Nokia 2.1 ringtone too quiet but played as mp3 is almost loud enough... - Nokia 2.1 Questions & Answers

Hi all, I got my Mum a Nokia 2.1 for Christmas and it's great for everything except being a phone... Is the ringtone thing an issue with the phone in general or just ours? Is that why it was cheap? I don't really want to go through the hassle of rooting it.
I even edited the ringtone in Audacity and made it bigger and a bit compressed but it still can't be heard when it's in Mum's bag, am I going to have the same problem if I get another one ?
Help!
Brian
UPDATE... got a swap-out from the shop, (actually a shopping-channel's outlet store so they are probably returns anyway) that IS actually louder. Even so, I still put amplified/sound-levelled original Nokia ringtone and SMS notifs on it and though the sliders are still maxed it is audible. When I got the first one, I 'd updated the Oreo to Pie BEFORE I saw that unlocking the bootloader was going to be more difficult but the second one was already Pie so it'll be harder to get Viper4Android on to it if I need to
Bye
Brian

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no ringtone after a while

Hi!
I have a very strange problem... after a while I have no ringtone (sound) any more.... I select a tune, it works ... but after a while there is no sound when a I receive a incoming call..
Sms, email sound etc are ok, but no ringtone with a incoming call....
When I do a hard reset, everything is ok for a while .... but after a xx period
its gone again ...
Suggestions ? I've done no reg tweaks etc..
Suggetions ?
I experience the same problem after disconnecting my bluetooth earphone.
Same here, "sometime" after disconnect BT stereo headset, my phone go muted. even adjust volume doesn't screen doesn't hv sound. Problem occur randomly. hard reset didn't help. I get around 10% chance to hit the problem after using my BT.
Please see my thread they are related!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399430
so it might be a BT problem .... any solutions found ?
My phone just loses audio altogether after a period of time. I am not using BT, havent even setup a headset for use yet. MP3 plays but no sound. SMS no sound. System Event no sounds. Incoming call ringtone doesnt play. Call conversation i get no sound. I can't figure what triggers it. Phone can just be in sleep mode, i receive a phone call and no ring. Even adjust the volume sliders and then it will lose audio straight away.
Another strange audio issue i have is the Alarm doesnt work. Alarm will start to play but then device will freeze after 1 second of trying to play the alarm tone. Soft reset is the only way to fix it, after which it will lose audio again after a while. Have already done numerous hard resets and run a clean device with no programs or tweaks applied. SAME ISSUE!!!! I can put up with a laggy interface but no audio renders the phone a brick! Please help!
Someone a suggestion for the problem?
Xivius is ur problem similar to mine? Or is urs the Bluetooth issue mentioned by the others? i been running round in circles. HTC Aust told me to go back to TW. Taiwan told me call Singapore. Singapore told me to call Vietnam HTC Support cos apparently thats where my unit originates from. bought it off ebay so wouldnt know
Xivius, did you got that problem fixed?
freeza007 said:
Same here, "sometime" after disconnect BT stereo headset, my phone go muted. even adjust volume doesn't screen doesn't hv sound. Problem occur randomly. hard reset didn't help. I get around 10% chance to hit the problem after using my BT.
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I'm now using wired handsfree, same problem happen! seems not BT, it's more related to the HTC music player?
My story is exactly the same as bds008. I have disabled the vibration as much as I know and it seems to help a little but not all together. My phone mutes mostly when I am answering a call, but also on more occasions. It seems quite randomly.
I don't use BT at all and I haven't installed anything 3th-party wise.
I want to contact HTC Netherlands about this, but as I am in the middle of moving to a new home, I haven't found the time yet. I don't want to try 1.37 because of the warranty. (And I would like to keep it Dutch....)
Any updates on this problem ? Solutions ?
xivius, i had to send my unit back, they reckon its gonna take 10 business days to test and repair, if its a confirmed hardware fault unit they will give me a replacement unit. Kinda dissapointing considering the phone can be considered Dead on Arrival. Looks like i wont see my phone for at least another 2 weeks, and i only had it three days.
xivius said:
Any updates on this problem ? Solutions ?
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If your running an older rom then perhaps you should look into flashing the Diamond with a newer rom and see if that fixes the problem. But if you want to keep your warranty then why dont you send it back??. Get HTC to fix it or send it back to where you got it from and demand a new replacement.
REason i say this is because you posted this thread nearly a week ago and as of today...no one has a solution but yet you still have the phone??. Seriously if it was me, the phone would have gone back straight away for a replacement or refund.
Seems like it's getting more people into this problem. 1st i thought im the only one who caught in this unlucky unit. I explained in numerous forum no one seems to know the causes or what da fark im talking about. I did an update to 1.37 too and it's doesn't work either.
Yes the phone "TOTAL MUTED" randomly, particularly after conversation. Only soft reset can restore the sound. Did a few times hard reset too, won't work. Sent back to HTC last week, don't know how long it will take.
Btw i'm glad to know someone actually had this problem, too
p/s: Since i thought im the only one got such bizzare defect unit. So.....
Good to read that 1.37 doesn't bring any solution. I was hesitating to try.
Funny thing is that since I contacted HTC about the exchange procedure, my Diamond hasn't muted spontaniously anymore! it seems that it has become attached to me...
Today I've sent my Diamond to HTC (via 2call.nl) for repair ... lets hope they will give me a new one fast ...
xivius said:
Today I've sent my Diamond to HTC (via 2call.nl) for repair ... lets hope they will give me a new one fast ...
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I've had my device for 2 days and have upgraded to 1.37. I confirm I have the same problem where the phone doesn't ring at all no matter what the settings. I haven't even switched on bluetooth yet so it can't be that in my case.
If I have "ring", no sound, the unit just flashes. If I have "ring and vibrate", the unit vibrates perfectly; again, no sound. In other words, no combination of events brings up the sound. The sound is perfect when in the ringtone selection screen though.
Since there are a few people with this problem, it may be that it's a ROM issue. Since we all got our phones from different places at different times, it's unlikely to be a manufacturing fault...
Here's hoping for a solution from someone ....
Regards,
Gary.
Folks,
I've just discovered the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399430&highlight=Ringtone
In post #30, I found the answer to my problem
Basically, I didn't realise that the HTC volume control manages Windows and PHONE volume seperately (why the heck can't they put both on the same screen like with the WM volume control )
I really hope that others with the same problem in the thread can fix their problems with this!
Regards,
Gary.
Gary, glad to hear ur problems been fixed. I had my phone 3 days and its been sent back to HTC taiwan, they gonna take 2-3 weeks to get it back to me apparently. I checked out the thread you are talking about, obviously i can't test it now, but im sure it shouldnt make a difference if you use HTC volume control or the windows volume control. And yes i did know thw HTC one can control either phone or system separately. Basically i could get the phone to fault and lose sound just by sliding the HTC volume slider up and down, or when it did fault, sliding the HTC volume slider and setting it to vibrate and back up again made no diff, so i dont think it has to do with this? Hopefully my replacement or maybe even repaired unit dont have the same prob. Maybe those that have the prob and still have the phone can test out the suggested fix and report.

hd7 the sound is off speaker what can i do

hd7 the sound is off speaker what can i do, please help me if you have cod or something like that
This happens to me alot just reboot it ...
i.am rebooted but not working at all
agamy_80 said:
i.am rebooted but not working at all
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Hi agamy, I'm having the same problem and rebooting the phone doesn't help either.
Were you able to find a solution?
Do you guys still have this problem? Figured out a fix? I don't have one but this guy I know does. Thanks!
Yeah, return it if the speaker keeps shutting off. Mine was doing the same thing and I just called the tmobile and they're sending me another one (actually my second replacement as the other one had serious software glitches).
Ok I will let him know. Thanks!
I've had the same issue with mine for about 2 months. The speaker was working fine then every now and again when I would type it would get very loud then cut off for me, Wouldn't not turn on for anything. last night it started to work but only at 1 on volume. I turned it up to half way and was excited that it worked again, kept locking and unlocking getting messages etc. Then I went to go type and boom! speaker went out again, now I'm left speakerless yet again. I don't ant to get a replacement yet because I have a skin case on it and I would have to pay for another when I get the new one. I've never ever had any issues with speakers on any other phone I've had so I'm quite disappointed.
i now am experiencing the same problem. while playing a game (assasins creed) the speaker just died down on me. at first i though it was just the game. tried other games and zune,none of them have sound. done with reboot and restart,unfortunately still no volume. im stuck with an expensive phone wihout volume,another unfortunate thing is,i cant even have it replaced since i bought it in ebay.
i hope somebody will have a fix to resolve this issue
cheerio
I had the same problem and after a week or so everything is back to normal.
just had mine fixed.sound is back audio is as great as when i received the phone.im just worried if the same problem would occur. it took two days for htc service center here in the philippines to fix it.
:-( I have the same issue, I was playing music and the speakers dead!!! I don't even touch the phone......the speakers only stop working without any reason. Somebody can fixed that problem? Because I'm in Ecuador and here we don't have an HTC repair center.
I have similar problem with speaker, volume is stable but not loud enough. I am not sure if it is a software problem or hardware one.
Regards
try reset, or flash rom with higher version.
Maybe the sys bug.
I have the same problem! Hard-reset and flashing a newest rom doesn't help! I think this is hardware problem(
Somebody knows, where it is possible to find replacement speaker for it. And where I can find service-manual? Thanks!
My speaker just went dead as well. Highly annoying because the phone's useless as an alarm now. Traveling abroad at the moment, so might not even be able to get it fixed...
Hi guys,
I had the same speaker problem on my brand new brand new HD7 a while back. Back then i used to use the alarm and snooze a lot. After a couple weeks of alarm going off and snooze, the speaker gone mute. This is a wide spread problem HTC Window7 phones, especially this HD7 model. I tried everything from sound enhancer app to flashing custom ROM, but could not find any solution. So i let it sit for like 4 months until that one night i decided to mess around with it again. It was 2 in the morning so it was really quiet. That was how i found out that the speaker was still working but only output really little sound or static even if i had the volume at max.
So just a wild guess, i googled the part for the speaker and how to dissemble the damn thing. It's pretty easy and i happened to have a broken g1 which had the same loud speaker with the HD7. So i switch them out and voila, i got the sound back.
I was so excited so i tried everything that output sound on the phone. Everything worked out fine for like ... 2 days! Speaker went out again! During that 2 day, i was doing a lot of music, video, games . But i noticed things get really glitchy during keyboard clicking and and snoozing off the alarm.
So i'm pretty sure the G1 speaker is dead again. So i went on ebay and bought a brand new OEM speaker for the HD7 for 4 bucks (G1, G2, HD2, and some other models use the same one. Check the picture). 3 days later and another trip to the inside of the phone, It sounded loud and clear again. This time i completely avoid the alarm and keyboard clicks. I have got sound for almost 2 month now.
So if you don't have sound. Hold the phone to your ear and play something. If you hear hiccups, little sound, or static coming out then it's not a software problem. Replace the speaker and avoid using the alarm and keyboard clicks.
Hope this solve your problem.
this happened to mine for a while until eventually it gave up and had to be returned to be fixed... luckily it was 11 months old and still in the initial 12 month warranty... speaker replace and now all is fine.
If yours is going and it's still in a warranty period, I'd return it to where you got it from.
"The Fonz" Method
Not a real great fix, but I fixed my wife's phone by hitting the top of the backside of the phone pretty hard with the palm of my hand (or set it down hard on a table). It was working for a few weeks and we were sitting at the dinner table one night and I set it down, and it worked for a second. Then I thought, "Maybe if I hit it harder it will come back on." And it worked! Probably a loose wire or something.

[Q] How to make the speaker louder

I just bought my HD7 and the speaker is very low and i have it on level 30.
Is there any way of making it more loud??
Please for all the help that i can get.
Hi that is an issue with the HD7 and we are hoping MS will fix the issue with the future updates
You might have also noticed the camera is rubbish for long distance shots as well
and that you cant add a custom ringtone.
so stay put and hope they update our software quickly
avensakias said:
I just bought my HD7 and the speaker is very low and i have it on level 30.
Is there any way of making it more loud??
Please for all the help that i can get.
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The phone is bull****. Its a hardware limitation i guess. The camera sucks too..
nitroxn said:
The phone is bull****. Its a hardware limitation i guess. The camera sucks too..
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To the original poster, what Hardware Revision is your phone? Mine is version 0002 and I find the speaker to be quite loud for ringing, notifications, and music. For Netflix, the volume is very low.
To the other posters... if your only contribution to this forum is stuff like "this phone is rubbish," please leave.
same with mine ringtones alerts and music sound is very low but playing games like bejewelled and metro blocks in game sounds and music is very very loud I have to turn it down.
Same issue here. One way around it is to use Chevron ringtone installer to get your own tunes onto the phone (works for alarms and alerts) but before you do use Audacity t increase the sound on the tune before converting to the correct format for the phone. I have done this and now my ringtone,alarms and alerts are plenty loud enough for noisy environments.
i used all the above.
To be exact on the games only the sound is loud..
The ringing of all the sounds that i tested is too low..
i cant ever hear it when its in my pocket and it rings..!!
I hope the ota update that is on its way, should fix the registry key that does all that.
lets hope , it is very low
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so.....many.......replies.....must.....contain.....self....
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Patience my friend...these idiots just speak out of ignorance...
I also hate the low ringtone volume. How can it be that games are smashing your ears while music don´t??? Please someone help.
tonarm said:
I also hate the low ringtone volume. How can it be that games are smashing your ears while music don´t??? Please someone help.
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i think this is a software bug of Microsoft .
I hope they will repair this absurd bug on the future upgrade , because at this moment is impossible to hear the sms tone and call tone
Why haven't you guys installed the HTC Sound Enhancer? Works awesome for me very load!
DJ Lu said:
Why haven't you guys installed the HTC Sound Enhancer? Works awesome for me very load!
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Actually the volume is the same,l do not know what set up are You using but l test all 3 preset and volume is same. But still for all others if you have on your hd7 installed custom ringtones you can make this ringtones (edit the ringtone) in some app for editing music,and play with equalizers so you can have louder tones. Still my opinion is that hd7 has some software limitations-volume simple must be louder-common how can we hear phone in pockets or handy bags. New Nokia phones are much much loader so...HTC do SOMETHING!
also the speaker volume is maximum 10 in Hd7 is this the same for all the devices?
kronos1 said:
Actually the volume is the same,l do not know what set up are You using but l test all 3 preset and volume is same. But still for all others if you have on your hd7 installed custom ringtones you can make this ringtones (edit the ringtone) in some app for editing music,and play with equalizers so you can have louder tones. Still my opinion is that hd7 has some software limitations-volume simple must be louder-common how can we hear phone in pockets or handy bags. New Nokia phones are much much loader so...HTC do SOMETHING!
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I have already installed even the rom 1.60.401.01 since my phone had 1.23.401.01 when i bought it, i made the update to the build 7008 via zune but nothing changed.
I installed also HTC Sound Enhancer but the increase was about 2% louder than before enabling the Dolby option since SRS did nothing at all.
I hope that Microsoft & HTC with solve that problem on the upcoming NoDo Update..
nitroxn said:
also the speaker volume is maximum 10 in Hd7 is this the same for all the devices?
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That's In-Call volume mate. See HERE
eternalemb said:
Patience my friend...these idiots just speak out of ignorance...
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Just put your phone inside your pocket and walk on the street at some big cities like LA, or San Francisco, i bet nothing could warn you about the phone except the vibration of the phone itself.
The sound from outside world are so many and come to your ear the same time, how could you expect to hear your favorite ringtone from your god **** phone inside your pocket? Bring the external speaker and stick it on your ears, you will hear it!
I don't know about you guys phone, i can hear my ringtone from my HD7 while i am talking to friend at the hall.
When i used a TPU material case (harder than silicon but more flexible than hard plastic case) seems to absorb sound leakage from phone build (HD7 has 'flimsy' batter case). Immediately after installing, sounds like ringtones ard keyboard tapping sounds have improved noticeably. Hopefully this gives u a temp fix...
bluegreenwhite said:
When i used a TPU material case (harder than silicon but more flexible than hard plastic case) seems to absorb sound leakage from phone build (HD7 has 'flimsy' batter case). Immediately after installing, sounds like ringtones ard keyboard tapping sounds have improved noticeably. Hopefully this gives u a temp fix...
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my case seems to make it a lil louder also

[Q] No sound from earpiece or from music, but notification/alarm/other sounds work

Hi Forum,
I orginally posted this topic on the man Q and A board but it was buried quickly with no response. Perhaps this is a better venue to ask.
My phone is roughly a year old, and today I ran into a weird and potentially phone killing problem
I received a few phone calls from my girlfriend today, the ringer rang loud and clear, but I heard no sound from my ear piece. After a few "Hello?"s, I hung up thinking it was a bad connection. Upon seeing my girlfriend afterwards, she said she heard me on my end. So I got her to call me again and I tried to use speaker phone, and I could hear her fine.
Doing some research on google, I only ran across one other person who had this problem, and upon seeing this, I tested my music player, (as theirs didn't work), and mine doesn't work either
This other person said the problem resolved itself a day later.
In short, my ear piece has no sound during a phone call and my media sound doesn't work (though it works w/ headphones.) My notification sounds and speaker phone DO work, as well as my alarms
Do the notification and speaker phone speakers come from a different place than media and ear piece speakers?
Do I have a software issue? I tried the "push the speaker down" solution but to no avail
Should I wait like the other person?
Any suggestions?
Thanks forum!
Codazzle said:
Hi Forum,
I orginally posted this topic on the man Q and A board but it was buried quickly with no response. Perhaps this is a better venue to ask.
My phone is roughly a year old, and today I ran into a weird and potentially phone killing problem
I received a few phone calls from my girlfriend today, the ringer rang loud and clear, but I heard no sound from my ear piece. After a few "Hello?"s, I hung up thinking it was a bad connection. Upon seeing my girlfriend afterwards, she said she heard me on my end. So I got her to call me again and I tried to use speaker phone, and I could hear her fine.
Doing some research on google, I only ran across one other person who had this problem, and upon seeing this, I tested my music player, (as theirs didn't work), and mine doesn't work either
This other person said the problem resolved itself a day later.
In short, my ear piece has no sound during a phone call and my media sound doesn't work (though it works w/ headphones.) My notification sounds and speaker phone DO work, as well as my alarms
Do the notification and speaker phone speakers come from a different place than media and ear piece speakers?
Do I have a software issue? I tried the "push the speaker down" solution but to no avail
Should I wait like the other person?
Any suggestions?
Thanks forum!
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I had nearly the same issue, except mine got to the point where the speaker phone didn't work either. Music played fine, phone calls stopped working. I went through a lengthy process of accidently deleting everything I had on my phone, which lead me to buy a USB Jig, install the stock ROM and it worked perfectly. I would suggest trying this before you try and physical fixes on your phone.
Thanks for the suggestion SGT_Watkins
I am an absolute noob when it comes to this stuff. So it took me a while to even figure out what you were saying
BUT, after a whole night of reading and flashing it WAS FIXED!!!
I am quite tempted to phone Samsung and give them a piece of my mind after they told me some hardware was defective even though they clearly weren't listening to what the problem was
Thank you again!
How did you solve this?
I have the EXACT same problem on my Galaxy Nexus. I've wiped it, tried different ROMs, kernels... Nothing solves it! It's like there's a persistent software problem that survives flashing and even battery pulls.
My phone had this same issue not long ago. It was after I had used some headphones for about an hour. I work in a paper converting factory, so I assume some dust was packed in the headphone jack and made the phone think something was plugged into it. I turned my phone upside down and used a paper clip to scrape it all out (compressed air may have been safer). After a few tries, all sounds were working properly again.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA

Speakers lowering themselves?

I'll be listing to a song with the volume up to enjoy the lovely front facing beasts of speakers they are. But they randomly get super quiet dispute the slider being all the way up. Dinnertimes turning it down then back up helps. But sometimes it doesn't. I have to open Spotify and stop the song and replay it to get it back to normal.
Is it hardware? It's happened on stock cm M everything.
I had the same problem when I first bought my nexus. you need to return it as I tried multiple roms and stock builds.
So its hardware?
Yep seems so
Oh well.
I have this when playing games at full volume. It's almost like they're trying to normalise the volume.
Same here. Was gonna get a replacement from Sprint.
I mean. When they work they are phenomenal and LOUD. Its nice when I'm on my bike or something. But then it gets quiet and I question my purchase.
I had the same problem I RMAed my phone and the new one works perfect I tried everything on the other phone from ROMs to Viper FX and audio FX but in the end I needed to RMA it.
Well on the back of this thread I decided to contact google. Just waiting for the decision as there are some scratches on the frame due to a drop
Can anyone with this issue please read this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3136759

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