A question: it applies on my Moto G7 plus, aswell as my G6 plus: I bought myself a flip cover with a magnetic closure. Every time I flip the cover back a hear a sound. How on earth can I stop this annoying behavior? Any ideas here? I can't find anything in the settings...
Do you have a credit card in the folding case? Maybe it's triggering the NFC, you could test by turning that off.
I had no idea but found this old thread and that's what it was:
Case Magnet triggers noise in Nexus 5
Dahenjo said:
Do you have a credit card in the folding case? Maybe it's triggering the NFC, you could test by turning that off.
I had no idea but found this old thread and that's what it was:
Case Magnet triggers noise in Nexus 5
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You are right!
Turned out that it was a train card (the Dutch ov-chipcard) that caused the sound. It was in the socket of the flip cover. Removing this ov-chipcard solved it. That card has an NFC chip it....
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Several have noticed the limited number of sats the GPS fixes on and the lag in fixing plus "jumpiness" of location on the built-in GPS.
I have an idea... an accessory request, unless somebody knows of a reason this shouldn't work.
We have the GPS cover on the back and the ext. GPS antenna jack just under... How hard would it be to make a very small external antenna that is much better than the built-in?
I'm thinking you take off the GPS cover entirely and plugin something shaped like a jacket button... goes into the jack, maybe uses the places the cover attached for support, is fairly flat against the case... maybe just a wire from the jack out and in a spiral, enclosed in plastic...
Well, would it improve the signal? Only slight complication is it'd need a warning to be sure to pop it off before trying to slide the whole battery cover up.
Hmm... or maybe an entirely new battery cover that had a built-in antenna and a flexible way to connect to the GPS jack... Maybe another version to for the cellular antenna too, for people who need more signal strength?
What does everybody think?
Nobody thinks it'd work?
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Nobody thinks it'd work?
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I think you'd be better off just getting a bluetooth GPS receiver.
Hi !
I got this phone last week, but i think something is loose on it. When i put on my desktop i can hear something loose, and when i use my finger and knocking softly on the back beside the camera, i hear something loose. Is this normal or is it broken ? I cant hear anything loose if i just shake it.
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Hi !
I got this phone last week, but i think something is loose on it. When i put on my desktop i can hear something loose, and when i use my finger and knocking softly on the back beside the camera, i hear something loose. Is this normal or is it broken ? I cant hear anything loose if i just shake it.
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Mmm i dont hear anything like that on my Diamond? If mine was making a strange noise that would worry me a bit! Is the back cover on ok? Also when you take the back cover off, do you still hear anything?
Strange!
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the sound is when i am knocking with my finger beside camera....sounds like a screw loose or something...i have removed the battery and batterycover but it still there
isn't the stylus magnet gotten loose? Can you make it with or without stylus?
You are not the first one with loose magnet and it's not that big deal to fix.
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This give me hope. What is Stylus magnet ?
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This give me hope. What is Stylus magnet ?
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The magnet that holds the stylus into the phone. Try removing your stylus and tapping the phone in the same spot, does it still rattle? If the magnet was loose, the tip of the stylus could be rattling around near the camera.
Isn't your stylus getting 'sucked in' ?
strange sound
It is not the magnet i think....but could it be that the sound should be there ? The phone is vibrating when there is a call, and maybe its normal ? or am i just hoping thats the case ?
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Everything is working great but when putting the phone on the desktop i get the feeling something is loose since the scrambling sound.
When i remove pen and battery and knocking on the flat area where battery should be, then i get a small scrambling sound.
I always thought that noise came from the autofocus-lens of the camera ......
When i shake the phone there is no noise. When i put it on the desk there is this small noise.
But everything works fine.
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Hi !
I had a talk to HTC and there will be a small sound when knocking easy with finger on backside phone. But you should not hear anything when shaking the phone. And you should only hear the sound when having the phone beside your ear and knocking with finger. Anyway my sound was to high and i could hear the sound with earplugs so got recommendation by HTC to return the phone. I was also in 2 other shops and listening by knocking on them and there was also a very smll sound.
Thanks for all answers...
Hmmm, my Diamond has a rattle too, but it's quite loud...
I can hear it easily from a meters distance (my arms aren't any longer )..
Did anyone find out what is causing the rattle?
Thanks.
edit: I think it's a part of the camera (autofocus). If I autofocus and let go of the button, I hear the exact same "click" as I hear when tapping the backside of the phone. It also looses the autofocus, I'm afraid this may be a defect...
Mine is in a great condition
My device is working super!~
So for some reason my nexus one does not properly sense that my headphones are unplugged unless I pull them out with the plug rubbing against the right side of the jack, and to make it worse when the phone boots up it usually thinks I have headphones plugged in. This wouldn't be an issue if it didn't cause the earpiece to stop working for calls and the speaker to stop working for music unless I insert and remove headphones from the jack, and if I don't carry them with me and my phone reboots I am out of luck.
Is there any way to sidestep this without sending it in? Someone suggested to clean it with alcohol on a q-tip but I'm afraid of a water sensor hiding there like my old iPhone; anyone know if that's the case with the nexus one?
The best solution would be some kind of widget or application that lets me change whether the phone has headphones plugged in or not, but I've never found one..
Please help!
It happens to me for almost 6 months now. I still couldn't find a solution ... if you don't have your headphones with you and phone reboots, you can shut it down again and remove the battery for 2-3 minutes. Mine will reboot correctly after that.
I searched for a software that switch between headphones and headset, but still couldn't find one. I would pay for such piece of software. No luck until now
I have this problem also. I'm running CM6.1.1, and never saw this until CM 6.1 when they introduced the FM radio app that requires the headphones to be plugged in. With stock or CM6 I didn't have this issue. Don't know if it's related to CM or not, but it's kind of annoying having to keep headphones around to fix this.
Do you use any kind of task killer? I used to have problens with headphones when I used them. After I found out they do more harm than good, I stopped using and never had headphone problens again.
I don't use any task killers, I haven't used one since I was completely stock. Now with the latest Android, they don't really work that well anyway.
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Is there any way to sidestep this without sending it in? Someone suggested to clean it with alcohol on a q-tip but I'm afraid of a water sensor hiding there like my old iPhone; anyone know if that's the case with the nexus one?
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Don't kill me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that the Nexus One's moisture sensor is in the headphone jack. Also, a q-tip with a tiny drop of isopropyl alcohol would be your best bet to clean out whatever is making the device think that the headphones are plugged.
I actually had the same problem for a little while and q-tip + isopropyl alcohol, combined with spraying some compressed air (being extra cautious to have the can right-side-up) solved the problem for me.
Even if the moisture sensor is in the headphone jack, I highly doubt that a drop of isopropyl would set it off, given how it has such a high vapor pressure and thus evaporates so quickly.
Good luck fixing this!
I replaced the broken lcd of my ex-gf nexus and didn't see any water sensors inside of it.
But ya, isopropyl alcohol shouldn't trigger it anyway.
Thanks for moving this. I didn't notice until I saw the PM, so I might as well post an update:
Rubbing alcohol on a qtip with most of the cotton removed did the trick! Whatever it was that was causing my phone to trip is gone.
Also, I confirmed on the phone with HTC that there is not a moisture sensor in the headphone jack, so anyone still having that problem, try the alcohol and see!
I Just won an ebay auction on a used HTC one that has a problem with the mic, it only records static. I've done some searching and aparantly this is a pretty common problem, but I've been unable to find any solutions to it. Most of the posts seem to be from half a year ago so I'm assuming its a hardware defect limited to the earlier batches? I'm wondering if anyone knows a fix? Is it as simple as repacing the mic or is there more too it then that?
Phone was a good deal and even if i cant get it work can probably get my money back from just the parts...
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I Just won an ebay auction on a used HTC one that has a problem with the mic, it only records static. I've done some searching and aparantly this is a pretty common problem, but I've been unable to find any solutions to it. Most of the posts seem to be from half a year ago so I'm assuming its a hardware defect limited to the earlier batches? I'm wondering if anyone knows a fix? Is it as simple as repacing the mic or is there more too it then that?
Phone was a good deal and even if i cant get it work can probably get my money back from just the parts...
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If anyone was curious the phone arrived today. Kind of freaked out when I actually got to look at the phone (in person) and realized disassembly is practically impossible without breaking something.
Problem:
Extremely loud static during calls/recording, doesn't pick up any background noise. speakerphone/headphones record audio without problem.
Managed to fix it completely (partially by fluke?) and figured I'd post this knowledge in case anyone has a similar issue out of warranty.
Basically turned on the voice recorder app which has an active eq so you can see whats happening with what its picking up.
Then i started to jam and twist a pin into the bottom mic hole. After a few seconds I was able to cut the static down substantially and start to pick up background noise.
continued to play with the pin for a few minutes with 0 improvement. Decided to go for broke and just jam the pin in with quite a bit of force and still had 0 improvemnt. Tossed it gently onto my bed to google some suggestions, picked the phone back up a few min later and the mic works good as new. I'll probably spray a bit of rubbing alcohol in there tomorrow and pin a bit more just to try and clean up whatever gunk is left in there. thinking the fall on the bed dropped the crap out of the mic hole
Best $146 phone ever! I was actually surprised on how good condition this phone is in, practically 0 nicks/scratches on it!
I had that after my phone fell and I fixed it by basically putting my mouth on the mic pinhole and blowing/sucking (as if to move a membrane back and forth) but the second time it fell off that trick didn't work anymore. I'm stuck at speakerphone or earbuds now I might try the pin trick since I have nothing to lose.
So my tso recomendations are first try the blow/sucking trick before jamming a pin on the mic (a lot less invasive) and the second recommendation is don't drop it again
I don't believe the Mic is that delicate. I was definitely giving enough force to break it if it was. I pushed hard enough to bend the pin. I'm thinking there is an internal screen or something that easily gets clogged with dirt/grime. Maybe try some running alcohol to see if it can dissolve it if your worried.
For almost a year I have struggled to understand the way the speakerphone works.
It took a long time before I found out that on speakerphone, the TOP Microphone is what picks up your voice while the BOTTOM switches to the noise-cancelling (it is by the speaker) microphone and that helped me a LOT.
My wife and I have experimented with the speakerphone a lot.
Issue we have: Sometimes the SPIGEN Tough Armor and the Spigen Liquid Air Armor cases seem to affect the microphone quality. She cannot hear me as good (and I cannot hear her as good) as when the case is off. This is not ALWAYS the case, which drives us insane. I can't figure out the issue. Spigen replaced my first Liquid Air Armor case for free but it made no difference, so I figure it is not a case issue.
Observation last night: On my Verizon Note8, I have an extra option in my top-right menu on speakerphone called "TURN ON EXTRA VOLUME".
When I select the TURN ON EXTRA VOLUME feature, my wife noticed a difference in quality. I tested it several times with her, changing at a point in a sentence, and it was obvious to her which was which after a moment.
Is there any reason speakerphone quality seems to vary so wildly?
The best way to get perfect speakerphone quality is to remove my case and set it on a flat table, the top of the phone pointed toward my face.
Thanks.
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For almost a year I have struggled to understand the way the speakerphone works.
It took a long time before I found out that on speakerphone, the TOP Microphone is what picks up your voice while the BOTTOM switches to the noise-cancelling (it is by the speaker) microphone and that helped me a LOT.
My wife and I have experimented with the speakerphone a lot.
Issue we have: Sometimes the SPIGEN Tough Armor and the Spigen Liquid Air Armor cases seem to affect the microphone quality. She cannot hear me as good (and I cannot hear her as good) as when the case is off. This is not ALWAYS the case, which drives us insane. I can't figure out the issue. Spigen replaced my first Liquid Air Armor case for free but it made no difference, so I figure it is not a case issue.
Observation last night: On my Verizon Note8, I have an extra option in my top-right menu on speakerphone called "TURN ON EXTRA VOLUME".
When I select the TURN ON EXTRA VOLUME feature, my wife noticed a difference in quality. I tested it several times with her, changing at a point in a sentence, and it was obvious to her which was which after a moment.
Is there any reason speakerphone quality seems to vary so wildly?
The best way to get perfect speakerphone quality is to remove my case and set it on a flat table, the top of the phone pointed toward my face.
Thanks.
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Nothing?! God! This issue has annoyed me for a year.
Well, I have had this issue only 1 time, but it was with my note 4, it behaved really weird with a spigen case