Is it just me?..but everytime I shoot video my left thumb goes directly on top of the microphone and completely muffles out the audio.
You can't turn it 180 as everything is upside down on playback.
Got to keep making a conscious effort to hold the left side differently.
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Love the videos this thing makes. There's some on my u tube channel.. bluedrew.
At concerts, the audio gets muffled and distorted. Especially if there's a heavy base, or I'm near the stack. Need some way to cover up, attenuate the input to the mic, but I can't find it.
Tried testing some a/b recording by covering up different ports with my finger. Nothing seems to make a difference. Maybe if I put the whole phone in a foam shield?!
Open the Camera, The "gear" in the bottom left of the screen when you have the camera app open. Open the tools, press the wretch. Its in there to disable audio recording.
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Open the Camera, The "gear" in the bottom left of the screen when you have the camera app open. Open the tools, press the wretch. Its in there to disable audio recording.
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I think he wanted to know where the microphone was, not to stop audio, but to limit the ammount it takes in. I would assume its the same mic used to talk on the phone. Bottom edge of the phone, almost inline with the G in samsung...little hole about the size of a pin head.
Yeah... I saw the option to mute audio, but I want better audio. Either put a sound suppressor somewhere, or use an external mic. Any ideas?
Actually just did a little test on some advice from the sound guy at a show lastnight.
I plugged in the included handsfree earphones that came with the epic. Now audio comes from that. Quality isn't as good, and if you hit the button, recording stops.
So maybe just a better quality external handsfree, or dedicated better quality mic. Any ideas?
So basically you need a good line mic and an adapter to the cel phone audio jack.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8853857#post8853857
This guy seems to be on to something. Kind of confusing to me...
When I press the screen turn-off button on the top right side of the phone the speaker makes a "click" noise.
This is not the same sound that it makes when it types - it is more of an electrical discharge click or noise due to the speaker amp turning off.
Does anybody else have this happen when they turn the screen off with a quick click of the top right side button?
This seems like a really odd sound for the phone to make every time one turns the screen off.
thanks.
Both our Focus phones do this so I guess it's normal.
If you mean the clicking sound,
its an optional sound that plays when locking/unlocking.
see ringtones & sounds checkbox: Lock and Unlock
I tried to video record my son while he was speaking but at playback I could hardly hear his voice. He was about 1 meter apart and I could hear him as if he was 20m away. My voice sounded ok though. I assume that the microphone used for audio recording is the same as the phone mic with higher volume control.
Is everyone experiencing the same?
Also, Ihaven't found any controls to configure audio levels for different circumstances (i.e. phone ringer, speakerphone, speaker during conversation, etc.) Is it necessary to only configure volume when you are in that area (i.e only during conversation or during playback) and not all at once in a special control panel? (I hope you understand the last part as I don't know how to explain better)
I also feel that the playback volume for recorded video is too low (even on max volume). The audio quality is also not as good as I would hope. I have yet to test playback on a PC though.
Unfortunately anything related to Desire HD sound is low at the bottom line no matter recording or speaker it is.
agreed that recording volume is too low. But one thing i did find is that when you hold your phone to record, the natural position where your right hand holds the phone actually covers the microphone (well at least for me). So make sure your hand isnt covering that and it might improve sound a little.
But when i playback a recording on my laptop it sounds ok when i max the volume.. definitely audible.
Im also getting this low mic problem, made sure i was not covering mic, still low volume. Even took the case off, still no joy, cant believe they did not test this before launch
Please HTC sort this out
After playing back recorded videos on my laptop, i'd agree with SupremeBeaver that the volume is ok. The sound quality seems much better too, so i'm not too fussed now
I got some moisture in my A500 while putting a screen cover on it and the unit was misbehaving. I have that cleared up now (hopefully), but noticed something about the microphone. It was partially covered by a tag from one of the wiring looms! I don't know if moving this tag out of the way will improve the microphone, but it sure as heck aint going to hurt it! Since the microphone points away from you as you hold the tablet, I'm not sure it's ever going to pick up your voice properly.
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Rob
update: I put my a500 back together, but forgot I had the sd card still in there. The end result was that I cracked the sd card which renders it useless. I'll have to buy another one now. The microphone recording volume is still quite low, no improvement there. I think it's a design oversight and any tablet should probably have front and rear facing microphones. Only use the one facing away for video recording, othewise use the one facing the user.
Did you try turning the mic over? Maybe they made two mistakes. Putting the mic in wrong and then covering it with the tag
The A500 has a 2 microphones array, for noise canceling effect.
The microphone you put the tag label away from is the noise canceling one, the main microphone is just at the left of that one and its facing front. As you put away that tag you may have an improvement on the noise canceling effect, if you try to turn over the mic it will not harm the device but I'm pretty sure it will not help noise canceling.
Holding the A500 landscape and dock port down, the gap of the front facing mic is between the screen glass and the upper frame, is just right in the middle, it is hard to see but can be seen from certain angles and light conditions.
Also you provided the proof that I'm not writing nonsenses, in the first picture attached, there are those two alike connectors, both have plugged microphones, and they have the same tag flap with the same codes and digits imprinted. If you look closely you can see the edge of the front facing mic, it's at the left of the back facing mic and it's almost covered by the circuit board where both microphones connectors are.
I as well had taken my tablet apart due tons issue with video cable loose.and noticed exactly where the mice are at. Thinking about going tobeadeo shak or order from black box better mic to out in.I have done this on laptop before
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update: I put my a500 back together, but forgot I had the sd card still in there. The end result was that I cracked the sd card which renders it useless. I'll have to buy another one now. The microphone recording volume is still quite low, no improvement there. I think it's a design oversight and any tablet should probably have front and rear facing microphones. Only use the one facing away for video recording, othewise use the one facing the user.
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I did a few recordings to test the noise canceling array, and be able to notice the noise canceling effect when recording video with front facing camera, when recording with back facing camera, I notice no noise canceling, the recording level is a little low, but was ok, I'm not sure if this feature is binded to which camera the user is using during record, also I have no professional equipment or applications to make sure that the noise canceling effect/feature was working or not.
I agree that this kind of double microphone array should be a lot more user friendly, letting a user decide to use both microphones, or using only one and which one, or turn on or off noise canceling, or any other feature as the recording level, will not harm anyone. And having the device defaults to record using front facing camera with front mic and noise canceling, and when using back facing camera with back mic, without noise canceling, will work as most users wanted it to work.
The microphone on my third A500 is working great so far. I returned the second one today because the microphone audio was very low. It's still running 3.01 stock because the 3.01 OTA update isn't available yet for my unit.
Rob
I've noticed that when using YouTube and playing something through a PLAYLIST and tilting the phone towards the right that the volume will cut out until the screen has rotated. The volume will also cut out when tilting the screen from the right position to the straight up position.
After more testing I have found that this issue exists when playing any video from any app or gallery that the video is being played from.
This does not happen when tilting the phone to the left.
I have the 6P and I've noticed it on all 6Ps I've come across.
In order to get fixes for things like this we need people to confirm the issue.
just found your post on here when i looked for youtube app issue with 6p. I tried yours and can confirm that audio was cut off when rotate to the right instead of left. i do have another issue atm that everytime when try to watch vids from youtube in landscape from my playlist, went back to playlist and it already scrolled back to the top and not at current position like my other phones. However if in portrait mode it is fine to stay where i watch when go back to the list. Is there anyone has this issue or just me? thanks
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just found your post on here when i looked for youtube app issue with 6p. I tried yours and can confirm that audio was cut off when rotate to the right instead of left. i do have another issue atm that everytime when try to watch vids from youtube in landscape from my playlist, went back to playlist and it already scrolled back to the top and not at current position like my other phones. However if in portrait mode it is fine to stay where i watch when go back to the list. Is there anyone has this issue or just me? thanks
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Same issue here with playlists not holding its position. Also, sometimes while scrolling in playlist the app crashes.
Does this happen outside of the YouTube app. For instance take a video on your phone and test it like you do with YouTube. If it doesn't cut out then at least it's narrowed down to YouTube.
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This is an issue that exists in the entire phone and not just youtube. You can play a recorded video from your gallery and try rotating your phone and the same issue will appear.
Has nobody else noticed this?........I am shocked!!!
Come on guys chime in
The audio does cut out for a bit, but it actually makes sense! When holding the phone in portrait mode or rotated left, the top speaker is the left channel and the bottom speaker is the right channel.
Flip the phone to the right, and the speaker positions are reversed, so the phone has to reverse which channel each speaker corresponds to. Being that it has to switch the audio, there probably won't be a fix for it.
Note this happens with any audio source.
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