5-3.5mm adapter.
Maybe the contacts on your jack are not connecting properly with the internal contacts of your adaptor
I have a noise problem, I don't think it's quite the same as previously posted noise problems.
I get a hissinh/static noise from the phones speaker (on the back) and from headphones. It is only happening while the phone plays sound (and some seconds later). Every time I up or down the sound with the volume keys, there are noise coming out of the speaker for some seconds. Please report if you have the same issue, especially eith headphones.
I could live with the speaker-noise, it's not that big a deal.. What's worse is it is in the headphones. I have a quite low impedance set of in-ear plugs from creative (I am able to hear the hard drive spinning up in my old mp3-player, but no constant noise) Crap. I want to use the phone for music listening. Question is: software or hardware related? Using JF 1.51 ADP for the record
I hope it is hardware related - I bought mine off ebay, allthoug brand new and everything, I don't know how I would go about getting it fixed/a new one with no receipt. Shipping it back and forth to England isn't really tempting either.
It's not just you, it's piss-poor rf isolation on the audio outputs. Listening with bluetooth doesn't solve the issue either as bluetooth has its own noise.
Yeah, I have yet to listen to a decent pair of BT headsets.
So this is a known problem, and it's definitely a HW issue? The fact that it's only there when sound is played, and is also there with a headset (where shielding around connectors is not and should not be a problem at ALL) made me hope this was softwar related. Argh, what to do then? The sound quality despite this seemed prety decent, although a headache today prevents me from really listening to music and say for sure. Shame.
*Pondering refund options.*
Any chance of isolating around the connector and fixing this, if it is "airborne" caused noise, or will the noice enter the equation before the connector (cabling, sound chip)?
I will try with a relatively high impedance headset (sennheiser 555) and see if it is better there. But can't take them on the bus anyway. But a couple of Ωs could always be added somewhere along the cable and might do some good. Have to have the sound at the lowest levels with the in-ears. Maybe a software fix to lower the volume output will help? Or won't it, if RF noise is the cause?
red: I will buy this item and hope it helps. And will look into lowering the volume output when using headphones as well. Should be possible (atleast it usually is with tweaks in WinMo.)
I have similar problem with HTC Magic: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633035
Here is one more post regarding HTC Jade: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463365
Does anyone know if it is possible to repair/replace the headphone jack on the Ideos X5?
Unfortunately I dropped it end on (no headphones in at the time) and now the channels now produce some extremely odd audio where everything sounds like it is underwater.
You too? I'm also having this problem, so I opened it because I heard something moving inside, It was a coil, part of SMD components, for filtering the sound on headphones. I found one coil but the 2nd is missing
I soldered it back to board, and sound is little better, but there is still too much echo, low quality sound. But, the internal loudspeaker plays audio OK.
I'm planning to take it to service, but I think they will wan't to change the whole board, usually they don't do this kind of repairs and tuning the components. Since I opened it, the warranty is gone, so this could cost quite much and it will take at least 2 weeks to repair.
Does anybody know what is the inductivity of these 2 coils in the picture?
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Hi im hoping someone can help me with my problem.
My loudspeaker makes alot of warbling sound when anything is played through them, if you change the volume level it makes the same annoying sound, also sounds like interference.
I have replaced my Loudspeaker unit and I have also now replaced the usb board and wiring, as I understand that this is the power source for the loudspeaker.
The Microphone sounds fine, and the headphones are fine as well, as I can listen to youtube etc with no problems. When ringing somebody as well, there is no problem either, so trying to figure out the source of the problem, as it sounds like radio interference and cracking sort of sound.
It had the problem on stock rom and have now changed the rom to Phoenix, so see if that would fix the problem, but with no luck.
Any ideas anybody?
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.