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HELP! Mic volume way too low.

Hi guys, I was hoping maybe someone can help me out and diagnose my problem. For the first part of the day, my phone worked normally. I could make/receive calls without any problem. All of a sudden in the late afternoon, I got a call from the 'missus' and she could not hear me at all. I thought it was just the phone possibly acting up so I rebooted and then called her back. She picked up but could not hear anything from my end. This went back and forth a few times until I reached for the home phone to call her back. After our conversation I tested the voice record and unless I talk very very LOUD and directly with my mouth/lips on the mic, the phone will pick up NOTHING. Even if I'm just a few inches away, it will not pick up my voice whatsoever. Is there some sort of setting that allows you to adjust mic sensitivity? I'm on the latest official Sprint ROM and was wondering if reflashing might do the trick? From my understanding of microphones, they either work or don't work right? I mean it IS picking up my voice, I just have to yell to high hell for it to do so. And even then the playback will not be nearly as loud as the volume I was yelling at (yes my speakers work correctly). Thanks in advance!
-Mike

[Q] Voice Recognition

Hi guys,
I have noticed using voice recognition (hold home button) that sometimes just without any cause, the microphone just doesn't pick anything up.
Usually you see an graphic of pick-up by the mic, but occasionally it just stays at nothing whether i'm shouting at it or not... kinda annoying.
Also playing with it in a bar a on monday night I found that it just didn't recognise anything at all ever when there was the slightest background noise!
A friend was there with his iPhone 3GS and it occasionally could recognise him even when there was loud background music..​
Is anyone else getting the silent treatment from their mic?

Unfortuntely yes.
My omnia 7 did it once, when I wanted to show it to my wife.
Tried few times later on and was ok.

No sound???

Hey all,
I just got my RMA device, which overall is a great improvement over my current nexus 4. The problem I literally just started to encounter while testing it all out is sound not working. Youtube was working fine, sound and all, then I installed a few more apps (harmless ones that I had on the other phone, and are well known and trusted). Now the sound flat out will not work on youtube, or through the google play stream. I can select ring tones fine, and the examples play, so it seems that the speakers work.... Tried playing fruit ninja, no sound. I'm pretty baffled, but also a huge noob at android, so I might be missing some stupid simple?
Any advice or help is greatly appreciated.
ETA: Apparently the speakers only work when it comes to listening to ring tones, and the noise made when raising or lowering the volume of the ringer. Other than that, I'm getting jack **** for sound. Appears the mic doesn't work either, as when I talk into the google search or the talk to text, it does absolutely nothing but tell me to talk into the mic, then tells me to tap to talk since it didn't pick anything up. Guess I've got another RMA coming, and of course all the problems that were fixed with this RMA will be back again, probably along with a ****ed up yellow screen. **** you, Google. **** you, LG. I've never had such ****ty buying experiences.

Bump because I'm utterly confused.
The sound/mic work but it seems to only last a short time. I had left the RMA phone off all night, turned it on, and lo and behold, the sound works. So did the mic, it would pick up everything I said when pushing the google search mic icon. Decided to try out youtube, put on a two minute video, which had sound. 3/4 of the way through the video, the video stuttered, buffered, and the sound was gone. Mic no longer picked up anything I said. Annoyance was had.
Turn the phone off AGAIN, leave it off for a few hours. Come back to see if I can even call people, if the mic is not working. Click the google search mic icon to test it out, there is sound and it picks up my voice. Try out an 8 minute video this time, sound works fine (maybe a little quiet) until the ~6 minute mark, then cuts out again! I decide to try a call, since the mic is no longer picking up my voice when I do google voice search. I call my old cdma phone, put it on speaker, and speak into it. I can hear myself clearly through the cdma phone, no problem. I end the call, and lo and behold, sound again!
I am completely baffled as to this issue. Is it a hardware problem? Is it a software problem? Anyone with lots of experience have any theories? I have no idea whether I need an RMA or some sort of software update. As of right now Im' running the phone as I got it, I did a factory reset this morning. Last night when the sound was cutting off, it had the OTA and numerous apps installed/updated.

OK Google very flakey

For some reason when I'm trying to use ok Google on any screen it is very spotty if it works or not. Occasionally it will work, but most of the time it just doesn't do anything. I have any screen turned on and I also have it turned on so that should detected when the screen is off. Very rarely do either of these work, & I have to go back to the home screen and hit the microphone for it to work. Anyone know how to fix this? I have tried retraining a couple of times also.

Google App --> Settings --> Voice --> "OK Google" detection --> Retrain voice model

The service that does that apparently gets killed after a while, requiring a reboot. It's happened to me a bunch of times, for more than a year now, since the N6. It happens with other random stuff too. The N6 has a "safety" (according to a Moto rep at their forums) feature that rings the first 2 seconds or so of a phone call or alarm/timer at very low volume before it rings at full volume. Also for when you switch to speakerphone. Whatever service causes this behavior does get killed as well after a while, and the N6's alarms and rings sound off at full volume immediately, until after a reboot.

Honestly...Google Now has gotten so unreliable for me I've stopped using it. It used to be flawless...but I feel like the more they add to it the worse it gets. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.

isimme said:
Google App --> Settings --> Voice --> "OK Google" detection --> Retrain voice model
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I mentioned that I already tried that
tropazr said:
Honestly...Google Now has gotten so unreliable for me I've stopped using it. It used to be flawless...but I feel like the more they add to it the worse it gets. I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
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Yes, the Nexus 5 was much more reliable.

Google Maps voice volume going up and down?

I have the T-Mobile S8 (G950U with Snapdragon) and I have this strange issue with Google Maps navigation. It's totally stock and not rooted. The volume of the turn-by-turn navigation voice gets soft, then loud, then soft, seemingly at random. Some phrases are spoken loud, then a few minutes later the next phrase is spoken soft. This happens whether I use the speaker on the phone or if I connect to my car's Bluetooth. Has anybody else experienced this behavior?

Seems like no one replied to you sadly. I have the exact same issue. It sounds to me as if they are actually two different sets of recording types. The older and more robotic sounding one seems to not obey the "louder" voice level setting. I have also occasionally had them both start speaking at the same time, or immediately after each other - almost like I had two navigation systems up. It's very annoying, and sometimes causes me to pull over to check proper directions when I am motorcycling and listening inside my helmet with music on as well. This problem has been occurring since my Galaxy S6 and still appears on my S8+. I haven't found any solution yet.

Hi
Exactly the same for me, and it has been for my last few Samsung phones, it really must affect loads of people,
it seem as though one voice is Google and the other is Samsung conflicting with each other
Trev

Did you try to change Samsung text-to-speech setting to Google?

same problem with volume
I have the same problem, with Google Maps using (at random) either a low and a normal volume. Has any of you found out a solution since you posted? Is this a Samsung, Android, or Google Maps issue? (has anyone noticed it with other apps?). Thx! --Dan

I have the same issue on S7. It is not an android issue I think, because I never had anything similar on any other android device. This problem really bothers me and I cannot find a solution. I am using Google Maps almost every day and this issue spoils all my impression on S7 which I bought recently.