I recently replaced both microphones in my V30. Both became so weak and barely pickup any sound. To my surprise, there was no visible water breach/damage or dirt accumulation. The MICs basically just died of old age.
Is this common? What can cause MICs to die like that? In one of my cars, I have a magnetic phone holder but that seems to be a long shot possible cause.
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I've read that when XTZ speakers get wet makes them muffled, which s normal if there is water in the holes.
But there is something strange I observe. When I get my XTZ-3G wet, one speaker is muffled, but the right one is complete OFF - no sound whatsoever from it. And when the speaker is halfway dry it works, but I observe a buzzing sound coming from it with the music...
This is not observed with the right speaker. And when tablet is dry - 30min later speakers sound OK.
Is it possible to be defective, etc to get water damaged?
I checked the ports and they stay dry, indicators are not visible .
Rozamar said:
Hi
I've read that when XTZ speakers get wet makes them muffled, which s normal if there is water in the holes.
But there is something strange I observe. When I get my XTZ-3G wet, one speaker is muffled, but the right one is complete OFF - no sound whatsoever from it. And when the speaker is halfway dry it works, but I observe a buzzing sound coming from it with the music...
This is not observed with the right speaker. And when tablet is dry - 30min later speakers sound OK.
Is it possible to be defective, etc to get water damaged?
I checked the ports and they stay dry, indicators are not visible .
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Officially you should wait at least 3 hours for the speakers to dry, but my own experience is in line with yours, 30+minutes. For me, the right speaker was clogged badly too but I assumed it was because the Right speaker was submerged longer. It played sound, but very muffled and distorted. I'd recommend doing as Sony says and avoiding use of the speakers till dry if you want to avoid damage.
So for about 2 seconds, my shiny new Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) was submerged in water. I pulled it out, jerked the battery and fed it to the rice for a couple of days.
Amazingly enough, the unit survived - but with one caveat.
Anytime the speaker is powered up to play a sound, you can hear "radio noise" ... popping, clicking, etc.
Most of the time, the audio DOES PLAY as well, but even if you have the sound muted complete, the speaker still gets a power hit when a sound is "supposed" to play (muted or not), so it makes it impossible for me to use my phone in silence with all the popping and snapping and noise.
Audio clip available upon request.
I ordered and replaced the loudspeaker assembly (four screws, no cables - seemed like a brain dead easy solution). This had ZERO effect on repairing the issue.
Can ANYONE point me in the right direction? I would have thought replacing that speaker assembly would have been a slam dunk win but I'm no expert.
Thanks so much!
By the way, no other audio is affected. Headphone sound is perfect, earpiece sound is perfect. Mic appears to be perfect.
Rice doesn't remove moisture completely from your phone. You have a short. Silica works the best for an emergency situation. You best bet live with the speaker or its time to use the insurance
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Bloodcrav said:
Rice doesn't remove moisture completely from your phone. You have a short. Silica works the best for an emergency situation. You best bet live with the speaker or its time to use the insurance
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Unfortunately, I had no silica at the time
Insurance is not an option (I don't THINK) because Verizon considers it "customer supplied equipment" - and I still have 11 months to "pay it off". Very depressing.
Probably not going to be cost effective to repair either. Sigh.
Well then .. turned out to be insured after all. $100 deductible. I gotta say, they got the replacement system down pat.
I had a new phone and was up and running withing 36 hours.
Got my ZU a week or so, totally in love with it! "i'm a size queen" lol
leaving this aside, I went on to test it's underwater capabilities and was quite confident as my previous Z was a warrior and no water infiltration in one year!
after submersion, that was for ~5 seconds I carefully wiped it dry and made sure there is no water left in the headphone jack
6 hours later I leave work and plug my headphones in and SURPRISE! at max volume the phone acts like it loses contact with the headphones and pauses the track in WALKMAN.
same in FM radio, tried with 3 different pairs of headphones.
should I let it more toooo...idk get the headphone jack dry off?
Water damage indicator is white, no infiltration and i made SUUUURE i had the flaps closed.
help me guys
UPDATE:
left it alone for a while and it's all good now
seems there was a droplet of water or smth still in the headphone jack.
sigh, maybe a protective flap for it is not that bad afterall? lol
thanks anyway guys
back to being happy with my ZU ^.^
I recently started to hear rattle from my top speaker on the m7, so i ordered a replacment online, but it too sounded blown and rattled when i put it in to the phone. i thought just bad luck and ordered 3 more from another seller on ebay, all those speakers sound bad as well. i am in the process of having replacements being shipped over from both sellers, but i dont understand why all four speakers would have the same issue. Has anyone had similar problems with their replacement speakers?
I tested first by inserting the speakers in the phone but it was getting tiring replacing speakers and it also started to damage my phone the repeated pulling of the boards and pushing them, so i found an audio amp that could play the speakers at usual levels, all of them rattle when not in the phone, next i had a htc frame laying around that i inserted them in after cleaning them with duct tape, they still rattle.
I cant seem to fix this issue. I am thinking of using a bottom speaker as a replacment for the top after possibly modifying it, it seems to be more powerful and resistant to wear, but has anyone tried this before, if so please tell me what modifications were made.
Check the headphone output for distorted sound. If so, the internal audio amplifier might be blown, and replacing the speakers will make no difference.
Hello if there is anyone out there who can help I recently switched out my screen on my lgv30+ ls998 and for some reason my loud speaker doesn't work. I've ordered another one off ebay and that one didn't work either. Not sure what's going on. The pins look like they are touching the correct places.
I'm not sure how relevant it is, but when putting the ZTE Axon 7 back together I put in the speaker backwards (really hard to tell) and it (obviously) didn't work. Screw around with the orientation and see if things change?
The LG v30 has a contact pin situation with almost all of the hardware components including the speakers which makes it easy to put in and out. I just can't understand y the speaker isn't working out of all things. I tried to finesse the placement of the pins a little but still nothing. I just keep getting an extremely faint crackling noise from it
Mikalhicks7 said:
The LG v30 has a contact pin situation with almost all of the hardware components including the speakers which makes it easy to put in and out. I just can't understand y the speaker isn't working out of all things. I tried to finesse the placement of the pins a little but still nothing. I just keep getting an extremely faint crackling noise from it
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Did you ever find a solution to this issue?
I replaced the screen and frame on my LG V30 a couple of days ago and I am having the exact same problem.