some one said I should post this on a mainstream board, so it will help out others too, I am too lazy to edit the some things so please pretend that I am refering to JUST YOUR PHONE. This basically apply's to every ones phone. Even the iphone. so please ignore droid turbo and copy and paste your phone name. take everything with a grain of salt. I refuse to take any one seriously if you fail to see that you missed the point of my thread. here it comes (copy and paste lol desu).
So I pick up my Droid Trubo (only for the specs) and I noticed that Verizon is claiming that you can get a whole 48 hours off your phone with out having to charge your phone within those 48 hours. makes me giggle but the battery is a 3900mAh battery. Pretty sweet, but inevitably on day one release I have seen articles and posts of people claiming that they only get no less then 9-12 hours on there turbo before they have to charge..... (Not claiming I know all there is to phones) but I had a feeling that any one complaining about the battery on there phone probably (in fact i am 110% sure) that they have no idea what exactly takes up power usage on there phone. I charge my phone up to about 100 percent, I used it consistently watching you tube video's web browsing listening to music, all that jazz, you name it and I probably did it. After a whole 25 hours(in counting) my phone sat at a woping 67% battery charge. Verizon held up there part of the bargain and this is by no means them lieing to us. So I am going to start listing off on why your phone literally dies after only 5 hours.
1.Brightness: Thats rite folks, turning your brightness to the max is a very sexy way to speed up the process of killing your battery, I highly recommend that you simply set the brightness to automatic and you should be set. Brightness kills your battery, but this is not the only thing that you probably goofed in, lets read on.
1.Wallpaper: You know, I kinda don't consider this one to be much of a big deal, but it is true non the less(still kinda not that big of deal) but have LIVE wallpaper does consume much more power vs having just a normal wallpaper background.
3. Mother fu**ing gps/location : So I noticed that every one and there grandmother, turns on the GPS/location(well, more like you hit yes to turn it on and forgot about it sense) setting on there device for Google map, or maybe you want your friends to know where your making yourself look lost with selfie picks of Facebook or instagram. Now let me tell you having the gps setting to detect your location or use it on google maps KILLS YOUR BATTERY faster then you can say "How do i get to the control panel?". Generally on your average phone your looking at (if your lucky) a solid 4-6 hours before you have to charge your phone because you have this on all the time(and probably everything else I list aswell). The GPS tracking system is always on REGARDLESS if you are or not using google maps, facebook, instagram etc. I can imagine that with turbo you would only survive for a good 10 hours before you have to charge your phone again. Make sure you go into your phone setting and turn of gps location and only use it when you need it at that time.
Mobile and Wifi usage: Now, Of course this takes up power, but I always get a kick out of watching every one have there wifi AND there mobile data active at the same time. This is very effective for killing your phone sooner, rather then later. Dont get me wrong your phone is either going to use one or the other, but its still outputting power to keep a connection, VS having it actually turned off, and having it simply notify you that there is a connection available.
Now Maybe alot of you are like "this guy does not know what he's talking about I have this on all the time and I still only get 10 hours". If you are thinking this, I recommend you take the moment to stand up take 2 steps back and punch yourself in the stomach, when your able to breath come back and go through the steps in making sure that your phone does not have all these setting turn on at ones.
Ya, ultimately this is the bread and butter list that kills peoples battery's that I see all the time (dont play yourself, you know who you are) . So I guess I will go just a little more in-depth on how I get an easy 48 hours on the phone with no sweat.
Ultimately, when I am at my house, I keep my wifi data on, with my brightness set to auto. As far as Droids turbo goes, this will be easy peasy for your phone to get to the whole day, go ahead and watch some you-tube videos, hell take a bunch of pictures while your at it, (fun fact, your video recorder is pretty niffty for draining battery) I only turn my gps location on when I need to get from point A to Point B and always remember to turn it of after I am done using it.
I want to talk about 1 more technical thing before I Wrap this up, I notice that some people say "I checked my battery today and it says that this app took up 30% of my power! WTF? I disabled it and removed it). you guys mite want to pay better attention to the battery, for example, my phone lost about a good 5% after like 1-2 hours of you-tube or something, when I looked at the battery status rite from the get go, it told me that you tube took 70% of my power usage. but mind you, your phone is telling you it took up 70% of power in the 5% battery period. some people don't pay close attention to these details so when they go on there battery status at the end of the day they do back-flips for days on the fact that there app or (my favorite) screen took up so much power on there phones.
Ya my guide is not the best, just posting this out there to hopefully get this concept through to some people. I am just your average power user, with a nice phone, and a ton of trig homework to catch up on, feel free to ask me any question, I mite go and post this in the general/Q & A threads.
Just got done proof reading, If things are still terrible, I recommend you kill it with fire, and hyperventilate until your amazon prime order of frozen yogurt arrives at the back of your basement step.
UPDATE: Ok, just so I stop getting bombarded with these pointless reply's (who am I kidding some one is still gonna call me a dumbass am I rite?) this is what I expect for you guys to get out of this thread, I will use myself in this example).
ME : let's see so I turned off all my features on the phone (or for what ever reason some of you like to call it a dumb phone). Now everything is OFF.
- I am sitting down and I want to shoot a text or make a phone call to my friend. I do just that that and......OH SNAP! I don't need my mobile 4g lte to be turned on if all I am doing is sending/receiving text messages/phone calls. Sweet! BUT WAIT, I want to go on SPACE-BOOK AND want to know when people post comments on my selfies! Then I will simply keep my mobile data on 24/7(when I am at home switch to my wifi and turn off mobile) so I can retrieve those oh so important selfie updates! I know keeping mobile data on at all times will drain my batter faster then having it off, but for just posting comments on space-book, or doing web serfing that should be of no problem ESPECIALLY if you have the turbo. So flick the mobile data on if you want to know whats going on in your twitter or what have you. I don't twitter, space-book, instagram or any of that Personally, I only turn on mobile data when I need to web browse (I do heavy web browsing myself, but that wont be too much battery drain.). Thats just me. Pick your options and learn what takes up more power when you do it. Learn what you need to do to accomplish these goals through out the day because lets face it people, selfies make the world go round. I mean if you go to the gym and work out for 2 hours but did not take a selfie, then it does not count. every one know that! (to keep myself sain, you will notice I will constantly be mis pronouncing names and I will be using Selfies as a general term for "those people" that like to take pictures of everything. I have to point this out because some one will say "I dont just take selfies I take "insert stupid category here" with my phone! YES because I am sure what ever pictures you take is of that much different from selfies!")
2. Alrgiht! So I leave my mobile data on all the time go web serfing and I take selfies of myself looking lost in towns. No problem for the droid turbo! but you know what? I also want to watch a bunch of video's! whatching video's on your phone will of course drain the battery faster (stack that on with user number 1.) though it does take away more power from your phone its not that bad if the video is actually on your phone, what's that? you want to go to youtube and watch 720 or 1080p cat video's. Thats gonna cost more resources, your going to need your phone to output its data connection to start STREAMING 720 or 1080p cat video's! Thats pretty demanding for anyphone regardless. If you do it here and there through out the day, you will lose power faster, but if you stream 720p cat video's all day, then your turbo probably wont survive the 24 hour mark. (2 hours streaming cat videos and 2 girls one cup is not going to destroy your phone but it will require a nice chunk of your battery non the less).
3. HOLD ON NOW, I need people to know where I am at 24/7 so lets flick on that locations app! once again this will stack on to your demanding needs of power, 24/7 mobile data turn on with your 2 hours of streaming 720p cat video's and 2 girls 1 cup, with selfies (lets not forget your camera and video record do tend to take up power giving you those true HD pictures. Now you got your phone Twerking to constantly feed your location to your app. Then it costs even more power when you use it.
4. I also want max screen brightness and my Bluetooth (though bluetooth is not so bad, just depends how you use it) for my headphones....I also want to have high frequency mode turned on while im at it too so I can use gps!.....with a LIVE wallpaper!
Do you guys see where I am getting at with all this? you need to treat your phone like a car. you need to know what features take up how much power and how long you plan to keep them on. I am not telling you, to turn EVERYTHING OFF and boom 48 hours. I am telling you that your phone has a **** ton of power and its up to you to learn what apps and what features drain how much power and how fast and how long do you plann to use it? You may think its so small or it does not take that much power but the more you stack things on to your phone the more power its going to need. You need to think about it like if it was yourself. If I told you to walk for one mile you would totally (I hope) be fine doing it no sweat, but what If i told you to RUN for one mile your body is going to take way more energy to make you run at a descent pace vs walking. I really do hope (in my opinion) my fun explanation helps you guys understand the concept's of phone power usage. Over time if your like me and a few other power users I know, you will have absolutely no problems what so ever keeping your phone alive, because we piratically know when its going to die and when we will need to charge. comes with experience.
Final note: just remember, if you think this is stupid or all this is a waist of time, then I recommend punching yourself in the stomach and simply waiting for that amazon prime order of frozen yogurt to arrive at your door step. that's all I got to say, Im gonna go through and proof read this so it does not sound too dumb (i gotta get back to that trig homework). I need to emphasize though, if your gonna be naive and not see the point of my thread, just punch you self in the stomach and take a selfie saying you just got done working out, it works EVERY TIME, I promise!
ome one said I should post this on a mainstream board, so it will help out others too, I am too lazy to edit the some things so please pretend that I am refering to JUST YOUR PHONE. This basically apply's to every ones phone. Even the iphone. so please ignore droid turbo and copy and paste your phone name. take everything with a grain of salt. I refuse to take any one seriously if you fail to see that you missed the point of my thread. here it comes (copy and paste lol desu).
So I pick up my Droid Trubo (only for the specs) and I noticed that Verizon is claiming that you can get a whole 48 hours off your phone with out having to charge your phone within those 48 hours. makes me giggle but the battery is a 3900mAh battery. Pretty sweet, but inevitably on day one release I have seen articles and posts of people claiming that they only get no less then 9-12 hours on there turbo before they have to charge..... (Not claiming I know all there is to phones) but I had a feeling that any one complaining about the battery on there phone probably (in fact i am 110% sure) that they have no idea what exactly takes up power usage on there phone. I charge my phone up to about 100 percent, I used it consistently watching you tube video's web browsing listening to music, all that jazz, you name it and I probably did it. After a whole 25 hours(in counting) my phone sat at a woping 67% battery charge. Verizon held up there part of the bargain and this is by no means them lieing to us. So I am going to start listing off on why your phone literally dies after only 5 hours.
1.Brightness: Thats rite folks, turning your brightness to the max is a very sexy way to speed up the process of killing your battery, I highly recommend that you simply set the brightness to automatic and you should be set. Brightness kills your battery, but this is not the only thing that you probably goofed in, lets read on.
1.Wallpaper: You know, I kinda don't consider this one to be much of a big deal, but it is true non the less(still kinda not that big of deal) but have LIVE wallpaper does consume much more power vs having just a normal wallpaper background.
3. Mother fu**ing gps/location : So I noticed that every one and there grandmother, turns on the GPS/location(well, more like you hit yes to turn it on and forgot about it sense) setting on there device for Google map, or maybe you want your friends to know where your making yourself look lost with selfie picks of Facebook or instagram. Now let me tell you having the gps setting to detect your location or use it on google maps KILLS YOUR BATTERY faster then you can say "How do i get to the control panel?". Generally on your average phone your looking at (if your lucky) a solid 4-6 hours before you have to charge your phone because you have this on all the time(and probably everything else I list aswell). The GPS tracking system is always on REGARDLESS if you are or not using google maps, facebook, instagram etc. I can imagine that with turbo you would only survive for a good 10 hours before you have to charge your phone again. Make sure you go into your phone setting and turn of gps location and only use it when you need it at that time.
Mobile and Wifi usage: Now, Of course this takes up power, but I always get a kick out of watching every one have there wifi AND there mobile data active at the same time. This is very effective for killing your phone sooner, rather then later. Dont get me wrong your phone is either going to use one or the other, but its still outputting power to keep a connection, VS having it actually turned off, and having it simply notify you that there is a connection available.
Now Maybe alot of you are like "this guy does not know what he's talking about I have this on all the time and I still only get 10 hours". If you are thinking this, I recommend you take the moment to stand up take 2 steps back and punch yourself in the stomach, when your able to breath come back and go through the steps in making sure that your phone does not have all these setting turn on at ones.
Ya, ultimately this is the bread and butter list that kills peoples battery's that I see all the time (dont play yourself, you know who you are) . So I guess I will go just a little more in-depth on how I get an easy 48 hours on the phone with no sweat.
Ultimately, when I am at my house, I keep my wifi data on, with my brightness set to auto. As far as Droids turbo goes, this will be easy peasy for your phone to get to the whole day, go ahead and watch some you-tube videos, hell take a bunch of pictures while your at it, (fun fact, your video recorder is pretty niffty for draining battery) I only turn my gps location on when I need to get from point A to Point B and always remember to turn it of after I am done using it.
I want to talk about 1 more technical thing before I Wrap this up, I notice that some people say "I checked my battery today and it says that this app took up 30% of my power! WTF? I disabled it and removed it). you guys mite want to pay better attention to the battery, for example, my phone lost about a good 5% after like 1-2 hours of you-tube or something, when I looked at the battery status rite from the get go, it told me that you tube took 70% of my power usage. but mind you, your phone is telling you it took up 70% of power in the 5% battery period. some people don't pay close attention to these details so when they go on there battery status at the end of the day they do back-flips for days on the fact that there app or (my favorite) screen took up so much power on there phones.
Ya my guide is not the best, just posting this out there to hopefully get this concept through to some people. I am just your average power user, with a nice phone, and a ton of trig homework to catch up on, feel free to ask me any question, I mite go and post this in the general/Q & A threads.
Just got done proof reading, If things are still terrible, I recommend you kill it with fire, and hyperventilate until your amazon prime order of frozen yogurt arrives at the back of your basement step.
UPDATE: Ok, just so I stop getting bombarded with these pointless reply's (who am I kidding some one is still gonna call me a dumbass am I rite?) this is what I expect for you guys to get out of this thread, I will use myself in this example).
ME : let's see so I turned off all my features on the phone (or for what ever reason some of you like to call it a dumb phone). Now everything is OFF.
- I am sitting down and I want to shoot a text or make a phone call to my friend. I do just that that and......OH SNAP! I don't need my mobile 4g lte to be turned on if all I am doing is sending/receiving text messages/phone calls. Sweet! BUT WAIT, I want to go on SPACE-BOOK AND want to know when people post comments on my selfies! Then I will simply keep my mobile data on 24/7(when I am at home switch to my wifi and turn off mobile) so I can retrieve those oh so important selfie updates! I know keeping mobile data on at all times will drain my batter faster then having it off, but for just posting comments on space-book, or doing web serfing that should be of no problem ESPECIALLY if you have the turbo. So flick the mobile data on if you want to know whats going on in your twitter or what have you. I don't twitter, space-book, instagram or any of that Personally, I only turn on mobile data when I need to web browse (I do heavy web browsing myself, but that wont be too much battery drain.). Thats just me. Pick your options and learn what takes up more power when you do it. Learn what you need to do to accomplish these goals through out the day because lets face it people, selfies make the world go round. I mean if you go to the gym and work out for 2 hours but did not take a selfie, then it does not count. every one know that! (to keep myself sain, you will notice I will constantly be mis pronouncing names and I will be using Selfies as a general term for "those people" that like to take pictures of everything. I have to point this out because some one will say "I dont just take selfies I take "insert stupid category here" with my phone! YES because I am sure what ever pictures you take is of that much different from selfies!")
2. Alrgiht! So I leave my mobile data on all the time go web serfing and I take selfies of myself looking lost in towns. No problem for the droid turbo! but you know what? I also want to watch a bunch of video's! whatching video's on your phone will of course drain the battery faster (stack that on with user number 1.) though it does take away more power from your phone its not that bad if the video is actually on your phone, what's that? you want to go to youtube and watch 720 or 1080p cat video's. Thats gonna cost more resources, your going to need your phone to output its data connection to start STREAMING 720 or 1080p cat video's! Thats pretty demanding for anyphone regardless. If you do it here and there through out the day, you will lose power faster, but if you stream 720p cat video's all day, then your turbo probably wont survive the 24 hour mark. (2 hours streaming cat videos and 2 girls one cup is not going to destroy your phone but it will require a nice chunk of your battery non the less).
3. HOLD ON NOW, I need people to know where I am at 24/7 so lets flick on that locations app! once again this will stack on to your demanding needs of power, 24/7 mobile data turn on with your 2 hours of streaming 720p cat video's and 2 girls 1 cup, with selfies (lets not forget your camera and video record do tend to take up power giving you those true HD pictures. Now you got your phone Twerking to constantly feed your location to your app. Then it costs even more power when you use it.
4. I also want max screen brightness and my Bluetooth (though bluetooth is not so bad, just depends how you use it) for my headphones....I also want to have high frequency mode turned on while im at it too so I can use gps!.....with a LIVE wallpaper!
Do you guys see where I am getting at with all this? you need to treat your phone like a car. you need to know what features take up how much power and how long you plan to keep them on. I am not telling you, to turn EVERYTHING OFF and boom 48 hours. I am telling you that your phone has a **** ton of power and its up to you to learn what apps and what features drain how much power and how fast and how long do you plann to use it? You may think its so small or it does not take that much power but the more you stack things on to your phone the more power its going to need. You need to think about it like if it was yourself. If I told you to walk for one mile you would totally (I hope) be fine doing it no sweat, but what If i told you to RUN for one mile your body is going to take way more energy to make you run at a descent pace vs walking. I really do hope (in my opinion) my fun explanation helps you guys understand the concept's of phone power usage. Over time if your like me and a few other power users I know, you will have absolutely no problems what so ever keeping your phone alive, because we piratically know when its going to die and when we will need to charge. comes with experience.
Final note: just remember, if you think this is stupid or all this is a waist of time, then I recommend punching yourself in the stomach and simply waiting for that amazon prime order of frozen yogurt to arrive at your door step. that's all I got to say, Im gonna go through and proof read this so it does not sound too dumb (i gotta get back to that trig homework). I need to emphasize though, if your gonna be naive and not see the point of my thread, just punch you self in the stomach and take a selfie saying you just got done working out, it works EVERY TIME, I promise!
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Your welcome
This post pertains to the issue addressed in the following thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/help/dont-s7-s7-edge-users-post-recorded-t3535820
I posted the following to the Samsung support community last week...
Description & Solution
The intent of this post is to offer an easy solution to S7 and S7 Edge owners experiencing the recorded audio crackling issue. I have two devices that were suffering from the problem: an S7 and an S7 Edge. I purchased both devices brand-new. The crackling bursts plagued my recorded video footage as well as my voice recordings on both devices. My S7's crackling issue was bad enough. But on my S7 Edge, the crackling was simply horrible - far worse than my S7 had ever been. I have seemingly discovered a way to eliminate the crackling sounds on both devices.
I came up with this simple procedure myself after many phone calls to Samsung customer support --who would always claim they have never heard the complaint before-- and a great deal of web searching. Like my calls to Samsung, my web searches rendered no viable solutions, nor even a single factually convincing explanation as to the cause of the crackles. There were only mere guesses as to why the crackling perpetually manifests from the audio input circuitry (microphone stage) on certain S7s, S7 Edges and older S model Galaxy devices (dating as far back as the S4). It has been frustrating. And Samsung's repeated insistence that they have never heard the complaint before each of my calls, then reading that other folks were told the very same thing, made my situation all the more disturbing.
So, without further ado, below is my fix. Or at least it has seemed to fix both of my S7 devices - your mileage may vary. And this solution is so simple that it almost makes me want to slap myself for not thinking of it sooner.
Make sure your battery is fully charged and launch your camera app. Tap the 'record' button and set your phone on a table, allowing it to record for at least 1 hour. The crackles appear to be electrostatic charges existing within the audio input circuitry of certain S7s and other older Samsung phones. By allowing your device's audio recording function to "burn in" (as it were) for one hour or more, you should be able to permanently deplete those electrostatic charges, thus eliminating the periodic discharges during your recording sessions and therefore the crackles that superimpose on your video and audio files. You may be able to perform this same burn-in function with an extended audio recording. But since I haven't tried that yet, I don't know whether it would render the same result after just one hour of record time, or whether it may require a longer period.
So that's it. I now have two S7 devices that are finally free from emitting those annoying crackles on my recordings. I can leave either device on over night and make a new video in the morning and it's consistently clean! Please try this method and let me know if it works for you as well.
And I posted the following update to the Samsung support community this morning...
Update:
Since my last post, I've performed this procedure on yet another S7. The result is that now the problem appears to be completely gone on it as well. And I think I've proven something else. I did not perform this latest audio recording burn-in session with the third S7's pre-installed camera app video recorder feature, as was done with my own two S7s. Instead, I used the 'Audio Recorder' app from Sony Mobile Communications in stereo mode to record a 1-hour audio file on the device. But you know what? As with my two S7s, this burn-in seems to have totally eliminated all of the crackles/pops from the device as well. So now it seems clear that you don't have to have a huge amount of free storage available to perform the fix, because you can simply use a long audio recording session.
So the fix is: Simply use a 1-hour audio recording session to bleed down all of the electrostatic that for some reason seems to build up on some devices during the manufacturing process. I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is the solution, everyone. No longer a single crackle on any of three S7s that were previously suffering from the issue! Hopefully S7 owners suffering from the recorded audio crackling problem will find my posts herein and thus be able to easily fix their devices.
At this point, I believe that the solution described herein may genuinely and completely resolve the intermittent, but perpetual, recorded pops and crackles issue experienced on S7 /S7 Edge video and audio recordings by some device owners.
Cheers
Update 2:
Unfortunately, the one-hour audio recording session on the third S7 ended up only reducing the crackles overall. They remained absent for more than 24 hours but then reappeared with reduced intensity. However, because the crackling has in fact never returned on my own S7 and S7 Edge after my video recording burn-in sessions, on Monday I decided to perform a one-hour video recording session on the third S7, too. And I'm happy to report that since that session the crackles have been entirely nonexistent on that device as well. If they return on any of the three S7 devices, I'll report back. If they don't return, the indication will be that a one-hour video recording session seems necessary to fully resolve the crackling issue.
I'm unsure why the audio recording session turned out to be unsuccessful on the third S7 device. I would think that an extended audio-only recording session should do the same thing with microphone input that an extended video recording session would do. But perhaps the extra heat generated during a video recording session is an important factor.
Hi clonk. I've been following your battle against this popping issue and I appreciate you taking the time to share your findings. I've been trying your technique and I can't seem to get it to work properly.
I have a S7 active and I get a lot of annoying popping sounds when I first start recording after not using the camera in a while. I plan on posting them on YouTube or something to hopefully make it more visible to others. I'm surprised it's not already viral.
Anyways, I would start recording and leave my phone alone for about an hour. When I get back to my phone I see the timestamp for an hour, so I stop the video. But when I check the video file I see it split in two parts, one video around 27 minutes then another video for 34 minutes. I think I have enough space on my SD card for an hour long video.
When I check for the crackles it's still there. Any advice?
I was able to record a video longer than an hour last night. I dropped my recording resolution to VGA and I left the phone recording when I went to sleep. Woke up and found a video of 1:40 min long. However, when I tested the camera this morning I switched it back to FHD and still got the popping noise.
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I was able to record a video longer than an hour last night. I dropped my recording resolution to VGA and I left the phone recording when I went to sleep. Woke up and found a video of 1:40 min long. However, when I tested the camera this morning I switched it back to FHD and still got the popping noise.
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Hi _LANTERN. You know, I'm quite puzzled by your failed results, as well as by the failed results of another individual who tried my method in order to resolve his S7's mic input crackling issue. He has been communicating with me on the Samsung Community support forum. It doesn't make much sense because both of my own S7s, as well as my friend's S7, are still crackle-free (as they have been since the completion of their respective video burn-in sessions). I simply can't account for why you haven't enjoyed the same results.
I can tell you that my S7 rendered exactly the same file splitting result from its 1-hour video burn-in session. I ended up with a 36 minute file and a 28 minute file. I'm unsure why this happens. My friend's S7 produced multiple files, too... but I can't remember their durations. My S7 edge, on the other hand, recorded clean though its session rendering a single file with a total runtime of 1 hour and 5 minutes. The only difference is that my edge has a 256 GB SD card and my S7 does not. I'm unsure whether this may somehow be a factor.
At this point I am absolutely clueless as to why the two of you (unless the person on the Samsung forum is you as well) have not experienced the same favorable result that we have experienced with the three S7 devices here. The crackling is entirely gone on each of them. Period. I simply can't imagine why the story isn't the same in each of your cases. From your descriptions, it sounds to be the identical source problem. This is indeed a mystery.
I would try at least one additional burn-in session. I used FHD 1920x1080 mode for the sessions on each of the three devices here. I left each device in record mode and pointed at the ceiling in a dark room. If you try another session, please report back.
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Update 2:
Unfortunately, the one-hour audio recording session on the third S7 ended up only reducing the crackles overall. They remained absent for more than 24 hours but then reappeared with reduced intensity. However, because the crackling has in fact never returned on my own S7 and S7 Edge after my video recording burn-in sessions, on Monday I decided to perform a one-hour video recording session on the third S7, too. And I'm happy to report that since that session the crackles have been entirely nonexistent on that device as well. If they return on any of the three S7 devices, I'll report back. If they don't return, the indication will be that a one-hour video recording session seems necessary to fully resolve the crackling issue.
I'm unsure why the audio recording session turned out to be unsuccessful on the third S7 device. I would think that an extended audio-only recording session should do the same thing with microphone input that an extended video recording session would do. But perhaps the extra heat generated during a video recording session is an important factor.
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so I tried the audio method
basicly same results as ures started doing it again but a lot less so last nite I run the record on vga for almost 3 hours while I slept
and as of rite now clean and clear
I noticed it the other day I was recording some sounds to make a ringtone and thought I had ther volumes up to high and no matter what I did still popping and little bits of hissings too
well I recored the same sounds today at a louder volume than before and crystal clear
so +1 on a sofar fix
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now I wonder if a man take and ground the phone out to a good ground source ive got the alligator clips ground braclets or something similar to discharge it instead of recording it.
TheMadScientist420 said:
so I tried the audio method
basicly same results as ures started doing it again but a lot less so last nite I run the record on vga for almost 3 hours while I slept
and as of rite now clean and clear
I noticed it the other day I was recording some sounds to make a ringtone and thought I had ther volumes up to high and no matter what I did still popping and little bits of hissings too
well I recored the same sounds today at a louder volume than before and crystal clear
so +1 on a sofar fix
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Congrats! I hope it's permanently fixed for you.
TheMadScientist420 said:
now I wonder if a man take and ground the phone out to a good ground source ive got the alligator clips ground braclets or something similar to discharge it instead of recording it.
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As for your discharge to earth ground idea... you can try it. But the circuit/component that's retaining the static charge may be isolated from the phone's chassis, so it may not work. The three S7s here still seem entirely free from the crackling. While I'm not entirely convinced that a few pops won't return at some point, I bet if they do they will be very few and that just one more burn-in session may eliminate them completely. But they also may truly be gone for good now.
My current theory is that the electrostatic charge some of these phones possess right 'out of the box' is great enough that it must be bled down in progressive increments. Whereas a few of the phones (like my two and my friend's) have less of a static charge initially, so they only require one burn-in session to completely bleed it away. As such, on the ones with a greater charge it may require several longer burn-in sessions to get rid of it entirely. That's at least my guess at this point. But, again, the three S7s here are still entirely clear of the crackles after only one FHD 1-hour recording burn-in session each.
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Congrats! I hope it's permanently fixed for you.
As for your discharge to earth ground idea... you can try it. But the circuit/component that's retaining the static charge may be isolated from the phone's chassis, so it may not work. The three S7s here still seem entirely free from the crackling. While I'm not entirely convinced that a few pops won't return at some point, I bet if they do they will be very few and that just one more burn-in session may eliminate them completely. But they also may truly be gone for good now.
My current theory is that the electrostatic charge some of these phones possess right 'out of the box' is great enough that it must be bled down in progressive increments. Whereas a few of the phones (like my two and my friend's) have less of a static charge initially, so they only require one burn-in session to completely bleed it away. As such, on the ones with a greater charge it may require several longer burn-in sessions to get rid of it entirely. That's at least my guess at this point. But, again, the three S7s here are still entirely clear of the crackles after only one FHD 1-hour recording burn-in session each.
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well make it 4 now
well I'm new to the s7 had s6 got a s5 and I was raising hell about some of the quality issues with the 7
no ir port downgraded camera downgraded processor I can deal with maybe not the ir port but the rest but I do a lot of videos and sound recs and like I said I thought input volume was just to much and thought it had crappy mics but sounds wonderful all day now.
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well make it 4 now
well I'm new to the s7 had s6 got a s5 and I was raising hell about some of the quality issues with the 7
no ir port downgraded camera downgraded processor I can deal with maybe not the ir port but the rest but I do a lot of videos and sound recs and like I said I thought input volume was just to much and thought it had crappy mics but sounds wonderful all day now.
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I'm happy to hear it! I've been very much hoping this may help a lot of people. I know how frustrated I felt after learning that both of my brand-new S7s, purchased six months apart from different sources, demonstrated the mic input crackling. I think what bothers me the most is that my research has shown this to be an unresolved, unaddressed issue affecting many Galaxy S devices since at least the S4 was current. It really upsets me that reports indicate everyone who calls Samsung tech support concerning the matter (including myself) is told by the support staff that they have never heard of the issue before - they've been telling folks that ever since the S4. One thing about such a response to a long-standing issue like this is that it means they have no idea what's causing it --because they've obviously not dedicated any time to troubleshooting it-- which also means they will most likely be unable to repair the devices sent in under warranty to fix the problem. I can't easily forgive Samsung for ignoring this issue, and I certainly will never forgive them for disavowing knowledge of its existence over the years to their paying customers who seek help from their support department.
I'll be anxious to find out whether, with persistence, this technique ultimately works on the most stubborn of crackling S7s.
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I'm happy to hear it! I've been very much hoping this may help a lot of people. I know how frustrated I felt after learning that both of my brand-new S7s, purchased six months apart from different sources, demonstrated the mic input crackling. I think what bothers me the most is that my research has shown this to be an unresolved, unaddressed issue affecting many Galaxy S devices since at least the S4 was current. It really upsets me that reports indicate everyone who calls Samsung tech support concerning the matter (including myself) is told by the support staff that they have never heard of the issue before - they've been telling folks that ever since the S4. One thing about such a response to a long-standing issue like this is that it means they have no idea what's causing it --because they've obviously not dedicated any time to troubleshooting it-- which also means they will most likely be unable to repair the devices sent in under warranty to fix the problem. I can't easily forgive Samsung for ignoring this issue, and I certainly will never forgive them for disavowing knowledge of its existence over the years to their paying customers who seek help from their support department.
I'll be anxious to find out whether, with persistence, this technique ultimately works on the most stubborn of crackling S7s.
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my primary device now for a long time has been a lgg4 and some people know about the bootloop issue
mines never suffered but I kow loads of people that have and a lot of them that have dealt with lg in the beginning and some still
they try to play it off like it don't exist
a well documented manifacs design flaw and I'm pretty foregiving when it comes to some of it I didn't turn away from Sammy for blowin up some batts hey it happens but they also swiftly did something about it
lg denied it for months before even thinking of replacing the hand set and still argue over it even though the device should've been recalled.
and I see people saying the g5 killed lgs sales it started with the locked bootloaders and bootloop issuses they wearnt adressing
TheMadScientist420 said:
my primary device now for a long time has been a lgg4 and some people know about the bootloop issue
mines never suffered but I kow loads of people that have and a lot of them that have dealt with lg in the beginning and some still
they try to play it off like it don't exist
a well documented manifacs design flaw and I'm pretty foregiving when it comes to some of it I didn't turn away from Sammy for blowin up some batts hey it happens but they also swiftly did something about it
lg denied it for months before even thinking of replacing the hand set and still argue over it even though the device should've been recalled.
and I see people saying the g5 killed lgs sales it started with the locked bootloaders and bootloop issuses they wearnt adressing
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Well, the exploding batteries were quite dangerous... Samsung was forced to address the issue. As for the other issues, I think some companies (like Samsung) get away with selling flawed devices for premium prices. And that's disturbing to me. In my opinion, Samsung needs to implement better quality control practices. Ignoring an engineering flaw for 3 years while collecting significant profits on sales of the flawed products seems rather reprehensible.
I just did another 1 hour 30 minute recording session. This time the videos were cut into 3 parts, but I do notice significantly less popping when I tested a new video. Before I would have about four or five pops and static noises in the beginning. But I only got one so far. I'll continue to burn in to see if it improves.
Thanks
_LANTERN said:
I just did another 1 hour 30 minute recording session. This time the videos were cut into 3 parts, but I do notice significantly less popping when I tested a new video. Before I would have about four or five pops and static noises in the beginning. But I only got one so far. I'll continue to burn in to see if it improves.
Thanks
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I'm glad you're finally noticing some improvement. Please keep us posted.
The static is back unfortunately. I'll get my usual 5 or 6 popping noises in the beginning of the video again even after 3 burn in sessions. I'm almost out of hope and so close to giving up lol
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The static is back unfortunately. I'll get my usual 5 or 6 popping noises in the beginning of the video again even after 3 burn in sessions. I'm almost out of hope and so close to giving up lol
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Wow, that's terribly disappointing. And it's hard to understand since the three S7s here are still fully clear of the popping. This mic input crackling issue is certainly a bizarre problem. I'm very sorry that your device has not responded to the sessions the way several others have. It seems to work on some S7s but not others.
I know that you've already tried this method extensively. But in case you decide to perform additional sessions and things happen to change for the better, please let us know.
Well, it has been one month since I performed the burn-in sessions and I'm happy to report that all is still perfect. Neither my S7 nor may S7 edge have exhibited any popping or crackling artifacts whatsoever during video or audio playbacks. My friend's S7 also seems to be fully cured of the issue. Based upon these results I have to suspect that this procedure should work on any S7 (edge or non-edge) suffering from the same issue. Some devices may simply require a number of subsequent sessions to bleed away all of the electrostatic energy. Unfortunately, a few here and there seem to have retained a greater static charge than others. I think persistence may be the key.
Thanks for this tip!
Thank you very much, clonk, for this valuable tip!
I had the crackling since the beginning of my new S7. Yesterday I made a 1 and 1/4 hour continuous video and voilà, the crackling disappeared.
Repeated the test this morning in cold state serveral times - and except from one (!) single click sound no more crackling!!!!
I agree with your explanation of how this might come.
My additional assumption: electronics do wear and by this marathon video session tiny deviations in insulation material of the serial production may have been ironed out.
Maybe this insulation was too high so that static voltage could rise and discharge in a crackling signal.
And I cannot understand why Samsung does not (want to) know about this simple cure, either!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, clonk!!!
Don't see how recording for 1 hour + would do anything whatsoever for electrostatic discharge, discharging yourself on a grounded point and then touching the metal chassis of the phone would discharge anything build up in the phone - and you picking up the phone while charged again would put it back, so....
Unlikely to be anything to do with static, much more likely to do with storage or software
xda-fritz said:
Thank you very much, clonk, for this valuable tip!
I had the crackling since the beginning of my new S7. Yesterday I made a 1 and 1/4 hour continuous video and voilà, the crackling disappeared.
Repeated the test this morning in cold state serveral times - and except from one (!) single click sound no more crackling!!!!
I agree with your explanation of how this might come.
My additional assumption: electronics do wear and by this marathon video session tiny deviations in insulation material of the serial production may have been ironed out.
Maybe this insulation was too high so that static voltage could rise and discharge in a crackling signal.
And I cannot understand why Samsung does not (want to) know about this simple cure, either!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, clonk!!!
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You're very welcome, xda-fritz. Glad to help. My two S7s (one is an edge) and another that my friend owns are still entirely crackle free. One of them took several sessions to fully eliminate the crackling. But it's been several months and the crackling has not returned on any of the three devices. So the process has definitely worked in our case.
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Don't see how recording for 1 hour + would do anything whatsoever for electrostatic discharge, discharging yourself on a grounded point and then touching the metal chassis of the phone would discharge anything build up in the phone - and you picking up the phone while charged again would put it back, so....
Unlikely to be anything to do with static, much more likely to do with storage or software
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If the electrostatic potential is present on a component or within a circuit that's normally isolated from the chassis, reasonably it would not have a path to ground through the chassis. That may change once the device toggles to record mode (via electronic switching within the circuitry). All I can tell you for certain is that the extended video recording sessions have resulted in huge reductions in, and often elimination of the cracking for multiple S7 users. In my case, the result has been complete elimination of the crackling on three S7 devices here (the two I own and one that my friend owns). We can speculate and/or argue about why that's so... But I have to tell you, Detection, the important thing is that it IS so.
Well whatever fixed it, I am certain it is nothing to do with static discharge, much more likely that the camera app / file it writes during recording is creating some temp file on storage that helps, or just coincidence
Recording or not recording will have 0 impact on electrostatic discharge
Around late June 2018 my phone was updated to Oreo. I posted this complaining of a slow and sluggish phone with poor battery life. After a full clean flash the phone improved noticeably but still wasn't where I thought it should be. Certain apps still seemed slow to open I continue to have WiFi issues.
About four to six weeks later there was another update. I'm not sure if it was a Samsung update or an AT&T update (security patch maybe?). Once again all aspects of the phone became slow and battery life plummeted. I was back down to eight or nine hours per charge. So, once again, I performed a clean flash of the phone and things got a little better. I was back on par with my initial post-Oreo clean flash and still nowhere near my pre-Oreo performance.
About four or five weeks ago my phone started nagging me to update again. I kept WiFi turned off and continually procrastinated the update for about a week or two. Finally I allowed the update and again I am having major performance issues. Battery life is unacceptable. I get around eight hours per charge. All apps are noticeably slower to open and run slower. My G-Mail app is slow to open and show new correspondence. My navigation app is virtually intolerable. The telephone app takes forever to open. Often it will ring four times and go to voicemail before the caller ID opens to show who is calling. My Swype keyboard sometimes takes two or three seconds to come up also, I forgot to backup my custom dictionary before my last clean flash so I lost all my slang and cuss words.
Here is an interesting and annoying quirk. Bluetooth now fails. I'll get in the car and the phone will automatically sync to my JVC receiver. This still happens without any issues. The issue is that, at random times, the music will just stop playing through the stereo and it will play through the phone's speaker. The bluetooth connection is not broken or interrupted (the devices are still conntected), it just randomly starts sending music to the phone's speaker instead of the car's stereo. The easiest work around I have is to hit the pause button on the car's stereo, wait one or two seconds then un-pause. It may be simple but it is BS. I shouldn't have to do it. It wasn't a problem before and it should not be a problem now. This happens with other bluetooth devices as well such as my headphones (no pause button) and a bluetooth adapter (also no pause button) that is connected to an older home stereo that doesn't have bluetooth.
So here are my questions:
1) How can I know who is responsible for these updates? Is it AT&T? Samsung? Which 'higher power' can I direct complaints to? Honestly it feels like my phone's performance is purposely being compromised in an effort to push me to a new device. If this is the case then I'll purchase a cheap 'Sprawl-Mart' phone. At least I know I'll be buying a cheap, slow and crappy phone for $60 or $70 instead of a $750 'flagship' phone that is only good for 18 months.
2) Is it possible to set my phone to never even look for updates? I look at it this way; if I have to perform a clean flash every time my phone updates then I don't want the updates anymore. Since Oreo, none of the updates seem to provide me with any noticeable benefits.
Just a bump
Just a bump to get me back to the top of the pack. Hoping somebody has some answers for me.
Thanks,
PR