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Mangler+mic= McD's telecom

i downloaded mangler from the market and joined my friends ventrilo server which is pretty cool.
one thing thats annoying me to hell is the sound quality. im using the klipsch s2m with mic and they said i sound like the mcd's person and kept on saying "would you like fries with that?" lol
i tried with the headsets mic first, then the phones mic and then other sets but they all sound the same. also did with wifi and 3g no difference.
any idea why its like that? is it the codec thats really crappy on the phone or the mangler app? i logged on vent through pc and phone and listened to it. it sounds just as bad if not worse than the recorded video

I don't think any of us have tested it with a wired mic/headset. We're not really that far in yet. However, have you tried with and without "force 8khz" option?

yep. tried both. tried every option available

And I assume it works fine without the headset. If so, you'll just have to wait until we get around to testing with the wired mic.
And just FYI, BlueTooth is impossible because it's not supported in Android (via the public API)

sorry for late reply. its still the same without the headset tho. with inline mic and with phones mic i still sound the same. i tried another vent app called ventriloid and i do sound a little bit better but the robotic sound is still there.
could it be the codecs?
im trying to figure out also if there is a fix for the recording audio as well.. like an external mic but everything i have found said that it doesnt work

Could it be some setting on your vent server? Or maybe you have a bad/high-latent 3G connection?
I've used the built-in mic a lot with Mangler, and the audio is just fine (even tested this myself by logging into Vent on my PC at the same time).

I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess that it's the codec or your connection. The app might be auto-compressing your audio because it thinks you have low upstream bandwidth.
Also, are you by chance using a Froyo ROM? The AAC+ decoder is crap in it, so it's not a stretch to imagine that the encoder is also crap, and since AAC+ is such an efficient codec by bandwidth, it's easy to see why it would be chosen...

Bluetooth audio.

Has anyone figured out why high frequencies get garbled since the EG30 kernel? That's the last one I remember that did not garble. From what I've been told, the bluetooth stack is built into the kernel, not the ROM.
Could someone please clarify and perhaps offer a solution?

How about very low volume on the BT ? I paired my phone with the BT in my 2012 Ford (with SYNC) and the music plays perfectly, but I can't hear S#!T during a phone conversation...

peryp9 said:
How about very low volume on the BT ? I paired my phone with the BT in my 2012 Ford (with SYNC) and the music plays perfectly, but I can't hear S#!T during a phone conversation...
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I have a 2011 Explorer with SYNC and if memory serves, it considers the BT music volume and in-call volume 2 separate things. Once a call is made, you have to turn up the volume again to get that where you want it. Once it's turned up, it stays that way.

peryp9 said:
How about very low volume on the BT ? I paired my phone with the BT in my 2012 Ford (with SYNC) and the music plays perfectly, but I can't hear S#!T during a phone conversation...
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I'll try that but then I'll have to remember to turn it down when switching back to SiriusXM so that I dont blow my ears out.

I turned the media player volume down to 10 (as opposed to the normal 15) and it's still static on the high end.

Everything except cyanogen sucks as far as the bitpool goes and low bitpool makes bt sound like ****. I love android so much but I'm soooo disappointed in the amount of attention paid to Bluetooth sound. It's fine for audiobooks or podcasts but sucks for music.
Actually my son has a nexus s unrooted, maybe I should check that and see if music sounds OK. Maybe pure Android doesn't suck its just the touchwizs and senses of the world that make it terrible.
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Wow... I was debating getting a Bluetooth speaker today. Didn't realize there was an issue like this with our phone.
Thanks for the insight. I wonder if any dev could do anything about this.
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I have had a very different experience with in-car bluetooth audio. I just installed an iSimple expansion kit (uses the factory harness/plug and play) into my vehicle, and it sounds excellent! I have the phone volume turned all the way up, changing the level on the stereo instead. It seems to me that it isn't any quieter than XM, FM/AM, or CDs, and I like having all my music in Google Music and Pandora instead of the giant case of CDs I used to carry around. The call quality is average, better than OnStar if you've used it, worse than a call with good signal. The person on the other end sounds great, but I've heard that the driver always seems quieter than through the phone mic. My friends bluetooth audio in his Kia Soul does not sound as good as mine does, but the call quality is sometimes better.
Anyway, just my 2c. Cheers!

I have been using bluetooth audio and phone calls on stock rooted EL29 ROM with the Rogue Gunslinger kernel in both my car as well as a pair of headphones, and the audio comes through crystal clear. The car has a Kenwood KDC-BT945U head unit that supports A2DP and AVRCP, as well as hands-free calling, and I have no problems with either calls or music streaming. In the home, I have a Logitech bluetooth wireless speaker adapter plugged into my AVR, and it also sounds perfectly clear. There is never a hint of hissing, popping, dropouts, etc. I suggest that anyone who has bluetooth issues try my rom/kernel setup. If it does not work, you can blame the Ford or whatever bluetooth setup you have because the phone itself is perfectly good at bluetooth audio streaming. Maybe not out of the box, but with my setup I have no problems. For the record, I have high-end (near audiophile grade) audio equipment in both my car and home, so I know what good music sounds like. One caveat though, don't expect bluetooth streaming to sound as good as a wired connection. There is quite a bit of compression going on, but the difference is barely discernable in the car, probably due to the road noise. In the home though I have much higher quality speakers, and I can perceive a larger difference, but unless I'm listening to classical music in FLAC format, it's negligible.

Bluetooth audio on MyFord Touch is flawless..
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I have noticed the crappy quality as well.... but here is some good news... they fixed it with ICS. I'm currently running the FB17 leaked build, and the quality is PERFECT. I'm an audiophile, so I pay close attention to the sound quality. and am very very happy the addressed this issue in ICS.

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I have noticed the crappy quality as well.... but here is some good news... they fixed it with ICS. I'm currently running the FB17 leaked build, and the quality is PERFECT. I'm an audiophile, so I pay close attention to the sound quality. and am very very happy the addressed this issue in ICS.
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I have to agree, I have uConnect in my new Durango and was pissed when BT streaming did not work (it sounded like a constant pause/unpause and fastforward all at once). I just by happenstance tried it on FB17 and FB21 and it was perfect! Although the builds are not great yet so I went back to Calk 2.9 and itchin for a great ICS build to get that back!

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Bluetooth audio on MyFord Touch is flawless..
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The BT sounds very well for music but during a phone conversation, the volume of the other party is way too low. If you were to increase the car's volume to hear the other person, it will decrease your microphone's sensitivity to a point where the other person cannot understand what you're saying (to prevent feedback)... It may be my FORD SYNC, but it worked beautifully on my old Blackberry. I will wait for ICS update and hope they addressed this problem.

Thanks!
hijewpositive said:
I have noticed the crappy quality as well.... but here is some good news... they fixed it with ICS. I'm currently running the FB17 leaked build, and the quality is PERFECT. I'm an audiophile, so I pay close attention to the sound quality. and am very very happy the addressed this issue in ICS.
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I sure hope you're right! It's so much nicer to use my steering wheel controls then to reach over to my windshield-mounted phone and push the tiny on-screen buttons with Google Music. I'm also an audiophile and couldn't take the low quality sound of BT-Audio. Thanks for the hope!

I was on Paranoid Android 2.16, I used the Bluetooth music and calls in my 2012 Civic Si and sound quality was perfect. I switched to FI27 to give it a try and the Bluetooth sound quality went to crap. Has anyone looked further into the kernel theory? Anybody know a good kernel to use with latest update? That can be pushed with Odin? Thanks for any updates or suggestions.

[REQ] Fix for Call Audio through car speakers while docked

Very frustrating. I bought the Samsung OEM Navigation Vehicle Mount for the T989.
While docked, media (music and videos) play through the car speakers as expected. However, if a call comes in, the Call Audio only comes in through the phones speaker and not the car speakers.
From what I have been reading, it has to be fixed in the kernel somehow or baked in.
Currently, I am running Darkside Digital Warfare v2.4. I have tried all of the other roms including stock ones. I am open to using whatever rom has this fix or can flash the fix via kernel or whatever.
I am just requesting to see if someone has a fix. The purchase of the mount is very frustrating and annoying to use with the Call Audio problem.
Any help or point of direction would be greatly appreciated. You can reply here or PM.
Thanks for the consideration. ;-)

Have you tried any other kernels? There's faux's kernel, Mr X's stock based kernel...maybe one of those might adjust the issue you're experiencing.
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this is how it works with the desk dock as well, regardless of having external audio checked in dock settings. It worked this way using stock ROM as well I believe so it's a "feature". It would need to be hacked to have it perform otherwise I think.
Oh, and I think this should be in general also? Idk.
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Saw your post and it gave me a laugh! I was ranting about this very thing yesterday while taking a call in my car. You can barely hear the caller through the built in speaker! why would they do that? If anyone figures this out I also would be very appreciative to see a fix.
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[Q] Line-in recording

Does anybody know of a way one can record sound from the headphone jack on the DHD? I want to record something from a line out and I figured to connect it to my phone using the 2xRCA-3.5mm cable, but couldn't find an app for it... Anyone found a way?

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Does anybody know of a way one can record sound from the headphone jack on the DHD? I want to record something from a line out and I figured to connect it to my phone using the 2xRCA-3.5mm cable, but couldn't find an app for it... Anyone found a way?
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any sound recording app will do it, u just have to feed the audio into the mic ring on the connector. cant just feed audio backwards into an amplifier and record it. you will only get mono recording ability though.

Got a scheme/picture which ring is the mic ring? And can it take line-out/record-out loudness, or do I have to cut it down? Also, I'm pretty sure that when I plug in normal headphones which don't have a microphone the DHD uses its own, how exactly does it recognize a plugged in mic?

Im not sure offhand which it is. id dig around in google, any of the standard headsets work as its a standard for which ring is the mic. im just at work and dont have the moment to search it out. line out volume sohuld work fine, but any amplified or even headphone outputs could be too much for it.
i had an adapter i made for hooking my guitar to my ipad a while ago but dont know where i put it lol.

Nice, guess I'll get into researching, one more thing for me to play with...
Thank you for your time...

Rom vs call quality. .

Hi all, im wondering if different roms have any real correlation to call quality. Will rom quality affect call quality? Thanks..

Anyone?

Are you referring to quality of connection or the sound at ear piece?
I think you may be referring to the volume and sound mods over-driving or distorting voices and sounds you hear in call and loudspeaker?
I use V4A and Dolby Atmos with freeza kernel so I'm using the gain of V4A to bring the levels down and use acoustic equalization mode for the ear piece. For those that use synapse with custom kernels, there's volume levels there as well.
I do believe I saw various build.prop edits that can possibly improve audio for calls in tx_dbs_tx and freeza ROMs but I haven't compared them closely or comparatively with others, just glancing.
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Thanks, yeah I'm referring to in call voice quality. When I'm talking to my wife on her Note5 or her office land line her voice is a little muffled and garbled, as in sometimes her words run together. My dispatcher is the same way on his iphone5. I use a high quality bluetooth headset. I just cant remeber if it did this before my current rom.

I think that would be either the connection itself or your Bluetooth. I've had 2 Bluetooth sets and not impressed with Note 4 signal strength; music cuts out or drops momentarily but still sucks battery. But you could try another ROM or stock.
Are you using OJ6 modem? I've been updating mine and maybe there are slight improvements but no worse IMO.
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No I havent updated to oj6, I'm running @sac23s Note 5 port which was why I was wondering about the correlation between the rom and call quality. Maybe it was an unseen glitch..I was wondering if oj6 would be a solid build. As far as bluetooth,i stream sirius radio through my Frieghtliner head unit with no issues.

The stock rom offers personalized call sound, so there is clearly the ability to EQ the phone audio. Other ROMS may use different EQ curves.
Also, not all ROMs may support HD calling. If you've gotten an HD call you would know it, it's like listening to FM radio.

Honestly I'm only running the OJ6 modem that freeza put together for Odin flash. Once flashed, expect phone to do one reboot without warning but seems fine.
I don't use the phone for calls much, mostly Wi-Fi calling which is pretty good and reliable.
I don't know about the ports but the custom stock ROMs basically leave phone and Bluetooth intact but add sound and volume mods. I would think the quality would only be impacted by gain set too high. EQ with V4A for supported headsets is excellent. The sound alive is good for optimizations like user's balance and hearing curve but IMO, V4A with standard volume balance on a supported Viper-DDC set is dope to my ears. Just sounds way better. I'm using the Panasonic RP-HJE120 wired headset for music; retails less than $6.
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