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Loud Hissing / Static at low volume in Home Environments

VyleR
Protege

I have found a bug suddenly.  When at any Home Virtual Environment except Bubbles or Passthrough. I can hear a background hiss like a frying, hissing and popping sound. The anomaly here is, it's most audible with the volume set to 1-10%. Unfortunately when just chilling in a Home Environment at low volume this is most distracting. I've uninstalled and reinstalled a few environments and power cycled multiple times to no avail.

 
If the reader of this part wouldn't mind testing this as well? I am thankful. It's not the fan as when you lower the volume you should hear the sound stop and the reappear as you raise the volume slowly.  Try it with the Store launched for more noticable effects.

Maybe it's a "noise gate" issue as you can hear the same sound "behind" the UI sounds briefly as you select and move throughout the elements of the OS. Unfortunately it's heard at all times with a Home Environment featuring ambient sounds. 
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6pyx
Honored Guest

Same here, I've yet to try headphones - I'll let you know if that makes any difference to me. I wish the bubbles weren't quite so bright, then I'd just use those!

armenianking07
Honored Guest

Hello, I'm new to the quest world actually. Got my first one today. I was experiencing exactly what you're talking about after a couple of hours. But it was only after I enabled a couple experimental features and then I shut them off.. The noise was still continuing and I thought it was a fan or something but it was way too loud and it also went up and down with the volume. It was in my ears extremely loud because I was using my AirPods. I went to the experimental features and pressed, Reset to default It turned out working just fine. The system reset And I was good to go. I have my AirPods in right now and I had to come let you know that the Solution At least for myself Was found. Please try this method and let me know if it works for you. 

janimator0
Explorer

Also got the loud static noise, while developing within Oculus Link area, twice within the past hour. Static noise comes in for a seconds then stops. I also had a weird sound play in between that sounded like chatter(people talking). But I don't think it was actually people talking, just sounded like it.

BillGee
Explorer

Is this a flipping creepypasta or something?

Because I'm thinking of making one.