Audio quality of video taken by Oneplus 3 - OnePlus 3 Questions & Answers

It seems, every other review is bashing Oneplus 3 for the poor quality audio in the video taken by Oneplus 3. It seems so in those videos too. It sounds horrible.
To those who have already got their One, could you provide some feedback on this?

Took a test video (4k) today, myself speaking a bit and playing guitar a bit. Sounded OK, by far not as bad as many Youtube videos shot with the OP3.

It is exactly the way these reviews describe it.
Ambient noise is basically completely filtered out.
I really hope this can be improved by software because right now it is the worst
quality I got so far from a smartphone.

Can it be fixed? or is it a hardware issue?

This seems to be the noise cancelation being activated on video, which it shouldn't be.
Totally software, but I really hope they fix it. Makes video recordings sound terrible .
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EP2008 said:
This seems to be the noise cancelation being activated on video, which it shouldn't be.
Totally software, but I really hope they fix it. Makes video recordings sound terrible .
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can u pls check recording with other camera app? thanks

Completely software related, trying to make a fix now because its very irritating

Just discovered this as well. A huge problem even when my room is completely quiet and I'm sending a short snapchat video.

trd360 said:
Just discovered this as well. A huge problem even when my room is completely quiet and I'm sending a short snapchat video.
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are you facing this issue on video recording only or while talking to others using microphone too?

knince said:
are you facing this issue on video recording only or while talking to others using microphone too?
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Video recording and video chat. Voice calls are completely fine.

trd360 said:
Video recording and video chat. Voice calls are completely fine.
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is it fixable?

knince said:
are you facing this issue on video recording only or while talking to others using microphone too?
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knince said:
is it fixable?
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I sure hope the 3.1.4 update fixes it since there are audio optimizations. I've found a workaround by plugging in ear buds or headphones while recording.

trd360 said:
I sure hope the 3.1.4 update fixes it since there are audio optimizations. I've found a workaround by plugging in ear buds or headphones while recording.
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Does this cause the phone to record through the mic in the headphones or does it still use the mic on the phone?
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EP2008 said:
Does this cause the phone to record through the mic in the headphones or does it still use the mic on the phone?
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I used a pair of headphones without a mic so it would still have been the mic on the phone.

trd360 said:
I used a pair of headphones without a mic so it would still have been the mic on the phone.
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Interesting that would help. I'm going to test this out!
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EP2008 said:
Does this cause the phone to record through the mic in the headphones or does it still use the mic on the phone?
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EP2008 said:
Interesting that would help. I'm going to test this out!
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Hmmm it must have been working last night when I was video chatting with Facebook Messenger but I can't reproduce the results in Snapchat or any other recording app. Damn shame but it seems like my only choice for now is to use my earbuds with a mic until this is fixed.

This can definitely be fixed with changes to the mixer_paths.xml file. After much anger and try and error I determined that the phone uses the file "mixer_paths_tasha.xml" and not the regular "mixer_paths.xml" file. I alos found that when recording with google camera it uses the "speaker-stereo-dmic-ef" audio path.

mr.shme said:
This can definitely be fixed with changes to the mixer_paths.xml file. After much anger and try and error I determined that the phone uses the file "mixer_paths_tasha.xml" and not the regular "mixer_paths.xml" file. I alos found that when recording with google camera it uses the "speaker-stereo-dmic-ef" audio path.
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Would just deleting the "tasha" file have adverse effects or would it just default back to the correct xml file?

trd360 said:
Would just deleting the "tasha" file have adverse effects or would it just default back to the correct xml file?
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It boot loops when you delete it. You can delete the three others with no problems
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Can you guys try the camfixtest1 and see if it's better than stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/themes/mod-oneplus-3-audio-mods-t3407025

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[Q] Problem with Sound on Sprint Touch Pro 2 Youtube

Hi,
I have Sprint Touch Pro 2 and I have noticed that the YouTube app that comes preinstalled does not play sound, but only plays video. Is there any way to fix this problem? Thank you.
mrbears said:
Hi,
I have Sprint Touch Pro 2 and I have noticed that the YouTube app that comes preinstalled does not play sound, but only plays video. Is there any way to fix this problem? Thank you.
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R U sure your system volume is up
DroidFreek said:
R U sure your system volume is up
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Yep. Played movie before trying youtube. I take it that it works without problem in yours?
I believe there is problem with HTC codec for sound when using HQ from youtube. The only fix that I've heard of is to download the LQ stream. And the only way I know of doing that is by using GPRS rather than WiFi.
So if you are using WiFi that's most probably the reason. Hopefully someone can help with a better fix than this.
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I believe there is problem with HTC codec for sound when using HQ from youtube. The only fix that I've heard of is to download the LQ stream. And the only way I know of doing that is by using GPRS rather than WiFi.
So if you are using WiFi that's most probably the reason. Hopefully someone can help with a better fix than this.
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You should be able to select the quality within the app by going to Settings > Video Playback Quality > Fast Download.

Any way for better recording at live venues?

So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
Not really; low pressure mic trying to to record high pressure audio created by a speaker which then travels through air. Sorry.
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I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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radrian92 said:
I've heard that you should record with the earphones plug in. Apparently the sound is better that way. Just my 2 cents
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Hmm interesting, I had my headphones in my pocket too. I'll have to try that next time.
I have never had a phone that could record quality audio at a concert regardless of the operating system. I havent heard of the headphone trick but the phone would use that mic instead of the actual device mic so its worth a shot.
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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Wrong post. Haha.
chrischoi said:
Wrong post. Haha.
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You didn't happen to go the Art Institute of Pgh did you? i saw you're from PA. I went to AIP with a Chris Choi.
dennistpm said:
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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What's Record Forge? I googled it but nothing came up besides a bunch of results for Forge Records.
Sorry. My bad. It's called RecForge.
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Gotcha...thanks.
dennistpm said:
I bought the Opteka external mic on Amazon for around 20 bucks. Then I use Record Forge to make recordings. With a little bit of tweaking you can make fairly decent recordings.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006B...ile?redirect=true&ref_=oh_details_o06_s00_i00
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So wait. You can shoot a video and this program will separately record the sound? What happens to the sound from the native video app? I'm confused
EDIT: It does not seem to work. Every time RecForge is recording, the video fails to record immediately.
From everything I've experienced, all native Android sound recording is pretty poor. I have the paid version of Hi-Q MP3 Recorder and I've found it to work quite well. I emailed the dev a few weeks back asking to give options to increase the recording bit rate, and you now have the ability to record up to 320kbps. It'll of course take up more room, but the quality is better. It records straight to mp3 file instead of amr or whatever the stock one uses.
I don't know how well it'll work for concerts though, as that's just a really loud environment!
And if you wanted to get just the audio from any video recording, there's an app called Freecorder (don't know if available for Macs) which takes any audio directly from the sound card of your computer. No background interference or anything like that, right from the card so anything playing through your computer will be recorded. It's great for getting any audio from a video, or a streaming file, though I don't condone stealing
I need a solution too!
zeron89 said:
So I went to a concert last night and I was looking forward to recording a song or two with my S3, Little did I know the audio recording would be so horrendous. The video turned out really good though, but the audio was pretty bad. I wasn't sure if it had to do with the music (I listen to Metal) but after perusing the internets it seems the S3 and android in general isn't so hot at recording audio at concerts. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to get the audio to sound better? An app, add on, etc? I'm going to 2 more metal shows in the future and would like to capture a song or 2 as well.
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I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
salsa2333 said:
I've been searching high and low for a solution to this same problem! No solution yet but perhaps I can offer a little bit of a different perspective. You see, my previous phone was a Droid4 and it had a audio setting in the camera called "concert option" when recording video. It actually record pretty decent audio with that setting but the difference was dramatic to the "normal" setting. I now have an S3 and noticed that it does not have the same setting and the sound is really bad when recording video at a concert.
I've tried searching everywhere for a solution but to no avail. I tried searching for camera app that might have a similar setting to try it out but no such luck. I thought, maybe if I could find the droid4 camera apk, maybe that could work but it seems as if that apk would only work on motorola phones. I don't even know what the Droid4 did internally to make the difference so dramatic. Better sampling rate? Noise reduction?
Anyone have any suggestions?
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I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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mattzeller said:
I know this is going to sound stupid, but have you tried covering the mic with something so that the music isn't quite as loud going into the mic?
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No, I haven't tried that but my guess is that it would sound pretty muffled. I'm going to try different camera apps next but I'm trying to understand what that "concert mode" does internally in the Droid4. There's an app called "LG Camera" that seems to have some pretty robust settings for the audio. You can potentially change the audio encoder, the samplerate and the bitrate. There's also an option to "enable stereo mode" (if device supports stereo sound recording). Possibly one of those settings could do it?
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I also found this thread which makes me think I'm on to something with the LG Camera app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/mod-hacked-camera-apk-audio-quality-t1104051
I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
<<< PLEASE say thank you if I was of help!
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aarongillion63 said:
There's an easy way to improve concert recording. Just simply power off, insert your phone up your butthole, wait approximately 3 minutes, power on phone & re-insert, wait until Samsung boot sound and suddenly you will experience better concert recording.
Your welcome guys,
<<< PLEASE say thank you if I was of help!
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You're doing this with your HTC one? You must have a massive butthole....
1BadWolf said:
I haven't had the opportunity to test this out yet, but I'm running Quantum kernel and noticed in Trickster Mod there's a sound control setting that allows you to adjust the gain on the camera mic. Now I'm anxious to try it out, hahaha.
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Any luck?

Recording audio quality?

hi guys,
I was wondering if you guys who allready got the G3, could test the audio recirding quality,
what I mean is, G2 has a problem with noise cancelation microphone, and very often (allways) video recording sounds distorted, like underwater, cutouts, blanks, etc etc. '
is that problem still persistent with the G3, as the camera module is the same, so nto sure if they used the same microphones as well..?
please get back to me with this, I know that the majority of users wont notice this while playing recording on a cell phone, but when you play ot on a tv or laptop, the issues is very very big
seriously, no one has G3?
The audio recording in my opinion is great.
Gabre said:
seriously, no one has G3?
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There is another thread on here somewhere with regards to this, sorry I don't have the link.
I haven't tested it yet myself, waiting for an opportunity to be in a loud club or something to give it a whirl.
Also search YouTube there may be some videos on there by now.
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I notic some pop sound when recording video but same time

Full Stereo since 7.1.2!?

I just realized in a video that both Speakers are creating Media Sound, and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed it.
wulkanat said:
I just realized in a video that both Speakers are creating Media Sound, and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed it.
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Nope. Sound only on the bottom speaker for me. Earpiece remains silent.
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wulkanat said:
I just realized in a video that both Speakers are creating Media Sound, and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed it.
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There are some mods for stereo sound for Nexus 5X in XDA one of them is this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/themes-apps/mod-surround-sound-testers-t3252659

Bluetooth Out of Sync with Video

Does anyone else have this issue if watching videos through BT and the audio isn't synced up properly with the video?
Don_Perrignon said:
Does anyone else have this issue if watching videos through BT and the audio isn't synced up properly with the video?
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Audio syncs up fine through both car and headset Bluetooth for me. Might get off sync rarely but a pause and play fixes it immediately.
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Yes
Yes, there's a consistent audio delay of a few seconds with my car (Infiniti q30, in case that's relevant) regardless of whether there's a video playing on the screen (noticeable e.g. when pausing podcasts, switching to a different song, as well as when audio should be synced with a video playing on-screen). No noticeable delay with other Bluetooth audio devices e.g. anker or taotronics earphones.
Any suggestions for workarounds? There are obviously video players that allow modifying the audio offset, but that doesn't help with e.g. netflix or similar streaming.
My wife's Note 8 and my old OnePlus 3T also have same issue...
Have had that with any phone I have. Most likely car specific issue not phone specific.
I was under the impression this was always the case with Bluetooth.
pilotgav said:
I was under the impression this was always the case with Bluetooth.
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Not until I got this phone. I wonder if it's anything to do with me adjusting codecs in the dev settings.
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theycallmerayj said:
Have had that with any phone I have. Most likely car specific issue not phone specific.
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Possibly. I will test with a few other phones.
Its always the Bluetooth device, not your phone. I had Beats Studio Wireless and there was always sync issue. Updated headphones' firmware and sync issues were gone. So it is the Bluetooth device that makes video and audio out of sync
aq88 said:
Its always the Bluetooth device, not your phone. I had Beats Studio Wireless and there was always sync issue. Updated headphones' firmware and sync issues were gone. So it is the Bluetooth device that makes video and audio out of sync
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Except, I made this thread with everything being out of sync on this phone. Same devices were fine with the Nexus 6.
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Don_Perrignon said:
Except, I made this thread with everything being out of sync on this phone. Same devices were fine with the Nexus 6.
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Oh. Sorry to hear that. Its all fine on my Pixel 2 XL though. I think you should contact Google
theycallmerayj said:
Have had that with any phone I have. Most likely car specific issue not phone specific.
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It can definitely be. My 2013 Passat has no delay but my wife's 2016 ILX has a good 2-3 seconds audio delay. Asked if there was some kind of software update but they said no.
Don_Perrignon said:
Does anyone else have this issue if watching videos through BT and the audio isn't synced up properly with the video?
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I have this same issue. All 3rd party apps I use with my Bluetooth headphones aren't synced properly, and there is some audio delay
Strangely enough, the delay is almost non existent on apps made by Google....

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