Hello. Yesterday, as it was massively raining in my city, my M2 got a little wet. After I got home, I cleaned it up with a dry piece of cloth and checked if everything was ok. It worked perfectly. But today I noticed that the sound coming from external speaker is really really quiet and noisy. I really cannot listen to any music due to that problem and the notifcations are really quiet, even though all the volume is set to max level. I even did a master reset, but it didn't help. If that information is helpful, I use the official stock KitKat rom.
I've also read that Xperia Z series had the same problem with the external speaker after it got wet. But getting it all dry helped to solve that problem, so right now I'm keeping my M2 in a bowl full of dry rice to get that water evaporate.
Has any of you had a similar problem or have an idea how to solve that?
Regards
Same problem here.
Did the bowl of rice fix the problem?
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..I have had an unfortunate accident with my 02 XDA 1, and it got very wet......and has now stopped working , can you guys reccomend anyone who could repair same, will it have lost all info/contacts etc.......any help/advice gratefully received.....
Thanks in advance...
Disconnect the battery immediately. You very probably WILL lose files.
I presume it's not power up? If it is, you might run a backup I guess, but I think it will be erased on removing the battery eventually, but otherwise (if not already) it'll be shorting out badly.
If you've got an sd card in it, remove it and dab with a towel. That might hopefully survive.
Regarding internal damage, I can't say. I dropped hot chocolate all over my ipaq years ago, and took it apart and dabbed everything off with a slightly damp towel, since it was knackered anyway. Lo and behold, putting it back together, it worked better than before (the stylus catch was loose previously). Your mileage might vary...
Good luck.
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..Ok, bit of an update, but leaves me with a question......put the poor wallaby on a warmish radiator for a couple of days, and believe it or not, it works!!, yup did lose all contact numbers,appontments etc, and has gone back to( i think) the factory default settingsr.......
But there is a problem...........if the XDA rings, I can hear it ring, answer it and I cannot hear the caller at all, and the caller cant hear me speak at all, if I use a hands free ear piece/earphone, i can hear caller perfectly, and they can hear me speak perfectly, is this a mechanical problem, or is there a setting which can be altered/adjusted/set for phone earpiece/mike................. :?:
any advice/suggestions welcome......thanks
you might find there is still water in the speaker , there is a detailed description of how to open a ppc but can't for the life of me remember where it was
I dont know what happend suddenly the speaker phone stopped working when I Was on speaker phone mode. I restarted the phone and tried all different kinds of ****. Finally I popped open the back camera cover and I could see the speaker. I was playing something on my Windows media and I could not hear anything. The moment I touuched the speaker with the stylus it started playing loudly but the moment I pull the stylus back it stops working. Can some one please explain me what is the problem with my speakers. Do I need to replace them ? if yes then where can I get them replaced in United states.
Yes mate, I had the same problem. I have a HTC Charmer and my speaker died while using tomtom. I openned and discovered the same thing, that touching the speaker causes it to respond again and dies again. Its basically the speaker "moved" too much for its own good and the wire carrying signal to its coil got damaged/broken.
While you could temporarily fix it by trying to glue the broken wire, it may not do any good. And can't solder it as the wire is stuck on the speaker cone surface which is plastic. For a few days mine worked by placing a flexible peice of plastic in such a way that it constantly applied very light pressure on the place where the wire was broken, and the contact was maintained, but obviously such a solution is short lived.
At present I am also looking for where to buy a spare speaker from, but can't help you in this regard as am in UK.
Hope this helps in some way.
Happened to my Prophet. It's currently away for a warranty repair.
Seems like a very common problem.
Well I dropped my OPO into a creek in about 2 feet of water. After being submerged for about 15 minutes I thought it was toast. I put it in the ol' bag of rice for a few days and to my absolute amazement it booted right up and works flawlessly except for one issue.
The loudspeakers are so quiet at full volume you can barely hear them. Earpiece speaker works fine. I popped the back off and took the speaker assembly out and removed one of the two speakers. It looks fine and there is no moisture in it. If I set it on the board contacts at full volume I can barely hear it play.
Do you think a new pair of speakers would fix the issue? Can I test the board outputs to see if its putting out enough juice to run the speakers? Any thoughts or input would greatly be appreciated!
Hey - same happened to me! Except much less water! I put my OPO in a damp pocket after heavy rain (!) and it seemed to be a goner. 2 days later after putting it in a bowl of rice it works fine now, phone speaker and microphone work, only thing not working is the lower/music speakers. Headphones work fine too. Any easy way to replace/fix this? Heard a loud crackling/static noise coming from the speakers after the initial water exposure if that means anything.
I'm another one looking for a solution to this issue.
Anyone found one? Thinking about trying to replace the speakers, but not wanting to faff with that if that isn't the problem.
Word of advice to everyone. Don't drop your phone in the bath!!!
I am in the same situation as well, sent it for speaker replacement and the repair guy showed that even replacing the speaker module will result in low volume output. Nothing can be done unless replacing the motherboard maybe?
I sent it to a local shop, not the service centre by the way.
kaz93 said:
I am in the same situation as well, sent it for speaker replacement and the repair guy showed that even replacing the speaker module will result in low volume output.
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This happened to me as well. I was biking and crashed, falling into an overflowing ditch, completely drenching my pocket and my OPO inside.
I immediately took it home (my laptop got drenched too ;w; that one's at Asus being fixed) and left it in rice for the rest of the day, only to find that the speaker played, just barely audible at full volume, and the microphone and ear piece worked perfectly fine. I bought replacement speakers shortly afterward and replaced them, but, like kaz93 said, didn't do anything, it was still really quiet. It must be on the logic board or something.
I'm probably just gonna get the Google Pixel when it comes out XD
Speakers are the most sensitive part of this phone. I also had to replace mine after watering the device. You can afford them cheap for just a few bucks on aliexpress and they work perfectly
hello guys,
so yesterday i got a phone call and i answered it then i noticed that the caller's voice was not right and it persisted till the end of the call . when a hung up my speaker was having like a crackling / static noise like when i got the call (from the receiver) . i restarted my phone , booted to safe mode , cleared cache . nothing helped , i let it sit for like 3 h and it was gone , and today my phone was okay when suddenly the crackling/static speaker and receiver came back so i did a factory reset but nothing changed and after 1 h it was okay again .
i have never encountered this problem before
my phone : samsung galaxy s7 2 months old
and it has never been dropped
and i noticed something but idk if it helps : when the phone warms up a little bit this happens (not always) and when it cools down it works again
PLEASE I NEED ANY KIND OF HELP
update i new where was my problem :
i had covered my camera and heart rate sensor with piece of transparent paper . and when i removed it the sound went back to normal . then i put it back again to test it out and i had the same results . so it solved
yeah i'm gonna revive an old ass post to say that ANYONE who wants to protect their S7 camera and plans to put some kind of piece of transparent paper or film ie Armor Suit, that is too big, behind their phone WILL experience this problem. I don't know why, but you will literally experience a phenomenon where it seems your phone receiver got damaged or something...
Anyone else with this problem i hope you read this, it took me all sorts of fixing to finally figure it, including changing roms, going stock, air blowing the receiver, putting a magnet near it, and more...
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yeah i'm gonna revive an old ass post to say that ANYONE who wants to protect their S7 camera and plans to put some kind of piece of transparent paper or film ie Armor Suit, that is too big, behind their phone WILL experience this problem. I don't know why, but you will literally experience a phenomenon where it seems your phone receiver got damaged or something...
Anyone else with this problem i hope you read this, it took me all sorts of fixing to finally figure it, including changing roms, going stock, air blowing the receiver, putting a magnet near it, and more...
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That was exactly my problem it drove me nuts ??
My sister had this issue and it was do to her equalizer settings like soundalive being set to custom in stock tw music player but it effects global sound quality set EQ to normal and shut off any effects and boom .
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Crackling s7 speaker
Hello,
Reading this thread but none of the solutions are applicable. I do not have a film or paper covering my camera.
I am running Lineage 14.1 which is Nougat 7.1.2.
I've read that uninstalling the app automatic call recorder, ACR, would help. I didn't have that one installed, but I did have an app Call Recorder Pro installed, removed it, that made no difference.
If anyone else has this issue and a fix i'd love to know.
Thanks.
Dave.
Hi. I have problem with very quiet calls. It's really hard to speak with someone when I'm outside because I can't hear them. I think it's not speakers problem, because they play music properly. I'm now on eXistenZ Marshmallow, but I had this problem also on stock Sony Marshmallow. Do anyone know how to repair it?
Did you replaced the screen ? it's common , the speaker become faulty when you change the screen
I'm not sure because I'm second owner of this phone, but I think screen or speaker was changed in Sony service.
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I one had that problem.
It was really annoying and made me nervous ...
I did a lot of searches and tried everything that could solve the problem, no success. I almost gave up.
I finally found a thread here in xda that gave an unexpected solution, it worked like a charm.
The solution was to clean up the speaker using a needle or something similar. I actually found the speaker was almost totally covered with dust turned into a solid paste because of sweat, water droplets, ...
I'm very satisfied by the result. I would like to give credits to the guy who wrote this first but I don't remember the thread where I found this solution. Sorry.
I hope this will help whoever has the same problem.
I have already tried that, no improvement. Maybe there is any app or mod for increasing speaker volume?
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I have already tried that, no improvement. Maybe there is any app or mod for increasing speaker volume?
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I had the same problem and a needle didn't solve the problem. I looked under a Microscope and the needle tip was still too big for the tiny speaker protection matrix. What I did is I used a chewing gum (works also with something other sticky like blue tack) and pressed it in the speaker and when I took it out, loads of dust was sticking to the chewing gum. I repeated the process a few times and the speaker volume was ok again.