Speakerphone Problem - G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys,
Yesterday, I did a bunch of changes/updates to the phone, and later in the night realized the speakerphone isn't working. However, the problem is just with phone calls - the earpiece works fine, but when I switch to the speakerphone, the noise comes out for a very brief moment, and then silence. Music player and other apps play thru the speaker just fine.
So, it seems the problem is s/w related, not h/w. The things that I did are
- rooted
- installed TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
- Tether hack
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2493978
- Ran CleanTOOL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451021
Checked all settings that I can think of. Speakerphone volume is set to top level. I am stumped.
Any clues? Help very much appreciated.
Currently, I am still running stock. I guess flashing another ROM or stock image might solve the problem, but don't want to go thru reinstalling and configuring apps again.
Thanks for your input.

hkk said:
Hi guys,
Yesterday, I did a bunch of changes/updates to the phone, and later in the night realized the speakerphone isn't working. However, the problem is just with phone calls - the earpiece works fine, but when I switch to the speakerphone, the noise comes out for a very brief moment, and then silence. Music player and other apps play thru the speaker just fine.
So, it seems the problem is s/w related, not h/w. The things that I did are
- rooted
- installed TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449670
- Tether hack
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2493978
- Ran CleanTOOL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451021
Checked all settings that I can think of. Speakerphone volume is set to top level. I am stumped.
Any clues? Help very much appreciated.
Currently, I am still running stock. I guess flashing another ROM or stock image might solve the problem, but don't want to go thru reinstalling and configuring apps again.
Thanks for your input.
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Hi,
Can you be spesific about which changes other than install those files? Would help if I knew.

Try toggling Bluetooth on/off.
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Update
I tried restarting the phone a few times, turning the volume up and down, but couldn't make it work. Today afternoon, on a call, I turned on the speakerphone, and it started working. I don't know what happened that fixed it.
Thanks for the replies.

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Bluetooth stopped working (8125)

I've searched a bit, and can't find a solution to the problem I'm experiencing. When I got the phone last week, it discovered and paired with my bluetooth earpiece without issue. Now it won't even detect the bluetooth device?
I did install: Closeall, omapclock, smartskey, and lokiwiz unlocker. Sometime during or after, bluetooth stopped working correctly. Are there any known conflicts between the above applications and bluetooth? fyi- I did try my earpiece with another phone, and it works fine.
I should mention that I inadvertently deleted a file called "ssdaemon" (or something close to it) from the startup menu, during the smartskey install. I performed a hard reset and the file returned. Bluetooth still does not work after the hard reset and several soft resets. I've also tried playing with the blutooth settings to no avail. How do I resolve this issue?
Between this issue and that damn speakerphone being stuck on while using a regular earbud style earpiece this buggy ass phone is pissing me off! The freaking speakerphone stays on, and I can't get it off unless I perform a reset. :evil:
This is really annoying because I'm hearing impaired and rely on either a special blutooth device or a hearing aid adaptor (I can't use a cell phone in the normal fashion, all I hear is static). These two problems currently render the device useless to me.
I think that loading a different rom or waiting for cingular's update will help, but I'm not sure. Any help on either of these issues is much appreciated. Thank You!
Nick
No ideas or advice?

Problem with JFv1.5 Phone Calls While Listening to Music

Hello Everyone,
I'm having some odd problems that seemed to have started when I updated to CRB43. There are 2 consistant things I've noticed so far and these all happen when a headset adapter device is plugged into the phone.
1. If I'm listening to music in my car and a phone call comes in, the music stops (as it should), but there is no ring, just vibrate. When I try to unplug the adapter and answer the call, there is silence and the call goes to voicemail even though the phone appears to be in the call.
2. While listening to music, if I get any kind of notification, the sound goes dead even though the music is still playing.
In both cases I have to reboot the phone to get back to normal.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tim
I had the same problem.
Use Lucid's script and restore the Audio to stock.
If that doesn't work, reinstall the radio from HTC.
I finally got mine working by doing both on the same reboot, so I'm not sure which one fixed it when I was using JF's rom. Whichever, the combo of both did the trick for me.
I must have not done the radio update, because that's what worked for me, it's working good now. Thanks for the reply!
Super.
Glad it worked.
I'm not exactly sure how mine got overwritten either. But I figure it was one those causing the problems.
Now...
I've been trying the audio hack, and I simply cannot get it to work. No combination of versions work without phone calls and notifications completely stopping the audio server. Regardless of the build I choose. Luckily, I don't give up

[Q] No Sound During Calls

Randomly when I make calls or receive calls I have no sound. I can't hear them and they can't hear me. Rebooting the phone will fix the issue for a short while. I have been able to reproduce this by connecting to my cars blue tooth and making a call. The 1st call works however all calls after the first call I have no sound again. When the phone in the no sound state (Phone Call) Bluetooth media still works just no sound while in a call. The speakers work because I can play music and the mic still works because I can still record sound. This issue seams to be related to the phone app its self???
My phone is a Samsung S4 (AT&T) with Android 4.4.2 (Rooted via Towelroot) with SuperSU by chain-fire installed.
Here is some of the trouble shooting I have already done.
1. Factory Rest the Phone via Stock Recovery (Still can reproduce the issue)
2. Played around with various settings i.e. Google Now Bluetooth options. Un-paired all Bluetooth devices and then re-paired one to try (Still having same issue)
3. Cleaned out all app cache (Still having same issue)
4. Re-installed pre-installed apps that I removed once rooted.
Long story short, this one has be baffled. The only thing that fixes the issue is re-starting the phone.
Thanks in advance for any assistance
AG007
Same Problem Here, I may have figured it out:
After I rooted I used some apps to auto kill some running, supposedly non-essential apps. This caused my phone call problems, same exact issue as you're having. A reboot fixed it for me as well. I will let you know if it happens again without closing any apps.......

[Q] microphone issue

So I know there are other threads with the same issue but mine is a bit different. I found out that when I'm talking to someone on my lg g2(d802) cellphone they can't hear me so I tried everything and I found out that they can hear me perfectly when I turn on the speaker mode while calling(getting the persons voice played through the phones bottom speaker), so I think thats really weird because my microphone won't work without a speaker mode on while calling. It's not a rom related issue because noone using rom FR 2.0.1 Didn't had this problem and also idk if this is related with this but in the recovery I'm unable to flash any zip and also first time when I installed the recovery i updated it with flashing new recovery 2.8.4.0 and my phone somehow automaticly downgraded it to the one i had before and I'm unable to flash new twrp recovery/viper4andoid/etc... Error message is different every time which is also weird. For example for twrp it is something like asster failed(run_program). Idk if that is related with microphone issue but I wanted to provide all data. Also I have a KK baseband. Thanks for reading.
I have the same problem "reversed" .
On speakerphone my microphone doesn't work. No matter what rom I use.
Would be nice if someone has figured it out.
It's weird. I tried everything and still the same problem. It appeared just after I flashed a new rom and I tried going back to stock and still the same issue
hi, sorry for my little english.
my lg g2 d802 4.4.2 had this problem, they can hear me but like i'm far away. try to stop voice control in all pages in Google search.
when i had this problem vocal and video record don't go, it appears i'm using microphone on another app. i stop vocal control and the phone now i going better!
"ok Google" in all page its very confortable but if the phone still dont call, nothing to do!
mach2005 said:
I have the same problem "reversed" .
On speakerphone my microphone doesn't work. No matter what rom I use.
Would be nice if someone has figured it out.
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Had this issue on an iPhone and a Windows Phone. Microphone is probably shot. Different mic used for when it is on speakerphone compared to calls. Usually cannot record video audio either...sucks.

my htc 816 always going on speaker

I have rooted my phone an year back and was using it without any issues. Now recently i wanted to cast the screen and installed some mirroring app. But then as it didn't work, i removed it. But then i observed that since then my phone is always going on speaker mode. In fact "Speaker On/Off" button has no effect at all while on the call.
Also bluetooth though detects the device, does not send out the audio signal to that device and remains on the speaker mode. Even headset after connecting shows the headset icon in the notification bar but music is played on speaker phone only.
Initially i thought it could be internal speaker issue but then even BT and headset are not working, which hints me that it could be software issue.
Has anyone faced something similar? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
manojrpatil said:
I have rooted my phone an year back and was using it without any issues. Now recently i wanted to cast the screen and installed some mirroring app. But then as it didn't work, i removed it. But then i observed that since then my phone is always going on speaker mode. In fact "Speaker On/Off" button has no effect at all while on the call.
Also bluetooth though detects the device, does not send out the audio signal to that device and remains on the speaker mode. Even headset after connecting shows the headset icon in the notification bar but music is played on speaker phone only.
Initially i thought it could be internal speaker issue but then even BT and headset are not working, which hints me that it could be software issue.
Has anyone faced something similar? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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You could try just rebooting your phone and or wiping your cache and dalvik cache in recovery but that probably won't do much but you could try. Last resort I would back up all my apps using Titanium Backup/ Super Backup and Google's own backup options in your settings then try a factory reset. Will wipe your phone except for internal data storage and ext SD card but might also correct what the issue is but it might not if this app somehow had root privileges and changed something in your system but didn't remove it when you uninstalled it. Wish I had a better option but that app did something to your phone I'm pretty sure of it. Make sure Google had your phone numbers and contacts backed up automatically or you will need to back those up separately with TB.
manojrpatil said:
I have rooted my phone an year back and was using it without any issues. Now recently i wanted to cast the screen and installed some mirroring app. But then as it didn't work, i removed it. But then i observed that since then my phone is always going on speaker mode. In fact "Speaker On/Off" button has no effect at all while on the call.
Also bluetooth though detects the device, does not send out the audio signal to that device and remains on the speaker mode. Even headset after connecting shows the headset icon in the notification bar but music is played on speaker phone only.
Initially i thought it could be internal speaker issue but then even BT and headset are not working, which hints me that it could be software issue.
Has anyone faced something similar? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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If those mirroring/casting apps used root access and modified some files in your ROM, Then you can try one thing, just navigate to /etc You should see mixer_paths.xml file, This file handles all sound routing, and i guess those apps modified this only. If this is the case, those apps definitely kept a backup of original file in same directory.
Thoctor and Sahil.bhardwaj, thank you very much for your help. Actually i tried factory reset but it didn't help. So i unrooted the phone and guess what? It started working perfect. Any ways i wanted to give it to my Dad who does not need unlocked phone so i can live with it now and can experiment with my newly bought Qiku 360!
Sahil bro, actually your comment come little late so didn't get the chance to check that out, but logically it makes sense as long as the developer of the app is well matured to take the backup of mixer_paths.xml or any system files for that matter.

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