After getting my new Pixel 2, I've been noticing a strange behavior while using Whatsapp.
The audio notes on Whatsapp can be played both on "loudspeaker" or "phone speker" mode, depending on how you hold your phone if far or close to you ear. This is determined by the proximity sensor, I guess.
The BIG problem is that when I hold the phone close to my ear to privately listen to the audio notes I've received, the audio starts low (normal) but suddenly goes high as if it was on "loudspeaker" mode. This is deafening! My ear really hurts when it's happening!!!
I guess this is a huge problem, like causing real immediate injuries...
I wonder if this is a problem with my phone only or it's a common one.
I've already tried to reinstall Whatsapp but with no sucess.
Please, help.
Regards.
thiago_oliv said:
After getting my new Pixel 2, I've been noticing a strange behavior while using Whatsapp.
The audio notes on Whatsapp can be played both on "loudspeaker" or "phone speker" mode, depending on how you hold your phone if far or close to you ear. This is determined by the proximity sensor, I guess.
The BIG problem is that when I hold the phone close to my ear to privately listen to the audio notes I've received, the audio starts low (normal) but suddenly goes high as if it was on "loudspeaker" mode. This is deafening! My ear really hurts when it's happening!!!
I guess this is a huge problem, like causing real immediate injuries...
I wonder if this is a problem with my phone only or it's a common one.
I've already tried to reinstall Whatsapp but with no sucess.
Please, help.
Regards.
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No solution, but I've encountered the same issue as well. Even though the phone was against my head, it was like the sensor malfunctioned or something. Maybe it's something Google could fix?
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Hi!!i have a problem with the MIC...when i send whatsapp audio message...the reciver can't hear what i saied...and when i hear my message the volume is very low...can i change the mic volume??
I have this on multiple programs as well, they can't hear me clearly....
Same here!!! Mic vol is just too low... Any solution ??
Did any of you do a google search?
10 seconds with google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vkrun.microphone_amplifier&hl=en
I am sure this is not the cause of your problem, but...
I faced this problem once when the other party could not hear me and I could not properly hear him. What had happened was that I had the phone upside down, and the 'swap' option was disabled. The phone is so damned identical on top and bottom that it is difficult to tell which way are you holding it. I noticed this after some loud 'hellos' from both of us and things were fine once I turned it around. Do check.
Hi everyone,
I've been on stock roms since I got my Nexus 5 (almost two years, so it's still on warranty [local law]), and since I updated to 6.0, I started having issues with the proximity sensor. Sometimes it wouldn't turn off the screen in calls, and it would generally stop working (I use gravity screen, which relies heavily on the proximity sensor, so that allowed me to become more aware of the problem. The proximity sensor would resume normal operation after a while.
I googled the issue, and apparently it's common since the 6.0 update, so I assumed a software bug. Anyway, last night the problem got worse. For example, if I was playing a video on youtube, with audio coming from the speakers (didn't try with headphones), the video would go silent. It can happen during playback (suddenly it just goes silent) or you start the video and it is silent. Other media apps report the same behaviour. This is an on/off problem, as it might or might not occur.
Also, during calls, it also started silencing the phone speaker. As with all the problems I reported, this is on/off. When the phone speaker is silent, the proximity sensor stops working. When this happens, I'm able to use the speaker phone to actually engage in the conversations.
Another thing that is really weird is that, if a media app stops reproducing sound (although sound should be playing), and I start a phone call immediately, the phone speaker will not emit sound but if I change it to speaker phone (audio coming from the speakers) the speakers work fine!
I've since flashed CWM recovery and a cyanogenmod snapshot (cm-12.1-20150901-SNAPSHOT-YOG4PAO237-hammerhead.zip) and the problem persists!
I'm writing this thread in the hopes that someone might know a fix for these issues, or if someone knows if these are common. Otherwise, I'll have to send the phone for warranty...
I searched around for this problem and couldn't find a reference to it. I was not very thorough, however, so I apologize if I missed something.
TL;DR - Having some issues regarding the proximity sensor (it stops working and resumes working for no reason) and when this happens, no sound comes out of the phone speaker during calls and no sound comes from the speakers during media playback. When the problem happens during a call, the speaker phone can be activated to interact with the other person. Does anyone know anyone that might be experiencing the same issues?
Thanks!
Occasionally the sound in the bottom speakers will stop working and some apps will play through the ear speaker instead. When this happens Google Music, Youtube and some other apps won't work at all. For example pressing play in either of those apps does nothing, as in the play button never changes to a pause button. My alarm app on the other hand plays through the ear speaker instead of not working at all. The ear speaker sound volume is very quiet and doesn't appear to be controlled by the media volume either.
The only remedy that I've been able to find for this is a phone reboot
Wanted to bump this thread -
I originally thought this issue was related to Bluetooth because I use multiple bluetooth devices, but this has happened again recently when I didn't use any Bluetooth devices.
I have the exact same issue, and it's occurrence is random. This started happening a month back. I'm guessing this is due to some software update or something, but its really annoying and the only fix is a reboot.
Anyone has any ideas, whats going on ?
It's been happening multiple times a day lately! It's gotten substantially worse over the past month. I was watching a video, sent a text and when I went to resume it wouldn't play - low and behold the bug came back.. definitely appears to be completely random.
i think that there is somthing with your connection
angelo27093 said:
i think that there is somthing with your connection
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With my connection to what?
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This problem is driving me crazy
I have the exact same issue. Factory reset and update to newest firmware didn't help any idea?
Wash your phone. And wait till it dry.
I (and other person that I know) have the same issues.
No sound from bottom, and sometimes during the call no audio (I can't ear evrything and the other don't ear me).
Now I'm tring the mobile phone in safety mode.
And I've seen (for the edge version) that next android could fix the problem.
Someone have any update?
Have you tried the safety mode?
Im pretty sure its caused by Facebook messenger and Skype
From what I can tell, this seems to happen when you are playing any kind of audio, such as a video or game, and then receive a notification. You then go to the notification to respond to it and go back to your app that was playing the audio and the issue appears. It seems to be an issue, at least with me, whenever notification is received and subsequently answered.
Hi, I have just this week got two POCO X3 phones, one each for myself and my wife.
We notice that when someone phones us, the callers side of the conversation can clearly be heard from several metres away, like when you have the "speaker phone" set to on. We have toggled the speaker phone on and off, it is defiantly loader with it on, but the problem is whilst it is off (not on speaker phone) our calls are not private, which is obviously not good.
When in a call the rear speaker which is under the back cover just below the camera, vibrates, and it also does this when you play music, like any good speaker it vibrates to the sound waves etc, we can live with this playing music, but not whilst in a call.
ideal solution would be to automatically switch off the rear speaker whilst the phone is being used for calls.
Has anyone else experienced this problem here, there are several posts on the internet complaining about this problem with the POCO X3 but no solutions as yet. I am waiting to hear back from Mi (Xiaomi)
Thanks for reading, hopefully its is in the right part of the forum.
This happens because POCO X3 has metallic frame.
Update it to latest version the developers now limited the maximum sound phone can produce so now it doesn't vibrates.
Or just go to accessibility > hearing and balance the speakers to only right side. The vibration is due to left speakers (upper one)
And reduce the volume while in call so none can hear conversation.
I am getting very low volume even at max setting when the voice note is played thru the earpiece. It's fine with the speakers though. Seems like software issue. Any one else facing this bug?
same here plus thay audio will start on spesker before you put phone on yoir ear and thats annoying
So this is not the only phone plagued with this bug. A52 also has this.