Anyone having issues with video calls and speaker phone calls? Everyone I have talked to complains about barely being able to hear me. I use hangouts mostly for the video calls. Just wondering if it is my phone or a common issue. Thanks!
My speakers are exceptional for phone speakers. They are far louder than what I came from (Galaxy note 3). They have a very good stereo image when the phone is oriented properly for audio. The lows are quite impressive. While they aren't "loud", they're present and clearly replicated. The highs are a bit much, but that's to be expected from such small drivers. This is easily fixed with viper4android. I haven't actually used the speakerphone yet, but the same rules apply. The only difference is it will use "Call Volume" instead of "Media Volume" in the mixer.
The only thing I have actually found is that the amplifier chip CAN exceed the fMAX of the speakers. Essentially this means that the amplifier is capable of pushing the speaker farther than the speaker can physically travel causing distortion. This can be a problem if you listen to music that isn't normalized. I recommend everyone normalize their audio collection to avoid having a song suddenly be 6+ db above the previous and blow the drivers on the phone. (If you listen with headphones, it's HIGHLY recommended that you do this as well to avoid destroying your eardrums from the same problem.)
hyperlite1604 said:
Anyone having issues with video calls and speaker phone calls? Everyone I have talked to complains about barely being able to hear me. I use hangouts mostly for the video calls. Just wondering if it is my phone or a common issue. Thanks!
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I have the issue as well. Hangouts calls on speakerphone do not work very well. The other person can barely hear you. I sent feedback to Google and I suggest you do the same. Speakerphone on a regular call over cellular network works great.
hyperlite1604 said:
Anyone having issues with video calls and speaker phone calls? Everyone I have talked to complains about barely being able to hear me. I use hangouts mostly for the video calls. Just wondering if it is my phone or a common issue. Thanks!
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Have you found a fix or have you read any more info about this problem elsewhere? it is very frustrating. I have started a thread on google product forums for hangouts as well....
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hyperlite1604 said:
Anyone having issues with video calls and speaker phone calls? Everyone I have talked to complains about barely being able to hear me. I use hangouts mostly for the video calls. Just wondering if it is my phone or a common issue. Thanks!
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Also may want to try this. It seems to have worked for others in the past. Not sure if it is referring to calls over the network or calls over hangouts but I assume the result would be similar. I dont use hangouts mostly for calls so it is not something i can do a lot of troubleshooting with. Give it a shot and report back. If you are rooted you can disable the noise cancelling from within the build.prop (in system directory) by changing persist.audio.fluence.voicecall=true to false.
hyperlite1604 said:
Anyone having issues with video calls and speaker phone calls? Everyone I have talked to complains about barely being able to hear me. I use hangouts mostly for the video calls. Just wondering if it is my phone or a common issue. Thanks!
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Same problem here. Other party complains they can barely hear me. I bet it is software issue since there are others experiencing same thing but this is totally unacceptable. How can you keep a phone that cannot be used for phone calls...
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No I have not found any solutions. I called Google and they were not much help. I can try that solution in the build.prop and let you know if it works for me. Did you try it? If none of this works I may RMA it to see if it is a hardware issue. Thanks for the suggestion.
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No I have not found any solutions. I called Google and they were not much help. I can try that solution in the build.prop and let you know if it works for me. Did you try it? If none of this works I may RMA it to see if it is a hardware issue. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Cannot try that soution because I prefer not to root this phone as I plan to use it for business calls.
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anglerstock said:
Cannot try that soution because I prefer not to root this phone as I plan to use it for business calls.
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Well I called my wife at lunch over hangouts and it didn't seem to help. I have a contact at Google support who told me to follow up with him if I continue to have issues. I have sent him an email along with links to a few other threads where people are having issues.
I'm also hearing complaints and frequent "Hello?"s when I'm on speakerphone. I already submitted an RMA for the uneven speakers and my new 6P has the same issues, so I'm reluctant to bother them with this until I find out more. I tried calling the same person using my Moto X 2013 over Hangouts with the phone in the same position, laying flat on the desk in front of me, and they said I was much clearer/louder on my Moto X. I'm dissapointed with these few issues but loving the phone overall. Just trying to see if this is something others are having, which it seems like they are, and hoping to find a fix. Please report back, I'll continue doing research but have only found info similar to the post @elreydenj mentioned making.
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I had an issue with my LG G2 where people can't hear me when I call them. If I turn on speakerphone, they can usually hear me then. So I exchanged my G2 for a new one. Same problem now. About every 5th call or so, people can't hear me. It's driving me nuts. Could there be some software that's messing things up? I have google voice installed, and while most of the calls in question are GV calls, not all of them are. Just called someone now from my regular number and they couldn't hear me. Anyone have any tips or even advice on how I can tackle this?
Running latest Android updates and apps always, no root. Verizon. Calls placed from random locations (and even different states).
I am having the same issue. There are a couple of things I have tried. The most promising is to turn off Google hotword detection on every screen.
You can also try turning off the Privacy Keeper and Voice Enhancement in Call Settings. If any of this works for you, or you find and answer, let me know!
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I had an issue with my LG G2 where people can't hear me when I call them. If I turn on speakerphone, they can usually hear me then. So I exchanged my G2 for a new one. Same problem now. About every 5th call or so, people can't hear me. It's driving me nuts. Could there be some software that's messing things up? I have google voice installed, and while most of the calls in question are GV calls, not all of them are. Just called someone now from my regular number and they couldn't hear me. Anyone have any tips or even advice on how I can tackle this?
Running latest Android updates and apps always, no root. Verizon. Calls placed from random locations (and even different states).
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Having the same issue with 2 lines, same LG G2 phone. Called Verizon, was told it sounds like a hardware issue. I'm thinking it's something to do with their Android update personally.
Had exact same issue and took phone to repair center. They said it was mic issue. They ended up replacing the entire phone but guess what - issue is still there on new phone.
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I've seen this issue on many forums and with the number of people that are having the problem, it has to be either LG flaw or a software issue. I'm trying turning off the ok google, noise cancellation, and privacy keeper. But I'm pretty sure I tried those on the last phone with the same results.
Just to make sure we're all having the same issue, you can be heard once you turn on speakerphone, correct?
Update on this: Still having the issue after disabling ok google hotword..
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Just to make sure we're all having the same issue, you can be heard once you turn on speakerphone, correct?
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I read your reply some time ago but didn't answer because I had no answer.
Today the bug appeared again so I turned on speakerphone like you said. Guess what, they could then hear me!
Thanks for the tip @eepyikes, its a good workaround but lets hope for a proper solution.
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Any of you with this issue also have a Pebble or other type of smart watch?
I've noticed the same problem but the issue goes away when my Pebble isn't actively paired.
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Any of you with this issue also have a Pebble or other type of smart watch?
I've noticed the same problem but the issue goes away when my Pebble isn't actively paired.
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-Correction- I hadn't had this issue since I disconnected my Pebble about 10 days back. It came back today when I made a call. What I noticed today is.......
When I switched to the speakerphone the person still couldn't hear me very well. Switching back to mic the problem is still there. But when I turned on my BT headset the audio was fine. Switching back to the phone mic from the BT the problem cleared up.
Did a test call initiating the call on the BT headset and had the same audio problem through BT. Switching back to the phone mic or speakerphone cleared it up.
Initiated another call on the speakerphone. Same audio problem. Switched to BT and it cleared up again. Switched back to the phone mic and it was still fine.
Seems the issue is there when initiating the call on BT, mic or speakerphone but switching from BT to the phone or phone to BT clears it up. I'm on a D801 (TMO) and first noticed this about three weeks back.
Rebooting the phone seemed to clear it up at least for the short term. I just noticed that the Google search app updated on the phone about two/three weeks back. Seems about the same time I started noticing the issue.
I had a backup of Google search 4.1.29 from back in January. Just restored that version and blocked it from updating to see if the issue comes back again.
Interesting to see this is also on the d802. Mine is the VS980.
The 13qcelp trick does not fix it. So tired of this!
Any other tricks out there??
Happened twice in one day. New record for me. Sick of people saying "hello?? Anyone there??? Hello??" until i turn speakers on. With speakers sound is horrible so really annoying! Wonder if issue will happen with AOSP/CM roms.....
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Anyone else experiencing super low microphone volume when using hangout calls on speakerphone/video calls? The other person i'm calling says they can barely hear me.
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Anyone else experiencing super low microphone volume when using hangout calls on speakerphone/video calls? The other person i'm calling says they can barely hear me.
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yes, very much so. I may have found a weird workaround as this was annoying me for some time. You must leave the call screen up and let the first couple rings happen with speakerphone off. Then switch to speakerphone and do not leave the screen or turn off the call screen until the call is initiated. After that mess that i stumbled upon, i could be heard much better when making a speakerphone call with hangouts. Also, make sure not to cover both the front speakers or the mic in the back. Basically you must hold the phone in your hands as I believe laying it down on either face will obstruct mics.... Obviously a flaw that should be worked out I would hop with software or hangouts updates. I have opened a complaint thread on the google hangouts forums. I suggest you go there and explain that you have the problem too so that it may be looked at a bit more...
Thanks, posted on the Hangout support forum, so one else replied and said they have the same issue as well. Unfortunately though, I can't get your trick to work for me, super low mic volume unless I put my mouth right next to the top speaker grill. Hopefully this gets fixed, I think my wife is tired of seeing my chin during video calls.
I'm experiencing the same problem but with WhatsApp calls. It also happen on normal phone calls where there's no sound coming or going out, have to hang up and try the call again.
Anyone notice the speakers are only good at 100%.. Lower it to 90-80% and I can barely hear them, standing at about 1ft - 1.5ft
No news on this? Renders speaker calls on Hangouts, Viber etc useless.
Also, where on Google Forums did you post?
So, the call quality of the 6p is quite dreadful. I'm 5/5 in phone calls made where people have complained about not being able to hear me. However, someone said that disabling the noise cancellation in the build.prop can fix this. Had anyone tried this yet?
Is just messed up design by Huawei and Google. That microphone should have never been placed in the back of the device. I doubt disabling noise cancellation will do anything.
Any updates to this? I believe call quality issues, others hearing echos of what they say, Feedback, Etc could be fixed if NC was turned off during calls or some adjustments made.
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Any updates to this? I believe call quality issues, others hearing echos of what they say, Feedback, Etc could be fixed if NC was turned off during calls or some adjustments made.
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I saw somewhere that a build.prop edit would turn off the NC and it works. Call problem workaround successful. Don't have a link but I'm sure you can find it.
persist.audio.fluence.voicecall
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i tried it and it did nothing for me. i returned the device for this reason. some people still talk on the phone google wtf
Guys, since my 6p, almost every call I make or receive, the person on the other end tells me that they are hearing what they said back. It's like an echo of what they said. I head them perfect and no issues on my end.
Anyone else having this issue?
And to add, I'm trying calls with and without case and it doesn't make a difference. Sometimes the echo for the person on the other end goes away after few minutes but most of the time it stays for the entire conversation. I also just today tried whatsapp call but same issue. Very frustrating as everything else on the phone is perfect.
I had this yesterday on WhatsApp
Any ideas? I sure can't be the only one out there with this issue.
It's a typical Google mic cancellation issue like the nexus 5 had. It will never be fixed.
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It's a typical Google mic cancellation issue like the nexus 5 had. It will never be fixed.
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Doesn't look so typical as Internet/forum search brings nothing being reported regarding this on Nexus 6p. Don't care what's on Nexus 5.
The problem is specific to callers on the other end of the phone hearing themselves back when they speak.
I have had the same issues. To fix I lower my volume all the way down then they say it's fine. The other option is to use speakerphone. I did read somewhere people are using their finger to cover the mic hole on the back. I'll try that today.
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I have had the same issues. To fix I lower my volume all the way down then they say it's fine. The other option is to use speakerphone. I did read somewhere people are using their finger to cover the mic hole on the back. I'll try that today.
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Keep me posted Mike. I'll try the volume, but I won't be able to hear them if volume is all the way down hehehehe
Lepa79 said:
Keep me posted Mike. I'll try the volume, but I won't be able to hear them if volume is all the way down hehehehe
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Here is the best temporary fix. Use a headset with a built in mic.
Also, calls over internet are more likely to get echo. Try a regular phone call, no Google voice and such either, just a regular sim number based call.
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Keep me posted Mike. I'll try the volume, but I won't be able to hear them if volume is all the way down hehehehe
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Covering the mic hole did help but if my volume was to high it would still do it. It's like the sound vibrations are getting picked up through the phone. Anyways I am rooted and romed. I may look into turning noise cancellation off.
I'm personally having this issue only when the back casing are attached to the phone or when i accidentally cover the back mic with my finger
Posting an update. It seems doing either one of the below fixes the echo callers on the other end are hearing:
1. Cover the mic at the back top of the phone during the call
2. Or Lower the volume to like half or three quarters of the way
I prefer option 2 and all is fine now.
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Doesn't look so typical as Internet/forum search brings nothing being reported regarding this on Nexus 6p. Don't care what's on Nexus 5.
The problem is specific to callers on the other end of the phone hearing themselves back when they speak.
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This is happening in quite a few different places:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...one-google-says-it-is-investigating-issue.htm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/people-tell-im-hard-to-hear-call-t3291011
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/nexus-6p-microphone-t3238695
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/g70qCHkqLA4
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3ui2i7/echo_when_talking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/4fh189/has_there_been_any_progress_on_in_call_echoing_or/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3rxsko/fix_bad_voice_quality_in_calls_rooted_devices/
Just to name a few. I did the fix listed above because I was sick and tired of having everyone tell me they could hear themselves echoing while they talked to me.
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This is happening in quite a few different places:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...one-google-says-it-is-investigating-issue.htm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/people-tell-im-hard-to-hear-call-t3291011
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/nexus-6p-microphone-t3238695
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/g70qCHkqLA4
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3ui2i7/echo_when_talking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/4fh189/has_there_been_any_progress_on_in_call_echoing_or/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3rxsko/fix_bad_voice_quality_in_calls_rooted_devices/
Just to name a few. I did the fix listed above because I was sick and tired of having everyone tell me they could hear themselves echoing while they talked to me.
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Glad my post helped someone. Cheers!
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Glad my post helped someone. Cheers!
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Long term have you had issues in busy places like airports, bars/restaurants? Do people complain of too much noise around you with noise cancelling turned off?
the issue is still persist even after the June OTA. is there any way we can contact Google or Huawei to fix this issue permanently ?
I really love the phone but this issue is frustrating as it is a basic need in any phone. phone calls must be ok. how it can be fixed without root ?
It might be due to phones calls over the internet such as advanced calling on Verizon...I had this issue too a while back but I read somewhere this could be the issue do I turned off of advanced calling(calling over the internet so while I'm on a call I can use the internet over 4g). This is quite annoying since I sometimes do need to use internet while I'm on a call but I think the echo problem is worse.
So far no one has complained about an echo since I turned off advanced calling when before purplpeople would complain or stop talking about every call. Hope this helps
I don't talk a lot on the phone, so it's taken a couple months to find out this issue.... When I'm talking to someone on the phone, I have to hold the phone pressed up against my face and speak a little louder than I normally do.. If I pull it away any at all, people are always saying they can't hear me or I sound really muffled.
I just called my voice mail and left a message, and this is what I've discovered as well. I knew what I said, but had problems understanding myself unless I held it right up to my face and spoke slightly louder than I've had to do with any other phone.
I heard, back in December, this was an issue and was to be fixed on the next update.... I'm now on a M29P (January release) ROM and nothing has changed.
Has anyone found this to be an issue or have you found a work around/fix for this?
I have the same issue.
When I put the phone in my neck so I have my hands free, people tell me I'm very hard to hear, and it's perfect when I hold it in a normal position...
It's quite frustrating, as I sometimes need to have my hands free..
Same here
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I don't talk a lot on the phone, so it's taken a couple months to find out this issue.... When I'm talking to someone on the phone, I have to hold the phone pressed up against my face and speak a little louder than I normally do.. If I pull it away any at all, people are always saying they can't hear me or I sound really muffled.
I just called my voice mail and left a message, and this is what I've discovered as well. I knew what I said, but had problems understanding myself unless I held it right up to my face and spoke slightly louder than I've had to do with any other phone.
I heard, back in December, this was an issue and was to be fixed on the next update.... I'm now on a M29P (January release) ROM and nothing has changed.
Has anyone found this to be an issue or have you found a work around/fix for this?
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Same happen here, it's because the noise reduction micro that the nexus 6p has back, check the small hole on the back face of the phone, when you are in a call put your finger there and they will say the same "I cannot hear you well", there are tweaks on the forums, but I have not tested yet, I used to use the speakers instead
If the phone is like 6 inches away they cant hear me, it's a noise cancelling issue, too strict.
Change in build.prop from true to disable noise cancelling.
persist.audio.fluence.voicecall=false
I had this with the very first call I made, but haven't had that complaint since
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If the phone is like 6 inches away they cant hear me, it's a noise cancelling issue, too strict.
Change in build.prop from true to disable noise cancelling.
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do this. fixed mine and my mothers problem with calls being muffled
I can't fathom how this is still an issue. I get constant, i mean CONSTANT echo. People stating they hear themselves when they talk to me. I finally downloaded build prop editor as instructed here and edited persist.audio.fluence.voicecall=false as shown here. I have yet to test but it can't possibly get worse than EVERY DAMN CALL not working. Seriously , this is a phone, the tech for calls was perfected only a decade or more ago ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3rxsko/fix_bad_voice_quality_in_calls_rooted_devices/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/android/nexus-6p-microphone-issues-calls-youre-not-alone/
Look at all the people citing this as an issue here:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/g70qCHkqLA4
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do this. fixed mine and my mothers problem with calls being muffled
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Do you have any issues when in busy areas like restaurants, bars, airports etc?
the issue is still persist even after the June OTA. is there any way we can contact Google or Huawei to fix this issue permanently ?
I really love the phone but this issue is frustrating as it is a basic need in any phone. phone calls must be ok. how it can be fixed without root.
Have the issue here too even after June update. Will be rooting to edit build prop to see if it helps since I'm not sure I'll get much of any help from Huawei's support.
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If the phone is like 6 inches away they cant hear me, it's a noise cancelling issue, too strict.
Change in build.prop from true to disable noise cancelling.
persist.audio.fluence.voicecall=false
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Thanks for sharing this info I jus did the edit
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