Pretty much every since the most recent update, every time I restart my Shield it makes a popping noise. This only happens when it has to play a sound for the first time since its unlock weather it be the sound for unlock or music. Is this a known issue, or am I SOL?
not 100% sure if my issue relates to yours but every so often (twice today so far) my tablet gives off a loud well.. not exactly a pop but its a loud distorted noise that lasts only a fraction of a second. (and its loud!. no matter what volume the tablet is on so scares the bejesus outa me when it happens). sometimes accompanied by a very quick 1 frame graphical hiccup if in games or apps.
has me a bit thrown off and a little worried.
ill keep an eye on it and if it keeps happening ill report back so see if there's any consistency with it.
does this sound similar to what you are getting?
I get this too, but its while playing an app game, like CoC.
Same problem
Moynia said:
Pretty much every since the most recent update, every time I restart my Shield it makes a popping noise. This only happens when it has to play a sound for the first time since its unlock weather it be the sound for unlock or music. Is this a known issue, or am I SOL?
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I am continuing to have the same popping sound. Did you ever solve this issue?
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I am continuing to have the same popping sound. Did you ever solve this issue?
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I still get it after many factory resets and the update to lollipop.
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I appreciate your response. That is discouraging news.
Me too. Felt like it was gonna blow my ears it a couple times. I was using earphones and the pop is very very loud, no matter what volume the tablet is set on.
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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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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.
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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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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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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!
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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 ?
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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 ?
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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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I recently got my Nvidia Shield for Christmas and upon installing the ATT LTE data Sim I seem to have a crackleing sound when using data. It does not make the sound while not using data example just playing music or games but it will if I'm listening to music and say... Search the web or anything like that. The noise doesn't happen when using WiFi or listening over the tablet speakers.
I have another sound problem that occurs seldomly when playing music over the speakers (both with WiFi and LTE). The tablet makes a, what I call, transformer like noise; the noise to the best I can describe sounds like a medium tone zap not high pitched.
Does anyone else have these problems and how do I fix them/do I need to sent this one back?
We have discussed a similar thing here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2995852
Is this the sort of thing you mean?
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I get the digital sound stretch/squelch "transformer" noise you're referring to sometimes. I'm not sure how you'd fix that: I think it's a quirk of this tablet.
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We have discussed a similar thing here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2995852
Is this the sort of thing you mean?
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I don't have the crackling happen to the speakers only the squelch.
I get it some times, I've had it happen when there are a lot of apps going, and if an app hits high cpu load it seems. It'll do it for a moment, and clear up for a while. Closing down the backgrounded apps seems to help me. YMMV
Edit: You running latest update? I noticed it start after the 5.0.1 update.
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I've had this same issue on every version of the OS. I've had the tablet since a week after release in August and have run every update on the tablet and still get the noise, sometimes it is rather loud. It seems to do it more when stressing the tablet, I used to have Real Racing 3 on the tablet with the graphics modded to run at their highest, it would occasionally freeze up, and when it resumed, the speakers would squeak nearly every time.
I may not have just noticed it prior. But yours appears to be the same that mine is doing.
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Phone is brand new, stock ROM, and completely updated.
Issue 1: Thin protective layer (feels like glass or hard plastic) is off-centered on the left side of the screen and creates a rough edge when using the phone. Pic URL: s2.postimg.org/iufhb6d9l/screenshot_41.png (Sorry, I can't post links yet.)
Issue 2: Volume and sound randomly changes when listening to audio with headphones and using the phone. I'll be listening to music on Spotify and when I start switching between apps the music will start to sound worse and lower the volume for a second or two and then return to normal.
Issue one sounds like the factory installed screen protector. I peeleed mine off first day and still have a scratch free phone.
I have not experienced issue two.
I agree with the post above regarding the protective layer, but the 2nd issue sounds weird. I use often headphones, at least once for day, and i never noticed volume going up and down randomly. Later I'll give a try opening various apps while listening to music and I'll let you know.
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Issue one sounds like the factory installed screen protector. I peeleed mine off first day and still have a scratch free phone.
I have not experienced issue two.
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Thanks for the reply! How did you manage to peel it off? It seems stuck on there pretty well.
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I agree with the post above regarding the protective layer, but the 2nd issue sounds weird. I use often headphones, at least once for day, and i never noticed volume going up and down randomly. Later I'll give a try opening various apps while listening to music and I'll let you know.
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Thank you! I would really appreciate that. The volume and audio quality will fluctuate together for a second or two then goes back to normal.
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Thanks for the reply! How did you manage to peel it off? It seems stuck on there pretty well.
Thank you! I would really appreciate that. The volume and audio quality will fluctuate together for a second or two then goes back to normal.
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Mine peeled off fairly easy
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Thank you! I would really appreciate that. The volume and audio quality will fluctuate together for a second or two then goes back to normal.
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Mmmm... Sounds like an app (or more) that you open while using Spotify detain the precedence on audio focus if compared to Spotify, and so the sound of Spotify becomes ducked for the usual amount of time on sound ducking contest, and usually it is just a couple of seconds. If this don't bother, can i ask you the name of the app/s that make Spotify's music function ducked? It could be a game like an other app that uses the speaker, so mind at those who reproduce some sound while using I'll try to help ya since that i didn't noticed volume changes while using headphones (but i premise that i have only a SNES emulator on my phone as game, and when i play with it, i let music off so i couldn't test with modern games like the ones available on Play Store)
Several months ago I got an Insignia Alarm Clock/Speaker from Best Buy. It was $20 bucks - a total steal! It sounded great and has been working fine.
However, in the last week, whenever I play music from my tablet or phone every the music will skip or stutter. I have not done anything new to the tablet or speaker that would cause this (that I know of). The phone seems to play the music for longer before there's an issue, but not by much. Weirdly, I've noticed it's more prone to dropping out during a quiet lull in the music. I listen to a lot of instrumental music and whenever one instrument is playing alone, like a piano, it almost seems like the speaker mutes itself inbetween notes. It's hard to explain and super bizarre.
I've tried restarting the speaker, the tablet, reconnecting the Bluetooth - nothing has worked so far. My tablet is fairly old - a Galaxy Tab S - but my phone is a brand new Pixel 3 XL. It'd be odd if the speaker was failing already, but at least it'd be some kind of explanation. It's driving me bonkers. I can post some recordings of what I'm hearing if that will help anyone understand what I mean.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Several months ago I got an Insignia Alarm Clock/Speaker from Best Buy. It was $20 bucks - a total steal! It sounded great and has been working fine.
However, in the last week, whenever I play music from my tablet or phone every the music will skip or stutter. I have not done anything new to the tablet or speaker that would cause this (that I know of). The phone seems to play the music for longer before there's an issue, but not by much. Weirdly, I've noticed it's more prone to dropping out during a quiet lull in the music. I listen to a lot of instrumental music and whenever one instrument is playing alone, like a piano, it almost seems like the speaker mutes itself inbetween notes. It's hard to explain and super bizarre.
I've tried restarting the speaker, the tablet, reconnecting the Bluetooth - nothing has worked so far. My tablet is fairly old - a Galaxy Tab S - but my phone is a brand new Pixel 3 XL. It'd be odd if the speaker was failing already, but at least it'd be some kind of explanation. It's driving me bonkers. I can post some recordings of what I'm hearing if that will help anyone understand what I mean.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Try booting to recovery and wipe the cache partition, if that doesn't solve the issue then the issue is deeper or it might be because the speaker has low quality hardware/software(doubtful, but possible). More than likely, it's something else that you have installed on the device(s) causing this. You can try booting your phone or tablet into "safe mode", this mode only loads the preinstalled app that came with the device, if the issue is not present while in safe mode, then you know it's caused by something that you installed. If it is still present while booted into safe mode, then it might be caused by something that came pre-installed on the device running in the background, youd have to start experimenting by disabling system apps until you find the culprit causing the issue.
NOTE: Disabling system apps can cause serious issues with device functionality so be careful which ones you disable.
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I noticed the OXYGEN UPDATER APP now has Android 12 available to install but it hasn't quite made it to the official update in the settings. Just wondering if anyone has tried this update and whether you experienced or heard of any bugs?
I have no reason to think there is but Ive literally heard nothing good, bad or neutral. It's like no one owns this phone anymore. An update like this used to be noteworthy. That said, if anyone reads this and you have info, please share. Thanks
I have updated my device today and one thing I have noticed the most is that volume levels after the update are much lower than they were. I cannot use normally my earphones indoors and cannot image how bad it will perform outdoors.
Would be grateful if someone knows how to fix such problem.
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I have updated my device today and one thing I have noticed the most is that volume levels after the update are much lower than they were. I cannot use normally my earphones indoors and cannot image how bad it will perform outdoors.
Would be grateful if someone knows how to fix such problem.
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I appreciate the feedback. I still haven't updated, but lately I've had volume issues. Both pairs of ear buds are noticeably lower than they were in the past. On one pair the right ear bud is barely usable, especially in a somehat noisy setting, but it's gotta be an issue with the ear bud.
In general, I need to crank them all the way up in the gym.
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I appreciate the feedback. I still haven't updated, but lately I've had volume issues. Both pairs of ear buds are noticeably lower than they were in the past. On one pair the right ear bud is barely usable, especially in a somehat noisy setting, but it's gotta be an issue with the ear bud.
In general, I need to crank them all the way up in the gym.
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I have fixed the issue with low sound levels when using earphones, but, unfortunately, I cannot describe clearly how 'cause it was a bit incomprehensible. I just connected one more time my earphones to smartphone, opened some video on YouTube, then pop-out of some option about volume came out. Then I tapped on it and there was an option that has strange description (maybe it is because of localization) that I switched on, and the volume issue fixed magically. After that, I couldn't find that option once again in settings.
Sounds familiar. I think it's a built-in volume limiter. Should be able to find something in the settings and if not maybe enable developer settings and see if you find it there. Something like "absolute volume".
But it looks like you got it sorted out anyway.
Actually nevermind. I got that confused with something else. I believe all that would do is keep the earbuds and the phone volumes separate.
There's been talk that Android 12 and Android Auto don't work well in some cars - not OnePlus specific, but in general. Has anyone tried Android Auto with 12 yet on the OP8?
Alan
I did the update, and here is what I notice:
The icons on top of the screen are not the same size.
The Notifications sometimes are lost (Whatsapp/text etc)
Whatsapp voice calls echo and sometimes the phone does not ring
Ghost touches when gaming (clash royale)
The screen goes ON for no reason
The battery sometimes is okay, sometimes it drains (your mileage may vary)
Screen unlock fingerprint behavior slow at times and sometimes is fine.
The volume issue that everyone is reporting
All of if has been reported to OnePlus. If you visit the OP forums everyone is pretty pissed off about it myself included.
Honestly, it feels like this is an Alpha version of the ROM and they are using the general public to test and find bugs.
This is pretty frustrating a phone is not a toy is a tool for work and to communicate with others.
Fingerprint unlock stops working after a few days. Reboot brings it back.
Just to update. AA works fine with Android 12 on my OP8