The microphone is way too sensitive. I've recorded a concert and a wrestling match, and the audio in Audacity is a solid rectangle. Even using the voice recorder the audio is a nightmare. If I put my finger over the hole and press down, it sounds fine.
I found the following menu from Google searching around:
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But I haven't a clue what to change, if anything.
This is a major problem, and it makes using the Video Camera 100% useless.
Thanks,
Mike
Some Scotch Tape over the hole seems to help, but I would like to actually fix this.
The scotch tape makes normal voice calls barely audible on the other end. So I'm back to square one.
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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!
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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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.
My M7 records only white noise from the microphone. This happens during calls and also using any app which records using the microphone. I've tried cleaning it and also block one, or the other, or both, but white noise is still recorded. I've tried a couple of roms, including the stock RUU and am now using the most recent insertcoin, but the problem remains.
I received the phone recently and didn't check the microphone before flashing/rooting using HTC dev, but have no reason to beleive that this issue was present then (the seller did not mention it)
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
The HTC M7 design makes your finger block the microphone
I have had this microphone problem intermittently too. When it failed for 2 or 3 calls in a row I experimented with voice recordings and noticed that while my voice was absent, there was some scratching sound and I clearly heard my breathing for just a moment in the last second of one recording.
That was when I noticed I had been holding the phone in my left hand and resting my pinky right on the microphone hole. Because of the edge to edge touchscreen it has to be held with fingertips, can't wrap your fingers around it. It's a slippery phone, so you can't easily hold it with fingertips just from the sides. The main mic is on the bottom on this phone near the right corner, exactly where my left pinky holds it up.
So I made a bunch of recordings paying attention to my fingers and it has worked fine every time. I'll bet few people who hold the phone with their right hand have any trouble.
mikelabonte said:
I have had this microphone problem intermittently too. When it failed for 2 or 3 calls in a row I experimented with voice recordings and noticed that while my voice was absent, there was some scratching sound and I clearly heard my breathing for just a moment in the last second of one recording.
That was when I noticed I had been holding the phone in my left hand and resting my pinky right on the microphone hole. Because of the edge to edge touchscreen it has to be held with fingertips, can't wrap your fingers around it. It's a slippery phone, so you can't easily hold it with fingertips just from the sides. The main mic is on the bottom on this phone near the right corner, exactly where my left pinky holds it up.
So I made a bunch of recordings paying attention to my fingers and it has worked fine every time. I'll bet few people who hold the phone with their right hand have any trouble.
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On a side note, what do you think of beats audio? I feel it terribly sucks.
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On a side note, what do you think of beats audio? I feel it terribly sucks.
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I personally don't have any beats devices, so beats audio has to stay off. It intentionally distorts the sound to complement the response characteristics of beats headphones, similar to Dolby and dbx. But beatsaudio labeling is so prominent on the HTC One, I wonder who paid whom?
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I personally don't have any beats devices, so beats audio has to stay off. It intentionally distorts the sound to complement the response characteristics of beats headphones, similar to Dolby and dbx. But beatsaudio labeling is so prominent on the HTC One, I wonder who paid whom?
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Turning it off completely distorts the audio quality to the point where the mids are gone.
The top speaker in my One M7 has been blown for quite some time, due to me working around metal particles. It's making a horrible noise when audio is played through it, and I'd just like it to be off.
I have just recently rooted my phone, and now I'm looking for an app that has the option to disable one speaker, or to transfer the sound volume to just the bottom speaker. I've looked around on google, but I have not found any good results. Can you guys recommend me an app, if it exsists? Any other suggestions are also welcome!
Hmmm not sure, I'd just replace it. Its an easy operation.
I recently got Nexus 6 and noticed that when listen music the top loudspeaker not working, just bottom.
When making and receiving calls i hear everything like it should.
I'm not familiar with this phone, is this normal or it should be playing music from both top and bottom loudspeaker?
Is the top loudspeaker and earpiece the same hardware?
There is only one loudspeaker at the top.
To me it sounds like a software issue. Have you tried a different music player?
Hmm, i use Youtube app, not tried anything else.
Did the factory reset, its the same, loud and clear from bottom loudspeaker, from top nothing.
I'm sure there is the bottom loudspeaker, here is topic about replacement.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/speaker-replacement-t3379395
On my phone, the volume from the top speaker is a bit lower than from the bottom one. But both are active in YouTube.
Which rom do you have on the phone?
What happens when you hold the phone differently while playing. If you hold it with the top to the left, the top speaker should play the left channel, but with the top to the right, the channels reverse.
Rom is stock 7.1.1, not rooted or anything.
I tried to rotate the phone while playing but nothing change, only bottom speaker working, top not at all.
That was the hardware problem.
I disassembled device, it was not so hard because it was already opened in service centre couple months ago, so the adhesive was not that strong.
Removed middle frame, the top speaker is in it.
I checked the speaker with multimeter, and it was ok.
Then I saw the small flat cable where the speaker seats on, and see It is broken somehow (tested with multimeter also).
I had the broken middle housing and managed to peel off the flat cable (very slowly with hear dryer) and replace it.
Now everything working, and the sound is playing from both speakers.
Thanks.