Speaker and Microphone Repair in Manchester
If people cannot hear you, you cannot hear them, or your music sounds muffled and crackly, it is usually the speaker or mic assembly. Repairs start from £30 and are typically same-day.
Signs You Have This Problem
Audio faults split into a few clear types, and which one you have narrows the job considerably.
Callers say you sound distant or muffled
Usually the primary microphone at the bottom of the phone, often clogged or water damaged.
You cannot hear callers without speakerphone
That points at the earpiece speaker at the top rather than the main loudspeaker.
Music and ringtones crackle or distort
A blown or partially blocked loudspeaker. Debris in the grille is a common and cheap fix.
No sound at all, but the phone works
Could be the speaker, the audio circuit or simply a stuck software routing issue after a headphone or Bluetooth connection.
What Causes It
Speaker and microphone grilles sit at the bottom of the phone, which is exactly where pocket lint, dust and moisture collect. Over a couple of years that builds into a dense plug that muffles sound long before anything has actually failed. Beyond blockage, the two big causes are liquid exposure, which corrodes the tiny contacts fast, and drop damage that unseats the speaker assembly or tears its flex cable. Occasionally the fault is not hardware at all but audio routing stuck after a Bluetooth connection, which costs nothing to rule out.
How We Fix It
Speaker, earpiece and microphone repairs start from £30 fitted.
We test each audio path separately, meaning earpiece, loudspeaker and both microphones, because that tells us precisely which component to replace instead of guessing. Blocked grilles are cleaned properly under magnification, and a fair number of phones need nothing more than that. Where a component has genuinely failed we replace the assembly and then test call audio, speakerphone, video recording and voice notes before the phone goes back, because these share paths and a repair is only done when all of them work.
Speaker and Microphone Repair FAQs
Callers cannot hear me but voice notes work. What does that mean?
Can you just clean the speaker?
My phone got wet and now sound is muffled. Related?
How long does it take?
Get It Sorted Today
Free collection across Greater Manchester, most repairs returned the same day. Or visit us at 5 Piccadilly Place, Aytoun Street, by appointment.