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iPhone X Owners Experience 'Crackling' or 'Buzzing' Sounds From Earpiece Speaker (macrumors.com)
MacRumors reports:
A limited but increasing number of iPhone X owners claim to be experiencing so-called "crackling" or "buzzing" sounds emanating from the device's front-facing earpiece speaker at high or max volumes. Over two dozen users have said they are affected in a MacRumors discussion topic about the matter, while similar reports have surfaced on Twitter and Reddit since the iPhone X launched just over a week ago. On affected devices, the crackling sounds occur with any kind of audio playback, including phone calls, music, videos with sound, alarms, and ringtones. The issue doesn't appear to be limited to any specific iPhone X configuration or iOS version.
"The speakerphone for an $1100 phone should be at least as good as it was on the iPhone 6 and 7," complained one user, "but instead, it's crackly, edgy and buzzy."
"I believe we all knew the iPhone X would be highly scrutinized," writes Slashdot reader sqorbit, "but the reported problems appear to be stacking up."
"The speakerphone for an $1100 phone should be at least as good as it was on the iPhone 6 and 7," complained one user, "but instead, it's crackly, edgy and buzzy."
"I believe we all knew the iPhone X would be highly scrutinized," writes Slashdot reader sqorbit, "but the reported problems appear to be stacking up."
That... is the sound of courage.
Maybe it's a piece of dust.
#DeleteFacebook
Blackberries had a buzz in the earpiece 10 years ago. They called it the Blackberry Buzz.
Wake up iTards - your snowflake phone is a piece of crap
... buy expensive toy, expensive toy does not make them happy.
They blame the company which made the toy.
Hey it reminds me of a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Let's talk about what to do about the problems at Apple, rather than just talking about the technical problems.
This recent Slashdot discussion lists other indications of insufficient management at Apple: Should Apple find another CEO? One of the comments: More about recent management of Apple
You're listening to it wrong.
the iPhone X should be at least as good as it was on the iPhone 6 and 7
This is actually the ultimate hidden feature of the new phone: it's an X, that you replace with whatever number suits you. If you think the iPhone 6 was better, just apply "X = 5" to get immediately satisfied.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
I bought a Motorola 4G for less than $200 about 10 months ago. No crackling or buzzing yet. I'm sure that the new iphone is still superior. After all, Apple says that it is, and Apple would never mislead you for profit.
Of the millions sold.
It seems as if Apple has been in too much of a rush lately. The iPhone was pushed out too quickly. It should have been held back, like the Apple's home eavesdropper^H^H^H^H^H^H speaker.
AAPL
Did you hear Kevin Bacon got 3 cents on the dollar restitution! All right.
New apple slogan: It just whirs!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
For $1000 you can own one of the most advanced pieces of cr*p Apple ever foisted upon the herds of sheeple.
snap...crackle...buzz
This is what you get when you put form over function.
It's like a dogma in Apple "form over function" and now the deficiencies of this approach are coming home to roost.
This was fixed in the latest iOS 11.2 beta...
That's a Roomba you're holding to your ear.
I own a different phone, but I had the same problem. It’s very simple:
It’s the speaker’s membrane, bumping against the front or back walls.
The reason is, that
1. nowadays, phones have become so flat, that there is barely any space for the membrane to move, and
2. they have also become watertight, meaning the pressure between the inside and the outside cannot equalize.
So when the phone heats up or cools down, the membrane is pushed or sucked against one of the walls, giving it less to no space to move. In certain cases, this also results in the volume being too low or inaudible.
The solution is, to equalize the pressure. Which, normally, the headphone jack or USB connector would be great for. ... the user gets punished for being so stupid for buying such a piece of shit.
In my phone, there is a flap that I can open, to use the connectors, and close, to keep it watertight. So this is not a problem
Buut, of course, since those do not exist on an iPhone X
The only other way that I know, is to bring the phone to its original temperature.
This does not work though, if the reason is the other possible cause for this: Dirt in-between the membrane and the outer mesh.
In that case, washing it with warm water and a bit of dishwashing liquid proved successful in my case. But I doubt an iPhone would survive this. They're so flimsy. I bet the tensides manage to get the water inside anyway.
^W removes the whole last word. So you can save entering all those ^H on your archaic terminal.
Maybe you like Tim Cook as a person, but these Slashdot stories seem to me to be evidence he cannot lead Apple:
Some iPhone X Displays Plagued By Mysterious 'Green Line of Death'
Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release
The iPhone X you bought may soon be obsolete: Apple Could Launch Two New Full-Screen iPhones Next Year
Some iPhone X Buyers Are Having Problems Activating Their Phones
An iOS 11.1 Glitch Is Replacing Vowels
App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts
PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279
With Camera Permission, iPhone Apps Can Surreptitiously Take Pictures and Videos
iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell'.
Apple Reduced Face ID Accuracy To Ease Production, Bloomberg Reports
Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Escalating Apple Legal Fight
Apple is Really Bad At Design
Quote from one of the comments: "For all his ability to pitch to the public, Steve Jobs took direct interest in the products his company sold, rather than just focus on managing the company and leaving the decisions to be hashed out by committees developing a consensus several levels below him. The result is what you see now in Apple products - a muddled mess of different ideas that just don't fit together right, and very little actual customer value." -- Steven Maurer
There are more stories that seem to indicate insufficient management at Apple, but that's enough for now.
That's the sound of Steve Job's ghost jizzing in your ear.
Not just Apple, but It seems clear that many companies are now doing less and less even basic testing of products before they just push them out.
its not really surprising in itself, As long as they can get away with it, but the really wierd thing I keep seeing is how so many consumers keep coming up with (ususally quite lame) excuses to cover for the companies even blatantly screwing consumers. Its clear that there's some wierd Stockholm Syndrome-like thing happening amongst many consumers where they just don't want to ever face the actual truth.
This was a week old. And appears to have been patched. Do your job editors.
Well over 10 million iPhone Xâ(TM)s shipped, but since there were 24 posts on a forum it must be a systematic problem with the entire line (as the headline and article imply)? Come on.
Wow! In less than 30 minutes, my comment was modded down! I guess 11 stories about insufficient management at Apple are not enough. So, here is one more: The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court.
It's a special sound, unique to your personal iPhone! It actually adds value to your phone! All those lambda iPhone owners are not as blessed as you are to have this unique sound. Think of it as a Gift from the Gods, um, from Apple to your humble being.
Hey, if it worked in the last version, it should work again, right? There's no need to test. That's old-school thinking.
If you complain to Apple about the shitty speaker they used, they will make the next phone without a speaker in it and you will have to buy a speaker dongle to hear anything. This will not be called retarded, it will be called courageous.
You can look at it differently. It is not repetition. As I said in my original comment, "Let's talk about what to do about the problems at Apple, rather than just talking about the technical problems." That has not yet begun, but it is extremely relevant to our lives.
In my experience, people on Slashdot don't like talking or even thinking about management, but that would be helpful in our understanding of the work we do and of the world in general.
One of the problems is that many Slashdot readers have not taught themselves much social ability. The comment above yours uses the word "idiot" 2 times.
Let's get started. The problems at Apple are relevant.
You said, "Absolutely no one would consider Slashdot a sound source of business advice about technology. No one."
The 12 Slashdot stories to which I linked are summaries that link to many stories at other web sites about Apple not managing correctly. When there are many stories like that, the entire reputation of Apple is lowered.
You also said, "Meanwhile Apple has built $260+ billion in cash on its books."
I don't say I know all the answers. However, it appears to me that Apple has done extraordinarily well for 3 main reasons:
1) The world has realized that mobile phones are extremely helpful in making our lives more efficient.
2) The only big competitors use the Google Android operating system. Those competitors prevent updates to fix vulnerabilities. One story about that: Op-ed: It's time for Google to take responsibility for Android's security updates (May 15, 2017)
In the past at least, anyone who buys an Android phone is, knowingly or not, buying a phone that is not secure, or will eventually be found not to be secure when vulnerabilies are discovered.
Also, Google has arranged that Google Play apps automatically update themselves. That means the app providers can make changes that allow more control, or do other possibly destructive changes, without the mobile phone user being able to know why a phone is operating differently, or even know that it is operating differently.
One of the stories: Fake WhatApp Update for Android Dodges Google Play Vetting Process (Nov. 6, 2017)
3) Steve Jobs built Apple's present world popularity. Steve Jobs was extremely abusive in some ways, but good at making sure that Apple didn't release products with problems. Now that advantage has disappeared, apparently, judging from the 12 Slashdot stories to which I linked.
When you disagree, don't call people "idiots", as you did 2 times. Stay logical. If you know better, show us how you know better.
Youâ(TM)re probably overdriving the speaker. With phones having to power over every other sound - like those people walking down the street with their phones on speaker - at some point you canâ(TM)t drive the coils in the speakers any harder and you get a buzzing or crackling sound at the peaks.
Every amp has that âoeproblemâ if itâ(TM)s more powerful than the speaker it drives.
Turn down your freaking phone, there is no reason to have your phone at maximum volume anywhere, hopefully the patch knocks the maximum volume down about 10dBm.
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It just has to be some other nations fault with their new sonic spying.
The sonic collection method has expanded from one US embassy to now include parts of the USA.
With the loud noises, bizarre sounds, weird noises, odd sounds.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Apple heard about all these encryption problems due to lack of entropy, so they've decided to generate some noise to be super secure.
Gosh, it's dozens out of millions? How will customers know if their speaker is affected? Is there no alternative but to get the device replaced for free under warranty?
This is such a difficult position for Apple! Even worse, customers might die worrying about it!!!!!
Apple just said to the (remaining) fanbois "Hey, still there?? we got you!!"
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
What about Joshua Topolsky's article, Apple is really bad at design (Sept. 29, 2017) is not correct, in your opinion? What other stories to which I linked are not correct? Topolsky's article in 2013 also seems reasonable to me: The design of iOS 7: simply confusing (June 10, 2013)
There are 2 issues: The underlying facts, and what people think. It is now easy to find articles that talk about Apple not managing well, about Apple being sloppy. Even if those articles are not grounded in reality, they have an effect on Apple's reputation. A socially-capable CEO who is knowledgeable about professional communication minimizes the problems that cause negative impressions. Steve Jobs did that.
As I said before, Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, and was not managing long before that. Tim Cook officially became CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011. It seems that Apple's relationships with users have been insufficiently managed since Steve Jobs died.
I don't consider myself an expert. The only Apple products I own are an iMac 24 and an iPod Mini.
I'm amazed at the number of negative articles about Apple that I found on Slashdot that summarize many negative articles elsewhere.
Not just Apple, but It seems clear that many companies are now doing less and less even basic testing of products before they just push them out.
its not really surprising in itself, As long as they can get away with it, but the really wierd thing I keep seeing is how so many consumers keep coming up with (ususally quite lame) excuses to cover for the companies even blatantly screwing consumers. Its clear that there's some wierd Stockholm Syndrome-like thing happening amongst many consumers where they just don't want to ever face the actual truth.
The possibility exists that those 'consumers' you're referring to are actually paid/compensated shills doing damage control.
My iPhone X does not have this problem.
Shrug.
It was a great upgrade to my 4s. I'm sure I'll have this phone for another 5-10 years.