Headphones. Volume extremely low.

[Guest Encarnation]

Just got my own omnia 2 today. Of course, I had the omnia 1 and heck it was the phone of God. It has now been, obviously, replaced by the I8000.

As of now, I did not have any major problems, except 1: The headphones.

I tried the tips from tacchan23 here and wow, I can hear my phone from the basement! Unfortunately it did squat with the headphones. I tried 4 different sets, including the ones bundled, a Sony one, a Panasonic one, even a chinese one, and the volume is insanely low. It's driving me nuts.

Is there something I overlooked? does someone knows how to boost that volume? Maybe it's because of the restrictions some European countries have? A tip to disable it?

Thanks in advance. It's very very frustrating listening to some heavy metal when it sounds like ballads.

[Guest bond_guy_2002]

There is a hardware volume "wheel" control along your headphone cable. You might have manually tuned the volume down.

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Just got my own omnia 2 today. Of course, I had the omnia 1 and heck it was the phone of God. It has now been, obviously, replaced by the I8000.

As of now, I did not have any major problems, except 1: The headphones.

I tried the tips from tacchan23 here and wow, I can hear my phone from the basement! Unfortunately it did squat with the headphones. I tried 4 different sets, including the ones bundled, a Sony one, a Panasonic one, even a chinese one, and the volume is insanely low. It's driving me nuts.

Is there something I overlooked? does someone knows how to boost that volume? Maybe it's because of the restrictions some European countries have? A tip to disable it?

Thanks in advance. It's very very frustrating listening to some heavy metal when it sounds like ballads.

[Guest Encarnation]

Yeah. When I tried the adapter it came with, I got slightly better sound... I was using the headphones directly, without the adapter.

So well, this is the solution, I guess.

Thanks for the reply, bond.

[Guest onderduiker]

Same thing here. Til I found the wheel :)

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onderduiker, welcome to my club. hahahahaha

[Guest bond_guy_2002]

Oh, and one more thing. The Omnia II headphone jack seems incompatible with standard headphones. Hence, you cannot directly connect a normal headohone directly to the jack. You have to use the handsfree adaptor that is supplied - the pone with the volume wheel ... Hope this helps!

Let's learn and share experiences so that we can fully enjoy our Omnia II :-)

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[Guest pdaphonemaster]

Oh, and one more thing. The Omnia II headphone jack seems incompatible with standard headphones. Hence, you cannot directly connect a normal headohone directly to the jack. You have to use the handsfree adaptor that is supplied - the pone with the volume wheel ... Hope this helps!

Let's learn and share experiences so that we can fully enjoy our Omnia II :-)

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This is not true. Omnia II will happily accept any 3.5" earphone. However, as the omnia socket allows mike input as well as two sound output (L&R) the included adaptor plug has three 'rings'. So, normal earphone can be used for sound output, but you need to talk into the phone's mike when have a phone conversation. That's all.

[Guest Encarnation]

This is not true. Omnia II will happily accept any 3.5" earphone. However, as the omnia socket allows mike input as well as two sound output (L&R) the included adaptor plug has three 'rings'. So, normal earphone can be used for sound output, but you need to talk into the phone's mike when have a phone conversation. That's all.

Indeed. But it seems the phone does not push enough power to them, kinda making the volume subpar. oh well.

[Guest pdaphonemaster]

Indeed. But it seems the phone does not push enough power to them, kinda making the volume subpar. oh well.

This is strange as I am satisfied with the sound output level. I am using the supplied Samsung earphone at volume level 3 or 4 and this is gives rich bass and loud volume for all the frequencies.

If you are using touch player, perhaps the volume on the player is set at a low level. I think the default is 6 or 7/10. I have this at 10 and control volume with volume rocker.

Hope this helps.

Edited October 5, 2009 by pdaphonemaster

[Guest Encarnation]

yeah, I played around with others mp3 players too, and I found out the omnia 2 is pretty standard. 

It's just me, I guess, i'm too used to the incredible decibels pushing the ipods gives me. 

That, or I'm deaf.