[supercoe]

Originally Posted by rileyd5

sounds like you may have a hardware issue. My internal speaker started acting up only a few months after buying the diamond. I returned it and got a new one with no issues since. You may want to consider exchanging it.

What kind of problems were you having? Because it does not seem like a hardware issue to me. The hissing completely goes away for a few seconds if the phone plays a sound, then returns. It almost seems like a sound driver issue?