Is there a product out there that can be used in the way the picture below (or above) shows? A really small speaker that’s in (or silighly bigger) the similar size of phone’s built-in speaker.

  • Quintus@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    UPDATE: Well… 15 minutes after making this post the phone fell out of my pocket and slided 20 meters away. Screen died. I guess I won’t be needing the speaker now.

    But I believe this will be good opportunity to repair it. It was 4 years old. Thankfully one of my backup phones, an LG G4 still works. Which is 7 years old and has Android 6 on it. I’ll go and look for a custom ROM I guess.

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      1 year ago

      Bad news - the bootloader on LG phones can’t be unlocked anymore since LG pulled out of the phone market and disabled the service.

      Unless it’s already unlocked, no ROMs for you.

  • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re called mini aux speakers. The sound quality will be absolute crap and it will stick out like a giant goiter, but they’re pretty cheap and easy to find. They used to be used for mp3 players and walkmans that didn’t have a built in speaker.

    Be cautious about carrying it in your pocket. Bending over and sitting down with it plugged into your phone can put stress on your aux port and kill it, leaving you worse off than when you started.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You just need a headphone attached to a trs plug. With most phones, if you don’t use a trrs plug it’ll keep the main phone mic active but route the earpiece audio to the headphones.