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blown speaker after watching transformers

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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tevinwade said:
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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tevinwade said:
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.

tevinwade said:
I'm starting to hear more bad than good from this device.
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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.

Minor criticism - 3.5mm jack output quality subpar

It's not a main selling point of the tablet but the sound quality coming out the 3.5mm jack is not up to snuff.
Using the same headphones in my GNex, the sound is much more full and bass thumps a bit more.

push the headphone jack all the way into the socket?
It's been mentioned a few times in other threads already....ram the jack in hardddddddd until you hear a loud click. Then it's fully seated.
If it's not fully seated, it sounds tinny and mono instead of stereo.
The jack is ridiculously tight but it's not low quality....

kenyee said:
It's been mentioned a few times in other threads already....ram the jack in hardddddddd until you hear a loud click. Then it's fully seated.
If it's not fully seated, it sounds tinny and mono instead of stereo.
The jack is ridiculously tight but it's not low quality....
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Is it weird that the way you wrote this excited me? But seriously Op, Kenyee is right. I almost thought it was 2.5mm jack and I would break it if I forced it in. After quickly checking the official specs, I just went for broke and thrust it in there. Works great now!
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If you want better highs and lows get the app Equalizer and set it to rock.
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Great....another thing I'll obsessively check every minute :/ Even though with my skull candy earbuds the sound is crisp and clear, and loud even at a low volume.
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No offence but.. anyone saying its good has worse hearing than my 88yo grandmother.
Audio quality is appalling.
Its a tegra 3 problem.
Yes my phones are all the way in..
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The sound on mine is great from the 3.5mm jack, perhaps your device has a manufacturing defect if you are pushing it hard all the way into the correct position, I know my jack is pretty tight with most of my headsets except for one that fits perfectly, but that one is a little lose in other jacks.

Mungulz said:
No offence but.. anyone saying its good has worse hearing than my 88yo grandmother.
Audio quality is appalling.
Its a tegra 3 problem.
Yes my phones are all the way in..
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*shrugs* No offense taken, but....maybe your N7 has a defect. I'd hate to think at 39 yrs old I'm already going deaf But seriously, mine sounds awesome with my earbuds.

I've been using it in my car to play music and IMO it sounds better then my EVO Lte with "Beats" (ooohhh ahh).

Nah its a tegra 3 issue.
Honestly most people wouldn't notice it, but im a little bit of an audiophile, and the sound quality is really lacking. Sounds like listening to a 128kbps mp3 vs a 320..
Same song, same headphones, both streaming from Google music, I would say the nexus is 70% (if that..) as good as my optimus 2x.
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Mine sounds great for a tablet. Yes, it is no where my $2000 DAC and amp setup but good enough considering it's price. First thing some of you need is a high quality earphone. Don't use cheap ass iPod ear buds and then complain about the quality of the sound. The speakers on the nexus 7 on the other hand do kind of suck.
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sounds fine to me. and if you put your hand behind the external speaker it makes it a littler better lol. but seriously sounds perfectly fine to me. maybe i'm just easily impressed.

noobandriod said:
Mine sounds great for a tablet. Yes, it is no where my $2000 DAC and amp setup but good enough considering it's price. First thing some of you need is a high quality earphone. Don't use cheap ass iPod ear buds and then complain about the quality of the sound. The speakers on the nexus 7 on the other hand do kind of suck.
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I concur....speaker quality isn't that great. I got "volume + "(volume booster) from meltus in the play store and it's soooo much better, by 50%. Very minimal distortion when you increase the volume in the app setting to the recommended number, which is 10 I believe.

dirtyhamster73 said:
I concur....speaker quality isn't that great. I got "volume + "(volume booster) from meltus in the play store and it's soooo much better, by 50%. Very minimal distortion when you increase the volume in the app setting to the recommended number, which is 10 I believe.
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As true as your post is, this topic is focused on the quality of the sound coming out of the headphone Jack, not the Nexus 7's speaker
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I'm 100% well aware of that. Pretty sure it's still on topic. I was replying to "noobandroid" comment on the speaker.
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dirtyhamster73 said:
I'm 100% well aware of that. Pretty sure it's still on topic.
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Not really, sorry.
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i actually think its pretty good and i think it provides a relatively flat output.
maybe some of you who are complaining have other phones/tablets that EQ up the bass, so you think that the nexus 7 is missing bass? just a thought.
im also a casual audiophile who uses $300-400 headphones (yes i have several, and no they are not beats by dr dre)..

Mungulz said:
No offence but.. anyone saying its good has worse hearing than my 88yo grandmother.
Audio quality is appalling.
Its a tegra 3 problem.
Yes my phones are all the way in..
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Not offended either. In just had my hearing tested and it is way above average for my age of 41. My N7 sounds great and I'm using some ear buds I picked up at the dollar store. Sounds as good as my iPod Nano 5th Gen.
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I don't listen to a lot of music so it's fine for me.
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Wait for kernel devs to bake in USB DAC support.
But seriously, you should know better than to expect audiophile quality from a SOC that costs $20.

Just to Clarify about Vibration Motor defect in Nexus 5

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.

Tony_YYZ said:
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.
Infekxion said:
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!

n19htmare said:
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?

n19htmare said:
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.

hiss in call

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?

jonpaterson said:
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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Headphone Mic issue.

I know a lot of people share the same issue as me and i don't think it has ever been fixed or they have any desire to fix it. When i'm using my headset my mic suddenly goes mute i have to either unplug it and re plug it in. Or turn on and off the speaker but its a hassle. This is the same issue i had with my zte axon 7 which was frustrating. I'm extremely disappointed because its a great phone. Not sure if anyone has a solution to this or is having the same issue. I returned my pixel xl for this phone and its great but as person who is constantly using the headset its such a pain to deal with it.

Poli169 said:
I know a lot of people share the same issue as me and i don't think it has ever been fixed or they have any desire to fix it. When i'm using my headset my mic suddenly goes mute i have to either unplug it and re plug it in. Or turn on and off the speaker but its a hassle. This is the same issue i had with my zte axon 7 which was frustrating. I'm extremely disappointed because its a great phone. Not sure if anyone has a solution to this or is having the same issue. I returned my pixel xl for this phone and its great but as person who is constantly using the headset its such a pain to deal with it.
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If you were having the same problem on your other device then maybe it's your headset?

Lmao, it's your headphones.. I'm dying. Lol

"If everywhere you go smells like crap, maybe it's time to smell your own shoes" applies very well here xD Probably your headphones yeah...

No I have tried multiple headsets and if you read on the one plus forums and look it up it's actually a problem a lot of people have. I wish it was my headphones but it's not tried several pairs new and old. Only have this issue on this phone they work perfect on my iPhone pixel and nexus 6p.