Hi have a hearing problem and would like to alter the balance, reducing the left side volume and increasing (if possible), of putting to max the right hand side.
I've searched for an app or something to do this and found nothing obvious. Is anybody aware of an app that can do this - alt does anybody fancy writing one? - there are plenty of people out there with hearing issues.
Thanks in advance for any constructive feedback
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I have not seen any peace of software for android do sound balance. But What you can do is buy a variable resistor, cut the lead to the left head phone and solder it there. that way you can adjust (lower) the volume of only the left side. To know exactly what type of resistor to get, just go to Radio Shack and ask. Hope I helped.
maco.i said:
I have not seen any peace of software for android do sound balance. But What you can do is buy a variable resistor, cut the lead to the left head phone and solder it there. that way you can adjust (lower) the volume of only the left side. To know exactly what type of resistor to get, just go to Radio Shack and ask. Hope I helped.
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That's not a viable option, to take apart iems costing $$$ or £££. Software would be prefered.
I also have hearing issues like the OP, anyone with a software cure? Thanks
How about switching from stereo to mono?
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Refresh, is there any solution to manage left/right balance of my headphones in whole system [not only music player]?
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Hi all,
I tend to use a BT headset with my Athena most of the time, but today I forgot it before going out! so I had to go back to using the Athena to my ear, not a huge problem with hands my size, however even with the volume down to its lowest it was still way to loud. Does anyone know of a reg hack or small program that will let you lower the volume down to a discreet volume, and not a hands free volume? its not a problem most of the time, but as a paramedic some of my calls can be a little personal. Its just in case it happens again. you can appreciate I'm not in the position to nip home for left items
Many thanks
Jay
responderman said:
Hi all,
I tend to use a BT headset with my Athena most of the time, but today I forgot it before going out! so I had to go back to using the Athena to my ear, not a huge problem with hands my size, however even with the volume down to its lowest it was still way to loud. Does anyone know of a reg hack or small program that will let you lower the volume down to a discreet volume, and not a hands free volume? its not a problem most of the time, but as a paramedic some of my calls can be a little personal. Its just in case it happens again. you can appreciate I'm not in the position to nip home for left items
Many thanks
Jay
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I put my fingers over the loudspeakers.... isn't confortable but it works!
I have been thinking about this issue a bit lately myself. My thought is to glue something over both the left and right speaker to completely or almost completely seal it. I might try with different materials and see the effect. May be we can make it almost like a normal embedded earpiece.. just thinking.
eaglesteve said:
I have been thinking about this issue a bit lately myself. My thought is to glue something over both the left and right speaker to completely or almost completely seal it. I might try with different materials and see the effect. May be we can make it almost like a normal embedded earpiece.. just thinking.
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hi
i already tried to put tape over the speakers, and can tell you it wont work out. it is like the hole athena will sound, the backcover acts like a speaker. when you tape the speaker holes it sounds a litle bit like it came from a cave, but is still much to loud for a 'private' conversation. i think you have to grab a soldering iron and a resistor, to come to a solution, or someone find a way to reduce the volume by software some more than the volume slider can do.
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Buy several cheap sets of earbuds and put them in different locatations where you might need them (car, office, briefcase). Not needing stereo for phone calls, clip off one of the earbuds for easier handling.
Brad
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miterb said:
Buy several cheap sets of earbuds and put them in different locatations where you might need them (car, office, briefcase). Not needing stereo for phone calls, clip off one of the earbuds for easier handling.
Brad
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Well that is a good idea, and one that I have done already. One at the ambulance station, one at home, one in the car, and one in the rig. three ended back at home AHH the price of age! The one in the rig got nicked, so ive put them all back now, but thats why I need the program or hack.
Thanks for the idea's guys, any more?
take care
Jay
eaglesteve said:
I have been thinking about this issue a bit lately myself. My thought is to glue something over both the left and right speaker to completely or almost completely seal it. I might try with different materials and see the effect. May be we can make it almost like a normal embedded earpiece.. just thinking.
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That is a good idea, could it be so, that there is a kinds of software, that we can adjust the volumen of left and right speaker, so that we can just use the right speaker or just use the left speaker, what ever. has anybody heard of that kind of tiny little soft ware?
Is there a regestry setting to lower the in call volume on the athena itself, so it would start at nothing?
Any solution on this "problem"? Sometimes my headset runs out of battery.
Regards
Hans
This only seems to be a problem with some of the cooked ROMS. The original WM6 ROM that came with my 7501 had a good low-volume level, but when I switched to AP4 the low-end is what used to be about mid-level before.
It must be either a registry change, or a sound driver.
Or a software that make it possible to decrease the volume more
Many guys are looking for a method of recording both sides of voice during a call. But it seems that HTC mobile phones including X1 Xperia don't support internal voice recording. Someone said that's hardware limitation. The only way to recording both sides voice is by turning on speaker.
I got an idea about fix this issue by adding simple circuit to X1 Xperia. Please see the attached file. It's a circuit diagram. As illustrated in the diagram, the signal of other side is introduced by a capacitance. Two voices, one from you, the other from the participant of your call, are mixed together and go to the ADC(analogue/digital converter).
Someone may be concerned about the self-excitation by the feedback. I think the phone works well even if you turn on the speaker, that would introduce the feedback. So the phone will work well if you introduce the signal via electronic form.
I haven't implemented this idea. Guys, please help to review this idea, and make the solution more applicable.
Thanks All!
(Diagram updated, potentiometer added.)
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Maybe implement it and let us know I have a feeling that even with the decoupling capacitor it's still going to cause horrendous feedback. The speaker output will probably still excite the microphone and since the microphone is going to be d.c. shifted into the positive because of the lack of a negative supply. And that's without even knowing for certain the circuitry used here.
It's very interesting idea to make a fix for internal voice recording for X1. Usually speakerphone handsets are factory equipped with some circuitry which avoids unwanted feedback. I doubt that X1 doesn't have one.
You can always experiment with any cheap old phone to check if your idea has a chance to work. Maybe some potentiometer should be used to adjust depth of the feedback.
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Maybe implement it and let us know I have a feeling that even with the decoupling capacitor it's still going to cause horrendous feedback. The speaker output will probably still excite the microphone and since the microphone is going to be d.c. shifted into the positive because of the lack of a negative supply. And that's without even knowing for certain the circuitry used here.
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I don't quite understand what you mean. The capacitor between the speakerphone and microphone isn't a decoupling capacitor. It's a coupling capacitor for audio signals. It let audio signals go through and blocks direct current.
And could you explain more about negative supply? As far as I know, symmetrical power supply isn't common in nowadays electric appliance with battery. It seems that self-excitation has nothing to do with negative supply.
Thanks neo and Macko for your reviewing. Experimenting on an old phone is really a good idea! But it is still difficult since we don't know the exact circuitry inside X1.
It's really necessary to have potentiometer to control the amount of signal to be introduced. Thanks Macko!
so phones which cost nearly as much as a laptop cant do smthg that cheap phones can do?
this is a very necessary feature and learning that its hardware limitation is quite disappointing.
what about presenting this idea to htc so they can learn smthg
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so phones which cost nearly as much as a laptop cant do smthg that cheap phones can do?
this is a very necessary feature and learning that its hardware limitation is quite disappointing.
what about presenting this idea to htc so they can learn smthg
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X1i is far more expensive than most laptops in discount stores and yes, seems that X1 can't do what SOME of cheaper phones do.
Dear HTC and SE: this is very very ugly dysfunction that XPERIA can't record calls properly! My wife's Nokia E51 does it perfectly. SHAME.
BUT caution please!
I've just done some research and found quite good working software solution of this issue. The problem is that signal from speaker isn't directly provided to DAC, so X1 just records what the mic "hears" from speaker, but if we use headphone or bluetooth headset, then recorded speech volume is far too low. But by applying some dynamics filtering on signal we can achieve desired gain of low volume part.
Here are instructions for volunteers:
- download and install some audio editor, for example CoolEdit
- download your recording from phone, open it in editor; low parts of wave are words of interlocutor
- apply a dynamic filtering as shown below:
- here are the results; as You see, low volume speech is gained by lots of dB, while your speech is almost untouched
My idea is to write some application working in background (as a service) which automatically applies such dynamic filtering DURING recording of a call. This is the best approach, but of course the same results can be reached by postprocessing.
Macko:
How is the voice quality after processing? I think it has some limitations.
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Macko:
How is the voice quality after processing? I think it has some limitations.
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Both sides are a bit distorted, which is unavoidable (dynamic processing distorts spectral envelope of signal) but acceptable. Of course all background sounds from opposite side are also gained, so do not talk to somebody who's mowing grass in the backyard
very interesting macko....if u can make such an app for X1..it ll be very useful and popular
Just downloading SDK and getting to work.
makro it is impractical to be forced to process all records. very bad for HTC
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I don't quite understand what you mean. The capacitor between the speakerphone and microphone isn't a decoupling capacitor. It's a coupling capacitor for audio signals. It let audio signals go through and blocks direct current.
And could you explain more about negative supply? As far as I know, symmetrical power supply isn't common in nowadays electric appliance with battery. It seems that self-excitation has nothing to do with negative supply.
Thanks neo and Macko for your reviewing. Experimenting on an old phone is really a good idea! But it is still difficult since we don't know the exact circuitry inside X1.
It's really necessary to have potentiometer to control the amount of signal to be introduced. Thanks Macko!
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This is exactly my point. Sorry I wasn't clear. As you say, no negative supply because we are running off of a battery. The signal itself is still an A.C. signal, so, in order to fit it within the confines of our supply it has to be DC shifted into the positive region yes? My point was that this DC level shift will be filtered by the capacitor for the reasons you gave, and so distorting the signal.
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Studying how to disassemble X1.
I've disassambled my X1, but I can't find the microphone.
Here are two photos that might have micrtophone. I guess the microphone is attahed on the right side. But I really can't find it.
Haven't taken my X1 apart yet, but from the outside, the microphone is in the small hole/dent under the "OK" hardware button.
Anyone?
Has anyone found a solution to this hardware problem yet? I've been trying a hundred things with no success.
Hi guys. I know I can't be the only one who has noticed the volume levels even with headphones on the Thrive are less than stellar by a very wide margin.
My question: Is this just a software/driver issue that can be addressed or is it hardware related and we're just stuck with what we have? I've messed with all the volume settings and it's still just way too low. Just looking for options here before I box it back up for returning and beg forgiveness from my older netbook that actually does crank the headphones pretty damn well.
Thanks.
Okay this seems to be an old thread and op probably have a new device by now.
What headphone are you using, have you tried lower resistance earbuds and turn off all the aduio effects in the settings menu?
Mine is too loud with my earbud, I wish it could be quieter.
Hey guys just got my S5 and I am told that the mic volume is quote low by people I speak to. Is this normal or I have a faulty device on my hands
Very unlikely to be a hardware problem. Usually it's a user error e.g. not holding the phone close enough to your mouth or using the phone in very loud environments.
Try using the phone normally i.e. not in speaker phone mode where performance is worse and you annoy everyone within earshot. You can also try disabling noise reduction in the settings menu. Infrequently you may have water, dirt or your finger (when you hold the phone) obscuring the microphone hole on the bottom of the phone.
It's also possible to tweak the mic volume in the service menu /audio submenu. A forum search will explain the details if you wish to try that.
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Very unlikely to be a hardware problem. Usually it's a user error e.g. not holding the phone close enough to your mouth or using the phone in very loud environments.
Try using the phone normally i.e. not in speaker phone mode where performance is worse and you annoy everyone within earshot. You can also try disabling noise reduction in the settings menu. Infrequently you may have water, dirt or your finger (when you hold the phone) obscuring the microphone hole on the bottom of the phone.
It's also possible to tweak the mic volume in the service menu /audio submenu. A forum search will explain the details if you wish to try that.
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HI, thanks for the info.. i have seen almost the same in the forum and outside like here http://droidtricks.blogspot.ae/2011/09/how-to-increase-or-boost-low-microphone.html
Is this still valid ?
Same issue with me
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Hey guys just got my S5 and I am told that the mic volume is quote low by people I speak to. Is this normal or I have a faulty device on my hands
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I have the same problem on the same device - but from all the googling I did - It turns out it a common problem with the S5 (single or dual SIM).
So far I did not find any solution to the problem...
Please share if you had any luck?
I am even considering widening the hole of the microphone (it is about 30% narrower then the S4), I do not care that much of the water protection...
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Happy to report I solved my low mic. problem!
Unfortunately it compromises the waterproofing, but I gladly sacrificed it!
I did poke in the microphone hole with a tin wire about 3-4 mm into the hole. I did not feel any resistance, but apparently I broke the waterproofing membrane on the microphone hole.
Now people can hear me even when I am whispering! I am so happy with my phone! (at one point I was thinking of replacing it because of the muffled mic.!)
The membrane I am talking about can be seen on the middle frame over the mic. hole on the attached picture.
Please if you do what I did - be careful, it might damage the microphone...
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Happy to report I solved my low mic. problem!
Unfortunately it compromises the waterproofing, but I gladly sacrificed it!
I did poke in the microphone hole with a tin wire about 3-4 mm into the hole. I did not feel any resistance, but apparently I broke the waterproofing membrane on the microphone hole.
Now people can hear me even when I am whispering! I am so happy with my phone! (at one point I was thinking of replacing it because of the muffled mic.!)
The membrane I am talking about can be seen on the middle frame over the mic. hole on the attached picture.
Please if you do what I did - be careful, it might damage the microphone...
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Hi armsel,
Good Spot!!! thanks for sharing the trick. I am having the same problem with my and I wish to follow your procedure in my phone.
Please provide more information with detailed steps and screen shots because I'm little confused in figured out microphone hole why because found two holes in bottom and top of the phone. I knew its my own risk and don't consider about waterproof.
Thanks in advance...
Tvm G said:
Hi armsel,
Good Spot!!! thanks for sharing the trick. I am having the same problem with my and I wish to follow your procedure in my phone.
Please provide more information with detailed steps and screen shots because I'm little confused in figured out microphone hole why because found two holes in bottom and top of the phone. I knew its my own risk and don't consider about waterproof.
Thanks in advance...
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Your primary microphone is the one on the bottom - next to the USB port (the top microphone is used for noise cancellation and you can leave as it is). You only need to poke the bottom one. Be gentle - if you feel resistance - don't push (I did not feel any resistance as far as I can remember). Test afterwords and see if there is an improvement - if not, try to penetrate little bit further (I believe I went something like 3, maybe even 5 mm in).
Best way to test - if you have another phone and call it on Viber (I did that with my wife galaxy S4 mini). And leave your next to a radio set with talk show on.
Good luck! :good:
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armsel said:
Your primary microphone is the one on the bottom - next to the USB port (the top microphone is used for noise cancellation and you can leave as it is). You only need to poke the bottom one. Be gentle - if you feel resistance - don't push (I did not feel any resistance as far as I can remember). Test afterwords and see if there is an improvement - if not, try to penetrate little bit further (I believe I went something like 3, maybe even 5 mm in).
Best way to test - if you have another phone and call it on Viber (I did that with my wife galaxy S4 mini). And leave your next to a radio set with talk show on.
Good luck! :good:
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Hi armsel,
Problem is solved now !!! Microphone is working fine now my voice is audible.
Poked with small needle at least 3mm to 4mm and test my voice with voice call and some messenger apps works fine :good:
I am wondering how you got this trick bcos searched whole web but could not get a right solution.
Great help and Thanks Man...
Hi Guys,
I've had a problem for a while where people think I'm not speaking loud enough on the phone, so I have to raise my voice even though the Mic volume is fairly high. This might be related to signal though. I've also noticed however at the bottom of the phone sound only comes from one of the grills.
Is this correct, or should sound come from both? Looking at replacement parts from eBay, they "look" like there's only one speaker, but not sure. If you're not sure how to test this, play something through there and block the grill with your finger
Anyone got 5 mins to try this on their G2 at least please, would be much appreciated!
Next time you are on the phone, pay attention to where you position your fingers. Many have had this problem, including me.
The mic is at the bottom of the phone and at a place where it is common to place a finger at. So you are probably covering the mic with a finger (likely your little finger). Avoid doing that and you'll be good to go