For people who have the 2nd Gen. Moto X, I'm wondering how the four microphone noise cancellation performs, especially for placing calls in noisy settings (as opposed to for the voice commands). Does your caller hear the background noise? (Noise cancellation in calls is something that is entirely for the benefit of your caller, not yourself--to block out background noise where you are, so they can hear you better.)
The four microphone noise cancellation in the 2nd Gen. Moto X is totally unprecedented in a phone. Only maybe one or two other phones even have three microphone noise cancellation (the OnePlus One is the only one I know of for sure). All other phones only use two microphones for noise cancellation.
This is a feature that is not often covered in phone reviews. But there can be real differences in quality. A company called Audience in the past has made the best noise cancellation chip. It appeared early in the Nexus One, which had amazing noise cancellation--I'd be in a loud bar and people in calls told me they thought I was at home. Subsequently the iPhone 4 copied this feature from the Nexus One, also using the Audience chip, and get a lot of positive comments.
But since then most phone manufacturers have gone backwards, opting instead for Qualcomm's very much inferior Fluence noise cancellation (I assume it's cheaper because it comes with the Snapdragon chipset that's already being used anyway, in a lot of phones). Manufacturers seemed to take a good enough attitude. No subsequent Nexus phone has had as good noise cancellation as the Nexus One (the Nexus S bizarrely had no noise cancellation). Even Apple dropped the Audience chip in the iPhone 5 and 6 for an in-house solution that is significantly inferior (lots of people have noticed).
Motorola is using their own solution for the 2nd Gen. Moto X. In the 1st Gen. Moto X the noise cancellation (two microphone) was not very good. But I'm curious now that they've tried to do something innovative with four microphones, how good it is.
Thanks for any feedback on this.
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For people who have the 2nd Gen. Moto X, I'm wondering how the four microphone noise cancellation performs, especially for placing calls in noisy settings (as opposed to for the voice commands). Does your caller hear the background noise? (Noise cancellation in calls is something that is entirely for the benefit of your caller, not yourself--to block out background noise where you are, so they can hear you better.)
The four microphone noise cancellation in the 2nd Gen. Moto X is totally unprecedented in a phone. Only maybe one or two other phones even have three microphone noise cancellation (the OnePlus One is the only one I know of for sure). All other phones only use two microphones for noise cancellation.
This is a feature that is not often covered in phone reviews. But there can be real differences in quality. A company called Audience in the past has made the best noise cancellation chip. It appeared early in the Nexus One, which had amazing noise cancellation--I'd be in a loud bar and people in calls told me they thought I was at home. Subsequently the iPhone 4 copied this feature from the Nexus One, also using the Audience chip, and get a lot of positive comments.
But since then most phone manufacturers have gone backwards, opting instead for Qualcomm's very much inferior Fluence noise cancellation (I assume it's cheaper because it comes with the Snapdragon chipset that's already being used anyway, in a lot of phones). Manufacturers seemed to take a good enough attitude. No subsequent Nexus phone has had as good noise cancellation as the Nexus One (the Nexus S bizarrely had no noise cancellation). Even Apple dropped the Audience chip in the iPhone 5 and 6 for an in-house solution that is significantly inferior (lots of people have noticed).
Motorola is using their own solution for the 2nd Gen. Moto X. In the 1st Gen. Moto X the noise cancellation (two microphone) was not very good. But I'm curious now that they've tried to do something innovative with four microphones, how good it is.
Thanks for any feedback on this.
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I haven't tested it out, but I know the phone is being implemented with their Crystal Talk technology as well. According to TechnoBuffalo I believe, the call quality was clear for both ends for the reviewer. If I get a chance and remember, I will test it out
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I haven't tested it out, but I know the phone is being implemented with their Crystal Talk technology as well. According to TechnoBuffalo I believe, the call quality was clear for both ends for the reviewer. If I get a chance and remember, I will test it out
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Thanks, I'll be interested to hear about your test.
Yes, I think the 1st Gen. Moto X was Crystal Talk also. As I said, it was pretty subpar for phones these days. I tested it myself and think it was even worse than phones with Qualcomm's Fluence. And AnandTech also did a more objective test and showed that it wasn't very good. I've never experienced anything that's close to as good as phones with the Audience chip (which have become fewer and fewer). So that's why I'm curious about the four microphone noise cancellation, since Motorola claims to have really focused on this with the 2nd Gen. Moto X.
Often, I find, when reviews comment on the clarity of calls, they haven't really tested the noise cancellation. A phone without any noise cancellation at all can sound great in non-noisy settings. Noise cancellation has nothing to do with the loudness or audio fidelity with which the phone reproduces your voice for your caller. It only does one thing, which is cancel out noise in noisy settings.
AnandTech used to do a nice test in their reviews, where they called another phone to record the call and then spoke into the test phone in front of speakers playing a babble track. They would keep turning up the volume until it was so loud the person doing the test could not hear himself speak. Then they'd post the recording in their review. You could really hear how much better phones with the Audience chip are. Unfortunately, they haven't been doing that in recent reviews (including the 2nd Gen. Moto X), though I've been told at some point they want to do it again.
Hmm, maybe it was Pocket Now where you saw the comments. I couldn't find anything at TechnoBuffalo. But Pocket Now comments on the noise cancellation:
Motorola’s CrystalTalk noise reduction benefits greatly from the addition of the aforementioned fourth microphone, resulting in much more effective noise cancellation than on last year’s Moto X. On the new phone, callers said they couldn’t hear any background noise even with our head squarely in front of a loud air conditioner output – noise plainly audible when using 2013′s model. In fact, nothing short of a motorcycle idling nearby managed to break through CrystalTalk’s protective acoustic buffer, which is impressive. http://pocketnow.com/2014/09/18/moto-x-2014-review
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Anyway, saying it's better than the 1st. Gen Moto X isn't saying much since it was so subpar for noise cancellation. And testing it in front of a air conditioner is also not a good real world test, since cancelling continuous droning noises is about the easiest thing to cancel. The motorcycle is a better test (though they don't explain how loud of a motocycle it was) and, of course, that's where the noise cancellation started to fail. So I find it hard from those comments to tell where the 2nd Gen. Moto X falls in comparison to a phone with the Audience chip or even with Qualcomm's Fluence (since even Fluence is better than the 1st Gen. Moto X).
In fact, looking around at some of Pocket Now's other phone reviews, I can see that their methods for testing call quality and noise cancellation are extremely subjective and inconsistent (making it impossible to compare from one phone to the next). They say some phones have great noise cancellation, which I know are not that good. So I take their comments about the Moto X with an extreme grain of salt. It could be great, but I don't think their review demonstrates this.
I've tested it a little when talking to people while driving. I turned up the radio in my car pretty loud while playing music and they said they couldn't hear anything but my voice. After talking for a little bit they said that once in awhile when I wasn't talking they would hear something faint, but only for a moment.
When walking outside when there is a lot of wind, it works well too.
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Motorola is using their own solution for the 2nd Gen. Moto X. In the 1st Gen. Moto X the noise cancellation (two microphone) was not very good. But I'm curious now that they've tried to do something innovative with four microphones, how good it is.
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Sorry you're incorrect about the 1st Gen Moto X. It actually has 3 microphones. 2 for noise cancelling and one for talking I'm guessing.
My 1st gen Moto X is amazing when it comes to noise cancellation. So good in fact that I returned my Nexus 5 for this phone as the N5 just didn't work properly at all for cancelling noise and it actually cancelled out my voice so nobody could hear me!!! Had to get around 11 replacements from Google and they finally fully refunded me as they couldn't fix the problem. This is the reason why I'll never buy a phone made by LG!!
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I've tested it a little when talking to people while driving. I turned up the radio in my car pretty loud while playing music and they said they couldn't hear anything but my voice. After talking for a little bit they said that once in awhile when I wasn't talking they would hear something faint, but only for a moment.
When walking outside when there is a lot of wind, it works well too.
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Thanks for the observations. Sounds promising.
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Sorry you're incorrect about the 1st Gen Moto X. It actually has 3 microphones. 2 for noise cancelling and one for talking I'm guessing.
My 1st gen Moto X is amazing when it comes to noise cancellation. So good in fact that I returned my Nexus 5 for this phone as the N5 just didn't work properly at all for cancelling noise and it actually cancelled out my voice so nobody could hear me!!! Had to get around 11 replacements from Google and they finally fully refunded me as they couldn't fix the problem. This is the reason why I'll never buy a phone made by LG!!
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I guess you're right about the three microphones. I didn't realize that. So it's one of the few to have even three microphones, let alone four like the 2nd Gen. Moto X.
In any case, I'm glad you're having a good experience with the noise cancellation on the 1st Gen. Moto X, but as I say above when I tested it for in call noise cancellation, it really was worse than my Nexus 4 and pretty much all other phones I compared it too (except the Nokia Lumia phones which are also bad). It was nowhere neare as good as the Samsung (and other) phones with the Audience chip and not even as good as phones with Qualcomm's Fluence (like my Nexus 4). I'm not saying it didn't do anything, I'm just saying it didn't measure up to other available noise cancellation technologies.
As I also said above, AnandTech does a more objective comparison of noise cancellation (they are really the only site that does this or that is even aware of the different noise cancellation chips and technologies--though sadly they stopped recently and didn't do this test on the 2nd Gen. Moto X). In their test, they call another phone and record the call, while playing a babble track in the background and turning it up progressively until they cannot even hear themselves speaking. Then they post the results. They also found that the noise cancellation on the 1st Gen. Moto X really did not measure up. In fact, as soon as they turn on the babble track you can immediately hear it, before it even gets loud. That's the worst I've seen a phone do in one of their reviews. Maybe it's attenuating the background noise, but it's not blocking it, even when it's not loud. Here's the page of that review that covers noise cancellation: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7235/moto-x-review/5.
I have also read other reviewers making the same observation (more subjectively) about the quality of the noise cancellation on the 1st. Gen Moto X.
So I feel pretty confident, based on objective tests, subjective comments from several reviewers, and my own experience, with my assertion that the noise cancellation on the 1st Gen. Moto X is middle of the road (at best). But, hey, if you're happy with it then think of how great it will be to get a 2nd Gen. Moto X or a phone with the Audience chip (mostly Samsung phones these days).
I agree about LG hardware. I'm not in love with it either and glad that Google seems to be moving on to Motorola for the next Nexus device. It does sound like you just had some bad luck with the Nexus 5 though, I'm not aware of widespread problems with that device like you describe. Most people really love the Nexus 5 and consider the call quality to be adequate. Although I do sort of vaguely recall, when I was testing it, that when I started speaking the noise cancellation would not stop instantly and would sometimes cut off the first half-second of what I was saying (I think that was the Nexus 5, maybe it was a different phone). Perhaps that's the same thing you were experiencing. I can see where they would be annoying.
Yeah I was experiencing similar problems with the Nexus 5 with quite a lot of call drops.
I've now switched to the Moto X 2014 and the noise cancellation is superb again. Even better than last time as I normally have music playing in my car at low volume and my phone still recognises my voice over this. My old Moto X could never understand me over music playing in my car.
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Yeah I was experiencing similar problems with the Nexus 5 with quite a lot of call drops.
I've now switched to the Moto X 2014 and the noise cancellation is superb again. Even better than last time as I normally have music playing in my car at low volume and my phone still recognises my voice over this. My old Moto X could never understand me over music playing in my car.
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Have you tested the 2nd Gen Moto X for in call noise cancellation? Asked callers how you sound when you're in a loud place?
It does seem like the main reason Motorola has focused so much recently on imporving its noise cancellation is for the always listening voice commands to work better, in the manner you're exeriencing. But I'm really more interested in how much it improves call quality.
Thanks for any more observations.
I've been very happy with the call quality so far... Coming from a Samsung s3
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Have you tested the 2nd Gen Moto X for in call noise cancellation? Asked callers how you sound when you're in a loud place?
It does seem like the main reason Motorola has focused so much recently on imporving its noise cancellation is for the always listening voice commands to work better, in the manner you're exeriencing. But I'm really more interested in how much it improves call quality.
Thanks for any more observations.
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The call quality and noise cancellation engine are probably the best I've ever experienced in my life!
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I've been very happy with the call quality so far... Coming from a Samsung s3
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The call quality and noise cancellation engine are probably the best I've ever experienced in my life!
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So you're both saying that you have asked people you're talking to if they can hear background noise, when you're in a noisy place? How noisy was it? What kind of noise was it? What did the callers say? Coudl they hear nothing? Some noise? Do you sound robotic (some noise cancellation gives the quality of your voice a processed electronic quality to it.)
The noise cancellation in calls is entirely for the benefit of the person you're talking to, and not something you would yourself notice during calls. That's what I'm trying to ask about, not call quality in general.
Indeed many phones have great call quality in every respect and seem great to the person using the phone. They may even sound great to the person you're talking to, if you're in a quiet place. But they still have bad noise cancellation and make it hard for the person you're talking with to hear you if you're in a noisy place. So it's only this very specific element I'm asking about.
OK, just to make it clear, I was driving home from work in my Nissan Silvia Spec R (very loud car) yesterday with both my windows down, music on at low volume in the background with lots of traffic around me and my wife could hear me very clearly. She didn't even realise I had set off yet lol.
I had a bit of trouble hearing her though at times mainly due to the noise on my end but she could always hear me clearly without me needing to shout.
Hope that helps!
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To be fair my old Moto X was almost as good too in the same conditions.
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OK, just to make it clear, I was driving home from work in my Nissan Silvia Spec R (very loud car) yesterday with both my windows down, music on at low volume in the background with lots of traffic around me and my wife could hear me very clearly. She didn't even realise I had set off yet lol.
I had a bit of trouble hearing her though at times mainly due to the noise on my end but she could always hear me clearly without me needing to shout.
Hope that helps!
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To be fair my old Moto X was almost as good too in the same conditions.
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Thanks for the further details. Sounds (no pun intended) pretty good.
Of course, I can't condone driving and talking on the phone.
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Thanks for the further details. Sounds (no pun intended) pretty good.
Of course, I can't condone driving and talking on the phone.
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I have a phone holder on my windscreen and have it on loudspeaker mode.
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I have a phone holder on my windscreen and have it on loudspeaker mode.
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I know it's hard to persuade people of this, but the studies have pretty definitively shown that it's the cognitive distraction that matters. Hands free phone conversations impair driving just as much as when people are holding the phone. And people who think they are good at it, turn out to be just as impaired as everyone else. Be careful.
But I do appreciate your taking your life in your own hands to report on the noise cancellation.
I would be curious if you have any feedback from your callers, when you're in a noisy place and talking on the phone normally, since it sounds like the test you did was in speakerphone mode. It sounds impressive for speakerphone in a noisy car, but I suppose performance could be different using the phone normally. I never like to make assumptions. Thanks.
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For people who have the 2nd Gen. Moto X, I'm wondering how the four microphone noise cancellation performs, especially for placing calls in noisy settings (as opposed to for the voice commands). Does your caller hear the background noise? (Noise cancellation in calls is something that is entirely for the benefit of your caller, not yourself--to block out background noise where you are, so they can hear you better.)
Motorola is using their own solution for the 2nd Gen. Moto X. In the 1st Gen. Moto X the noise cancellation (two microphone) was not very good. But I'm curious now that they've tried to do something innovative with four microphones, how good it is.
Thanks for any feedback on this.
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I bought a Moto X 2014 few days ago and found it excellent in all other features except the voice quality. The person at the other end is unable to hear my voice clearly. For them my voice seems very distant or quiet. Surprisingly it works well if I am outside in a noisy environment, but if I am at office or in any enclosed quiet environment, the other person cannot hear me. Seems the noise cancellation microphone cancels my voice itself For me the other person's voice is very clear though.
I usually just lurk around this site but I had to create an account to tell this story...
I have owned iPhones since I got rid of my motorola razr flip phone, all my noise cancellation experience is with iPhones.
About a week ago, I was walking around a hall where the DSO (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) was playing, I called my wife to tell her I was watching the DSO. The conversation went a little bit like this...
me "hey, hear that?"
her "no, what?"
me "the music!"
her "what music?"
me "i'm standing in front of the detroit symphony orchestra!!"
her "i don't hear anything"
me "oh wait, let me put you on speaker phone..."
her "holy crap! it sounded like you were alone in a quiet room!"
I was at the airport the other day when I was able to test out the noise cancellation.
While speaking to my girlfriend, the overhead intercom went off. I asked her if she was able to hear the background voice, and she said that she was able to hear it slightly, but my voice was still much louder and more prominent.
Then there was a family behind me with two young children. Their bodies were behind me, but the kids were projecting their voices towards my back (which would be in alignment with my own voice). My girlfriend told me that my voice was still roughly about 70% of the overall noise she was hearing, which to her was plenty clear.
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I'm leaning on upgrading to the Nexus S from the Nexus One, but have a few questions concerning noise cancellation. In the tech specs, the Nexus S states it has software noise cancellation. So is it safe to assume it uses software to remove background noise as opposed to the Nexus One which used a secondary mic? How is the software based noise cancellation on the Nexus S performing for people? Would love feedback. I work at a manufacturing plant, and being able to hold conversations in and around noisy equipment is a must. Last question is, does the built in VoIP stack on the Nexus S make use of the noise cancellation?
I would really appreciate the feedback.
I don't know, but in another thread someone posted that their new nexus s performed very bad in a noisy environment, unusable actually. So its worth investigating and owners posting their results for now.
I am pretty sure that "software noise cancellation" is bull****. they just didnt want to disappoint existing Nexus One owners. Maybe Gingerbread in general tries to improve sound quality, but it has nothing to do with Nexus S
I haven't been in a "plant" environment, but have been in a noisy office, and it has performed as well as the N1. I also frequently use the google chat voip calling feature that was added to gmail recently. It mentions "software based" noise canceling. If it's the NS uses the same, then it will be awesome.
How does your N1 perform in your plant environment? I'm guessing it also will have problems.
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How does your N1 perform in your plant environment? I'm guessing it also will have problems.
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The Nexus One performs great when it comes to noise cancellation. Never had anyone complain. I have tested the noise cancellation by leaving myself a voicemail on my work phone standing next to a centrifuge, and was shocked at the results. Not a hint of background noise. My voice was pronounced and clear, albeit a tad "digitized", which I'm sure is a side-effect of the noise cancellation. Only gripe I have is the low earpiece volume. Even on "full" blast, it's still too low in noisy environments.
I am having complaints from people I talk to using my nexus s. They say that it sounds like they are on speaker phone and that the call is nice and quiet until I start talking; which they say has a lot of static and background noise. Any other people getting complaints from people you talk to using your nexus s?
p.s. I work in a loud environment and never had issues using my N1.
I have commented on this in other threads. I've used a N1 since its launch. I returned my NS after having used it for 3 weeks as my primary phone. The main reason that I returned it is the lack of noise canceling, the ear speaker sounds tinny and on a busy street the traffic noise is picked up by the mic and broadcast in my ear. My N1's in call sound quality is far superior to the NS. The noise canceling really does a good job.
given that the Nexus S uses software noise cancellation instead of a secondary mic, is this something that may be able to be fixed with a new ROM or custom kernel?
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given that the Nexus S uses software noise cancellation instead of a secondary mic, is this something that may be able to be fixed with a new ROM or custom kernel?
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I doubt it, for noise canceling to work in an intelligent way, I would think there needs to be more than one mic. All of the noise canceling headsets I've seen have two mics, including my Jawbone bluetooth which has a button that rests on my cheek.
if you work in noisy environment don't buy this phone. I returned it only because of this problem. Every other problem that people complain here on this forum I didn't have and are nothing when it comes to phone calls. The primary function of the phone is the worst ever. Nobody hear me when I made phone calls from my car (driving, not using blue tooth - yes still legal in some countries) and I had to put the phone always on the speaker phone to be able to hear the other callers. Finally give up and returned the phone. Same isuue with my old Samsung i8910, but i was able to tweak the speaker settings in phone service software.
otherwise great phone.
I have found the that the NS works better than my N1 in general as a phone. The call quality is much better and the ear piece is MUCH better than the N1. N1 was hard to hear in anything above an avg room noise. NS I have to turn it down most of the time and much richer sound than the tin sound of the N1. Been in a few coffee shops that are loud and did calls in them. People on the other end said they could hear the background noise but it was very low and I was very loud and clear. Just my 2 cents.
I am going to try an exchange. I bought one of the first units sold at my local best buy on release morning so maybe I got a bad one. Friend of mine who bought just before me exchanged his and said his new one has much better call quality.
I am going to try to put this to the test. Although currently I am unhappy with the results I am getting recording wise.
The situation is that I own a Galaxy S GT-I9000 and often had complaints about sounding muffled. Now a Nexus S and the complaints are gone.
However. It is very difficult to understand an issue OTHER people are hearing, so I am doing some recording tests in different situations and I will be posting the results to http://technocrate.net in the next day or so.
I'm in the same boat with ya. I thought I was the only one. yeah perfect on the N1 now my wife says I sound garbled on the end. I changed the radio thought that would help but didn't. Just upgraded my from the N1 to the NS other wise the phone is great. I guess there's not a fix for this. I'll be returning mine then. even with the newest radio KI1, same way
Edit: Returning my second one, I'm done with this phone. I'm sad to see it go really like it beside the mic problem. Did samsung happen to fix this later on in a rev. batch?
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Well called samsung and they me told to send in my second phone in. I explained the issue about the mic to the tech which said they never heard about that issue. Ok well havent got a chance to make it home yet to test it but they replace more than just the mic:
Original Problem:
TECHNICAL INQUIRY - AUDIO/SPEAKER/SOUND/VIBRATION - SPEAKERPHONE NOT WORKING
Problem found:
RINGERTONE INAUDIBLE/NO ADJUST - CAMERA FAILURE - LOCK UP DURING OPERATION (SW)
Solution:
REPLACED COMPONENT - REPLACED COMPONENT - REPLACED PBA
Til i check it when I get home, just to let you guys know. The problem at the top, there system didn't have an option for the microphone. They replaced a lot of stuff but the mic only problem was the problem? I was liked its not the speaker just the mic to the tech. She said it was in the notes about the problem. I've been very happy with samsung trying to fix this issue. so far til i get home.
Is anybody having problems with mic? People i am talking to can't hear me most of the time... I was just wondering if this is happening with everybody?
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I am having the same problem. During the first call I made, the person on the other end complained that my voice was "garbled." That is, the said that they couldn't really understand me. I just got off the phone with my Grandmother (who is hard of hearing) and she nearly hung up on me because she couldn't understand me. I am curious if this is just the unit I have, or if it plagues all Atrixes.
Try turning off noise cancelation
I am also having the same problems. I've fiddled with all of the noise cancellation settings and it didn't help. I even returned the phone and made them give me a new one thinking it may have been just mine but still have the same problem.
If this doesn't get fixed ASAP I'll be returning it to AT&T within the 30 day window.
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Same issue with mic on the Atrix. Two people told me my voice sounded muffled. When I called them from the Captivate they could hear me clearly.
Also, they hear fine when I put the Atrix on speakerphone but I hear static on my side but no such problem on Captivate.
Anyone having the speakerphone static issue?
Call quality on my Atrix has been the best of any smart phone I've ever owned. I have it set up just how it came out of the box, pretty much. Not sure if noise cancellation is on or not.
I am having to return my atrix because no one can understand me!!! If I use bluetooth the sound quality is great but as soon as switch to the handset, they say it sounds like I am talking through a cardboard tube. Man, what is up with this? I went back to my iPhone for now.
i think it's a production issue. on my first atrix, straight out of the box, i could not hear anyone when they called me and they couldn't hear me. all i got was static, not even a garbled voice. i exchanged it and voice has been flawless on the new one. i would suggest doing that, there may have been a bad batch.
At this early date, no complaints on a number of calls, and I did call myself on another line to check. Earmic sounded fine too. (A Klipsch.)
But today one person said she couldn't understand me. I think because there was a motormouth making too much noise in the room, or maybe because I was inside a building and the call strength wasn't very good. But then again...the other things that person DID say, made me think she shouldn't be allowed to answer phones in a business office anyway.
So far, so good.
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i think it's a production issue. on my first atrix, straight out of the box, i could not hear anyone when they called me and they couldn't hear me. all i got was static, not even a garbled voice. i exchanged it and voice has been flawless on the new one. i would suggest doing that, there may have been a bad batch.
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No one can hear me either. Need to exchange it tomorrow.
As far as I can tell, the mic on this phone is pretty sensitive but only for about an inch or two. This is what noise canceling is about: letting in sounds near the mic while keeping out ambient noise. I had the same problem on my N1 too, though not as severe.
You can set voice quality on call setting
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Looks like some people fixed this problem with an exchange. When i posted on the moto owners forum. The board manager PM'd me asking if they could do the exchange and are investigating the issue.
Yea I think you should go and change the nnoise suppression options and test more calls before taking it back.
I had it on high and people said they couldn't hear mme either.
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You can set voice quality on call setting
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I see the supression settings what other settings are there?
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Yea I think you should go and change the nnoise suppression options and test more calls before taking it back.
I had it on high and people said they couldn't hear mme either.
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I have tried it on normal high and off, a new sim card (att usggestion) turned on that MOS optoion and the only time people can hear me is if the mic is right in front of my mouth, i am on speaker phone or using a wired or BT headset.
i have tried quite a bit.
This is my biggest problem with my Atrix right now.
There's a long thread on the subject of Atrix voice quality on supportforums.motorola.com.
Their moderator named Mark has promised a diagnosis on this from Motorola within 48 hours from yesterday, so hoping to know something soon.
I noticed when i talk on my phone and place the phone on my desk on its back, people say they can't hear me... Is there only one mic on the nexus 6p which is on the back ?
Getting the same whenever I hunch my shoulder up to balance the phone near my cheek
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I think I had a similar issue with my Nexus 5. When the noise cancellation mic was blocked, people would have a hard time hearing me. My guess is now that the mic is on the back and not the top it is easier to block.
The Nexus 6P is supposed to have three microphones. I assume the main mic is in the bottom speaker. There is clearly a mic hole on the back just below the camera hump, so that may be what people are blocking. I'm not sure where the third mic is, perhaps in the top speaker.
It is a little odd that block one of the extra noise cancellation mics on the back of a phone would disrupt call quality (at least in a quiet place). This is a common design and you'd think the obvious use case of speakerphone with the phone sitting on a flat surface would be considered.
Perhaps, once one of the noise cancellation mics is blocked, the phone can't tell what's background noise and what's your voice, so it starts attenuating your voice as if it's background noise?
I'm assuming the 6P using Qualcomm's Fluence noise cancellation, which is what most phones with Qualcomm chipsets use these days. Fluence has always been kind of mediocre as far as noice cancellation goes. The Nexus 5 with Fluence tended to cut people's voice off a lot. I was hoping the extra third microphone would improve things, but it's also the algorithm that matters.
There's definitely better noise cancellation out there. The Audience chip (now called EarSmart) is probably the best. It was in the Nexus One, which had amazing noise cancellation (and also in the iPhone 4). But both Apple and Google dropped it. Samsung put it in a lot of the Galaxy S phones, but has dropped it now too. I assume they just don't want to pay for the licensing. Motorola uses four microphone noise cancellation and their own propriety algorithm, which is pretty good--that's what's in the Moto X 2014 and the Nexus 6, don't know about the new Moto X.
Anyway, you could experiment with covering the hole on the back and see if that's what's causing the problem.
I facing the same issue. Not sure hardware issue or software issue or some setting.
Having the same issue, need to have the microphone right up to my mouth for anyone to hear me. If I move it an inch away people sound it too low. Going to get onto google tonight about returning. Hopefully it's just a faulty microphone and not the phone design. I've tested in quite and noisy spots and same in both. Also checking not to cover any pin holes in phone that may be noise cancelling microphones.
I have the same issue with people reporting they cant hear me when the bottom mic is off angle from my mouth. I've done some testing by calling a desk phone on speaker and playing with the angle of the phone. From my testing and personal opinion it seems that the issue is likely due to over aggressive noise cancellation. Hopefully this is fixed in a software update or google gives us at least the ability to disable noise cancelation.
I am having the same issue, complaints that I am not able to be heard.
Any feedback yet on this?
Same issue here, a lot of people saying they cant hear me properly, if i then swivel the phone so the mic is in line with my mouth problem goes away. It seems very sensitive!!
Same here...
Anyone resolve this issue with a replacement device? It's quite annoying to have the phone glued to your face and if you move an inch the other party cant hear you clearly.
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Anyone resolve this issue with a replacement device? It's quite annoying to have the phone glued to your face and if you move an inch the other party cant hear you clearly.
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Same here....not sure if its a hardware issue or bad design? But if every phone is not like this then I have to send it back. Just need to determine what it is first.
Also when playing music my bottom speaker is not as loud as my top....I'm assuming that is a defect as well.
Same here with 2 devices. I've read that disabling noise cancelling fixes the issue, but this obviously requires root to do. I sure hope Google adds an option to disable this without having to root....or at least tones it down because it definitely does seem over-aggressive.
I also enabled advanced calling on both devices, and I'm not sure that didn't *help* at least a tiny bit...although I don't really have much to base that one other than neither of us getting any complaints for the past 24-48 hours....and if any of you are for sure using advanced calling and still getting complaints than I guess take this fwiw.
I remember this happening with my Nexus 5... The fix was to disable to the noise cancellation until Google came out with a patch.
I was talking to a nice Tech guy from Huawei on a completely separate issue, when I tried to hold my phone with the face while resting it on my shoulder. The guy told me that he started hearing me all muffled up. When I told him what I was doing. He told me that there is a third Mic that is in the back of the phone, which when covered, causes low or muffled noise to the other user. Seems, like disabling noise cancelling is the only option to fix this, because I do want to put my phone down and use speakerphone., especially during long conference calls.. Hope someone else can find a solution that does not require root.
There is a huge post on the official nexus forums about this issue with an actual official (kinda) response here.
It's very obvious at this point that this is a software issue related to noise canceling.
Just commenting to say that I'm experiencing the same thing as everyone else here. Thought it was just because the phone was so big, but looks like its definitely a software issue related to noise canceling
I have same issue got a replacement thought it fixed it, but realized today I still have the same issue. I am losing my patience with this phone and the replacement device has a pink hue on the top of my screen.
It's not a bug, it's already been explained that it's because if you cover the noise cancellation mic on the back near the top you'll muffle yourself. Personally I don;t know how you could possible hold this phone in a manner that would block it but... I'm used to seeing a lot of nonsensical issues from smartphone forum posters these days.
I've had the phone resting face up on the table on speakerphone and the person the other end can't hear me properly
Anyone else think this? Everyone sounds muffled
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Anyone else think this? Everyone sounds muffled
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IIRC, this is a common issue with some Nexus devices. I saw somewhere that a 6P owner fixed the issue on their device by changing a line in the build.prop, as done here on the Nexus 5. Apparently you have to change the value of "persist.audio.influence.voicecall" from "true" to "false". Of course, you have to be rooted to modify the build.prop, and I think modifying the build.prop breaks OTA updates because of system block verifications.
Edit - apparently the muffled sound issue is a result of the noise cancellation microphone picking up your voice as background noise, meaning it attempts to reduce the volume of your voice. It's probably some sort of design flaw, but I don't think it's worth RMAing when it can be fixed with a simple software modification to the build.prop. Alternatively, you should be able to fix the issue by covering whichever microphone is the noise-cancelling microphone on the Nexus 6P (for the Nexus 5, I read that it was the top microphone)
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IIRC, this is a common issue with some Nexus devices. I saw somewhere that a 6P owner fixed the issue on their device by changing a line in the build.prop, as done here on the Nexus 5. Apparently you have to change the value of "persist.audio.influence.voicecall" from "true" to "false". Of course, you have to be rooted to modify the build.prop, and I think modifying the build.prop breaks OTA updates because of system block verifications.
Edit - apparently the muffled sound issue is a result of the noise cancellation microphone picking up your voice as background noise, meaning it attempts to reduce the volume of your voice. It's probably some sort of design flaw, but I don't think it's worth RMAing when it can be fixed with a simple software modification to the build.prop. Alternatively, you should be able to fix the issue by covering whichever microphone is the noise-cancelling microphone on the Nexus 6P (for the Nexus 5, I read that it was the top microphone)
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Thanks, I'll definitely check those fixes out. I don't think losing ota updates are too big a deal since you can't use otas when you're rooted anyway
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Thanks, I'll definitely check those fixes out. I don't think losing ota updates are too big a deal since you can't use otas when you're rooted anyway
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Here you go: I'd go ahead and post here to add to the "pile" of people confirming this as a legitimate issue. Someone from Google confirmed earlier they were looking into it. https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/nexus/g70qCHkqLA4
(Also, the desktop view looks WAY better)
Yes it's weird. Also I am surprised other party cannot hear if you place the phone on the table. What is up with that...
Google can't seem to get noise cancellation right. I remember the issue with my N5. I left myself a voicemail back then and was surprised how muffled I sounded. After that, I understood fully why people would keep asking me to repeat things while on a call. I'm still subscribed to the threads on Google Product Forums and it seems they never actually fixed it.
I suggest calling your Google Voice number or something and leaving a message to test.
Yeah, noise cancellation is kinda funk though I've actually been pretty pleased with it on the 6p. I do notice times with both the 6p and the 6s+ that sound gets muffled and I assumed noise cancellation was the cause.
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Google can't seem to get noise cancellation right. I remember the issue with my N5. I left myself a voicemail back then and was surprised how muffled I sounded. After that, I understood fully why people would keep asking me to repeat things while on a call. I'm still subscribed to the threads on Google Product Forums and it seems they never actually fixed it.
I suggest calling your Google Voice number or something and leaving a message to test.
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Ironically, Google once had the best noise cancellation there ever was and was possibly the first to put it in a smartphone. The Nexus One used the Audience chip (now called Earsmart). It was amazing. People regularly thought I was at home when i was in a noisy cafe or out on the street. Subsequently Apple put the Audience chip in the iPhone 4 and it also got rave reviews for noise cancellation.
But it's been downhill since the Nexus One. The Nexus S had no (!) noise cancellation. The Galaxy Nexus had something crappy that I have never figured out what it was. Then the Nexus 4 turned to what is now the default in most phones, Qualcomm's Fluence--it's built into their chipsets; Fluence is pretty medicore and tends to have a lot of issues, compared to the Audience chip. The Nexus 5 also uses Fluence and has had a lot of issues cutting off the beginning and end of people's statements. The Nexus 6 uses Motorola's Crystal Talk and has four microphones (instead of two) for noise cancellation; it seems to be a step up from Fluence, but nothing like the Audience chip. And now I assume with the Snapdragon 810 chipset in the Nexus 6P Google has gone back to Fluence; however the 6P has three microphones, which is interesting; I read at least one person saying it's better than the Nexus 6.
Anyway, probably people should blame Qualcomm, rather than Google. As their chipsets have become more and more common, Fluence has become the default noise cancellation on many phones and it's never been that great.
Strangely, Apple dropped the great Audience chip in the iPhone 5, and people noticed that was a real step backwards. And Samsung, which used to put in in all the Galaxy S and Note phones has now dropped it with the S6. So for whatever reason (probably companies not wanting to pay licensing fees) the Audience chip seems to almost be unused these days, even though it is the best and was a pioneer in the field. Noise cancellation started out great and has only gone down hill ever since.
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For those experiencing muffled voices, it's possible that the way you're holding the 6P is blocking one of the noise cancelling mics. There is a whole under the camera hump on the back that is one of the mics. I'm assuming the main mic is in the speaker at the bottom of the front of the phone. I'm not sure where the third mic is.
If you block one of the mics that can create issues with call quality. So you might try moving your hand around to see if that improves call quality.
If you take the advice above to disable noise cancellation in the build.prop, your voice will be more clear in quiet places, but you will have no noise cancellation at all and in noisy places it could really suck--every tiny little background sound will probably be picked up and overamplified, for your caller.
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Ironically, Google once had the best noise cancellation there ever was and was possibly the first to put it in a smartphone. The Nexus One used the Audience chip (now called Earsmart). It was amazing. People regularly thought I was at home when i was in a noisy cafe or out on the street. Subsequently Apple put the Audience chip in the iPhone 4 and it also got rave reviews for noise cancellation.
But it's been downhill since the Nexus One. The Nexus S had no (!) noise cancellation. The Galaxy Nexus had something crappy that I have never figured out what it was. Then the Nexus 4 turned to what is now the default in most phones, Qualcomm's Fluence--it's built into their chipsets; Fluence is pretty medicore and tends to have a lot of issues, compared to the Audience chip. The Nexus 5 also uses Fluence and has had a lot of issues cutting off the beginning and end of people's statements. The Nexus 6 uses Motorola's Crystal Talk and has four microphones (instead of two) for noise cancellation; it seems to be a step up from Fluence, but nothing like the Audience chip. And now I assume with the Snapdragon 810 chipset in the Nexus 6P Google has gone back to Fluence; however the 6P has three microphones, which is interesting; I read at least one person saying it's better than the Nexus 6.
Anyway, probably people should blame Qualcomm, rather than Google. As their chipsets have become more and more common, Fluence has become the default noise cancellation on many phones and it's never been that great.
Strangely, Apple dropped the great Audience chip in the iPhone 5, and people noticed that was a real step backwards. And Samsung, which used to put in in all the Galaxy S and Note phones has now dropped it with the S6. So for whatever reason (probably companies not wanting to pay licensing fees) the Audience chip seems to almost be unused these days, even though it is the best and was a pioneer in the field. Noise cancellation started out great and has only gone down hill ever since.
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For those experiencing muffled voices, it's possible that the way you're holding the 6P is blocking one of the noise cancelling mics. There is a whole under the camera hump on the back that is one of the mics. I'm assuming the main mic is in the speaker at the bottom of the front of the phone. I'm not sure where the third mic is.
If you block one of the mics that can create issues with call quality. So you might try moving your hand around to see if that improves call quality.
If you take the advice above to disable noise cancellation in the build.prop, your voice will be more clear in quiet places, but you will have no noise cancellation at all and in noisy places it could really suck--every tiny little background sound will probably be picked up and overamplified, for your caller.
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I bet the main microphone is the one in the back and that is ****ed up choice by whoever made this phone. You cannot have a vonference call and lay the phone on the table while speaking because microphones get muted.
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I bet the main microphone is the one in the back and that is ****ed up choice by whoever made this phone. You cannot have a vonference call and lay the phone on the table while speaking because microphones get muted.
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The main microphone is absolutely not the one on the back. The main microphone is always the one positioned closet to the mouth, when you hold the phone to your head. There is no other way noise cancellation could work. The back of the phone is a very typical place for a secondary, noise cancellation, microphone. There is nothing wrong with that position. It needs to be faced away from the source of your voice (your mouth) and towards an other external sound surrounding you (the rest of the room, space around you, etc.). Otherwise, there would be no way to distinguish what's background noise, from what's your voice, and filter the background noise out. What matters is the hardware chip that does the signal processing. Some (e.g. the Audience chip) are much better than others (e.g. Fluence).
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The main microphone is absolutely not the one on the back. The main microphone is always the one positioned closet to the mouth, when you hold the phone to your head. There is no other way noise cancellation could work. The back of the phone is a very typical place for a secondary, noise cancellation, microphone. There is nothing wrong with that position. It needs to be faced away from the source of your voice (your mouth) and towards an other external sound surrounding you (the rest of the room, space around you, etc.). Otherwise, there would be no way to distinguish what's background noise, from what's your voice, and filter the background noise out. What matters is the hardware chip that does the signal processing. Some (e.g. the Audience chip) are much better than others (e.g. Fluence).
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Main microphone is on the back. Put your phone on a desk and make a call. Good luck having other party hear you
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Main microphone is on the back. Put your phone on a desk and make a call. Good luck having other party hear you
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You are just completely wrong about this and do not understand how noise cancellation and microphones on cell phones work. The reason placing the phone on the desk may interfere with call quality, is because it may block the secondary noise cancellation microphone on the back and cause the noise cancellation to improperly filter out your voice (as if it were background noise), because it can't tell what is background noise when this secondary mic is blocked.
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The main microphone is absolutely not the one on the back. The main microphone is always the one positioned closet to the mouth, when you hold the phone to your head. There is no other way noise cancellation could work. The back of the phone is a very typical place for a secondary, noise cancellation, microphone. There is nothing wrong with that position. It needs to be faced away from the source of your voice (your mouth) and towards an other external sound surrounding you (the rest of the room, space around you, etc.). Otherwise, there would be no way to distinguish what's background noise, from what's your voice, and filter the background noise out. What matters is the hardware chip that does the signal processing. Some (e.g. the Audience chip) are much better than others (e.g. Fluence).
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You are just completely wrong about this and do not understand how noise cancellation and microphones on cell phones work. The reason placing the phone on the desk may interfere with call quality, is because it may block the secondary noise cancellation microphone on the back and cause the noise cancellation to improperly filter out your voice (as if it were background noise), because it can't tell what is background noise when this secondary mic is blocked.
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Thank you for clearing that up, I've seen the same ignorance on different forums besides XDA from people who made a big deal out of this and blew it way out of proportion. This is as ridiculous as one post I saw that demanded there be an LED notification on the back so he can place his phone face down.
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You are just completely wrong about this and do not understand how noise cancellation and microphones on cell phones work. The reason placing the phone on the desk may interfere with call quality, is because it may block the secondary noise cancellation microphone on the back and cause the noise cancellation to improperly filter out your voice (as if it were background noise), because it can't tell what is background noise when this secondary mic is blocked.
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In any case, some basic uses like putting phone on table and holding between ear and shoulder results in no mic/voice capture. This is a serious issue. I have experienced at least the latter on more than one occasion and it was extremely frustrating.
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Thank you for clearing that up, I've seen the same ignorance on different forums besides XDA from people who made a big deal out of this and blew it way out of proportion. This is as ridiculous as one post I saw that demanded there be an LED notification on the back so he can place his phone face down.
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If you use your phone for phone calls maybe you would understand
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In any case, some basic uses like putting phone on table and holding between ear and shoulder results in no mic/voice capture. This is a serious issue. I have experienced at least the latter on more than one occasion and it was extremely frustrating.
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I didn't say it wasn't an issue. I was just clarifying what and where the different microphones are, since some people have complete misunderstandings about this.
Given that one of the two noise cancellation microphones is on the back of the phone, just below the camera visor, and given that covering a noise cancellation microphone will always disrupt call quality, obviously holding the phone between your ear and shoulder (which blocks this microphone) is going to be a problem. Complaining about it isn't going to change it, because the only solution would be for Huawei to redesign the phone. I wouldn't hold your breath for that to happen. If holding the phone that way is a crucial functionality for you, then obviously the 6P is not the right phone for you (though frankly, really? this is important to people?).
On the other hand, it is reasonable to expect the phone to work properly when placed on a table in speakerphone mode. So if that is a problem with the 6P (no everyone is reporting this), then that is a true design flaw. But still, I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, because there may be no software solution for this (other than disabling the noise cancellation, as some have done--but then of course, you have no noise cancellation, which isn't great either).
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If you use your phone for phone calls maybe you would understand
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I do, the NC mic is located way at the top back of a quite tall phone. It's nearly impossible to grip a phone to your head and have your hand be anywhere near that mic unless your hands are literally half a foot or more wide. So that leaves sitting it on a table in speakerphone or shouldering it. I don't shoulder phones, but I have used it on a table in speaker without any issues. And it's not happening to that many people anyway.
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Anyone else think this? Everyone sounds muffled
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I think everyone in this thread misunderstood your question. From your question I take it you are the one using the Nexus 6p and you are the one who hears everyone else muffled. Which would not have anything to do with your mic but everything to do with the top speaker.
I don't know about you but I personally think this phone is the best sounding phone for calls I've ever owned when it comes to hearing people on the other end. Whether they can hear me OK or not, I don't know. I haven't heard complaints.
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I didn't say it wasn't an issue. I was just clarifying what and where the different microphones are, since some people have complete misunderstandings about this.
Given that one of the two noise cancellation microphones is on the back of the phone, just below the camera visor, and given that covering a noise cancellation microphone will always disrupt call quality, obviously holding the phone between your ear and shoulder (which blocks this microphone) is going to be a problem. Complaining about it isn't going to change it, because the only solution would be for Huawei to redesign the phone. I wouldn't hold your breath for that to happen. If holding the phone that way is a crucial functionality for you, then obviously the 6P is not the right phone for you (though frankly, really? this is important to people?).
On the other hand, it is reasonable to expect the phone to work properly when placed on a table in speakerphone mode. So if that is a problem with the 6P (no everyone is reporting this), then that is a true design flaw. But still, I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix, because there may be no software solution for this (other than disabling the noise cancellation, as some have done--but then of course, you have no noise cancellation, which isn't great either).
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That was an answer straight out of Steve Jobs' mouth . Jokes aside. If there are faults, one shouldn't dismiss them simply out of the view that it may need a HW revision, when the solution may be simpler. One certainly mustn't assume that a phone with one stated defect is simply not for me, since really that is for me to decide and at no point have I given the impression that this is a deal breaker for me.
TLDR; it IS an issue for some. Is there any solution? How widespread is the problem? Nothing too complicated guys. This IS the 'Help' section of the forum.
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That was an answer straight out of Steve Jobs' mouth . Jokes aside. If there are faults, one shouldn't dismiss them simply out of the view that it may need a HW revision, when the solution may be simpler. One certainly mustn't assume that a phone with one stated defect is simply not for me, since really that is for me to decide and at no point have I given the impression that this is a deal breaker for me.
TLDR; it IS an issue for some. Is there any solution? How widespread is the problem? Nothing too complicated guys. This IS the 'Help' section of the forum.
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Yes, I thought of making a steve Jobs joke when I wrote that. But if ever there was a case of don't hold it that way, this is it. With the iPhone 4, the problem was you couldn't hold the phone in the most normal way, during calls, that almost anyone would do. Whereas shouldering the phone to your head, especially with cell phones that are so thin and not conducive to this, is a pretty limited use case.
Sure, it could be a deal breaker for some people, but I don't really see this as a design flaw. That noise cancelling mic needs to be on the back of the phone and as far away from the mouth as possible, for noise cancellation to work. The position it is in makes a lot of sense. There aren't a lot of other good places for it, where it wouldn't be more likely to be covered by a finger (like on the side of the phone). If the trade off for functional noise cancellation is you can't shoulder the phone, that's a pretty sensible trade off, I think. You can't please everybody and catering to a very small use case scenario doesn't make sense.
On the other hand, if the phone doesn't work properly in speakerphone mode when sitting non a table, an incrediby common and normal use case scenario, then that to me seems more like a legitimate design flaw.
That aside, part of my point is also, whatever people think of the design and whether it works for them. If they are hoping that mic on the back is going to be repositioned in a revision of the phone, so people can shoulder it, they are deluding themselves. This is not an issue that's going to be addressed. But other noise cancellation issues, that might have to do with the algorithm might get addressed, although it would require more than an update to Android, since the noise cancellation is built into Qualcomm's chipset. I don't even know if it can be updated. So again, whatever one thinks, you probably should take it as a point for deciding whether you want the phone, because I think it's pretty unlikey there will be a "fix" for these "issues."
The most likely thing that might get fixed is just if there are quality control issues, having to do with the position of the microphone inside the phone and the gaskets between them and the holes in the body of the phone. Tiny misalignments can be surprisingly detrimental to the performance of both mics and speakers. That's something Huawei could correct, without having to physically redesign the phone.
So it's prefectly okay to hate the 6P for having these issues and not want the phone. But I think people should set there expectations pretty low if they think they will be fixed. It's much more complicated than as simple update to Android.
TLDR: Don't hold it that way. And now may be the time to lose all hope. (But by the way, some people report the call quality on the 6P is great and it would be nice to hear more from those people.)
On the Essential website is says that the phone has four microphones: "4x microphones with noise cancellation and beam forming."
I'm wondering how this affects call quality for noise cancellation (and if all four microphones are in fact used in calls--or is it just used for detecting voice commands). Has anyone tested how well the phone cancels out background noise? In other words, when you are in a noisy place, how much of the noise does your caller on the other end of the line hear?
In-call noise cancellation is an area with phones that has really languished and in fact mostly gone backwards, technologically. I still haven't seen a phone with better noise cancellation than my Nexus One (that used the amazing Audience chip, which no one uses anymore--because Qualcomm includes a noise cancellation function in their chipsets now, which is not as good, but, well, comes with the chipset at no extra cost.)
Secondarily, how is audio recording quality in videos?
Thanks for any feedback.
I would also love an answer to this. Reviews almost never mention how clear or understandable you are to people you call anymore.
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I would also love an answer to this. Reviews almost never mention how clear or understandable you are to people you call anymore.
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Have not had one complaint coming from a S7 and G6 the essential is fantastic.
O wanna know where the 4 mics are! We've obviously got one on the bottom by the SIM, and one by the camera.
Where are the other 2? Perhaps one in each speaker grill (earpiece and large speaker)?