Hi all,
I know this is probably a vague question, but I'm hoping someone knows some fact about the hardware that I don't.
My earpiece speaker went bad a long time ago (there's sound, but it's very faint). I decided to take the leap, and repair it.
Went on ifixit, ordered used earpiece, installed it and... no sound at all? Nothing, nada, not even a faint like the og one.
Og one still works the same though: badly, but there's sound. So I ask them for a replacement, they send it... same issue?
At this point I think I must've broken something, so I try one last hail mary. I notice the bottom speaker connector is the same, so I attach
it to the connector up top and... it works perfectly!
I'm completely at a loss right now. Do you guys think it's possible both used speakers from ifixit were faulty? Or is there some kind of special trick to connecting them that doesn't apply to the bottom speaker? (I'm literally just plugging them in, nothing else.
Would love someone's input on this and extra trouble shooting ideas.
Thanks,
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So I don't know if it's my ROM, my phone, or what, but I've tried 3 pairs of earphones, and sound only comes out of the left earbud. When I push down on the headphone jack I can sometimes get it to play faintly through both, but usually not. I'm putting the earbuds in all the way, they just don't seem to function. I treat my phone very well, and this really sucks, since I bought it for the music player mainly. Do you guys think AT&T will replace it? (After returning to stock, of course) or am I out of luck? Also, the water damage indicator shows no signs of water damage, and the phone itself looks great, since I usually keep it in a silicone case. I'd really appreciate any insight into this problem. =\
Thanks in advance.
**also, I'm running the newest version of Darkyy's Raw steel.
Silly question: Have you checked inside the headphone port for lint?
This happen to me with a phone once. Took me 2 weeks to figure it out. Since my phone was in my pocket all the time I had apparently gotten some lint in the port and packed it in tightly when I next tried to plug in some headphones.
ageros said:
Silly question: Have you checked inside the headphone port for lint?
This happen to me with a phone once. Took me 2 weeks to figure it out. Since my phone was in my pocket all the time I had apparently gotten some lint in the port and packed it in tightly when I next tried to plug in some headphones.
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Yep... Still nothing I notice that when I push down on the headphones farther than they "stick" I can get sound to play through both earbuds... huh...
Have you tried the earbuds that came with the phone?
The phone has a one year warranty, so if something is wrong they will replace it. But why mention the water sensor? Did it get wet at some point?
Of course AT&T will return it, if you bought it from them...?
OK guys, just an update....
So I called AT&T and put on my innocent, "what can haz root?" persona, and after a quick runthrough with a CS rep ("What's a factory data reset?") they issued me a refurb captivate under warranty. Just so everyone knows, this IS covered by the warranty, assuming you didn't do any physical damage to the phone.
As for the headphones, the left earbud on the stock ones went out after 4 months. They were freaking nice while they worked, though. =\
Thank you all for your suggestions and input.
I am now experiencing this issue for the second time. The first time it was under warranty so I just sent it off but now it's been over a year and I don't think they'll fix it.
For me it seems like my earbuds are what's causing it. They're really nice Shure brand earbuds with a pin for an in-line mic. I find that when I use them in certain jacks I have to pull the plug out a little bit to have them line up correctly without the sound getting super distorted. I think they're knocking something out of place.
However, since the earphone jack has been shot the second time I have a larger problem, the ear speaker is no longer working. Seemed to happen at the exact same time.
Anyways, I think I might get a OneX after this summer so I'm willing to crack this thing open. Any ideas as to what could be the issue?
i found similar threads and posts but none with this specific problem. i have a b90 from bb, 12/11/11. yesterday out of no where, i lost sound. long story short after reboots and wipes, realized when i rotate or ecspecially shake my tf101, my speaker cut on, then off. when i press hard on the bezel in the middle, they come on briefly. sometimes they stay on.
any insight or answers to solve this so i dont have to do the rma process would be greatly appreciated. after purchase from bb for 299 ( cheaper build to reduce price maybe) i became an asus fan. now, i am really dissapointed in quality since other then this, my tablet is physically flawless and hasnt been dropped or damaged.
edit: both speakers do work when they decide to come on, and heaphones work. thnx in advance
I have cut out and removed my right speaker because it was dead, waiting on an order from asusparts.eu for a replacement speaker
It wasn't a loose wire, it was the connection to the actual cone that was bad, pressing in the middle of the speaker brought it to life for the first time since I bought it, but nothing I could do to fix it, they are more or less sealed and too tiny to fix
so you believe its the speakers? they both seem to work, they just aren't outputting sound until I shake the tablet, push, or sometimes face down they work
Why not just rma it?
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so you believe its the speakers? they both seem to work, they just aren't outputting sound until I shake the tablet, push, or sometimes face down they work
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Couldn't say for sure, but it sounds like something you could fix yourself if shaking it brings it back on, if you don't mind losing warrantly opening it, but bear in mind, my speaker replacement has already taken 2 weeks and they are not expecting parts until the end of february, so RMA might be quicker, depends if you can put up being without it for a while
honestly i dont want to be without my tf. silly huh. its weird though i just discovered that like i mentioned, headphones work fine, however after i unplug the headphones the speakers immedfiately output sound and continue to do so until i change to another app. e.g.- while watching netflix, then back out and open a game with sound, it doesnt output untilni plug and unplug headphones. this seems to be the best way to get speakers to play.
they donteven seem to cut out with movement afterbthe headphones are unplugged. only when exiting out of current app, then attemptingbtonopen a new one. what is the issuer here?
im lost ast this point. rma aside, this has me curious now
id probally be willing to do it myself, if i knew exactly what i was replacing or repairing or rigging. i purchased a kit with the neccesary t5 torx, and phillips to remove bezel.
how tight should the screws be on the bottom of the tf. i dont want to overtighten. got some petty hope that tightening the screws will help. more sillyness im sure.....
this stinks though cvuz this just happened. you know? thnx in advance.
also lookimg at bluetooth speaker as an alternative
Speakers working after you remove the headphones but stopping again once you launch another app ?
You tried a factory reset in-case its a software / firmware bug ?
Screws just need nipping up, not tightened too much or you`ll either thread the holes or snap the head of the screw
Just RMA it, man.
Hi Everyone,
This is my first time posting as I am normally pretty good at googling solutions. But this time I am pretty stumped!
I brought an Nexus S i9023 and the speaker on it was faulty. It worked but it hissed and popped and was extremely quiet. Sounded like a dodgy connection more than anything. If you put pressure in the right place it would work for a few seconds.
Hence I decided to go and buy a replacement. I brought the replacement speaker with a new lead on it too from Aliexpress.
It arrived promptly and well packaged. It was obviously brand new too as the flex had not been bent.
I fitted this today but it doesn't work. nothing not a sound.
I put the old one back in and low and behold its hissing and making noises as per usual.
Can anyone tell me if I am missing anything here? Its definitely the right part, It fitted perfectly too.
Massively stumped and if anyone could suggest anything it would be greatly appreciated.
Fastraxs
Cannot think of anything else than to refit the new one and double check the connections...
if you've got a multimeter, measure the resistance (Ohms) across the terminals and compare to the old one, it should give you
a reading of a few Ohms - measure the readings with the speakers not connected to the board - that way you can deduce
if the "new" speaker is in fact good or not
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Cannot think of anything else than to refit the new one and double check the connections...
if you've got a multimeter, measure the resistance (Ohms) across the terminals and compare to the old one, it should give you
a reading of a few Ohms - measure the readings with the speakers not connected to the board - that way you can deduce
if the "new" speaker is in fact good or not
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Thank you very much for the advice, my situation has gone from bad to considerably worse! So, I had the original which was quiet making funny noises and then the new replacement which wasn't doing anything. So I decided that perhaps it was just the speaker and decided to solder the new speaker to the old flex and see if I was in business.... exactly the same issue sound was working but very quiet and fading in and out and hissing etc. Hence I thought right then, got this one sorted its the flex. Back to the iron, I soldered the original speaker which I knew was working to the new flex, but still no sound tried a few times as I was worried that the connection from the new flex to the speaker wasn't quite solid enough.
This is where things got....well....rather gutting! The phone isn't turning on anymore. I get the screen light up for a split second, then go dark again. Tried to do all the usual things such as removing battery, tried to get it into boot mode (holding sound up and power), I get nothing when plugged into pc, nothing when plugged into the charger. I am worried that when soldering the speaker I could have bridged the positive and negative terminals and hence made it short. Would this blow my motherboard up? Is that even possible?
I am now at a complete loss what to do now, and before I do any more damage, I thought I would consult the experts. I should also say that it is completely stock and hasn't been rooted or anything along those lines.
Any help, advice, suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Again thank you gunner for your advice it is greatly appreciated, but my situation is rather worse now and I think I have a rather expensive paperweight on my hands.
I'm sorry things have gone to worse mate I assume you've been doing the soldering with no power to the phone!?
If you're suspecting you may have shorted the speaker, I think its a good idea to check that! I suggest to desolder, clean and resolder.
Put some soldering flux if you have any as those little flex things are sometimes a pain to get them attached.
I'm not familiar with the NS circuitry but I reckon a shorted speaker would not result in blowing the whole board! Before assembling
everything back again, check whether there are any tiny bits of solder that may have stayed on the board or to the components.
Clean around the soldered area carefully.
Also, you might want to check if the phone powers up with no speaker attached at all. You might be having another issue as to why its
not turning on.
Good luck and hope you can have it back up and running again mate!
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.
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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
A week ago the audio on the left side of any earphone I plugged into my xiaomi mi4 started to crackle.
After a week there is no sound at all anymore, unless I push the jack connector sitting in the phone to the front it is completely fine. When I release my finger the sound on the left side is completely gone. At first I thought it might be a software problem but after this I think it's something with the audio jack inside the phone. I found the part on aliexpress and I think it's worth a try. I think it must be soldered on the motherboard though. I can't really find any similar threads on forums about the mi4 so I think it's not a common problem with this phone. Can anyone help me out or push me in the right direction. Thanks.
I cannot open my Mi4 right now but you can always open yours, just be careful, you won't break anything. Be careful removing screws and any part and you'll see the flex. It's not hard as it sounds
I got the exact same problame. Did you manage to solve it somehow ?