I purchased a brand new XZ1 recently, and noticed below issues with the phone.
Curious to know if anyone else in this forum is facing similar issues, and if there are any fixes available (or if I should return my phone - which I don't want to do unless these are due to manufacturing defects).
1. The speaker sounds tinny when used as a speakerphone. Increasing the volume distorts the quality further, and even at high volume, I'm unable to hear the calls properly. While playing audio, the sound is noisy and muffled. I modified the equalizer settings which mitigated this issue, however there is still considerable amount of noise when using the speaker.
2. The Wi-fi doesn't scan most of the available networks. I have a Blackberry which finds almost twice as many Wi-fi signals as my XZ1.
3. The last fully charged date on my Battery settings shows as 35 days ago. But I purchased the phone only a couple of days ago, so I'm wondering if it might be a refurbished one, or if the settings is showing the factory installation date.
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Has anyone seen or heard of this, possible reasons why or perhaps knows a fix? It seems to have just happened all of a sudden. Any type of audio coming from back speaker is like a quarter of the volume it should be. volume maxed out on everything music, speaker phone, ringer, alarm, any sound emmitted from rear speaker is barely discernable. this phone was really loud about a week ago. sitting next to the gf's photon it's a night an day difference. I have already done profile,prl updates, factory reset phone a few times. I am on 45.3.6, baseband N_01.28.07R As far as I know my this is the same as when I got the phone. I don't wanna have to take this into the sprint store as my nearest store is a severe annoyance for me. seemed to have made enemies with the manager an a few of her lackeys.
I've had my M8 for about a day now and I'm very happy with it. I really love how you can now set up the volume rocker as a shutter button...finally!
Unfortunately my phone has an issue where the top speaker crackles in two situations, both when the volume is at the max setting. The first situation is when placing an outgoing call the top speaker crackles with every ring. Not too bad a situation by itself. But that top speaker also crackles along with peoples' voices. No other issues when listening to music either via Google Music or Pandora. I even tried to install an equalizer app to tone down the mid range but the crackles persist.
Hopefully this is the only phone with this issue but I did want to share this with the community. I'm heading to an AT&T store later today to exchange it for another unit.
You are not alone. I bought two brand new phones (ATT Version) in ebay. Both had the same issues. I am in the process of returning them. When you dont have proper reception of the voice call, the unwanted noise gets amplified. The phone does not have proper noise filter. My ear pains sometime. When this phone cannot be used as a basic phone, then I dont want to waste my money. Apart from that, this phone has lot of other issues like bluetooth, sluggish sometime, battery, intermittent touch response issues, etc.... mentioned in the various forums in the internet.
The sound quality on the bottom speaker and the external look are the ones worth mentioning which stand outs from other phones. My experience with HTC One M8 is very bad and I am not going to get another HTC product.
I bought mine three days ago and I notice a little bit of crackling as well. It happens when the volume is at max is not a strong cracklings but I can hear it, should I go to at&t to get a replacement?
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Hello. Picked up an Xperia X a couple months ago and have been generally happy with it, though I'm having some bluetooth issues ranging from annoying to infuriating that are preventing me from really enjoying this phone. Hope some of the gurus here can provide a some guidance on what I can do to fix or workaround these issues.
1. After some period of time listening to music/podcasts/whatever, the phone will automatically drop the volume by half and display the message:
Listening to sounds above the current volume level may permanently damage your hearing.
That's fine and dandy, but I'm controlling the volume through the bluetooth device, and the result is that it drops to a volume so low I can no longer hear it, and while it's a simple thing, it's infuriating every time it happens. Based on prior searches, I know this is a built-in "feature" and I know it's been part of the Xperia phones for a while, but is there any way to disable this behavior? I have my phone rooted, so root-level apps, Xposed modules, etc. are all on the table. This is my number one complaint with the phone, so would really appreciate any help here. Note: to clarify, I want to stop this *behavior*. I've found other discussions about killing similar warning messages, but nothing about how to prevent it from actually lowering the volume.
2. When connected to my car through bluetooth, I don't get metadata from the phone (AVRCP?). Bluetooth problems in general appear to be widely reported for Android 7.1.x on this phone, but most people seem to complain about being unable to pair their device at all. I can pair it fine, but I don't get metadata. However, prior to upgrading to 7.1 (while still on 6.0) metadata worked, and when running OmniROM 7.1.2 on this phone metadata also worked. So, it seems to be a problem with this particular version of the stock ROM for this phone.
Any ideas on how I can fix that? Again, maybe an xposed module or something that I've overlooked? or could I maybe swap out the bluetooth stack from OmniROM, which works fine? This is a much lesser annoyance than the above, but still interested in any suggestions.
3. Finally, this is a more subjective issue, but does anyone else have problems with bluetooth performance in general with this phone? On my last two phones, I kept my phone in my left pocket and played through a bluetooth headphones with the receiver on my right ear with generally no problems, other than the occasional hiccups that seem to affect every android device (at least every one I've used). With the Xperia X, however, trying to play with the phone in my left pocket skips so horribly that it's completely unlistenable. Moving it to my right pocket helps somewhat, but it's still flaky - turning my head sideways such that the receiver is over my shoulder causes skipping. I have to move my phone up into my jacket pocket in order for it to play (mostly) reliably.
Does anyone else have problems like this? Again, I never hard this problem with either of my two previous phones on the same set of headphones (have similar, but not as severe, issues in my car as well). I *did* have this same problem with OmniROM as well, and I have the problem with and without a case, so it seems hardware related, but if the bluetooth hardware was truly this bad I would expect to have seen more discussion about it. So, just wondering - is this just me, or do other people have this problem as well? I know it's unlikely, but any suggestions to improve this? Ie., possible to increase the bluetooth transmitter power or something like that?
Thanks, all. Sorry this turns out a little long, just wanted to properly explain. Looking forward to any suggestions.
I can confirm that on my XX Bluetooth signal is also weak, I have same issues at least with two Sony headsets (SBH60 and SBH80). Also with Bluetooth AptX receiver for my (home) audio it is quite similar, just walking behind corner from direct visibility and audio is choppy...
1. This error message appears very rarely, for me, not every 30 minutes. I have this phone for 1 year now and I encountered the warning 5-6 times.
2. Idk
3. True, Im pretty dissapointed by the bluetooth strenght. Also, the WiFi is super weak too. Very dissapointing.
This also happens on the Tablet Z, where I have external speakers connected. Nannytech run amok.
Replying to old thread, but got just new bluetooth headset and noticed also very poor bluetooth performance on my xperia x. Distance between phone and headset cant exceed half a meter, or music starts stopping and skipping. Even with my ancient backup phone, Iphone 4s, distance can be meters... Very poor desing from Sony.
Bluetooth in general eventually drove me away. Only got midling performance at best, but whatever chip or driver or whatever they were using also had performance issues with custom ROMs. Never found a single ROM not based on stock that worked 100% correctly with bluetooth, and given podcasts and music is probably about 90% of what I use my phone for (combined with Sony ending even security updates long ago at this point), that was a pretty big problem for me.
Ended up buying a Pixel 3a to replace it. My main concern about the 3a is that I wish it was a little bit smaller (really my concern with almost every well-spec'ed phone these days), but the bluetooth in that phone is solid. Longer range and better strength than any other bluetooth device I've ever used. Extremely happy with it.
I bought some bluetooth earphones(airpods pro) on the 25th, and they worked absolutely fine with calls and the quality was exactly the same as listening to music. However since the 28th, when i'm on a call, the audio quality suddenly drops to what you'd expect with a really bad signal, muffled unclear sound. If I switch to the phones speaker mode the sound quality is extremely clear as you'd expect.
I've tried wiping bluetooth cache, I've uninstalled all apps and reinstalled, and reset the bluetooth earphones. I've factory reset the phone twice, the second time with a completely fresh install but the issue is still present. I'm calling in whatsapp, discord, google duo etc. I assume this is a software issue with a recent update because I didn't have this issue on the first couple of days, unless it's something that I've only noticed and I've tricked my self into thinking that it wasn't an issue at first.
Has anyone had the same issue, and how can I fix this as it's quite frustrating since I bought these earphones for good call quality.
havingfun1 said:
I bought some bluetooth earphones(airpods pro) on the 25th, and they worked absolutely fine with calls and the quality was exactly the same as listening to music. However since the 28th, when i'm on a call, the audio quality suddenly drops to what you'd expect with a really bad signal, muffled unclear sound. If I switch to the phones speaker mode the sound quality is extremely clear as you'd expect.
I've tried wiping bluetooth cache, I've uninstalled all apps and reinstalled, and reset the bluetooth earphones. I've factory reset the phone twice, the second time with a completely fresh install but the issue is still present. I'm calling in whatsapp, discord, google duo etc. I assume this is a software issue with a recent update because I didn't have this issue on the first couple of days, unless it's something that I've only noticed and I've tricked my self into thinking that it wasn't an issue at first.
Has anyone had the same issue, and how can I fix this as it's quite frustrating since I bought these earphones for good call quality.
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Yes i have same issue, changed airpods pro 3 times, without luck, the sound quality will be dropped after reset airpods pro
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Also have the same issue ,any ideas pleaase ?!!!
havingfun1 said:
I bought some bluetooth earphones(airpods pro) on the 25th, and they worked absolutely fine with calls and the quality was exactly the same as listening to music. However since the 28th, when i'm on a call, the audio quality suddenly drops to what you'd expect with a really bad signal, muffled unclear sound. If I switch to the phones speaker mode the sound quality is extremely clear as you'd expect.
I've tried wiping bluetooth cache, I've uninstalled all apps and reinstalled, and reset the bluetooth earphones. I've factory reset the phone twice, the second time with a completely fresh install but the issue is still present. I'm calling in whatsapp, discord, google duo etc. I assume this is a software issue with a recent update because I didn't have this issue on the first couple of days, unless it's something that I've only noticed and I've tricked my self into thinking that it wasn't an issue at first.
Has anyone had the same issue, and how can I fix this as it's quite frustrating since I bought these earphones for good call quality.
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Try disabling AAC in the AirPods Pro's setting. SBC has a higher quality on OnePlus devices with AirPods Pro anyway
I just bought an A52 5G and I'm experiencing some issues with the microphone when talking on speaker, e.g., video calls on WhatsApp or similar).
It looks like phone is always using the "regular" microphone with noise cancellation and never switches to those with the far field pickup. The result is that if I don't talk very close to the phone others can't hear me at all, hear cut offs, or a very muffled/metallic voice. I also tested this myself.
I tried testing the microphones on the audio loopback interface dialing *#0283# and selecting the two microphones to hear me back talking. They seem to both work as intended, but it's clear from there that the phone is always using RCV_1stMic (what looks like the microphone with noise cancellation used when talking with the phone close to the ears), and never switches to SPK_2ndMic (what looks like the microphone with the far field pickup). I'm pretty sure that the OS should switch automatically between the two depending on whether or not the speakers or on. I can't really find any option to set a "default" microphone or anything, and I'm not sure there should really be one at all.
At least, it doesn't look like an hardware problem to warrant return, but I'm a bit concerned that this might be something for which I need to wait for an OS update -- which might just never happen.
Anyone else experienced this issue?
I was about to return the phone when I received a new update whose version number is: A526BXXU1AUE1 / A526BOXM1AUE1 / A526BXXU1AUE1 -- security patch level May 1st 2021. This wasn't there a few days ago when I last checked for updates.
The link at the bottom of the "Last Update" screen points at https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-A526B/NEE/doc.html even though that seems to refer to different build numbers though: A526BXXU1AUD6 and A526BXXU1AUCA)
This seem to have fixed the issue on my side: now the far field pickup mic correctly activates when on speakers. Can you guys double-check the updates your phones and see what's your version?
I'm still running the April patch, but I've never had any microphone issues