Hi,
has anyone found a fix or an app or something to the low voice level issue during phone calls? we already know that a BT headset is a "workaround" but i was really hoping for a solution for the devide itself...
thanks in advance.
Press and hold the answer call button to enable the speakerphone. Should get your volume up to more than you need.
I hear ya about the voice problem. TERRIBLE.. Read my latest thread about the so many faults I found on the PDA2K..
'Blue Angel'.. LOL... I Would call it Dark Angel.
Try to replace the device
You should try to replace (change) the MDA III. Newer models does'nt have this issue. After 7 weeks of trying (...and crying), i've decided to bring the MDA III back to the T-Mobile Shop and asked for a replacement. 2 days later, i've got a new MDA III, now without any issues.
No Solution???
Thanks for your replies so far.
What i can´t understand is, why can´t we do something about it, a fix or a setting or an app... since it´s not an hardware problem ( the voice level when recording a video for instance is quite acceptable ((...well AVI not MP4...). After all, this is a developers forum! is it impossible to fix that issue?
I Think this is a very important feature for the Phone usability of the blue angel! must the 1000´s of units already sold be returned and exchanged?
ps - thanks 1234 but the voice level i´m talking about is from my own voice (the mic) and not the loudspeaker! other people when i´m in a phone conversation always say that i seem to be very far away and they hear me very low...!
This problem seems to be caused by the placement of the mic in a tiny hole next to the reset hole. Everyone complains that you sound faint when you're talking. If you try talking 'directly' into the hole or even hold the phone in your left hand things seem to improve ( closer to your voice-box? ) . You can also see this problem when making a movie with the phone. It sounds very quiet when compared to the same test with an XDA II. The XDA II had a mic in a much better position, next to the direction pad.
I think, it's a hardware issue
As i know, it's a hardware issue with the mic.
The position of the mic is bad, that's true, but some Shops will replace the MDA III against never models with some changes.
A Sales rep in a T-Mobile Shop told me, that devices with the voice issue WILL BE REPAIRED (mic change or something like this).
So, it may be a good idea to replace the device against a never model.
It's strange,
for me there are problems with cable headset.
If it's a problem with the phone mic, why I had the same problem, but only sometimes, with the headset ?
I will try also another headset.
bye
Manuel
Audio level - intolerable
Hello All,
I'm new to this forum but am a very frustrated PDA2K owner.
I cannot tolerate the issue of people complaining that my voice is too low during phone calls. The device has cost me an arm and a leg.
I bought it thinking it was the best PDA/Phone on the planet. The issue is there is no IMate service center in Egypt. I had it sent to me from Dubai...
If a software solution exists, then I would be very greatful for it.
PS. koponet says that he/she replaced their device. Has the microphone location been changed? Or is it still in the same spot?
Position is still the same
The mic position is still the same after the replacement , but the voice level is much better.
Before the replacement, the voice level was bad using the MDA III WITH or WITHOUT the cable headset (thats included).
After the replacement, the voice level is still bad using the MDA III WITH the cable headset (thats included), but much better WITHOUT this headset.
CALLING all Developers
I Think this is beacoming THE brain test for all the developer community out there...
If someone could come up with a software solution for this issue i´ll bet there would be several 1000´s of users ( all of QTEK, XDA, I-mate owners worldwide) thanking and respecting the "ONE"...
thanks,
Vega.
I would be happy if somebody could for sure tell whether this is a hardware issue or not.
For me, it can't be a hardware issue. Recording with the same mic and phone calls with Skype work well. Why should the same mic not work for GSM voice ???
A
I've contacted the italian distributor of Qtek 9090 about this issue.
They told me that they will release a patch in the next few days !!!
However, IMHO, it's a software issue, not hardware one because:
- the same mic with non-GSM apps works well
- With the mic in the cable headset you will experience the same problem.
bye
Manuel
fixed with new ROM
I've installed the new ROM with radio version 1.06.02
I've made a few calls and the mic problem seems over!!!!
However I'll made some other calls to see if it's really solved.
bye
Manuel
Manuel, can you send me the upgrade for radio?
thanks
[email protected]
You could always take the pointed end from a sharp x-acto knife and cafefully 'drill' out the mic hole making it bigger. Drastic? Yes. Does it help? Yup.
Please post the Radio ROM which fixes this issue!
Rom update from qtek seems to fix it
The rom update from this forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=14362
seemed to fix my mic level issues. It came with the 1.06 radio version.
Thanks...hope it helps you
sound issue - quiet microphone
I still have this issue, even after upgrading to the latest ROM version (iMate 1.40.176)
Everyone I speak to says I sound distant or quiet, and plugging the standard wired handsfree doesnt seem to help at all. I spend all my time shouting into the phone to be heard!
Has anyone found a solution? should I upgrade the Radio ROM as well?
I have an XDAiis.
If you're using imate 1.40.176, then you should have radio 1.12 which is only one release back from the latest, so upgrading radio to 1.13 won't make a difference. I have an O2 XDA2s with radio 1.13 & sound level is fine, but it was also fine when using radio 1.06 (as shipped with phone)
Sounds like you have a hardware problem
I (literally) just hung up with WAYNE ACHACKA at Siemens San Francisco. I expressed my disappointment with the update in that if did not really fix the problems associated with the device.
The issues I SPECIFICALLY addressed were the lousy BT signal (noisy & short range) and the poor WIFI performance.
He expresses a high level of concern over the issues that I spoke with him about, and it was suggested that everyone who is having problems to call the Siemens call center and put in a complaint/trouble ticket. Only in this fashion can they address the issues and try to get HTC to fix the problems with the hardware.
Here is the phone number (US): 1-888-777-0211 / Toll Free
Website: http://communications.siemens.com/cds/frontdoor/0,2241,us_en_0_76051_rArNrNrNrN,00.html
(you may have to highlight hte text, cut & paste into your browser)
I hope we can all work together to resolve the issues through Siemens - they certainly seem interested in making us happy!
Tom McElvy
I've gotten the impression that the BT problems are more hardware-related than software. Having gone through several BT patches, upgrading from 2400 to 3500 to 3900, I've noticed no significant difference in BT performance.
Two things that make me think it's a hardware issue:
Someone else has posted either here or over at HoFo that the antenna in the BlueAngel is poorly positioned; this may also explain the poor WiFi performance, as both BT and WiFi use the 2.4 GHz band, so it'd be possible to use one antenna for both.
I've used a couple BT devices (headset & GPS) with both the BlueAngel and my laptop, and the range with the laptop is at least twice that of the BlueAngel.
If the problem is in the hardware, there may not be an easy solution, although it may be possible to devise some kind of antenna booster that would help.
That is correct! It is a hardware issue. As for the device turning on automatically, that in fairness was a bluetooth stack issue. All the "BlueAngel" Devices should be recalled and everyone given a refund! They are crap!!!
Mike
OK I've had my XDAIIs now for two months and I think it must be a faulty
one:
1. My Keyboard isn't loose
2. The phone works perfectly, it hasn't dropped or missed any calls and everyone can hear me fine
3. It never locks up
4. Battery life seems OK, 2-3 days which I can live with
5. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signal strength seem fine
6. Activesync works perfectly over Wi-Fi, IR and USB
admittedly I've junked all the O2 stuff, but what's going on............?!?! :lol:
Wow! thats the best news I've heard so far.
Same here but with the caveat that I've never synched over IR and I had my first total lockup since November on Sunday - I suspect it was my farting about with Sprite.
So far it's been at least as stable as my old symbian based P900 but the synch software actually works!
FWIW, I've had my SX66 for almost 3 months and haven't had any real issues, except for a little static with my Bluetrek G2 headset. Before I downloaded the Siemens update, I had to soft reset occasionally to get WiFi to sync up, but since the update, I haven't reset once.
Hello,
I've had the Nokia CK-1W Bluetooth hands free kit in my car for a while. I started out with a Nokia 6310i so it seemed the perfect choice when I got it.
Last year I joined the HTC revolution. I got a Wizard and this worked fine with the kit. I'm not a heavy user as I don't drive as part of my work, but didn't encounter any issues the times I did use it.
I lost my Wizard on a train and got the Hermes as a replacement (thanks household contents insurance). Connected it up to the kit in the car and once again I didn't have any trouble. I have only had it a few weeks so the device wasn't really setup, I didn't have voice tags or anything, but I was receiving calls OK and could make calls from the device.
So I took the plunge on Sunday and updated my O2 Hermes to the WM6 Rom from O2. I was really quite pleased with it, seems to be more responsive and generally a pretty good upgrade.
I didn't expect to have any issues with the car kit. Silly me. Connected up fine. When I pressed the button to invoke the voice tags, I didn't hear anything out of the speakers. This was a bit strange as before you would hear either the "Peep peep" noise to tell you to speak or the "You don't have any voice tags set, idiot" noise that you get otherwise. I didn't think much of it. Yesterday it got it's baptism of fire. My friend called me, I hit the button to answer and heard.....silence. The kit was connected, the call was answered and I could hear bugger all. Most amusingly my friend could hear me perfectly and started having a conversation with me until I pointed out that I couldn't hear anything.
So has anyone got any ideas? I am guessing that something has changed in the BT stack between WM5 and WM6 but any ideas what? I know a lot of people have written a lot of threads regarding BT car kit issues but I hadn't seen one quite like this.
Any help would be really appreciated!
Cheers
Ian
School boy error
It seems that it wasn't anything to do with the phone at all.
Coincidence struck and it just happened that the day after I flashed my phone, a wire came loose connecting the hands free kit to the stereo!
I worked this out when I tried my old Nokia on it just to make sure it was a problem with the phone. When I couldn't hear anything on that I knew there was a problem elsewhere!
After I took out the stereo and replugged everything back together it all worked fine again.
Sorry about that!
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?p=10123372
I'm having some serious problems using my Jabra JX10 Headset and Tmo Dash (WM6 Rogers ROM).
Basically I consistently get insane amounts of static interference whenever I am using the headset on a call which pretty much makes the headset unusable. The only way to mitigate the static is to place the phone on the same side of my body as the headset (which is totally ridiculous), and often I usually end up holding the phone in my hand which totally negates the benefits of a wireless hands-free.
Any thoughts? I've had the same problem with my iPaq 6315 and the JX10, but with my RAZR v3 and JX10 I've never had any problems at all!
Theo
ijustwannadl said:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?p=10123372
I'm having some serious problems using my Jabra JX10 Headset and Tmo Dash (WM6 Rogers ROM).
Basically I consistently get insane amounts of static interference whenever I am using the headset on a call which pretty much makes the headset unusable. The only way to mitigate the static is to place the phone on the same side of my body as the headset (which is totally ridiculous), and often I usually end up holding the phone in my hand which totally negates the benefits of a wireless hands-free.
Any thoughts? I've had the same problem with my iPaq 6315 and the JX10, but with my RAZR v3 and JX10 I've never had any problems at all!
Theo
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ijustwannadl, you said your having problem with the JX-10, the Dash and WM6? Let me ask you this, I've got the same headset and the same blue tooth earpiece. Right now I'm using WM5 but with the Updated Rogers WM6 Radio and I'm not having any issues....
Did you u have WM5 before or did you buy the Dash with WM6 on it? Second, if you upgraded, which version of WM6 are you running? (Rogers/T Mobile's/HTC/Cooked) Please specify so we can see how to better help you
Rom Versions
I have been having the problems on my WM6 Dash, which was shipped to my from Tmobile with the
TMO WM6 1.22.531.6 ROM - I had the BT problems then along with a major memory leak so I downgraded to
TMO WM6 1.22.531.4 ROM - WM6 was still quite slow and the BT problem was still there so I just flashed to the
Rogers WM6 ROM - 1.30.631.2 - This is much faster and more stable than the Tmo ROM, but I'm still getting the static when on a bluetooth headset. This occurs whether or not the Wifi is activated on the phone.
My radio version is 4.1.13.47_02.98.90
So in short, I have always been using WM6 and always been having reception problems on the earpiece, although I did go through three different ROMs.
Is your phone or earpiece still new and under warranty? If so I'd have one or both of those swapped out bc the Dash and JX-10 work really well together under normal circumstances.
I haven't had any trouble with my units considering I'm still running WM5 plus the Rogers ROM which didn't mess up my bluetooth connection quality if I may add that
I had a JX-10 for a week and found it to be ridiculously quiet when I was in a semi-noisy area. I couldn't hear anything. I switched it for a Plantronics Discovery 665 and now I can't get my phone to ring normally when it's connected.
I blame the phone. And the loosely defined bluetooth standard. "Who designed this crap?"
lubs said:
I had a JX-10 for a week and found it to be ridiculously quiet when I was in a semi-noisy area. I couldn't hear anything. I switched it for a Plantronics Discovery 665 and now I can't get my phone to ring normally when it's connected.
I blame the phone. And the loosely defined bluetooth standard. "Who designed this crap?"
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I think the phone's supposed to be Bluetooth 2.0 Compliant. Whats the bluetooth version on that earpiece?