While looking at headphones tonight, a question arose in my mind of whether it would be possible to get the Touch HD to monitor the surrounding noise through it's microphone, flip the phase and then "add" that to the music/video being played. That's effectively what active noise cancelling cans are doing. The HD has a microphone. It also has a headphone socket...
Does the HD support more than one audio output at once? would it be as simple as my mind thinks it is? Would the Blackstone have enough processing power to do this properly?
I can't program at all so was wondering if any of you more talented XDA-ers had thought of this!
Well, I had the same idea a couple month ago. A friends friend got onto it - some sort of "noise technician" with fancy lab and all.
Unfortunately he came to the conclusion that while it's no problem to program it, it won't be worth the time.
Why? Well, the noise that arrives at the mic of the phone is (technically) very different from the one that arrives at your ears. Noise cancellation effect would be close to zero - if not even make things worse. That's why all these noise-canceling Hardware solutions have the mic directly at the ear.
Dammit ... was pretty frustrated.
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Dear great kernel modders,
For some reasons, Samsung does not allow stereo earphone (no mic) to hear phone calls (including normal call, video call, Tango).
Would it be possible to have a mod to enable a normal earphone to hear calls? In this way, I don't have to remove my earphone when a call comes in!
What I really want to do is to let earphone to listen call and have phone's mic for speaking.
(Yes, I know there are earphone with mic. But I cannot find a good quality and compatible with Galaxy S in my place. Bluetooth is not an option for its sound quality...)
Thanks guys!
Its not posible as far as its concerned (I think its a hardware design), What you CAN do is get hands on a Iphone > Nokia adaptor on ebay or whatever and use that and buy yourself some decent iphone headphones.
I'm looking forward to this feature as well. (This is the one thing I really miss from my Nexus One) I believe SuperCurio is working on it but it's pretty low priority. Drop him a line
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806195&highlight=supercurio
I am very interested in a Bluetooth FM Transmitter. I am interested in both technologies; voice and music. I like the idea of the Motorola line t505 and roadster, but i am not sure either of these have voice command for any kind of phone book. It would be nice if i could dial with voice command. And of course it would be nice to have decent audio quality. Any ideas?
BTW - i have a mytouch 4g
I've had the Roadster myself for about a week and a half now, and the MyTouch 4G just a week beyond that. I love having a no-wires setup for both calling and music playback, especially since no aux adapters were ever made for my car's headunit.
The Roadster has a nice little speaker on it for voice communications (don't fret, call audio can still go through FM audio), a decent FM transmitter*, good battery life, and easy to use buttons. I specifically like that you can manually adjust the broadcast frequency across the whole FM band, rather than be married to a handful of presets that may or may not be crowded in your area. A nice benefit, also, is that the Roadster comes with a Micro USB CLA, so I didn't have to buy one for my MT4G. =)
* - It took me a few days to find an optimal freq to use in my area, but once I did, the signal was quite strong)
The Roadster is meant to be used with Motorola's MotoSpeak app which, in my opinion, sucks. I've never been overly impressed by voice recognition in general (let me be the first to point out, that may mean I'm the problem ) but MotoSpeak is resoundingly lacking, both in quality, and capability, when compared to the Genius button.
As for sound quality, your happiness will be dependent on your taste in music, and your ear's attention to detail. The audio sounds compressed; while capable of thumping lows and decently sharp highs, the product seems unable to do both at the same time. Any composition that has rumbling bass and crisp highs in its mix will lose one, or both, depending on the tune. (I can't think of the term for this phenomenon... fairly certain its not dynamic range or frequency response, but is obviously related to both.)
To be honest & fair, though, I'm not sure there is an FM solution that will NOT compress audio.
For what its worth - those are my two cents. Congrats, you drug me out of lurking. =)
Cheers,
CS...
Is there one of these that actually work well?
It compresses it because it has to stay within range of a specific frequency. If you played a high-frequency sound on 102.7 (FM), you could hear it on 102.8 (FM) but it would be a lower frequency. Don't quote me, this is just what I understand of it.
Turn your phone's music volume down and make your car stereo amplify it... it seems to work for me.
I am using this one for about a month now:
Soundfly BT Ultimate Bluetooth Car Fm Transmitter
Works well enough.
You can find it on Amazon.
It's not the cheapest, but I've been rather impressed with the Jabra Cruiser 2. As others have posted you're going to loose some sound quality, it can't be helped, but this one seems to loose less than other.
Review of Motorola T505
pnut22r said:
...I like the idea of the Motorola line t505 and roadster, but i am not sure either of these have voice command for any kind of phone book. It would be nice if i could dial with voice command...
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I have owned 2 T505s. The first I left in a rental car in Boston. I have been very happy with the product. You can use it for voice dialing with nothing extra to set up on the phone (at least in CM7). You just press the phone button on the t505 and wait for it to say "Speak now", then say "Call John Smith on Mobile", or whatever. It has a play/pause button that will start your default music player. It has volume controls for the internal speaker, but in FM mode they function as skip forward/backward.
The device has great battery life. It lasted all the way to LA and back from Tucson, AZ on one charge while listening to Pandora the whole drive.
The built-in speaker is pretty decent for phone calls, but sounds pretty tinny when listening to music through it.
My only complaint about the t505 is it's "Auto Channel Selector" for the FM transmitter. It attempts to find a channel that has low interference, but will sometimes pick a channel way to close to a very powerful local radio station. I have to keep pressing the radio button for it to choose a different channel. I would like to be able to specify a specific channel, but after a few tries it seems to eventually settle on one that works fairly well.
Last I saw they have them on sale for under $50 at Newegg.
Hello.
The Skullcandy FIX Bud headphones are the best headphones I've ever owned, however these headphones don't work with SGS3 (when trying dialing or answering a call, SGS3 looses connection to headphones, many apps don't even see the headphones at all, like skype. They work fine on SGS2...I've contacted Samsung regarding this and reply I got was basically saying "**** off")
So now I'm looking for wired headphones that have good sound quality (decent bass and not piercing high pitched sounds) with working mic (volume buttons are not necessary, but wouldn't hurt to have)
Noise canceling type (aka in-ear) are out of question, can't stand these. Also tried iphone type and they didn't have enough bass for my taste.
Any suggestion?
Thanks.
I've had pretty bad luck across the board with several bluetooth headsets I've tried through the years. Always seemed dependent on phone I was using, had to have it within like 2 feet of the phone for a solid connection...and even with solid connection voice quality was always poor, complaints on both ends. Between cell call quality never being exactly HD, adding in the poor bluetooth compression other companies were using was just too much. One in four words I wouldn't be able to understand, and between the extra noise the mic would pick up (in spite of all having "dual mics with proprietary noise cancelling algorithm!!!!111") the other person would have trouble understanding me. So I had to take care not to speak too fast, speak slowly, clearly. Far too much trouble.
This is the first headset I haven't had any of those problems with. I couldn't be happier. I regularly ask people how I sound and they say "great"; and the other line always comes through loud and clear.
I'm not sure if it's similar bluetooth stack implementation, and I haven't tested this with other phones; but with the Nexus 5 it's fantastic sound quality, noise cancelling, solid connection (even from pocket I want to say but I usually give bluetooth the 3 feet and line of sight regardless when on phone).
It's the LG HBM-235, linked below
ok I'm trying to link it but I might be spamming. Will update after more posts. You can find it on Amazon.
Hope you guys like it too!
Lg tones 730 + viper audio