So, I've replaced the phone's glass/digitizer, and after reassembly, everything but the earpiece speaker is functioning. Upon closer examination it looks like this piece:
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has fallen off. It's ridiculously tiny:
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Is this piece even sure to be the reason the earpiece won't work? If so, is there any way it can be reattached, or am I totally screwed?
Did you ever find a solution to this?
I am also wondering if you figured this out.
I have an Atrix that worked fine for months but one day the speaker stopped working. We had it sent it for warranty repair and it came back only to work once. It appeared to be working but the speaker 'popped' and stopped working as soon as we turned up the volume.
I then bought a replacement speaker ribbon cable myself and after putting it in, the exact same thing happened again: On first impression the new speaker worked, but then we turned up the volume and *pop*, the speaker is broken.
Upon looking at the speaker that I pulled out during my own replacement, there is a resistor missing like in your pictures. However, it's a different one of the six. I am willing to bet that the speaker in the phone now is also missing a resistor since the pop.
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I recently noticed that the ring tone on my phone keeps cutting out. It has now completely died such that there is now no sound coming from the phone speakers at all. The phone does not ring, there is no music coming from the speakers and no notification tone. The only way i know the phone is ringing is from the vibration. If I plug a earphone into the earphone socket there is music coming from the earphones.
I initially thought it was an issue with the earphone socket thinking an earphone was still stuck in it but i never use the phone for music so never use it with earphones and there is no earphone symbol on the phone.
I have backed it up and done a hard reset to no avail (using Rom 3.73.405.5) and confirmed that the ring tone and music volumes are on full.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or can I sadly assume the phone is dead.
Regards y'all
toskanini said:
I recently noticed that the ring tone on my phone keeps cutting out. It has now completely died such that there is now no sound coming from the phone speakers at all. The phone does not ring, there is no music coming from the speakers and no notification tone. The only way i know the phone is ringing is from the vibration. If I plug a earphone into the earphone socket there is music coming from the earphones.
I initially thought it was an issue with the earphone socket thinking an earphone was still stuck in it but i never use the phone for music so never use it with earphones and there is no earphone symbol on the phone.
I have backed it up and done a hard reset to no avail (using Rom 3.73.405.5) and confirmed that the ring tone and music volumes are on full.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or can I sadly assume the phone is dead.
Regards y'all
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It seems like your internal speaker/ringer inside the phone may be damaged and needs to be replaced. Either a warranty job or replace it yourself if you know what you are doing.
I was afraid of that. The phone is out of warranty but i wouldn't mind attempting a repair. Would you know if there are any manuals or guidelines available?
toskanini said:
I was afraid of that. The phone is out of warranty but i wouldn't mind attempting a repair. Would you know if there are any manuals or guidelines available?
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Not that I know of but this vid might help. They're quite straight forward to disassemble, more so than most HTC's out there!! I'm not sure where you might get a new speaker but maybe E-bay as part of a housing or back chasis?
Good Luck.
Strangely enough, I just had the exact same thing happen to me today. My rear speaker just died, so that I don't hear the phone ring or the notifications. There's no music or keypad sounds, and speakerphone doesn't work. The earpiece works just fine, and if I use headphones I can hear everything, but the speaker in the back of the phone seems to have completely died.
Some questions, if anybody's able to answer them:
I'm using a Telus Hero on AT&T here in the US. Can I still take advantage of the warranty? If so, is this even covered by the warranty? If not, does anybody know of a good place to buy a replacement part so I can replace it myself? Is the part for the CMDA (Sprint) Hero the same speaker?
As for the disassembly of it, I found this thread on HTCPedia that provided a download of HTC's service manual for the Hero.
http://htcpedia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1706
Update: Thanks to the power of Google search, I've answered one of my questions. I found this website that sells replacement parts for a whole lot of different phones, including the Hero.
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/HTC-HERO-s/5502.htm
I can't vouch for the website at all, I just found it on Google, but at least it might save somebody else the trouble of searching for it.
Exactly the same thing happened to me too..... one day the speaker started crackling, soon after no sound was coming from the external speaker :-(
I opened up the Hero, and there didn't seem to be much dust, an everything looked ok (nothing burnt out or broken)
bjg222, thanks for the links, I was so close to ordering from that website, when I found a Hero on eBay being sold for parts. I missed out on the middle section (with the speaker), so was going to go back and order from global direct parts
Then, bored one day, I thought I'd check out YouTube, even though I had no sound. A few seconds into the first video, the speaker started crackling to life! The video ended with broken sound, so I loaded up another vid, and inexplicably the speaker started working fine!!!
I have no idea how this happened, or what was wrong with it for 3 weeks, but now it is working again, and has been for over a week now.
Just thought I'd let you guys know..... there is hope!
same thing has happened to me.. no sound yet headphones and earpiece work just fine.
the site mentioned above for parts doesnt seem to have a cdma hero speaker.. just the gsm version which doesnt look the same. the hero speaker actually resembles the evo speaker from what i can tell. anyone know for sure?
Hey guys, I have a hardware issue but first the background story
So my phone fell on concrete and the screen broke. I bought a digitizer and replaced it myself. After a month or so, I broke it again. I replaced it, but the unit I got was faulty, and I only got the replacement today.
I opened the phone again and replaced the digitizer, and it's working great!
however in the process I must have done something wrong since my audio/sound doesn't work anymore.
1)Loud speaker works just fine and the microphone works since I am able to talk to people and they hear me
2) When I plug in my earset, the sound works just fine on the earphone. The microphone switches over the earset's microphone and I can hear/talk just fine.
The only problem that I have is I can't hear anything if i put phone next to my ear :/ I opened again looked around, but didn't find anything obvious that might explain wha went wrong. Would anyone know where to look/what to test?
Cheers
anyone any idea please? D:
I haven't opened up my Mozart just yet but from my experience with HTC phones I would suggest checking the contacts of the speaker. They tend to have little springs on the speaker that come in contact with the mainboard and this is how the signal is transmitted. If these contacts are damaged then you will not hear anything.
With all the drops you may have damaged the speaker itself but I'm not sure of a way you could test that.
The problem i had was that I used my sony ericsson X8 headset and the sound came out funny, the thing that was cuasing it was the microphone. Try stock headset to see if it works. If it doesnt then you might want to get someone to check it or fix it. Up to you.
I got new headphones about a week ago (shure se535) and had been using them with my note for at least twenty hours already. Yesterday while walking to work I was using them with my note and they were working just fine, and same with right after. Then when I was getting ready for bed I wanted to listen to some music so I popped them in and picked a song and only the left side worked! so I threw them in my laptop and they both worked. Tried them in the note.. only the left works.
When I push on the headphone jack slightly to one side, the signal returns to the other ear.. I checked for lint in the hole but it still looked brand new. It seems as if the little connector inside the jack for the right side has somehow become almost flush with the rest of the jack, if not pushed in somehow. The weird thing is, when I tried it with the stock headphones with mic, both sides worked! wtf!. It doesn't make any sense lol.
What should I do? Send phone in for warranty repair? Has anyone else had similar problems?
It happens to me too. But it's random.
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I had the same issue with my old Shure headphones the other day. The Samsung headset works fine with the Note. The Shures work fine with my laptop. It's intermittent though with the Note.
This is discouraging to hear. 3.5mm jacks have been in use for so freaking long that you'd think there wouldn't be any problems...
I'm worried that if I do go to Telus and get a repair done that they will say there is no problem and not even touch it. I wonder why my $500 shures out of the blue lost connection, yet the cheapo OEM headphones work lol. I'm very careful to not let anything put pressure on the jack when plugged in..
Sigh.
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My headphone socket failed recently - was only giving audio out of one channel (right ear). I think this was due to it being bent slightly when having earphones in sat in a small pocket.
So I ordered the new headphone socket piece, which also includes the vibrating part (I think) and also speaker for the earpiece. I coudlnt find any decent instructions online for how to remove the original piece so I kind of forced it out, which seemed no problem as there is just one connection which slots on and off very easily (although the earpiece was glued in).
Anyways, I inserted the new one as the previous one was and tried to turn the phone and nothing. I tried several different earphones and one of them (stock) did pick up some audio but was very crackly. I then tried to make call and noticed the audio in the earpiece was completely gone.
Is it more likely the piece I bought to replace was just being temperamental or have I screwed something while removing the original piece? Debating whether to just sell an otherwise great condition phone or trying to order another piece.
Thanks
anyone have a clue about thjis?
Never, under any circumstances mess with electronics if you dont know what you're doing. Even if its a simpler thing like this.
Especially on an expensive toy like this. I even dont know where did you get the guts to open the phone and mess with it like you're a pro...
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I have a Vibrant on which the sound stopped working. I would appreciate any input on diagnosing the issue.
I bought the phone for my daughter to use as an PMP with no cell service. It got it super cheap because it wasn't working. The previous owner had gotten it wet, which is confirmed by the water damage indicators. He said it worked up until he couldn't get it to turn on. I diagnosed an issue with the power button and replaced it. It powered on and worked fine all day. The one issue I noticed was that it wouldn't shut down all the way. It gets stuck on the pink square that says, "good bye" and then I have to remove the battery.
My daughter spent the evening playing Bag Piggies and Happy Street with the sound working fine. After she went to bed I loaded some music on it via a USB cable. I think the sound may have stopped after that, but am not sure. When I got up this morning no sound would come from the speaker or the headphone jack. Otherwise, it works fine. Though no sound comes out of the headphones the player stops when I remove the headphones, so it must know the headphones are in. Sound does work when I connect it to my Blue Tooth speaker. I tried a factory reset, but it didn't make any difference.
I read in another thread that someone said something about the sound, light and proximity sensors are all connected by one cable. I can't test the proximity sensor because I can't use the phone function, but it seems that the light sensor isn't working. With auto brightness on the brightness doesn't change when I cover the sensor or hold it up to light. I did disconnect this cable and re-connect it a couple of times, but nothing made any difference.
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What Rom are you running?
It is stock, but it is rooted.
I am pretty sure it is the part that is all connected between the earpiece, headphone jack and sensors. I ordered a replacement from e-bay which looks exactly the same, but the plug is just a tiny bit different, so it didn't work. Frustrating.
You should use Odin to flash a stock firmware first to see if it solve the issue with the shut down.
About the parts, you might have gotten the S4G (T959V) headphone jack which if I remember correctly do no fit the T959. However, the speaker, camera, slimslot and screen are exchangeable between the two.