Speaker and Video sound recording issue - Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone experienced very low volumes when recording video? I know the thunderbolt has noise cancellation but not sure if it impacts audio recording while shooting video. Any ideas would be great. Oh, I made sure my hands were not covering the microphones.
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I just noticed this today as well. IT seems to only happen when recording video on my phone. voice recordings and such are fine.
Im taking mine back to Verizon tomorrow to see if another unit has the same problem. If it does I will be really disappointed as I take a lot of videos.

This is normal, I believe. I've seen lots of people mentioning this online. The playback on the phone is extremely quiet, but the actual video's volume when exported to your computer isn't bad.
The only thing that bugs me is the popping sound that happens at the start of every video I take. I've noticed this in videos online as well as my girlfriend's Thunderbolt.

That bits on the phone. I noticed that same thing but just thought I had put my hand over the mic. I guess as long as the PC sound is ok it should be livable.

I don't understand how this would be normal. I haven't had this issue with any other android phone, or HTC phone. It doesn't show well when you record a video on the TB and show it right at the moment. I had two friends this afternoon that wanted This phone until I showed them this.
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Popping Sound Before Audio

I received my EVO3D this morning, and just got around to playing with it recently. Unfortunately for me, there is this popping sound from the speaker before any audio (texting, youtube, music), and it is a slight annoyance. It's not too loud, but I can hear it. Audio playback is fine after the initial popping sound, but every time I start/reply a new text or anything I hear the sound.
I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing a similar issue, or might it be an issue with my phone.
Anyone? Or should I take it back and exchange the phone?
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I'm having the same thing happen with mine. :-(
Not here. Take it back
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[Q] Problem with microphone

Hello guys,
My problem I am experiencing is with the microphone that picks up sound for videos and voice recording. In calls, it is fine, as the gs2 has 2 seperate microphones? One for calls and other for videos/voice recording.
Anyway, the problem started around 2 months back, it then disappeared after blowing into the microphone hole at the bottom. Now recently, it randomly began to not work again, so the same old static/screetching when recording was present, it even started to not record anything at all so I tried to vaccume it to get dust out, and it then started to record static and very distorted audio.
I left it a day, and WALLA! works, but now it has gone back to not recording any audio at all...
I'm not sure if this is hardware or software related?
Any light to be shed on my problem/suggestions would be really great, its still under warranty as well by the way.
Regards,
Carlos
It sounds like it may be damaged. I'd send it back for repair/replacement.
Incidentally, the SGS2 does have 2 microphones, but one of them is used for noise cancellation. It uses the same mic for both calls and recording. If it's 100% fine for every single call, but bad on video/audio recording then it may be that the recording level is a lot louder than the usual in-call level, and that's why you're getting different results.
Incidentally...
carlos_will said:
WALLA!
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One of my biggest bug-bears!!!
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Background "hiss/white noise" durring calls

I've been using a Note 2 demo unit for the past two days and have noticed that during a call, and the other person is talking, I can hear a "hiss/white nose" around the voice in the earpiece speaker. But when the person isn't talking, there is no hiss. I tried this with several calls (and also 1-800 recordings) and can hear it for every call. I'm not sure what the cause is, but it is quite distracting.
On the GS3 is does have a slight hiss, but it is hardly noticeable. The Droid DNA doesn't have any hiss during calls.
Since I wasn't sure if it could just be an issue just this Note 2, I stopped by a store on my way home today and tried the Note 2 that was on display. It has the same hiss/white noise that I'm getting on my unit.
Has anyone else noticed this on their phone?
I'm thinking it may have to do with the Note 2 using P_Rev 6 and the EVRC-B Vocoder. In my area, the regular EVRC sounds better than EVRC-B, but I don't see any way of changing it on the Note 2. I've changed between the P_Rev and Vocoders on other phones by doing ##PROGRAM, but that command doesn't work on the Note 2.
FAUguy said:
I've been using a Note 2 demo unit for the past two days and have noticed that during a call, and the other person is talking, I can hear a "hiss/white nose" around the voice in the earpiece speaker. But when the person isn't talking, there is no hiss. I tried this with several calls (and also 1-800 recordings) and can hear it for every call. I'm not sure what the cause is, but it is quite distracting.
On the GS3 is does have a slight hiss, but it is hardly noticeable. The Droid DNA doesn't have any hiss during calls.
Since I wasn't sure if it could just be an issue just this Note 2, I stopped by a store on my way home today and tried the Note 2 that was on display. It has the same hiss/white noise that I'm getting on my unit.
Has anyone else noticed this on their phone?
I'm thinking it may have to do with the Note 2 using P_Rev 6 and the EVRC-B Vocoder. In my area, the regular EVRC sounds better than EVRC-B, but I don't see any way of changing it on the Note 2. I've changed between the P_Rev and Vocoders on other phones by doing ##PROGRAM, but that command doesn't work on the Note 2.
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I had the same problem on my first Note 2. Took back to Verizon and replacement had the same issue. Was going to get a third one but the CSR tried it out and heard the same thing on the 3rd one so just returned it all together. Awesome phone otherwise but I make a lot of calls in a quite office, and with no other sounds it was really annoying.
Here is another thread with same issue http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2021447
Really hope it is just a bad batch. I'm going to give it a few weeks and try another one.
I have the same issue, for what it's worth. However, I'm lucky enough to almost never use my phone to make phone calls so I can live with it.
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I can't wait till some one comes in here and claims they don't have the problem lol. "My device is a special snowflake out of the manufacturing plant that doesn't exhibit this problem at all!"
DaRkL3AD3R said:
I can't wait till some one comes in here and claims they don't have the problem lol. "My device is a special snowflake out of the manufacturing plant that doesn't exhibit this problem at all!"
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I've definitely noticed the hissing but honestly haven't noticed it since the first couple days of having the device. Going to pay attention the rest of the week and see if I still have it. I use speaker phone or etymotic ear buds with mic 95% of the time however
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I just started noticing it with headphones. Light hiss behind notification sounds, stops just a moment after the sound. Hmph. Not sure how I feel about it. It's pretty distracting.
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I have it but don't mind it too much. Probably because it's better than the tinny distortion I had on the Thunderbolt! I've noticed the headphone jack must be better too. Much less hissing when listening to music with headphones...at least compared to the TB. I can't believe I had that TB for so long...so...painful...
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I have it but don't mind it too much. Probably because it's better than the tinny distortion I had on the Thunderbolt! I've noticed the headphone jack must be better too. Much less hissing when listening to music with headphones...at least compared to the TB. I can't believe I had that TB for so long...so...painful...
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Yeah man, same here. I pick it up every once in awhile now and just hold it in my hands and laugh. What a piece of garbage.
First and last HTC device. They're still making twitter posts saying they're still working on ICS for the Thunderbolt............. loooooool
Had a tb too. Held it today. . It's so bricklike in comparison! Not to mention the problems in function. Think I'm over the light hiss now. ..rarely have headphones in and not listening to music anyway so rarely have a chance v to notice it.
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Does turning off noise reduction (menu during call) address this problem at all?
Just an update on my previous post. I made a couple somewhat long calls today and I did not hear the background noise on the other end the way I had in the early days of the phone. Either it is simply a sporadic issue or it has worked itself out somehow.
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I don't think it's a noise reduction issue. With noise reduction on or off, Voicemail calls sounded perfect. No hiss or anything. And I am quite sure of what the hiss sounds like, so I know what to listen for.
I'm wondering if it's just a case of the person you're talking to having a crap phone that has outgoing issues. It doesn't do it when I call my brother on his Note 2, just some other people. Wierd.
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I don't think it's a noise reduction issue. With noise reduction on or off, Voicemail calls sounded perfect. No hiss or anything. And I am quite sure of what the hiss sounds like, so I know what to listen for.
I'm wondering if it's just a case of the person you're talking to having a crap phone that has outgoing issues. It doesn't do it when I call my brother on his Note 2, just some other people. Wierd.
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I've also noticed who I call makes a difference in when I hear it, though I've heard it at least once with everyone who I've talked to... Some every time some only randomly... weird.
Definitely flippin annoying when you pay attention to it...
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So in the past two weeks since I posted about this, I've tried calling a few people and tested it out, and I hear it on every call.
When the person on the other end is quiet, there is no hiss in the Note 2's earpiece speaker. But when the person talks, you can hear the hiss "surround" each word.
I've also tried it with the noise reduction feature on and off, and it doesn't make any difference.
Hi,
Does it happen when using bluetooth?
Thanks,
Bryan
I hope it is software not hardware. Was thinking about getting a Note II but this flaw would render this phone unusable to me, I use my phone as a phone a lot.

Helpful hints

Just picked up my DNA on Saturday. And was setting up and testing out everything. I came across very low audio when I recorded 2 test videos in the house. I could barely hear voice from the TV. I went into the camera audio settings and turned off stereo audio recording. Problem solved. As for the camera it's self it is much better than the TB. The flash, when needed is faster and spot on. And those low light reddish pics in low light are gone. I started to get a little worried when I Tried to use aps that use the gps I couldn't get then to lock on, maybe how I have my phone set up. But found if I turn on gps first, solved the problem. Hope these are helpful hints to any one that may have these issues. Glad I got the DNA. Thanks for all the great info on XDA.
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Loud Background Hiss on One's Speakers

Just got the One and I took a few videos this morning. I noticed when I take a video with the One there is a loud hiss in the background. In fact I took a video without any sound and you can hear the hiss.
Anyone else?
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Just got the One and I took a few videos this morning. I noticed when I take a video with the One there is a loud hiss in the background. In fact I took a video without any sound and you can hear the hiss.
Anyone else?
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Try turning off NFC
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I turned off beats and mine stopped I think it might be software related.
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No that didn't help.
If I make a vid with no sound you can hear the hiss.
Going to swap it out tomorrow.
restore to stock rom. and try this again. if noise still exist. i think it's hardware issues, you d' better return it to exchange a new one

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