Hey guys, does anyone else experience some quiet continuous popping and electrical sounds coming from inside the back of the tablet? If I put my ear on the back, it pretty much sounds like continuous popping and something like a laptop HDD running.
It's not that bad but gets noticeable in a quiet room especially on tegra apps, even dabbler.
I know it has a desktop GPU chip inside and I know this is common in desktop video cards but is this normal on this tablet?
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I've got the same thing.
The tablet had fan cooling system inside I believe.
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Hissing mechanical noise during load...
I too have noticed this on my lte unit first night use.
I might be talking about something else, although regarding the hissing noise similar to harddrive (i dont really get the popping noise, nowhere near loud PoP sounds)
I can relate this noise very similar experience ive had on my computer with low level (in anotherwords cheap) onboard sound card -chip. Board was made by intel for dell. Basically it did the very close, in moments when hdd&ram cooperated in that computer under high cpu load, this sound came from the computers speakers.
Im surprised shield brings me back to the times 5 years earlier, i could hear it just now. Its random, but nothing i would be concerned of. Theres no point of rma this since its more of us noticing, i guess all the shield tablets produce this electric-static noise, speakers are pretty neat so maybe it was harder to hide imperfection of nvidias sound solution?
More accurate to confirm would be to know other tablets that use the same sound processor vs above mention hissing mechanical sound.
I can only hear it at night though, and frankly, it is loud but it still keeps me happy. My old oem pc was worse, it hissed even by moving the mouse around, it was so bad you could count dpi with closed eyes! Now that's what i call disturbing :laugh:
ErickZ5 said:
I too have noticed this on my lte unit first night use.
I might be talking about something else, although regarding the hissing noise similar to harddrive (i dont really get the popping noise, nowhere near loud PoP sounds)
I can relate this noise very similar experience ive had on my computer with low level (in anotherwords cheap) onboard sound card -chip. Board was made by intel for dell. Basically it did the very close, in moments when hdd&ram cooperated in that computer under high cpu load, this sound came from the computers speakers.
Im surprised shield brings me back to the times 5 years earlier, i could hear it just now. Its random, but nothing i would be concerned of. Theres no point of rma this since its more of us noticing, i guess all the shield tablets produce this electric-static noise, speakers are pretty neat so maybe it was harder to hide imperfection of nvidias sound solution?
More accurate to confirm would be to know other tablets that use the same sound processor vs above mention hissing mechanical sound.
I can only hear it at night though, and frankly, it is loud but it still keeps me happy. My old oem pc was worse, it hissed even by moving the mouse around, it was so bad you could count dpi with closed eyes! Now that's what i call disturbing :laugh:
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To me it sounds more like a voltage conversion-related sound like many power adapters make (including the Shield's) when under load. My power strip will also produce that sound if you plug high-power devices straight into its USB ports (I wish I knew the amperage on those ports).
EDIT: I have heard this sound on occasion myself is what I mean by this, and it doesn't sound like old "speaker squeaking" I've observed on older computers. I HAVE heard it on some laptops.
Thanks a lot for the feedback guys, i just wanted to know if there's something wrong with my tablet or it's something everyone gets. Anyway, i've also noticed some hissing when scrolling in Chrome. Not sure if it's the speakers or internal components hissing but it's not that big of a deal.
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Is anyone else experiencing a high pitch whine while docked? It only happens when the Transformer is docked.
I noticed this the other day, and if I put my ear close to the dock it seems as though the high pitched sound is coming from the charging port on the dock. I wonder if maybe this has something to do with my extensive battery loss while having it docked. Is this a widepsread issue that others have also noticed?
mine is silent in or out of the dock. A blessed relief as my laptop always gave off a high pitched whine.
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I noticed this the other day, and if I put my ear close to the dock it seems as though the high pitched sound is coming from the charging port on the dock. I wonder if maybe this has something to do with my extensive battery loss while having it docked. Is this a widepsread issue that others have also noticed?
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Yeah that's exactly what I'm thinking.
Anyone else having this issue?
My dock is silent.
My dock is silent also.
I have my ear to the TF in the dock and don't hear a thing.
So when you guys have your tablet docked into the keyboard and you put your ear up to the pin connect on the keyboard you aren't hearing a high pitched whine?
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So when you guys have your tablet docked into the keyboard and you put your ear up to the pin connect on the keyboard you aren't hearing a high pitched whine?
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I could be an age issue. After about 20 you start losing higher frequency hearing. Store around here that don't want kids hanging around use speakers that broadcast annoying tones in these higher frequencies.
I'm 19 and no whine.
I'm 22 and hear the whine. When I undock the tablet it stops, but as soon as I dock it in the whine comes from the pin connector, almost like power is exiting from the pin connector....not the most technical term and I have no idea what I am talking about, but that would be my guess lol.
Mine whines and the dock battery seems to drain excessively.
This thread will quickly turn into, "How old are you? Haha, you have to deal with the whine for a few more years, suckerr"
If the whine is persistent, swap it. To me, that would be unbearably annoying.
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This thread will quickly turn into, "How old are you? Haha, you have to deal with the whine for a few more years, suckerr"
If the whine is persistent, swap it. To me, that would be unbearably annoying.
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Would try to if I could even get in touch with Asus Support. Weeks and they haven't responded to either of my Technical Support inquiries.
I don't have the dock yet but my TF101 charger makes a whine/buzz sound if you are in a really quiet room.
My dock is emitting the anoying sound. Can hear it pretty clearly
My first Transformer had a prductionfault in top of the panel with some glue all over, no sound and no wifi antenna working.
This one have this ****ty sound and an edge bleed in the down left corners (Picture)
This is really ****ty by ASUS.
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Would try to if I could even get in touch with Asus Support. Weeks and they haven't responded to either of my Technical Support inquiries.
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The web forms are rubbish, call them instead
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mine makes awful high pitch noise as well.
for some reason it started doing that and now the battery gets warm too. I am sensitive to those kind of noises and drives me crazy. i have to call asus for resolution. this sucks, i got it for christmas not even a month old and is defective, by the way the left usp port does not work for some reason. i love my table thought, just with i would wish the keyboard works, anyone else has this problem with a possible resolution.
There shouldn't be any noise at all, considering there's no moving parts whatsoever.
Hey All -
I ran a quick search and didn't find this problem. I wanted to document it for posterity.
My phone makes a buzzing sound. I've seen it in every ROM I've tried so far (seems to be a hardware problem).
The sound is faint, is unaffected by media volume, and goes away when wifi is turned off. The phone appears to shut off the sound hardware when sound hasn't been played for a while in order to save battery. This makes the buzzing stop. But if a notification comes in, or there is a quiet part of a song, you can totally hear it.
It exists regardless of the ROM I have installed.
The sound is like what you'd hear in an older computer with something called crosstalk. Back in the day, (and to an extent still), various components in the hardware would generate EMI and would affect the sound quality in sound cards. For example, I had an Adlib card that would buzz a little every time the hard drive would read/write to disk.
This sounds just like that.
Anyway... just vote in the poll/comment if you're having this problem. Please post to the thread if you have a solution. I'm not expecting much though. I'm pretty sure I'd basically need a new phone for this to go away.
I get a very slight buzzing in my phones, completely unaffected by wifi. Only happens with my CX300 in-ears, any open earphones i havn't heard any noticable buzzing (though have no tried any type of headphones yet). Using Voodoo sound, lowering the amplifier dB gain and putting the media volume up reduces it a touch.
I grabbed a pair of iphone earphones and the nexus s earphones to test it with some more types, no noticeable buzzing. Also, both their sound quality is appalling in comparison to cheap sennheisers.
Yeah, that's different than me. It sounds like your CX300s might be dying.
I've got some Klipsch S4i ear buds and Bose QC3s that both have the same problem. Its loud and clear enough though that I'm sure I could hear it with cheaper headphones.
I can turn the volume all the way to zero and still hear it. When I turn it up, it doesn't make it louder though, which is "nice".
I've been all over the voodoo sound settings and nothing helps.
That's a shame, your phone probably suffers a noticeable case of leakage between the components. Could this possibly be classified as a defect and be fixed/replaced under warranty?
Also, my CX300s have no hiss on a higher quality dac and it was noticeably louder on my old nokia. I guess they're just more sensitive, they are only 16 ohm after all. No drama for me
It might qualify as a defect. I'd have to bug Samsung I guess. I could see Samsung just telling me to deal with it. It doesn't make a lot of business sense to replace a $500 phone because the headphones hiss when wifi is enabled.
It would sure make me a lot happier about buying Samsung stuff in the future though.
That's really weird about your headphones. Unless the audio quality on the CX300s is far superior over the iphone/nexus s ones, I would expect them all to behave the same way. Even then, it would be very subtle. Maybe the Nexus S doesn't ground the headphone jack very well for your headphones?
You could give them a call/email and see how it works out, but you'll probably be left without a phone for a few weeks if you send it so probably not worth it for you either.
Definitely far superior in comparison, but not nearly superior earphones Possibly a grounding issue, could even be just an unlucky set of Sennheisers that i got and have always been like this. They are out and about anyway, take a good beating and have been rock solid. Hopefully soon i'll be getting a decent pair of headphones for home use, funds allowing.
My laptop does the same thing, I'm thinking it is just interference with the headphones and your phone. might also be a lose wire or something in the phone or headphones :/
I know that this is old tread, but I had the same problem and solution might help someone.
In my case, the source of the buzz was charger (poor power supply filtering in cheap switching sources). I bought some cheap car charger/dock, and whenever I plugged my phone into it I would get lots of buzzing noise. Of course, I used it every time when in car, so I did not notice correlation for a while.
Using better charger solved my problem.
If by any chance you are charging your phone while you listening to music and getting lots of buzz, try disconnecting power cable to phone and see if there is noticeable difference. If there is, you found your problem.
Thanks for letting us know grejigl. Although not the source of my particular (non) issue, i can see it helping out someone else down the road.
I'm running on battery power when it happens to me. I'm pretty sure its caused by something related to WiFi because as soon as I shut WiFi off, the buzzing is gone.
I was wondering if anyone charges or tethers their phone by the USB port on the dock. And if u have any issues doing so. I tried and I can hear an odd whiny buzz sound from the connection. It would be nice to do as long as I am not going to fry it. So if you have been doing this without problems for awhile plz drop a line about ur experience.
I am tethering my EVO 4G to charge the battery. Haven't noticed any buzzing. Using WiFi Tether for the Internet.
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The sound is extremely quiet. I have to put my ear close to hear it clearly.
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The sound is extremely quiet. I have to put my ear close to hear it clearly.
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If that's the case I wouldn't worry too much. If it was loud enough to be heard from a distance, or over ambient noise then I would take a closer look at it. Electronics does make all sorts of noises (think of the old flyback transformers in televisions before they became all solid-state), especially if considerable current is going through it. Also flyback transformers are still used but on a smaller scale in switching power supplies. They generally operate in the 15-22kHz range. I bet you're a very young person since most people by time they hit their mid-20's lose the high-end of their hearing due to normal aging (faster if they listen to loud music/attend concerts like I did).
Last night I was using my shield tablet and I heard a noise when I touched the screen...thought it might be the speakers so I turned them down and could still hear it, so I put my ear to back of tablet and can hear buzzing when the screen is touched or when an app is running, and it I play a high graphic game its pretty loud.
Is this normal sound of the K1 processor? Anyone else had this before? Wanna know do I need to return it or not!
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Same here.
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I'm curious about this too. I also thought it was speaker buzz but it's not.
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Guess no one helps here...found this though.... forums.geforce.com/default/topic/785841/shield-tablet/noise-near-from-the-speaker-opposite-side-from-hdmi-/
Seems like its normal to hear the processor and nothing to worry about!
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Guess no one helps here...found this though.... forums.geforce.com/default/topic/785841/shield-tablet/noise-near-from-the-speaker-opposite-side-from-hdmi-/
Seems like its normal to hear the processor and nothing to worry about!
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been reading about this and couldn't stop until i found a satisfactory answer, so i kept digging and found this :
" This 'whine' or 'squeal' is the sound of these things ( inductors, coils or chokes ) physically vibrating, and it is a sign that they are poorly insulated. However this does not mean they have a shorter lifespan than a coil that does not whine and you really shouldn't lose sleep over it.
Why do they only whine when the PC is under load? What you're hearing is an effect of the PWM frequency, and as you pull more current through the inductor it induces a greater magnetic field in itself and in turn vibrating more aggressively.
Will it go away? Well, Possibly. My 8800GT squealed like a piglet in a housefire for months, and one day the noise disappeared completely. Either some characteristics of the circuit had changed or the windings in the coil had shifted.
Can you stop it? As most people know, you can stop inductors whining by chucking hot glue at them, putting high voltage putty around them, or soaking them in resin and waiting for them to set. Most (apart from PSU) inductors in PCs are covered anyway, so you can't properly silence them.
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Got my Shield Tablet a week ago, really enjoying it so far.
However, I've noticed when I settle in the for evenings I can hear a very faint speaker crackle coming from the lower speaker but can still be heard out of the upper one. Its super faint.
I don't know if its when its connected to its charger, or if its happening all the time but I can only hear it in a silent room. I'll check and report back tonight but if anyone else has experienced this, I'd love to know.
Many thanks
I have heard it as well. My hearing has always been sensitive enough I can hear the old CRT TVs when they are on, and even heard the color wheel of an old projection TV going before it finally quit. This is in the same frequency as those things.
I hear a static sound randomly from the speakers and I have not pinned down the cause as it happens at rest and very active times. I believe some of this might be from the heatsink from previous items I have read about.
The second item is the high pitched whine which I hear connected to my S4 power charger. Again, intermittent there, it does not always make the sound, but it does make it often enough that it is not rare.
I only hear the whine on the charger, but I never hear the whine off the charger.
I sometimes hear both the static/crackle and the whine sometimes, so the whine may be from something in the charging process.
Sorry, I know not much information, but more of a vote that you aren't hearing things and some experiences I have had so far.
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I have heard it as well. My hearing has always been sensitive enough I can hear the old CRT TVs when they are on, and even heard the color wheel of an old projection TV going before it finally quit. This is in the same frequency as those things.
I hear a static sound randomly from the speakers and I have not pinned down the cause as it happens at rest and very active times. I believe some of this might be from the heatsink from previous items I have read about.
The second item is the high pitched whine which I hear connected to my S4 power charger. Again, intermittent there, it does not always make the sound, but it does make it often enough that it is not rare.
I only hear the whine on the charger, but I never hear the whine off the charger.
I sometimes hear both the static/crackle and the whine sometimes, so the whine may be from something in the charging process.
Sorry, I know not much information, but more of a vote that you aren't hearing things and some experiences I have had so far.
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I really appreciate your reply thank you, at least I know it's not just me.
I'm just trying to figure out if I should RMA it or not. Sat in bed typing this and the noise is there until the display is off. Doesn't matter if it's on charge or not. Odd though as I haven't heard it all day.
It almost sounds like a very small short in a speaker somewhere.
Thanks again.
It's common to the Shield. I hear it also when it is very quiet.
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I hear it too but only on the bottom speaker.
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same here....
Mine does it when I close the camera app.
Mine does it after it gets hot for extended periods. ie after gaming