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Crackling music

It seems that when my phone gets cold the music starts to crackle. This is a big problem because I spend a lot of time outside in the winter and like to have music when I'm outside. I haven't. Read any other post of people having this problem so any help with this problem would be great .
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I don't know about the cold, but when I try to play some songs with the 5.1ch button enabled I get crackling. Maybe there's a relation there?

Is it like a popping/skipping sound? I've experienced this a couple of times... But I'm on cognition 2.2, and it usually only happens if I'm browsing the web at the same time.
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Well I figured it out last night my phone quit reading the memory card. so I don't know if it was the card going bad or is it was the cold affecting the card I will have to try to put the card back in when I get home tonight and see if it works. the music plays fine when it is stored on the phone
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I've heard a lot about crackling in the music player. I think its related to the lag problems on the galaxy s phones.

Speaker Not Loud Enough

Just wanted to check if it's just me or are there other forum members also experiencing the similar issue of speakers just not being loud enough???
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my one is screaming

Have you enabled dts feature when using the stock music player? Also it depends if the audio file volume was upped correctly when it was mixed. It plays real loud for me even when dts is not activated. Also think about ambient noise in the background when you are playing music
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for me it's speaker, not speakers... I can only hear sound coming out of one speaker... I guess the other one is the mic... and yes I can barely hear mine too

Thanks Dude. Got it. It was the DTS function that was off.

mhsamma said:
Just wanted to check if it's just me or are there other forum members also experiencing the similar issue of speakers just not being loud enough???
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Best way to try it - call your voicemail, and put it on loudspeaker .... mine is loud like a mother cracker

Only the right bottom speaker on mine and 3 other test units seem to be working called my LG Rep and his is the same but its supposed to have stereo speakers as per lg
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bvc said:
for me it's speaker, not speakers... I can only hear sound coming out of one speaker... I guess the other one is the mic... and yes I can barely hear mine too
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same problem my left speaker i dont hear any apparent sound i cover it no change in sound quality but right one cover it and you hear almost nothing

Mine loud bro. Seriously. Can assure you that specially after using it lot today while driving.
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how to turn on dts
I love this phone but am also having problems with it being to quiet. i saw this post about turning on dts i cant find any option for this anywhere. not in stock music player not in settings where and how do i do this. if i cant make this speaker louder i will have to return it.

Mine's running great. Speaker is quite a bit louder than my old Nexus one. Compare it to some others if you can.

eagle1967 said:
I love this phone but am also having problems with it being to quiet. i saw this post about turning on dts i cant find any option for this anywhere. not in stock music player not in settings where and how do i do this. if i cant make this speaker louder i will have to return it.
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Should be in stock music player
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compared to droid
dj75728 said:
Mine's running great. Speaker is quite a bit louder than my old Nexus one. Compare it to some others if you can.
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this phone compared to my droid is 1 10th as loud and thats pushing it. in music player all i have is shuffle and playlist nothing about dts. been searching the net cant find anything. can someone please walk through steps you took to do this. i hate to lose this phone but i can not handle this i cant hear it without putting it so close i can see the picture. and both the speakers on bottom are working. i read on the net about a couple dts programs from tmobile neither of which are on my phone.

When you are playing music in the stock music player. Go to the song currently playing and you'll see dts function
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Why was it off in the first place.....

eagle1967 said:
this phone compared to my droid is 1 10th as loud and thats pushing it. in music player all i have is shuffle and playlist nothing about dts. been searching the net cant find anything. can someone please walk through steps you took to do this. i hate to lose this phone but i can not handle this i cant hear it without putting it so close i can see the picture. and both the speakers on bottom are working. i read on the net about a couple dts programs from tmobile neither of which are on my phone.
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ok
just got the 32gig card today putting mucis on it now but that wont help videos . but if it helps on this it can be made to work on video player or get teh programs off a slate dump since i guess tehy left teh apps off the g2x.

So if one of the speakers not working, then is it a defective unit? Only my right one works and the left one doesn't.

Left one is a microphone. Wow too many people are wondering about this.
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Left one is a microphone. Wow too many people are wondering about this.
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Agreed, left is mic, right is speaker, and mine is loud as a mofo (dts off)
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Music Volume Issue...

So I bought the Ultra yesterday. The speaker sounded great at first. Tonight I started a song on Google Music and it was loud at first. Then it seemed to autocorrect the volume. The volume is now the same between half and full. I cannot get it to turn up any louder and it is pretty quiet.... About half of what my S3 could put out.... This is between both the Pandora and Google Music apps. Is anyone else having this issue? Is there a setting I am not seeing to turn this "feature" off?
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try a different app then you will know if its the phone or the app.
for what it's worth I've had google play music do weird things with the volume on some songs. (not a droid phone)

So I called VZW tech support last night and they told me to take the phone back and get a new one. And it also started doing it on speaker phone too.
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Isn't the phone supposed to do that? I believe I read somewhere the phone adapts to how you listen to songs... Will look for the article.
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I did a factory reset and that seemed to fix it for a while. Music played normally for about 6 hours then it randomly started cutting the volume level again. It gets so quite it sounds like the volume is only at 10-15%. I went to Verizon and couldn't get it to reproduce the effect in front of the agent. They said to come back if it keeps happening.
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I honestly believe that the phone is supposed to do that. It supposed to adapt to your listening preferences. I can't find where I read it but I will.. Just return it before your 14 days are up and see if the new one does the same. They shouldn't charge you.
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Turn off the equalizer and surround under Sound > Audio Effects
Effects Profile: custom
Surround: off
Equalizer: off

Soooo.... sometimes it has no volume at all. I tried suggestion from the post above and it didn't seem to help. Too bad I really like the 5" screen. I think I going to return it and buy the Moto X instead though.
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My volume does weird things using Google Play music as well. I was walking yesterday and had it on full volume. Never had it that way on any other device.

Past Moto phones have had a "High volume can harm your ears" warning that turns down your music unless you shut it off. Maybe that remnant of Blur stuck around and needs to be disabled somehow? Just a thought.

empoweredh22 said:
Past Moto phones have had a "High volume can harm your ears" warning that turns down your music unless you shut it off. Maybe that remnant of Blur stuck around and needs to be disabled somehow? Just a thought.
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i do get a message that says that when i'm listening to bluetooth audio and go to turn the volume up on the phone. but, knock on wood, it still lets me turn the volume up.
edit: actually it looks like this: http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-4/229041-how-do-i-disable-unsafe-volume-warning.html - so if it happens on a NEXUS, then it's not motorola, it's Google (oh wait i forgot, they are motorola...and all of freaking android)

Sony removed features on the current ROM of the SW2

It seems Sony has removed several usefull functions from the current ROM compared to the ROM presented at the Mobile Asia Exo 2013, for example:
- removed some watch faces (digital face with date)
- removed the Music widget
- removed the automatic brightness adjustment (there was an additional click box at the brightnes setting)
- removed the backlight activation by acceleration sensor.
please see this video. The Sony product manager is actually saying "it takes movements" and she shakes the watch to activate the backlight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUi1Ai7rPj0
I would expect to have more functions on the new watches and not less functions. If some functions cause higher battery drain, then there should be an option to deactivate them in settings but not completely remove them. I suggest Sony quickly offers a ROM update to inlude these very important features!

that is just weird, i want all those three functions back

I just got mine and I am seriously disappointed that those features are gone.
I bought the watch based on Expo presentations.
Not well, Sony, not well.

csns said:
I just got mine and I am seriously disappointed that those features are gone.
I bought the watch based on Expo presentations.
Not well, Sony, not well.
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Same...
I need all those things.
Why would they drop these things from rom. I just hope that they will be back asap in new firmware....

I wonder if this has something to do with the delay of the Smartwatch 2. I can see the "shake for screen-on" feature might have been removed, for battery related reasons (Also keep in mind, they worked together with Runtastic for app compatibility so chances are constant movement while running was keeping the screen active) but I don't see why they would disable the others.

Sobai said:
I wonder if this has something to do with the delay of the Smartwatch 2. I can see the "shake for screen-on" feature might have been removed, for battery related reasons (Also keep in mind, they worked together with Runtastic for app compatibility so chances are constant movement while running was keeping the screen active) but I don't see why they would disable the others.
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Even considering the Runtastic collaboration I cannot see a reason for Sony not to put a toggle in the watch's settings. Just like for vibration, for example.

I just got it today from the Sony store.
Phew, thanks for clearing my wonders.
I couldnt place what that little sensor above the screen was and assumed it was for light.
Thank goodness they took those function out, I wouldnt need them.
Totally just need to have a sensor so I could brag to my friends.

Got my SW2 and I'm pissed its missing the stuff you see in videos and screenshot all over the web... Like digital clock with date and music widget. They hype it with feature and then remove them for the launch ? I hate the poor choices of watch faces I hope they give us an update soon or release details to create our own FW
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As I noticed last night the Smartwatch 2 app was updated and the firmware of the watch along with it... But I can't see any differences except from the gradual fadeout of the backlight.
Too bad...

I want music widget and shake to light...
I don't know what do with removing such a main features of SW...
I through i buy watch with bug,but now I know that Sony broke our devices removing this options...
Me and My Honami =^_^=

Forget music Widget use the poweramp apps for phone and SW
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No Google music with poweramp. Great for the music I already have, but play music is becoming real handy.
Just wish Sony would give us some indication they'll update our device with something. 1 month and not even a glimmer.
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Wait. So you can't control the walkman Sony app from the watch?
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mickfitz said:
Wait. So you can't control the walkman Sony app from the watch?
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Yes you can.
But it's not that easy as having a classic widget with the three backward/play-pause/forward buttons.
It's an app where you can pause and change song, but only in the album selected on the phone (meaning that you either listen to the album you've already chosen on the phone over and over, or you'll eventually have to pick up your phone and change album), and the watch doesn't actually give you the list of songs, instead it shows you the cover art of that particular song/album and you can swipe left or right to change song (making it a PITA changing from, say, song 1 to song 45 if you have a compilation).
It works, but it definitely could be waaaaay better.
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Cheers. Sounds like Sony shipped this out half baked as usual. Updates will come in time.
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mickfitz said:
Cheers. Sounds like Sony shipped this out half baked as usual. Updates will come in time.
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Not sure, they removed Other OS from ps3, ps2 compatibility also and never returned them. because **** users!

[Q] Autofocus

So im thinking about getting a nexus 5 but I want to know if the autofocus issue was ever fixed?? I love taking photos and videos but if the autofocus makes the camera not really useable in a lot of circumstances then I probably wont get it. Tried to find another thread to see if this problem was corrected by developers via a rom or a flash or if it is hardware related.

I have never had an issue. And I take plenty of photos.
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Kreateablaze said:
I have never had an issue. And I take plenty of photos.
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+1 for photos. Not for video though. The autofocus is terrible in videos. It's constantly focusing every 2-3 seconds and it makes the video look really odd.
To OP: No, it hasn't been fixed.

The videos I have taken look just fine. I have a puppy and took videos of her running in the snow and they all came out good.
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Kreateablaze said:
The videos I have taken look just fine. I have a puppy and took videos of her running in the snow and they all came out good.
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Not my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFxHkuAfj48
Notice the "pulsing" every 2-3 seconds? That's what I mean. If yours doesn't have that, that's good, but most of us have that problem. I guess it's only noticeable when you don't move the camera.

So based that it is feburary, I'm assuming this is a hardware issue. The video breathing problem is ridiculous and also happens on the Nexus 5. That's my concern. If it has been solved in a rom, then perfect, but if this problem is unfixable then thats a dealbreaker for me. I do alot of videos with my phone and I dont want to pay for a $600 phone if I cant do something basic as record videos on it.

Torelli88 said:
So based that it is feburary, I'm assuming this is a hardware issue. The video breathing problem is ridiculous and also happens on the Nexus 5. That's my concern. If it has been solved in a rom, then perfect, but if this problem is unfixable then thats a dealbreaker for me. I do alot of videos with my phone and I dont want to pay for a $600 phone if I cant do something basic as record videos on it.
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If you are that interested in videos, you should consider in investing an actual video camera. Phones aren't really meant to meet the standards of camcorders and other video capture devices, rather than to just catch an interesting moment of someones live with a casual photo/video. I know it sounds rather inconvenient and superficial, but thats just my two cents on the subject.
Edit: I've never had trouble with the breathing video. But then again I don't really use that option that much.

I can't reproduce the refocus whilst holding it still / panning left or right. I can only reproduce it if I move the lens further or nearer to the object. Not a tiny amount that's analogous with a slight wobble or the human conditions rather feeble attempt at stillness - no. I have to almost exaggerate the movement to trigger autofocus
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for me it refocuses evety time i move the phone, left/right, up/down, or further/closer. but it doesnt refocus at all when im moving.

not to be graphic but I filmed a video of some dirty deeds and quality was awesome. phone was not moving. I believe some roms have more issues then others. some roms the video is extremely dark and some roms when I take a camera picture with flash is snaps the photo to fast and just captures the flash.
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