My mom has the HTC radar. Ever since she used the camera to take some pictures & video, all audio outputs have a ton of static. It seems to happen as soon as any audio is playing. For instance, when the unlock sound plays (the split second drip sound), there's static on the loud speaker for a good 5 seconds. Also, when I call the phone, there's a static noise on the normal speaker. It kind of feels like a software issue, because the noise is happening as soon as audio is 'on', even if the audio file does not have any sound. Any ideas?
Maybe try a hard reset? You will lose all installed apps and have to set up the phone again, Failing that maybe send it in for a replacement as it could be hardware, hope you can solve it without any hassle.
Hard reset did not work. I did end up getting it replaced at the store, and so far the problem has not returned to the new phone.
The audio output on the Radar is pretty clean, must of been a fault
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So I've been running Unnamed 2.21 and the latest Entropy's 3/7 DD for it and it's been rock solid for months without issue. This morning, my alarm went off and woke me up. Tonight, the sound no longer works! Or rather, it works only in specific scenarios. If I plug in earbuds or headphones into the jack, I can hear everything and the mic picks up sound (plugged == working). If I unplug the earbuds, the phone produces no sound and doesn't pick up anything with the microphone. However, if I make a call, and then press speaker, then I will get sound and can talk. And if I take it off speaker, it will work normally, but only for that call. After ending the call, the sound and microphone stop working.
Things I've tried so far:
Factory Reset/Data Wipe
Turned off phone, removed battery
Checked for dirt/debris in mic or speaker locations
This is the closest thread I've found to my issue, but it didn't get very far: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520359&highlight=sound+only+works+when+plugged
Any ideas what could have suddenly brought this on? During this morning and this evening I made zero changes (to my knowledge) to the phone. Very frustrating problem, obviously...
Sometimes when you flash stuff some folder permissions get messed up. Try fixing permissions in recovery.
Does your volume button work?
Have you checked your sound settings?
Have you tried resetting your default sounds?
I tried that. No dice. Volume button works. Sound settings checked for idiocy. They're fine, nothing is silent. I suspect something wonky happened or is going on with the headphone jack (phone thinks headphones are plugged in, I think this would explain the weird behavior). I've tried this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix But sadly it didn't seem to help me. I'll give a go to cleaning the headphone jack.
update: ok it looks like the headphone jack is indeed the culprit. if i pull up the music app, plug in headphones, i can hear it. i unplug the headphones, the app pauses the sound, i hit play, it plays and i can hear sound from the phone speaker. however, right now it is only lasting a little while before i imagine it detects the headphones again and the sound cuts. this is pretty repeatable.
I have a CT802 Idea USA tablet running Android 4.0.3. It is rooted.
Whenever I try to play a video (using any media player program including but not limited to the built-in one), the audio is weird--the volume is relatively low *and* the voices are almost nonexistent--what I get is almost all music. This is only a problem when I have something connected to the headphone jack--it does not happen with the built-in speaker.
If I plug the jack partly in, it is possible to get it into a position where it plays the sound properly.
My theory is that it's somehow falsely detecting surround sound output (but is not detecting it when I have the jack partly in), and when it does so, I'm only getting the left and right channels. I would like to know:
1) Is there any way I can prove this?
2) Is there some setting buried in some file that I can use to disable surround sound completely?
It turned out that the problem was caused by having earbuds with a built-in microphone. Both of the ones I tried had a microphone. When I bought another pair without a microphone, sound was okay.
It's still a problem, however. How do I keep it from doing this? There are no system settings whatsoever related to microphones, and I have no idea how to disable the microphone or otherwise tell it to treat the earbuds as a normal set of earbuds.
Hi,
I have the weird problem, my phone was submerged in fresh water and the screen was damaged, after replacing the screen the phone works fine but there is another problem. The phone does not know where to route the sound expect the default values.
When I plug the earphones in it it still plays the music through the speaker unless I force the sound re-route with the application named SoundAbout.
Same goes for bluetooth and switching phone calls from earpiece to speaker and the other way around.
It figures that the phone sound system works fine because once I force some rout with the SoundAbout application it works well but the phone does not know itself where to route the sound. It's not a great solution to force the sound routing every time I get into or out of my car and every time I plug in headphones.
The phone runs Android 4.4.4 and I tried having it factory reset and repaired by sony pc companion.
I don't know it it's related but the max speakers volume became to be very low as opposite to what it was before.
I don't have warranty anymore because it was water damaged so this is not a solution.
Does anyone know which component is responsible for the sound routing in this phone?
Maybe I should replace some hardware? Or some software patch can help?
Thanks.
Anyone else noticing slight distortions when it comes to listening to music on the LG G6 (US997)? It's like listening to a lower quality song before it becomes high-quality 320kbps, except it goes like that for any song, even songs stored on the phone. This occurs over Bluetooth. I haven't tested plugged in.
Do you have any other bluetooth accessories connected at the same time? I found my smart watch impacts music streaming quality over bluetooth
I have this same issue. It seems like the phone had trouble handling multiple Bluetooth connections. Mine sounds like a static/crackle on every speaker that I use.
I am hoping there are some Bluetooth fixed coming with Oreo.
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Mine had a hissing sound on the car's bluetooth, solved it by seting the audio settings from stereo to mono, weird problem dough
I did sone playing around and it seems to be fixed after clearing dalvik/caxhe and caxhe through twrp. I don't experience the issue anymore. Might just be me, but give it a try and see if it works for you.
Unfortunately one of my speakers is busted and doesnt work at all, but makes an annoying popping sound when playing any audio. I am not interested in replacing it but I wonder if there is a way to disable it completely and force all sound through the bottom speaker (now it plays only one sound channel, since the phone is stereo) . I looked around but didnt find anything.
Phone all rooted etc.