Poor Mic Performance? - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey,
Has anyone else had problems where people can't hear you during voice calls? It seems like people complain that they can't hear me unless I hold the phone right up to my face.
I have the "official" bumper case, but other than that, nothing special. The phone is from the 14 batch (manufactured 12/12/2013) -- and is running CM 11 M3.
Any thoughts/advice? Thanks.
-- Dan

I've had people mention this too. Any ideas?

I've experienced this too. People say that they can't hear me clearly.
Saw this thread on Google Forums... People seem to think it might be software related to the noise canceling mic. Doesn't look like there's any fix yet.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/nexus/kUrmrlzYJ_o
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I have the same problem since 3 months
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Yup. When it works(rarely), it works great with HD voice.

aooga said:
Yup. When it works(rarely), it works great with HD voice.
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Man HD voice sure is nice.
But I have to sometimes end the call and start over. Actually frequently.
Good thing I don't call a lot of people.

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Call quality?

sorry if has been answered. Ived looked around here. Anyone ever have someone complain when their talking to them on the phone that they sound muffled or robotic? Or even underwater sound? I have full bars and all. So I don't see what's up with that? Anyone have same issues or how to resolve it?
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I don't think I've ever heard that
This phone has the best call quality I've ever had
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Weird. Well I called big red and they did something. My prl is now just 1 instead of that 15***. I had it changed to 13*** before but never seen just 1. But now my call quality is awesome... I can hear better
Meant to put this on the q&a
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dadsterflip said:
Weird. Well I called big red and they did something. My prl is now just 1 instead of that 15***. I had it changed to 13*** before but never seen just 1. But now my call quality is awesome... I can hear better
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I have the same issue with sound on the other end being muffled, and others have trouble hearing me also. How would I go about changing my PRL to 1 to try it out?
You can't VZW has to.
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I've had this problem from day 1. A bunch of different techs from VZW have looked into it and changed stuff on the backend and still no luck. :-(
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I haven't noticed any issues and I got the phone on launch day.
Here is a thread on Android Central that we've been trying to do some testing about this issue:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-thunderbolt/71734-can-you-hear-me-now.html
Speaker phone sounds weird though some time
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I have been told that the voice quality isn't the best by some people but I have listened to a voicemail I left on someones phone and it sounded fine to me.

People can't hear me during calls. CM7.2 NS4G

Rom works great only problem is during a phone call my friends say they can't hear me or can hardly hear me. Is there any way I can raise the the microphones sensitivity or something so they can hear me? Thanks.
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kwallin686 said:
Rom works great only problem is during a phone call my friends say they can't hear me or can hardly hear me. Is there any way I can raise the the microphones sensitivity or something so they can hear me? Thanks.
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Go into Cyanogenmod Settings>Device Settings and find something like HiFi recording, and uncheck it.
LancerEVA06 said:
Go into Cyanogenmod Settings>Device Settings and find something like HiFi recording, and uncheck it.
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Okay thank you! I will try that!
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[Q] Orginal headphones sound quality.

I got my NS on December and I am extremely happy with it, though I face a problem when it comes to talking to someone through the original headset. According to them, they can hear all the background noises WAY louder than they are supposed to and they cannot hear my voice! This is clearly a headset problem since I get no such complaints when I am using the phone's microphone and although I can accept that there will be some extra bg noise when talking through the headset I find it hard to believe that I would deafen them by the use of my hands free.
Does anyone face the same problem? Does someone have to propose another kind/3rd party headset that would work better or perhaps some sort of a software tweak that elludes me...
Running ICS 4.0.4 stock unrooted.
Thank you in advance.
Was having problems with my head phones too. I bought new Samsung head phones and everything is perfect now so I'll suggest u try getting a new set.
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I too had problems with my original headset. Funnily enough i had a couple of iPhone headsets that works great.
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peepee999 said:
Was having problems with my head phones too. I bought new Samsung head phones and everything is perfect now so I'll suggest u try getting a new set.
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Just any Compatible Samsung hands free?
erotser said:
Just any Compatible Samsung hands free?
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Yes! But if possible have them test it for u at the point if purchase.
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hear myself echo while on call?

anyone else having this issue??
andybones said:
anyone else having this issue??
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You may want to mention what ROM, and tweaks, etc
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Is it all the time? When my gf uses her phone through the car speakers with the aux to talk to me, I sometimes hear my voice echo.
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it is all the time, no using bluetooth or anything, jsut regular call, it's done this on stock ICS ROM, and every TW ROM since...
I just traded it in for a new one today (since was within 14 days) it did this on the two testers in the store and on the new one, so to me. its the phone.
after much research, it seems this helps
Call dialer-settings-advance settings-turn off noise reduction.

Need help with voice calls

Hey guys I'm running the cataclysm ROM with Franco r25 kernel. Every time I'm on the phone with someone they say I sound very muffled. But when I do a audio recording of myself it sounds clear. I'm also on T-Mobile. Would it be T-Mobile or the phone?
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This could be one of a few things:
1. It could be your network
2. You may be speaking wry loudly into the microphone
3. It could be a microphone issue like other people are having.
Personally I would believe it's a software issue that Google will hopefully address soon.
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TechMitchell said:
This could be one of a few things:
1. It could be your network
2. You may be speaking wry loudly into the microphone
3. It could be a microphone issue like other people are having.
Personally I would believe it's a software issue that Google will hopefully address soon.
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Here's the thing my fiance and I are both in T-Mobile. She hears me very as if I "put a pillow on top of my phone" so she says. When I talk to others they say the same thing. Now here's the weird thing when I record a voice memo it sounds crystal clear. I would think if the voice memos sound good. Then phone calls should sound good as well.
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Do you wear a hat or something or maybe you are covering the top microphone with your finger? I heard that complaint when i'm laying in bed with the phone pushed up against the pillow.

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