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I’m having an elusive problem with my LG G3: Soon after booting up, the external speaker’s audio will cut out and pretty much stop completely. I say “pretty much” because it will occasionally and seemingly randomly start again for a few seconds here and there, then crackle and stop. Symptoms: -Only external speaker is affected, not microphone or phone speaker -Boots up with sound, then cuts out after a short time -Possibly triggered by extended audio clips? -Tapping on the phone has occasionally started / stopped the sound. This points to a hardware issue -Problem seems replicable, but I am not missing the described “metallic-looking fabric” from the inside of my phone: https://android.stackexchange.com/questi… Additional symptoms: -My rear-facing camera also no longer works. Could be unrelated, but maybe not -After the factory reset, I get errors from “Sprint ID” failing to download every boot. Cool stuff Things I’ve tried: -Clearing cache and data from various related apps -Factory reset -Disabled USB routing from developer options -Disabled power management in battery settings -Disabled Google Voice -Booted into Safe Mode (same symptoms) -Tested via Sprint secret code (external speaker sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t; rear-facing camera never does) -Tested via Soundabout (doesn’t work) -Removed and reinstalled both external speaker and rear-facing camera
- Bending small copper speaker “springs” up towards the facing contacts -Ordered new external speaker and rear-facing camera and installed those (twice, in the case of the camera) This is a frustration, obviously… If anyone has any new ideas to fix it, or can at least tell me that my mobo is bunked so that I may move on, please respond!
hi, could you fix it?
in my case it is a motherboard problem, I had the phone checked at an authorized LG repair center
