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Front speakers

I cannot figure out how to get the front speakers to activate, it only seems to play through the tiny little speaker on the back.

there aren't any speakers at the front of the phone, the grill on either side its just part of the phones design.

There are definately stereo speakers on the front, one at the top and one at the bottom under the grills. There is also a third speaker on the back, yes three in all!!
I have done extensive sound listening tests to confirm this and it is most noticable if you turn Dolby Mobile on in the Sound Enhancer section which gives a better stereo separation effect. You really have to play music on the handset to hear all three speakers.
The front stereo speakers are not listed in any of the spec I have seen but this is a complete bonus as far as I am concerned. It will even be a huge benefit for sat nav applications guidance voice when they become available.

PJ11 said:
There are definately stereo speakers on the front, one at the top and one at the bottom under the grills. There is also a third speaker on the back, yes three in all!!
I have done extensive sound listening tests to confirm this and it is most noticable if you turn Dolby Mobile on in the Sound Enhancer section which gives a better stereo separation effect. You really have to play music on the handset to hear all three speakers.
The front stereo speakers are not listed in any of the spec I have seen but this is a complete bonus as far as I am concerned. It will even be a huge benefit for sat nav applications guidance voice when they become available.
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Yours must be a different version to mine then, because my sound output is s**t

PJ11 said:
There are definately stereo speakers on the front, one at the top and one at the bottom under the grills. There is also a third speaker on the back, yes three in all!!
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Maybe sounds simply escapes through those grills on the phone, sound that comes from the ONE speaker in the back of the phone?

It could be sound spill from the rear speaker but I am sure it is not. There have been various online reviews of this handset that state there are stereo speakers on the front of the HD7.
I realise the rear speaker is certainly at a higher volume than the front ones but if you cover the rear one up you get some sound through the top and bottom front ones. I suppose only HTC will be able to confirm or otherwise.

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It could be sound spill from the rear speaker but I am sure it is not. There have been various online reviews of this handset that state there are stereo speakers on the front of the HD7.
I realise the rear speaker is certainly at a higher volume than the front ones but if you cover the rear one up you get some sound through the top and bottom front ones. I suppose only HTC will be able to confirm or otherwise.
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Hmm okay, I'll take your word for it! When I get mine next week, if it doesn't have speakers, I'm coming for you!!!! hehehe

It does have front speakers but they are only active if you have dolby/srs turned on.

ffelan said:
It does have front speakers but they are only active if you have dolby/srs turned on.
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I have one but can not find any settings about Dolby. Only sound is from the rear speaker and its quiet compared with other phones.
Russ

Go to one of the HTC applications called sound enhancer and this is where you find Dolby Mobile SRS Surround etc.
I am very happy with the sound coming from the front speakers even although they are quieter than the rear.

Clarification on the stereo speaker debate of the HTC HD7
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It could be sound spill from the rear speaker but I am sure it is not. There have been various online reviews of this handset that state there are stereo speakers on the front of the HD7.
I realise the rear speaker is certainly at a higher volume than the front ones but if you cover the rear one up you get some sound through the top and bottom front ones. I suppose only HTC will be able to confirm or otherwise.
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Sorry if I have to disappoint some of the readers here, but there are definitly NO STEREO SPEAKERS located at the front of the HD7 device. So unless the people here who claim they have speakers have a totally different hardware version of the HD7 (highly unlikely), they do not have speakers either. As it was said before it could be sound spill from the rear speaker.
I have to admit that from the front design of the HD7 you could very well assume that there are stereo speakers built in, and there are even reviews around that state this. I wonder how bad a review writer must be to mislead their readers by just writing down their wishful fantasies/third party information.
Overall I was rather disappointed by the built in rear speaker. Choosing a different "Sound Enhancer" setting (Dolby Mobile/SRS Enhancement) does slightly improve the sound quality but no extra speakers get activated.
As you can clearly see by looking at the attached image of my disassembled HD7, there is nothing behind the bottom sound grill - it is just a design element.

Well that certainly is proof indeed,cannot argue with that.
Odd, but here is HTC's official reply to me in an email yesterday -
"Dear Paul,
Yes HTC HD7 has the dual speakers either side of the screen.
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number.
Sincerely,
Tomas
HTC"

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Well that certainly is proof indeed,cannot argue with that.
Odd, but here is HTC's official reply to me in an email yesterday -
"Dear Paul,
Yes HTC HD7 has the dual speakers either side of the screen.
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number.
Sincerely,
Tomas
HTC"
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Interesting.. HTC is really pissing me off lately.

PJ11 said:
Well that certainly is proof indeed,cannot argue with that.
Odd, but here is HTC's official reply to me in an email yesterday -
"Dear Paul,
Yes HTC HD7 has the dual speakers either side of the screen.
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number.
Sincerely,
Tomas
HTC"
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Wow, that is interesting indeed. It is not HTC's style to offer devices with different hardware specs and the same name (besides Memory of course). So unless someone comes up with some evidence pics I have to assume that this guy at HTC doesn't have a friggin idea what he's talking about.

I do hear that it has dual speaker.

octavio79 said:
I do hear that it has dual speaker.
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No, that's not true. It has been proven (someone actually disassembled the phone) that there is no front speaker.

Oops sorry I didn't see the pic. What the hell is wrong with HTC MAN!!

octavio79 said:
Oops sorry I didn't see the pic. What the hell is wrong with HTC MAN!!
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haha idk, they thought they could get away with that lie? Nevertheless, the speaker isn't that bad on the phone.

Yeah, I just received my HD7 today and after enabling SRS/Dolby, didn't notice any sound from the bottom front speaker at all. Wish there was a speaker though.

I'm not sure about SRS speakers, but to those saying it's just spill through...there HAS to be a front speaker in order to hear a phone call. So there is definitely one speaker on the front at least...right?

Google, turn the speaker around!

The speaker is decent. It even has good volume.
Iff you've got the tablet facing away from you!
This is really terrible placement of the speaker on this device. It's not a speaker for ringing as on a phone. It's a speaker that's meant to be heard when the tablet is in use with the display facing you. Cupping my hand over the speaker slit and extending that beyond the edge of the tablet works ... but isn't something you can really expect or want to do.
That's probably my biggest gripe with the tablet.
The screen isn't the best but.. I'll take it for the money.

Really, you don't like the screen? I think it has a better color tone than the iPad 3 honestly. Didn't really notice much of a difference in the resolution either.
The external sound's not too bad. If you put it on a surface then it helps amplify it, just like with a phone. The headphone sound quality on the other hand is outstanding! :good:

I wish manufacturers would figure out a way to have forward-facing speakers... my G2x has a speaker on the bottom. Better, but seriously... watching a YouTube clip without cupping my hand around the device to reflect the sound to my face would be a nice change. Meh... not that big of a deal to me but I do agree with your frustration.

It seems simple to me, there is already a bevel on these devices. They just need to make the bevel a little bit larger on the side to let the sound out. This is what my TV does and it works very well.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk 2

I was looking at the design and from a "why did they do it that way?" perspective and two things are clear.
1. they want to present the face of the tablet as an unbroken sheet of glass (ohh, ahh!)
2. they don't want to incur the cost of putting a slit in the glass
They could reduce the size of the glass and have a very narrow molded plastic border on the top and bottom for stereo speakers. Would work a heck of a lot better but violate #1...
I really think they're destroying functionality for aesthetics.

Playbook (though bigger) does have forward facing speakers, and are probably the best sound that I've heard on a tablet mainly due to the placement.

its more so because on most phones, the microphone is at the bottom. putting a speaker next to a microphone never ends well. mainly because on calls where you use loud speaker, you'd get the endless loop/echo where the speaker feeds their audio back into the microphone. noise cancelling mics are useless for cancelling the audio since the noise cancelling mic is too far away from the speaker, so the latency doesnt help.

I somehow think putting a magnet aka speaker on the screen would cause problems with the capacitive touch.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

It sucks when you put the 7 on a stand and it is blocking the speaker and muffing the sound. But what can you do? Plug in some headphones that's what.
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Hexdecimal said:
Really, you don't like the screen? I think it has a better color tone than the iPad 3 honestly. Didn't really notice much of a difference in the resolution either.
The external sound's not too bad. If you put it on a surface then it helps amplify it, just like with a phone. The headphone sound quality on the other hand is outstanding! :good:
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Wait. What?! Can you provide a photo comparison of your device next to a iPad. This display has hardly any saturation or contrast compared to the iPad. The DAC in this thing is also horrid; audio sounds extremely bad with headphones. A world away from the Galaxy S III DAC.
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Hexdecimal said:
Really, you don't like the screen? I think it has a better color tone than the iPad 3 honestly. Didn't really notice much of a difference in the resolution either.
The external sound's not too bad. If you put it on a surface then it helps amplify it, just like with a phone. The headphone sound quality on the other hand is outstanding! :good:
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Well, I have both an iPad 3 and a Nexus 7, and while I like the Nexus 7 screen well enough, it doesn't really compare to the iPad's. Colors and saturation aren't even close, and nothing has text as good as the iPad (I think it's as much to do with how Android renders text as the resolution of the LCD). Don't get me wrong, text on the Nexus 7 is plenty good enough, but you can't say it's nearly as good as on the iPad.
My biggest problem with audio on the Nexus 7, both external and via headphones, is volume. It just doesn't get very loud. That's a complaint with the iPad 3, however, and really I have yet to come across a tablet with decent sound. So, that's not a fair knock against the Nexus 7.

(Q) Nexus 6 Stereo Speakers VS HTC One M8 Boomsound, comparable?

I've been trying to find a comparison of the 2 for a while now.
Are they better? worse? louder? quieter?
Any info's greatly appreciated.

I believe no one is allowed to do a full review until the 12th, that is why we have been seeing more of the same videos (Unboxing, quick flipping through the screens, not going into any apps, etc.). Once the 12th comes around, there will be a flood of everything you want. You probably won't get a answer to your question until then.

klubhead said:
I've been trying to find a comparison of the 2 for a while now.
Are they better? worse? louder? quieter?
Any info's greatly appreciated.
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I definitely look forward to Wednesday when the NDA is lifted but http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...-googles-nexus-6-really-big-really-beautiful/ already posted (from a non-audio buff):
"The Speakers
I was excited to find that - unlike the Moto X - both of the Nexus 6's speakers work when playing media, not just the bottom one. When Google says stereo speakers, they mean it. I'm not an audio buff by any stretch of the imagination, so I can only comment from my limited frame of reference. That said, the Nexus 6 speakers get plenty loud, but for example the bass tones in Vitalic's Bluesy Tuesday aren't entirely rich or full, and the bubbly high notes of Classixx's Hanging Gardens do experience distortion at higher volumes. In general though, the speakers do sound good. They aren't exactly on the same level as HTC's BoomSound on the M8, but they're definitely passable, and for myself - a person who rarely listens to music on phone speakers - they're good."
More positive preliminary impression of speakers:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2014/11/01/hands-on-with-googles-nexus-6/
"Great screen and sound quality
The Nexus 6 1440 by 2560 pixel (493 ppi) AMOLED display is brilliant and compares very well to the iPhone 6 Plus’s 1920 by 1080 pixel (401 ppi) screen. You can’t go wrong either way when it comes to screen resolution. I watched a Netflix video and read portions of a Kindle book on the Nexus 6 and while watching video on a large phone isn’t quite as immersive as watching it on a tablet, it’s not bad. And the sound quality from the Nexus 6 front-mounted stereo speakers is excellent. The speakers are at the top and bottom of the phone, which means they’re left and right with as much separation as possible when the phone is held in landscape position. With the volume cranked all the way up, I could hear it well from anywhere in an average-sized living room without significant distortion. It’s one of the few phones I would consider listening to without headphones."
More Wednesday..

Exactly what I've been looking for, thank you!!!

Yeah, we have to wait for official reviews. Hopefully it is on par with HTC's boomsound. Even if isn't. front facing speakers beat rear facing speakers every day of the week.

[Q] How do you find the screen and speakers?

How do you find the screen and speakers?

Turn the phone over. You're probably looking at the wrong side.

quarrymanpaul said:
Turn the phone over. You're probably looking at the wrong side.
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HA! That's what I thought at first too.

I vote with 5th option: It's a phone ... as long as it has screen and speakers I'm happy.

These comments though :'D Anyway, the screen seems great to me but the display's white balance varies from phone to phone. The speakers are good enough for me. You really don't need louder speakers and right now only One M8 has louder speakers as far as I know.
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I arrived at this phone from the LG G2 (which I still have, so have seen side by side) and I'm really quite pleased with the screen. I mean I'm aware that it is technically a downgrade but I honestly don't notice it during use in the slightest. The speakers also seem comparable really and I have no complaints but to be honest I use Bluetooth speakers alot and probably don't look for sound quality out of the phones speakers. Anyway, that's my experiences! ?

Speakerphone (loudness, clarity)

Proper etiquette aside (hint: don't use speakerphone while doing your "business" in a public bathroom), rate this thread to express how you think the Google Pixel 2's speakerphone performs. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it's loud and it's clear.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I was astonished when I heard the speakers for myself, they are really loud but clear!

they're good, but not great.
I like the speakers, but they need some tweaking, the sound isn't as full bodied as my HTC One M7 was. They're clear sounding, but a bit tinny for my taste. I'll be happy when some eq mods get implemented.

I was really pleasantly surprised by them. They are just as loud as my Nexus 6P WITH the Viper4Android soundboost all the way up. Once I get V4A on the Pixel 2 I wonder just how loud it will actually get. Sounds amazing for such a small phone too, wow.

Got mine in yesterday. nice crisp clear sound... but the earpiece speaker is treble biased, and the bottom speaker is bass biased...
Makes things sound really weird when listening to music or watching movies in landscape...
I am getting an exchange unit and will update when that unit comes in.
Update: Exchange unit came in... I've been using it for a few days now, and I have noticed no difference from my last unit... an hour on the phone with google device engineers got me the response that this is by design to increase the frequency range... I still don"t like it as it bothers me..
who wants to buy a gently used pixel2?

ApoKyla said:
Got mine in yesterday. nice crisp clear sound... but the earpiece speaker is treble biased, and the bottom speaker is bass biased...
Makes things sound really weird when listening to music or watching movies in landscape...
I am getting an exchange unit and will update when that unit comes in.
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The same situation. Is it feature or defect? Can anybody confirm it? Thanks.

Anyone's speakers distorting or crackling? Coming from iPhone 7. Speakers on iphone are not loud, but they do sound good. Pixel 2 by comparison is tinny and crackle at higher volumes.
Coincidentally, I'm RMAing the Pixel 2 right now for ticking noise in earpiece and constant high frequency emission. Wondering if maybe my speakers are no bueno too. No one else seems to have the speaker distortion or at least too early.
Edit: I was playing "Bridge Burn" by little comets when i noticed. Then played thievery corporation's "Culture of Fear". Maybe someone else can compare?

Elvis_Stojko said:
Anyone's speakers distorting or crackling? Coming from iPhone 7. Speakers on iphone are not loud, but they do sound good. Pixel 2 by comparison is tinny and crackle at higher volumes.
Coincidentally, I'm RMAing the Pixel 2 right now for ticking noise in earpiece and constant high frequency emission. Wondering if maybe my speakers are no bueno too. No one else seems to have the speaker distortion or at least too early.
Edit: I was playing "Bridge Burn" by little comets when i noticed. Then played thievery corporation's "Culture of Fear". Maybe someone else can compare?
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I just got mine today I do not have the sound in the ear piece and also my forward face speakers are crisp loud and clear with just a slight thumping for base it amazing to my ears but what do I know I came from a s6 ?

xstokerx said:
I just got mine today I do not have the sound in the ear piece and also my forward face speakers are crisp loud and clear with just a slight thumping for base it amazing to my ears but what do I know I came from a s6 ?
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Thank you sir. New phone will be here Wednesday. We shall see.

Elvis_Stojko said:
Thank you sir. New phone will be here Wednesday. We shall see.
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hope u get one without issues

Elvis_Stojko said:
Anyone's speakers distorting or crackling? Coming from iPhone 7. Speakers on iphone are not loud, but they do sound good. Pixel 2 by comparison is tinny and crackle at higher volumes.
Coincidentally, I'm RMAing the Pixel 2 right now for ticking noise in earpiece and constant high frequency emission. Wondering if maybe my speakers are no bueno too. No one else seems to have the speaker distortion or at least too early.
Edit: I was playing "Bridge Burn" by little comets when i noticed. Then played thievery corporation's "Culture of Fear". Maybe someone else can compare?
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My speakers seem to rattle a little at max volume, even just with Google Assistant or navigating. Haven't noticed any issues on calls though I haven't made a lot since I got my Pixel 2.
Overall quality seems all right a few notches down from max, but is quite noticeably worse than my nexus 6.

Speakers
Could anybody check if speakers are producing the same sound (you can cover it by finger). My unit's top speaker has more hights, bottom one has more mids and bass. Maybe it's by design. I am not sure. Thank you.

ales005 said:
Could anybody check if speakers are producing the same sound (you can cover it by finger). My unit's top speaker has more hights, bottom one has more mids and bass. Maybe it's by design. I am not sure. Thank you.
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Yes, absolutely agree with you. Bottom is far better at base and mids. Top speaker is opposite.

ales005 said:
The same situation. Is it feature or defect? Can anybody confirm it? Thanks.
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It could be related to separate dedicated drivers in each speaker (Allowing for larger respective drivers), or simply an equalization software aspect.

The Dark Knight Patriot said:
It could be related to separate dedicated drivers in each speaker (Allowing for larger respective drivers), or simply an equalization software aspect.
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Ditto here. Noticed it right out of the box. Top is treble biased, bottom is bass. It seems design derivative. Also possible too because the top speaker is also used for earpiece/speakerphone?
Waiting for more confirmation from google whether this is real or defect. Good to hear from here I'm not the only one.
No issue though with the phone so far.

https://9to5google.com/2017/10/24/t...2-sound-completely-different-heres-why-video/

The are crystal clear but when I compare them to my nexus 6, the bass is better on the nexus

Elvis_Stojko said:
Anyone's speakers distorting or crackling? Coming from iPhone 7. Speakers on iphone are not loud, but they do sound good. Pixel 2 by comparison is tinny and crackle at higher volumes.
Coincidentally, I'm RMAing the Pixel 2 right now for ticking noise in earpiece and constant high frequency emission. Wondering if maybe my speakers are no bueno too. No one else seems to have the speaker distortion or at least too early.
Edit: I was playing "Bridge Burn" by little comets when i noticed. Then played thievery corporation's "Culture of Fear". Maybe someone else can compare?
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Also have the ticking sound, and so so sounding speakers. Trying to RMA. Apparently turning off NFC is supposed to help with the ticking sound. Haven't done it myself....too many digital reward cards

Noticed quite a bit of distortion when navigating at max volume. The voice is full bodied and, combined with the software EQ choice, I think it hits that perfect low-mid tone and overpowers the speakers. Stepping it down two notches basically eliminates it. Also noticed that the speakers are very directional compared to the OG pixel XL. Had both devices playing the same music and Pixel 2 audio disappears when faced away compared to the OG pixel which was much more audible when the speaker was pointed away. I think the amount of bass they are trying to offer is lofty and unattainable and the device would sound better with a bit more mid and less extreme treble and bass. If I decide to keep this device I'll be praying for the dev community to offer up some display and audio tweaks. P.S. I haven't noticed the ticking/noise from the speakers on my device but I think if they dropped this ultra hifi EQ choice, a slight drop in highs would probably make it much less noticeable or might make it disappear completely if the frequency could be isolated and cut (I'm looking at you 6kHz and above).

Can anyone get me /etc, /lib & /bin folders? I might take a look if there is any ways to improve your device's speakers