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samsung infuse 4g microphone issues (too quiet)

i read something recently which i cant post a link to, but which goes something like (excerpt) :
"After extensive testing, it is now clear that when phone noise suppression is ON, wrong mic is used. Using WebRTC Implementation always results in wrong mic used.
PLEASE have the microphone amplification level increased at least to 15 (instead of 10 as available now). At microphone amplification of 10, my voice through CSipSimple is still much weaker than that going through a normal voice call."
that when noise reduction is enabled many apps will use the wrong (near the ear) microphone on the infuse vs the correct (by your mouth) mic
i have seen alot of posts about the mic being too quiet on the infuse and have seen two solutions which as far as i know only work on a samsung GB type rom:
1. if you have voodoo sound install the control applet and change the recording environment preset to 'loud environment'
2. turn of noise reduction under settings->calls
these both help a little, but my question is :
1. is there really no way to just increase the infuse microphone amplification?
2. is there any way to verify ics based roms are using the correct microphone(s) for dialer, etc
3. is there any way to do similar tweaks to the mic like voodoo sound tweak and noise reduction, under an ics based rom?

ditching my infuse because of microphone issues, im the only person?!
ok so im still amazed at the level of development being put into the infuse and i think its wonderful and all but really, nobody is even remotely interested in addressing the known issues with the mic? this appears to be an issue with ics on the infuse using the wrong mic, i.e. the mic intended for noise reduction-- it's a huge issue, nobody can hear me talking on my phone unless i have my mouth less than one inch from the mic and literally YELL into it, i read posts about this constantly with the infuse and older galaxy phones running ICS-- so either nobody else is bothered by this, or nobody knows how to fix it? i'd just like someone to say to me "no you're wrong it uses the right mic and that's your personal issue" and throw out some random facts or something to back it up.... i've been messing with workarounds and tweaks and hacks to improve the mic volume and i'm not having any luck...

I am running Yuma-Uniporn ICS and have not experienced this problem. So I'm not sure that a blanket statement about it being an Infuse/ICS issue is correct...maybe I'm lucky
It could be a bad flash that a reflash might fix. What ICS ROM are you running? you might address this there in that thread to see if others have the same problem or the threads you saw this issue already discussed.
Sent from a de-FUNKed Infuse

Smokestack360 said:
I am running Yuma-Uniporn ICS and have not experienced this problem. So I'm not sure that a blanket statement about it being an Infuse/ICS issue is correct...maybe I'm lucky
It could be a bad flash that a reflash might fix. What ICS ROM are you running? you might address this there in that thread to see if others have the same problem or the threads you saw this issue already discussed.
Sent from a de-FUNKed Infuse
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again, i'm not saying it isn't my phone, or even several people who own infuses with bad mics, spread around-- but this is with several different ics roms. in the gb roms, i think the difference was maybe some proprietary samsung drivers, because you could go into the dialer and enter several different diagnostic menus (it's covered somewhere in one of the galaxy or infuse forums), and get to a screen where you could control the audio input/output levels of the various interfaces, basically the same interfaces presented in ics -- headphone, bluetooth and speaker. through those menus you could set some non-persistent values like the mic input level.
voodoo sound gives you access to most of these values, but your only control over input seems to be an environment preset 'loud environment', 'noisy environment' etc, and hi-fi recording mode on/off. this is nice, but what needs to be adjusted is which mic is being used (there are two, used for digital noise reduction) there is a link which i can't post that details how the infuse has two mics and alot of apps pic the wrong mic for input.
i just wish there was some way to see which mic input an app is using... is there?
and in a perfect world, adjust the mic input level...

[Q] Speakerphone Echo

Has anyone noticed that with AOKP (or perhaps with all AOSP based-roms) that there is speakerphone echo? I cannot use my speakerphone at all because people on the other end beg me to turn it off due to echo. I went back to stock and tested the phone. No echo when on stock rom.

Its been a issue that has been around on AOSP based stuff since day one with this phone...

issue on TW roms too, go into dialer, settings, advacned settings, and UNCHECK noise reduction.

andybones said:
issue on TW roms too, go into dialer, settings, advacned settings, and UNCHECK noise reduction.
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Tried checking and unchecking noise reduction but this did not work. The only thing that did work was returning to stock rom. However, that is way too boring so I'm using AOKP w/o speakerphone functioning well. I guess we win some and lose some with custom roms.

Call Echo LG P725 - Help!

Hello,
I have installed the nightly CM for p725.
Now I have loud call echo and the caller side. The caller also hears button clicks or any noise my phone makes.
I have read a bit about the problem and it looks like the nightly cm doesn't support the second, internal mic this phone uses to disable echo.
I've heard the original phone.apk might solve the problem. Thing is, I don't have it - can someone please upload the original phone.apk?
If anyone has any idea how to solve it I will appreciate it.
For some reason I can't recover to the original lg rom. for now I'm stuck with the nightly cm.
Ideas?

WhatsApp Voice Message Audio Leak to Louder Speaker

When listening to a WhatsApp Voice Message via earpiece (i.e. proximity sensor) and another message arrives or any other notification, the audio is routed to the louder speaker for few seconds (length of notification audio) then routed back earpiece. So everybody around will hear that audio message.
This is extremely annoying is privacy disaster . Is it happening anyone ? Does anyone know how to solve?
Phone: Xiaomi Mi 5
All roms are affected (even AOSP ROMs)

i face this problem too. i feel that it is not whatsapp's problem but how the firmware handles notifications itself. i may be wrong though

Any thoughts of this guy's?

I have the exact same problem on my Nexus6P for a while. I'm not sure, but I think since I bought it. The same happened to a friend of mine with his Nexus5X. Haven't been able to solve it yet.
My only workaround is to react quickly to take the phone off my ear and resume the audio once the notification ringtone has finished playing.

no luck so far? I wonder how is this tolerated by millions of users? it's quite annoying :crying:

Sound
I got this problem too, but only in LineageOS builds, and I've reported this to the developer of my ROM (Moto G4 Play - Harpia) and he didn't understand the issue. On Pixel Experience ROM there ir no such a problem.

Phone call echo, no background noise cancellation during calls.

Hi,
I have a G920I which is running Mipa atm, I've also tried running, LOS, RR, Frankenstein all with this same issue of other people hearing themselves echo when on the phone with them.
I've tried looking up whatever I can and from what I can tell it seems to be that the background noise microphone isn't suppressing background noise and is somehow picking up the sound coming through the speaker. The only temp fix I have at the moment is to use wired headphones but was hoping for a more permanent solution. Any help appreciated!