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JohnnyGui

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 29, 2011
10
0
Hey everyone,

While playing with the awesome new iOS 5 update I noticed a very small and weird speakerproblem. Being in a very silent room, when I swiped from the Homescreen to the Spotlightscreen and the keyboard appeared, I heard this very soft crackle coming out of the speaker. Immediately after that, this very soft noise was coming out. It is as if the speaker is turning itself on. When I swiped back again, a very soft crackle came out again and the noise was gone, as if the speaker is turned off.

After playing a while with this, I noticed that this speakerbug comes up when the keyboard appearss on the screen, i.e. typing an email, note, website etc. It seems that the speaker is turning itself on to be able to make the keyboard clicksounds when tapping a key, and turning off when the keyboard dissappears from the screen. When I toggled the keyboard clicksounds off in Settings -> Sounds, the crackling and the noise dissappeared when a keyboard came up.

Attention : You have to be in a VERY silent room to be able to hear this. The crackling and the noise are very soft (despite the volumesetting). Try to put your ear next to the speaker and swipe to the Spotlightscreen.

Does anyone else have this?
 

Kyotoma

macrumors 68000
Nov 11, 2010
1,996
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Carnegie and Ontario
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Not strange at all. Try plugging in headphones and doing it. It's done this since forever.
 

TranceNW

macrumors regular
Aug 18, 2007
156
4
Essex, United Kingdom
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Not strange at all. Try plugging in headphones and doing it. It's done this since forever.

How is it not strange?
Am I failing to see a purpose as to why it is activating the speaker by swiping across the screen?
 

JohnnyGui

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 29, 2011
10
0
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Not strange at all. Try plugging in headphones and doing it. It's done this since forever.

Hmm, I noticed it only in iOS 5 but then again, the crackling is so soft so it could be that I didn't notice it before.

Anyone else tried this?
 

shortcrust

macrumors 6502
Aug 7, 2008
476
105
Yep, it does it on my iPad 1. Have never noticed before.

Strange? Yes, of course it's strange.
 

JohnnyGui

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 29, 2011
10
0
Just tried it on my old iPhone 3G and it has the same thing!

I guess it was there since the first iPhone and it was just too soft to be heared.
 

Thetonyk123

macrumors 68000
Aug 14, 2011
1,627
1
Earth
Hey everyone,

While playing with the awesome new iOS 5 update I noticed a very small and weird speakerproblem. Being in a very silent room, when I swiped from the Homescreen to the Spotlightscreen and the keyboard appeared, I heard this very soft crackle coming out of the speaker. Immediately after that, this very soft noise was coming out. It is as if the speaker is turning itself on. When I swiped back again, a very soft crackle came out again and the noise was gone, as if the speaker is turned off.

After playing a while with this, I noticed that this speakerbug comes up when the keyboard appearss on the screen, i.e. typing an email, note, website etc. It seems that the speaker is turning itself on to be able to make the keyboard clicksounds when tapping a key, and turning off when the keyboard dissappears from the screen. When I toggled the keyboard clicksounds off in Settings -> Sounds, the crackling and the noise dissappeared when a keyboard came up.

Attention : You have to be in a VERY silent room to be able to hear this. The crackling and the noise are very soft (despite the volumesetting). Try to put your ear next to the speaker and swipe to the Spotlightscreen.

Does anyone else have this?


I just noticed but I would never try it. :)
 

shortcrust

macrumors 6502
Aug 7, 2008
476
105
Ah ha! Think I've worked out the reason for this. The sound seems to start whenever the keyboard pops up, as of course it does when you go the spotlight screen. My guess is that the speaker becomes active to enable keyboard 'clicks'.
 

JohnnyGui

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 29, 2011
10
0
Ah ha! Think I've worked out the reason for this. The sound seems to start whenever the keyboard pops up, as of course it does when you go the spotlight screen. My guess is that the speaker becomes active to enable keyboard 'clicks'.

Like I said in my opening post :p
 
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