Alright, you Saturday-night owls, I need some technical assistance:
Alright, you Saturday-night owls, I need some technical assistance:
I'm having a weird problem on my Android. As some of you know, I recently purchased a new phone but the problem persists. Here's the story:
My three year old Android's microphone stopped working while making calls. That is to say, while the phone was in phone mode. If I switched to speaker it worked fine, as well as by audio recording app which I always used in a speakerphone mode. But during calls? Nothing.
I just thought it was because the phone was old. The power button had already stopped working and it was seriously dragging some butt as it struggled to keep up with modern apps.
But, with this new phone, which I've only had since Wednesday, I'm having the same problem. I'm thinking it's an app or setting somewhere as I imported all apps and settings from cloud and so have all, or at least most, of the same apps with the same settings.
It doesn't seem to have the same problem when I'm using the Voice app to make/receive calls. At least, I don't recall any problems when using that app as opposed to the phone app.
What I've already done:
[1] Cleared the phone app's cache and restarted the phone.
[2] Toggled some of the "voice input" settings on other apps.
[3] Removed microphone permissions from recently installed apps.
[4] Booted phone into safe mode and wiped the cache.
I'm officially out of ideas except to take the device back to factory and add the apps one-by-one testing the phone's ability one-by-one.
Android version 8.1.0, if that matters.
I'm having a weird problem on my Android. As some of you know, I recently purchased a new phone but the problem persists. Here's the story:
My three year old Android's microphone stopped working while making calls. That is to say, while the phone was in phone mode. If I switched to speaker it worked fine, as well as by audio recording app which I always used in a speakerphone mode. But during calls? Nothing.
I just thought it was because the phone was old. The power button had already stopped working and it was seriously dragging some butt as it struggled to keep up with modern apps.
But, with this new phone, which I've only had since Wednesday, I'm having the same problem. I'm thinking it's an app or setting somewhere as I imported all apps and settings from cloud and so have all, or at least most, of the same apps with the same settings.
It doesn't seem to have the same problem when I'm using the Voice app to make/receive calls. At least, I don't recall any problems when using that app as opposed to the phone app.
What I've already done:
[1] Cleared the phone app's cache and restarted the phone.
[2] Toggled some of the "voice input" settings on other apps.
[3] Removed microphone permissions from recently installed apps.
[4] Booted phone into safe mode and wiped the cache.
I'm officially out of ideas except to take the device back to factory and add the apps one-by-one testing the phone's ability one-by-one.
Android version 8.1.0, if that matters.
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I also tried turning off "Noise Cancellation" as I could clearly hear background noise through the phone, just not my voice. Weird, right?
And, like I said, it works fine when using the microphone in any other app, just not in "Phone" when using the phone as a phone. In speakerphone it works fine.
BTW I don't know you.
I'm nearly at the point where I'm thinking about taking the new phone back to stock and seeing if it's an Android issue, but a lot of people on XDA-Developers say their ROM choice doesn't matter.
Maybe a non-stock dialer? It's about the only thing I haven't tried.
Nick McIntosh i may have to do that today. I want to say it stopped working with the latest update.
Christopher Gaul no.
Bob Lai I hadn't thought of that, but yes, I have a smart-enough watch it's connected to. I'm going to try disconnecting this before taking it back to stock.
The icon is different too.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket/222540-microphone-not-working.html
I'm going to be so pissed if it was something as simple as ...
I went to the dialer and typed in #808 (as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63AcKA76oOI) and performed the mic check. I noticed I could barely record anything until I turned the volume up. Once I did everything seemed to be working fine. I went ahead an rebooted the phone anyway and will make a test call as soon as I get out of here.