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Video sound quality - pretty bad

Hi all
Did not come across any threads about this yet, surprisingly!
I was recording video out in a nightclub, and was very disappointed to find that the music sounded horrible. Never had such problem on my HTC one when recording at concerts or clubs.
Here is the link of the video, I uploaded on youTube
http://youtu.be/SMpa7rumrHY
Otherwise, the OnePlus has been awesome so far!

Trance family, you listen to Markus Schulz? Love trance! Sucks about the sound, you on stock app?

Sound quality in general when it comes to recording nightclubs/gigs/concerts are pretty bad with the bass etc etc.
Not to mention "Turn It Up" is a song that involves a lot of bass and drops.
Try it in a closed atmosphere like at home and test the quality of the sound.
Ensure audio codec is AAC as well.

jark99 said:
Trance family, you listen to Markus Schulz? Love trance! Sucks about the sound, you on stock app?
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haha yeh man love markus Schulz! one of my fav trance DJs
yeh stock camera app, running 33R stock and Franco 20 kernel.

I noticed this as well. I really doesn't take a lot to distort the audio with OPO (and surprisingly when I had my Samsung Note 2 and ran a CM based rom I had this problem as well, using stock samsung camera / rom not a problem).
Not sure if this is phone related or just the camera app/rom combo.
I do have a sub in my car but I have recorded clearly with my old Note 2 but OPO it distorts like a mofo. It's quite embarrassing.

Bad mic
DAKIK said:
Hi all
Did not come across any threads about this yet, surprisingly!
I was recording video out in a nightclub, and was very disappointed to find that the music sounded horrible. Never had such problem on my HTC one when recording at concerts or clubs.
Here is the link of the video, I uploaded on youTube
http://youtu.be/SMpa7rumrHY
Otherwise, the OnePlus has been awesome so far!
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Damm thats a bad mic...it sounds horrible
I wanted to make the switch from the m7 too,but i do record sometimes at concerts and clubs...And the htc m7 does this perfect.
So this is a no go for me this oneplus one,A pitty):

The early m7s had dual membrane mics specifically for recording in very loud concert environments. Some supply issue came up with the manufacturer and they had to stop supplying to htc because of nokia.

john291 said:
Damm thats a bad mic...it sounds horrible
I wanted to make the switch from the m7 too,but i do record sometimes at concerts and clubs...And the htc m7 does this perfect.
So this is a no go for me this oneplus one,A pitty):
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Yeh same here! Im still hoping its a software problem and can be fixed in the near future!
kokocabana said:
The early m7s had dual membrane mics specifically for recording in very loud concert environments. Some supply issue came up with the manufacturer and they had to stop supplying to htc because of nokia.
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Yep I remember that when the M7 came out, it was a bit of a fuss!

Ah familiar issue.
Went to a party last week and recorded some videos, as soon as the bass drops you only hear crackling noises on the video.
Friend recorded with his iphone and the recorded audio sounded a LOT better.
I also tried to cover the microphone to see if that helped but it made no difference.

Known Bug
That's a known issue.
Have a look at the Cyanogenmod JIRA Ticket No. BACON-64
If you are registered there, please give it a vote, so it will soon be fixed.

has anybody found a fix for this? will changing to a different rom solve the problem? cyanogen just dont wanna fix this problem. its been a reported bug for ages now. even before the OPO.

I m also facing the same problem, please let us know if anyone find a fix
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This problem can be fixed with the Boeffla-Kernel for OPO, but they need the technical documentaion of the "WDC9320" audio codec.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55920852&postcount=21
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That's a known issue.
Have a look at the Cyanogenmod JIRA Ticket No. BACON-64
If you are registered there, please give it a vote, so it will soon be fixed.
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Does somebody know whether it for it already a solution has given?

Found this on the OP forums
Code:
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/audio-clipping-in-loud-environments.108129/
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"So ive tried heaps of things to try and fix this bug, one thing that may have worked is downloading this free app from the app store
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grace.microphone&hl=en
and setting mic gain to 0. i have done this and the audio quality has increased 100% and is comparable with the iphone."

Most likely a ****ty mic on the oneplus, nothing to do with the software.
HTC one uses unlicensed mic from Nokia,which is far superior.

Bump

Does anyone know whether this bug is present in Oxygen OS or not?

TheBogeyman said:
That's a known issue.
Have a look at the Cyanogenmod JIRA Ticket No. BACON-64
If you are registered there, please give it a vote, so it will soon be fixed.
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Here's the link:
h ttps://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/BACON-64[/url]
Please give it a vote indeed. It's a shame that this kind of bug is present.

This must be why my Soundhound never is able to identify music most of the time in nightclubs :/

Salty Wagyu said:
This must be why my Soundhound never is able to identify music most of the time in nightclubs :/
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Yeah i also had the same issue last week

OnePlus 5 camera, poor audio quality

I noticed that the audio quality in video recording is really poor. If I use the recorder app (In OxygenOS) the audio quality (when format set to wav) is really good!
I'm wondering if this is a bug in OOS, or intented to keep the filesizes down?
Who else noticed it?
I also made a thread on the OP forums, but people aren't too active there.
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/camera-audio-is-bad-recorder-app-is-excellent.555845/

Hey, the best is to report this as a bug...
https://forums.oneplus.net/feedback/

Hey, the best is to report this as a bug...
https://forums.oneplus.net/feedback/

mhoppi said:
Hey, the best is to report this as a bug...
https://forums.oneplus.net/feedback/
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Thanks. Haven't used the forums since my op2 time.

No problem, man I appreciate your effort...
I reported a bug about connectivity and oneplus technicians have contacted me a few hours later and are really ambitious to solve the problem...
So I think this is the best way to solve your (our) problems..
Have a great day

Poor sound quality

Just got my 6gb Variant today in grey colour, the screen is a bit too warm for my taste and turning it cooler makes it look ugly, also I think brightness is not as good as note 5 pro. it has purer whites and gets way too brighter than this phone. But I guess I can live with it given stock android is way better than ****ty miui. What is bothering me is poor audio quality in headphones and over Bluetooth too. I'm coming from iPhone and redmi note 3 and comparatively, they both get very loud than this also sound quality is superior to this phone.. I can live with other shortcomings like the poor camera (hopefully gcam will fix most of the issues there) and warmer screen but the sound quality is very important. Is there a way to fix this? or I'll have to learn to live with it :\

Root and instal v4a.
PS: For me sound quality is good even though its not loud but enough for my tastes.

arvinchugh said:
Just got my 6gb Variant today in grey colour, the screen is a bit too warm for my taste and turning it cooler makes it look ugly, also I think brightness is not as good as note 5 pro. it has purer whites and gets way too brighter than this phone. But I guess I can live with it given stock android is way better than ****ty miui. What is bothering me is poor audio quality in headphones and over Bluetooth too. I'm coming from iPhone and redmi note 3 and comparatively, they both get very loud than this also sound quality is superior to this phone.. I can live with other shortcomings like the poor camera (hopefully gcam will fix most of the issues there) and warmer screen but the sound quality is very important. Is there a way to fix this? or I'll have to learn to live with it :\
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Me too brought the 6gb variant and flashed RR Rom. me also facing the same issue the call quality. The person at the other end of phone cant hear my voice clearly. This happens three or four times in a five minute call.
are you facing the same problem? I thought coming back to stock Rom will fix this..:crying:

GryTEcHoG said:
Root and instal v4a.
PS: For me sound quality is good even though its not loud but enough for my tastes.
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Thanks will try it
majiglobal said:
Me too brought the 6gb variant and flashed RR Rom. me also facing the same issue the call quality. The person at the other end of phone cant hear my voice clearly. This happens three or four times in a five minute call.
are you facing the same problem? I thought coming back to stock Rom will fix this..:crying:
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I was so busy unlocking bootloader and rooting I forgot to check the main function of it lol just tried calling and it works perfectly on my phone. I would not install any roms on this phone, buying a phone with stock android was to avoid flashing roms, as almost all roms have some issues. I'm just going to use stock firmware with root, adblocker and gcam and that's about it. I want stability more than the features. try going back to stock android with a locked bootloader and all. if that still doesn't fix it, get a replacement from Flipkart maybe there is a hardware issue with your device. The only sound issue I've is, it is not as loud as iPhone or my Redmi Note 3 but rest seems to be in order. Hope this helps. Cheers.

arvinchugh said:
What is bothering me is poor audio quality in headphones and over Bluetooth too. \
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I faced the same issue, the audio volume and quality was low on bluetooth (Headset/Car Audio). Flashed Firehound and that problem is resolved, though the sound is still a bit bright for my taste.

majiglobal said:
Me too brought the 6gb variant and flashed RR Rom. me also facing the same issue the call quality. The person at the other end of phone cant hear my voice clearly. This happens three or four times in a five minute call.
are you facing the same problem? I thought coming back to stock Rom will fix this..:crying:
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I am also facing the same bad call quality and low bluetooth audio.

paradise220 said:
I am also facing the same bad call quality and low bluetooth audio.
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Your rom and kernal please

majiglobal said:
Your rom and kernal please
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Fully stock with latest update.

Try this for wired headsets
https://forum.xda-developers.com/as...rease-audio-quality-earphonepoweramp-t3822791

paradise220 said:
Fully stock with latest update.
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I am using RR ROM since I got this device.
Didn't check call quality for bluetooth issue in stock ROM.
I did my research and found out that call quality may get better after 3 or 4 days in stock.
Don't know about custom ROMs though.
I am going back to stock after couple of hours.
Let me check and confirm the bug.

Bad microphone quality on instagram.

Hey guys, I'm having some troubles after updating from stock 8.1 to custom 8 or 9 roms.
Video recording is awesome on Gcam, but on apps like Instagram and snapchat, the sound of recording seems to be supressed and extremely low.
I actually did some searching for fixing, but i didn't found anything that worked.
Does anyone is having this problem too?
There is a fix for that?
Pixel Experience 9.0 with latest update and extremeKernel 13.4.

lucask28d said:
Hey guys, I'm having some troubles after updating from stock 8.1 to custom 8 or 9 roms.
Video recording is awesome on Gcam, but on apps like Instagram and snapchat, the sound of recording seems to be supressed and extremely low.
I actually did some searching for fixing, but i didn't found anything that worked.
Does anyone is having this problem too?
There is a fix for that?
Pixel Experience 9.0 with latest update and extremeKernel 13.4.
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Might be your mic ports need cleaning
Sent from my Mi A1 using Tapatalk

pooniaprashant said:
Might be your mic ports need cleaning
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I already have checked about cleaning, but it's already clean.
If i boot on stock, the microphone works very well.
As i mentioned, looks like that there is something on software that is supressing the audio, cause on Gcam, it works nicely, but on apps, it's supressed.

Another reason to stick on stock then.
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Same here. I didn't find any solutions, so all I do is record 15 second video on my gcam and post that on instagram. ?

Its a known issue on custom roms for our device (and others actually).
The workaround could be like carastroren1991 said, record using gcam and upload to IG.

carastroren1991 said:
Same here. I didn't find any solutions, so all I do is record 15 second video on my gcam and post that on instagram.
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Yeah, i'm doing it, but sometimes you don't have time to... I belive that is a problem on audio software that makes the noise reduction...

lucask28d said:
Hey guys, I'm having some troubles after updating from stock 8.1 to custom 8 or 9 roms.
Video recording is awesome on Gcam, but on apps like Instagram and snapchat, the sound of recording seems to be supressed and extremely low.
I actually did some searching for fixing, but i didn't found anything that worked.
Does anyone is having this problem too?
There is a fix for that?
Pixel Experience 9.0 with latest update and extremeKernel 13.4.
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i too, if i downgrade to nougat or oreo stock rom no problom with soundrecord instagram

Video recording sound quality

Hi guys!
I'm about to buy this device, but I read that bad microphone audio quality bug affects this mobile too. Even my current Redmi 3S had this issue, but luckily there is a patch for this device, which fixes this issue and in theory it can be ported to another devices too:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xi...fix-fixing-bad-sound-video-recording-t3523171
Sadly I don't have the knowledge to do this, but I wonder if someone could make a Magisk version of this for lavender. It would help a lot of people.

It will be great If anyone could make a fix. Terrible sound recording while Metallica concert 2days ago.

There's a fix for AOSP roms, that maybe works in MIUI too , I use miui.eu and I tried to flash it, and audio seems good now: https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...-improve-audio-recording-video-calls-t3939963