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Tinny buzzy Sound

I've noticed my earpiece sound is a bit buzzy/tinny when someone talks, at least compared to my incredible. Anyone else experience this? I checked the demo units at the store, and they seem to also sound this way.

keever25 said:
I've noticed my earpiece sound is a bit buzzy/tinny when someone talks, at least compared to my incredible. Anyone else experience this? I checked the demo units at the store, and they seem to also sound this way.
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I was on the phone for about 10 mins yesterday from lifelock calling to ask if I had wanted to run credit with verizon, lol good thing though I guess. I didn't notice any issues at all with buzzing or anything. If it did it was minor and didn't bother me.

keever25 said:
I've noticed my earpiece sound is a bit buzzy/tinny when someone talks, at least compared to my incredible. Anyone else experience this? I checked the demo units at the store, and they seem to also sound this way.
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I havent noticed this on mine. I just made a call to test in case I just wasnt noticing it and didnt have this issue.
The only sound related issue I have noticed is that some sounds, like lock screen and the sound made when selecting an app, will get really low after a minute or two even if I have the volume on high and do not adjust it.

Anyone got the sound working in GTA3

Purchased this the day I got my phone but not really played it since the sound lags and crackles. PITA!!
I've tried a couple of optimization configs off here and it's not helped.

Same for me. Only, and not really good, solution is to mute it. Could it be a problem with ICS?

same with me. didn't got it fix so far

Same for me. Also have this issue using Navigon 4.1; impossible to use.

Skype as well.
Also Plants Vs Zombies crashes :*(

Speaker Issue?

So i'll be casully playing Modern Combat 5 with my controller when suddenly this weird screeching type noise will come out of the speakers, it lasts for a second then stops although one time it seemed to just keep doing it over and over. It's not part of the game for sure and although I have the increased volume mod this was happening even before i rooted. Anyone else getting this?

Karim.younus said:
So i'll be casully playing Modern Combat 5 with my controller when suddenly this weird screeching type noise will come out of the speakers, it lasts for a second then stops although one time it seemed to just keep doing it over and over. It's not part of the game for sure and although I have the increased volume mod this was happening even before i rooted. Anyone else getting this?
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Hi.
Also got this when playing Asphalt 8. Its only sometimes when the game is loading.
And its not the same as the static scream that occurs on custom roms like Pac Man.
Thanks
KnieveI

So it seems to be only with Gameloft games?

Hi, bought the tablet last week, noticed some kind of slight buzzing noise coming from the speakers when playing games. Even when I put the sound off.
It's like the CPU is working and you get interference from the speakers.
Spoke with NVIDIA customer service and they suggested trying connecting headphones to test. Did so, and although from the headphones the sound was fine, the speakers still had this slight noise.
Anyone else experiencing similar thing?
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TimeDoor72 said:
Hi, bought the tablet last week, noticed some kind of slight buzzing noise coming from the speakers when playing games. Even when I put the sound off.
It's like the CPU is working and you get interference from the speakers.
Spoke with NVIDIA customer service and they suggested trying connecting headphones to test. Did so, and although from the headphones the sound was fine, the speakers still had this slight noise.
Anyone else experiencing similar thing?
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Were you plugged in charging the device? To my understanding sometimes that causes the slight buzz.
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Karim.younus said:
So i'll be casully playing Modern Combat 5 with my controller when suddenly this weird screeching type noise will come out of the speakers, it lasts for a second then stops although one time it seemed to just keep doing it over and over. It's not part of the game for sure and although I have the increased volume mod this was happening even before i rooted. Anyone else getting this?
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I think it's a sound driver issue. I've had it happen on other devices when trying to use Viper4Android. I am hoping they address it in the lollipop update.
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ShrekOpher said:
Were you plugged in charging the device? To my understanding sometimes that causes the slight buzz.
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No, so far I have only used the tablet while discharging. It's very strange how much it varies sometimes; when I played Skylanders (free) it was quite intense. With other games it's not very noticable
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I just returned my for a refund due to static popping when using a headset. even with the volume muted i heard he sound. called Nvidia and they are aware that some devices have that defect. I decided to wait and try the nexus 9 if i don't like It I will try the shield again.

Karim.younus said:
So i'll be casully playing Modern Combat 5 with my controller when suddenly this weird screeching type noise will come out of the speakers, it lasts for a second then stops although one time it seemed to just keep doing it over and over. It's not part of the game for sure and although I have the increased volume mod this was happening even before i rooted. Anyone else getting this?
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Im gettingnthe same thing in Youtube, I hope they fix it.

Same here.
Heard the screach/buzz sound first time when playing Zombie Driver (tablet even turned off afterwards) then later several times in YouTube.
Looks like HW problem to me.

I get a screech of sorts every now and then, even outside of apps, when system sounds and notifications are triggered. Like a lot of other things on the tablet, it might be a hardware issue, but it might be software- I know that I didn't get any before the recent OTA.

When I touch my display I get some static noise on the side speakers, sounds are similar to a hard drive writing, its rather quiet but you can hear it and it sure is annoying!

GyroW said:
When I touch my display I get some static noise on the side speakers, sounds are similar to a hard drive writing, its rather quiet but you can hear it and it sure is annoying!
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Same thing happens to me, but i can only hear it in a dead quiet room. I find it tends to mostly go away if you put the power settings in 'battery saver'. My guess would it be some kind of interference from the proc and the audio processor when all the cores are running... not sure if it is just a general hardware thing or perhaps something that can be fixed in the audio driver.

I just had a similar issue, although mine was while playing Hearthstone and was insanely loud! It sounded like a fire drill, and I'm not exaggerating. It wouldn't stop either, like it has in the past, and I had to force shut down the tablet. I'm kind of wishing I would have waited a little longer to buy or waited for the next version to come out. I contacted Nvidia support and they basically gave me the run-around and all they said was that I should send them a video! Seriously??? Like I had the forethought to take a video while my tablet was screaming at me. I guess that's how much Nvidia cares, and I'll be sure to have my camera ready for the next time the SHIELD goes into fire drill mode.

MysticEagle21 said:
I just had a similar issue, although mine was while playing Hearthstone and was insanely loud! It sounded like a fire drill, and I'm not exaggerating. It wouldn't stop either, like it has in the past, and I had to force shut down the tablet. I'm kind of wishing I would have waited a little longer to buy or waited for the next version to come out. I contacted Nvidia support and they basically gave me the run-around and all they said was that I should send them a video! Seriously??? Like I had the forethought to take a video while my tablet was screaming at me. I guess that's how much Nvidia cares, and I'll be sure to have my camera ready for the next time the SHIELD goes into fire drill mode.
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How could they understand what happens if your device freezes when it outputs this sound or gives no usable log to diagnose it, and if you cannot reproduce it easily ? the video request is not so silly... Do you have experienced this just once ?

oleg77 said:
How could they understand what happens if your device freezes when it outputs this sound or gives no usable log to diagnose it, and if you cannot reproduce it easily ? the video request is not so silly... Do you have experienced this just once ?
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Well a video is not going to help them any more either now is it? That won't produce logs or outputs, unless you know something i don't. What they should have done is let me ship it back to them, send Me a replacement and run their own diagnostics on it to understand it better... That's what Amazon would do, and this is why they are not selling better. Make sense?

At least if they have a video they will have a clue if they know this issue, if your tablet freezes or not, and try to reproduce it (they won't try for a month to test a game, when maybe there is a software bug on a certain level in it, or whatever else, and maybe this is not hardware related). Nvidia is not responsible for OS instability. At least with a video they'll know it's not a random "one time" crash.
If it was my tablet, I would do a backup, factory reset, install just this one game, and see if there's still a problem.
Of course you can try to convince them to RMA your device, it's not your task to repair it. Good luck.

I had this happen to me yesterday(and couple times before too). Woke the tablet up after about 10 hrs or so and it was dead slow. I tap on something and it takes about 5 seconds for the tablet to register the touch and launch the app. It was during this time that the screeching noise came. And it happened a couple of times as I tried to get this thing to respond to my touches.
Finally had to restart it and it was back to being the zippy tablet that its supposed to be
About the video, i think thats a great idea, since that will at least give an idea about the sound. I dont know how to explain the sound either. Its like a metallic grinding noise, which is pretty scary because I feel like the fricking tablet is about to explode or something.

noise is going up and down, but always there
Same problem here.. Buzzing from booth speakers and at the back of the tablet. Weird thing is I can't open the faceworks app.. Gives me shader erroror something. Something wrong with GPU? Or is it lollipop update that has screwed with the tab? Since I can't see many older posts about this I mean.

almost every shield tablet makes that noise. its annoying but nothing wrong with it, its just poor electric shielding which causes interferences with the speakers.

Do you guys experience a slow down or lag when the sound comes on? I mean other than @crazyjc81.
I suspect it is related to the general lag issues that are going around. Ex. Sound is sent to the speakers and then it lags so the sound just keeps going until the processor gets around to turning it off.
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[Q] Nvidia Shiled Tab weird noises?!?

I recently got my Nvidia Shield for Christmas and upon installing the ATT LTE data Sim I seem to have a crackleing sound when using data. It does not make the sound while not using data example just playing music or games but it will if I'm listening to music and say... Search the web or anything like that. The noise doesn't happen when using WiFi or listening over the tablet speakers.
I have another sound problem that occurs seldomly when playing music over the speakers (both with WiFi and LTE). The tablet makes a, what I call, transformer like noise; the noise to the best I can describe sounds like a medium tone zap not high pitched.
Does anyone else have these problems and how do I fix them/do I need to sent this one back?

We have discussed a similar thing here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2995852
Is this the sort of thing you mean?
Thanks

I get the digital sound stretch/squelch "transformer" noise you're referring to sometimes. I'm not sure how you'd fix that: I think it's a quirk of this tablet.

GuyAdams said:
We have discussed a similar thing here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2995852
Is this the sort of thing you mean?
Thanks
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I don't have the crackling happen to the speakers only the squelch.

I get it some times, I've had it happen when there are a lot of apps going, and if an app hits high cpu load it seems. It'll do it for a moment, and clear up for a while. Closing down the backgrounded apps seems to help me. YMMV
Edit: You running latest update? I noticed it start after the 5.0.1 update.
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I've had this same issue on every version of the OS. I've had the tablet since a week after release in August and have run every update on the tablet and still get the noise, sometimes it is rather loud. It seems to do it more when stressing the tablet, I used to have Real Racing 3 on the tablet with the graphics modded to run at their highest, it would occasionally freeze up, and when it resumed, the speakers would squeak nearly every time.

I may not have just noticed it prior. But yours appears to be the same that mine is doing.
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Note 8 + Bluetooth Earphones issue (Echo/Crackle) on certain apps***

Well, as the title says... I was commonly using my note (barely a week old) and I came to notice that my wireless BOSE SoundSport works perfectly with certain apps and not with others... Pandora/Netflix and other streaming apps works find, with equalizer settings on and normal (off)... I've notice that crackle/echo sound mainly with games, games tested were CoC/Need for Speed No Limits/Real Racing 3/TWD: Season 1, 2/ and GoT: Season 1. So, to rule out any other doubts and try to see what's not working properly, I borrowed a random Apple wired earphones and everything worked perfectly. I tried a friend's BEAT's and got the same issue... so, it's definitely a BT issue... I have another BOSE set (wired) in the car that I could use in the meantime...
So, I did my extensive search before bugging you all, I did the unpair/re-pair... reset all of my network settings, tried different devices as mentioned above, rebooting the phone while paired and unpaired... so, I'm at a loss right now and baffled a bit... the earphones are about 2 months old and the phone was purchased last friday.... so both fairly new. I read that the S8's and S8+'s have similar issues, any insight from you all about this matter?

Bluetooth audio sucks. It's never worked well. I've had similar issues with every phone I've ever owned.

ShrekOpher said:
Bluetooth audio sucks. It's never worked well. I've had similar issues with every phone I've ever owned.
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Well, that doesn't sound promising... heh, I initially purchased the wireless BOSE because I was considering purchasing the iPhone X since they don't have the 3.5 mini jack. In light of that decision, iOS (Apple) has been screwing us jailbreakers since iOS 9.3.5 and I had an iPhone 6+ on iOS 8.4 JB, when I destroyed my iPhone because of obvious dated software and loss of connection "due to it", AT&T sent me a new one through the insurance program and it came with iOS 11... *shiver*... needless to say, hated the stock iPhone OS... couldn't do crap!... which ultimately forced me to move onto Android and decided to go to the Note 8. I see that the Note 8 is also a pain to root but as is, it does a lot that the iPhone doesn't. Just minor stuff that I'm use to with the iPhone that the Note isn't doing.
I do have a pair of wired BOSE earphones, so it's not like it's the end of the world, sort of got use to being without a wire tugging at me if it snags. How far does this dates with ****ty BT audio? I mean the audio is great on Pandora and other streaming service apps, it's just game apps sound terrible... I don't see why the audio chipset isn't capable to switch over without issue.

}{yBr!D^ said:
Well, that doesn't sound promising... heh, I initially purchased the wireless BOSE because I was considering purchasing the iPhone X since they don't have the 3.5 mini jack. In light of that decision, iOS (Apple) has been screwing us jailbreakers since iOS 9.3.5 and I had an iPhone 6+ on iOS 8.4 JB, when I destroyed my iPhone because of obvious dated software and loss of connection "due to it", AT&T sent me a new one through the insurance program and it came with iOS 11... *shiver*... needless to say, hated the stock iPhone OS... couldn't do crap!... which ultimately forced me to move onto Android and decided to go to the Note 8. I see that the Note 8 is also a pain to root but as is, it does a lot that the iPhone doesn't. Just minor stuff that I'm use to with the iPhone that the Note isn't doing.
I do have a pair of wired BOSE earphones, so it's not like it's the end of the world, sort of got use to being without a wire tugging at me if it snags. How far does this dates with ****ty BT audio? I mean the audio is great on Pandora and other streaming service apps, it's just game apps sound terrible... I don't see why the audio chipset isn't capable to switch over without issue.
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Bluetooth audio in general is just lower quality that wired, even on iPhone.
If it's only having issues during the games you might want to adjust the phones performance settings to be on the highest.
Use game tuner to adjust it.

ShrekOpher said:
Bluetooth audio in general is just lower quality that wired, even on iPhone.
If it's only having issues during the games you might want to adjust the phones performance settings to be on the highest.
Use game tuner to adjust it.
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I'm not complaining about the overall audio quality of the earphones while using a wireless setting. The echo/crackle is unbearable while running a game while music streaming or movie/tv streaming apps worked flawlessly... good quality sound via BT. Looking at your attachment I don't see that option on my phone. I know there is a performance option but not like yours .

Nevermind found it in the play store. I'll mess with GameTuner and BT tomorrow.

So, I used that Game Tuner app and the stock performance mode options on the phone and still does the same thing with BT connection... funny thing is I just now let pandora playing in the background and started up a game and well, pandora played normally while the game stuttered/echoed and crackled... The game apps just dont function with BT well as far as transmitting sound... the bandwidth is probably too slow for that much information to travel over the air...?? hmmm... thought it had BT 5.0 which this wouldn't have happened... I was happy Samsung had Qualcomm do their network chip because of their quality.... don't know wtf happened there.

}{yBr!D^ said:
So, I used that Game Tuner app and the stock performance mode options on the phone and still does the same thing with BT connection... funny thing is I just now let pandora playing in the background and started up a game and well, pandora played normally while the game stuttered/echoed and crackled... The game apps just dont function with BT well as far as transmitting sound... the bandwidth is probably too slow for that much information to travel over the air...?? hmmm... thought it had BT 5.0 which this wouldn't have happened... I was happy Samsung had Qualcomm do their network chip because of their quality.... don't know wtf happened there.
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That sounds like a game issue not a BT issue. Does it happen with all games. I have not had the same issue playing a few games I play.

ShrekOpher said:
That sounds like a game issue not a BT issue. Does it happen with all games. I have not had the same issue playing a few games I play.
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Happens with the games I have installed currently. This only happens when the BT earphones are connected not with the 3.5mm jack. Even on a BT Samsung speaker it does the same noises... What's a game you have that runs well for you?
But for sure it has to do with the gaming apps and BT together... only happens when both are working.

Ok, thread's over.... apparently something happened during the first install which caused the apps to run a muck and sound crappy.. reinstalled them and they're working after installing other random games to see if I'll get the same defective sound and they worked perfectly... and now my other games that I actually play as I'm re-installing them are working... so far. thanks

HA! not a fix, some of those games still have that issue... either wait for Samsung or used wired earphones for those games

Hello there. I've the same problem as yours. My note8 + razer hammerhead bt have cracking sound when playing need for speed no limits. How did you fix this game? Only a simple reinstall? I've reinstalled but still the same.
I've my hammerhead bt with other android phone + no limit and it worked fine! So im guessing this is a samsung problem