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Automatic Speakerphone?

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mjvala780

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So lately, when I go to make a call (yes, I do use it to make phone calls - crazy in 2014, right? I think most people think these things are only for texting and playing on Facebook, but I digress), my phone defaults to speakerphone about 70% of the time.
It's only an annoyance, but does anyone know of a setting or something that I'm missing that could be causing this?
 
Assuming it's not a bad bit in memory or some other hardware problem, about the only thing I can think of is that you're running an app like Simple Speaker, and have forgotten that you're running it. (But you accidentally turn it off about 30% of the time.)

Almost as weird as using an Android to make phone calls, I guess.
 
weirdly when I first read this my phone was fine but over the last few days has been defaulting to speaker phone just like yours!!

Did you manage to find out what the problem was?
 
I have a Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE. My speakerphone recently started turning on automatically on outbound calls. I spent an hour on the phone with Sprint tech support this morning; they couldn't figure it out and suggested I take phone to service center. After phone call I dug some more and discovered that this isn't unique to Sprint, HTC nor KitKat since I only have Jelly Bean (4.1.1) on my phone. I checked when latest Chrome browser was released -- Feb 28 -- which was about the time the speaker started automatically turning on. So... I disabled Chrome (ver 33.0.1750.136), installed Chrome BETA (ver 34.0.1847.62) and the problem is fixed, for now at least.
 
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