Speakers loud but headphones not?
 

I just got my N810 today and I have the application volume up and system volume up and I can hear sound fairly loud out of the speakers yet for some reason I can't seem to really hear sound out of the headphones.

I can hear sound in the headphones but it's way more on the quiet side and I can barely hear it. I plugged the phones in completely and still quiet.

Am I doing something wrong?

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what application are you using? do the headphones work in other devices?

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That happened to me till i flashed the very latest OS.

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Make sure you push them ALL the way in. I've the same problem when I think they are in, but not quite.

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Actually I seem to notice the same thing, but I didn't compare it before in the old OS. The first thing I did when I got the tablet was upgrade it to the latest software.

It's not unbearably low though, although since I connect it to my car, a bit more line level would be nice. Could it be some "headphone safety" thing like the did with the iPods when they first came out?

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Volume turns down about 20% from the max (if at max) when you plug in headphones. Just turn it back up.

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is there anyway to disable the volume from turning down when phones are inserted.... i find this very annoying

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I upgraded from 1.2007.42-19 to 2.2007.51-3 and it does sound somewhat louder, not loud enough if I'm in a very noise environment, like on a bus perhaps and definitely not if I'm in New York City, but then again, you shouldn't been listening to stuff in NYC, with all the distractions, you need all your senses, so you are not hit by a car or something.

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Red, I have have the n810 since it first came out. Headphone volume is way lower than speakers, something that I really dislike about this machine that I otherwise love.
I am hoping that this will be fixed in the new OS that is supposed to come out soon.

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The line out on my n810, 2.2007.51-3, is so low that I have to sometimes max my receiver volume for listenability. Same problem/solution in my car. My n800 doesn't seem to have this issue. If my amps only went to 11 then I'd be set, but alas.

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Does it look like Diablo, OS2009, or any firmware update will actually make the sound through headphones much louder on the N810?

Don't get me wrong, I love having speakers to hear, when I don't care to or don't have to use headphones, but in some places you just gotta use headphones.

For example on public buses where people talk loudly a times + the sound of the bus or if you are in a bus terminal with loud buses around, you can hardly make out the audio of the N810.

I was listening to the N810 on the bus one day and I could hardly hear anything and I had to listen closely to figure out what they were saying.

I have heard people say they have no problems with their N800 and the headphones though.

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Depends a lot on the headphones, you know. The ones that came with my N800 were ear-murdering hockey-pucks anyway; if the N810 ones are the same, then you and others you're comparing with probably have different aftermarket headphones...

N800 here;
I've got a pair of gfm (= el cheapo) noise cancelling cans, and I can blast my ears out easily, should I want to. I also have no trouble inducing clipping in my car stereo with a cassette adapter, but then again, it clips listening to FM radio at top volume. I think its volume control goes to 11 but the output amp can't handle it. But there's no numbers, so I can't tell. I dial it back to what I think is 9, and all is well. ;)
I can also blast my ear out with the BT headset I use, but that's obviously irrelevant.

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I arrived at the (somewhat) old thread via search, as I have had a problem recently with the volume control on my N810. At this point, of course, I am running Diablo, but the volume is so low on both the speakers and the headphones that I am beginning to wonder if there is something I have missed.

I have some nice headphones (Bose on-ear) but honestly I can just barely hear the sound when it is all the way cranked up. This seems to be across the board, ie, for the built-in media player, MPlayer, Canola, MediaBox and, now that I have my HAVA unit installed and working properly, that too suffers from low volume. Even when I set the volume of my cable box to max, when it gets through to the N810 via Hava, the sound is frustratingly low.

BTW, I have installed the Advanced Backlight/Volume control, and yes, it is set to max.

So, while it is possible that I am simply losing my hearing, I have hope still that one of the members of the forum will have a (relatively) easy fix for me. Other than, of course, the obvious: a hearing aid:eek:

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Just an update.

Just as an experiment, I plugged in my headphones that came with an older portable CD player I used to have.

I played a Shoutcast radio station, and the headphones were so loud, just like my iPhone gets with the headphones.

Anyone near the headphones at Max volume would complain about having to hear your music.

I guess the headphones really do matter.

I still can't go too loud, I'm not one of those people who can hear extremely loud music. When most people say listen to this song, I have to hold them like a foot away from my ear.

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you can get an idea of how loud earphones are by looking at their impedance and sensitivity ratings. higher sensitivity (dB/mW) and lower impedance (ohms) indicate more volume.

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i was irked by that lol it used to make me so angry...