Although my personal phone is an iPhone, I particularly like using Android to listen to music through apps like Rimusic, a free, ad-free alternative to Spotify. In one of them I discovered that the sound from my Android speaker was not as good as usual. I was a little scared, because it could be a hardware problem (worst possible scenario), software or just dirt.
To find the solution, you must first find the problem
After some basic steps to figure out where the problem was, like turning the device on and off, trying other apps (it still seemed strange, so it wasn’t a question of which app in question) and checking that with the headphones on it sounded good, I came to the conclusion that something was physically happening to the phone speaker.
The theme of choose output source This is more important than it seems, since it would not be the first time that I would be afraid because the speaker does not emit sound and I discover when entering the Bluetooth section of the settings that it is still connected to the speaker. Likewise, there are apps like Spotify where there is also a speaker icon where I can select the output (and which I use so that, for example, the sound from my cell phone is played through the audio system of my car).
Then I did something obvious that isn’t so obvious: remove the phone case looking for obstacles. Apparently there weren’t any on visual inspection, but I blew out some compressed air and passed the tip of a pin (the one that doesn’t pierce) wrapped in a cloth just in case. Or. Dirt accumulates easily, especially if you always wear covers, like I do.
Although I haven’t had any accidents such as falling into a puddle or a swimming pool, I have also humidity may be to blame Strange or faulty sound coming from the speakers. There is a world of apps and websites for cleaning speakers, like fixmyspeakers.com. The idea is to reproduce sounds of different frequencies whose sound waves serve to expel water and other particles. For convenience, I opted for this video:
Just press play, turn the volume up and the speaker down so that gravity works in our favor. After playing and passing the pin with the cloth again, it seemed like the speaker sound had returned to normal.
I’m glad I fixed the speaker problem relatively easily without having to get it repaired. However and if you suspected it was a software bug (or simply to exclude it in case of doubt), there would still be several options up your sleeve like updating the system and applications manually in case of bugs, booting in safe mode (this way third party applications do not are not operational) or factory reset.
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