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Does your Charge cause your speakers/radios to static?

Is this happening to anyone else? It's been doing it for weeks and I'm positive it's the phone. I always instinctively put my phone down next to my speakers on my computer desk and it will start to static randomly and I'll have to move the phone away from the speakers. It's the same with my Xbox microphone and my clock radio.

Magnets are bad for electronics.. You should probably keep your phone away from them... Also if you do it while your on the phone and the speakers or mic is on your most likely getting feedback
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Yeah, I can't put my Charge down on my nightstand because my clock radio speaker starts making some strange noises. That seems to be the only thing that is getting interference so far (for me.)

Does the noise sound something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mlponX_jw

Interference from the 4G radio...nuff said. Turn it to CDMA only and it goes away.
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Assuming what you're hearing is like the noise in my post above, here's some background: so-called "GSM buzz" is something that's been inherent to GSM networks for a long time, and anyone with AT&T or T-Mobile had just had to live with it. CDMA, running on very different frequencies, fortunately doesn't have the problem... but it seems LTE, which uses spectrum closer to GSM, may.
Some people have found that placing their phone on aluminum foil alleviates the issue, and some have found like putting ferrite bead magnets on their speaker cables (http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/02/killing-your-phones-gsm-buzz-with-ferrite-beads/).

Yep, mine does. I usually use a cassette adapter to listen to music on my car stereo, but it's almost completely unusable with the Charge. It also makes my computer speakers go crazy sometimes.
It's somewhat like the GSM buzz, but much lower pitched. Doesn't have the same pattern either.
As others have said, it is the LTE radio. Turning 4G off eliminates the problem. Sometimes 3G isn't fast enough to stream my music, though...

vash1053 said:
Yep, mine does. I usually use a cassette adapter to listen to music on my car stereo, but it's almost completely unusable with the Charge. It also makes my computer speakers go crazy sometimes.
It's somewhat like the GSM buzz, but much lower pitched. Doesn't have the same pattern either.
As others have said, it is the LTE radio. Turning 4G off eliminates the problem. Sometimes 3G isn't fast enough to stream my music, though...
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Sometimes it happens when my alarm clock goes off since I keep my phone by it. As vash1053 says, it is lower pitched, and in my case it is also more a continuous sound instead of the intermittent blips like in that clip. However, it doesn't do it all the time and seemed to happen more often when I was using the Thunderbolt. In fact, I didn't even make the connection to the phone until I saw this thread; I just assumed the alarm clock was going bad. I will have to experiment more, but I suspect it only happens when data is being transferred. This would explain why it happened more with the TB since it had loads of carrier-installed apps using data in the background; much worse than the DC.

[Q] Anyone else with these issues?

I've had an iPhone for the past 5 years.
I decided to take the plunge & buy an android yesterday.
I purchased the AT&T HTC One XL.
This is my experience so far:
1) Audio -- while listening to music, opening another app sometimes either crashes the player or momentarily fragments the sound.
2) Connectivity (in NYC using the 4G LTE network) -- very patchy. Seems to go in and out, even though I've never had these issues in the same area on the 3G network. Don't know if this is a network issue, or just a phone connectivity issue overall. Pandora constantly goes 'in and out'.
3) Seems like there is no caching (anywhere):
a) Opening a web site, briefly checking my mail, and then switching back to the website, makes the website reload.
b) Conversely, opening, e..g, my mail, going to the web browser, and then going back to my mail, makes my mail reload.
For a phone with 1GB of RAM, I don't anticipate this issue -- my iPhone 4 with half the ram was able to keep many more apps and browser tabs in memory for extended periods of time.
Is anyone else experiencing these issues?
Do I have a faulty phone?
Are any of these 'issues' just the way the android OS works? (like said, i've never used android before, so i have no clue.!)
Will a future software update fix them?
I'm very much contemplating returning this device and reviving my iphone 4;
but I don't want to if i don't have to -- android allows everyone I wish the iphone would.
Thanks you.

I haven't had any of the issues you are mentioning. I used my music player for an hour while mowing the grass tonight. As far as the 4G LTE goes, I can't comment on that since I don't have it where I live.
When your music was messing up, where you using the music app or google music player? I would try the other just to see if that issue is with both.
Other than that, I would swap the phone out as you may have just got a bad one.

I take it you have the ATT ONe X?
I just got my ATT One X today, so I haven't fully put it through the tests, but I did have an Unlocked Euro One X about a month ago that had quite a few bugs. One was the sound issue you mentioned. When I played music thru any music player the sound broke up when you hit a hardwear button or sometimes just on its own.

bothfly said:
I take it you have the ATT ONe X?
I just got my ATT One X today, so I haven't fully put it through the tests, but I did have an Unlocked Euro One X about a month ago that had quite a few bugs. One was the sound issue you mentioned. When I played music thru any music player the sound broke up when you hit a hardwear button or sometimes just on its own.
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Mine does this to should I take it back

I called HTC and they said they are working on a major update I.talked to a woman name Gloria and she said she couldn't begin to say how many phone calls about the music issue they have had lol

tyshemi said:
I called HTC and they said they are working on a major update I.talked to a woman name Gloria and she said she couldn't begin to say how many phone calls about the music issue they have had lol
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She give you an ETA by any chance?

#2 pisses me off the most. No one else has this issue?
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Got mine yesterday and having only the issue with wifi signal and 4g signal showing. Lte is lightning fast where I am. I've been able to listen to music through my car speakers, take phone calls and text at the same time.

No eta and she shuddered a lot like she wanted to say an eta but the manager that was also talking stopped her I think lol. And it does work fine in the car it's when your using the built in speaker and doing other stuff . It's an intermittent issue

I am having issue number 3. My original iphone multitasked better than my one x is right now. Web pages always reload when I go back to them no matter the browser. Heck almost every app reloads.

Here's the number I called fyi
8664498358

For your nyc issue. You wouldn't happen to me walking would you? It might be connecting to Starbucks WiFi which can't be disable if WiFi is on. This was happening to me
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Yes #2 is a HUGE issue for me. To the point (as expressed in another thread) that I'm ready to return it altogether and just keep my Sprint contract alive afterall for their EVO 4G LTE...Despite the fact I won't have 4G, at least I know their network is up consistently and is reliable!
I talked to a nice lady on the phone just now and she said this was the first time she had a call from a subscriber with a One X...So she hasn't heard anything. Just not enough data and time. She looked at some notes and AT&T does have the WiFi issue flagged in their system. I told her yes I was experiencing that one too. It's an issue when coming out of WiFi your data doesn't connect.
She had me turn off my phone, she disconnected me from their network and then I came back on it. After I explained to her with the WiFi issue, I worked around it by turning all off and then airplane mode, she said, yes airplane mode does the same thing and will essentially reset your connection to their network. You may be assigned a different tower, IP, etc.
So you can try that. Turn everything all off. Then turn airplane mode on. Then off and then the mobile network back on. You'll see a notice saying "preparing SIM card" ...
However, despite all that. I still have constant connectivity issues. The phone will not stay connected for long periods of time. It is always bouncing between LTE, HSPA+ and simply not connected at all. There's a few apps that I go to update in the store and all their downloads fail because the phone will not stay connected long enough to download them.
WHEN the phone is connected, for those brief periods of time, the speeds are good. I've seen nearly 30Mbps download on LTE to a close test server and 5, 10, 23, etc. on test servers farther away. It's extremely fast. Unfortunately, the phone simply won't stay connected to their network rendering it just about useless for anything other than getting some e-mail messages as they are able to trickle in.

thanks
The connectivity issue is horrible on my phone. I don't even have any clue that it's gone bad until I try to send a text or make a call that refuses to go through. A reset used to fix my problem, but recently it became very very stubborn (many resets... thought I tried everything and was preparing to drive to the store) and then I tried the all radios off, airplane on, airplane off, mobile on and it finally fixed itself. very frustrating, but thanks for the tip. Not sure I'll be keeping this phone. My iPhone 3gs was overall far more reliable.

droidiac13 said:
I haven't had any of the issues you are mentioning. I used my music player for an hour while mowing the grass tonight.
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That's explains why you didn't experience the #1 issue, it's only when music player is on background you start/switch to another app.
I'm experiencing all the above, but after LG Nitro HD I'll take these issues ten fold without complains. This phone is awesome even these issues.

the caching one sucks!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646409

I have #2 and #3.

I was going to give HTC till day 29 prior to returning it,, however, ive changed my mind. Taking back tomorrow morning. It frustrates me to no end for the following reasons in order of importance.
1. Battery Life- only 6-8 hours with maybe 1.5 hours screen time. Thought maybe I received a dud based upon the reports of others but,,,,
2. Multitasking- there is none. 3/4 of the memory is ate up with crap running which probably accounts for the lack of caching. Due to there being no multitasking, my old iphone, iphone 4s and lumia 900 wipe the floor with this unit. It actually reminds me of the old galaxy S in terms of performance.
3. messaging- no notification
4. email-Can only send one attachment at a time.
5. email, cant click links, must copy
6. email- when you move an email to a folder, you must do additional steps to get back to inbox
7. System- pretty much everything requires so many additional taps, it is counter intuitive
8. camera- not on par with iphone 4s or galaxy s2, however software is better. I really wonder if the compression settings are what is destroying the photos.
9. No Visual Voicemail- without downloading more crappy bloatware from ATT
I do love the screen, the Quadrant scores are outstanding but not indicative of the phones actual performance and usability. I was excited, now not so much at all. There are so many other things to list but numbers 1,2,3 pretty much negate the use of this phone. I also have the Lumia 900 and iphone 4S. And so far I am most impressed by the Lumia900. However, it's camera,well, stinks.

You're crazy bro. I just scanned 6 pages wirelessly from my WorkForce 545 with my HTC One and emailed them out directly...that was 6 attached files...
Battery is awesome, but you could drain it in a few hours depending on what you do...but the same goes for every other phone.
I mean, I'd seriously give the thing a factory reset and a good charge. Play with it some more... He'll, root it and use titanium backup to remove bloatware...
But eh up to you
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Radiaton

Has anybody also noticed high radiaton from the device ?
I have never had such problems with any other phone.
If i leave it in room, it's interfering with subwoofer, making buzz sound. It's not subwoofers fault - this happened never before. I can put older phone right on the speaker, start call, but no buzz sound occures.
Also with older TV. Whenever i start call in the room where the TV is, or browse internet via mobile network, on the screen there start appearing white squares, and the signal is bad. Friend of me has original Desire. She can put it right on TV and nothing happens !
Is this normal ? I'm starting to be affraid and considering changing the phone for another.

Sometimes my speakers also start to make that strange sound but that is normal for nearly every new phone
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Have you considered buying a geiger counter?
I've not noticed this behavior from my phone.
Sywepd form my DsereiS

"any another phone" has a wifi&bt?

It's caused by mobile network - either Edge or 3G.. Mainly Edge.
Other phones also had edge connection. Although they were not syncing constantly, but once an hour phone has to "sign" for the cell, but it never made buzz sound.

Right.
Buzz sound play on your sub due to 2g,3g,edge etc networks. Have same buzz sometimes when one of that network is more active than its standby.
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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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Choppy Bluetooth?

Just wondering if anyone else is having issues with their bluetooth? Mine seems to be ok for a while then starts cutting in and out to the point I can't listen anymore. Seems to happen every time I use it and with three different radios. I plan on visiting the Sprint repair shop but wondered if I was missing something?

Having the same issue, I've already tried deleting the bluetooth cache, un-pairing/re-pairing and even went as far as to boot into recover and delete the entire cache.
Nothing seems to fix the issue, still cutting out like a champ. Starting to consider going back to the note 4.

Same problem here when I connect to my cars bluetooth radio. Also the network connections seem to be all over the place as well..

LouRock said:
Same problem here when I connect to my cars bluetooth radio. Also the network connections seem to be all over the place as well.. I'm really trying to love this phone but starting to consider the S7 Edge because I'd save 200 bucks and I'd still have all the same features minus the stylus...
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Give them time, they had some similar problems with the S6 Edge and got them fixed relatively quick.

Yeah I can hold the phone a certain and replicate it often ... Usually blocking the bottom right antenna spot

Same problem here. I've had similar issue with the Note 5 but it wasn't as bad as on the Note 7.

My Bluetooth reception is a lot better on my 7 than note 4.. I haven't had any choppy or cut off music with my bluebuds x. On my note 4 i would get it all the time
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Mine has been VERY choppy. To the point that I dont even bother with Spotify in my vehicles anymore. And thats my main source of music!

Ditto. Ford sync system in my 2015 super duty. I thought it was my trucks problem. Par9ked my wifes s5 and no issues. Pandora is my main source.
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0 problems here, pairing 4 different types of headsets, 3 vehicles and even my computer and gear watch streaming the sound through either. I mainly use pandora and sometimes just the music app or youtube. My data is what seems to be very touchy on this phone, where on my n5 I still get more bars than the n7 in the same areas.

I have the same problem, so does my wife's Note 7.

I had the same problem then I went into the settings for advanced location services and turned off random bluetooth scanning and wifi scanning. Now it works perfectly.

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I had the same problem then I went into the settings for advanced location services and turned off random bluetooth scanning and wifi scanning. Now it works perfectly.
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Gonna see if that helps thanks!

I have no issues with Bluetooth whether it's in my car, through my wireless headphones or using my Gear 2. I'm loving this phone. The bluetooth connection is actually better on this phone than my Note 5.

Also...Nearby device scanning. I shut that off as well and it has helped. Still, I'm getting occasional dropouts, but it's tolerable.
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Yeah I can hold the phone a certain and replicate it often ... Usually blocking the bottom right antenna spot
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Yeah, i can replicate by doing this as well... and unfortunately i use my right hand to hold my phone and it covers that spot sometimes.

hotspace said:
Also...Nearby device scanning. I shut that off as well and it has helped. Still, I'm getting occasional dropouts, but it's tolerable.
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I agree with you. It's better than having those 2 settings activated. It still sometimes has its hiccups but not as bad.

maxima2k53 said:
I agree with you. It's better than having those 2 settings activated. It still sometimes has its hiccups but not as bad.
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Agreed. I'm still having far too many dropouts/interruptions/skips/pauses etc.... to call it a final release. I listened to music that was on my device and still experienced the dropouts/interruptions/skips/pauses. Has anyone else experienced Pandora speeding up toward the end of a song?? Almost like the song is sped up to compensate for the delays/interruptions??

Meh...

No chop here, just got my N7 today. Tested on Klipch R10B, KMC3, Groove, UE megaboom, Lexus Infotainment and Harmon Kardon Aura, Braven BRVX