[Q] Galaxy gear Microphone poor after tizen upgrade - Samsung Galaxy Gear

This is the situation -
Original Galaxy gear upgraded to Tizen. Everythign up to date,even a post upgrade download.
Just about everything works better.
Though microphone is very very poor. People say it sounds as though I am far away when using Gear. Original gear microphone was never great but it worked.
Voice memo can record but only just., very faint.
Svoice no chance. Even if I speak loudly into gear. Does not even make the microphne icon flash when speaking.
Speakers fine, music player fine, ringtones fine. I do like the ability to download additional apps.
Everything else works.
Reset, removed downloaded apps in case something was locking microphone. No change.
Is this a known problem after upgrade.
Robert.

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[Q] I897 stock wired earbud mic & pause button inop

Short version: Having a problem with I897 using the stock earbuds where I can hear fine but the mic and pause button are not working.
Details: I have two I897's and two stock earbuds (w/ mic and pause button). One I897 is rooted with stock ROM and some AT&T bloatware removed and both earbuds have GOOD audio but NO mic or pause function. The other I897 is pure stock and both earbuds work fine.
On the "faulty" I897, I have restored to factory default (using SGS tools). Prior to reloading the data (via Titanium Backup) the earbuds have the SAME problem.
My gut says the phone doesn't have a hardware problem. I am not sure what software settings would cause this. Perhaps one of the bloatware prog's that I axed controlled that??
Any useful tips, pointers, or advice are GREATLY appreciated.
DaveCT
UPDATE: I did the Odin 1-click with no change. I also upgraded to 2.2 thinking that may restore/repair something. No joy. Maybe it IS a hardware issue.
Perhaps I should utilize that expensive "insurance" plan bought with the phone.
I'd still like to hear from anyone with advice or suggestions.
Thanks,
DaveCT
If indeed it is an issue with the phone itself, call at&t warranty department and get a replacement. No charge unless you want expedited shipping and they will sometimes waive that as well.
Worked with AT&T on the phone and they had me do a "Master reset" (is that the same as the SGS Tools reset?). Same problem. Luckily I had a local warranty location and got a new phone today. No more problems and kept the same headset.
Thanks for input.
DaveCT
Another update:
Not 100% convinced the wired mic and pause button just STOPPED working, I decided to try an experiment.
With my replacement phone, I used paid Titanium Backup to erase bloatware 1 by 1, checking the wired mic and pause button after deleting each app. I had no problem until the default mms / messaging / com.android.messaging app. I had already installed Handcent and considered it better than the default. Upon deleting the default app, the exact same problem occurred: no wired mic or pause button.
Not realizing TB doesn't backup system apps, I couldn't restore the default messaging app. I searched high and low for a copy of the original file and couldn't find it. Finally, after a TB backup, I uninstalled Handcent, reinstalled it and the problem is cured.
That begs the question: If that was my problem all along, why didn't any of the reset / "Master Reset" / Odin resets cure it?
Hopefully anyone with problems like this will benefit from my trial & error.
Regards,
DaveCT
You probably know this, but the stock ear buds don't have a microphone. Not sure if a seemingly inoperable microphone is part of your issue, but your title says "mic" so I thought I'd throw this out there.
mobius911 said:
You probably know this, but the stock ear buds don't have a microphone. Not sure if a seemingly inoperable microphone is part of your issue, but your title says "mic" so I thought I'd throw this out there.
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I don't have a make or model other than they are "SAMSUNG" branded but mine definitely has a mic. The little box that holds the pause button doubles as the mic. I have used voice recorder app to verify this.
Thanks,
DaveCT
Interesting. The headset that came packaged with my new Captivate is stereo only, with a pause/play toggle.
If these are different (and I'm sure Samsung makes many), that may account for your issues.
One other thought- when you get or make a call with the headset, you hear sound through the headset, but the microphone on the phone itself is broadcasting your voice. Are you positive that in your test your voice went through the microphone on the headset and not the microphone on the phone?
mobius911 said:
Interesting. The headset that came packaged with my new Captivate is stereo only, with a pause/play toggle.
If these are different (and I'm sure Samsung makes many), that may account for your issues.
One other thought- when you get or make a call with the headset, you hear sound through the headset, but the microphone on the phone itself is broadcasting your voice. Are you positive that in your test your voice went through the microphone on the headset and not the microphone on the phone?
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Yes... mine definitely had a mic as well. Had it in my mouth a few times while recording :x

[Q] Bluetooth issues

Hi,
I have the following problem:
Everytime I pair my Samsung Galaxy SII I9000 with my car (Renault Fluence 2012) and its built in bluetooth System, it says that it's correctly paired (and honestly doesnt even take a minute to pair correctly and to find each other), but it plays no music. It just has no sound (even when the song is playing correctly) but everything else just works perfect. I mean, i can control the music (songs, playlists, etc) from my car correctly, but the sound just wont come out. The only way to make it work is to 'unlock' the sound by calling someone. So when the call starts, then the audio starts working.
It does EXACTLY the same thing with my bluetooth headphones (Motorola S305) so I realized it was my phone. I have tried other phones with my car and they work just fine. I have tried other things with my headphones too (like my Psvita) and they work smoothly.
The weird thing about it is that my phone used to work perfectly fine with the two things, and just a random day it decided not to work anymore.
I used kies and re-installed android from 0, and that solved the problem for a few days and then it all started again. I have tried cleaning all the bluetooth devices that my phone is paired with. Going back to factory settings in my car, removing the battery on the phone, resetting the phone, taking everything out (including the sim card( everything. And nothing seems to work.
Please, help!
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy SII with Android 2.3.6 (it came with 2.3.3 and i upgrade it twice through kies) I have never rooted my phone or done anything to it, except for upgrading Android through Kies.
Thanks so much!!!
Pirithous said:
Hi,
I have the following problem:
Everytime I pair my Samsung Galaxy SII I9000 with my car (Renault Fluence 2012) and its built in bluetooth System, it says that it's correctly paired (and honestly doesnt even take a minute to pair correctly and to find each other), but it plays no music. It just has no sound (even when the song is playing correctly) but everything else just works perfect. I mean, i can control the music (songs, playlists, etc) from my car correctly, but the sound just wont come out. The only way to make it work is to 'unlock' the sound by calling someone. So when the call starts, then the audio starts working.
It does EXACTLY the same thing with my bluetooth headphones (Motorola S305) so I realized it was my phone. I have tried other phones with my car and they work just fine. I have tried other things with my headphones too (like my Psvita) and they work smoothly.
The weird thing about it is that my phone used to work perfectly fine with the two things, and just a random day it decided not to work anymore.
I used kies and re-installed android from 0, and that solved the problem for a few days and then it all started again. I have tried cleaning all the bluetooth devices that my phone is paired with. Going back to factory settings in my car, removing the battery on the phone, resetting the phone, taking everything out (including the sim card( everything. And nothing seems to work.
Please, help!
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy SII with Android 2.3.6 (it came with 2.3.3 and i upgrade it twice through kies) I have never rooted my phone or done anything to it, except for upgrading Android through Kies.
Thanks so much!!!
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If you have SGS2 go to the SGS2 Q&A this is only for SGS1
Thanks
Oh boy... I am very sorry for that.

[Q] Force A2DP on Gear? All audio possible?

I'm thinking instead of trying to get Google Now / voice-to-text running on the watch, why we can't use the watch as an a2dp device?
Relay the audio back and forth to the phone and let the phone do the processing and Internet.
I know it's possible because you can make a phone call from the watch, so why can't we tell Google Now or s-voice to send a text message?
Has one one given this a go? If so, is it as awesome as I imagine?? Also, how? I can't seem to get any audio other than call audio and on-watch audio out of the watch.
Also, this may be a stretch, but is there perchance a VNC-type app that can be run across bluetooth? View the phone's screen on your watch all willy-nilly and what's. Sounds crazy, I know, but it FEELS like it could be done.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=js.android.btmusic
This looks promising for talking to Google Now! I'm in class right now, but I'll give it a go here in about an hour.
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Doesn't work. Just forwards media audio out the earpiece on the phone.
I'll do some fiddling with it later.
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I should just make a thread called "My perfect Gear in a perfect world", but what about fullscreen keyboard? You know how on your phone, you go to landscape mode and your keyboard takes up the whole screen with it's own textbox on top? Would there be a way to force that on the gear? Seems like every time I'm trying to type on the gear, the keyboard is covering what I'm typing.
using the phone's internet to do the actual processing of information is referred to as "TETHERING"... you are basically saying "let's use our galaxy gear as a microphone" ... this is what tethering would do. Initiate a request from the galaxy gear, process request using phone's internet, completing task at origin of initial request / location.
Now...... using the galaxy gear as a module to transmit system sound would be interesting idea... meaning we emulate our phones microphone via bluetooth connection (gear) but then you'd have to shut off the gear's sounds and all audio coming from the phone would somehow have to transmit through the gear... which i think would be very slow/ laggy... but also an interesting thought
BigBison420 said:
using the phone's internet to do the actual processing of information is referred to as "TETHERING"... you are basically saying "let's use our galaxy gear as a microphone" ... this is what tethering would do. Initiate a request from the galaxy gear, process request using phone's internet, completing task at origin of initial request / location.
Now...... using the galaxy gear as a module to transmit system sound would be interesting idea... meaning we emulate our phones microphone via bluetooth connection (gear) but then you'd have to shut off the gear's sounds and all audio coming from the phone would somehow have to transmit through the gear... which i think would be very slow/ laggy... but also an interesting thought
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I picked up a cheap bluetooth speaker to play music on, and I noticed it has an extra profile in the bluetooth settings on my phone that the Gear doesn't have. "Media Audio"
I can use the bluetooth speaker talk to Google Now, but not the Gear, so I"m thinking this is what's missing.
Is this a hardware thing? Can this be spoofed/modified to include the Media Audio for the Gear?
MEDIA AUDIO is a bluetooth profile that some device/receiver bluetooth DO have
for example i have a chinese bluetooth dialer that does have 2 bt profile.... os i can enable it for the phone audio.... AND for media audio. and wwhen i play a song on my phone.... also via youtube app, the audio is STREAMED TO THE BT RECEIVER ( the dialer) that does have a 3,5mm hole to use it with headphones. and i can HEAR youtube audio wireless using the BT dialer plus headphones...... thaks to media audio profile
It brings a tear to my eye that this was never implemented before the abandonment of the Null rom, A2DP is basically the only thing missing from it.

Skype bluetooth doesn't work in the Note 8

I recently switched from the galaxy note 4 to the galaxy note 8 and that made me unable to use skype on the headset. This did not happen with my Note 4, and it does not happen with other apps (i.e. whatsapp)
Steps to reproduce:
Have the headset paired with the phone
Ensure you can get audio from multimedia players
Ensure you can get audio from normal phone calls
Ensure you can get call audio from other apps (i.e. whatsapp)
Ensure you have the latest firmware (1.3.4) and the latest skype (8.10.0.4)
Make a call on skype (i.e. sound testing service)
Expected:
All media streams pause
Headset switches to call mode (you can hear noise cancelling turn off, as happens with normal calls via the phone)
Call works normally and you can hear as well as speak to the other person
Observed:
All media streams pause
Call is routed to the phone earpiece
When hanging up in skype, the skype sound for ending calls is heard on the headphone
Workarounds attempted (none of them work):
Settings > Sounds and vibration > separate app sound
Choose app as skype and audio device as "bluetooth device (QC35)"
Fail
Install BTmono from the play store
You can hear QC35 changing to "call mode" (noise cancelling stops)
As soon as you try calling via skype, QC35 returns to normal mode
Fail
Install SoundAbout
Fail
Install Samsung Connect
Switch Audio Output to QC35
Fail
Workaround for incompatibility between QC35 and Skype for android
Hi,
I've had exactly the same issue and the only workaround has been to use Skype Lite instead of the normal version of the app and the beta version. I guess they use sime type of codec not compatible with the headset.
Have you found any other solution? I don't know if Skype lite is available in all the countries but I'm sure you can easily find it on the web in case you'd like to try if that works for you too
No, I returned my note 8 and switched back to the note 4 (a much better phone in my opinion, especially when you consider how old it is). The root experience in the note 8 is not worth it, everything is crippled and support just wasn't there when I got it. Most of the stuff in XPOSED is broken. I might wait for the note 9 or the new motorola z3 force.
I tried posting in microsoft forums for help, which was completely useless. I also tried posting in bose, and they were much more helpful, as you can see for yourself, but still wasn't able to fix the issue.
community[dot]bose[dot]com/t5/Headphones-Archive/QC35-doesn-t-work-with-skype-in-the-Note-8/m-p/93640#M11683
community[dot]bose[dot]com/t5/Headphones-Archive/QC35-doesn-t-work-with-skype-in-the-Note-8/m-p/91375#M11293
Here are a few things you can try:
- Post in samsung forums asking for help
- Try attempting some of the things I tried. Maybe they work for you. There have been a ton of updates since I asked this question.
- Try updating the firmware on your QC35, especially if you've never done it: you get the ability to turn off noise cancelling in one of the patches.
- See if the new QC35-II works. Just go to a store and pair your phone with one of the showcase units.
- For that matter, see if one of the showcase QC35 works with your phone.
- Try pairing your QC35 with another note 8. Just go to a phone store and use the demo phone there (though be careful, some showcase phones are demonstrators and use different hardware)
- Try pairing your QC35 with another model entirely. It's unlikely to be the android version, otherwise bose would have noticed...

Bluetooth microphone stopped working for everything except phone calls

Hi,
Since a few weeks I have a very annoying issue with my Note 9. The phone stopped using the microphone of a bluetooth device for all apps. It still uses the mic of BT for phone calls...
I have tested it with the following apps: Zoom , Teams, Skype and Whatsapp (voice). And also for recording video and the Samsung voicerecorder.
All of these apps worked perfect until a few weeks ago.
I have tested to following devices: my Sony MX1000 headphone, an old Jabra earset, a new JBL in-ear set and also my bluetooth carkit in the car.
All of these devices still work perfect with the phone of my wife.
And all of these devices use their microphones making phone calls.
Around the time it stopped working I started to use a Huawei GT2. So I installed their Health app. On the same day I recieved my JBL earphones. Not sure if that has anything to do with this issue.
I have done a factory reset twice. No luck...
The helpdesk of Samsung can't help. They advise to do a reset... Again...
It drives me totally crazy!
Is their anyone that can provide me some help?
Kind regards,
Peter
PS. I heard that Android 11 has a microphone switcher... Unfortunately the Note9 will never receive this version of Android.
same issue with my mi 10t pro,i think there is also some issue with your phone's mic

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