[Q] Is it annoying that speaker is on back? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Honestly i dont have a big problem with this but sometimes when i set alarm or get a msg(apart from notification light) i dont hear clear sound of it ringing cause it back is covered.. For me is sometimes annoying but idk is it a problem for u?
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Well, I can deal with it. But my notification volume is always near max because of this.
I'd like phone designers to do something about it.
I remember some old mid-range Nokia phones that had better STEREO sound you could enjoy listening music with.
You would expect this too from an expensive modern phone.

I don't have a problem with it - the vibration alone across my desk is enough to make me jump when I'm focusing on something else.

Lol its just that im not kinda good with it.. Its not a problem its sometimes annoying
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Is This Normal?

I've noticed on my S2 that during all calls if you listen for it or the person stops talking there is background noise like putting your ear to a sea shell not very loud but you definitely can hear it even when someone is speaking. People on the other side say they can't hear anything bad and that I'm coming through very clear.
Is this normal I don't have my old LG Rumor 2 to test with which was on the same network but I don't recall ever hearing anything like that then I would probably notice like I have now.
Is this normal with this phone if not what else could it be related too?
yes, it is normal as you may have the volume to high. You may get some background static.
Is it with every call, it could be because they're on a bad network
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Yea it's on every call I called a pizza place where a machine answers and I still heard it, maybe its from high volume and I'm obsessing I don't know lol.
Guess it's better than an echo!
Does anybody know why there is a little sound when I call out? Just before the dialtone ringing, something to do with the phone settings?
Thanks

Audio Crackling/Popping while playing music

Is anyone having the issue where the audio is crackling? Out both my speaker and even over Bluetooth. I'm trying to figure out is it's the Rom or my phone.
Wow I just started using Play Music and I'm hearing the same thing. I'm on redruM lean v2.1.
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I believe the volumes in the phone is wrong, I think they did it to sound more loud, but I don't like it sometimes
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I get the same issue too, but only when music is NOT playing. Basically if I have my phone in plugged in through the headphone jack it start to make this sound. It can be rather annoying and it reminds me of when like the sound on my ipod is WAY louder than the sound I have set through my speakers and you get this humming sound. What I have noticed though, is if I just turn the sound down faintly instead of pausing. I don't hear the sound.
I am hearing little bubbling sounds when listening to Slacker Radio. I thought some app was running in background (had something like this with Hanging With Friends on my Galaxy Note), but still occurs if every other app is closed.
Wow you got to be kidding me. My X2 does this all the time and it's annoying. Looks like I may have to use supercharger on this phone too.
What rom are you all using??
Exchange the phone. My replacement sound fine. You have 35 days to return the defected phone. I'm still waiting for a way to reset the custom binary count before I send it back.

Getting audio feedback on CM9,10, Linaro

Most of the time it happens during calls. I'll answer the phone and hear a slight high pitched squeal (typically fades into the background to where the phone is still usable) that can become screeching feedback if my hand covers the microphone just right. It's hurt my ear unexpectedly more than once.
Sometimes it will happen even when I'm not in a call.
I've experienced it on Linaro roms running CM9 and I think also CM10.
I installed a sense rom and haven't had the problem since.
Anyone else experiencing this?
This is a really common problem as far as aosp goes. Every phone handles it differently
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heyis4horses said:
This is a really common problem as far as aosp goes. Every phone handles it differently
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How unfortunate. I really like AOSP, except this, and this is a dealbreaker. I can't stand listening to squealing every time I answer a call and always fearing getting blasted by loud feedback with the phone near my ear.
FTL_Ian said:
How unfortunate. I really like AOSP, except this, and this is a dealbreaker. I can't stand listening to squealing every time I answer a call and always fearing getting blasted by loud feedback with the phone near my ear.
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I'm not 100% sure about this but there may be a workaround or something if you feel like thread surfing a little bit. My phone has never been quite as extreme so I never really paid attention. Good Luck
Turn your earpiece volume down, that way it won't feed back through.
I get scratchy audio on CM during calls, but never had anything hurt my ear. Do you have any dsp manager or anything boosting the audio volume?
And yes, Sense has a noise canceler built into the dialer that works much better than AOSP, it's one of the tradeoffs atm.
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Google Voice Volume Extremely low....

So I decided to give Googlr voice another try just so I could get away from VZWs Visual Voicemail app. I used Voice for my voicemails before right after it first came out but it easnt up to snuff so I switched back to VZW and now that I am wanting to make the change to Google Voice I am having nothing but problems with the volume.
When I first used it I noticed the volume was extremely low on voicemail playback. I used my google-fu but was unable to find a fix for the issue. The volume is so low that I cant make out what is being said most of the time. I get absolutely no sound unless I put it on speakerphone and then I have to hold it up to my ear to even hear anything, and even then it is barely audible.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I should probably note that all my volumes are maxed out, but no matter what I change them to it doesnt seem to affect the volume for better or worse.
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Though I can't speak for google voice, you could always try youmail. It is a visual voice mail app that works pretty good. Though I dont use voice dictation, the paid version has it.
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shangrila500 said:
When I first used it I noticed the volume was extremely low on voicemail playback. I used my google-fu but was unable to find a fix for the issue. The volume is so low that I cant make out what is being said most of the time. I get absolutely no sound unless I put it on speakerphone and then I have to hold it up to my ear to even hear anything, and even then it is barely audible.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
I should probably note that all my volumes are maxed out, but no matter what I change them to it doesnt seem to affect the volume for better or worse.
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Had this problem when I first installed. Seems to happen when Media volume was set to max. Back it off one or two notches and it may work, it did for me.
I will give that a try tomorrow when I can get someone to leave me a message. Sorry I didnt reply sooner, we had a tornado come thru in Alabama. They said it was 70 MPH straight line winds but I actually saw the funnel cloud pass by my house and there was quite a bit of damage, a couple of 7 foot long 2x4's straight thru some chicken house walls and all kinds of other ****. Also I havent had power so I havent been able to chargw my phone....
Anyway, ill test it out and report back tomorrow afternoon, I just wish I could figure out why its acting so wonky. I really really like it niw but that volume issue is so bad that if I cant fix it I will have ti switch to something else.
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I may end up having to switch to that. I really enjoy Google Voice but its ridiculous when I cant even hear the voicemails.....
Thank you for the suggestion
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I just went a borrowed my girlfriends phone to test it out. If I adjust the volume while listening to the message on speakerphone it works, the downside is that I like my volume all the way up and in order to hear the voicemail I have to turn the volume down to the halfway point to hear it.. I really dont understand that but at least I got it working! Thank you so much!
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Phone won't stop ringing

My phone started ringing at a low volume an hour or so ago, I cleared all notifications, changed all settings I thought neccessary to make it stop but it's still ringing
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I fixed the problem by rebooting and clearing caches, but I would still like to know what caused the problem
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Wow that's crazy. Are you sure you didn't enable the "excuse to not talk to the wife" feature that we added in the settings?
It wasn't the alarm going whacko was it? Were any notifications shown?
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I had exactly this same issue a few weeks ago and never did find out what caused it. Weird.
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I had the exact thing happen to me too a while ago. It wasn't even a ringtone I have ever used either and it rang until the boot animation started. Some very strange glitch.
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that's the overheat alarm if I'm not mistaken. Google it... many people had that issue and I remember trading that the nonstop ringing def was an alarm of some type.
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jayochs said:
that's the overheat alarm if I'm not mistaken. Google it... many people had that issue and I remember trading that the nonstop ringing def was an alarm of some type.
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I thought it was mentioned the DNA doesn't have an overheat alarm though? It may throttle or shut down, but no alarm.
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I wasn't any alarm or notification. And the phones amber light flashes when it's overheating, but that wasn't the case. Never heard the phone make that ringing noise before. It was sitting on the table not even charging. Just started ringing.
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CharliesTheMan said:
Wow that's crazy. Are you sure you didn't enable the "excuse to not talk to the wife" feature that we added in the settings?
It wasn't the alarm going whacko was it? Were any notifications shown?
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Haha, no I love talking to her.
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I definitely saw a thread around here about this same situation and it turned out the guys phone was like overheating and just going crazy and it was a constant, yet very subtle ring noise... i forget what he did that fixed it though.
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that's the overheat alarm if I'm not mistaken. Google it... many people had that issue and I remember trading that the nonstop ringing def was an alarm of some type.
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pio_masaki said:
I thought it was mentioned the DNA doesn't have an overheat alarm though? It may throttle or shut down, but no alarm.
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I definitely saw a thread around here about this same situation and it turned out the guys phone was like overheating and just going crazy and it was a constant, yet very subtle ring noise... i forget what he did that fixed it though.
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Per HTC there is NO overheat alarm. The unit WILL shut down.
BTW mine was also ringing this morning, this is my second DNA that has done this.. Just might account for a dead battery if I forget to plug in at night. Usually I can get 36 to 48 hours on a battery charge.
my bad. I found the thread. a bunch of people were saying that, not confirmed lol but read this.. someone said it was the roaming alarm?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2034760
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my bad. I found the thread. a bunch of people were saying that, not confirmed lol but read this.. someone said it was the roaming alarm?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2034760
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I have talked to HTC about this issue, they do not have a clue what the cause is.
lol that's always comforting.
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Unknown cause - only restart stops it
I too have had this problem several times over the past several months. It is not overheating related nor is it an alarm, a roaming alert or anything else I can uncover. It's an alert of some sort, but damned if I can figure out how to stop it other than restarting the phone. HTC told me they have no history of such a thing, but that could be because it is hard to describe the faint ringing type sound. If you have ear buds plugged in, as I did yesterday while listening to music, believe me it AIN'T faint. It was a full blast chirping ring from ear to ear even though i had my media volume set very low so I could hear the paging system at work. I hope somebody figures out what it is because it's annoying and I'm just plain curious as to what is causing it.
Rick_In_NC said:
I too have had this problem several times over the past several months. It is not overheating related nor is it an alarm, a roaming alert or anything else I can uncover. It's an alert of some sort, but damned if I can figure out how to stop it other than restarting the phone. HTC told me they have no history of such a thing, but that could be because it is hard to describe the faint ringing type sound. If you have ear buds plugged in, as I did yesterday while listening to music, believe me it AIN'T faint. It was a full blast chirping ring from ear to ear even though i had my media volume set very low so I could hear the paging system at work. I hope somebody figures out what it is because it's annoying and I'm just plain curious as to what is causing it.
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Are you stock?
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Rick_In_NC said:
I too have had this problem several times over the past several months. It is not overheating related nor is it an alarm, a roaming alert or anything else I can uncover. It's an alert of some sort, but damned if I can figure out how to stop it other than restarting the phone. HTC told me they have no history of such a thing, but that could be because it is hard to describe the faint ringing type sound. If you have ear buds plugged in, as I did yesterday while listening to music, believe me it AIN'T faint. It was a full blast chirping ring from ear to ear even though i had my media volume set very low so I could hear the paging system at work. I hope somebody figures out what it is because it's annoying and I'm just plain curious as to what is causing it.
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Workaround
keith843 said:
My phone started ringing at a low volume an hour or so ago, I cleared all notifications, changed all settings I thought neccessary to make it stop but it's still ringing
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Workaround: Make a call and the ringing will stop.
Background:
I don't know a solution to prevent it occurring again later. I've had this phone about 5 months and it has happened probably five times. (It's not been evenly spread out though. When it happened just now it had been long enough since the last time that I had to Google the workaround again.)
I'm adding the workaround here because this is the first link when I Google this problem. And it didn't yet mention the workaround.
Had this happen the other day. Reboot fixes it but that's a stupid problem to have.
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