POLL: Does your phone have a popping noise after KK upgrade?

[Jaysp656]

Also the sound can be a bit eliminated by turning off the touch tones under Settings > Sound > touch tones. Once that is disabled the pop won't occur at almost every button press anymore, but will still occur with sounds and stuff

 

[dirceucorsetti]

I just updated to CM11 (M8) Snapshot. Where can I see what kernel it carries?

I'm still having popping issues on speaker. They happen mostly when the phone is locked and a notification comes. Popping comes just before notification sound, as others have stated.

 

[sspartan]

Will this file still work after I update when the new update rolls out soon. Is there going to be a new boot img file that is going to be needed because files have changed with this new version ?I don't want to flash this same file again after I update if its will cause problems.

 

[iBolski]

Will this file still work after I update when the new update rolls out soon. Is there going to be a new boot img file that is going to be needed because files have changed with this new version ?I don't want to flash this same file again after I update if its will cause problems.

I flashed the boot image file with the latest soak test and it works. Remember, you have to have an unlocked bootloader in order to flash the boot image. Those who don't have an unlocked bootloader, better unlock BEFORE applying the soak test or you will never be able to unlock or root your phone.

Soak test patches the bootloader unlock exploit as well as towelroot. You have been warned.

 

[sspartan]

I flashed the boot image file with the latest soak test and it works. Remember, you have to have an unlocked bootloader in order to flash the boot image. Those who don't have an unlocked bootloader, better unlock BEFORE applying the soak test or you will never be able to unlock or root your phone.

Soak test patches the bootloader unlock exploit as well as towelroot. You have been warned.

Thx, yes I unlocked my current phone and backup maxx hd the day it was announced :thumbup:. It is strange that my current phone does not have the popping problem but my backup made the popping sounds before this fix. I was worried that the img file for the fix contains an old file that would not be compatible with new update.

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[kabaldan]

Just a notice: the fix has been merged to CM11 and will be effective from the next nightly build.
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/68216
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/68281

 

[Jaysp656]

Awesome to hear. Still has been annoying but at least bearable the last few weeks. I moved from Gummy to CM11's nightly builds recently.

 

[iBolski]

Just a notice: the fix has been merged to CM11 and will be effective from the next nightly build.
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/68216
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/68281

Awesome!

Just installed the 7/17 build and the popping noise is gone. Love it.

Thanks again! Hopefully, 7/17 will be pretty stable. Now, just need to have WiFi and Blue Tooth work better. WiFi works pretty well, but someomes, it disconnects. I've noticed this happens at work, but not at home.

Work, we have to set EAP to PEAP and Phase 2 authentication to MSCHAPV2 and then log in with our MS LAN account.

This doesn't appear to happen under stock on the latest soak. Only on CM11.

Still, love CM11. Keep up the great work!

 

[Almighty2]

Whats a good and quick way to test for the popping noise? As I usually have the keypad and dial pad sounds off.

 

[iBolski]

Whats a good and quick way to test for the popping noise? As I usually have the keypad and dial pad sounds off.

Turn on touch sounds in the sound settings, as well a sounds when locking and unlocking the phone. Then, once that's all done, click the power button to turn off the screen. You should hear the normal click sound when locking the screen, but just before that, if you have a phone affected by this, you should hear what sounds like a static electricity pop. Same when you click the power button again to turn the screen back on and unlock it.

If you don't hear it, then your phone is not affected by this. Not all phones had this issue.

 

[Almighty2]

Turn on touch sounds in the sound settings, as well a sounds when locking and unlocking the phone. Then, once that's all done, click the power button to turn off the screen. You should hear the normal click sound when locking the screen, but just before that, if you have a phone affected by this, you should hear what sounds like a static electricity pop. Same when you click the power button again to turn the screen back on and unlock it.

If you don't hear it, then your phone is not affected by this. Not all phones had this issue.

Thanks, my Droid RAZR HD Maxx XT926 with a assembly date of 10/12/2012 doesn't appear to have this problem after trying it, although I have replaced the screen and the lower half of the phone recently, only thing original is the camera and the circuit board so maybe it might have to do with everything else other than the circuit board. I had to keep swapping parts every 7-10 months since getting the phone on 10/31/2012 as the battery keeps getting swollen and pops the entire back open so this is basically the second time it happened except it always takes 3-4 Certified Like New Replacements before I get one that doesn't have physical cosmetic defects.

 

[iBolski]

Thanks, my Droid RAZR HD Maxx XT926 with a assembly date of 10/12/2012 doesn't appear to have this problem after trying it, although I have replaced the screen and the lower half of the phone recently, only thing original is the camera and the circuit board so maybe it might have to do with everything else other than the circuit board. I had to keep swapping parts every 7-10 months since getting the phone on 10/31/2012 as the battery keeps getting swollen and pops the entire back open.

You didn't state if you replaced the battery. If you haven't, it would be prudent that you do. That is a sign of a bad battery. My OG Droid RAZR MAXX had that problem. I took it into Verizon and they replaced it via warranty and that's how I got the razr HD. Definitely not something to keep using if it's swelling.

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[Almighty2]

You didn't state if you replaced the battery. If you haven't, it would be prudent that you do. That is a sign of a bad battery. My OG Droid RAZR MAXX had that problem. I took it into Verizon and they replaced it via warranty and that's how I got the razr HD. Definitely not something to keep using if it's swelling.

I replaced everything except the circuit board and camera. The first time it happened was in October 2013 which I went through 4 replacements before I got a good back. The second time it happened was in July 2014 so I usually replaced the back and the battery and I'm on the third replacement, finally the battery has the name of a manufacturer under the Made in China part on the bottom portion unlike the earlier ones which were always made in 2012, this one is from December 2013 . I noticed that it seems like some of the backs and fronts have a 2013 and 2014 date stamped on them so it may be a newer revision than the original HD Maxx I had other than the circuit board and camera which is from my original RAZR HD Maxx, everything else is swapping the parts out.

 

[TAbrantes]

XT925

@iBolski could you please test http://d-h.st/vre ? Thanks.

Is there any change of applying this to the XT925 KK boot image?

 

[Almighty2]

This is interesting. I didn't noticed the popping noises when I did the quick test using your method but the past two days, I left the phone next to me in a quiet room and with touch sounds off and screen lock sounds off, I can hear popping noises about every 15 seconds or so as it sounds like a clicking noise.

 

[Almighty2]

I flashed the new boot image provided in posts #12 and it not only fixed the pop noises, it also fixed another issue with the slow battery charging. I am using the stock 6W 1150mA charger and with 182.46.10 and 183.46.10, it was charging 1% per hour but with the new boot image, it seems to be charging faster than before.

Update:
I still get the popping/clicking noises every 15 seconds, it seems like it might be from a app because it was only there after I opened certain apps, need to see which one it is.

 

[taimur272]

For unlocked bootloader only!

Boot images for XT926 and XT907 stock kitkat:
XT926: http://d-h.st/vre
XT907: http://d-h.st/KXA

Both boot images contain the recompiled stock kitkat kernel with increased sleep time after lineout PA enable, as in this commit: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andr...mmit/1212f2e043341016cacd6b0d93435380750bd78e

To be flashed via fastboot:

fastboot flash boot bootXT926speakerfix.img

or

fastboot flash boot bootXT907speakerfix.img

Please note that I don't own xt926 nor xt907, so I can't verify that the boot images boot at all, nor that they actually fix the issue.
(xt897 haven't got an official kitkat update yet, and it's possible that it won't happen for Photon Q at all.)
Be prepared to flash the stock kitkat boot.img in case of a failure if you're going to test this. You've been warned.

Please let me know how it works for you, thanks.

EDIT: links updated to correctly re-packed boot images. xt926 image confirmed to be booting and fixing the issue by iBolski.

Can you pls also modified the new kernel of razr m xt 907 uodated in new update 183.46.15. Pls i was using your kernel but i applied the ota update and now it again started producing popping noise ......... I also have boot image extracted if you want i can give you the boot image

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---------- Post added at 11:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:29 AM ----------

Can you pls also modified the new kernel of razr m xt 907 uodated in new update 183.46.15. Pls i was using your kernel but i applied the ota update and now it again started producing popping noise ......... I also have boot image extracted if you want i can give you the boot image

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[xubeiga]

need this for XT925
wanted to use the official KK in mine, but with this noise i won't

 

[kabaldan]

A proper fix for the latest stock ROM updates can't be made until the latest kernel source is published by Motorola.

CM includes the fix for it for some time already, so if you want to get rid of it right now, switch to custom ROMs.

If you want to stay on stock ROM, you'll have to wait for the new stock kernel source release. As soon as it will become available, I'll upload the recompiled boot.img with the fix.

 

[sspartan]

I applied the fix to my updated ver 15 phone and it worked that as it did on ver 10. I don't see any issues running the outdated kernel. Popping noise is gone


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