There was a thread here about that the voice from the earpiece is distorted. I experienced to have a similar problem. From the first day the sound was excellent but in 2 months it changed to distorted and then become very-very weak. At the same time the sound was good if a loudspeaker is on or if the hands-free is connected. Thus, I supposed that the contact becomes bad. To fix it, I disassembled the device. The *.pdf-file how to do that is included (33 megs). When the contacts were formed so they touch firmly the corresponding places on the printed board and the device was assembled, I heard nice voice from the earpiece.
So, in some cases the problem with the sound may be due to weak contacts. I suppose the contacts may become poor because the material for the outputs on the earpiece is not so elastic plus influence of vibration from the vibromotor plus influence of humidity.
Backup the system before disassembly because during this the backup battery may discharge completely!
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Thanks a lot I got this problem long time ago but I don't know how to disassemble it so I always try to shake it to fix ......
Great ! Very useful
Thanks
thanks for the guide..... very useful
Where can I find the 33meg pdf? I need to disassemble the device too...
regards
That is what I thought th first time I opened my MDA Compact! Believe me I am the very first one I did when the device first came out! After lots of research let me tell you this:
IT IS NOT THE CONTACTS! IT IS THE SPEAKER! The membrane is of low quality when you open the device and "fixing" the contacts it will only make it to work for a few phone calls up to a couple of days at most! The speaker is burnt by the high amount of volume the motherboard of JAM gives to the speaker! If you want to solve your problem then you ll have to find a Nokia Center and buy a speaker for a Nokia 6610! Nokia 6610 and HTC Magician have exactly the same speaker! The only thing you have to do is to change nokia's black cloth ribbon on the top of the speaker with HTC's black rubber get it into your magician and there you are! You have a perfect sound again! My only advise is to use the call volume just a click less than the maximum volume so you won't blow away your new speaker!
I dissasembled and reassembled my MDA compact more than 11 times trying fixing the contacts with no permanent result! After replacing the speaker with a Nokias's 6610 speaker everything seems to work like a dream for at least a month now! :wink:
Its much more easier to get Nokia's spare parts than HTC's! The speaker cost me 18euros!
any chances you could post us nice pictures of these manipulations ?
I would love to do that but please I don't think that my magician could survive one more disassembly! :twisted: In case of replacing a friend's speaker next week who has the same problem I will make sure I get those pics! Magician is extremely easy to be taken apart! The only hard parts in the removing process are the upper backplate which has to be removed very carefully in order to be fitted back in its place afterwards and the front faceplate where you will need something very thin like a thin knife or even better a razor to take it away from the black plastic on the sides! :wink:
where is the link to the pdf
Hey guys,
I cannot see the link to the pdf. I need to disassemble my Jam too.
Thanx, Martido
Sorry, I found it. Just woke up....
Oh, thank god, I'm not the only one, with this problem. But first i have two questions? Will i loose my warrenty when i open the device? Can O² discover that i opened it?
Did this contact fix solve the problem entirely, or not? Because katsj says the problem is the speaker!
Thank you in advance, such a great community!
Bauer
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I read the PDF File and i have to say .. this is simlply impossible! You can cause so much damage .... i dont know where to begin. One small mistake and you can't forget your PDA. I think this is highly to dangerous. Is there no easier way to solve the problem ... some ideas??
Or do the pictures lie and it isnt that complicated??
Bauer
My sound disappears during call...
Strange, during a call after a few minutes my sound disappears. I can hear the other caller, the other calleer can't hear me anymore...
But now I found a strange solution: when I pull up the volume button n the left a few times (it was already at maximum!) my sound is back!
Has anyone the same experience or a better solution?
I think when you pull up the volume there is this small tone and you hear this tone from the loudspeaker.
After you hear the tone, you cant here anything again, right?
I'm driving really crazy, i loved this XDA Mini since this prob occured and i want to find a solution as soon as possible ! I really dont know what to do
When i push against sd-card slot from inside, i hear everything .. again, so this is just a really small prob ..
I hope sb. find a solution quickly otherwise ... i dont know
Bauer
JackBauer said:
I think when you pull up the volume there is this small tone and you hear this tone from the loudspeaker.
After you hear the tone, you cant here anything again, right?
I'm driving really crazy, i loved this XDA Mini since this prob occured and i want to find a solution as soon as possible ! I really dont know what to do
When i push against sd-card slot from inside, i hear everything .. again, so this is just a really small prob ..
I hope sb. find a solution quickly otherwise ... i dont know
Bauer
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I think it's a contact problem, so maybe the problem isn't that small... I don't want to open my device.
I don't think it has anything to do with the ROM or with the software.
(I wish it would, then there would be a solution in the end)
I had this problem too and found a fix:
I assume that while you are making a call, there is no audio from the earpiece. While on the call, adjust the volume up or down with the volume slider button. if you hear faint beeps and faint audio right after the beeps, your earpiece is working but there is a software glitch caused by the headphone jack.
Reset your device. Make a call (i.e. to your voicemail) and make sure there is audio incoming. Connect the (wired) headset. Disconnect the headset and you shoud now hear audio from the earpiece. You may have to reconnect/disconnect the headset a few times.
thanks
thanks for the pdf. ill check it right away!
U ROCK
THX GUYS>>>U ROCK...........I was soo worried.....
thx again..
Thanx dudes for the nokiaspeaker tip!
Just received my on ebay ordered nokia speaker and within a few minutes I fixed mine magician thanx to the pdf & already gainted knowledge on this page!
I bought this phone a year ago for a very nice price because of the damaged speaker and now at last I repeared it just for €3,- (instead of sending it to Orange risking over €100; I`m Dutch ya know )
hi guys...pulling this one out from the past....my magician has all the symptoms above, but with no luck, the replacement speaker did not do the trick...any other ideas/details/downloads....anything to get the audio back???\
BTW, i can hear glitches of sound if i play with the volume tab. That is to say, if i push it up, i hear the tone "ding" and i can hear the voice on the other end for a split second! So i must be close, no????
I've got a bit of a problem with my hermes. For quite a long while now the speakers have just not been working. The speaker for the phone works but the ringer and loudspeaker don't work. Initially after a soft reset it would work for about half an hour again and then stop working.
I don't think it's software related as I have flashed my phone a couple of times since it started.
If anyone could help me out with this at all I would be incredibly grateful as it is intensely annoying not being able to hear calls coming in.
Thanks,
Stuart
I had a similar problems with the speaker. It was because there is a cable from the speak to the mainboard that can become disconnected. I dropped my phone and the connector became lose. If you take you keyboard part of the phone apart you will see the small cable running from the speak to a port on the board, just reconnect it and it should work.
Tim is right. Do a search and it will lead you to a thread with pics so you can see how to fix it. It's a simple repair. I've had to do it twice on mine in a year.
Thanks a lot guys.
I'll try and find that.
I have an 8525 with ATT in the USA. Two days ago the speaker just stopped working. It won't ring, go to speakerphone, make any kind of sound. I'm wondering if hopefully it's just my ROM that it may not be compatible with but I've been using it successfully for 6 months now.
Does anybody know how to fix the speaker or if it can be fixed? I'm loathing having to look at my phone all the time to see if its ringing because the vibrations are also too subtle. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
ckent03 said:
I have an 8525 with ATT in the USA. Two days ago the speaker just stopped working. It won't ring, go to speakerphone, make any kind of sound. I'm wondering if hopefully it's just my ROM that it may not be compatible with but I've been using it successfully for 6 months now.
Does anybody know how to fix the speaker or if it can be fixed? I'm loathing having to look at my phone all the time to see if its ringing because the vibrations are also too subtle. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Unlikely to be the ROM
We'll rule out the volume setting (assume you checked that!)
You could try a hard reset to rule out any software issue.
However, I suspect it's the rear speaker connector that's popped off. It's common enough and only requires the rear casing to be removed. When re-assembling remember to align the macro toggle switch with the switch on the case. See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1376254&postcount=2
Warranty voiding of course.
Mike
PS. Rarely it can be the coil in the speaker has broken (really pretty rare)
Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy s4 i9505.
The phone has a big problem, all day long i get the meesage that EARPHONES CONNECTED, 200 times a day. i didnt wet the phone, o something like this, the problem came out from nowhere. I have guaranty, but i will only be home in a month, nad i have to use the phone like this. the problem is that when i receive calls, the internal speakers are muted because of the fake earphones signal, and i cannot talk only on speaker. i.ve used soundabout.apk to make the phone ignore the earphones signal when i receive a call, but the trial has expired.
i need your advice or a solution. i have allready all the metods on cleaning the headphone jack. if anyone knows a program that can disable the jack detection would be perfect.
thank tyou
florinbv23 said:
Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy s4 i9505.
The phone has a big problem, all day long i get the meesage that EARPHONES CONNECTED, 200 times a day. i didnt wet the phone, o something like this, the problem came out from nowhere. I have guaranty, but i will only be home in a month, nad i have to use the phone like this. the problem is that when i receive calls, the internal speakers are muted because of the fake earphones signal, and i cannot talk only on speaker. i.ve used soundabout.apk to make the phone ignore the earphones signal when i receive a call, but the trial has expired.
i need your advice or a solution. i have allready all the metods on cleaning the headphone jack. if anyone knows a program that can disable the jack detection would be perfect.
thank tyou
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Tried factory reset?
Sent from my GT-I9500 using XDA Free mobile app
reset
I have also did the reset... its a hardware problem i guess
florinbv23 said:
I have also did the reset... its a hardware problem i guess
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Sounds like your headphone jack is broken...
But first try to clean, maybe it's dirty
At device powered off take one cotton swab for ears and alcohol, remove a bit of cotton to make the swab less big then pour alcohol on it and insert into headphone jack, move swab up and down, left and right.
Now insert the other (dry) side and do the same.
If this doesn't fix your problem, it's broken
Inviato dal mio GT-I9505
From the various searching Ive done this seems to be a problem effecting quite a few people. MIne was working fine although now when i make a call noone can hear what im saying. One suggestion ive read was to increase the microphone gain in the service menu.
Does anyone know how to do this as im struggling to find what to do? Or any other suggestions of what to try. I dont think the microphone is damaged as I can record fine from the phone, unless this uses the other mic?
Thanks
Andy
Found this:
If this is a known issue with fix then I apologize, but I searched for hours and couldn't find it mentioned. Since Verizon disabled engineer mode, I had to experiment, going through every app that involved sound recording/input.
When I first got my S5, phone calls were fine. Then one day, no one could hear me unless I basically yelled. The built in microphones were fine for camera/sound recording/tuner usage so I knew they were undamaged. If you are having this problem and have used headphone with your S5, this is probably what happened as I can replicate it 100% of the time.
If you are on a call using your headphones/microphone and unplug them before you end the call, the phone microphone is not properly reset and the gain stays very low.
To remedy, simply plug your earbuds with microphone back in, make a call and then end the call before you remove the headphones. The built in S5 microphone then properly resets for regular gain for phone calls.
http://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys5/comments/2mhpdf/potential_fix_for_poor_microphone_volume_gain/
Thanks for your reply, ive tried that although still no improvement. Really starting to annoy me now!