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Noise cancellation?

Since none of the initial specs and hands on reviews have mentioned it, I'm guessing that the G2x doesn't have the noise cancellation feature that the Nexus One does. But it'd be nice to get confirmation. So, does this phone have a noise cancellation feature?

I have it in my hands now and it doesn't have noise cancellation. Call quality is excellent though.

djunio said:
I have it in my hands now and it doesn't have noise cancellation. Call quality is excellent though.
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if you don't mind me asking how is the camera quality? Are the whites and colors pretty accurate?
thanks

They are pretty accurate but sometimes the colors look a little washed out. I'd give the camera a 7 out of 10. Its just as good most cell phones.

what about gps?

GPS is fine
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nixguy said:
what about gps?
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I find it slow to lock and has a tendency to jump around on my unit. For instance .4 miles(I know itis exactly that) comes out 7.2 etc. This is in Cardio trainer. I also find that certain apps like GPS test plus do not function quite right. I have had one hang up in Cardio trainer already and I have only had the phone for 15 hours. Also while on the line with CS I had weird noises in the line while speaking with them and they even called me back with same result. Haves no idea what that is all aboiut.All in all though I do like the phone.

[Q] G2X Audio Speakers?

I was just told by a T-Mobile rep that the two audio speakers on the bottom of the G2X are NOT supposed to work simultaneously.
For some reason, I noticed the other day while watching a movie, that there was only sound coming out of one of the speakers on the bottom of the phone. I've noticed the same for all audio (mp3, streaming, etc).
Is it true that only ONE of the speakers is supposed to play audio?
If so, why would they put two speakers on the bottom of the handset?

The other one is the mic.
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As a side note, I find the speaker (s?) on this phone sucks. It makes "speakerphone" almost unusable. I guess LG ran out of physical space for a decent speaker. They did pack a lot in...

namklak said:
As a side note, I find the speaker (s?) on this phone sucks. It makes "speakerphone" almost unusable. I guess LG ran out of physical space for a decent speaker. They did pack a lot in...
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i believe the speaker kicks ass with the dts on. now i came from the sensation 4g and nothing is worse then that crappy speaker. it sounds like they got it from the 99 cent store or something lol

namklak said:
As a side note, I find the speaker (s?) on this phone sucks. It makes "speakerphone" almost unusable. I guess LG ran out of physical space for a decent speaker. They did pack a lot in...
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Are you on CM7? I noticed that my audio overall is lower on CM7 than it was on stock.
G2X CM7

I'm on stock 2.2.2. It gets loud enough, but I believe it is bacause the speaker (piezo?) is tiny. My last phone was at razr w490, and it had a speaker on the back easily 4x bigger and sounded way better.

phburks said:
Are you on CM7? I noticed that my audio overall is lower on CM7 than it was on stock.
G2X CM7
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Me too
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Microphone sensitivity too high !

Hi there,
I have the feeling that my microphone sensitivity is way to high - I mean you don't have to talk that loud in order to produce annoying cracks/snaps in every video recording. Is there any way to low the microphone volume level ? Do you face the same problem ?

yep, same here. when making voice calls the microphone level is a little too low for my taste, but when recording videos, mic sensitivity is through the roof. if someone's talking right next to me while i'm recording or if i start talking there's heavy sound distortion going on in the video. i record a lot of paintball matches and most of my (if not all) videos have unusable (corrupted) audio tracks due to either me talking or loud backgound noises.
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i uploaded a sample video... don't mind what's going on there, we were testing our newly bought sup-air paintball field for the first time, even though we were only halfway done preparing everything ;D
Sample Video @ YouTube

you're right, especially with video recording, a single light wind when recording outside and all the sound is bad
I took very nice HD videos of my holidays, but for most of them all you hear is a stressing noise due to the wind in the microphone.........and the wind was light, the usual light wind on a beach

This is exactly what I been saying. I'm not a HTC bashed but their promo gave the impression video sound quality would be impressive.

misiek_to_ja said:
Hi there,
I have the feeling that my microphone sensitivity is way to high - I mean you don't have to talk that loud in order to produce annoying cracks/snaps in every video recording. Is there any way to low the microphone volume level ? Do you face the same problem ?
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Yes, everybody has this problem. The mic gain is set too high during stereo-recording, resulting in clipping, especially when close to the sound-source. Still not solved in 2.3.4 either. I don't think it's a hardware problem, but a settings problem. It is much less problematic when recording in mono.

Use this: https://market.android.com/details?id=yuku.mp3recorder.lite&feature=search_result

Dacoit said:
Use this: https://market.android.com/details?id=yuku.mp3recorder.lite&feature=search_result
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Thanks, but I need to be able to adjust the stereo mic sensitivity in the video recorder.

mista.maja said:
i uploaded a sample video...
Sample Video @ YouTube
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Hi,
This is exactly what I'm experiencing, thanks for uploading it ! It is really strange nobody shared this issue before on any forum. At first I thought my device is damaged or something. Anyway it is good to hear there is a little chance they will fix it by software upgrade. What I can suggest is to simply create a support ticket request to HTC demanding to have it solved. If more people will complain about it maybe they will do something to fix this.

Yeah, they really need to fix it. They were really touting the stereo sounding recording as an important feature on the phone. Does anyone know if any custom ROMs can fix it?

sowen222 said:
Thanks, but I need to be able to adjust the stereo mic sensitivity in the video recorder.
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Exactly... For a while I thought my device was damaged until I saw others complaining too. It sounds like it is due to poorly adjusted noise cancelling. Stock voice recorder makes horrible recordings, too. You have to speak unusually loud to get your voice recorded. It also affects applications like Soundhound: nothing gets recognized unless the source is really loud.

Video recording for a concert

Hey guys. Im going to a hard rock concert on Sun and Im wondering what would be the best settings to use with the camera. Im gonna stick the phone on airplane mode to save the battery.
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I'm not sure but I think the video files have a time/size limit. You'll have to strike a good balance of video quality vs quantity. Who are you going to see?

Make sure you turn off the "auto-upload" feature of Dropbox and Google+. Once upon a time my videos kept just stopping recording on me and it was G+ trying to do something with it.

I ended up not going but it was to see Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.

Kreuger said:
Hey guys. Im going to a hard rock concert on Sun and Im wondering what would be the best settings to use with the camera. Im gonna stick the phone on airplane mode to save the battery.
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Lol I just made a post about the camera on another thread. I find low light video recording fairly mediocre on the One X because the auto-focus causes the phone to go in and out of focus constantly.

Kreuger said:
I ended up not going but it was to see Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.
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Someone did audio from the Detroit show, it's up on Dimeadozen. Haven't seen any video yet.

My concern wouldn't necessarily be the video, it would be the audio.
Most rock concerts are loud enough to drown out microphones. If you don't have a way to dampen the sound, there's a good chance all you'll be left with is unusable audio.

NerdyLlama said:
My concern wouldn't necessarily be the video, it would be the audio.
Most rock concerts are loud enough to drown out microphones. If you don't have a way to dampen the sound, there's a good chance all you'll be left with is unusable audio.
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I was more thinking the microphone may be too localized to get decent sound. Obviously depends on how loud the music is, the size of the venue and where the OP is standing. But normally, sounds not in the immediate vicinity of phone hardly even get recorded. I took video of my kid singing, from maybe 30 feet away, and you can't even hear it on the recording.
But I've also been to concerts where my ears were still ringing in the morning! So those probably would have been plenty loud enough . . .

Built in speaker - single or dual / stereo?

Petty sure the leaked manual showed dual speakers for the N5 whereas the official spec on Google just states "built in speaker".
So, single speaker with dual grills like the iPhone or dual / stereo speakers?
Anyone know for sure? Really hoping the audio is better this time around.
Edit: it's mono

It seems the left grill is the speaker and the right is the microphone.

Sucks ass I was so hoping for stereo, was one of the main reasons of upgrading from N4 .
It also doesnt sound that good! seems very echoey and I have no idea why >.<. Any clues whats wrong with it? at the moment mine actually sounds worse than the N4 lol.

they did the same thing with the g2....
looks like there is 2 speakers as there are 2 grills but actually only one speaker and the other hides the mic
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poor quality also it seems
Lets hope 'viper' can be used on this as this made a great improvement on my g2

hicks12 said:
Sucks ass I was so hoping for stereo, was one of the main reasons of upgrading from N4 .
It also doesnt sound that good! seems very echoey and I have no idea why >.<. Any clues whats wrong with it? at the moment mine actually sounds worse than the N4 lol.
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You have the phone already?
Yeah its odd how they're both identical in terms of looks but only 1 is speaker

just tried an mp3 from Amazon which plays at full bit rate, quality of speaker is reasonably loud but very tinny sadly

Yeah I have the phone already, have had it since 12pm . Must admit that's the only thing really that I can fault on it but I still love it oh and the yellow tinge present however I believe either calibrating the display myself or its something that will go on its own I hope
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edit: Yellow tinge is simply the display being warmer, I should have checked against my main desktop displays but instead compared it side by side to the Nexus 4 on 4.3 calibrations which the more I look at looks very cool i.e too much blue hence the white looks whiter but a bit too much, the N5 is just slightly warmer than the perfect display however it is actually really damn good and I would only reduce the temp by a very small percent to just get that hint of warmth down.
Display is better than the Nexus 4 calibrated, period.

hicks12 said:
Yeah I have the phone already, have had it since 12pm . Must admit that's the only thing really that I can fault on it but I still love it oh and the yellow tinge present however I believe either calibrating the display myself or its something that will go on its own I hope
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Wow :0 I got my tracking code at midnight but its still not active just yet. Where you live? Where it ship from, Kentucky?

Sad to hear about the crappy speaker quality. One of the main reason I returned my G2, looks like the Nexus 5 might be using the same speaker setup.
It was literally the worst sounding (tinny, low volume) speaker I've ever heard on a smartphone. My Note 3 is equally tinny, but at least it's loud. =)
Oh well...

Dan37tz said:
Sad to hear about the crappy speaker quality. One of the main reason I returned my G2, looks like the Nexus 5 might be using the same speaker setup.
It was literally the worst sounding (tinny, low volume) speaker I've ever heard on a smartphone. My Note 3 is equally tinny, but at least it's loud. =)
Oh well...
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iphone 5s does the same thing. I think nokia or HTC are the only ones who actually care about sound

It is louder than the n4 at least . I'm in England and I got it through car phone warehouse it was quicker and cheaper to get via cpw they even shipped it via DPD next day
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Collected mine from cpw store at 9.30 this morning
Only thing I'm not liking at the moment is the poor speaker and the sharp edges to the volume buttons.
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sound levels seem very low to me off the loudspeaker, especially for movies that i have downloaded and put on it

hicks12 said:
Yeah I have the phone already, have had it since 12pm . Must admit that's the only thing really that I can fault on it but I still love it oh and the yellow tinge present however I believe either calibrating the display myself or its something that will go on its own I hope
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Your phone has a yellow tint on the screen? thats the ONE PROBLEM i pray my phone dosent have. How bad is it? =/

I am disappointed with speaker sound quality also. However sound quality using headphones is very good.
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Not liking that the speaker is poor. Really hoped they would have learned from the N4 as that and the poor camera were the reasons I passed.
Seems the only thing they have learned is that placing the speaker on the rear is a bad move. No thought seems to have gone into the quality of the sound produced.

Wish it had surround sound like my n7.2 but oh well
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Just something as good as the N95 / 5800 (hard to beat) and even the iPhone which also has only one speaker would be sufficient. I can understand the need to keep costs down but surely the speaker components can't be that dear.
A crappy speaker spoils the user experience for me as I rarely use headphones.
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