Q: Strange noise coming from speakers
HI there, normally when my phone rings my speakers start to make a buzzing noise but that stops after a few seconds. Since this morning the buzzing noise won't stop and now there's also a beeping noise on top that almost sounds like morse code. Any idea what could've caused this?
My car has 195731 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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