So I have a question. It's pretty serious for me. First I have to give an explanation and story.
Before I go any further, I know there may be a lot of opinions out there and "I told you so'ers" and lots of other folks but because of the seriousness of this situation to me, I would ask to please refrain from doing that here.
I have a custom Rom on my Samsung phone. The bootloader is unlocked of course otherwise I would not have been able to install the rom.
I will not say which rom just to make sure no misinformation is spread.
Anyway,
On her way home from work, I was already home, my girlfriend called me. She and I had a 4+ minute call and of course the rom (which I just got installed and working about 20 minutes before the call) had call record so I was able to listen to the call over and over.
Toward the end, just the last few seconds I hear an unidentified sound which later some odd hundred times listening I was able to identify as a male voice saying "I love you too" but it was very muffled and very difficult to make out.
Then we both say good bye and then I hear the same voice say "audios" clearly and with a certain attitude. The comments were smart ass like in nature and were direct responses to my words.
My girlfriend has an iPhone connected to her car stereo. She was driving down the road.
Now, either my girlfriend is being unethical and dishonest with me and someone else was in the car or someone somehow hacked our phone call.
It was not one of those mixed call situations where you accidently hear someone else's call for a second, I'm not even sure they happen anymore. It used to be rare but did occur back in the early 2000s. It was direct interaction with our call.
I called my carrier to see if they could identify any weird anomalies on their end and they said there is no indication of anything unusual like multiple Sims or multiple towers being connected to the call and that I should call the fraud department which I'm sure won't help really anyway.
So I ask. In light of the entire destruction of a decade of our lives spent together, is it possible for someone to interact with our call like that? Is it possible someone hacked my phone, or something else and was capable of interacting with our call?
I certainly do indeed hope it's possible so I can go home but I fear it is very very very unlikely or impossible.
Thank you.
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Hey Fellow XDA-Members This issue has been bothering me for quite some time. Heres the background info you need:
My girlfriend lives in buffalo (where i go to school) but in the summer I work and live on Long Island. We dont get to see each other as often as i would like, so we keep in touch with a combination of phone calls and webcam (skype). Now, when i call her, or she calls me at night, and we are talking for at least 5min or so, every once and a while my speaker drops her voice. What I mean is, she can still hear me, and I can hear static (the same background noise thats there in the normal phone call (feedback?)) but I cannot hear her. So far the only thing that fixes this is a hang-up and re-dial. Now on some nights this only happens once, and other nights it happens every 2-5min or so. This is quite annoying and I am curious to see if anyone has any suggestions. I have tried Multiple Radios and their respective Rilphones. I have Tried talking to her on and off speakerphone. No Go. Whats stranger is this only happens at Night. When I speak to her during the day, I always hear her perfectly, and everyone else that calls me, I can hear fine.
Any Suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!
-Dave
My dad recently got a HTC incredible S and its generally OK
however its been playing up, after a random period of time on the call the person on the other end of the phone (usually me) has audio issues.
Between 30 seconds and 15 minutes.
I spoke to him for an hour yesterday and had to redial on average every 5 minutes.
I get a very strong echo and he becomes really really loud and distorted.
If i hangup straight away and redial its ok.
If i stay on the call eventually it drops out and his phone can no longer make or receive calls for a few minutes (incoming goes straight to voicemail, outgoing gets network unavailable).
It has been back to HTC twice and they replaced various bits, they also gave him a new phone, they have also replaced the sim card.
During the 2 months this has been going on he has been using a nokia loan phone on and off and it works without any issues as did the previous nokia he had. So this really does seem to be down to the phone.
Virgin Australia (the carrier) has offered him $400 credit to buy a new phone with. Even though the cheapest grey imports on ebay are going for $600. They will not let him out of the contract.
HTC don't seem to think its really a problem, it took their rep 3 weeks to replace the phone.
I have recorded a few calls from my phone to his.
Attached is a copy of the call in audacity, you can clearly see where it dies,also a copy of the audio, its trimmed down to a short time around the call, but its a wav so its ~3.1mb.
It feels to me like some kind of incompatibility between the phone and the network, but between the buck passing and the incompetence of the call centers it seems like nothing is going to come of from on high.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to resolve this?
Sounds like others have had similar issues:
http://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/77618-htc-incredible-sound-quality.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038256
Does the same happen when you are both in different locations?
Personally i'd be tempted to see if it's the same using a custom ROM, but you may not want to do that if there's a chance you'll be returning the phone anyway.
Thanks for the link but it doesn't seem quite like those.
The call quality is pretty good until it glitches then becomes totally horrible with echo and noise.
It really sounds like a bug in something to do with the echo canceler/radio or something else mucking with the audio stream.
I'd be keen on an alternate firmware but that will void the warranty and virgin would like nothing more.
Valen00 said:
Thanks for the link but it doesn't seem quite like those.
The call quality is pretty good until it glitches then becomes totally horrible with echo and noise.
It really sounds like a bug in something to do with the echo canceler/radio or something else mucking with the audio stream.
I'd be keen on an alternate firmware but that will void the warranty and virgin would like nothing more.
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I bet You could keep bouncing it back to HTC, perhaps insist on a replacement unit this time? If your patience is wearing thin it might just be easier to trade up though.
Actually it looks like this is the 2nd phone he has had
The imei number has changed twice.
So it really feels like a problem between the phone and the network.
I wonder if its because he is often on edge there. I don't get edge anywhere else I go.
First off, I want to thank everyone who has posted about rooting, removing bloat and overclocking, my poor old OG droid is now twice as fast as stock and the tweaks were as easy as eating Skittles on the couch. Oh, and I loved the newb video, and after reading this site for a while I think it may not be harsh enough.
Anyway, I have had an idea for an app that I have searched extensively for, and have not come up with anything even close. I'm no coder, barely understand the concept, so I submit this idea to the community in hopes that if you like it, someone will write it, and it will be good. All I ask in return is that I don't have to pay for it later, if it goes viral.
Recently the driving laws of my home state and many others have changed, and the exact wordings differ greatly. In Nevada, the wording is such that I can answer my phone and talk on speakerphone, as long as I can do so in one button push. And before you say the word "blue-tooth" leme remind you how much battery power that takes, realize I use this thing constantly for business and can't afford a new device or devices. Plus, I only have one power outlet, and would have to charge my mp3 player (much more song storage than my phone, and no interruption from calls or lack of service out in the boonies) my phone and then a blue tooth headset. Talk about a distraction while driving!
Now, on to the idea in question. When the phone is in sleep mode and the phone rings, I would have to unlock the screen, answer the call, and push 'speakerphone', and this(according to the letter of the law) is illegal while driving in the great state of Nevada. After reading this I got to thinking (and that can sometimes lead to dangerous actions, so after putting my special thinking helmet on...) this is what I came up with.
The camera button doesn't have a function while the screen is off, at least not that I have found on my phone. Also, when receiving a call, the camera button does nothing. In fact it doesn't do anything on my phone unless I'm on the home screen.(and I changed that auto-run feature of the camera so I wasn't taking 15 pics a day by accident, now it only works when I'm IN camera) So, my thought is to tie the camera button in with answering a call directly into speakerphone, without unlocking the screen and pressing 2 buttons. This makes answering my phone while driving legal, and much, much safer. Instead of 3 actions, now I have only one, taking a third less of my focus off the road. Plus, I don't have to look around for a cop before answering an important call, or pull over to the side of a busy highway to avoid a ticket.
This seems like a no-brainer to me, I just don't know the first thing about coding or writing apps, other than I don't know jack about coding or writing apps! Wish I did, as I think this could be a very helpful app if done correctly. I'm a gear-head, so If you wana talk cars we could talk all day, but I only know smartphones by what I have read in the last few months. Granted, I am VERY interested... (See: Staying up all hours of the night reading about the subject and writing posts! LOL)
Leme know what ya'll think. I can take criticism, even insults, just don't call me stupid. I'm always coming up with hair-brained schemes, and every once in a while, this blind squirrel does find a good nut or two.
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Over 100 views, not one opinion huh? maybe I'm in the wrong area, if so will someone please put this in the right area so I could get some feedback please? Thanks.
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Over 100 views, not one opinion huh? maybe I'm in the wrong area, if so will someone please put this in the right area so I could get some feedback please? Thanks.
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So, I've searched around quite a bit on this, and the only things I could find were on other devices, not even ones in the moto_msm8960 family, either.
As the title states, I'm getting what sounds like a feedback squeal in my ear when I make a call, or receive a call (doesn't matter which). This does not happen every single call, but it does happen most, almost all, of the time (>=95%). As of yet, I can't determine a pattern of any kind, such as people on a particular carrier, within a certain region or location, or even a time of day. When it does happen, however, the other party can hear static over the line, and it has nothing to do with signal (full bars or no, it's consistent with the squealing I hear). The sound decreases phenomenally when I put the phone on speakerphone, I have to put the phone almost right next to my ear to hear it...but the other parties can still hear the static pretty bad. One person told me it "sounds like [I'm] in the rain" it was so bad, and him living in Florida means he's not talking about a light sprinkle
To answer questions I've seen frequently on similar posts for other devices, and to give you an idea of what I've tried; it does not matter if wifi/GPS/bluetooth are activated. One post even mentioned pocket mode, but that did nothing with I toggled it. The sound does not occur when playing music through the speakers, only calls. On that note, I'm going to reiterate that it does not matter if I'm making or taking a call, the sound persists. I can move the phone away from my face during the call, but it doesn't decrease the sound.
UPDATE: When I make a recording, I can indeed hear the "rain" that the person mentioned above, making me think that it might be my mic.
If this is a hardware problem, I can easily replace the microphone. Spare parts are easy to find, and I'm tech savvy enough and even have the proper tools to replace the parts myself. However, if there's even the slightest chance that this is a software problem, I'd rather see what you guys think first.
Thanks for your time!
When I receive a call and slide the green phone symbol to answer, the caller never hears my first hello or two, only hears me after a few seconds go by.
At first I thought it was network related but it has happened in a few other places too including bluetooth in my car.
Any ideas where I can look for the problem?
Phone is unrooted.
Thanks.
Actually, now that I think of it... I believe I might have this issue as well. I can think of a handful of similar instances where this has happened, but it took this thread for my mind to connect the dots. Time to do some testing...
Yeap. Same here. I learned to be quiet for a few seconds. But then there are some like my brother who would get irritated that he doesn't hear me as soon as he picks up.
I really want to say this is an AT&T problem. I have been wondering the same thing. This also happens to me. But not just this phone. All my phones for the past two years. Including my n5. And if you search this problem in Google it's common on our network. And across many phones.