Original thread modified after i finally figured out what the problem was, original text can be found in the quote below this post.
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Ok so this is a very old annoying HARDWARE glitch.
For some reason android detects regular headphones as a special headset sometimes and this causes many annoying problems such as a nonexistant contact point causing random headset special functions to trigger. (skip music, open google voice, random volume changes, even make random calls)
Software solutions to this problem either don't work on latest Android versions or cause numerous problems and resource overhead.
Solution:
Keep plugging and unplugging headphones slowly, quickly, forcefully, etc etc until you see the headphones icon appear instead of a headset icon. Once this happens the problem is GONE until you unplug headphones and plug them back in again and don't get lucky.
It will presumably not happen with most headphones or else manufacturers would have been made to care by millions of pissed off customers. As it is they don't appear to give a damn to the plight of some of us.
Dinger558 said:
In the last 2 days for some reason Google Now keeps being randomly triggered. Sometimes for a whole minute without end.
When the device is locked I keep hearing that woman's voice of how I need to unlock the device to use Google Now.
it's getting incredibly annoying.
I tried killing it, it just restarts itself. In settings it's already set to "Off" and it still pops up. Uninstalling it just resets it to factory and solves nothing.
Please someone tell me how to get rid of the damn thing.
I'm having exactly this problem on my G3:
android.stackexchange.com/questions/62417/google-search-appears-out-of-nowhere
android.stackexchange.com/questions/66135/google-now-launches-when-headphones-are-plugged-in
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If you're rooted install greenify and xposed. Greenify will tell you what is triggering Google now to start. And you need xposed for that added feature in greenify
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Ok so this is a very old annoying HARDWARE glitch.
For some reason android detects regular headphones as a special headset sometimes and this causes many annoying problems such as a nonexistant contact point causing random headset special functions to trigger. (skip music, open google voice, random volume changes, even make random calls)
Software solutions to this problem either don't work on latest Android versions or cause numerous problems and resource overhead.
Solution:
Keep plugging and unplugging headphones slowly, quickly, forcefully, etc etc until you see the headphones icon appear instead of a headset icon. Once this happens the problem is GONE until you unplug headphones and plug them back in again and don't get lucky.
It will presumably not happen with most headphones or else manufacturers would have been made to care by millions of pissed off customers. As it is they don't appear to give a damn to the plight of some of us.
Dinger558 said:
Ok so this is a very old annoying HARDWARE glitch.
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First of all, thank you so much! Your trick helped
But are you sure that this is a Hardware Problem?... If I just need to plug my headphones in and out, doesnt that imply that this is more of a software issue?
Kalaidos said:
First of all, thank you so much! Your trick helped
But are you sure that this is a Hardware Problem?... If I just need to plug my headphones in and out, doesnt that imply that this is more of a software issue?
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It could be a software but likely both at fault.
Android OS appears to mistake regular headphones for a headset, this does not happen consistently making a hardware aspect to this problem certain.
A very simple fix would be to include in a future android the option to disable headsets entirely or allow manual switching by tapping the icon.
But they probably wouldn't do that, after all, why care about a minority?
Wait is that what the little microphone icon is? I've had that a few times, was wondering what the heck it was.
Dinger558 said:
It could be a software but likely both at fault.
Android OS appears to mistake regular headphones for a headset...
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I cant convince myself that this is a hardware issue, the G3 is a flagship and they just can't use faulty hardware that affects everyone
Kalaidos said:
I cant convince myself that this is a hardware issue, the G3 is a flagship and they just can't use faulty hardware that affects everyone
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It's a very old issue. You can find mention of it in smartphones going back years.
I can't be sure but I think the headphone jack gets a faulty contact with a non-existent third contact point that only headsets use. Thereby convincing the OS that it's a headset and not headphones,
This doesn't appear to happen to all headphones.
Dinger558 said:
Ok so this is a very old annoying HARDWARE glitch.
For some reason android detects regular headphones as a special headset sometimes and this causes many annoying problems such as a nonexistant contact point causing random headset special functions to trigger. (skip music, open google voice, random volume changes, even make random calls)
Software solutions to this problem either don't work on latest Android versions or cause numerous problems and resource overhead.
Solution:
Keep plugging and unplugging headphones slowly, quickly, forcefully, etc etc until you see the headphones icon appear instead of a headset icon. Once this happens the problem is GONE until you unplug headphones and plug them back in again and don't get lucky.
It will presumably not happen with most headphones or else manufacturers would have been made to care by millions of pissed off customers. As it is they don't appear to give a damn to the plight of some of us.
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My issue is a little different. Whenever I insert headphones (have tried 3 now). The only thing I've not yet tried was unrooting. I had Viper installed as well as Xposed and a few modules all of which I've since removed. All with no improvement. Anyone ever seen this or find a post I may have missed?
This is crazy, one day I just put my headphones that I always use in and they just worked, and every time I put them in they register as normal!
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I've used many ROMs (Viper, Bonsai, Nebula, currently ACS Syndicate) and I've had this problem on all of them. I've even ODIN'd back to stock before and it still didn't fix my problem.
After disconnecting my Epic from my Jawbone Icon headset, the sound often gets stuck inside the earpiece. Music, movies, games, ringtones will all play from the earpiece instead of the speaker behind the phone.
Is there some software fix to correct this? Can any of the devs point me in the right direction as to how I might troubleshoot this (maybe at the kernel level)?
Thanks in advance!
This doesn't really go in Development, and I suspect it will be moved soon.
I can tell you, though, that I've experienced similar problems, intermittantly, and here's what I've observed.
If I'm listening to music through bluetooth, before I disconnect, I'll stop the music. Then I'll turn the bluetooth device off. Then I'll turn bluetooth off on the phone. If I do it in that order, I don't seem to get the bug.
If you do still get the bug, rebooting fixes it.
Hope that helps!
This is a known issue. It's a bug that has to do with being connected to a device for both media and phone calls. If you use only one or the other it doesn't happen.
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mattallica76 said:
This is a known issue. It's a bug that has to do with being connected to a device for both media and phone calls. If you use only one or the other it doesn't happen.
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It's very annoying for me as well.
The other bug that I noticed is after taking a call over BT, when I end the call, the earpiece on the phone starts randomly popping. rebooting fixes it but it still really irks me.
I think the OP is wondering if there's a way to dig around in the BT stack and fix it ?
daddymikey1975 said:
It's very annoying for me as well.
The other bug that I noticed is after taking a call over BT, when I end the call, the earpiece on the phone starts randomly popping. rebooting fixes it but it still really irks me.
I think the OP is wondering if there's a way to dig around in the BT stack and fix it ?
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This stuff has been going on since DK28 and before. I believe Rodderick was looking into fixing it from the kernel side, but I'm not sure how much progress has been made. I know it's not as bad as it was on DK28, but still very annoying. It used to happen to me all the time (audio going through earpiece instead of speaker after disconnecting Bluetooth) when I would turn my car off and it would disconnect the Bluetooth to my car stereo. Now that I have the Samsung Car Dock, I just connect Bluetooth for phone only, and use the audio out on the Car Dock for Navigation and Media.
Moved to Q&A.
i am having a simular issue but mine is that when i connect to bluetooth headset i have to have media playing before i get a call or i will not hear the other person in the call.
it seems to me that ANY bluetooth headset with A2DP is doing this and i have tried 3 diffrent headsets. Jabra Stone, Jawbone Icon, and the Blueant T1.
all 3 of these headsets do this. does anyone have any solution yet?
Even if there isn't a fix, I wish there was an app to reset the sound settings post facto. Anyone know of one?
I just want to add my name to the list of those who are affected by this. Glad it's not just me, though. Hopefully it can be debugged easily.
For the record, a Quickboot Hot Reboot (reboot of Android only, not phone) does NOT solve the issue. Only a full reboot works for me. Seems like it may not be a software issue but something hardware-related.
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Just want to add this happened to me the first time just now. I'm on rooted EC05. I was scared for a bit that the speaker had blown. Then when I discovered it all coming from the earpiece, I remembered this thread. A reboot did make it go away.
I wonder if it has any relation to the issue I see once in a while since the upgrade where my BT devices need re-pairing and ask for a passcode, when they really shouldn't.
I Also Have This Issue
I have had this exact issue since DI18.
After I hang up a Bluetooth call, I have popping sounds coming out of the earpiece. Turning off Bluetooth doesn't fix it. Turning Bluetooth back on after turning off doesn't fix it. In addition, after this happens, all devices sounds (phone ranging, notifications) all come through the earpiece and *not* the main speaker.
I've had all of the stock ROMs up until EC05 loaded on this Epic and have had the same issue throughout. I am now running midNIGHT ROM, which has cured most problems I’ve had with my device, except this issue.
I was just poking around trying to find some sort of tool or the name of the service(s) that I need to restart to fix this issue.
Same issue for me. Quite annoying as I listen to audible over bluetooth quite a bit, and then pretty much know I have to reboot when I turn bluetooth off.
SRF users have reported Bluetooth issues being cleared vs. stock builds. I can't say exactly why, but it does seem to work.
What are SRF users?
Nope...
Syndicate Rom Frozen...
Well, I'm on SRF 1.1.1 and I've got the same incredebly annoying audio issue.
Please, someone, come up with a fix!
Hi.
I'm having a weird problem with the z1 compact and its sound enhancement features.
After a while of use, the sound enhancements stop working completely. Surround effects do absolutely nothing, eq and bass controls are equally ineffective. The sound is really flat. No amount of booting or trying different versions of apps helps, only factory reset temporarily resolves the issue. I haven't been able to isolate any specific app or app version to why this happens.
Used apps are stock walkman app and music unlimited (with subscription).
I made some adb logcat available should anyone want to take a closer look (at ta.iki.fi/xperia/z1c/)
The logs show music playing with walkman app and trying to adjust "clear bass" setting for both working and failing scenarios.
Anyone else experiencing this? What's causing it? How to remedy?
Thanks.
I've found that some headphones stop being recognised sometimes while plugged, not sure why. The buttons on the HTC E240s sometimes stop working, for instance. In all cases, unplugging and replugging the headphones fixed it.
What headphones are you using?
ghtop said:
I've found that some headphones stop being recognised sometimes while plugged, not sure why. The buttons on the HTC E240s sometimes stop working, for instance. In all cases, unplugging and replugging the headphones fixed it.
What headphones are you using?
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Just regular old passive "button" type stereo headphones with normal 3,5mm stereo jack. No extra control buttons, nothing special.
There are known issues with the sound enhancements at the moment, they are non-functional in third party apps entirely! It's likely that the issue you are seeing is related.
I saw over at the Sony forum that they were aware of the issue and fix is anticipated in next update.
stevo_125 said:
There are known issues with the sound enhancements at the moment, they are non-functional in third party apps entirely! It's likely that the issue you are seeing is related.
I saw over at the Sony forum that they were aware of the issue and fix is anticipated in next update.
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Thanks for the tip.
I tried your suggested solution, didn't help for me. There was something weird in the audio output during this so something did happen.
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I'm having a really unbearable problem with the headphone jack - any slight knocks to the headphone connector cause the track to skip or pause - as if I were pressing buttons on a button controller. My headphones are mid-range Shures (i.e. high build quality) and do not cause this behaviour on other phones. Has anyone had anything similar? Or have any suggested workarounds? It makes it basically impossible to use the phone to listen to music with whilst walking...
Many thanks
konsta819 said:
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I'm having a really unbearable problem with the headphone jack - any slight knocks to the headphone connector cause the track to skip or pause - as if I were pressing buttons on a button controller. My headphones are mid-range Shures (i.e. high build quality) and do not cause this behaviour on other phones. Has anyone had anything similar? Or have any suggested workarounds? It makes it basically impossible to use the phone to listen to music with whilst walking...
Many thanks
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That's funny when I knock mine sometimes it goes to voice activate what bugs me
jaythenut said:
That's funny when I knock mine sometimes it goes to voice activate what bugs me
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Yes: I get that behaviour too.
Took mine back to the shop for a replacement. Seems to be fine on the new handset.
Same problems here. Returned the first one to Best Buy,and the new one has the same problem. It's it just a software update to fix it?
Same here. Touching or slightly tapping the headphone plug either pauses/skips the track or opens up Voicemate (which cannot be disabled in settings). There has to be some software running that 'manages' audio connections.
I tried LG support and they didn't address the issue at all but said it might warrant an RMA.
Mine was fine for two weeks and just noticed the problem today. It's highly frustrating.
Update: noticed for some reason sometimes when the headphones are plugged in it recognises it as a headset and thats when knocking the phone jack either triggers voicemate or skips tracks. If you get it to recognise it as headphones it seems to be fine.
Same here. Sometimes with my audio cable it recognizes it as headphones. Sometimes when I plug in the audio cable it doesn't work at all unless I unplug it a few times. Overall volume for audio cable and Bluetooth is pretty low too.
Last two days the problems got worse for me to the point I can't get it to detect my headphones properly, always a headset. I did notice however that if it detects it as a headset the volume would be quieter even on the same sound setting.
To stop the annoying issue for now, as I use PowerAmp, I have enabled the PowerAmp lockscreen widget and disabled the headset controls. As I never use a headset (BT or otherwise) this seems to have stopped the knocks skipping tracks for me.
kinnyfaifai said:
Last two days the problems got worse for me to the point I can't get it to detect my headphones properly, always a headset. I did notice however that if it detects it as a headset the volume would be quieter even on the same sound setting.
To stop the annoying issue for now, as I use PowerAmp, I have enabled the PowerAmp lockscreen widget and disabled the headset controls. As I never use a headset (BT or otherwise) this seems to have stopped the knocks skipping tracks for me.
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Yep I can confirm above fixed issue and besides PowerAmp S**ts on stock player.
I have only noticed it in my cars when listening to Spotify . I use an aux port and a 3.5 mm cable in both. My issue is the phone not recognizing a cable is plugged in some of the time. I have to repeatedly unplug and replug until it recognizes it. Seems to work better if I unplug from the stereo rather than the phone. It had also kicked off a few times between songs. So far it's been fine with headphones, but very limited use, so inconclusive. I'm not sure if the cause, but stinks of a software bug.
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That's funny when I knock mine sometimes it goes to voice activate what bugs me
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Same here except it happens when I'm using Google Maps to navigate on my bike..........any little bump on the road and it goes to Voice Activation. It's really annoying and frustrating
I have to unplug and plug the cable several times in the car before it will recognize an aux connection. Thinking of trying a different cable, who knows, it might help. But it does sound like a software problem rather than a hardware one
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I've tried 4 different cables, they don't seem to change the results unfortunately.
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Thank you for your query regarding your LG G3 (D855).
After reading through your email and looking into this for you I can advise that the problem you are experiencing is going to be down to the phone using the KnockOn Function against your leg. In this instance we would like you to try and face the phone screen so it is not touching your leg when it is in your pocket and to make sure there is nothing else in the pocket with your G3.
This could also be affected by the Genuine LG G3 head/earphones not being used. Please make sure you are using the correct Head/earphones whilst performing the above test.
If you still experience a problem after doing this then we would highly advise for you to contact us back so we are able to investigate this further and resolve this for you.
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Same problem
I am getting the same issue where Headphone jack: slight knocks change track.
I read Stevemiddies post about what LG said. (good work Steve for raising to them) and I dont see how it be down to the "knock on". I have taken phone out and cant replicate issue by "knocking" the phone anywhere. But the smallest of touches on the headphone input to the LGG3 causes it to pause or skip tracks...
I also read Kinnyfaifais post about how using poweramp can stop this. Great bit of advice. but i dont really want to have to pay for poweramp to fix an issue which LG should fix..it cant be right that a phone with headphones cant be put in your pocket!!! I have the quick circle case too.
COME ON LG lets see a fix
andy9182 said:
I am getting the same issue where Headphone jack: slight knocks change track.
I read Stevemiddies post about what LG said. (good work Steve for raising to them) and I dont see how it be down to the "knock on". I have taken phone out and cant replicate issue by "knocking" the phone anywhere. But the smallest of touches on the headphone input to the LGG3 causes it to pause or skip tracks...
I also read Kinnyfaifais post about how using poweramp can stop this. Great bit of advice. but i dont really want to have to pay for poweramp to fix an issue which LG should fix..it cant be right that a phone with headphones cant be put in your pocket!!! I have the quick circle case too.
COME ON LG lets see a fix
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For sure the response from LG was not really relevant to this issue.
I have used my Shure SE 535's, Sennheisers, Klipch's and of course the LG supplied headphones. The problem remains.
I don't believe it has anything to do with the 'knock code' personally. The problems happen every time I move the headphone jack at the point of entry to the phone.
I also have the Poweramp Pro version but despite following previous posters advice, it has not resolved the problem.
It remains deeply frustrating.
stevemiddie said:
For sure the response from LG was not really relevant to this issue.
I have used my Shure SE 535's, Sennheisers, Klipch's and of course the LG supplied headphones. The problem remains.
I don't believe it has anything to do with the 'knock code' personally. The problems happen every time I move the headphone jack at the point of entry to the phone.
I also have the Poweramp Pro version but despite following previous posters advice, it has not resolved the problem.
It remains deeply frustrating.
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It didn't solve it for me in the end either. As I have root, I disable VoiceMate through TiBu. I agree it's highly annoying and LG needs to address this issue.
kinnyfaifai said:
It didn't solve it for me in the end either. As I have root, I disable VoiceMate through TiBu. I agree it's highly annoying and LG needs to address this issue.
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Does disabling voice mate fix it?
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Does disabling voice mate fix it?
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Yup! It seems to have stopped it, not triggered at all since I disabled it.
Over the past several days I have encountered a serious problem whenever I try to use headphones with my Mi 6. When I have a headphone plugged into the audio USB dongle and attempt to play music, at the slightest vibration, tracks will start and stop playing, tracks will change, the volume will shift, and the microphone will activate. This has made it almost impossible to listen to music with the phone anymore. I have tested this with two headsets, which both cause the effect, though it does not happen if I do not have a headset plugged in. Because I have had this phone since soon after it was released, my guess is this problem was caused by a recent MIUI (I'm on 10 8.10.11 Beta) update. It kept occurring even after I installed Blackplayer and tried using that instead.
It sounds more like a hardware problem to me, dirty or loose connections
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It sounds more like a hardware problem to me, dirty or loose connections
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I tried cleaning everything as best as I could, but to no avail. Does anyone else have any experience with this problem, or is there a way I could disable the phone from accepting input from the USB port so that my headphones will be usable?
When my bluetooth earphones are connected, every phone sound (calls, ringtones, etc.) comes out of the speakers, too - as in, I hear the sound in my earphones, and it's coming out of the phone's speakers at the same time. The only time it doesn't happen is when I'm listening to Spotify. My partner has a Pixel 6 and has the same issue.
I've cheked bluetooth settings and everything that should be checked is checked. It's really frustrating and I can't figure out if it's by design or if I need new earphones (even though I don't have this issue with these earphones and any of my other devices) or WTF else is going on
Any ideas?
My Galaxy buds pair with no problem and appear to be playing but there is no sound. They work great with other devices and have worked on e before with my Pixel 6 Pro. Very frustrating. Rebooted, forgot and reconnected, and even reset the earbuds. Still nothing.
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When my bluetooth earphones are connected, every phone sound (calls, ringtones, etc.) comes out of the speakers, too - as in, I hear the sound in my earphones, and it's coming out of the phone's speakers at the same time. The only time it doesn't happen is when I'm listening to Spotify. My partner has a Pixel 6 and has the same issue.
I've cheked bluetooth settings and everything that should be checked is checked. It's really frustrating and I can't figure out if it's by design or if I need new earphones (even though I don't have this issue with these earphones and any of my other devices) or WTF else is going on
Any ideas?
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Did you find a solution yet?
That's an odd problem, and not a common one for sure.
What kind of bluetooth earphones are you using?
Did you reboot your device?
Did you try out a safemode to see if a third-party app causes your problem?
-> Especially since your partners phone also has this problem, maybe you use the same third-party app causing this?
You could also try to reset/clear cache/storage the basic Google processes running to see if they have a hang up.
Morgrain said:
Did you find a solution yet?
That's an odd problem, and not a common one for sure.
What kind of bluetooth earphones are you using?
Did you reboot your device?
Did you try out a safemode to see if a third-party app causes your problem?
-> Especially since your partners phone also has this problem, maybe you use the same third-party app causing this?
You could also try to reset/clear cache/storage the basic Google processes running to see if they have a hang up.
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Nope, no solution. I've done everything you mentioned and nothing has worked. I've also tried different bluetooth earbuds, just in case, and no joy. I know some manufacturers choose for "phone" sounds to play toghether with connected buds, but I take it from your reply that it's not the case with the Pixel 6 Pro so I'm just baffled by this.
For now my way around this issue is to put the phone on silent or vibrate while connecte to bluetooth, but it's clearly not a solution.