Hey I got my PM n861 yesterday. Do I have a bad phone?
I get excessive static noise when using headphones (same on any output source). The noise gate release in the phone is so short that it cause clicks and pops, like it's 0ms brickwall pure evil. They have clearly pushed the analog gain over the roof if this is by design. Using audio apps, I need to allow an extra -10db of head room and filter the highs slightly to avoid sound distortion. What I'm left with is audio that's not loud enough, a tolerable noise level but almost every level drop in the dynamic range is still producing clicks. I can't count how many times it clicks in a track. Without using any app or filters, there's no escape. With touch sounds enabled, playing with settings or simply any sound triggered creates noise that clicks away. It's like the phone's system audio files were too soft and they compensated by boosting the analog gain to noise distortion levels and fixed it with gate. My Rise never produced any signal noise or artifacts.
Dear Goatman, the time wasted. At least I can still return it if it's a bad phone. Could this be fixed by tweaking whatever is handling the audio drivers? If this is a known issue how do you live with it? :O
(I'm currently using smartmanvartan's untitled rom, I made stock & root img recovery states if that can help anyone to help me
and testing with radio, wifi, usb charging, whatever, on and off, affected me a lot but not the noise.)
