I got some moisture in my A500 while putting a screen cover on it and the unit was misbehaving. I have that cleared up now (hopefully), but noticed something about the microphone. It was partially covered by a tag from one of the wiring looms! I don't know if moving this tag out of the way will improve the microphone, but it sure as heck aint going to hurt it! Since the microphone points away from you as you hold the tablet, I'm not sure it's ever going to pick up your voice properly.
Pics are attached
Rob
update: I put my a500 back together, but forgot I had the sd card still in there. The end result was that I cracked the sd card which renders it useless. I'll have to buy another one now. The microphone recording volume is still quite low, no improvement there. I think it's a design oversight and any tablet should probably have front and rear facing microphones. Only use the one facing away for video recording, othewise use the one facing the user.
Did you try turning the mic over? Maybe they made two mistakes. Putting the mic in wrong and then covering it with the tag
The A500 has a 2 microphones array, for noise canceling effect.
The microphone you put the tag label away from is the noise canceling one, the main microphone is just at the left of that one and its facing front. As you put away that tag you may have an improvement on the noise canceling effect, if you try to turn over the mic it will not harm the device but I'm pretty sure it will not help noise canceling.
Holding the A500 landscape and dock port down, the gap of the front facing mic is between the screen glass and the upper frame, is just right in the middle, it is hard to see but can be seen from certain angles and light conditions.
Also you provided the proof that I'm not writing nonsenses, in the first picture attached, there are those two alike connectors, both have plugged microphones, and they have the same tag flap with the same codes and digits imprinted. If you look closely you can see the edge of the front facing mic, it's at the left of the back facing mic and it's almost covered by the circuit board where both microphones connectors are.
I as well had taken my tablet apart due tons issue with video cable loose.and noticed exactly where the mice are at. Thinking about going tobeadeo shak or order from black box better mic to out in.I have done this on laptop before
silverball.slayer said:
update: I put my a500 back together, but forgot I had the sd card still in there. The end result was that I cracked the sd card which renders it useless. I'll have to buy another one now. The microphone recording volume is still quite low, no improvement there. I think it's a design oversight and any tablet should probably have front and rear facing microphones. Only use the one facing away for video recording, othewise use the one facing the user.
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I did a few recordings to test the noise canceling array, and be able to notice the noise canceling effect when recording video with front facing camera, when recording with back facing camera, I notice no noise canceling, the recording level is a little low, but was ok, I'm not sure if this feature is binded to which camera the user is using during record, also I have no professional equipment or applications to make sure that the noise canceling effect/feature was working or not.
I agree that this kind of double microphone array should be a lot more user friendly, letting a user decide to use both microphones, or using only one and which one, or turn on or off noise canceling, or any other feature as the recording level, will not harm anyone. And having the device defaults to record using front facing camera with front mic and noise canceling, and when using back facing camera with back mic, without noise canceling, will work as most users wanted it to work.
The microphone on my third A500 is working great so far. I returned the second one today because the microphone audio was very low. It's still running 3.01 stock because the 3.01 OTA update isn't available yet for my unit.
Rob
Just curious if anyone knows of a mod to adjust the mic gain when recording videos. It's just way too high /loud and distorts easily.
Failing that, if there was a decent camera app that could work with an external mic plugged into the headphone jack (I have an iRig Mic Cast), I'd love that as well.
Very good idea with this iRig Mic Cast or any else external microphone and works very well with SnapCameraHDR and LGcameraPro I tried headphone's mic
Pinout for G2 is like in pic.
Rear camera and speaker in Redmi 2 is not working
In my Redmi 2, rear camera is not working. If I will press in the middle and hold, then the camera is working but again if I loose, it goes. But the front camera is working perfectly.
Speaker is also not working. When any music and anything playing, it simply doing a ssssshhhhhhh sound nothing else.
The sound identifies that something is playing but sound is not coming.
Also sometimes in between, sssssshhh sound comes during charging, doing any activities.
Go to service centre .. Think You Messed up your Speaker
When recording a video using my rear camera, the sound does not come through clearly. It's as if the sound recording is focused on the front of the phone instead of the rear.
This is occurring on oreo beta 2, 3, lineage os 15.1. I've tried using the essential camera, google cam port (latest), open camera, lineage camera.
Before you ask, the microphones are clear of obstruction. There is no case on the phone. There are no microphone issues when using the phone during calls.
Anyone else experiencing this? It is making the video function on the phone all but useless to me.
Did you ever find an answer to this?
I have been facing strange issue while recording videos from Instagram and Snapchat.
When i record a video, The audio in recorded video gets played fine for like 1-2 seconds. But after that, sound gets muffled like something is blocking the mic from sensing impedance. However mic is not blocked.
While recording of video in Gcam or Mi Cam is just perfect as it should, So my microphone is not faulty but there are some codec issues that is culprit for muffled sound in video recording.
I have tried Dual Speaker mod to see if it helps, I tried to disable noise cancellation sensor just in case it is causing trouble but nothing helped.
I faced same issue on every ROM i flashed.
Am i the only one facing such issue?
I have exactly the same issue!!!