In august, i accidentally poured some tea on my Samsung Wave (S8500). The only one problem is that the phone crashes when a call arrives or when i hit the green bottom to start a call, and i can only remove the battery to restart the system. But, exactelly what is broken on my phone? Modem is ok, because i can send and receive SMS and use internet; microphone is ok, because i can record sounds; speaker has a lower volume, but i can hear music and sounds. Then, what else? Moreover yesterday, when i recived a call, the phone was ok, and i could speak. But on the next call the phone crashed again.. Someone knows which could be the problem? And someone knows how to solve it?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
There's over thousand of components in the S8500, so it's pretty hard to guess. Disassemble your phone, get isopropyl alcohol, and just wash your mainboard in it. Then wait until it dries out (up to few hours) and reassemble it. Remember that you might need to use some glue because isopropyl will dissolve all glued surfaces. Also remember to take off all EMF shields from your mainboard (these metal plating). Aswell consider that it might not help, but get things worse if you don't wash it good enough.
This method is commonly known. If you google for it you might also find recommending of putting whole phone into isopropyl, but I don't recommend that as things like screen are also glued together with digitizer and it can start to tear off after putting into alcohol.
Let us know how did it go.
i agree with Rebellos, but cud this be also due to s/w issue ?
Disassemble the phone is the best thing to do.. But the truth is that the phone is not mine, but my girlfriend's one. Moreover i've never disassembled anything; i don't want create more problems than now. I was thinking to play long time with a complex graphics game, and make the phone overheat. This shold melt residues of tea.. This can work?
@sk8er_boi47 i've tried with 3 different ROMS, then this couldn't be a software issue..
If you think that the only one way is to disassemble it, i'll do that! I will not fear.
Thank you for your answears!!
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I'm guessing others have suffered from annoying, unresponsive joystick problems as much as I have. I read elsewhere online about using a drop of WD-40 lubricant on the joystick to solve the problem. I just wanted to let others here know that I tried this, and while at first it seemed like it didn't help or perhaps even made the problem worse, I've noticed that now my joystick responds *perfectly* - perhaps even better than when I first got it (I bought mine used).
I used these instructions to disassemble my SDA. I used the T6 Torx screwdriver included in this kit found at Dealextreme.com for US$2.65 with free international shipping.
Remove the plastic top from the joystick mechanism and let one drop of WD-40 soak into it. Move the joystick around (as if navigating on your phone) for about a minute to spread the WD-40 around.
Again, my experience was that at first it seemed to make it worse, but after the first day it got better and better. It's now gone one month without any problems.
Update: 8 months later and my joystick is still working perfectly, without any additional lubrication. I definitely recommend this process, though as usual with anything like this, attempt it at your own risk.
Hi,
KONTAKT working too
I didn't even take my spv c600 apart.
Just took the battery out.
Sprayed WD40 around the joystick and wiggled it about for a couple of mins ...
Then left it to dry.
Result = Perfect Joystick
Hey, my left softkey is not so responsive.
What could be the remedy? Mind showing the contacts between the keypad and the circuit board?
Thanks for the tip! I was hoping I wasn't going to have to take my phone apart though.
Cool, thank you! I had the same problem, and already bought and installed another keyboard - and got the joystick problem back after few months. Now I just sprayed WD40 around the joystick, wiggled it for a while, and it works like new! ) THANKS!
Just a warning: if you do this without disassembling the phone be very careful to only do ONE or TWO drops and sparingly. Although I thought I only did a couple, I now have a nice discolored "blob" going up through my lcd, not that it doesnt personalize it a bit, but not quite what I was going for
I just used to take a drop of alcohol on a little piece of paper tissue, with a toothpick carefully cleaning the base of the joystick around. This has always helped for 2-3 months.
Well, I always used deodorant spray when my joystick was not responsive (with phone closed, tilt the joystick both up & down and then spray, just a bit - no need to disassemble the phone). No problem, no stress.
I cleaned my joy in the same way. (disassembling cover + WD-40)
This is perfect way. I did that a 2-3 month ago and joy is still working perfectly.
I made the same with my old Motorola's and their joyisticks are working perfectly for about year now
Ps. WD-40 need some time to start working. Next day after cleaning everything should work very nice
Ps2. I don't recommend spraying WD-40 on non uncovered joystick. The best (and the safest) way is to spray only joy. I had to change microphone in my moto becouse of that ;P
thanks for sharing this. ill be doing it tonight!
white lithium grease in the spray can also works really well. Just take one small drop on a toothpick and pull joystick down and drop it in there.Its an easy alternative to having to take the phone apart. I did this last October and it still works great.
funny.. just seconds before i found this topic.. i put 2 drops of contactspray in the joystick. for so far it doesn't helps much..
so i am not the only one with these problems
sticky?
Mods: I'd like to suggest this thread be made a sticky.
WD-40 need some time to start working. Next day after cleaning everything should work very nice ！
I dropped my phone on concrete floor from about 4 ft high and it bounce up and bounce. luckily it is still working with some problem with power switch and few loose casing (I glued it with super glue).
To fix the unresponsive joystick I tried to open following the instructions but the screw near the power switch is not able to remove, seems something broken inside after that drop, and I could not completely open it. So, tried to put few drops of spirit on the joystick but I actually pour some. After that I thought joystick is responsive more but later it remains same. Yesterday only I found out my keypad backlight is not glowing in the dark. I don't know when the problem started, after that drop, after that spirit, or after some setting change (I flashed Kamadaze's Pro RC7).
Sorry for long story.. but someone help me .. my joystick & key backlight.
Thanks in advance.
I will try doing with some organic solvent, but first I will have to wait for my joystick to malfunction (I always use nineway keypad to keep my joystick safe though )
What is the exact name and company of WD-40. Can any one tell me its composition coz i have many chemical lab retailers around in my neighbouring city
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I will try doing with some organic solvent, but first I will have to wait for my joystick to malfunction (I always use nineway keypad to keep my joystick safe though )
What is the exact name and company of WD-40. Can any one tell me its composition coz i have many chemical lab retailers around in my neighbouring city
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http://www.wd40.com/
baron22 said:
http://www.wd40.com/
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ohh thanx lol, I saw that, butt I wonder whether it is available in Pakistan or not
dark_prince said:
ohh thanx lol, I saw that, butt I wonder whether it is available in Pakistan or not
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I would have thought a generic "maintenance spray" would do the trick.
Hey all. I have no sound. Zero. I tried re-flashing zeus - no go. Tried clearing/resetting everything via cwm - nope. I tried GTG twice - nada. Even back at stock, I've got nothing. I can hear my voicemail, but no system tones, no ringtones, no audio on videos - both youtube and local to phone. Alarms won't work. Nothing!!
After pouring over these threads, I tried headphones, and they work - but no headphone icon at top of my screen. I'm at my wit's end and am pulling out my hair. Does anyone have any ideas? Please?
Start with the simplest solution first. Is the media volume turned up? btw I don't have a headphone icon either but I'm not sure it had one to start with.
Running Zeus 6 also.
~wolverine~ said:
Start with the simplest solution first. Is the media volume turned up? btw I don't have a headphone icon either but I'm not sure it had one to start with.
Running Zeus 6 also.
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uhhhh, yeah. I've checked all the sounds like 80 times - After each restore, reload, refresh, reboot, re-flash to stock, re-wipe, re-unameit. lol
I just hope it's not hardware related, although if it were, I'd think I'd have had to change something or move something that I hadn't. I just removed my ext sd card about 15 minutes ago, but nothing there either.
the best hope that you will have if it's not hardware related:
take out microsd card.
factory reset from /settings/privacy/reset
heimdall 1 click with repartition and bootloaders
do it twice for good measures
run the complete stock rom...
if that doesn't work, it may be hardware corrosion
I hav had this happen believe it or not i just gave the phone a slight twist holding it at the ends...sounds funky not a hard twist...but i got my sound back..i keep it in a ballastic case now...my infuse is a lil older and has seen to much desert heat...
True story...
Sent by Aeon (bigfau's) Awesomeness via me !
OK, y'all. I've got news and info on this issue. After trying everything possible short of throwing it into the river, I figured it was def hardware related. I, of course prayed & am convinced that is the real reason it started working, bit jic here is what I did. I checked online just to see (I'm not an idiot, I wasn't going to take it apart. Well, probably not). But I was still all for slapping and twisting and flicking the heck out of it. Then, I decided to look at the other side of it. So I removed the battery and there is a tiny little slit-like hole there. I got out a safety pin and just kinda wiggled of a bit mostly toward the inside of phone. Lo and behold sound was working when I turned it back on. I can't believe it! I'm so happy!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA
EDIT: It's easier to type on PC than on phone, so now I can make a short story even longer. haha. I should mention that this could be risky if done wrong, if that's not obvious for some people, and could screw your phone even more, so BE CAREFUL!!!
I'd consider using something flat enough to get in there, but not as sharp as a pin. I was just Macguyver-ing it. You do have to remove the batt cover, but don't need to take the batt out to get to the slit, but you may want to - in case of interference from metal pin and whatever. To be more specific to where this is: the external speaker is located on the backside of the phone - bottom, left. Duh, right?
Also, take this time to clean out any dust/crud that may have gathered in the tiny little cracks and corners, which accumulates more for those of us that remove the batt cover often, like putting phone in DL mode and such. Don't use alcohol or anything - this is a good place to use the pin or needle, and especially blow on it.
At one point, I had phone on and video going to gauge whether anything I was doing specifically was working or not. I never got sound to work that way, but it's still a plausible idea for someone else to try. Anyway, I hope this helps someone else out there. I like to include as many details as possible when I post stuff b/c it helps me when others are specific. So, let me know if this was helpful to you and good luck!
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OK, y'all. I've got news and info on this issue. After trying everything possible short of throwing it into the river, I figured it was def hardware related. I, of course prayed & am convinced that is the real reason it started working, bit jic here is what I did. I checked online just to see (I'm not an idiot, I wasn't going to take it apart. Well, probably not). But I was still all for slapping and twisting and flicking the heck out of it. Then, I decided to look at the other side of it. So I removed the battery and there is a tiny little slit-like hole there. I got out a safety pin and just kinda wiggled of a bit mostly toward the inside of phone. Lo and behold sound was working when I turned it back on. I can't believe it! I'm so happy!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA
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good job.
to help other misfits, you can change the title of your op to [SOLVED] ..etc...
Some clarification on repairing speaker / restoring power
This is a great post and worked for me so I wanted to clarify some more detail.
Diagnosis: My external speaker would not work or work intermitently. I could hear on my handset and headphones but could not use speaker for conversations, media, etc.
I tried reseting with/without power on.
Tried factory resetting the phone.
Tried "headphone sex" (removing headphones in and out quickly as the software may have a glitch where it does not recognize the headphones were removed hence restoring external sound to the speaker) This is NOT a common problem with the Infuse but with other Samsung phones like the Captivate I believe.
After many people having similar symptoms I saw this post and figured it was a power issue/hardware not software problem.
Previous post....
1. I could not find a small hole to put a safety pin through (as previously posted). I used a paperclip as it is less pointy and less damaging and there wasn't a single hole to put it through.
MY RESOLUTION/REPAIR THAT SOLVED THE PROBLEM (same issue just different way to fix as I did not find any hole to put a pin through)
2. you will need to remove the back cover of the phone. Remove the battery cover, battey, sim card, and ext SD card. There are 6 small jewelry type screws. You should have an eyeglass kit screwdriver or jewelry kit with small screwdrivers. I did manage to use a small regular screwdriver but it really did not fit and could strip the heads of the screws.
3. Once the 6 screws are out, remove the back cover of the phone. Mine was a little hard to remove. The top is the earphone jack and the cover goes over the earphone jack, so great care should be made to try and take the top off last. For mine, the side was easiest to remove first( in the middle). Little by little you should be able to work your way around the edges until it is all separated from the screen/front.
*TIP Do not worry about parts coming out. The back cover is secured with the 6 screws. The rest of the phone and boards are screwed down to the front/screen so all you are doing is removing the back cover.
4. Once the back cover is separated from the front/screen, locate where the speaker lies in the back cover and where it comes to meet the front/screen. You will see two small gold square tabs on the back of the back cover next to the speaker. If you look where these connect to the front/screen you will see another two small gold tabs. These ones are NOT flat. They actually sit up and are hinge like. ***THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS****.
5. As the phone ages and gets used aka banged dropped wet, etc, these tabs lose their "springyness" and pressure so they get flat and fail to contact the other tabs next to the speaker, resulting in no power getting to the speaker or intermitent power as they make contact. THIS IS WHY IF YOU READ OTHER POST ON OTHER FORUMS YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE SAYING THUMPING OR PRESSING ON THE SPEAKER MAKES IT WORK INTERMITENTLY!
6. Get a pair of tweezers and slide one side of the tweezers between one of the small gold tabs on the front/screen side of the phone. BE CAREFUL! The tabs are very small thin and fragile so go slow and make sure you are between where the tab mounts to the circuitboard and where it sticks up to contact the speaker tabs. SLOWLY work the tab up so that you restore the arch or springyness back to it. It should look like this <. Do the same for the other. Basically you are raising the tab so that when you put the back cover on it makes contact with the speaker tabs, hence providing the proper power to the speaker.
7. Put the cover back on, screws, ext SD card, sim card, battery, and batter cover back on. Power up and adjust your ringer volume. You should here the speaker working.
Awesome. I'm glad my post pushed you in the right direction and am certain your post, with more details, will be helpful to others in the future. Phones are so much better with sound, aren't they? :highfive: Have a wonderful weekend.
I also had the problem of no sound at all, but the head phones worked flawlessly. In my case this is what it was (don't laugh) I ordered a replacement body for my phone for like ten bucks on ebay, pulled the old one off...replaced the housing and everything SEEMED to work just fine. I really didn't notice that my phone was not making any sounds until about a week later and just figured that maybe I had installed something that was conflicting with the phone or simply needed to re-flash the ROM, so I went and did just that and nothing seemed to work. Back to stock....NOTHING...New kernel...NOTHING!! I was becoming hopeless at this point till I read this thread. I had to think back to when (I think) it stopped making any sound and could only come up with the day I replaced the housing, so I retraced my tracks. LOL and what I came up with made me chuckle a little, what had happened was when I took the old back off I did not notice that the speaker is highly camouflaged near the bottom of the housing and simply needed to be snapped out and snapped back into the new housing. After this.....VIOLA..SOUND! So, maybe this can help someone that may be having the same issue and just cannot get to the bottom of it..
Thanks XDA and its members:good::good::good::good::good:
No Sound On Infuse
bigjoe2675 said:
I hav had this happen believe it or not i just gave the phone a slight twist holding it at the ends...sounds funky not a hard twist...but i got my sound back..i keep it in a ballastic case now...my infuse is a lil older and has seen to much desert heat...
True story...
Sent by Aeon (bigfau's) Awesomeness via me !
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I have to say that this method worked like a dream for me. I couldn't believe it when I tried it. I went to "settings" -> "sound" -> "volume" -> "Incoming call volume" and then adjusted it so it would make a sound. No sound was being made but I knew it should have been so I grabbed the top and bottom and slightly gave it a little twist, just barely and the ringtone came right on and has been working perfect since. The Infuse I have is 99.9% mint condition, never been dropped and has always been inside a leather case with a full fold over front. Not even a hair line scratch on the screen, back, sides or anywhere. This is why I couldn't understand why the sound just decided to go out for no reason but anyway, this fixed it and a big thanks to "bigjoe"! I thought I was about to have to buy a new phone because I can't hear (vibrate) more than a foot or so away.
Solution - Twist
Judge Joseph Dredd said:
I hav had this happen believe it or not i just gave the phone a slight twist holding it at the ends...sounds funky not a hard twist...but i got my sound back..i keep it in a ballastic case now...my infuse is a lil older and has seen to much desert heat...
True story...
Sent by Aeon (bigfau's) Awesomeness via me !
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Thanks for this info. I had lost a lot of volume. After reading your post, I tried the twist thing and bingo, it worked. Thanks very much.
Judge Joseph Dredd said:
I hav had this happen believe it or not i just gave the phone a slight twist holding it at the ends...sounds funky not a hard twist...but i got my sound back..i keep it in a ballastic case now...my infuse is a lil older and has seen to much desert heat...
True story...
Sent by Aeon (bigfau's) Awesomeness via me !
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SHUT THE FRONT DOOR.... - just twisted my cell and BAM....sound I LOVE YOU!!!!! XOXOXOXO awesomeness indeed
Wow!
parkerhawn said:
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR.... - just twisted my cell and BAM....sound I LOVE YOU!!!!! XOXOXOXO awesomeness indeed
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I just gave my infuse the twist and the sound is back!! Insane! PS. I could always hear my sound but it was so faint I had to put my ear up to the speaker before I could actually hear the sound!
This actually works!
thomasmaio said:
This is a great post and worked for me so I wanted to clarify some more detail.
Diagnosis: My external speaker would not work or work intermitently. I could hear on my handset and headphones but could not use speaker for conversations, media, etc.
I tried reseting with/without power on.
Tried factory resetting the phone.
Tried "headphone sex" (removing headphones in and out quickly as the software may have a glitch where it does not recognize the headphones were removed hence restoring external sound to the speaker) This is NOT a common problem with the Infuse but with other Samsung phones like the Captivate I believe.
After many people having similar symptoms I saw this post and figured it was a power issue/hardware not software problem.
Previous post....
1. I could not find a small hole to put a safety pin through (as previously posted). I used a paperclip as it is less pointy and less damaging and there wasn't a single hole to put it through.
MY RESOLUTION/REPAIR THAT SOLVED THE PROBLEM (same issue just different way to fix as I did not find any hole to put a pin through)
2. you will need to remove the back cover of the phone. Remove the battery cover, battey, sim card, and ext SD card. There are 6 small jewelry type screws. You should have an eyeglass kit screwdriver or jewelry kit with small screwdrivers. I did manage to use a small regular screwdriver but it really did not fit and could strip the heads of the screws.
3. Once the 6 screws are out, remove the back cover of the phone. Mine was a little hard to remove. The top is the earphone jack and the cover goes over the earphone jack, so great care should be made to try and take the top off last. For mine, the side was easiest to remove first( in the middle). Little by little you should be able to work your way around the edges until it is all separated from the screen/front.
*TIP Do not worry about parts coming out. The back cover is secured with the 6 screws. The rest of the phone and boards are screwed down to the front/screen so all you are doing is removing the back cover.
4. Once the back cover is separated from the front/screen, locate where the speaker lies in the back cover and where it comes to meet the front/screen. You will see two small gold square tabs on the back of the back cover next to the speaker. If you look where these connect to the front/screen you will see another two small gold tabs. These ones are NOT flat. They actually sit up and are hinge like. ***THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS****.
5. As the phone ages and gets used aka banged dropped wet, etc, these tabs lose their "springyness" and pressure so they get flat and fail to contact the other tabs next to the speaker, resulting in no power getting to the speaker or intermitent power as they make contact. THIS IS WHY IF YOU READ OTHER POST ON OTHER FORUMS YOU WILL SEE PEOPLE SAYING THUMPING OR PRESSING ON THE SPEAKER MAKES IT WORK INTERMITENTLY!
6. Get a pair of tweezers and slide one side of the tweezers between one of the small gold tabs on the front/screen side of the phone. BE CAREFUL! The tabs are very small thin and fragile so go slow and make sure you are between where the tab mounts to the circuitboard and where it sticks up to contact the speaker tabs. SLOWLY work the tab up so that you restore the arch or springyness back to it. It should look like this <. Do the same for the other. Basically you are raising the tab so that when you put the back cover on it makes contact with the speaker tabs, hence providing the proper power to the speaker.
7. Put the cover back on, screws, ext SD card, sim card, battery, and batter cover back on. Power up and adjust your ringer volume. You should here the speaker working.
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Thank you so very much, it helped a lot to follow your directions. I realized how hard it is to remove the entire cover so I used a very small flat screw driver (eye-glasses kit) and popped open only the bottom corner where the speakers were. I could then see the hinged-like tabs and used one hand to keep the cover from snapping back shut and the other hand to "raise" the hinged side of the tabs using the same tiny flat screw driver. I raised them high enough (gently) and put the cover back in place. I then put the battery back, turned on the phone and Voila! Sound is crisp and clear once again.
This happened to my GF's phone. The top half of the phone was in water. Somehow it survived...Turns on fine and boots fine, but the touchscreen is dead...
What I'm wondering is if this item has a chance of fixing it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2pcs-x-NEW-...699?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f0e1583eb
Yes, her phone is this model. Figured we might give this $7 possible solution a go before buying a new phone.
Any chance it will work, or is it likely water damage to some other internal part that communicates with the touchscreen? I know there's no way of knowing for sure, just wondering if there's a decent chance this new touchscreen will fix the issue...Thanks much
As you may already know, the digitizer is what turns the display into a touch-sensitive one. I say, since you'd have to take the phone apart anyway, take it apart now, and take a look. There may still be moisture inside, or you might find corrosion, or loosening/damage to the digitizer's ribbon.
Cant answer your questionbut am curious, how long ago this happen? You already try putting it in brown rice for a few days?
Apologize for my English....My phone is out of warranty. Got it on release, so I can't send it back to Google now.
I got some water damage when hiking in pouring rain last weekend. After letting it resting in rice for 2 days, it's mostly functioning, except the phone part.
For one thing, I lost LTE completely. I can still live with this, and am partially ok with it.
Screen was damaged, but touch function is still intact and the only thing visible is some pattern behind/on the screen, which I can live with as well.
The part that is not functioning, is the mic. Recording video works fine, since there is audio in the video. Calling other people doesn't work. The call would connect, but either headphone mic or the phone mic would pick up my voice. Phone would not pick my any voice when doing voice search either. I could hear the other party on call/voice just fine via headset, but no sound coming out of the top earpiece. Notification sound works, as well as alarms, but no sound would come out of the speaker playing Youtube video or music.
Is it only a part being damaged, or just get a new phone? Thanks XDA for advice!
Just get a new phone. Water damage is the hardest thing to try and fix on a phone. You have taken the right steps as far as rice and letting it sit for a few days. The only other thing you could try is to disassemble the phone and spray all parts down with an electrical degreaser(basically compressed alchohol). Honestly though the symptoms your describing might just be the tip of the iceberg. Oh, and a little pro tip to use with your next phone. When hiking or doing anything outdoors, always carry a small ziploc bag with you. If it starts raining put the phone and your wallet in it. That has saved me more than once.
I am kinda cheap and want to avoid spending another $200 on this....but seems I have to get a G2 or another Nexus 5.
Thanks for the tips.
Just get a g2.
You'll probably spend more money fixing a water damaged device
Hi,
my in call volume on my earpiece loudspeaker is very low. I thought it's broken and I actually opened the device today and replaced it with a new one. And after all that effort, the volume is the same! It's still sooo low.
I'm trying to increase the volume through the mixer_gains.xml, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what values to change.
I'm running RENOVATE ICE 15.0 btw.
Can someone tell me what values I need to change to increase it? Or had someone else the same issue and found a fix? It's really frustrating, especially after going through the effort to replace the earpiece loudspeaker with a brand new one.
Same issue
That's funny. I just bought my s8+ from a 3rd party about a week ago and one thing I've noticed is that I can't hear who I'm calling for ****. So much so that I decided to log in here and see if anybody else was experiencing the same issue.
So I guess we're in the same boat. Seems like there would be a way to make it sound like a cheap phone at least
Did either of you, try cleaning the speaker area with a needle? It worked for me.
It's just a piece of protective plastic, with very tiny holes. Which, is why it gets clogged so easily. It's also why you won't damage the speaker, as holes are way smaller than a needle.
Just run the needle across the top a bunch of times, until crud stops coming off. Just keep blowing off the crud (don't sweep off, or you might press it back into the holes)
For full service cleaning, use a dust buster/vacuum, while using the needle, to suction off the crud. As well as possibly getting crap farther in the holes. You can also try cleaning the individual holes with the needle point, if needed
I've got this exact issue and tried cleaning the holes. Nothing seems to work and I might need to factory the phone or put on a custom ROM.