We've seen a few reports of Droid owners experiencing audio issues with ringers and sms volume over the last few days. Apparently, it's not something isolated to a select few users and affects people in different ways. The most common problem can be described as the external sound cutting out completely or dropping down to nearly inaudible. The quick "fix" is to reboot the phone and hope for the best, but in all reality, nobody wants to do this.
A thread has been started over at Motorola's Owners Forum for this topic.
Phone will be running perfectly fine, then suddenly all audible sounds are no longer played through the main speaker. The sounds are all audible only when u pick up the phone and place it to your ear......?!?! So basically, when recieving (sic) texts or calls, it just vibrates and the ringtone can be heard when put up against ear. I turn the phone off and back on, and everything's back to normal. Then later at some point, it does it again.....Is this happening to anyone else?
This is probably a software issue that can be fixed pretty easily, but for the time being, we recommend not using the Droid as your primary alarm clock.
Anyone else having an issue? Share the problem below and hopefully Motorola gets wind of this.
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I personally haven't had this issue (knock on wood)... the main problem i'm having is the dang autofocus problems (yet, the demo unit at the verizon store focused 20x more often side by side today)
Only audio related problem I had was when suddenly voices on calls got distorted (sounded like droids actually). This occurred when i would hit speaker then back to ear... after about 30 seconds some audio drop-outs began and then all audio/voice was distorted and environment noise also was heard through the ear speaker.
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I called Verizon Tech Support for advice. Was told to reseat the battery (soft reboot/reset) and then call *228 option 2 to upgrade roaming capability (software). Have not had the issue again in 2 days.
Happened to me once since buying opening day.
Haven't had a single audio or device issue to date, no lockups or force quits required. Too good to be true.
Agree with EM_
happened to my wife's phone the day after we bought it; we returned to the store and they exchanged it for a new one. I guess we were lucky to be one of the first with the problem...don't know if they'll exchange them now, there are so many
My audio issue consists of all audio being played at about twice normal speed, so music library tracks sound like the chipmunks. this even happens on a 'sound board' app that I downloaded.
I had it happen one time and I had just turned the phone off and then back on and hasnt happened yet, I"m sure like most of the other issues the Droid is having they will be all addressed on Dec 11
It happened to me today. I also have a problem with a video upload to you tube. It was too big to upload and now I can't delete it. Frustrated.
You can delete it, but you can only delte those :mistakes" using USB conectiovity.
I've had my phone for 4 days and I've already started having sound issues! I'm considering going back to best buy and trying to exchange it.
Happened to me today. Ringer and alert makes a crackling sound. Reboot seems to be working for now.
Yep, very common and listed as Defect on code.google.com/p/android/forum, High Priority for 2.1 injection.
I notice the issue when I'm using Pandora plugged into headphones, and then remove the headphones. I'm forced to reboot the phone, happens about 70% of the time.
I am trying to stream a cumulus radio station the ticket in Dallas. There is an app called droid cumulus but it doesn't do anything except buffer. Any ideas?