This is a pretty asinine problem but I just had a query regarding my Nokia 8.
I've iPhones over the past 5-6 years. The headphone jack on my Nokia 8 seems to be 'mushy'. Now don't get me wrong. The headphone jack fits fairly snugly and is no way loose. There is satisfying click that you generally expect from a headphone jack. I mean the last mm requires a push but it doesn't click into place.
Is this because of the waterproofing and possible water gaskets inside the jack?
The last 5% takes. bit of force to go in but there isn't a metal audible click that I used to hear from other phones/laptops.
It might be a faulty jack cause i don't have that problem.
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Mine is the same, I think.
I've noticed that while the last mm or so of insertion has friction, the 'click' happens early. This means the jack can be pulled out about a mm or so (causing music to pause) without the jack 'letting go'.
By comparison, my S5 headphone jack takes about the same amount of force to release, but it's more 'all or nothing'. It is either fully seated, or fully released. The Nokia 8 has a bit of an 'in between' area.
A bit dissappointing but it hasn't been an issue in real-world use.
EDIT: The issue is much worse using non-mic earphones, I've noticed. They really don't seat properly.
EDIT EDIT: Just tried an in-store demo model - it was faintly better than mine, but still very, very poor compared to every other model of phone. Hard to believe Nokia could stuff up such a simple, easy part of the design.
I have the same problem... I will send my phone to repair, hoping the will do something.
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So, this weekend when getting out of my car I dropped my phone directly facedown on my paved driveway...
I had a silicone body glove style case on it. No damage to the screen at all, but the next day I tried to listen to some music with my earbuds and it just played from the phone speaker instead.
So I'm guessing my headphone jack broke from the impact. I took my phone apart following an XDA thread and couldn't see any apparent damage, must be damaged internally in the component.
Anyone ever replaced their headphone jacks?
I found this website that sells replacement parts, but it comes with the earpiece speaker as well for some reason... I guess it is difficult to just replace the headphone jack.
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Reputable website? Anyone used them? I checked Reseller Ratings and some people complained about terrible service, wrong parts sent etc... But the majority were good. Just wanted to see if anyone on XDA has ever dealt with them.
that happened to me before i rooted so i just used my warrenty and they replaced it. i dont know why there will be a earpiece speaker
Huhu,
some weeks ago it start that i had problems with my headphone jack. sometimes it stops playing music when it get touched while i put it in the pants. and now i can be happy if the smartphone register 1 of 100 times i connect my headphones.
someone of u ever had the same problem and repair it himself?
pls let me know because that s*ck ;] and sry my bad english
I think the best and easiest thing to do to fix this is take it in and have them replace it.
Get the pocket lint out. Seriously, lol. Mine was doing the same thing, so I looked in it with a really bright flashlight and saw pocket lint pressed against the bottom
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i also had one in but putting him out not help ;()
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Had problems with D1 phone jack, and D3 also. To me it is a matter of thickness of the male jack. I have real nice Sony ear buds but the jack cuts out, move it and is good for short while. I pinched the jack to make it oblong, very desperate move. Cuts out much less, but still kinda crapy. I have an older Sony ear buds and the jack is thicker and have no problems. Even at the gym.
Bottom line is cheesy, cheap parts there on that Motorola.
Cameron6472 said:
Get the pocket lint out. Seriously, lol. Mine was doing the same thing, so I looked in it with a really bright flashlight and saw pocket lint pressed against the bottom
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This happened to me twice. So, I guess that should be +2!
The plug would stop snapping in. I thought for sure I had broken the jack. But after a little close inspection, a flashlight, toothpick and can of duster I was able to get it working good as new again.
some days ago i was looking around the internet and find these
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Droid-3-Teardown/6108/1
so some days later i was funny enough to open my Droid3, too.
and then i was able to get some more pocket lins out of the headphonejack.
i was thinking its already clean but these wasnt visible from the top.
and now all is woorking fine
Hope someone on here can help me; I've searched everywhere can could not find a solution. The technician who worked on the phone for over 10-15 hours over 1 month looked at me in despair and said "I have no clue"; I thought he was going to start crying.
Everything but the camera worked perfectly before the technician opened the phone to start working in it a month ago. It went downhill from there.
Sequence of events
1. Had a camera problem (constantly out of focus) on my US HTC One Dev edition that started 6 months after owning the phone, which I absolutely loved. Searched and found this was a hardware issue.
2. I'm in Canada with a US phone, so no warranty. HTC wants $200 and 3-6 weeks to fix it. Local shop wants $75. After asking if they knew how to fix this specific phone and that they had the tools, I leave it with them.
3. They installed the new camera, damaged my top speaker grille and phone side, and the screen is uneven (technician: worst phone I have ever seen to repair) If you want an idea of the process have a look at the ifixit website.
4. I order top grille for replacement ($10) from ebay. I realize the screen is has not been properly installed and after 2 days I have a purple dead pixel.
5. I leave for a trip with my family over the Holidays - I start taking photos in low light, guess what? Damn purple issue starts. The new camera was an omnivision from a bad batch (pre-Nov 2013). Fortunately, as a true geek I brought another camera with me, just in case.
6. I order a new camera myself from etradesupply $30 plus $20 shippling = $50. 2 more weeks go by.
7. I receive the grille and get the phone back to the technician, he puts it back together, but the grille won't bend and stick to the phone.
8. New camera arrives and Iget the phone back to the technician to install it, which he does.
9. I come back to pick up the phone - screen is all pixelated and dies shortly thereafter.
10. Technician proposes to swap screen from a bricked One he has from another customer. I hesitate, but agree; just want a working phone already. Donnor phone is pretty much destroyed in the process.
11. Back at the shop to pick up my phone: everything finally looks great. I realize back home that the sim card cannot be detected, and that the speakers make a bad creakling noise when volume is higher than 8 or 9 or at normal levels during a phone call
12. Back at the shop - he fixes the sim card issue (pooly connected wire), speaker issue remains and we have no clue where it's coming from. That's were we are at.
Lessons learned for both of us:
The HTC One is a fantastic phone...until it breaks.
technicians should refuse to repair the HTC One, it's almost guaranteed that they will damage something
I should have sent the phone to HTC for 4 weeks paid $200, pay $100 for a loaner phone and be done with the problem...
Problem description
Problem is blatant when volume is at 8 or 9 or more, but is also there at lower volumes, and during phone calls at any volume, there is a creaking noise from the speakers mostly top one. When we press on the grilles the problem is slightly better.
When the whole phone (electronics) was outside the aluminum unibody frame the noise would stop. As soon as we inserted the top end of the phone assembly into the aluminum frame the noise started.
When beatsaudio is off problem is not as bad.
We inspected the motherboard, daughterboard, casing, speakers and everything looks fine (i.e. nothing broken or missing).
Questions
1. Speaker worked perfectly before the technician swapped the screen and reassembled the phone. It's kind of odd that both speakers started having the same issue at the same time. Is it worth trying to replace the speakers with new ones?
2. Could it be interference from something that was not properly put together?
3. Should I use the phone as a hammer, throw it as far as I can from the top of a 30-story building, in a river from a dam, put it in a bucket filled with fuel, or tie it to a propane tank and shot a bullet into it?
Thanks so much for any help!
fujisan582 said:
Hope someone on here can help me; I've searched everywhere can could not find a solution. The technician who worked on the phone for over 10-15 hours over 1 month looked at me in despair and said "I have no clue"; I thought he was going to start crying.
Everything but the camera worked perfectly before the technician opened the phone to start working in it a month ago. It went downhill from there.
Sequence of events
1. Had a camera problem (constantly out of focus) on my US HTC One Dev edition that started 6 months after owning the phone, which I absolutely loved. Searched and found this was a hardware issue.
2. I'm in Canada with a US phone, so no warranty. HTC wants $200 and 3-6 weeks to fix it. Local shop wants $75. After asking if they knew how to fix this specific phone and that they had the tools, I leave it with them.
3. They installed the new camera, damaged my top speaker grille and phone side, and the screen is uneven (technician: worst phone I have ever seen to repair) If you want an idea of the process have a look at the ifixit website.
4. I order top grille for replacement ($10) from ebay. I realize the screen is has not been properly installed and after 2 days I have a purple dead pixel.
5. I leave for a trip with my family over the Holidays - I start taking photos in low light, guess what? Damn purple issue starts. The new camera was an omnivision from a bad batch (pre-Nov 2013). Fortunately, as a true geek I brought another camera with me, just in case.
6. I order a new camera myself from etradesupply $30 plus $20 shippling = $50. 2 more weeks go by.
7. I receive the grille and get the phone back to the technician, he puts it back together, but the grille won't bend and stick to the phone.
8. New camera arrives and Iget the phone back to the technician to install it, which he does.
9. I come back to pick up the phone - screen is all pixelated and dies shortly thereafter.
10. Technician proposes to swap screen from a bricked One he has from another customer. I hesitate, but agree; just want a working phone already. Donnor phone is pretty much destroyed in the process.
11. Back at the shop to pick up my phone: everything finally looks great. I realize back home that the sim card cannot be detected, and that the speakers make a bad creakling noise when volume is higher than 8 or 9 or at normal levels during a phone call
12. Back at the shop - he fixes the sim card issue (pooly connected wire), speaker issue remains and we have no clue where it's coming from. That's were we are at.
Lessons learned for both of us:
The HTC One is a fantastic phone...until it breaks.
technicians should refuse to repair the HTC One, it's almost guaranteed that they will damage something
I should have sent the phone to HTC for 4 weeks paid $200, pay $100 for a loaner phone and be done with the problem...
Problem description
Problem is blatant when volume is at 8 or 9 or more, but is also there at lower volumes, and during phone calls at any volume, there is a creaking noise from the speakers mostly top one. When we press on the grilles the problem is slightly better.
When the whole phone (electronics) was outside the aluminum unibody frame the noise would stop. As soon as we inserted the top end of the phone assembly into the aluminum frame the noise started.
When beatsaudio is off problem is not as bad.
We inspected the motherboard, daughterboard, casing, speakers and everything looks fine (i.e. nothing broken or missing).
Questions
1. Speaker worked perfectly before the technician swapped the screen and reassembled the phone. It's kind of odd that both speakers started having the same issue at the same time. Is it worth trying to replace the speakers with new ones?
2. Could it be interference from something that was not properly put together?
3. Should I use the phone as a hammer, throw it as far as I can from the top of a 30-story building, in a river from a dam, put it in a bucket filled with fuel, or tie it to a propane tank and shot a bullet into it?
Thanks so much for any help!
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Wow.. Just wow... Looks like your speaker grills haven't been put in properly.. Did he replace only the LCD or the LCD+front housing?
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Most likely a bad speaker placement. It sounds to me that the "technician" didn't place the speakers properly and it probably is now always in contact with the aluminium grills. That will cause weird audio creaking noise as the speaker vibrations are vibrating the aluminium grills as well. That's why if you press on the speaker grills, it will stop that extra vibration from the speaker grills. Beats Audio will just make more vibrations in the speakers and worsen your problem.
I suggest you find another "technician" because the one you went to is clearly stupid.
Thanks for the replies!
n1234d said:
Wow.. Just wow... Looks like your speaker grills haven't been put in properly.. Did he replace only the LCD or the LCD+front housing?
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He replaced the full front housing to make sure we would not have problems fitting the speaker grills again.
ZeroInfinity said:
Most likely a bad speaker placement. It sounds to me that the "technician" didn't place the speakers properly and it probably is now always in contact with the aluminium grills. That will cause weird audio creaking noise as the speaker vibrations are vibrating the aluminium grills as well. That's why if you press on the speaker grills, it will stop that extra vibration from the speaker grills. Beats Audio will just make more vibrations in the speakers and worsen your problem.
I suggest you find another "technician" because the one you went to is clearly stupid.
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Sounds like you are on to something. I got a similar answer on ifixit where I posted the issue.
Will get the guy to open my one up again and make sure the speaker is properly in place before ordering a new one. These suckers are $2, but shipping from HongKong is $23!
Thanks again for your help!
ZeroInfinity said:
Most likely a bad speaker placement. It sounds to me that the "technician" didn't place the speakers properly and it probably is now always in contact with the aluminium grills. That will cause weird audio creaking noise as the speaker vibrations are vibrating the aluminium grills as well. That's why if you press on the speaker grills, it will stop that extra vibration from the speaker grills. Beats Audio will just make more vibrations in the speakers and worsen your problem.
I suggest you find another "technician" because the one you went to is clearly stupid.
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Hi Zero, probably should start a new thread for this, but I've noticed this in all the Ones I've seen. What happens is the Upper speaker has good amounts of bass and treble but very low midrange. On the other hand, the lower speaker has good midrange, okay bass, and lacking treble. That's exactly why it sounds uneven. Can you please make a mod to solve this?
For anyone interested in an update - the issue doesn`t come from vibration on the grilles. There is a small rubber around the speaker to prevent that and we doubled it to see if it makes any difference. It doesn`t. We realized that the noise was coming from some kind of short circuit whenever we pressed the daugther board along the top of the phone (we could hear a small buzz each time we pressed it). Next stop = electronics technician...
fujisan582 said:
For anyone interested in an update - the issue doesn`t come from vibration on the grilles. There is a small rubber around the speaker to prevent that and we doubled it to see if it makes any difference. It doesn`t. We realized that the noise was coming from some kind of short circuit whenever we pressed the daugther board along the top of the phone (we could hear a small buzz each time we pressed it). Next stop = electronics technician...
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Hello mate ! Sorry for asking this question, as this thread was started long ago. How does it perform now ? Do you regret that your device has been repaired ? Can you please upload some photos of the device ? Does it look and feel like it was a new device after the entire messed up repair ? Sorry for asking these questions. Thanks in advance :good:
How do you guys like the movement of the headphone jack to the bottom? I've had an HD2 (bottom) and S2 & S4 (top). I prefer it to be on the top, because it's easier to handle the phone with headphones plugged in. I just got a LG G4, which I'm probably going to return for a number of reasons, the headphone jack location being one of them. When holding the G4 with headphones, I find the weight of the phone partially supported by the headphone connector, making it clumsy to hold. It also concerns me that the jack will suffer wear and tear as a result. I'm considering replacing the G4 with either an S5 or S6, but now that I look at the S6, it's got the jack in pretty much the same spot as the G4. Anyone find this problematic? The HD2 wasn't too bad because the jack was almost in the center, unlike the far left location on the G4 and S6. Thanks!
I had it on my g3 and actually prefer it on the bottom so it was a nice surprise to see samsung did it. Cord management is much easer when it's on the bottom, plus when I'm web surfing or texting while listening to music it gives my little finger a place to rest. I don't see how the jack being on the bottom changes it being supported by a cable or not, isn't that all to do with how long said cable is?
I prefer it on the bottom, because it suits my style of using the phone.
Jack on the bottom works better for pant pocket storage.
I wear pants that have a pocket on the leg that I put my phone in. The phone goes in upside down, so if I am using headphones, the jack sticks out the pocket.
Jack on the bottom works better with window mount phone holder.
I use a window mount phone holder while driving. I have an older radio, so if I want to listen to Pandora Radio I have to use the Auxiliary jack to get audio in to the car.
Muffin-Factory said:
I prefer it on the bottom, because it suits my style of using the phone.
Jack on the bottom works better for pant pocket storage.
I wear pants that have a pocket on the leg that I put my phone in. The phone goes in upside down, so if I am using headphones, the jack sticks out the pocket.
Jack on the bottom works better with window mount phone holder.
I use a window mount phone holder while driving. I have an older radio, so if I want to listen to Pandora Radio I have to use the Auxiliary jack to get audio in to the car.
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Good point about pocket storage, it's nice to not have to change how you're holding the phone before slipping it in. I use the normal front pockets and put it in probably the same way you do with your cargo pockets.
What about a Sony Z3?
se1000 said:
What about a Sony Z3?
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I was under the impression that the Z3 has a locked bootloader, which would make it a no-go for me.
hella356 said:
I was under the impression that the Z3 has a locked bootloader, which would make it a no-go for me.
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It does but you can root it and install TWRP without having the bootloader unlocked. Plus the stock rom is pretty close to AOSP.
se1000 said:
It does but you can root it and install TWRP without having the bootloader unlocked. Plus the stock rom is pretty close to AOSP.
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Thanks for the info. The Z3 looks like a sweet rig, lots of good features. I've spent the last 36 hours using the LG G4, which I'm returning. It's the first phone I've owned that has soft keys as opposed to the hard/capacitive buttons that Samsung uses, and for me, Samsung's implementation is far superior, in an area that gets constant usage. I hadn't realized what a big selling point this is to me. And the wide expanse of custom ROMs, kernels, etc. that get developed for their flagships makes Samsung the only real option for me. So it's between the S5 & the 128GB S6; each has big advantages, including the headphone jack location. I'm hoping the more rounded corners of the S6 (compared to the G4) make the bottom jack easier to deal with. It's not a deal killer, but it's one more item in my S5 column.
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Thanks for the info. The Z3 looks like a sweet rig, lots of good features. I've spent the last 36 hours using the LG G4, which I'm returning. It's the first phone I've owned that has soft keys as opposed to the hard/capacitive buttons that Samsung uses, and for me, Samsung's implementation is far superior, in an area that gets constant usage. I hadn't realized what a big selling point this is to me. And the wide expanse of custom ROMs, kernels, etc. that get developed for their flagships makes Samsung the only real option for me. So it's between the S5 & the 128GB S6; each has big advantages, including the headphone jack location. I'm hoping the more rounded corners of the S6 (compared to the G4) make the bottom jack easier to deal with. It's not a deal killer, but it's one more item in my S5 column.
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Well if you don't mind loosing removables go with the s6. I don't care what anyone says the S6 is much better than the s5 especially the camera and fingerprint sensor.
ThePagel said:
Well if you don't mind loosing removables go with the s6. I don't care what anyone says the S6 is much better than the s5 especially the camera and fingerprint sensor.
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Those are some big things to lose, which makes the 128GB version the only sensible choice for my storage needs, which makes it $300 more than the S5. Ouch. I'll probably limp along with my slightly damaged S4 until the S6 prices drop a bit. I jumped on the G4 because of the huge freebies, but I can live with the S4 a little longer.
hella356 said:
It's the first phone I've owned that has soft keys as opposed to the hard/capacitive buttons that Samsung uses, and for me, Samsung's implementation is far superior, in an area that gets constant usage.
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I actually agree with you here, I prefer capacitive buttons and I like the back button on the right. We're both going to get kicked off of XDA. haha
My carrier had a deal for 50% off some galaxy buds 2 because reasons. It worked well for the learning curve with touch controls and whatever. Today I noticed the bottom of the clamshell case kind of swelled up, battery is suspect. To make things even more concerning. When I have the left earbud in my ear (regardless of the right earbud) Ithe left side of my head feels sore and it feels like I got punched in the eye. The complete opposite of what I asked for. I pull the left earbud out and 15 minutes later the pain goes away. There is no issue in the right ear what so ever. This is the first time I've used and owned wireless earbuds. Never had this experience with any other bluetooth, wired, wireless USB, audio thing ever. Earbuds, cans, whatever...never mattered.
Nothing on any search engine says anything about this sort of thing. I don't keep them in my ears for more than 2 hours at a time and practice proper hygiene. A swollen battery a week after pulling out them of the box is what it is and needs to be addressed alone. The pain aspect on the left side leaves me to wonder if that is the result of a defect on that specific earbud since the right side is OK. The Samsmug galaxy buds 2 is the only wireless earbuds I've ever used before so it's kind of a tough call on what the problem actually is.
Just wanted to share an odd experience and welcome any admonishment or advice anyone cares to share.