Just got it about an hour ago. It's small and kinda cool looking.
Good things:
I like how it defaults to only playing the audio when it's actually docked, rather than just pairing when you're close to the dock. I was worried that it would be fighting with my bluetooth headphones. You can manually connect the bluetooth audio while not-docked by going into bluetooth settings.
Things I'd like to change:
1. I listen to mostly podcasts (via BeyondPod) and Pandora on my phone, which don't use the built-in media player. So, the shortcut on the clock app doesn't do anything for me. I'd like to disable the clock app or customize its buttons, or just change which app loads when the phone is docked. Any ideas on how to do this?
2. It doesn't really handle incoming calls gracefully while docked. If you answer the phone without undocking, it will not default to speakerphone (like the palm pre would). If you DO turn on speakerphone, it switches back to the phone speaker, which may or may not be what you want.
To be clear... you can play Pandora over the stereo if you go back to the app drawer or the Pandora widget and play from there, right?
oh yeah, all audio goes through the output, i'm just saying it's a bit annoying to have that clock app come up when I never want to use it.
I gotcha now... yeah, I can imagine. Although I will mostly be using the dock on my nightstand, so that's actually perfect for me. Seems that was their primary intended use of the dock...
Yeah, I'm using it at work and pumping the audio into my desktop. That way I have one set of headphones for computer and phone audio; I can keep listening to my podcasts where I left off, but I can also take OCS calls and so forth on the computer.
It's actually really nice that the dock sends the ringer and alerts through the audio-output because now I don't have to worry about bugging people around me with text message alerts, but I also don't have to adjust the ringer every time I leave my desk.
I understand others could be frustrated with this though. I think they should give you an option to leave the ringer on the phone and only send music to the audio-out.
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2. It doesn't really handle incoming calls gracefully while docked. If you answer the phone without undocking, it will not default to speakerphone (like the palm pre would). If you DO turn on speakerphone, it switches back to the phone speaker, which may or may not be what you want.
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Yes this gets me as well. It would be nice if the speaker phone went through the line out. I Have my dock hooked up to one of my laptops and from there pipe the sound into my headphones. I would like to be able to hit answer and use the microphone on the phone (in speaker phone mode) and listen through the piped audio of my headset. It is not a major problem but it is somewhat disappointing that there is not finer control over docked behavior
One thing I wanted to add (got mine today)...
You cannot place the phone in the dock while a case is on the phone.
I have the silicone case and thought I might be able to "carve" out the sides to make it work... but no go. Too thick.
It is not such a huge deal for the desktop dock, but I am concerned about the upcoming car dock. I don't really want to carry a "naked" phone.
Well I must say I am thoroughly disappointed with this dock. First thing I noticed, I'm listening to Pandora, I quit Pandora while it is on the dock and the phone is basically frozen for 30 seconds to a min. Not sure if that's common. But it does it every time on mine. Also, the audio quality is terrible out of the 3.5mm jack on the dock. I have my headphones there since I leave them connected at my work desk. It is drastically worse, quiet, tinny, no bass or mid. I don't want to have to connect my headphones every time I dock. All around this was a waste of 45 bucks.
Also to add it will backout fine to the clock screen, but not to the launcher screen.
Edit again, it is actually any app. If you back out to the launcher home screen not the clock the phone is in a perpetual state of locked up. Its not frozen but you cannot switch between screens ot do anything but go to the clock home screen.
I don't want to start an argument, but I often wonder why so many people use phone cases. You realize these phones are actually designed to be carried without a case right? They have engineers agonizing over every tenth of a mm in thickness, trying hundreds of different coatings to find the ones that look/feel good and (especially in the case of the nexus) are most resistant to scratching. Then people slap a big (often bulky and ugly) case on them and proceed to carry it around in their pocket or bag all the time where it wouldn't get damaged anyway.
I carried my touch cruise around for 2 years and sold it with barely a mark on it, and I even dropped it a couple times. My touch diamond 2 looks brand new after a good 6 months of hard use. The Nexus has a glass screen that can hardly be scratched if you try. Unless you're doing very different things with your phone, I don't think you need to worry much.
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I don't want to start an argument, but I often wonder why so many people use phone cases. You realize these phones are actually designed to be carried without a case right? They have engineers agonizing over every tenth of a mm in thickness, trying hundreds of different coatings to find the ones that look/feel good and (especially in the case of the nexus) are most resistant to scratching. Then people slap a big (often bulky and ugly) case on them and proceed to carry it around in their pocket or bag all the time where it wouldn't get damaged anyway.
I carried my touch cruise around for 2 years and sold it with barely a mark on it, and I even dropped it a couple times. My touch diamond 2 looks brand new after a good 6 months of hard use. The Nexus has a glass screen that can hardly be scratched if you try. Unless you're doing very different things with your phone, I don't think you need to worry much.
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I think the bigger worry is dropping the device. They aren't designed to resist scratching/breaking from a significant fall onto pavement/concrete. If you drop it 4+ feet onto concrete you are going to see some damage most likely. A case that's designed to absorb and dissipate shock will help to reduce damage in these instances - the same with a decent screen protector. Now, nothing is going to prevent all damage in some of these scenarios, but for a few bucks to get a bit more protection for a $500+ device is worth it for some people.
With that being said the Nexus One seems much better suited to live without a case for scratch resistance on both the screen and the body of the phone - far better than some of HTC's previous outings with their plastic cases and resistive screens that seemed to scratch quite easily.
Now, I've had some phones fall onto the pavement and they incurred only cosmetic damage. Outside of cracking the glass screen I don't see the Nexus One faring any worse from a fall, but people don't like cosmetic damage either and the skins or thin TPU cases will aid in distributing force from impact and protect the device from scratches/dings for small impacts.
yeah, no doubt there are a few situations where damage could be avoided with a case, but I guess I think of them like those bras people put on the front of their cars. They used to be a lot more popular, then they kinda died out, even though it's certainly still very common for your front bumper to incur damage. I think people just decided it's not worth having the pretty car if you're covering it up all the time. The same goes for putting plastic on your furniture. I don't want to put up with a bulkier device from day 1 just so I can take off the case 3 years from now and see a mint but obsolete device hiding under it. To each their own, of course.
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Well I must say I am thoroughly disappointed with this dock. First thing I noticed, I'm listening to Pandora, I quit Pandora while it is on the dock and the phone is basically frozen for 30 seconds to a min. Not sure if that's common. But it does it every time on mine. Also, the audio quality is terrible out of the 3.5mm jack on the dock. I have my headphones there since I leave them connected at my work desk. It is drastically worse, quiet, tinny, no bass or mid. I don't want to have to connect my headphones every time I dock. All around this was a waste of 45 bucks.
Also to add it will backout fine to the clock screen, but not to the launcher screen.
Edit again, it is actually any app. If you back out to the launcher home screen not the clock the phone is in a perpetual state of locked up. Its not frozen but you cannot switch between screens ot do anything but go to the clock home screen.
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Seraph or anyone else... are you having these problems as well? If this is widespread, I'll rethink getting this dock.
I am hoping it is just me so I can send it back for RMA.
Am I not supposed to be using my headphones on the jack on the dock? That was also my question.
Also you have to make sure not to bump your desk too hard or touch the phone because if it moves in the dock it loses its connection and turns bluetooth off and then your music starts playing through the phones speaker lol. I think overall this thing is no good. I may ebay mine
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Also you have to make sure not to bump your desk too hard or touch the phone because if it moves in the dock it loses its connection and turns bluetooth off and then your music starts playing through the phones speaker lol. I think overall this thing is no good. I may ebay mine
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Something doesn't sound right there....I can literally rock my desk (probably not good for the legs >.>) and it doesn't disconnect - although I've got 2x 24" widescreen monitors that seem like they are getting ready to tip.
Lifting the device from the dock physically does disconnect the audio, but the music player pauses immediately to prevent the music from playing over the phone's speaker until I manually hit play again. Are you using the stock music player?
A quick lift in and out does not cause a disconnect for me, it takes a few seconds (~2 seconds) or being out of the dock to disconnect and pause the music (e.g if I lift it for 1s and then put it back down it doesn't disconect and continues playing audio through BT the entire time). The same if I rock it in the dock manually.
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Am I not supposed to be using my headphones on the jack on the dock? That was also my question.
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I don't see any issues that would be caused by using headphones with it...they seem to work just fine.
Well mine initially pauses then a few seconds later pandora will start playing again. I am not sure about music in the android music application but with pandora thats my issue.i touched the home button or even i hold the phone down in the dock tight and adjust the volume and it disconnects.
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Does the audio quality decrease on yours switching from headphone jack to the jack on the dock?
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Well mine initially pauses then a few seconds later pandora will start playing again. I am not sure about music in the android music application but with pandora thats my issue.i touched the home button or even i hold the phone down in the dock tight and adjust the volume and it disconnects.
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Using slacker radio i do see that it doesn't pause when it disconnects - it does take a few seconds out of the dock still for me for the audio to disconnect, a quick jarring or lift/replace doesn't seem to cause it to disconnect - but then it does play music through the phone speakers. The stock audio player doesn't do this (it pauses until manually resumed).
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I don't see any issues that would be caused by using headphones with it...they seem to work just fine.
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There is definitely a drop out of lows using the Dock (using my 10 yr old Sennheiser HD 535) compared to the audio jack on the phone itself.
krohnjw said:
I think the bigger worry is dropping the device. They aren't designed to resist scratching/breaking from a significant fall onto pavement/concrete. If you drop it 4+ feet onto concrete you are going to see some damage most likely. A case that's designed to absorb and dissipate shock will help to reduce damage in these instances - the same with a decent screen protector. Now, nothing is going to prevent all damage in some of these scenarios, but for a few bucks to get a bit more protection for a $500+ device is worth it for some people.
With that being said the Nexus One seems much better suited to live without a case for scratch resistance on both the screen and the body of the phone - far better than some of HTC's previous outings with their plastic cases and resistive screens that seemed to scratch quite easily.
Now, I've had some phones fall onto the pavement and they incurred only cosmetic damage. Outside of cracking the glass screen I don't see the Nexus One faring any worse from a fall, but people don't like cosmetic damage either and the skins or thin TPU cases will aid in distributing force from impact and protect the device from scratches/dings for small impacts.
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very well said. i would hate to drop my $570 dolla gadget without a case on it. at least with a case i have a 50/50 chance of it not getting damaged or less damaged as bad as it would without one.
Anyone else notice distorted audio? It only seems to be on certain lower tones but at any volume. Not a volume is too loud issue just seems the speakers don't like a certain tone. This is my second tf300t, on the first audio was always crisp and clear but it was always freezing so i exchanged it. This one hardly freezes but i notice a crackly hum almost like a vibration of sorts while playing some tones in either music games or movies. Sometimes audio is perfect and sometimes it does that distortion. Almost like a blown speaker. Its weird though because it sounds clear and perfect on some media its only certain tones that obviously not all songs, games, or videos will use. I'm running fully stock no root or unlock .30 firmware updated immediately after unboxing which could be the firmware i guess since the one i returned was .29 firmware and didn't have the issue. I'd appreciate it if someone on .30 would be willing to test and see if you hear it also. A game that does it is Hardwood Spades its free in play store but the music/sound in that game is a good one to test because it seems to use the tone that causes it all the time.
Thank you very much in advance for any help you can provide.
Edit: So no one would offer any help with this however I took it upon myself to figure this out. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT IT WAS!
OK so I got fed up with lousy sound quality and didn't want to send this out and wait 3 weeks to get it back so I decided to take the back cover off (very easy with plastic spudger) I found that the speaker housing is made up of two pieces of plastic sandwiched together with the speakers mounted in the middle. The weird noise was coming from those pieces of plastic rattling together with lower tones being played. Why you ask? Well it was rattling because, ASUS MISSED A SCREW that holds the housing in place in the tablet. Yeah a screw was missing on one side. So I removed the whole speaker housing and looked underneath then put it back in and took a screw from a non vital area in the tablet and screwed the speakers in all the way and played some different things and guess what no distortion. WTF IS UP WITH QC AT ASUS LATELY!
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Wow. That's resourceful. Good to hear that you fixed it.
That screw was intentionally left out to help with the light bleed in that corner. They are all like that.
I get the very strangest issues with the line output of my ONE S C2. At some points during a lot of songs there are sounds missing and I know this because they're clearly audible on my desktop speakers. It's like they're very muted and waaaay in the back and sometimes they're completely inaudible. And it's not even that a whole channel is missing, say there's no sound for things panned right or left. It's sounds in the center. For instance, there would be this part that had drums, bass guitars and effects, and a very specific guitar is silent. Sometimes it's other sounds, like effects, or keyboards.
There was this one time when lint got into the headphone jack and I thought that was the reason, but I have since taken it out with a pair of very tiny tweezers. Now... it's true I don't know if I managed to get it all out since I probably didn't notice it until some time after it got in and I probably must've pressed it inside there, but I did take out a nice piece of lint. Oh, and the jack doesn't seem to fully enter the headphone jack.
Hi Guys,
I am lucky owner my new Xperia Z3 :good: , but I am not sure if my speakers work correctly. If I take my mobile to hand in landscape, play music and cover right speaker I can hear that left speaker play much deeper. The right speaker has little flat sound. I am not sure but i think that right speaker is primary on speech such as in movie and left speaker is primary bass and deep. Can someone confirm me that has different sound from left and right speaker ?
Thanks
I don't know exactly on Z3 but for stereo system, sound from right noticable difference to left.
Yes, this is normal. It is also affected by the music/video you are playing. If it is recorded in stereo, there will obviously be differences in the left and right channels. If it is mono, the differences will be much less (if any at all).
Sorry for bumping this thread, but yeah, I have the same issue (if it is an issue) and I've tried playing mono file on it and there's still huge difference between left and right speakers - the right/bottom one sounds like a cheap phone's speaker while the top/left one sounds like an M8 speaker. I'd love to know what more owners have to say about this, if it's not the same on everyone's phone then I might try to change it.
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Sorry for bumping this thread, but yeah, I have the same issue (if it is an issue) and I've tried playing mono file on it and there's still huge difference between left and right speakers - the right/bottom one sounds like a cheap phone's speaker while the top/left one sounds like an M8 speaker. I'd love to know what more owners have to say about this, if it's not the same on everyone's phone then I might try to change it.
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Speakers are a mixed bag for me. No where near the quality of the M8. Top speaker is much bassier. Some video's like trailers sound absolutely fantastic with lots of bass and clear big sound, but video's with talking seem to make them buzz and crackle.
Also, the speaker volume settings are very inconsistent. Have to push volume up to 7/10 to really hear a lot of video's.
Hi, I recently got my A7 and this one thing is bothering me since day one. For some reason my right earpiece is louder than my left one. I am not using the included headset but rather Apple Earpods as they have a better bass, which is kind of important to me. I checked Adapt Sound before any of you ask, I have the default profile enabled. Is there a way to make both the earpieces be on the same lound level? Thanks
Interesting. I also seem to have the same problem. I wanted to have my left ear checked by a doctor for this .
No idea why this is the case though.
hhadi said:
Interesting. I also seem to have the same problem. I wanted to have my left ear checked by a doctor for this .
No idea why this is the case though.
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yeah I had the same feeling until I realised that if I put my left earpiece to my right ear it was the same level as if it were in the left ear.
Also for me this only happens when I have in-ear heaphones, over-the-ear one's sound normal