Has anyone else noticed that higher frequencies tend to cause the speaker to distort and/or bottom out? When my alarm goes off, the speaker sounds like it's pretty much blown. However when I play anything else where the frequencies are lower, it does alright.
Is anyone else experiencing this? I changed the volume output of my phone this morning via the thread in the development forum, but I haven't yet had a chance to test it. I'm hoping the speaker just wasn't getting enough power. If it's a case of the speaker just being crappy... I think I might cry.
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it sounds like handset volume is too low on my phone but i'm still not sure yet since i've only had the phone for 2 days. it's definitely lower than the htc incredible's handset volume by a decent amount. there is also a very slight hiss but i think that's normal.
i bought the optimus t on ebay so i won't be able to take it to t-mobile and get it exchanged for a new one. i've been trying to search for a root solution to make it louder but i can't find anything. the one solution i have found was only for samsung android phones. any ideas on what i should/could do?
You mean the earpiece volume while on call or the speaker phone ergo the ringer?
Both are realised thru the same speaker. While the earpiece volume is pretty high, the quality leaves a lot to be desired. Its a bit shrill and piercing. Strangely enuf the same speaker performs very nicely for music playback!
You sure you maxed out the volumes?
i mean the phone's earpiece. i have no problem with any of the other volume levels and i have made sure i maxed out the volume for everything and then i'm going to see if they are too loud after a couple of days and adjust them accordingly.
Up until now I'd always been puzzled by people saying how quiet they found the headphone output of the SGSII and they they wished it was a more normal volume level. Mine had always been plenty loud enough to drown out my Metro ride to work in the morning, even dropped down a notch or two. Yesterday I discovered a possible reason to fit both findings.
I'd been messing with my phone before heading out to work, put in the headphones, sparked up some music and.....quiet. The max volume I could crank out of it with the headphones in must have been about 60% of the normal. Whatever I did, wherever I went in the phone to alter settings and whatever values were showing made no change to push it back up again.
Today I turned the phone on, unlocked it, dropped the headphones in and played the same album and it was the usual 'loud' volume again.
This convinces me that there is a set sequence of actions that causes one quieter volume level to be set as headphone maximum and another that allows a more decent top end. Both findings on volume to this point by others seem to be right.
I'm trying to reproduce the steps (nothing outlandish) which led to my temporary trip to ear-protecting quiet land but have been unable to so far. I'm putting headphones in before and after pushing the volume to max, trying this before or after going into the music app and/or starting the music playing but obviously there are quite a few permutations - all of which are quite normal usage and liable to be done by many people.
I'm posting this so anybody else can also have a mess around and maybe find it before me, helping a few others in the process.
Did you ever find the solution to this?
In addition to the first post I think it is remarkable that you can get different levels of audio output by using different headphones or speakers. Sure all the models available differ a bit but never had such a difference.
settings->sound->volume: 4 sliders there. I once read that sometimes "media" and "incoming call" get mixed up. I sometimes have a really hard time to hear people on the phone using headphones.
I just got my new EVO LTE. I rooted it and running meanrom 6.0. I've been having trouble with my sound? When I plug it into my car I turn the volume all the way up and its still not that loud and no bass kicks in. When I plug in my EVO 3d I turn the volume all the way up on the phone and you can hear way better. Is there something wrong with my EVO? Or is there a setting preventing it to reach its maximum volume?
I don't think anything is wrong with your phone the volume just sucks. You could try an app volume+ didn't really help me but it might for you.
the headset volume is pretty low, I've played with the settings to see if I can get more of a decent output but it starts to sound distorted. The only thing I can think of is this trend of dropping the volume that's slowly making a return. A few years back advocates complained about kids damaging their hearing and a lot of companies went so far as to build limiter circuits to keep them from reaching certain decibels. Of course that worked a bit differently, you could still get full volume with a few work arounds
EDIT: I ended getting a replacement phone and the issue is gone. If anyone else stumbles onto this thread, the issue for me was a physical problem with the phone itself.
Since the very first call I made with the S4, I've noticed a buzz/feedback sound while others are speaking to me. It's pretty annoying. I set the volume at 50% and have tried higher and lower volumes but to no avail. It doesn't seem to affect the external speaker, just the earpiece. The interesting thing is that it doesn't happen when talking to everyone. I've checked with some of the folks and they have a mix of phones (iPhones, Android phones, etc) so it seems to be isolated to my phone.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Do you think it would be best to take the phone to Verizon and try to get a replacement?
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Anyone? I guess if I'm the only one, then I probably have a hardware issue and should return to Verizon.
I have some problems with my audio in general.
1. In-call volume is very low for me, but it is fine on the other end. I have my volume setting all the way up.
2. When watching videos or listening to music, it will lag very badly and make a weird clicking sound on both speaker and headphones.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I have viperXL+ on AT&T
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Those two issues are unrelated.
The first with the in-call volume has to do with your speaker grill being clogged with dust. It's supposed to be able to be cleaned with a toothbrush. I've also read that wet wipes or some type of tacky silly putty works too. Nothing I do really works perfectly. I took my phone to the store and got a refurb to find the same thing happened a month or two later. Ugh.
Your second issue has to do with the processor not being able to handle the audio processing properly. The clockspeed of the CPU is constantly truing to "step-down" or lower it's frequency to save battery. The CPU's clockspeed is also linked to the GPU. There's something terribly wrong with the way that the processor and it's software are designed. All I can really say to fix that issue is to deal with it. Make sure your OS is stock because it doesn't really happen all that often.
Also, I'm not 100% sure about my second theory, but there isn't really a solution to it right now and I think that's a pretty good reason why.