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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Exhibiting 'Hissing' Noises Under Load for Some Users
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Has anyone reported problems hearing it when just talking regularly on the phone?
I'm just curious to see how bad it is in person when mine gets here. If it's noticeable while recording then I might have to return or hopefully just exchange it.
Same. 7+, 256GB Verizon. I just got off a conference call where I was trying to use speakerphone and people complained about the sound qualty, too.
mungus WOT??? mungus WOT??? mungus WOT????!!!
Drama queen was to euphemistic. Victim complex is more like it.
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It's just power usage by the chip. All circuit boards make noise to some degree. In fact, a lot of cool sidechannel attacks to getting around encryption are based on listening to the noise, even when less than audible to a bare human ear.The chip is melting.
Because when I record a video with my phone, there's a whine in the audio. Not the normal quiet static you hear when turning the volume up. One that is not present on an iPhone 6s. I don't know about you, but if I start hearing *beeeeeeeeeeepbeeepbeeeeep* in my videos under normal circumstances, I will return the phone.
Right now I've just been playing around with tests, so the beeping and whining isn't real world usage.
Please, try to have some sense, read the actual reports, and try to put yourselves in their shoes. It's always easy to mock people when you don't have any problems.
I have an iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 10.0.1 and message search is not working. It is not searching thru all my messages. I tried it on my wife's phone (iPhone 7Plus) and it is doing the same thing. I have tried all suggestions that I could find (change language, turn off and on spotlight search for messages, log out and back into icloud, toggle imessages off and on, restored phone) and the issue still persists. My daughter has an iPhone 7 and her search works just fine.
Anyone else experiencing the same? Any solutions?
Anyone else experiencing the same? Any solutions?
Or if you're on a conference call trying to use the speakerphone and people are complaining about the "weird buzzing sound" on the line -- above and beyond the normal VOIP annoyances -- you got a problem.
You have be in a quiet room, and shove a specific place on the back of the phone up against your ear to hear it. Can't be heard from the front.
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You used the EXACT phrase as I put in the roadmap. It was classic.
Still doesn't make you not a drama queen.
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Nope. Can't hear anything. This would be impossible for a normal voice call anyway. The frequency is far above the max frequency for voice calls. Even if the noise made it to the mic, it's going to be low-passed out.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes Apple to create a warm fuzzy story to assuage concerns of owners. We'll have to wait patiently, at the moment they're consumed counting the mountains of cash they collected over the weekend.
There are quite a number of coils in the iPhone that could be the cause of this "hiss" sound. For sure the camera image stabilization mechanism have coils, so the taptic engine and the "standard" vibration mechanism. NFC can have either coils or spiralized antennas. Actually any component subject to magnetostriction could be the cause of the problem due to inappropriate damping supports or separation of the coil itself from the supporting surface (maybe due to unexpected behavior of glue or loosening of the container cage).
Old iPhones used to have "8" shaped coils, that avoid coil whining by design. As miniaturization evolved, they adopted circular ones reducing the footprint but sometimes leading to coil noise. My iPhone 5s had noise, too as well as my Nokia 920.
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Drama queen, indeed, you are getting all worked up over something that you have no actual experience with.
It can be heard from the front. It need not be in a quiet room, nor do you need to have your ear pressed against the phone. I am talking about my phone, an n=1. Apocryphally, on my first conference call Monday morning after receiving the phone, people complained about noise on the line that disappeared when I muted.
That's as much as I know so far. No reason to get your panties all in a bunch.
Not much into conspiracy theories, but that sounds like it could be plausible..... with so much cynicism going around lately about manufacturer's motives, it's easy to believe anything at this point.
Trusting or hoping anyway, Apple will do the right thing in the end.
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So hissing is fine by you? the iphone has no fan...
Anything that has a battery I don't like to hear hissing.
If I have to put it up to my ear to hear the whine then I'm not worried about it. If it shows up in videos, voice memos, confernce calls etc then it's a problem and it will go back or I'll exchange it.
I had the Mac Pro and it went back. Made a horrible coil whine even when idle.
I had the Mac Pro and it went back. Made a horrible coil whine even when idle.
If you have problems with your phone calls on your phone, take your phone to the apple store so they can get you a new phone.
I was on a conference call with myself for a good 15 minutes this morning just to see if any noise was picked up. It wasn't. I don't hear anything from the front.
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