I closed bottom microphone with finger and made a record using stock JB Voice Recorder. Second record I made with closed top microphone. By comparing records noticed that top microphone is less sensitive than bottom. Sound record from top microphone was much quieter. Can someone do similar test and confirm.
konsulas said:
I closed bottom microphone with finger and made a record using stock JB Voice Recorder. Second record I made with closed top microphone. By comparing records noticed that top microphone is less sensitive than bottom. Sound record from top microphone was much quieter. Can someone do similar test and confirm.
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the secondary microphone is for noise cancellation and not for recording voice. Both work for different things and can't be compared.
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The microphone is way too sensitive. I've recorded a concert and a wrestling match, and the audio in Audacity is a solid rectangle. Even using the voice recorder the audio is a nightmare. If I put my finger over the hole and press down, it sounds fine.
I found the following menu from Google searching around:
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But I haven't a clue what to change, if anything.
This is a major problem, and it makes using the Video Camera 100% useless.
Thanks,
Mike
Some Scotch Tape over the hole seems to help, but I would like to actually fix this.
The scotch tape makes normal voice calls barely audible on the other end. So I'm back to square one.
I have a new T-Mobile HTC One. I tried testing out the video quality and recorded a song playing from my stereo system. After recording it, I noticed almost all of the sound was on the left channel, and the right channel was almost non-existent. I uploaded the video to my computer to hear it and noticed the same issue - the left earphone was loud and clear, the right was very quiet.
Is this a defect with my device? How does it differentiate between the left and right sounds when recording audio? Is the back mic for the left channel and the bottom mic for the right?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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jpzsports said:
I have a new T-Mobile HTC One. I tried testing out the video quality and recorded a song playing from my stereo system. After recording it, I noticed almost all of the sound was on the left channel, and the right channel was almost non-existent. I uploaded the video to my computer to hear it and noticed the same issue - the left earphone was loud and clear, the right was very quiet.
Is this a defect with my device? How does it differentiate between the left and right sounds when recording audio? Is the back mic for the left channel and the bottom mic for the right?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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You may have had your hand accidentally covering the back mic.........
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I wish, but I've tried multiple times and my hand isn't blocking anything. I talked to HTC and they think it's a hardware defect. I'll probably need to get a new device. I'm just curious as to how the phone records the L vs. R channels.
EDIT: It's definitely an issue with the bottom microphone. When I cover the back speaker, the video's sound is almost gone. When I cover the bottom speaker (right channel), there isn't much of a difference at all.
Can anyone do me a favor and test their HTC One's video recording by recording a video with some audio playing, and then cover up the back mic, and then let go of that and then try covering the bottom speaker. When you play back the video, does it sound like both channels are equal (in other words, both mic's are recording).
Are you still waiting for an answer? Yes I can reproduce a true Stereo Recording with the HTC video app. If I cover one of the mics the signal on the other side is still unchanged. If I blow into the mainmic (near the usb port) it is only on the right channel. If i blow into the camcorder mic (near the lense) it is only on the left audiochannel.
BUT if you use a third party video or one of the audio apps on the market which are able to record just audio (lile RecForge or VoicePro) you will find that the camcorder mic ist not used.
This occurs even if the app uses AudioRecord with the parameter CHANNEL_IN_STEREO. I guess HTC uses a command to activate the camcorder audiochannel before recording.
For all who are serarching a worarround: Look here.
Ralf
Is my bottom speaker that doesn't work during a call or only the top speaker is activated?
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Same here, I think that is normal on a stock for now.
Yes it only uses the top speaker for some reason
Thank you guys!
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I don't know why people complain about this. The one speaker is plenty loud
mouse100 said:
Is my bottom speaker that doesn't work during a call or only the top speaker is activated?
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Yes, as the bottom speaker hole contains the mic as well.
The top speaker is used because the bottom speaker contains the mic. If the bottom speaker were to output sound, the other party might not be able to hear you properly.
My M7 records only white noise from the microphone. This happens during calls and also using any app which records using the microphone. I've tried cleaning it and also block one, or the other, or both, but white noise is still recorded. I've tried a couple of roms, including the stock RUU and am now using the most recent insertcoin, but the problem remains.
I received the phone recently and didn't check the microphone before flashing/rooting using HTC dev, but have no reason to beleive that this issue was present then (the seller did not mention it)
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
The HTC M7 design makes your finger block the microphone
I have had this microphone problem intermittently too. When it failed for 2 or 3 calls in a row I experimented with voice recordings and noticed that while my voice was absent, there was some scratching sound and I clearly heard my breathing for just a moment in the last second of one recording.
That was when I noticed I had been holding the phone in my left hand and resting my pinky right on the microphone hole. Because of the edge to edge touchscreen it has to be held with fingertips, can't wrap your fingers around it. It's a slippery phone, so you can't easily hold it with fingertips just from the sides. The main mic is on the bottom on this phone near the right corner, exactly where my left pinky holds it up.
So I made a bunch of recordings paying attention to my fingers and it has worked fine every time. I'll bet few people who hold the phone with their right hand have any trouble.
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I have had this microphone problem intermittently too. When it failed for 2 or 3 calls in a row I experimented with voice recordings and noticed that while my voice was absent, there was some scratching sound and I clearly heard my breathing for just a moment in the last second of one recording.
That was when I noticed I had been holding the phone in my left hand and resting my pinky right on the microphone hole. Because of the edge to edge touchscreen it has to be held with fingertips, can't wrap your fingers around it. It's a slippery phone, so you can't easily hold it with fingertips just from the sides. The main mic is on the bottom on this phone near the right corner, exactly where my left pinky holds it up.
So I made a bunch of recordings paying attention to my fingers and it has worked fine every time. I'll bet few people who hold the phone with their right hand have any trouble.
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On a side note, what do you think of beats audio? I feel it terribly sucks.
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On a side note, what do you think of beats audio? I feel it terribly sucks.
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I personally don't have any beats devices, so beats audio has to stay off. It intentionally distorts the sound to complement the response characteristics of beats headphones, similar to Dolby and dbx. But beatsaudio labeling is so prominent on the HTC One, I wonder who paid whom?
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I personally don't have any beats devices, so beats audio has to stay off. It intentionally distorts the sound to complement the response characteristics of beats headphones, similar to Dolby and dbx. But beatsaudio labeling is so prominent on the HTC One, I wonder who paid whom?
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Turning it off completely distorts the audio quality to the point where the mids are gone.
There appears to be a mic at the top of the phone and a mic at the bottom of the phone, I assume to record in stereo and/or noise cancelation. For voice calls on speakerphone, which mic is active? I'm trying to figure out which is the best way to hold the phone when it's noisy and I want to speak directly into the mic.
And for other functions like google assistant, should I be speaking into the top or bottom mic?
install Easy Voice Recorder from Play and test each mic for quality, but I guess you should use bottom microphone