Poor sound quality in phonecalls on N5
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@htc_tattoo Nexus 5 little holes for the speaker & mic are prone to keep dirt in them. After cleaning them by gently brushing with a soft toothbrush, the difference in quality and volume was pretty notable in my case (YMMV).
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@advocatux I already checked, i can see inside. Did you try to talk over the speaker with the phone an armlenth away? Does it work in your phone? Mine gets totally ununderstandable...i will check with an android version.
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@htc_tattoo yes, it works at arm's length for me
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@advocatux I checked with an audio recorder (guitar tools), works perfectly up to some meters. So it's something connected with phonecalls.
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@htc_tattoo no idea then, sorry
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@htc_tattoo on second thought, maybe you can fine tune / improve the phone sound with https://open-store.io/app/uvolman.mateosalta?
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@advocatux Thanks, but it didn't change. I tried all the settings, it changes with a audio recorder, but does not change anything while phonecalls.
Testsetup: call another phone close to you, turn off the other phones micro and listen to your speach. If you speak directly to the spaeker it's fine, if you turn the speaker a little bit away it gets disturbed.
Seems that phonecalls use the microphone differently than multimedia apps.I think i will write a bugreport as this is one of the core functions of a phone.
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@advocatux I finally remembered to check the model of my second Nexus 5, the one where sound volume is very low in phone calls, and where cell network signal very often is hard to maintain. I confirm that is is a D820, so that explains it, since I'm located in Europe.
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This low volume in calls seems to have been also a problem since the release of Nexus 5:
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-fix-the-low-speaker-volume-on-your-google-nexus-5/ -
@wgarcia that was a hardware problem in the first N5 batch but that glue problem was fixed, and there were some firmware updates too since then.
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Did you try to mute and unmute at the beginning of the call?
The symptoms that you describe sound quite familiar. There is a bug with the microphone in the phone app which starts it kind of muted. Thus it works but poorly. Then after muting and unmuting the sound is normal.Edit: And of course I have exactly this problem too.
