My Nexus 7 speakers were all good, until I turned the volume all the way max to watch the transformers. Once the movie was done, I left the device alone for half day, used it again and the speakers were blown. Getting exchange now.
Full Volume?
Wow
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parahelium said:
My Nexus 7 speakers were all good, until I turned the volume all the way high to watch the transformers. Once the movie was done, I left the device alone for half day, used it again and the speakers were blown. Getting exchange now.
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Yep. My speakers just blew out too. Now they just make a crackling noise... sucks.
Even worse... it was perfect before... no creakiness or dead pixels...
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I'm starting to hear more bad than good from this device.
tevinwade said:
I'm starting to hear more bad than good from this device.
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We always hear the bad things... mine works perfectly!
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Mine works great too, no problems, but it does seem to get quite hot, although it's 100F here in TX lately..
Perhaps breaking in the speakers before pushing it for 2 hours at full volume would be a good idea. They should have warned us about that somewhere like in the quick start guide (which I literally threw away and didn't even look at sadly)..
*shrug*
edit: I pulled out the QSG and skimmed it right quick.. Kind of lame and of course nothing about speakers. Nothing useful really, in fact.. But I felt bad Google made that nice little pamphlet, so I had to open it for them..
Just been in Skype for an hour and 30 mins ( to my mum and dad ) the sound was fine , no crackles ,have not seen the film yet ... mmmm
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I'm starting to hear more bad than good from this device.
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As has already been said, you'll seldom hear the positive here, mostly the negative.
People tend to post to complain, not so say everything is ok.
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Dave
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I'm starting to hear more bad than good from this device.
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I knew this would happen when Google picked asus. I had to return 3 transformer primes before getting a good one and that one developed a defect as well before i sold it. There is a reason asus can get their tablets so cheap and i think its because they allow way more defects through QC than they should banking on the fact a lot of people will accept minor issues.
It means nothing - this place is a cluster and because we can't see the whole picture (we have no sales figures), we have no real idea about the QC of the device or how wide-spread problems are.
my Speaker sound fine. I've played at full volume for extended periods of time with no issue.
Google chose Asus because of tegra3 and Asus is the one leading the android tablet front this year so far. All top android tablets come from Asus and has tegra3.
Well my speaker buzzes so much I cant hear a thing. And the screen is lifting on the left hand side. Google have no idea when they will send me a replacement. Not at all impressed.
foxmeister said:
As has already been said, you'll seldom hear the positive here, mostly the negative.
People tend to post to complain, not so say everything is ok.
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Joezhang said:
It means nothing - this place is a cluster and because we can't see the whole picture (we have no sales figures), we have no real idea about the QC of the device or how wide-spread problems are.
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Well, if you two think it's just a few bad units generating complaints how about trying to reproduce the original poster's problem by putting volume on max and playing Transformers start to finish? If everything is fine afterwards we can all be happy! But if the speakers fail we have a design problem.
This is a testable issue. But I'm not going to push my luck testing it.
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Because there is a lot of bad things and returning it for a replacement isn't a quick process --_--. Has its good points don't get me wrong but seeing a lot of defective units.
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Mine just blew sounds like a bowl of rice crispies. I'm assuming the op just called Google and replacement was sent out.?
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I returned a nexus due to a blown speaker, I was happy it was within my 14 days
My N7 was also perfect until the speaker got blown after about a month. I sent it in to ASUS and they sent me a new one a week later. Unfortunately it's still a C60 model but so far so good, but it has only been two days. So we'll see.
I'm running stock at full volume and have watched many movies with no problems. Some Roms come with a volume boost maybe that is the problem? Else at least they seem to replace units without much hassle. We shall see how all these new tablets play out.
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Joezhang said:
It means nothing - this place is a cluster and because we can't see the whole picture
(we have no sales figures), we have no real idea about the QC of the device or how
wide-spread problems are.
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Here's a micro sample.
It's as reasonable an indicator as is possible to get without forcing all N7 owners to register and vote.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801464
The biggest issues with the N7 seem to involve the screen.
Superimpose those figures on a million devices sold ?
It doesn't look good for the QC department at Asus.
I'm on my 4th Nexus, and it is also faulty. The only one I had for more than a few days blew its speaker after I listened to some music.
The thing is buggier than a tramp's vest.
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every few years i like to buy a high end phone just because i do a lot with my phone. Ive owned phones like the sony w900, nokia n95, iphone 3g, and my nexus one. Besides the iphone 3g which i ditched and went back to my n95 in two weeks. after nearly half a year now and with the release of froyo that doesnt fix my complaints with the phone, i find that the nexus one has been my most disappointing. It seems either google or htc cut many corners with the phone (speaker, sound recording, phone overheating, weird problems with the touchscreen).
im not a fanboy or anything, i just prefer to buy the best possible phone when i buy one, and was considering an iphone 4 until steve jobs basically gave the middle finger to all those with the antenna problem. so now im looking into getting a galaxy s when it comes out.
anyone know if the poor sound in video recordings is exclusive to the n1, or all android phones? thanks
Well the Nexus uses an inferior codec for encoding its sound in video (AMR.)
Currently people are working to enable the AAC codec for video to allow for better recording. Since Android is open source, manufacturers can install their own codecs for use with their cameras, so its possible/likely that the Galaxy S will have better video capability (they also have included the DivX codec for watching movies I believe)
The Nexus really has a terrible speaker though
flybyme said:
The Nexus really has a terrible speaker though
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All HTC phones have terrible speakers. It's something HTC seem to like cutting corners on...
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All HTC phones have terrible speakers. It's something HTC seem to like cutting corners on...
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haha yes i know G1 was just as bad (a lil better imo,) but the nexus one is supposed to be a superphone! it sucks coming from nokias which cost $250-300 less than the nexus
The Moto Droid came with an outstanding speaker AND a 16gb microSD card. Those are the only two complaints I have with the N1. We should bombard HTC with emails demanding that they use speakers on par with Moto's going forward.
I'm glad I never use my speaker, lol.
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I'm glad I never use my speaker, lol.
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lol id use it if it was nice. i never use it cause its absolutely useless to me since sound quality sucks and i can hardly hear it with ambient noise
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every few years i like to buy a high end phone just because i do a lot with my phone. Ive owned phones like the sony w900, nokia n95, iphone 3g, and my nexus one. Besides the iphone 3g which i ditched and went back to my n95 in two weeks. after nearly half a year now and with the release of froyo that doesnt fix my complaints with the phone, i find that the nexus one has been my most disappointing. It seems either google or htc cut many corners with the phone (speaker, sound recording, phone overheating, weird problems with the touchscreen).
im not a fanboy or anything, i just prefer to buy the best possible phone when i buy one, and was considering an iphone 4 until steve jobs basically gave the middle finger to all those with the antenna problem. so now im looking into getting a galaxy s when it comes out.
anyone know if the poor sound in video recordings is exclusive to the n1, or all android phones? thanks
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One day you'll learn that perfection has no place in this world =)
Not to say that we shouldn't look for it..
The Tilt 2 has awesome speakers.. :-[
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lol id use it if it was nice. i never use it cause its absolutely useless to me since sound quality sucks and i can hardly hear it with ambient noise
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I'm glad I never use my speaker, lol.
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uansari1 said:
The Moto Droid came with an outstanding speaker AND a 16gb microSD card. Those are the only two complaints I have with the N1. We should bombard HTC with emails demanding that they use speakers on par with Moto's going forward.
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Well I use this for my N1 speaker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3FROrQVaA
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All HTC phones have terrible speakers. It's something HTC seem to like cutting corners on...
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my touch pro 2 had a good speaker
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Well I use this for my N1 speaker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3FROrQVaA
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How much? Linky?
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How much? Linky?
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here's the link. http://www.x-mini.com/
The HTC DASH had a good speaker as well. Very loud.
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How much? Linky?
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http://www.amazon.com/XMI-X-Mini-II-Capsule-Speaker/dp/B001UEBN42/ref=pd_bxgy_e_img_c
Around $28 USD
If sound quality is your only complaint about the Nexus One, perhaps you should switch to a SE X10.
Speaker sucks big time, Motorla Mielsotne/Droid is way more powerful speaker, even on the low end it sounds good (but doesn't create bass)...
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Well I use this for my N1 speaker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3FROrQVaA
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This is what I use
http://www.youtube.com/user/TuffEnuffIII#p/a/u/4/RVUwdOyPXcw
LOL.. ok.. enough plugging....
How does that thing sound in comparison to the iCrap speakers I see around in my girlfriend's college apartment parties etc? It's nice and compact...
I am packing up my things and moving to Theory... Everything works in Theory...
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I am packing up my things and moving to Theory... Everything works in Theory...
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Well then....
Is space growing at the descending velocity of the big-bang or it somehow increasing in speed? If it is incre.....
Nevermind
I always thought the iphone 3GS had a good speaker system. I think it had one where a normal phone speaker is, then two on the bottom or something. Blackberry bold had a few speaker ports, too. But I still love my N1!
So...... the internal speakers on the nexus 7 are not great. Well, IS not great. It's not even stereo with only one at the bottom making watching movies on landscape makes the sound comes only from left or right.
but anybody else experiencing cracking/breaking/distorted audio if the volume is higher than 75%?
ive never used it more than 50% coz i almost always use it at home and i have a 2-mth old baby. but yesterday i'd like to show my wife how cool the free Transformers movie is and i cranked the volume up just to be horrified by the distorted sound, not unlike coming from a cheap $10 speakers.
should i return it?
should i ignore it and just keep it under 50% for movies or plug in a nice dock/speakers?
should i attempt to fix it? :silly:
i just fear returning it as everything else with the tablet is great, and with the amount of threads here with faulty Nexus, i felt like im risking it too much.
thoughts? share ur own stories with speakers?
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If you haven't shipped it off yet, use your fingernails or a guitar pick or something otherwise soft (not metal), thin, and flat, and open the case. Not sure if there's a specific place that's easier, I just went around and around until I got it to pop. Look at the FixIt breakdown if you want to see more details. It took about 3 minutes once I got it started, and that was taking my time. It's a little more firm than a phone battery cover, but not by much.
Once you get the back off, figure out which speaker is "blown" and lightly press into it. If it's "crunchy" feeling, gently work it around the edges with your finger until it either pops in place or stops "crunching". I went around the edges a few times just in case.
Been a week and my N7 sounds fine again. I have the full expectation that this isn't fixed and it'll recur, but I also doubt it's fixed in any newer hardware either, so why go through the trouble of replacing the device.
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Osmo here got an APK for an app you can use to tweak if you're not as brave as the poster quoted above. thanks!
click on the arrow next to his name to get to his post where he got a screenshot of settings and APK attached.
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Looks like Noozy got taken down because it was a modified redistribution of an older build of ZPlayer, without permission. Not sure if that's where Rewire came from too or not, but maybe the whole developer got kicked off.
Edit: Rewire seems to be the part they made themselves which they added onto the old ZPlayer code to make Noozy ("New Z" ), so it should be safe to repost. Attached as well are my Equalizer settings which seemed to make the most difference, removing the rumbling/distortion almost completely.
My settings are as follows: XLimiter enabled, compression strength "Hard"; Psychoacoustic disabled; X-EQ enabled, frequencies at -1.0, -2.5, -5.5, -2.5, -1.0 (also attached); VE-Engine disabled; Logicsurround ES enabled, room size "Studio".
Hope this helps some people!
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You were supposed to push on the rims, not the actual speaker...
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Find someone in Ottawa on Red Flag Deals forums who bought an N7 and are returning it for defective screen issues.
Meet up with them, buy them lunch, and swap over the speakers.
PS. my audio is fine at 100%, but volume isn't exactly overpowering. In fact, there are times I have trouble hearing a person over Skype. I haven't tried Transformers, yet.
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So...... the internal speakers on the nexus 7 are not great. Well, IS not great. It's not even stereo with only one at the bottom making watching movies on landscape makes the sound comes only from left or right.
but anybody else experiencing cracking/breaking/distorted audio if the volume is higher than 75%?
ive never used it more than 50% coz i almost always use it at home and i have a 2-mth old baby. but yesterday i'd like to show my wife how cool the free Transformers movie is and i cranked the volume up just to be horrified by the distorted sound, not unlike coming from a cheap $10 speakers.
should i return it?
should i ignore it and just keep it under 50% for movies or plug in a nice dock/speakers?
should i attempt to fix it? :silly:
i just fear returning it as everything else with the tablet is great, and with the amount of threads here with faulty Nexus, i felt like im risking it too much.
thoughts? share ur own stories with speakers?
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I have the same problem. I ordered a replacement which will arrive tomorrow. If the replacement has any other issues that are worse than the crackling speaker then the replacement goes back and I keep my first Nexus 7. I might order another replacement or get my N7 just repaired after the return time expires.
hmmmmmmm
R3dbeaver said:
So...... the internal speakers on the nexus 7 are not great. Well, IS not great. It's not even stereo with only one at the bottom making watching movies on landscape makes the sound comes only from left or right.
but anybody else experiencing cracking/breaking/distorted audio if the volume is higher than 75%?
ive never used it more than 50% coz i almost always use it at home and i have a 2-mth old baby. but yesterday i'd like to show my wife how cool the free Transformers movie is and i cranked the volume up just to be horrified by the distorted sound, not unlike coming from a cheap $10 speakers.
should i return it?
should i ignore it and just keep it under 50% for movies or plug in a nice dock/speakers?
should i attempt to fix it? :silly:
i just fear returning it as everything else with the tablet is great, and with the amount of threads here with faulty Nexus, i felt like im risking it too much.
thoughts? share ur own stories with speakers?
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i have this same issue now with the cracking distorted sounds on max volume. the odd part is it just started happening on mine. see i've had the N7 since 7/18 and the sound was pure till yesterday. i thought it was or is a issue with the new kernels i have been flashing for game performance. if your N7 can be returned do it imo you have nothing to lose. N7 for the price is one bad ass tablet mate. add a nice set of ear buds and go into the music player settings under equalizer options are 3d, bass boost, 5 band eq. play with those and the N7 with the buds is going to rock playing games and watching movies. since you are going to have a clean rom root that N7 for the tablet ui and then flash it with a custom kernel to release it's true gaming power... nova 3, spiderman, mc3 are buttery smooth with the gpu set at 500
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Find someone in Ottawa on Red Flag Deals forums who bought an N7 and are returning it for defective screen issues.
Meet up with them, buy them lunch, and swap over the speakers.
PS. my audio is fine at 100%, but volume isn't exactly overpowering. In fact, there are times I have trouble hearing a person over Skype. I haven't tried Transformers, yet.
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oh wow how hard is it to swap the speakers? as a comp engineer i know my way around a soldering iron...
mgymnop said:
I have the same problem. I ordered a replacement which will arrive tomorrow. If the replacement has any other issues that are worse than the crackling speaker then the replacement goes back and I keep my first Nexus 7. I might order another replacement or get my N7 just repaired after the return time expires.
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hmm so u can order a replacement without sending the current one back? this is interesting.
problem is, of course, this issue seems to start the past couple of days, as i just start cranking it. what if the new one decays again after a few days? replace it again? lol
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oh wow how hard is it to swap the speakers? as a comp engineer i know my way around a soldering iron...
hmm so u can order a replacement without sending the current one back? this is interesting.
problem is, of course, this issue seems to start the past couple of days, as i just start cranking it. what if the new one decays again after a few days? replace it again? lol
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I just got my new N7. The speaker is much much better. Still a bit distortion but only at max volume. Couldn't find any other flaw so far.
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mgymnop said:
I just got my new N7. The speaker is much much better. Still a bit distortion but only at max volume. Couldn't find any other flaw so far.
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super good news, bro!
yeah i emailed Google last week and last night they send me the instructions for a replacement. i requested one, should be shipped under a week, and i got 21 days to return mine to Toronto (which is 2-3days max on UPS standard).
so hopefully the new one arrives first so i can test it before i ship mine back.
yeah still abit reluctant with the whole process since EVERYTHING ELSE about my N7 is perfect. i'd rather deal with bad speakers at loud volume than cracking screen, dead pixels, or flickering.......
I had to RMA mine for the speaker issue as well.
Turns out, the speaker is actually good, but there's a loose connection in there somewhere. How I could tell was, if I held my tablet from the bottom, the speaker would sound like it was rattling/distorted/blown. Once I removed my hand, it was fine. Watching youtube videos and moving my hand up and down the back of the tablet would result in static noises that mirrored the movement of my hand.
When I called Google, this was a known issue on some units and they'll have no problem sending you out a new one.
God damnit, last night my speakers started rattling and now they sound like hell all the time if the volume is up at all. I believe it started when my volume got turned up too loud and a loud notification played.
So are the speakers blowing, or what's going on here? Anyone know?
Man, I have the exact OPPOSITE issue. I just bought a Nexus 7 today and my internal speaker is EXTREMELY quiet. I can barely hear it in a completely quiet room. I'd hate to RMA it since I don't seem to have any other issues with it. I tried volume+ and all it did was add a little crackling, it didn't boost the volume at all. I haven't read anything about this issue so I'm thinking defect, but if anybody has any input I would love to hear it.
Well, I listened to some left/right test sounds and determined only my left speaker was rattling, right sounded fine. Popped the back off, and the left speaker (right from the back side, of course) was different feeling. It was looser, moved more, and was "crunchy sounding". I pushed on it experimenting a bit and it popped, then it felt like the right one. I prodded a bit more, felt the same, so I tried music.
Sounds... Better. Not perfect. Still sounds a little rattly, but might be my imagination, I'll have to listen closer later. But from this, it seems like maybe the "cone" is detaching or popping off?
I wonder what it looks like inside the speakers. I did not remove anything except the back of the N7, not the speakers, nor their little fabric covers. If it happens again, I might look further.
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Man, I have the exact OPPOSITE issue. I just bought a Nexus 7 today and my internal speaker is EXTREMELY quiet. I can barely hear it in a completely quiet room. I'd hate to RMA it since I don't seem to have any other issues with it. I tried volume+ and all it did was add a little crackling, it didn't boost the volume at all. I haven't read anything about this issue so I'm thinking defect, but if anybody has any input I would love to hear it.
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Click on settings and then on sounds. the main volume box will pop up for you. You will see three volume bars just make sure there all the way over to the right. If your volume is still real low return your N7 for one without a speaker defect.
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I was checking out a friends N7 that just started having the speaker issue. I installed Poweramp and found the problem on the distortion. Using the balance feature only the left speaker was distorting with the right side getting very little power. How to reset the sound so both channels equal out I bet would fix the crackling sound problem. Any ideas or settings we can adjust?
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Leukay said:
Man, I have the exact OPPOSITE issue. I just bought a Nexus 7 today and my internal speaker is EXTREMELY quiet. I can barely hear it in a completely quiet room. I'd hate to RMA it since I don't seem to have any other issues with it. I tried volume+ and all it did was add a little crackling, it didn't boost the volume at all. I haven't read anything about this issue so I'm thinking defect, but if anybody has any input I would love to hear it.
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I've had six N7's (yes, six, and each and every one had a significant defect), and they all had at best what I would characterize as low volume. And the ones that went a little louder have been distorted. I've finally settle on a unit that doesn't seem to have any issues other than minor screen lift and crappy speakers, and I'm keeping it.
I figured, the bottom line is that I don't use the external speakers for anything but gaming and the occasional YouTube video. If I'm watching video or listening to music on this device, I use headphones anyways. And, when I'm watching a video in some situation where I want to use external speakers, I'm using my iPad.
Short answer to your question: yes, I've had N7's with extremely low volume. Personally, I wouldn't replace it for that, because at this point the odds of getting a unit with a worse problem remain too high (at least in my experience).
I had to return my first N7 because of the distorted speaker over 50% volume issue. I'm on my second N7 now and its been great so far.
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When I first got my nexus I tested the speakers by watching transformers. I was amazed. It was quite loud and distortion free. The next day I got a notification and all I heard was almost pure crackling. And from then on its been horrible. I use external speakers or headphones for everything but when im not using those, its very annoying. I'm not returning it because otherwise, its flawless.
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Yeah I had the same issue. It started yesterday couldn't go over 50% so I ordered a replacement . Process is really painless it will come in two businesses days and I get to keep them told one till then. Just flash the stock image band send at back.
just FYI, my crackling one was C60. got the new one which is C70 and it was perfect. loud enough and doesn't crack. no distortion.
I got my replacement for my 8 GB and went to the 16 GB this time from office depot. First one froze up and started having audio distortion, so far this one is doing great but only one day in. It is a c60 so hopefully that theory is wrong...
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I had my Nexus 7 16GB for exactly one month now and until today it was perfect. This morning I noticed that the speakers sounded "blown". I made sure it wasn't the file I was playing as it played fine on other devices and ALL files sounded blown on the Nexus.
MicroCenter only covers it for the first 15 days so my only option was to call ASUS. After doing a factory reset it still had the problem so now I'm sending it to ASUS. Hopefully they will either fix or replace it.
This really sucks because up until this point I really loved the device. Oh and also in case anyone else is sending it to ASUS, be aware that ASUS will NOT send you anything. You as the customer is responsible for packaging AND shipping costs. I understand the profit margin on Nexus 7 is low but this is like rubbing salt into your wound.
I've been really satisfied with the overall performance and feel of the Nexus 5. The only problem I have with the device is the anemic speaker quality. I feel like I get more vibration from the phone than I actually get sound out of the device.
Its not a deal breaker for me (I'd rather have a reference device than speakers on the front that sound good like the HTC One) but it is a concern. Not sure if I'll be able to even hear it ring in louder environments.
I think the speaker is like 1000x better than the Nexus 4 speaker.
I don't like the placement of the speaker. I keep putting my thumb over it cause of the way I hold my phone.
>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
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I don't like the placement of the speaker. I keep putting my thumb over it cause of the way I hold my phone.
>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
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Me too :/
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Funny, one of the reviewers on Youtube said that the speaker was incredibly loud. Search for Androidizen's hands on.
I agree. Speakers suck in this phone. However that is only if you turn the volume all the way up. If you leave it at 80% sound is clear. Not too loud though....
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Funny, one of the reviewers on Youtube said that the speaker was incredibly loud. Search for Androidizen's hands on.
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Its reasons like this that almost anything you read has to be taken with a grain of salt, some say the speaker is loud, others say its barely audible. I mean come on, how can anyone make an informed decision when every detail of the phone gets praises and boos at the same time.
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I've been really satisfied with the overall performance and feel of the Nexus 5. The only problem I have with the device is the anemic speaker quality. I feel like I get more vibration from the phone than I actually get sound out of the device.
Its not a deal breaker for me (I'd rather have a reference device than speakers on the front that sound good like the HTC One) but it is a concern. Not sure if I'll be able to even hear it ring in louder environments.
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Its not a problem for me as I rarely use speaker.
VSack said:
I've been really satisfied with the overall performance and feel of the Nexus 5. The only problem I have with the device is the anemic speaker quality. I feel like I get more vibration from the phone than I actually get sound out of the device.
Its not a deal breaker for me (I'd rather have a reference device than speakers on the front that sound good like the HTC One) but it is a concern. Not sure if I'll be able to even hear it ring in louder environments.
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Honestly I've heard different things about the speaker. Guess people have different expectations.
Problem solved
VSack said:
I've been really satisfied with the overall performance and feel of the Nexus 5. The only problem I have with the device is the anemic speaker quality. I feel like I get more vibration from the phone than I actually get sound out of the device.
Its not a deal breaker for me (I'd rather have a reference device than speakers on the front that sound good like the HTC One) but it is a concern. Not sure if I'll be able to even hear it ring in louder environments.
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+1.
The speaker sucks so much.
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Problem solved
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That link doesn't work
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Try it again
You don't need to be an expert to see the speaker sucks. Those of you who don't have the phone yet will find out soon enough ^^
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You don't need to be an expert to see the speaker sucks. Those of you who don't have the phone yet will find out soon enough ^^
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I didn't buy it for the speaker. lol Check out that link I posted or buy some headphones.
theesotericone said:
I didn't buy it for the speaker. lol Check out that link I posted or buy some headphones.
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Me neither, I'm not complaining I'm just making a statement.
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Speakers isn't beats audio like HTC but its good here for me
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peachpuff said:
Its reasons like this that almost anything you read has to be taken with a grain of salt, some say the speaker is loud, others say its barely audible. I mean come on, how can anyone make an informed decision when every detail of the phone gets praises and boos at the same time.
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it's almost as if people and their preferences were. . .different!!!!!!
Interested to hear thoughts on this from those that are disappointed in the speaker.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hr.podlanica
I've tried it and think it makes a difference though it's obviously still not One territory.
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Coming from the Galaxy S &Note range for the past 4 years I jave to say this pjone has the worst speakers I've. Evwr used. Guess that's where they cut the price on. The sound is tiny~! >.<
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I read lot of posts where people is asking himself if the nexus 5 vibration is normal or not (seems like a truck). I'm here to CLARIFY the question. I can do this because fortunately i bought 2 phones (1 for me and 1 for my girlfriend) and i have 1 faulty and 1 not.
To explain better i can 100% says that the sounds i listened into the defect thread is exactly like my phone (the faulty one - 32gb white) and the other one (32 gb - black) is totally DIFFERENT AND NORMAL, so guys i know lot of you are happy to have a vibrator in their hands but trust me and check with someone else you meet : is FAULTY ,the right one is normal, like any other phone (to be honest isn't a good quality vibration like my htc one for example, but it doesn't sound loud as the faulty).
and few words about this:
I know guys that everyone here loves google, me too, but i'm objective. If you sell a phone and for example os is not 100% stable, i can understand, i wait updates and it's ok; if you don't put a 2$ earphones inside, i can accept, but if you sell phones with dead pixels, dust under screen, faulty and crappy vibrator motors, faulty screens, faulty buttons with rattle, here is a question of QUALITY and PLEASE don't say me that the phone is low cost. I PAID 410 EUROS, not 100 and if go to a market and i buy a cheap phone (100euro) i don't have rattle or something like this. We can say that they don't do quality control process properly and that a BIG company like google MUST check this and the data that confirm my ideas is the form that users here have compiled: only 38% of phones are resulted with NO DEFECTS, all others with SAME PROBLEMS, so it's not just a feeling. It's a Real problem...
my suggestion is : DO RMA until it's possible, my MONEY wasn't with dust, or it wasn't rattling...
hope to have done a useful thing
A.C.
You're using ellipsis instead of periods.
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finalhit said:
You're using ellipsis instead of periods.
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lol...
finalhit said:
You're using ellipsis instead of periods.
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it's okay, he's European.
I paused every single time i saw those "...". Damn it lol
Lol...I´d suggest waiting for the 2nd or 3rd charge or just replace the motor yourself (it is glued to the BACKPLATE, so it´s VERY easy ) - at the moment with my personal experience, there are more faulty motors than correct ones..it might just be something like the Power Button rattle, easy to fix. I have had hands on 5 devices (including mine) - ALL of them did that Chirping sound when typing on the keyboard ( all of them were black, if it matters ). So RMA´ing now will most likely not result in a perfect device. You just might get a worse one..
So again: Wait a few months and then RMA -> until then JUST DEACTIVATE the vibration on keypress - this is an easy fix as the chirping noise only occurs on very short vibrations rhythms (e.g typing on the keyboard)
Here a sound example what everybody is talking about:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7q6j7iviigfmxt0/VIBRATION Nexus5.m4a
Greetings and sorry for the bad English grammar - I´m European aswell :S
I'm very confused about what is written in the OP.
What is wrong with the vibration motors? I noticed mine is not as strong as the one in my GS3, but that's about it.
Tony_YYZ said:
I'm very confused about what is written in the OP.
What is wrong with the vibration motors? I noticed mine is not as strong as the one in my GS3, but that's about it.
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Just play the file above to hear how does it sound like. Is yours the same?
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Sn00ky said:
Just play the file above to hear how does it sound like. Is yours the same?
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Mine does not sound anything like that. It's a consistent vibe.
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Mine does not sound anything like that. It's a consistent vibe.
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It´s not about the consistency...try TYPING with your keyboard...one letter at a time..95% chance it will do that screech sound liek a car choking...
iNaruX said:
It´s not about the consistency...try TYPING with your keyboard...one letter at a time..95% chance it will do that screech sound liek a car choking...
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I just did a bunch of typing on the keyboard while keeping the phone near my ear to hear what it sounded like. I didn't hear/feel anything abnormal.
I tried slow one-letter-at-a-time and rapid typing.
Crap...I was hoping for it to be "normal"...guess I have to RMA then..what a DRAG! Waiting again for a new device and transferring ownership from the previous owner..seriously, why is this so hard, google?
iNaruX said:
Crap...I was hoping for it to be "normal"...guess I have to RMA then..what a DRAG! Waiting again for a new device and transferring ownership from the previous owner..seriously, why is this so hard, google?
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You definitely have a faulty motor.I listened to your sound file and it's terrible; my Moto X doesn't even sound that bad and it has a loose motor. I can barely here the one in my N5 but I can feel its vibes.
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wow...there is LOT of nitpicking going on.
The vibration is fine..... you feel subtle vibration while typing and the "noise".... i only heard when i had the phone's back against my ear....plus it's the same sound i've heard come out of all phones that use a linear oscillator vibration motor.
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You definitely have a faulty motor.I listened to your sound file and it's terrible; my Moto X doesn't even sound that bad and it has a loose motor. I can barely here the one in my N5 but I can feel its vibes.
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Put the back of phone to your ear and then type...you'll hear it. and it's fine if you do cuz it's freaking normal!
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wow...there is LOT of nitpicking going on.
The vibration is fine..... you feel subtle vibration while typing and the "noise".... i only heard when i had the phone's back against my ear....plus it's the same sound i've heard come out of all phones that use a linear oscillator vibration motor.
Put the back of phone to your ear and then type...you'll hear it. and it's fine if you do cuz it's freaking normal!
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I think you're absolutely right!
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Mine makes no sound what so ever. Only the keyboard click from SwiftKey. Not even up against my ear. In fact when the phone was up against my ear I couldn't even hear the click sound from SwiftKey. No sound whatsoever.
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Mine sounds weird too. Doesn't seem normal.
youtube.com/watch?v=BSntwD7-V5k
Derekwolfee said:
Mine makes no sound what so ever. Only the keyboard click from SwiftKey. Not even up against my ear. In fact when the phone was up against my ear I couldn't even hear the click sound from SwiftKey. No sound whatsoever.
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it's impossible that there is "no sound whatsoever" if your vibration is on for the keyboard. Do you even have haptic feedback on in swiftkey?
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it's impossible that there is "no sound whatsoever" if your vibration is on for the keyboard. Do you even have haptic feedback on in swiftkey?
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Umm it's not impossible and yes I do have it enabled and actually have the haptic set to 20ms which is longer than default.
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Mine sounds perfectly normal so far. it's actually quieter than my htc one s.
Hello all,
I have noticed that the calls (at least on Tmobile) are quite noisy / with hiss - both on the earpiece and the bluetooth headset. Anyone else noticed this?
I feel like I had a slight hiss noise where I hear in the background but it's intermittent, not continuous. I could be describing it wrong though. GPS 32gb.
A lot of peeps have this issue. There is a long thread about this. Most likely you got a bad unit. Good luck though i had 4 units have same issue.
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I also hear this 'hiss' during phone calls. Also when I am playing a game, that I have muted all sounds for, the speakers keep giving empty noise.
jtwlbz said:
A lot of peeps have this issue. There is a long thread about this. Most likely you got a bad unit. Good luck though i had 4 units have same issue.
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Did you manage to get this resolved by replacing?
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Did you manage to get this resolved by replacing?
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No i returned it cuz tired of playing replacing game. Att even flagged me. I went to iphone 6 plus for a solid build quality. All my nexus 4 5 6 have been replaced multiple times to get a right one. Im done.
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