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What can be done

To increase the volume when recording videos?
the mic doesn't pic up sound very well, and it sucks.
any way to increase the mic volume when recording videos? or did i waste money on this phone
EDIT NOTE:
NO, nothing is blocking the mic hole

HTCMDA said:
To increase the volume when recording videos?
the mic doesn't pic up sound very well, and it sucks.
any way to increase the mic volume when recording videos? or did i waste money on this phone
EDIT NOTE:
NO, nothing is blocking the mic hole
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So you bought a phone for recording videos?

supremeteam256 said:
So you bought a phone for recording videos?
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no man, but if my **** doesn't work or something i don't want my money wasted. ill send it back or get it fixed..
if u don't have any helpful info, then... <3 ( Y )

It's not just you. I think it's a problem for everybody. Except most people don't use the video recorder.
I would assume that the code just needs to be changed so the mic picks up the sound better since it works great for phone calls, but I don't think it's high/normal priority for the devs that are working hard here.

Meltus sound fixes seems to help quite a bit.

aceo07 said:
It's not just you. I think it's a problem for everybody. Except most people don't use the video recorder.
I would assume that the code just needs to be changed so the mic picks up the sound better since it works great for phone calls, but I don't think it's high/normal priority for the devs that are working hard here.
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lol thanks, and no its prob not priority..they're more concerned with making copy roms of other devices, rather than overall making a flawless device

wow. if its such a big deal to you that the devs dont drop their projects and bow before your wishes, perhaps you oughtta find a new set of forums to troll.
or hey, since everyone elses roms suck so bad, perhaps you should make your own and blow our minds!

You know.. so far nothing has beat my Nokia S60 phones when it came to nighttime shots and video capture of storms.. always had a good pickup.
G1 may have a higher grade MP.. but shutter sucks. As for mic input, while the gain maybe increased, like a Motorola can with a seem edit. (Afterall the volume mods are out already) It would also cause people to hear you much louder if not distorted. Was a issue on motorolas too where it doesnt come through clear. My suggestion would be to use a headset with a good pickup mic if you plan to do videos with sound and need it to be clearer.

kusotare said:
wow. if its such a big deal to you that the devs dont drop their projects and bow before your wishes, perhaps you oughtta find a new set of forums to troll.
or hey, since everyone elses roms suck so bad, perhaps you should make your own and blow our minds!
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lol shut up nub, you've been here 4 months. I've already fixed my MIC issue, and i didn't need to haxxoroot my phone to do it.

[CLOSED/Q] Sound from in built speaker

Somebody PLEASE tell me the audio from these two new devices is better than its predecessor?
Sure you don't really listen to music on the phone but when catching up on the latest news and watching streaming video it's nice not to have to use the headphones.
One of the biggest let down's for me with the Desire is the diabolical sound quality, so I wonder if this has been improved with the Desire Z (and HD but I am more interested in the Z).
Anyone had a hands on and can confirm / deny?

Offtopic : but i can watch videos & listen to music just fine with my desire's speakers :O
Or maybe it's just me? hmm.

Here's a little hands on review that quotes of the sound of the speaker. Though I dont know if it means anything.
"The speaker sounds loud and clear, although not that distinctive in the hubbub of a busy room... but then again, when are you going to use it in that environment, unless you want to be glared at on a train? That's right, glared.
article link

The D'HD has dolby sound which should be Ace (Pun intended) :d

Svala88 said:
Offtopic : but i can watch videos & listen to music just fine with my desire's speakers :O
Or maybe it's just me? hmm.
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I can only assume you haven't heard the sound from a Nokia 5800? It's my current phone and I've been seriously spoiled by this aspect of it :-/
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"The speaker sounds loud and clear, although not that distinctive in the hubbub of a busy room...
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This is my concern, loud does not necessarily mean good quality - although many reviewers seem to disagree.
MacaronyMax said:
The D'HD has dolby sound which should be Ace (Pun intended) :d
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Through the headphones, sure

xspyda said:
I can only assume you haven't heard the sound from a Nokia 5800? It's my current phone and I've been seriously spoiled by this aspect of it :-/
This is my concern, loud does not necessarily mean good quality - although many reviewers seem to disagree.
Through the headphones, sure
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Not on the desire HD it says so on the Dolby website it is through the speakers swell which I'm assuming are Dolby also

MacaronyMax said:
Not on the desire HD it says so on the Dolby website it is through the speakers swell which I'm assuming are Dolby also
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I would be surprised (pleasantly so). Do you have a link to this please?

Agree with xspyda the sound from the Nokia 5800 is among the best I heard from any phone (loud, rich & clear) & miles better than any of the HTCs I've experienced.

xspyda said:
I would be surprised (pleasantly so). Do you have a link to this please?
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My bad saw it in the DHD forum but they lied lol , my bad im sure there would be a way to trick the phone that the speakers are the heaphones thus givving us dolby and srs

MacaronyMax said:
im sure there would be a way to trick the phone that the speakers are the heaphones thus givving us dolby and srs
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wonder how that would work. thought the speaker was mono not stereo. but who knows?

Poll: Are you satisfied with the external speakers?

Are you satisfied with the external speakers on the Desire HD?
Everyone please answer the poll so we can get an accurate idea of what Desire HD users think about the external speakers.

I've read so many post on how bad their speaker is, but I must say, either I have bad ears, or I'm lucky, and got one with a great speaker. No problem making it loud enough, and I can even make it too loud. All without any crackling, or distortion. I love it!

bobbyphoenix said:
I've read so many post on how bad their speaker is, but I must say, either I have bad ears, or I'm lucky, and got one with a great speaker. No problem making it loud enough, and I can even make it too loud. All without any crackling, or distortion. I love it!
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I guess it may be a 1st batch issue then. If your speakers really are good it would mean that all our speakers are faulty. If this is the case it's a warranty issue, so we could get it fixed.
Could you make a video of the sound, preferably comparing it to another phone?

YumYumHD said:
Could you make a video of the sound, preferably comparing it to another phone?
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Yep. I post it as soon as I can.

I can hardly wait!

I have a DHD from the first batch and the external speaker sound is not loud enough (even on max.) and the sound quality is poor.

Not happy.
I'm getting similar sound quality from an over 2 year old TouchPro.

Contacted HTC support and all they advised was to remove battery reboot and check volume was set to maximum.
Told them that had been done - no reply since...........
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Andrew

Already posted in the other thread, but considering I registered here just to complain about this speaker, I figured why not post again here
Speaker reminds me of an old Nokia that I sent back within the first week of receiving it. Except it's worse. Tinny and crackly. HTC can do far better. I'm still undecided as to whether I'll keep the phone as a result. I've ordered a bluetooth headset just to deal with this issue, but now I read that it's having problems with the BT headsets too!

can't you use DSPmanager and increase the volume of the loud speaker? We have full root after all.

SupremeBeaver said:
can't you use DSPmanager and increase the volume of the loud speaker? We have full root after all.
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I haven't tried that, but I have tried PowerAmp music player to boost music.
The result was as I expected: hardly any increase in volume, at the expense of crackly distorted bad sound quality - worse than it was at "normal" levels.

The strange thing is this:
Some apps sounds louder and some is hard to hear.
Have all volume sliders at max.
An MP3 used as alarm sounds higher then one played trough the mediaplayer.
Isnt this strange?

I have been missing calls at work so i bought a Samsung Bluetooth speaker BS300. It has just landed today. It is small and thin and also the sound quality is excellent and loud. I am waiting for the battery now to charge and i will leave a few comments later when i have made and received a few calls with it

I found the speaker was quite poor and sold the phone. Not just because of the speaker, was more that I just didn't feel it was a significant upgrade over the normal Desire.
Anyway, before I sold the DHD I compared the sound against my Desire, a Samsung i8910 and a Nokia N95. Even the old Nokia sounded better than both HTC phones and the Samsung just blew everything away.
I understand there's a lot of sound technology in the phone, but it only works if using headphones. Speaker is just a token affair as far as I'm concerned.

Just to make sure,
I hope there are no complaints related with the quality of the sound with a good set of headphones like Sennheisser or something like that, right?

bobbyphoenix said:
Yep. I post it as soon as I can.
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When are you going to upload it?

YumYumHD said:
When are you going to upload it?
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I don't have a good video camera, and nobody has one to lend me. I tried several phones that have video, but they all come out bad. I'm working on it. If I can't find one this week, I'm just going to buy one. I can always use it for other stuff. Don't worry I didn't forget about it.

Some of the worst phone speakers I have come across
Shame, the rest of the phone is great

bobbyphoenix said:
I don't have a good video camera, and nobody has one to lend me. I tried several phones that have video, but they all come out bad. I'm working on it. If I can't find one this week, I'm just going to buy one. I can always use it for other stuff. Don't worry I didn't forget about it.
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Thanks for taking the effort, as this could be a major development.
If your speaker really is very good, we can show this to HTC, and they will have to say that this is a warranty issue.
Personally I do really hope it is, because like london_euphoria said: the rest of the phone is great, it's only the external speaker that is a drawback.

YumYumHD said:
Thanks for taking the effort, as this could be a major development.
If your speaker really is very good, we can show this to HTC, and they will have to say that this is a warranty issue.
Personally I do really hope it is, because like london_euphoria said: the rest of the phone is great, it's only the external speaker that is a drawback.
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Agree. That's why I want to make sure it's a recording of the true quality, not a choppy cell phone recording. Bare with me. I should have it up this week.

Bad recording mic,you cant record music concerts very well

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The mic quality is very bad if you want to record a nice music concert the music become very distorded..
I used to have the htc one (and the htc m8)with that device i could record a concert without distortion..
I think i am returning this device also:crying:
My last hope is the upcoming nokia 930..

john291 said:
:crying::crying:
The mic quality is very bad if you want to record a nice music concert the music become very distorded..
I used to have the htc one (and the htc m8)with that device i could record a concert without distortion..
I think i am returning this device also:crying:
My last hope is the upcoming nokia 930..
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unfortunately it seems that only apple has gotten the recording algorithms right...bring an iphone into the club and it reproduces the bass very well. too bad i'm not an apple user

If you want professional quality recording, why not buy this instead?
http://youtu.be/HCAaD6xMDFk

john291 said:
:crying::crying:
The mic quality is very bad if you want to record a nice music concert the music become very distorded..
I used to have the htc one (and the htc m8)with that device i could record a concert without distortion..
I think i am returning this device also:crying:
My last hope is the upcoming nokia 930..
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You're the mic problem I m the camare overheat!!!!
Sony details make the problem!!!
sent from my sm-n9005 samsung

SexyIceCream said:
unfortunately it seems that only apple has gotten the recording algorithms right...bring an iphone into the club and it reproduces the bass very well. too bad i'm not an apple user
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The HTC one did also have zero distortion when recording at loud concerts..
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

john291 said:
The HTC one did also have zero distortion when recording at loud concerts..
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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and yet...4 megapixels is too little for me, no matter how large their pixels are =( i would actually be ok if it was at least 8

Totally Agree. Microphone is too sensitive and distorts
john291 said:
:crying::crying:
The mic quality is very bad if you want to record a nice music concert the music become very distorded..
I used to have the htc one (and the htc m8)with that device i could record a concert without distortion..
I think i am returning this device also:crying:
My last hope is the upcoming nokia 930..
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What a shame! you are totally corrrect, my Z2 is exactly the same, I took some amazingly clear video in a club the other night, the camera captured the scene in low light so well shockingly good video BUT when I listened the next day the sound is totally distorted ruining the videos!
I downloaded a Sound meter app on my Z2 and the wifes Galaxy S5, side by side they both give completely different DB reading, The sony is WAY too high! if you make a sound the sound meter jumps right up, where are the Galazy S5 is more stable. Unfortunately i cant find any setting in the phone to change the microphone sensitivity. so the problem is a serious problem that we are stuck with! SUCKS!!
SONY really need to fix this with an update!

Agree but look at this video
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If you want professional quality recording, why not buy this instead?
Yes you are right this add on microphone is a good option for planned recordings! But what if you are just out and about with just your phone, and want to video something, live singing, a party, disco. The sony Z2 can take awesome video but if its a loud environment or with a lot of BASS the sound will come through on the video completely distorted and impossible to listen. Sony need to do an update ASAP.
Here is a sample of the distorted audio. (shame, the video quality came out really nice the DJ was Plastic Funk live in Pattaya Thailand)
*** WTF, I cant post the youtube video showing the distorted audio because I am new to this forum. sucks! if you want to see it just search youtube for "Distorted Sony experia z2 microphone"
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Anyone who have this? I am thinking about ordering one but if the problem is in the software is more problematic. If this makes recording at loud volumes way better it would be great!

Doomkernel allows to lower mic gain, that is why your recordings are ... over saturated.

KyleSforza said:
If you want professional quality recording, why not buy this instead?
http://youtu.be/HCAaD6xMDFk
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or use your noise cancelling headphones and change the settings->Sound->Audio accessories to Stereo mic STM10

One Twelve said:
Doomkernel allows to lower mic gain, that is why your recordings are ... over saturated.
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Yes, the mic gain is up too much, I did a DB test, side by side to samsung S5, the SONY is way high.
Any help that you can give, how I use DOOMKERNEL ??

sony z2 user1 said:
Yes, the mic gain is up too much, I did a DB test, side by side to samsung S5, the SONY is way high.
Any help that you can give, how I use DOOMKERNEL ??
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It isn't for the faint of heart and requires the bootloader to be unlocked, if you search the forum you will find the doomkernel thread. You might want to ask people in that thread for more help or suggestions.

hi!i have the same problem. I changed the app to record the videos.

morgy82 said:
hi!i have the same problem. I changed the app to record the videos.
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Hi.
Which app do you use? And did this solved the problem of the bad Sound?

gork1975 said:
Hi.
Which app do you use? And did this solved the problem of the bad Sound?
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Equalizer setting for the loudspeaker to improve its quality

I am one of those guys who actually uses the phones's loudspeakers to listen to music, watch videos and stuff. I previously had HTC One M7, and coming from that phone, I noticed even better how bad LG G3's loudspeaker actually sounds. But that's why we use equalizer,eh?
Let me remind you though, this will not make it as good as HTC One's Boomsound speakers, but it is a step to right direction (atleast I think so). Here is a equalizer setting for stock music app, tell me what you think!

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
I am one of those guys who actually uses the phones's loudspeakers to listen to music, watch videos and stuff. I previously had HTC One M7, and coming from that phone, I noticed even better how bad LG G3's loudspeaker actually sounds. But that's why we use equalizer,eh?
Let me remind you though, this will not make it as good as HTC One's Boomsound speakers, but it is a step to right direction (atleast I think so). Here is a equalizer setting for stock music app, tell me what you think!
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Thank you for this, it sounds much richer! Is there any way to make this the default eq setting for all of the phones audio output? It's far too harsh without!

techbananas said:
Thank you for this, it sounds much richer! Is there any way to make this the default eq setting for all of the phones audio output? It's far too harsh without!
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You can search with term "equalizer" on Google Play Store. There's some pretty good ones, but they all have the same problem: they don't have preamp. Without this feature the equalizer's output is really quiet. I am still looking for the best one...

Interesting.
It's too bad that it sounds like butt when you switch to headphones though.

00dahc said:
Interesting.
It's too bad that it sounds like butt when you switch to headphones though.
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Yeah, too much boosted bass and reduced mids. The speaker is designed for mid and high sounds so to get it more bassy, this is the only way.

Viper4Android works well on the G3 but you need to be rooted. It controls each output separately and can change the sound quality quite radically.

ChrisM75 said:
Viper4Android works well on the G3 but you need to be rooted. It controls each output separately and can change the sound quality quite radically.
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Can u pls share your settings of v4android? If not too difficult with pictures is the best. Thanks in advance.

TonzaTheChosenOne said:
I am one of those guys who actually uses the phones's loudspeakers to listen to music, watch videos and stuff. I previously had HTC One M7, and coming from that phone, I noticed even better how bad LG G3's loudspeaker actually sounds. But that's why we use equalizer,eh?
Let me remind you though, this will not make it as good as HTC One's Boomsound speakers, but it is a step to right direction (atleast I think so). Here is a equalizer setting for stock music app, tell me what you think!
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