Help! My Sonic Screwdriver has too many sounds!

ZennDarkfire

ZennDarkfire

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So I recently purchased the 9th Doctors Sonic. I purchased it on Amazon, and it never mentioned that it had four sounds, however the one I purchased does. Does anyone know of a way of modifying it so that it only makes the one sound?
 
a) I didn't know it was possible to still find 9th (not 10th) Doc sonics for sale
b) I never heard of any having four sounds, the CO 9th/10th toy cycled between two different ones, but only the 11th had extra (secret) sounds.
c) Why would you want to get rid of bonus sounds?
 
Angelus Lupus said:
a) I didn't know it was possible to still find 9th (not 10th) Doc sonics for sale
b) I never heard of any having four sounds, the CO 9th/10th toy cycled between two different ones, but only the 11th had extra (secret) sounds.
c) Why would you want to get rid of bonus sounds?
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A) Technically it is the 10th Doctors, however 9 is my favorite, and since it was his first I refer to it as his Sonic.
B) Mine has four distinct sounds. The Sonic sound, a slightly higher pitched one, a high pitched wailing noise, and a drone like noise
C) Because I much prefer the Sonic sound from the show. I'm ok with the higher pitched one as well, but it's the final two sounds that I am not too fond of
 
Is this the CO 10th toy sonic or the Wand Company remote?

I have a CO 10th and it only makes 2 sounds... this is the one that does the UV light and has the pen attachment bottom... right?
 
There was actually a difference in the toys between the 9th and 10. The original 9th release has a more smooth, slightly creamy-brown colour, whereas the 10th has a grey crackle.
As for the extra sounds... it's either a glitch in the sound chip, or, I dunno, maybe you somehow got an 11th sound chip in a re-released 10? No idea. Any chance of a video, so the really knowledgeable sonic collectors/geeks here could chime in?
 
I actually know what he's talking about...CO just recently re-released the 10th doctor's sonic AGAIN, this time with 4 sounds..

This is the packaging it comes in!
 

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eclipse74569 said:
I actually know what he's talking about...CO just recently re-released the 10th doctor's sonic AGAIN, this time with 4 sounds..

This is the packaging it comes in!
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Thats the one!

Angelus - I know that there was a different in the toys. I just meant in general I refer to it as the 9th, since 9 use it first. Sorry for the miscommunication!

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TimeyWhimyStuff said:
What I was gonna say, nothing's wrong with it.
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I know that there is nothing wrong with it, I was just wondering if I could modify it so only two sounds play.
 
Does it cycle through the four sounds, or are the third and fourth sounds the multi-press only ones like on the older sonics?
 
lol I was hoping on avoiding of having to buy another. I'm a college student so I figured it would be cheaper to mod it somehow
 
Not without a lot of fuss...trust me I put the 11th doctor's sound unit in my 10th doctor's (I also modified the body as well) it was a pain in the arse...
 
There may be a way involving fiddling with how the switch works if you are keen on trying that. At present it probably switches something integrated into the circuitry of the sound unit, but if you could hard wire that closed, and instead have the battery supply switched, that may work. You could test it by taking out the battery, holding down the switch and reinserting the battery. If upon reinsertion of the battery, the driver makes the 'first' sound, and continues until you take the battery back out, and this repeats each time you reinstall the battery, you might be onto something.
 
I absolutely understand ZennDarkfire's problem (especially in the case of the War Doctor sonic, because it is the most screen accurate one). I love the newly added classic sounds but it bugs me that they added the same sound chips to all of their newly released sonics and the sounds are circulating, so I can't use the same sound twice properly. I get it that it's for budget reasons, but couldn't they just reproduce the chips from the previous runs, and put them into the 10th, Future and War doctor sonics, and the new chips with only the classic sounds to the 3rd and 4th ones?

Dynofiend said:
There may be a way involving fiddling with how the switch works if you are keen on trying that. At present it probably switches something integrated into the circuitry of the sound unit, but if you could hard wire that closed, and instead have the battery supply switched, that may work. You could test it by taking out the battery, holding down the switch and reinserting the battery. If upon reinsertion of the battery, the driver makes the 'first' sound, and continues until you take the battery back out, and this repeats each time you reinstall the battery, you might be onto something.
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I tried it with my 4th Doctor sonic, I want it to only play the 3rd an/or 4th sound. I took out the batteries after playing the 3rd sound, held down the spring loaded switch, put the batteries back. It played the first sound. Tried again, it played the first sound again (but after that the sounds circulated).
 
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Balakin said:
I absolutely understand ZennDarkfire's problem (especially in the case of the War Doctor sonic, because it is the most screen accurate one). I love the newly added classic sounds but it bugs me that they added the same sound chips to all of their newly released sonics and the sounds are circulating, so I can't use the same sound twice properly. I get it that it's for budget reasons, but couldn't they just reproduce the chips from the previous runs, and put them into the 10th, Future and War doctor sonics, and the new chips with only the classic sounds to the 3rd and 4th ones?



I tried it with my 4th Doctor sonic, I want it to only play the 3rd an/or 4th sound. I took out the batteries after playing the 3rd sound, held down the spring loaded switch, put the batteries back. It played the first sound. Tried again, it played the first sound again (but after that the sounds circulated).
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I just tried that... no dice =[
 
I just got mine yesterday and noticed the extra sounds too. If you figure out an easy way to get rid of those let me know lol.
 
I didn't want to open a new thread for this so I thought maybe it fits in this one. So: does anybody know how to open a Baker/War doctor CO toy without breaking it? I was thinking about switching the sound chip with my friends Pertwee sonic, which only has 2 sounds, but only if there's a safe way to take the toys apart.
 
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