Although cameras, processor speed, battery life, etc., etc. are commonly discussed when deciding which phone to buy, in-call voice quality is important because my phone is used for consultations for work.
The phonearena.com ratings for voice quality seem to be spot on.
The speaker is obviously of the main factors in determining the sound of the other party's voice (independent of the phone the other party uses), but what are the main determinants of the outgoing voice quality?
If it is mainly the mic, should we be able to improve the voice quality by using a high quality boom mic / other external mic?
Or is it the radio, antenna, software which processes voice or some other issue that is primarily responsible?
Motorola phones have consistently sounded great on the other party's end and I wonder why other phones sometimes don't ... Is there some proprietary tech involved because it seems some phones skimp on the hardware responsible for voice quality.
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Hey guys, I was wondering if any audiophiles could help me out.
I am looking to purchase a new headunit, my minimum requirements are 6channel 2.5V or greater pre-amps, built in HD-Radio, and A2DP support.
The problem I am seeing with A2DP support is that they all seem to transmit at low sound quality, have hissing, popping, skipping, clipping at low sound levels etc. I read that this is due to the standard codec being SBC, which compresses depending on processing power used. I do not know how the Atrix handles SBC, and would prefer it to directly pass my 320KB/S MP3 codec, which is a capability of A2DP, I just don't know if any manufacturers utilize it yet.
Is this technology not ready for the mainstream yet? I have a lot of 320KBPS MP3's and I would like to be able to listen to them at full volume until my speakers clip, and not suffer actual technical limitations.
I have a Motorola Atrix, as well as the car dock, so the car dock does have an easily accessible 3.5mm jack, but I was really hoping to take advantage of A2DP and maybe use built in hands free calling.
Sorry if this is a dup, tried searching and looked at similar threads, and there were none that had any legitimate answers.
I own an ASUS Zenpad 370 CG phablet and a bluetooth headset Plantronics Voyager Legend. Android version is 5.0.2.
Here is my problem:
Earlier I was using this bluetooth with Samsung Galaxy SIII. The voice quality was great at both ends. But when I switched to Zenpad, I started hearing complaints from those with whom I was talking. I could hear them alright, but they complained of unclear sound.
I did the check by being at the other end. My wife called me, using the bluetooth, from SIII first and then from Zenpad. SIII sound was good, but Zenpad sound is faint. If she spoke up, I could hear her well. But at normal level of speech, I needed to strain my ear.
I checked bluetooth with Easy Voice Recorder and Skype. When I record with bluetooth on Easy Voice Recorder (Paid app), the voice is faint. But this app has a mic boost for bluetooth. When I boosted the mic, the sound came out loud enough and audio quality is also very good.
When I use bluetooth with Skype (Echo / sound testing service), my own voice (through bluetooth) played back to me is very clear.
I had one more interesting observation. I was talking to someone and needed to record the call. While talking to her, the sound quality at both ends wasn't great, but we could talk. But when I played back the recording, the sound quality of both of us was much better.
To me it seems that Zenpad's voice caller is somehow inferior to that in Samsung Galaxy SIII. I looked for bluetooth mic booster for voice calls. But there seems to be none such. I tried using other caller apps, but they also seem to use my built in app.
It seems that if I can somehow manipulate some settings in my caller app, or I can completely replace it with another caller app, I should be able to get very clear voice quality in Zenpad, like SIII.
What does the developer community here think? And what suggestion does it have, if any?
Thanks
Sanjay
Bangalore, India
Hello,
does anyone else experiences issues when calling over the internal Loudspeaker? The Person I'm calling with very often doesn't understand me clearly (often rather low Volume and a bit choppy).
But this only happens while calling via Loudspeaker (and mostly after few minutes of calling), as the Loudspeaker uses secondary microphone. Even in the test-menü the recordings of the secondary microphone don't sound as clear as the recordings of primary mic.
This Problem also doesn't just affect the Z3 series (tested with 3 different Z3). Even my girlfriend with her Sony Z1 has the same Problem.
Is there a fix for this or a mod, which switches secondary mic with primary mic in Loudspeaker mode?
Thanks in advance
Hi guys, I have this weird problem with my zenfone 4 max: if I am in a car my I get poor quality audio if I use the microphone of the phone (like vocal notes whatsapp, telegram or silmpy if I try to record audio).
The audio quality is so bad that my voice is incomprhensible. If Imake a call the quality is perfect and of course if I record something outside the car everything works good.
What kind of problem can be? I've been thinking about some wind filter that don't like low frequency engine humbling...
Any idea?
Hey XDA,
my question is related to the mics of bluetooth headsets.
Is it possible to disable them and use the one of the phone instead ? (The audio quality gets bad when calling with the bluetooth mic, I mean it should be better when disabling it).
SoundAbout doesn't work (incompatibility with Oreo ig) and other Apps don't have what i need.
Same goes to wired headphones with inline mics (since the one i use is crackling).
I'm thankful for any tries or hints on how I could make it work.
Have a nice day!:good:
Phone: LeMax2
Rom: RR 6.0.0 - Oreo 8.1.0
same problem here. I cannot find the solution.
This is just what I've been looking for.
This is how I think it goes: there's different channels where sounds goes, one is what you use for almost all media, (another one is that is used when you enable media player to play along with others or play games (not sure)), and one that where calls are. "Call mode" is what makes sound crappy and I think that microphone is related crappy sound too, because it needs more Bluetooth bandwidth to transfer mic and audio data at the same time. Reasoning behind those different channels is because I have screenrecorder which can record system sounds too, but it cannot record when phone uses Bluetooth earphones mic(when it is in "call mode"). And there's more why I think it is so: I always get notification that I'm in call even if I play pubg with microphone access enabled but don't use microphone or use live video platforms like Microsoft teams or Google meet. Also sound control is same as in normal voice call: can't really mute sound fully and if Bluetooth disconnects, it plays audio from phones speaker when in normal media player it pauses it or continues playing sound in same level as last used volume level on phone speaker.
I'm currently looking way to make audio of those "calls" go as media audio and make it use mic from phone. And also making discord channel for Android users to discuss about things like these and find useful features to make use of android much easier.
Correct if I'm wrong about anything stated earlier..
And if you have any tips where I could find more specific info on this.
I found way to make it use phones mic and thus making sound quality better
I used this "mic speaker" from play store. Unfortunately I don't yet have access to post links.
Edit: sorry, wrong call. Something happened in sound quality, but it's still crappy compared to wired earphones