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Xperia Z sound problems

Hi, i have a problem i can't understand how to fix it.. I can hear the sounds of my phone but only with headphones. For example, youtube, music, videos or voice notes i can only hear it with headphones. Without headphones is like the sound doesn't work. Only the notifications like phone calls, alarm, message notifications i can hear like always, perfect, not problem.
Also i couldn't record voice notes without headphones until i changed the ROM, before i had 5.1.1 and now i have 6.0.1, with this new ROM, now i can for example record a video and catch the sound and i can record a voice note and after that hear it, but only with headphones..
What do you think could be my problem? How can i fix it?

Anybody? Should i buy a jack 3.5mm for my xperia?

P20 Pro - poor audio quality on in-car phone system

Hi there,
I replaced my HTC 10 with the P20 Pro and since then i have really poor audio quality when using my hands-free phone system over bluetooth in my car (Mercedes). The quality was good with the HTC and turned bad with the Huawei. I looked up the settings in the developer menu and saw that the BT coded that is used is SBC. When i turn off Bluetooth on the mobile, i am able to select a different codec but as soon as i turn on BT again, SBC is selected automatically again in the menu. Is there anything i can do to permanently select another codec such as aac or aptx? On my HTC, the option for following the "standard setting" is preselected.

facing the same issue with my Ford Focus. Sound is cracking, and the only way to fix it (temporarly) is to reset the connection and made new one. but only works for a few days, then it returns....
Also waiting for a fix, and even in the latest firmware version Cl20C432131 .

Nissan Note 2012
Same problem in my Nissan. I don't know what codec my old galaxy s7 used but the drop in quality when switching to P20 pro was huge. I also cannot permanently change the codec settings. This is a deal breaker.

You should remember that there is 2 ways bluetooth working with sending audio - in handset way (low quality but allows microphone input) and in headphone way (normal quality but no mic input).

Exactly the same issue as me in my Audi. I don't know if I'm glad other people have this issue but at least i know it isn't just me or a fault with my car haha!
People the other end seem to hear me fine. Its not practical to keep connecting and disconnecting each time i want to make a call in the car.

xaik said:
You should remember that there is 2 ways bluetooth working with sending audio - in handset way (low quality but allows microphone input) and in headphone way (normal quality but no mic input).
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Interesting, I'm using android auto and I believe it switches between these modes automatically. With my old Galaxy S7 I could hear a real downgrade in audio quality when the phone was responding to my voice prompts. On the P20 Pro, the voice prompt responses seem much higher quality than the previous phone but the music is much lower quality - as if it is only using a single mode.
I'm not sure about 'no mic input' though, both phones could can hear voice prompts over the music (as long as I shout!)
Nevertheless I will test with google music only and disable android auto and will report back.
(for me the music quality is always poor even after reconnecting - it does not sound like it is coming over the voice channel, it is more subtle a difference than that)

gilesknap said:
Interesting, I'm using android auto and I believe it switches between these modes automatically. With my old Galaxy S7 I could hear a real downgrade in audio quality when the phone was responding to my voice prompts. On the P20 Pro, the voice prompt responses seem much higher quality than the previous phone but the music is much lower quality - as if it is only using a single mode.
I'm not sure about 'no mic input' though, both phones could can hear voice prompts over the music (as long as I shout!)
Nevertheless I will test with google music only and disable android auto and will report back.
(for me the music quality is always poor even after reconnecting - it does not sound like it is coming over the voice channel, it is more subtle a difference than that)
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Try connection with car audio in your phone with active option "media audio"

Thanks
xaik said:
Try connection with car audio in your phone with active option "media audio"
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Thanks, I tried this and it had no effect on sound quality, but......
I need to confess a stupid oversight. It turns out that my Google Music settings specified 'Normal' quality over mobile network. I set this to 'Always High' and restored the original quality of music that I was used to.
So it seems that:-
My car has always used SBC at 44.1 KHz 16bit
Even with this low fidelity Bluetooth connection, it is still possible to distinguish Normal and High quality modes of Google Music.

Poor Bluetooth sound quality / static?

Hi folks. Just moved to a different carrier, we were previous Google Pixel owners, but our new carrier doesn't support them so we had to move to S10s.
The big complaint here is the horrible sound quality coming from the phones to all of our Bluetooth devices. Cars, speakers, living room sound bar. Static-y noises and what sounds like just a far lower quality across all devices than what comes from our Pixels which we still have. Our kids Iphones have no issues playing clean and clear either.
Really frustrating issue, we both use our music service daily and this is darn near a deal breaker.
Any ideas or solutions out there? I've searched high and low to no avail. Thanks in advance!

Anyone? No one else has this issue?

is your phone rooted? Is this a snapdragon or exynos version? If its exynos version, rooted, installed aptx bluetooth codec and viper4android for better audio

Exynos, fully stock here.
No problem with bluetooth audio.

US Snapdragon phone. Completely box stock. Bluetooth even connects at an audibly lower volume. It sounds almost like it's connecting through one of those old FM Bluetooth transmitters. It's terrible. I've fiddled with every solution I can find online for others suffering the same issue, nothing works.

Actually, I didn't want to root my S10. However, the sound quality via bluetooth is so bad that you cant avoid Viper4Andriod.
That was also the case with the S8. At the point Samsung has huge deficits.
Without root / V4A you just have lousy sound quality.

I'd really love to find a workaround that doesn't involve rooting, but if that's all there is.....

I had the same problem with snapdragon unlocked variant. The factory audio quality over Bluetooth was terribly bad. It was tinny.
Interestingly when i used "seperate app sound" feature it has improved. But not as good as exynos variant when i compared.
Steps to follow.
Advanced Audio setting -> seperate app sound -> Turn ON ( select the app and bluetooth device )
Let me know if it works.

Never did find an answer to this question. Found that when it's plugged into a 3.5mm port it's even more noticeable. It's got to be a software issue. The static starts as soon as any music begins, and ends on any song switch or pause. You can actually hear the static 'kick in' right before the sounds start to play. It's horrible. Doesn't do it on my backup phone, or either of my kids' iPhones. Just these two S10s.

Hey man, did you ever find a fix? all of a sudden I started having this issue. If I turn "Call audio" OFF it is fixed and the quality is great again, but with Call Audio on, its crappy, on my car, or headset, same behaviour.
The phone seem to be using the Call Audio profile despite no active call.

Did some more testing, if I hit on "Disconnect" on my car system, I get the "call disconnect" sound and after that the audio is great. The issue seem to be the phone thinking its on a phone call and using call audio profile to stream the audio.

Bluetooth audio quality issue

Hi all, this is the last try I give to my issue, you're my only hope!
Long story short: until I used my LG G6 I had no issue on audio quality from Spotify through my bluetooth speakers or car speakers.
I then moved to a new LG G8s and found the bluetooth audio was really bad: crispy and distorted especially when listening to rock music, where the snares sounds really bad like an old low quality mp3.
Thought it was a phone issue, I changed it with a Huawei P30 pro but the result is the same.
So I almost tried everything: formatted the phone, changed sound sources, changed streaming apps (Spotify, Deezer, Tidal...), changed streaming quality (tried Spotify Premium), change some settings in developer mode without any result.
The only thing that seems to work is empty the bluetooth cache and then re-pair the speaker or the car audio device, but the quality returns to crispy after few minutes.
Side note: I have no trouble at all with my Freebuds 3, the only bluetooth device that works well, probably because they're the only one supporting a different codec than SBC (but I wonder why using my LG G6 everything is ok with any output source, the codecs are the same...).
I'm open to any suggestion.
Thanks!

If it's anything like my old P20 Pro it needs an app called Poweramp as without it my earbuds sounded terrible.

BaconTrousers said:
If it's anything like my old P20 Pro it needs an app called Poweramp as without it my earbuds sounded terrible.
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Honestly I don't know how to solve this.
I believe Poweramp could solve the issue with music played from the local storage but not from Spotify...

Question Hardware or software issue? PUBG mobile, headphones in but voice chat goes through phone speakers.

I just got a Note 10 Pro. All is good except when playing PUBG with headphones plugged in.
All the sounds from the gameplay go through the headphones except for when my teammates talk through the voice chat. The voice chat audio gets routed through the phone's speakers instead of going through the headphones like all the other audio.
However, when using Bluetooth headphones, this problem doesn't occur.
I've tried restarting the device, restarting the game, changing game settings, but nothing.
I assume this is a software issue right? Otherwise I'll look to change the device.
Thanks.