hello !
Is it possible to boost the volume of microphone?
Thx !
Neferym
Audio Hack v4 and UP.
I believe that this feature is currently being developed in an application.
BUSYBOX will be as expected; required for proper use.
Keep your eyes and ears peeled for development drops on occasion. Google search for various threads and blog spots regarding the topic.
Good luck.
But the audio hack is for speaky, not microphone
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Has anyone found a way (or an app) to increase the mic volume? When I am google video chat with someone they say they can hardly hear me.
Snap! I was just about to post the exact same question. I've hunted aroudn and found a fair few people asking the quetsion in various threads but can't seem to find an answer, I know it can be done as I've had it too loud on other phone and they've tweaked it and altered the volume so surely it's fairly easy tweak (if you know what to tweak) to do it the other way. Probably just altering a register somewhere.
We got my mother in law a transformer and she calls us on Google talk. She can't hear us very well and we can only just hear her too. I know the speakers are very quiet but Google talk is just silly, even at full volume it's still very quiet.
I would also be very interested in learning if there is a way to increase mic volume.
Thus far I'm not aware of a way, but I too have the same issue. Mic is ludicrously quiet, only picks me up reasonably well if I turn the tablet so the microphone points directly to me (and hence, I can't see the screen).
Short of Asus fixing it, or a third-party making a fix (which will likely need root access to apply), the only solution is to use an external microphone.
Similar experience with Gtalk.. however not much of a problem with Skype.. heard that the pinout is similar to iphone.. so any iphone compatible headset should do the trick.
when speaking to my mother in law my father in law iss often there as well so headset is not an option.
Yet another thing we need a fix for! This fix list is geting longer Poor sound at the best of time to having quiet poor sound makes it almost unuseable!
i have the same problem with Fring
lets hope one of the clever bods can fix it for us
I am rooted and this was one of the reasons I did it.
Rooting is very easy to do on here now with the pure root package and I can't really see any downside to it other than it doens't update OTA but thats hardly a killer.
The microphone is bad on the Acer A500 as well. Trying to use the google voice to text is rather frustrating because it affects the accuracy of the translation. I was hoping the asus would be better in this regard, but if it's not then there's no point in switching tabs. I guess I will just have to speak LOUDER!
Rob
nobody worked out a way of fiing bad mic volume then?
The sad thing about the mic's location on the TF is that it is facing the wrong direction to pick up any voice. I too, am having issues with the TF not picking up my voice very well. I was hoping that there is a fix by now, but guess not.
voodoo
For rooted users you can install the voodoo kernel which improves audio including micropone volumes. From what i read I am tempted to root my device just for this.
Search on the market for voodoo, (and then show me how you did it
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For rooted users you can install the voodoo kernel which improves audio including micropone volumes. From what i read I am tempted to root my device just for this.
Search on the market for voodoo, (and then show me how you did it
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I wasn't aware voodoo had any effect on mic? Plus it has not effect on speaker volume, only volume / quality on headphone output (can connect external speakers to it via that) I may be wrong though. I already have voodoo but use volume+ to increase built in speaker volumes. Mic is still terribly quiet
Yeah, like description says: That "new" noise from backspeaker is full of junk. I've tried a few different players and equalizers with no luck (And it feels like that overall quality of sound from phone is lowered from what it's used to be)
Is there anything that we can/could do to improve of the quality of sound?
also experiencing that
Got an idea: is it possible to use old sound"driver" to get back better sound to backspeaker?
I don't get it, why Huawei didn't put any options to backspeaker...
Also very silent in calls sound
Trying to find solution to this
Lets bump this thread.
So, I've found "solution" to our problem:
First, install Equalizer from Play Market. It works simple: after you have set your equalizer and want to enable it, press home-button. If you don't want to enable it, press back. There is that "legendary" 5-band equalizer (yes, there is also bassboost and virtualizer, but the main point is at the equalizer). You can adjust it until it fits to your ears Just to mind you, the first one is bass, and the last treble (from up to down). Those three which are in middle, are for middle sounds (obvious, really ).
That should fix the sound quality of a backspeaker.
For example, my settings:
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I'm posting this in General because I'm not the author, I just found it and it worked for me.
Many of us have an issue with the N7000 where audio at a very low volume is cut to silence. This can irritatingly interrupt quiet music or videos; anyone who has watched the Walking Dead on Netflix with headphones on has probably noticed it. I have observed this behavior across all ROMs I've used since 4.0. Near as I can tell, this appears to be an intended feature to reduce hiss or other unwanted noise from the audio hardware, but it's a little too zealous. The workaround is to force this mechanism not to activate by constantly putting a loud enough sound through the system; a sound we can't hear.
Method 1
An apk someone made and posted to a google board that has worked around the issue for me.
This works even better if you have a method to make sure the service starts on phone boot.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35861#c77
Please thank the person who made the apk if it helps you.
Method 2
XDA user Djezpur came up with another fix that works as well or better that the one above.
In Tasker, I just created a profile to play the file on loop whenever headphones are plugged in and screen is on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35047527&postcount=25
Please thank Djezpur in their post if this method works for you.
Thanks for this answer.
There is a patch that fixes the problem for my N7000 with OmniROM:
github.com gustavoss android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412 commit 3019675d57c4046c30f82d04ce41913150df0d6e
(Sorry for the distorted link, as a new user I am not allowed to post links yet...)
The question is: How to get it into CM, OmniROM, and co.?
Also see:
jira.omnirom.org browse OMNI-561 ("Sound cuts off at low volume playback".
Kind regards
Clackwell
This is great. Thanks!
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This is great. Thanks!
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PS: It has been tweaked in OmniROM.
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Hope I'm posting in the right forum but since this is related to hardware I'm posting it here.
For most musicians this is a big issue.
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9913
(I'm a new member and can't post outside links)
As I understand it there is no way of lowering the input gain on android which makes recording sound, say at a concert or in the rehearsal room, impossible because of the distortion created by the high input gain on the mic of android phones.
I can't believe that this hasn't been fixed but apparently it hasn't. I think we seriously need this fixed and it should be possible on a custom ROM shouldn't it? I'm not an app developer and I don't know how to code but it should be possible right?
If anyone manages to to fix this I'm sure there'd be a lot of people who be very grateful.
An interesting question.
I'm not sure how many Android devices use ALSA as the underlying layer.
ALSA supports controls.
I haven't looked into my Kyocera Rise.
On my Barnes & Noble Nook Touch I use a Lexicon Alpha 24 bit interface and a Shure SM58 through USB OTG and ALSA.
I use a custom recorder app (since Android doesn't support 24 bit).
It makes dandy recordings.
Thanks for the answer but what I want to be able to do is to record directly to my phone in a high volume environment without the use of an external soundcard or even an external mic. I know that the sound quality wouldn't be very good but it would suffice in the rehearsal room or at a concert for personal use.
Been looking to boost the loundspeaker such as it is found some guides about editting lines in mixer_path.xml, only thing is my file does not have the values that the guides have which is why I asking the question, anybody know how to boost the volume of the loudspeaker ? I know the risks about blowing the speaker so did not want to just add the lines that I found, any advice or an app that is known to boost the loudspeaker ? Thanks in advance
Nobody knows? Or is everyone happy with the loudspeaker volume?
Have tried a few volume boost apps but they don't cut the mustard
I know you can use Kodi for video and audio files and it has an option to boost volume. You can even get a youtube plugin for those of you like. As for app and games no idea.
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I know you can use Kodi for video and audio files and it has an option to boost volume. You can even get a youtube plugin for those of you like. As for app and games no idea.
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Thanks but I am needing to boost the system volume and not just for watching films etc, thanks for the suggestion though
Good luck. I looked for a long time to answer that same question with no luck.
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Boost system volume!
I use an app that can really bost system sound. The name is speaker boost 2.0.3. I hope you will find it
Custom quality and generic apps.
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Been looking to boost the loundspeaker such as it is found some guides about editting lines in mixer_path.xml, only thing is my file does not have the values that the guides have which is why I asking the question, anybody know how to boost the volume of the loudspeaker ? I know the risks about blowing the speaker so did not want to just add the lines that I found, any advice or an app that is known to boost the loudspeaker ? Thanks in advance
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Hi, if I may, the answer to a louder sound from built-in speaker, as my colleagues have posted can be achieved by Volume Booster, from omega Centauri, a gemini from an reader app they make. Note that to avoid damage it only boost mid frequencies, avoiding bass and high treble. The quality lowers. So, kernels like Perseus, Devil, Shift, I could name the majority, have customized the approach with algorithms that have names like Boeffla, Faux and many others important, that are drivers lile ALSA for Linux or kernel mode WDM for W. And now try a Note 2 N 7100/7105 with and without Boeffla and all will become clear, specially the effort of developers that we admire. Congrats. :fingers-crossed: sorry for the bad english included.
Thanks all for the suggestions,none of them give me a boost that makes it louder through the speaker, , I also forgot that you can boost the system volume with Viper4Android(which boosts the speaker volume fine on my other device a oneplusone), this also does not work on the Nexus 7,I will have to just live with the low speaker volume as I cannot get it any louder