anyone else had this
external speaker stopped for no reason.
will only work if I put pressure around it. ie top of battery or camera area..
has ace of spades ringtone burnt out wiring? haha
looks like generic flash and back to orange.. anyone got one?
maybe some kind of wire got loose ?
Speaking of which...
Is there a disassemble somewhere on the site?
Check this out, might be able to see what wire got loose.
http://www.gpspassion.com/download/HTC_Kaiser_disassembly.pdf
I have the same problem. I took the top part apart. I took the speaker out, but could not a problem with it. I should test another little speaker I might have around. If the speaker is bad I am going to order a new one.
I had it with HTC, and the Kaiser. I am going to fix the phone and sell it, and go buy an iPhone 3G later....
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Hi everyone,
I had seen a thread somewhere that someone mentioned that their battery was loose inside the phone and that the could hear it rattle around but I cannot seem to find that thread now.
I too have this issue. When I shake the phone for example I can hear the battery rattle around inside and when I take off the cover I can move the battery a bit from side to side. Can anyone tell me why this is?
I KNOW this is NOT a fake battery as I watched the store clerk open my box and build my phone from BRAND NEW and I have done the comparison on the batteries as well. It just seems that the hole for my battery is a bit too big orthe battery is a bit too small.
Can anyone tell me what I can or should do about this issue?
yes, i recall that topic as well
so you are not hallucinating
no idea where it went
if you do have this issue with the phone + battery, i'll suggest you take it back to bell for an exchange
they should be able to tell quite clearly this is not normal when they compare to the other phones they have
I stuck a business card, cut in half, between the battery and the cover. Seems to have filled the space in just enough to make a tight fit, my battery is no longer loose.
For now I have wedged a piece of paper between the battery and the hole and it has stopped the battery from moving as well but this should not have to be done I am sure.
@allgamer - I would take it back but I purchased it from Future Shop and the location I bought it has not received any new shipments in since and that was a month ago. The concensus from the Bell Stores here is the same as well stating that they are all on backorder.
I will keep my ears and eyes open on this and when they do have some new stock I will be bringing it to their attention for sure.
Yiann, even i have this problem with my bell i9000. I just found out and was looking if anyone else had this issue. I will take it in when i get a chance and will let you know. Did u get a chance to get it replaced or how did u fix this issue?
Thx
Raj
rajesh26e4u said:
Yiann, even i have this problem with my bell i9000. I just found out and was looking if anyone else had this issue. I will take it in when i get a chance and will let you know. Did u get a chance to get it replaced or how did u fix this issue?
Thx
Raj
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Raj,
No I never did get it fixed. Please keep me posted rom what BELL does for you...
Thanks...
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ya for sure...so you didnt take it to bell at all?
+1 i too have the same issue. piece of folded paper does the trick, but like all the above posts this shouldn't be necessary...
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+1 i too have the same issue. piece of folded paper does the trick, but like all the above posts this shouldn't be necessary...
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I have this issue too.. the battery is way too loose. It must be a common manufacture error.
Same problem
i also have a loose battery in my gti9000.....even after wedging a piece of folded paper in between the battery and the surrounding loose area and making it fit quite tightly, the phone still makes a rattling noise when it vibrates....though when i hold the phone in my hand, it doesn't make that rattling sound...wondering if it cud be something other than the battery...
Huhu,
some weeks ago it start that i had problems with my headphone jack. sometimes it stops playing music when it get touched while i put it in the pants. and now i can be happy if the smartphone register 1 of 100 times i connect my headphones.
someone of u ever had the same problem and repair it himself?
pls let me know because that s*ck ;] and sry my bad english
I think the best and easiest thing to do to fix this is take it in and have them replace it.
Get the pocket lint out. Seriously, lol. Mine was doing the same thing, so I looked in it with a really bright flashlight and saw pocket lint pressed against the bottom
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i also had one in but putting him out not help ;()
Repair Headphone Jack
Had problems with D1 phone jack, and D3 also. To me it is a matter of thickness of the male jack. I have real nice Sony ear buds but the jack cuts out, move it and is good for short while. I pinched the jack to make it oblong, very desperate move. Cuts out much less, but still kinda crapy. I have an older Sony ear buds and the jack is thicker and have no problems. Even at the gym.
Bottom line is cheesy, cheap parts there on that Motorola.
Cameron6472 said:
Get the pocket lint out. Seriously, lol. Mine was doing the same thing, so I looked in it with a really bright flashlight and saw pocket lint pressed against the bottom
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+1
This happened to me twice. So, I guess that should be +2!
The plug would stop snapping in. I thought for sure I had broken the jack. But after a little close inspection, a flashlight, toothpick and can of duster I was able to get it working good as new again.
some days ago i was looking around the internet and find these
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Droid-3-Teardown/6108/1
so some days later i was funny enough to open my Droid3, too.
and then i was able to get some more pocket lins out of the headphonejack.
i was thinking its already clean but these wasnt visible from the top.
and now all is woorking fine
Well...ever since I bought my vivid (used from some guy on craigslist) the back speakers sounded like crap...like any sound even at the lowest volume was distorted/crackaly sounding...especialy high notes and singing...
So today, while I was waiting for a repo sync to complete for cm10 I decided to take apart my vivid and see how the speaker is connected and if its possible to replace it...
So after I took the casing off my phone I found that the speaker was easy to remove. So I took it off and turned it over to look at it with out the (mesh?) Covering or whatever you wanna call it...
As soon as I turned it over I was shocked, there were a bunch of tiny metal shaving stuck to the speaker (most speakers use magnets so that's why they were stuck...how they got inside the phone is a mystery though...) like there was enough on there to cover an 1/8 of the speaker...
So I grabbed a magnet and slid it back and forth over the speaker, this took off all the shavings since my magnet was stronger then the one in the speaker
I put my phone back together and for the first time ever, playing music out of the back speaker actually sounds decent (for a phone...)
In short...
1) Took my phone apart
2) Extracted my back speaker
3) Noticed there were metal shavings stuck to it
4) Removed metal shaving with strong magnet
5) Put phone back together
I know most people wpuldnt open up there phone...but I figured maybe someone else has a bad sounding speaker, maybe they might wanna see if this was there problem...
If anyone is interested I can make a video tutorial on what I did...
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Being a pipefitter I had to the same lol. I had my phone in my carhartts everyday and when I was grinding it would attach like nothing . Welder would be the same . Your right its so much better but most people won't have metal shavings. I'm having a problem now with most kernals getting the front speaker loud enough . Have to push hard on my head to hear it . And I had thY apart aswelll .
I have a HTC Vivid of course and the last few months people have complained about me talking. Saying it sounds like I am talking into a water glass, tunnel, far away. I am pretty sure it is the Microphone acting up. I cannot afford ATT replacement so I am going to fix this myself I hope. What I need to know is this part what I would need?
Well i cant link it but it is from global direct parts. The OEM HTC Vivid Motherboard Flex Cable. I am sure you can find an image of what I am talking.
If it is then I will buying it. If not then I need to figure up what is what. I have taken the phone apart and on the bottom left there is a small black box that is open on one end so I am not sure if that is the mic or not.
Hope someone on here can help me; I've searched everywhere can could not find a solution. The technician who worked on the phone for over 10-15 hours over 1 month looked at me in despair and said "I have no clue"; I thought he was going to start crying.
Everything but the camera worked perfectly before the technician opened the phone to start working in it a month ago. It went downhill from there.
Sequence of events
1. Had a camera problem (constantly out of focus) on my US HTC One Dev edition that started 6 months after owning the phone, which I absolutely loved. Searched and found this was a hardware issue.
2. I'm in Canada with a US phone, so no warranty. HTC wants $200 and 3-6 weeks to fix it. Local shop wants $75. After asking if they knew how to fix this specific phone and that they had the tools, I leave it with them.
3. They installed the new camera, damaged my top speaker grille and phone side, and the screen is uneven (technician: worst phone I have ever seen to repair) If you want an idea of the process have a look at the ifixit website.
4. I order top grille for replacement ($10) from ebay. I realize the screen is has not been properly installed and after 2 days I have a purple dead pixel.
5. I leave for a trip with my family over the Holidays - I start taking photos in low light, guess what? Damn purple issue starts. The new camera was an omnivision from a bad batch (pre-Nov 2013). Fortunately, as a true geek I brought another camera with me, just in case.
6. I order a new camera myself from etradesupply $30 plus $20 shippling = $50. 2 more weeks go by.
7. I receive the grille and get the phone back to the technician, he puts it back together, but the grille won't bend and stick to the phone.
8. New camera arrives and Iget the phone back to the technician to install it, which he does.
9. I come back to pick up the phone - screen is all pixelated and dies shortly thereafter.
10. Technician proposes to swap screen from a bricked One he has from another customer. I hesitate, but agree; just want a working phone already. Donnor phone is pretty much destroyed in the process.
11. Back at the shop to pick up my phone: everything finally looks great. I realize back home that the sim card cannot be detected, and that the speakers make a bad creakling noise when volume is higher than 8 or 9 or at normal levels during a phone call
12. Back at the shop - he fixes the sim card issue (pooly connected wire), speaker issue remains and we have no clue where it's coming from. That's were we are at.
Lessons learned for both of us:
The HTC One is a fantastic phone...until it breaks.
technicians should refuse to repair the HTC One, it's almost guaranteed that they will damage something
I should have sent the phone to HTC for 4 weeks paid $200, pay $100 for a loaner phone and be done with the problem...
Problem description
Problem is blatant when volume is at 8 or 9 or more, but is also there at lower volumes, and during phone calls at any volume, there is a creaking noise from the speakers mostly top one. When we press on the grilles the problem is slightly better.
When the whole phone (electronics) was outside the aluminum unibody frame the noise would stop. As soon as we inserted the top end of the phone assembly into the aluminum frame the noise started.
When beatsaudio is off problem is not as bad.
We inspected the motherboard, daughterboard, casing, speakers and everything looks fine (i.e. nothing broken or missing).
Questions
1. Speaker worked perfectly before the technician swapped the screen and reassembled the phone. It's kind of odd that both speakers started having the same issue at the same time. Is it worth trying to replace the speakers with new ones?
2. Could it be interference from something that was not properly put together?
3. Should I use the phone as a hammer, throw it as far as I can from the top of a 30-story building, in a river from a dam, put it in a bucket filled with fuel, or tie it to a propane tank and shot a bullet into it?
Thanks so much for any help!
fujisan582 said:
Hope someone on here can help me; I've searched everywhere can could not find a solution. The technician who worked on the phone for over 10-15 hours over 1 month looked at me in despair and said "I have no clue"; I thought he was going to start crying.
Everything but the camera worked perfectly before the technician opened the phone to start working in it a month ago. It went downhill from there.
Sequence of events
1. Had a camera problem (constantly out of focus) on my US HTC One Dev edition that started 6 months after owning the phone, which I absolutely loved. Searched and found this was a hardware issue.
2. I'm in Canada with a US phone, so no warranty. HTC wants $200 and 3-6 weeks to fix it. Local shop wants $75. After asking if they knew how to fix this specific phone and that they had the tools, I leave it with them.
3. They installed the new camera, damaged my top speaker grille and phone side, and the screen is uneven (technician: worst phone I have ever seen to repair) If you want an idea of the process have a look at the ifixit website.
4. I order top grille for replacement ($10) from ebay. I realize the screen is has not been properly installed and after 2 days I have a purple dead pixel.
5. I leave for a trip with my family over the Holidays - I start taking photos in low light, guess what? Damn purple issue starts. The new camera was an omnivision from a bad batch (pre-Nov 2013). Fortunately, as a true geek I brought another camera with me, just in case.
6. I order a new camera myself from etradesupply $30 plus $20 shippling = $50. 2 more weeks go by.
7. I receive the grille and get the phone back to the technician, he puts it back together, but the grille won't bend and stick to the phone.
8. New camera arrives and Iget the phone back to the technician to install it, which he does.
9. I come back to pick up the phone - screen is all pixelated and dies shortly thereafter.
10. Technician proposes to swap screen from a bricked One he has from another customer. I hesitate, but agree; just want a working phone already. Donnor phone is pretty much destroyed in the process.
11. Back at the shop to pick up my phone: everything finally looks great. I realize back home that the sim card cannot be detected, and that the speakers make a bad creakling noise when volume is higher than 8 or 9 or at normal levels during a phone call
12. Back at the shop - he fixes the sim card issue (pooly connected wire), speaker issue remains and we have no clue where it's coming from. That's were we are at.
Lessons learned for both of us:
The HTC One is a fantastic phone...until it breaks.
technicians should refuse to repair the HTC One, it's almost guaranteed that they will damage something
I should have sent the phone to HTC for 4 weeks paid $200, pay $100 for a loaner phone and be done with the problem...
Problem description
Problem is blatant when volume is at 8 or 9 or more, but is also there at lower volumes, and during phone calls at any volume, there is a creaking noise from the speakers mostly top one. When we press on the grilles the problem is slightly better.
When the whole phone (electronics) was outside the aluminum unibody frame the noise would stop. As soon as we inserted the top end of the phone assembly into the aluminum frame the noise started.
When beatsaudio is off problem is not as bad.
We inspected the motherboard, daughterboard, casing, speakers and everything looks fine (i.e. nothing broken or missing).
Questions
1. Speaker worked perfectly before the technician swapped the screen and reassembled the phone. It's kind of odd that both speakers started having the same issue at the same time. Is it worth trying to replace the speakers with new ones?
2. Could it be interference from something that was not properly put together?
3. Should I use the phone as a hammer, throw it as far as I can from the top of a 30-story building, in a river from a dam, put it in a bucket filled with fuel, or tie it to a propane tank and shot a bullet into it?
Thanks so much for any help!
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Wow.. Just wow... Looks like your speaker grills haven't been put in properly.. Did he replace only the LCD or the LCD+front housing?
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Most likely a bad speaker placement. It sounds to me that the "technician" didn't place the speakers properly and it probably is now always in contact with the aluminium grills. That will cause weird audio creaking noise as the speaker vibrations are vibrating the aluminium grills as well. That's why if you press on the speaker grills, it will stop that extra vibration from the speaker grills. Beats Audio will just make more vibrations in the speakers and worsen your problem.
I suggest you find another "technician" because the one you went to is clearly stupid.
Thanks for the replies!
n1234d said:
Wow.. Just wow... Looks like your speaker grills haven't been put in properly.. Did he replace only the LCD or the LCD+front housing?
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He replaced the full front housing to make sure we would not have problems fitting the speaker grills again.
ZeroInfinity said:
Most likely a bad speaker placement. It sounds to me that the "technician" didn't place the speakers properly and it probably is now always in contact with the aluminium grills. That will cause weird audio creaking noise as the speaker vibrations are vibrating the aluminium grills as well. That's why if you press on the speaker grills, it will stop that extra vibration from the speaker grills. Beats Audio will just make more vibrations in the speakers and worsen your problem.
I suggest you find another "technician" because the one you went to is clearly stupid.
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Sounds like you are on to something. I got a similar answer on ifixit where I posted the issue.
Will get the guy to open my one up again and make sure the speaker is properly in place before ordering a new one. These suckers are $2, but shipping from HongKong is $23!
Thanks again for your help!
ZeroInfinity said:
Most likely a bad speaker placement. It sounds to me that the "technician" didn't place the speakers properly and it probably is now always in contact with the aluminium grills. That will cause weird audio creaking noise as the speaker vibrations are vibrating the aluminium grills as well. That's why if you press on the speaker grills, it will stop that extra vibration from the speaker grills. Beats Audio will just make more vibrations in the speakers and worsen your problem.
I suggest you find another "technician" because the one you went to is clearly stupid.
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Hi Zero, probably should start a new thread for this, but I've noticed this in all the Ones I've seen. What happens is the Upper speaker has good amounts of bass and treble but very low midrange. On the other hand, the lower speaker has good midrange, okay bass, and lacking treble. That's exactly why it sounds uneven. Can you please make a mod to solve this?
For anyone interested in an update - the issue doesn`t come from vibration on the grilles. There is a small rubber around the speaker to prevent that and we doubled it to see if it makes any difference. It doesn`t. We realized that the noise was coming from some kind of short circuit whenever we pressed the daugther board along the top of the phone (we could hear a small buzz each time we pressed it). Next stop = electronics technician...
fujisan582 said:
For anyone interested in an update - the issue doesn`t come from vibration on the grilles. There is a small rubber around the speaker to prevent that and we doubled it to see if it makes any difference. It doesn`t. We realized that the noise was coming from some kind of short circuit whenever we pressed the daugther board along the top of the phone (we could hear a small buzz each time we pressed it). Next stop = electronics technician...
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Hello mate ! Sorry for asking this question, as this thread was started long ago. How does it perform now ? Do you regret that your device has been repaired ? Can you please upload some photos of the device ? Does it look and feel like it was a new device after the entire messed up repair ? Sorry for asking these questions. Thanks in advance :good: