Hey I was wondering if there was a way to turn off the speaker in our phones, it's sometimes a problem when I am in a quiet environment such as school and the headphones which are really loose come out and the music gets blasted from the speaker, so if anyone can help me?
Thanks
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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I am not happy at all abuot the sound quality its too low, so I contacted them and ther reply is:
Thank you for contacting our Customer Support Center. With regards to your inquiry, Please note that we didn’t receive any problems with HTC desire volume ,however you can search over android market for a 3rd party application to raise the device’s volume Thank you once again for your continued patronage. Best regards
anyone know any apps k and r u happy with the volume , please contact theme if your not let theme know about this issu
Thanks
You aren't very clear. Is your problem the quality or the volume? And is your phone branded or not? Branded phones are sometimes limited in volume.
i am not happy about the low handsfree rear speaker volume either. the phone ear piece speaker is ok volume wise. but the handsfree speaker is pretty crap and might probably take the crown for the worst handsfree speaker on the market. i have two desire phones and both are the same. loads of similar complaints on many forums (moneysavingexpert, avforums, three blog and others). htc must be having the heads in the sand if they havent heard about it. i think it is a deliberate denial of an obvious poor handsfree speaker, htc had some chap called dave who said he was following the posts on three blog and replied about poor stocks etc so HTC is aware about this issue, they are just dishing out denials or htc tech guys need to have their ears checked ASAP.
just put anyother phone or media player next to the htc desire and play the same sound / music via all the devices and htc desire will most probably take the crown for having the poorest rear speaker. at high volumes (which one needs anyway if one wants to hear in anywhere where the background noise is present) there is a lot of treble noise. on my archos 605 if i keep half the volume, for the same clip i wont get as good a volume on my desire at full volume. it is pretty easy to miss the notifications when out and about because one didnt hear the notifications.
the poor volume is obvious while using google navigation. while tomtom 760T has a great volume, but when i use the desires speakers for navigation voice, i have to keep the music off and can get tricky in busy traffic as sometimes the volume isnt enough or is barely enough. this might not be a problem when using car stereo with bluetooth but my car stereo does not have bluetooth or an input socket in the front as it is a few years old car.
the notifications volume must be with some internal settings i canty access as i have tried adjusting everything but it does not make a difference, or much of it. but the new yahoomail app i got from the market has a much much better volume that is easily audible. for the other notifications i downloaded the 'car mode' app that makes the notifications louder by using the rear speaker, i guess otherwise it uses the earpiece speaker by default, hence the low volume for the notifications. the volume is ok when inside and when it is quiet but just not enough when out and about. i didnt have a problem with speaker volumes with any of my handsets in the last decade, i am just adding that my ears are fine as they get checked by occupational health at work!
bubblesmoney said:
i am not happy about the low handsfree rear speaker volume either. the phone ear piece speaker is ok volume wise. but the handsfree speaker is pretty crap and might probably take the crown for the worst handsfree speaker on the market. i have two desire phones and both are the same. loads of similar complaints on many forums (moneysavingexpert, avforums, three blog and others). htc must be having the heads in the sand if they havent heard about it. i think it is a deliberate denial of an obvious poor handsfree speaker, htc had some chap called dave who said he was following the posts on three blog and replied about poor stocks etc so HTC is aware about this issue, they are just dishing out denials or htc tech guys need to have their ears checked ASAP.
just put anyother phone or media player next to the htc desire and play the same sound / music via all the devices and htc desire will most probably take the crown for having the poorest rear speaker. at high volumes (which one needs anyway if one wants to hear in anywhere where the background noise is present) there is a lot of treble noise. on my archos 605 if i keep half the volume, for the same clip i wont get as good a volume on my desire at full volume. it is pretty easy to miss the notifications when out and about because one didnt hear the notifications.
the poor volume is obvious while using google navigation. while tomtom 760T has a great volume, but when i use the desires speakers for navigation voice, i have to keep the music off and can get tricky in busy traffic as sometimes the volume isnt enough or is barely enough. this might not be a problem when using car stereo with bluetooth but my car stereo does not have bluetooth or an input socket in the front as it is a few years old car.
the notifications volume must be with some internal settings i canty access as i have tried adjusting everything but it does not make a difference, or much of it. but the new yahoomail app i got from the market has a much much better volume that is easily audible. for the other notifications i downloaded the 'car mode' app that makes the notifications louder by using the rear speaker, i guess otherwise it uses the earpiece speaker by default, hence the low volume for the notifications. the volume is ok when inside and when it is quiet but just not enough when out and about. i didnt have a problem with speaker volumes with any of my handsets in the last decade, i am just adding that my ears are fine as they get checked by occupational health at work!
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Thanks 4 your reply
I decided to sell My phone,Its useless as a media player
No support no update Thank You HTC
I bought 2 HTC Desire phones for me & my wife. Both of them have the most lowest & weakest speakerphones I have witnessed in any phone over the last 10 years. Even the regular flip phones which are not smartphones had the good quality speakerphones for conference. It's a shame having such a Flagship phone with pathetic speakerphone.
I called HTC customer service and though I already new their scripted answer I still asked 'Is it a known issue?'. There reply was what I expected. Complete Denial. 'No, this is the first time we are hearing it.' What a joke. I told him to do some google and check the forums. I also complimented him for lying so well.
He asked me to do soft reset, hard reset and do factory reset which would wipe out all data. Simply put they were giving me a run around & wasting my time so I stopped him right there that son I have already done that.
He transferred me to their Repair department, who turned out to be Telus customer service and they said since it's a new phone you have a 1 year warranty, take your phone to the store you bought it from with the receipt and they'll replace it. I asked what if the replaced phone also have the same problem then what are my options. She said you need to discuss it with the store from where you bought it from, they can let you have another phone but you can't break the 3 year contract.
Dealing with the phones issue is frustrating enough and on top of that frustration caused by the absolute denial by HTC's customer service & not providing a solution is totally unacceptable. I'm selling my HTC Desire on ebay and probably buy the Nokia N8.
Sometimes all what a customer needs is an apology and admission that yes we are not crazy, there is a known issuee with the phone and they'll fix it. But they are following on the footsteps of Apple who literally made their customers feel like they are crazy when they reported about iphone 4 antenna issues. Shame on Apple for telling them that they are not holding the phone properly as if dealing with ignorant kids. Such behavior isn't expected from such large and reputable corporations. Nokia on the other hand makes the best phones and admit their problems and fix them.
What do expect from a tiny rear speaker?? If you want decent sound then plug in some speakers!!
Or are you the annoying twats who play music when in public?
EddyOS said:
What do expect from a tiny rear speaker?? If you want decent sound then plug in some speakers!!
Or are you the annoying twats who play music when in public?
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To be fair, I also have a T-Mobile Pulse Mini as a backup phone, and the internal speaker is way, way, better than the one on the Desire.
IMHO, the Desire's speak is "ok", if you want to take/make a handsfree call whilst sitting at your desk, but is worse than useless if you are in a car - for both taking calls and satellite navigation. I do have bluetooth handsfree, so it is less of an issue for me personally, but given the price of the phone I think they could've made the internal speaker a little higher quality.
Regards,
Dave
But the phone isn't a media player in the traditional sense, you wouldn't watch a film on it without headphones...given, it could be a bit louder for the navigation side of things but I've got Sat Nav for that...
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But the phone isn't a media player in the traditional sense, you wouldn't watch a film on it without headphones.
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I wouldn't only because it would sound terrible from the external speaker. If it sounded better, it is something that I might well do.
Regards,
Dave
EddyOS said:
What do expect from a tiny rear speaker?? If you want decent sound then plug in some speakers!!
Or are you the annoying twats who play music when in public?
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Desires loudspeaker is a disgrace even a £5 mobile phone loudspeaker is better.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
The headphone volume is really low on my desire (stock t-mobile rom) even with hi end noise cancelling headphones and volume at max (am told this is a problem with the t-mobile rom), now I use mixzing which has a gain and graphic for music. It is almost imposible to watch a film while on the underground tho, which is really annoying me, am waiting to see if the froyo update fixes this, if not I will root and change to unbranded rom.
CONTACTMC said:
The headphone volume is really low on my desire (stock t-mobile rom) even with hi end noise cancelling headphones and volume at max (am told this is a problem with the t-mobile rom), now I use mixzing which has a gain and graphic for music. It is almost imposible to watch a film while on the underground tho, which is really annoying me, am waiting to see if the froyo update fixes this, if not I will root and change to unbranded rom.
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you don't need to root to DE-BRAND your device really
Personally, I've never had a problem with the speaker volume on my Desire, its a lot louder than my my old iPhone, if a bit tinny.
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you don't need to root to DE-BRAND your device really
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I meant a stock htc rom without the volume issue.
Hi guys,
Sorry for posting in this forum but I thought there might be some users who have upgraded from the original Dash and might be able to provide me with a solution.
So, is there any way to boost the in-call earpiece volume on the original Dash/HTC S620? I have set it to the highest possible level and I can barely hear the other party while I am having a call on the street. If I am in some quiet room, then it's quite acceptable but outside it's just a nightmare trying to understand what the other person is talking.
Thanks in advance!
Moved to proper device forum
Anyone?
s_ivan10 said:
Anyone?
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Did you search? I just did a common search and found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=426006
I hope that helps,
Of course, I searched, a lot actually.
I tried SetVolume - it can't boost the in-call volume more than what I am able to achieve with the JOGGR. And what I need is some sort of hack to allow boosting the earpiece volume (to a level above the max level available by default) so that I can hear the other person louder while having a call. Will SmartToolKit allow me to do so?
BTW, that topic is about the rear speaker volume.
So there is no way to do it, right?
Let me report an experience I had with another device I bought (KS20), but it may help you possibly as well. For that device I noticed that the sound was very low and when increasing volume it got distorted. After closely looking at the speaker (this device has only one speaker - of the normal "membrane" type) and removing the covering fabric from the top I saw the bare plastic membrane. It seemed that the copper coil part was burned (brownish look) and the whole membrane was set too much inwards to the magnet.
Looking closer I noticed that the brownish look did not come from burned copper insulation of the voice-coil, but - hold your breath - from rusted iron dust! This accumulated at the place of strongest magnetism and pushed the membrane inside. So the voice coil was out of the magnetic field and the volume was low. CRAZY!
Carefully removing the iron dust with applying adhesive tape on the membrane sticking to the iron dust the speaker was back to normal operation!
So it was possible that very fine iron dust (from the workplace of the previous owner) was attracted by the magnet in the speaker
After discovering this I could better understand the poor condition of this (cheap) device.
Conclusion: If you are not hearing impaired and the volume is too low - consider the speaker broken and either repair it or replace it. The earpiece for the following HTC devices looks identical: Typhoon, Hurricane, Tornado and Excalibur.
Good luck
OK, it's not the speaker. I just installed Fring, set it to use the earpiece for calls (not the rear speaker) and did a test call. I increased the volume to the max while having the Fring call and it is much much HIGHER than while making regular calls with volume on max.
So basically I now know it's possible to boost the earpiece volume much more than the default setting allows for regular cellular calls - I just have to figure out how Fring does it!
Any idea?
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OK, it's not the speaker. I just installed Fring, set it to use the earpiece for calls (to the rear speaker)
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Are you not contradicting yourself?
- earpiece is the little speaker for the ear
- rear speaker is the one at the back for ringtone and handsfree
I don't use Fring, but I cannot remember that it can route to the earpiece.
Only solution:
1.) Hard-reset - then check, if that does not work
2.) Flash a shipped ROM and see if it works, if that does not work
-> your HW is somewhat weird/broken
Sorry I meant "(not the rear speaker)", I have corrected it now.
The problem is obviously software-related - if Fring can produce a volume much loader than while I am having normal calls with volume set to the max, then it's obviously some setting somewhere (in the registry?) that needs to be hacked for normal calls.
I will write in the Fring forums and hopefully some of its developers might share how they allow increasing the volume much more than the default max level that is available.
Thanks for your advices but, at least for now, I prefer not to flash the phone.
Don't have a working Excalibur at hand, but all other OMAP 850 devices have a registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AUDIOGAIN and lots of values below. This key is also common for many other HTC devices, so possibly search the forum for more info about it.
It's not a very clear sounding mic when it is not on loudspeaker. Then when I put it on loudspeaker, the other person can hear me very easily.
Also, the inphone speaker is not too loud.
These problems both occur for a few hours in the day and not at other times. Please let me know if there is any possible fix for this.
Also, I have not got any other firmware on it - just the original one. Any fixes??