Hi,
In htcmania ( http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=8843 ) claim that if you block the output grid of the speaker you get more volume and better quality (less metalic) sound.
I've tried myself and the sound is... different. Anyone else wants to try?
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Block it and get louder and better quality sound?
Thanks for sharing! Will try if i get time
carloshdez said:
Hi,
In htcmania ( http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=8843 ) claim that if you block the output grid of the speaker you get more volume and better quality (less metalic) sound.
I've tried myself and the sound is... different. Anyone else wants to try?
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"Different".. Please elaborate. Was it worth it?
chribruu said:
"Different".. Please elaborate. Was it worth it?
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Come on, you just have to open the lid and put the finger on the speaker to try it...
My feeling is a little bit more of volume and more "complete" sound, without those nasty high frequencies that give it the classical metallic sound.
It's just a piece of tape, don't expect 6 dB boost
The Diamond has one Speaker that is used for both calls and other loud tones. During Calls the volume is obviously lower. However the speaker is placed inside the casing, the sound outputs are both on top and through the front hole. Closing the top hole from inside will obviously direct the sound waves to come from the front and so it may definitely sound a little louder.
Regards,
Carty..
wow, imho much better sound! You can test it with the "finger trick" mentioned above.
Yes! I put my finger on the speak lid and the sound became much louder!
Yep definately an improved sound. Put my tape on the inside back cover at the top as it sticks easier.
Thanks for the tip
In fact it is not louder By default the sound is directed from you through the back grid. If you close it, all the sound goes to the front grid. Strange design by HTC engineers :/
saintman2 said:
In fact it is not louder By default the sound is directed from you through the back grid. If you close it, all the sound goes to the front grid. Strange design by HTC engineers :/
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i've just tested this and you're right
without the back cover off, the tape will make it louder.
But after you put the back over on and close the phone, the sound will be much lower, maybe equal to normal level.
I've just removed the tape because i can't even hear my phone when it is in my pocket.
it's really work !!!
great tips, thanks
Tried it... Voila.. Good amount of difference.. Should be added as "HARDWARE TWEAK"!!!
Downside, missing some (very) high freqency notes...
GSeeker said:
I've just removed the tape because i can't even hear my phone when it is in my pocket.
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Maybe the upper out is there because of that... in case you block the frontal one, at least you can hear something.
I don't know, but it was worth trying, wasn't it?
Works very nice!!
I was trying the same thing on my Touch Pro but the sound gets worser, because it already has some kind of filter plate on the speaker. But with the tape it increased the volume a bit (virtually).
Thank you, i try it.
wow, it is areally good idea.
Please more tricks like that!
I did it when I first had my phone, did it with the cover on though, just put your hand at back but don't cover the speaker, so that the sound is directed to you and not all over the place and it sounds much better, not as tinny and makes the sound a lot clearer .
Just wish HTC would stop putting the speaker on the back and top of phones . When HTC released the SPV C500 way back in 2004, they put the main speaker on the right side of the phone, never had a phone with a better speaker since
seems to work really!
sounds much more clear at higher volumes
thanks!
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Hi !
I got this phone last week, but i think something is loose on it. When i put on my desktop i can hear something loose, and when i use my finger and knocking softly on the back beside the camera, i hear something loose. Is this normal or is it broken ? I cant hear anything loose if i just shake it.
stuger said:
Hi !
I got this phone last week, but i think something is loose on it. When i put on my desktop i can hear something loose, and when i use my finger and knocking softly on the back beside the camera, i hear something loose. Is this normal or is it broken ? I cant hear anything loose if i just shake it.
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Mmm i dont hear anything like that on my Diamond? If mine was making a strange noise that would worry me a bit! Is the back cover on ok? Also when you take the back cover off, do you still hear anything?
Strange!
yes
the sound is when i am knocking with my finger beside camera....sounds like a screw loose or something...i have removed the battery and batterycover but it still there
isn't the stylus magnet gotten loose? Can you make it with or without stylus?
You are not the first one with loose magnet and it's not that big deal to fix.
Hi !
This give me hope. What is Stylus magnet ?
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This give me hope. What is Stylus magnet ?
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The magnet that holds the stylus into the phone. Try removing your stylus and tapping the phone in the same spot, does it still rattle? If the magnet was loose, the tip of the stylus could be rattling around near the camera.
Isn't your stylus getting 'sucked in' ?
strange sound
It is not the magnet i think....but could it be that the sound should be there ? The phone is vibrating when there is a call, and maybe its normal ? or am i just hoping thats the case ?
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Everything is working great but when putting the phone on the desktop i get the feeling something is loose since the scrambling sound.
When i remove pen and battery and knocking on the flat area where battery should be, then i get a small scrambling sound.
I always thought that noise came from the autofocus-lens of the camera ......
When i shake the phone there is no noise. When i put it on the desk there is this small noise.
But everything works fine.
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Hi !
I had a talk to HTC and there will be a small sound when knocking easy with finger on backside phone. But you should not hear anything when shaking the phone. And you should only hear the sound when having the phone beside your ear and knocking with finger. Anyway my sound was to high and i could hear the sound with earplugs so got recommendation by HTC to return the phone. I was also in 2 other shops and listening by knocking on them and there was also a very smll sound.
Thanks for all answers...
Hmmm, my Diamond has a rattle too, but it's quite loud...
I can hear it easily from a meters distance (my arms aren't any longer )..
Did anyone find out what is causing the rattle?
Thanks.
edit: I think it's a part of the camera (autofocus). If I autofocus and let go of the button, I hear the exact same "click" as I hear when tapping the backside of the phone. It also looses the autofocus, I'm afraid this may be a defect...
Mine is in a great condition
My device is working super!~
I just bought my HD7 and the speaker is very low and i have it on level 30.
Is there any way of making it more loud??
Please for all the help that i can get.
Hi that is an issue with the HD7 and we are hoping MS will fix the issue with the future updates
You might have also noticed the camera is rubbish for long distance shots as well
and that you cant add a custom ringtone.
so stay put and hope they update our software quickly
avensakias said:
I just bought my HD7 and the speaker is very low and i have it on level 30.
Is there any way of making it more loud??
Please for all the help that i can get.
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The phone is bull****. Its a hardware limitation i guess. The camera sucks too..
nitroxn said:
The phone is bull****. Its a hardware limitation i guess. The camera sucks too..
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To the original poster, what Hardware Revision is your phone? Mine is version 0002 and I find the speaker to be quite loud for ringing, notifications, and music. For Netflix, the volume is very low.
To the other posters... if your only contribution to this forum is stuff like "this phone is rubbish," please leave.
same with mine ringtones alerts and music sound is very low but playing games like bejewelled and metro blocks in game sounds and music is very very loud I have to turn it down.
Same issue here. One way around it is to use Chevron ringtone installer to get your own tunes onto the phone (works for alarms and alerts) but before you do use Audacity t increase the sound on the tune before converting to the correct format for the phone. I have done this and now my ringtone,alarms and alerts are plenty loud enough for noisy environments.
i used all the above.
To be exact on the games only the sound is loud..
The ringing of all the sounds that i tested is too low..
i cant ever hear it when its in my pocket and it rings..!!
I hope the ota update that is on its way, should fix the registry key that does all that.
lets hope , it is very low
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Patience my friend...these idiots just speak out of ignorance...
I also hate the low ringtone volume. How can it be that games are smashing your ears while music don´t??? Please someone help.
tonarm said:
I also hate the low ringtone volume. How can it be that games are smashing your ears while music don´t??? Please someone help.
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i think this is a software bug of Microsoft .
I hope they will repair this absurd bug on the future upgrade , because at this moment is impossible to hear the sms tone and call tone
Why haven't you guys installed the HTC Sound Enhancer? Works awesome for me very load!
DJ Lu said:
Why haven't you guys installed the HTC Sound Enhancer? Works awesome for me very load!
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Actually the volume is the same,l do not know what set up are You using but l test all 3 preset and volume is same. But still for all others if you have on your hd7 installed custom ringtones you can make this ringtones (edit the ringtone) in some app for editing music,and play with equalizers so you can have louder tones. Still my opinion is that hd7 has some software limitations-volume simple must be louder-common how can we hear phone in pockets or handy bags. New Nokia phones are much much loader so...HTC do SOMETHING!
also the speaker volume is maximum 10 in Hd7 is this the same for all the devices?
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Actually the volume is the same,l do not know what set up are You using but l test all 3 preset and volume is same. But still for all others if you have on your hd7 installed custom ringtones you can make this ringtones (edit the ringtone) in some app for editing music,and play with equalizers so you can have louder tones. Still my opinion is that hd7 has some software limitations-volume simple must be louder-common how can we hear phone in pockets or handy bags. New Nokia phones are much much loader so...HTC do SOMETHING!
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I have already installed even the rom 1.60.401.01 since my phone had 1.23.401.01 when i bought it, i made the update to the build 7008 via zune but nothing changed.
I installed also HTC Sound Enhancer but the increase was about 2% louder than before enabling the Dolby option since SRS did nothing at all.
I hope that Microsoft & HTC with solve that problem on the upcoming NoDo Update..
nitroxn said:
also the speaker volume is maximum 10 in Hd7 is this the same for all the devices?
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That's In-Call volume mate. See HERE
eternalemb said:
Patience my friend...these idiots just speak out of ignorance...
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Just put your phone inside your pocket and walk on the street at some big cities like LA, or San Francisco, i bet nothing could warn you about the phone except the vibration of the phone itself.
The sound from outside world are so many and come to your ear the same time, how could you expect to hear your favorite ringtone from your god **** phone inside your pocket? Bring the external speaker and stick it on your ears, you will hear it!
I don't know about you guys phone, i can hear my ringtone from my HD7 while i am talking to friend at the hall.
When i used a TPU material case (harder than silicon but more flexible than hard plastic case) seems to absorb sound leakage from phone build (HD7 has 'flimsy' batter case). Immediately after installing, sounds like ringtones ard keyboard tapping sounds have improved noticeably. Hopefully this gives u a temp fix...
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When i used a TPU material case (harder than silicon but more flexible than hard plastic case) seems to absorb sound leakage from phone build (HD7 has 'flimsy' batter case). Immediately after installing, sounds like ringtones ard keyboard tapping sounds have improved noticeably. Hopefully this gives u a temp fix...
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my case seems to make it a lil louder also
This is a TEMPORARY FIX.
i have muffled/distorted/cracked/blown speaker.
whatever you guys called it.
i opened the case, and notice its the left speaker that is causing problem, the other speaker is working fine.
if there is only a way to shut down the spoiled speaker. cutting the power cable to that speaker is risky, and may cause more damage, and ruined the chance to get it fixed in the future.
so what i did was cut a piece of paper, folded it multiple times to be about 0.2cm thick.
place it on top of the spoiled speaker, then close the back case. the paper will press the spoil speaker and stop it from making any sound.
my tablet can now play sound at max volume with no distortion.
this is just a temporary fix until the ASUS service center at my place receive the spare part for speaker replacement. which may take months.
Instead of doing all that faffing around. Can't you just use the poweramp app and use the sound settings menu to cut off volume to that speaker by turning the knob towards the opposite speaker in the balance option. Although I don't know if this will totally decrease the output to the affected speaker.
bubblesmoney said:
Instead of doing all that faffing around. Can't you just use the poweramp app and use the sound settings menu to cut off volume to that speaker by turning the knob towards the opposite speaker in the balance option. Although I don't know if this will totally decrease the output to the affected speaker.
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It will
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bubblesmoney said:
Instead of doing all that faffing around. Can't you just use the poweramp app and use the sound settings menu to cut off volume to that speaker by turning the knob towards the opposite speaker in the balance option. Although I don't know if this will totally decrease the output to the affected speaker.
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Even if this works, it only works in the power amp app.
If you watch YouTube videos, the speaker still blown sound.
My temp fix really works through out all app that produce sound.
And it is reversible. Just remove the paper and its back to the blown state.
Just a temporary fix until asus service center have the spare part to replace my speaker.
I had the same problem and read in another thread somewhere that the speaker grill to the "broken" one had popped up.
I took the back cover off and just pressed the speaker down. Worked perfectly.
I sent in my Nexus 7 after the speaker blew after a month. They sent me a new one after a week. Unfortunately it's still the C60 series but fingers crossed that there's no more problems.
Is anyone else experiencing distortion with their external speaker? My ringtones begin to distort around 1/4 volume and very noticeable 1/2 and up. Does the same for notifications. Not as noticeable during videos and music but still present.
Just trying to figure out if mine is partying for the course or a dud. Thanks in advance for any input.
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If you hold your finger or hand very close to speaker, mine has distortion too.
Hand placement doesn't really seem to affect it...
no distortion at all on mine.
I noticed when playing louder videos or when im on speakerphone and the person is talking there is a bit distortion in the sound sort of a tiny bit of fuzz and i noticed this also on my egde plus and a bunch of store models as well can anybody confirm? I mean its not bad but still my phones are $700-$800.
Im Tmobile
My speakers sounds (imo) awful, it's distorted and warbly (sp?). For a phone with such good headphone audio I don't understand why the speaker (or in the surround sound mod) both speakers sound so bad. They both have that issue for external audio, haven't tested call audio yet because I never really take calls and the one I did I forgot to notice.
No issues here. Probably dirt getting in with the speaker, the grill holes are pretty sizable.
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No issues here. Probably dirt getting in with the speaker, the grill holes are pretty sizable.
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Not minutes after I opened the box. I THINK I may have a lead as to why it's bad. If you listen closely and FEEL the phone. It appears to me that the low notes are resonating with the glass back panel (or something/everything else, whatever it is) and causing vibrations that both warble and distort the sound and speaker(s). I could certainly be wrong, but that's what I'm hearing. As for a fix, I haven't a clue, if I'm wrong and it's software, I haven't a clue. I don't have near enough time to do non-guided digging into this. Only what little listening I do with speakers. (Considering I'd rather use what comes out of my CXN).
Distortion
I too have distortion on my external speakers. Exactly the same symptoms..
I will be very interested in hearing about a fix.
Cheers
Greetings. I received my Nexus 6 from Amazon. It seems as though the top speaker is considerably louder than the bottom. When I flip the phone upside down, it is still the top speaker that is louder.
When I turn the phone to landscape mode, it is the right speaker that it louder. I flip the orientation to where the former right speaker is now the left and vice versa. It's the same problem where the right speaker (the former left speaker) is still louder.
Any help would be appreciated.
Have a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/speaker-louder-t2961839
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Have a look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/speaker-louder-t2961839
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Thanks man. I don't use Viper Audio so that thread wasn't helpful. I did call Motorola today and they are going to give me a new phone. Was hoping it was something simple that could be fixed easily.
Great. I was just saying that it looks as if you're not alone, but if Motorola are doing the right thing then that's a good result.