Add Active Noise Canellation to bluetooth headphones / earbuds - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all
I have recently bought bluetooth true wireless earbuds. I was wondering, if it is possible to manually add some sort of Active Noise Cancellation?
The thing is, I have already looked into this, and I found people saying this won't work without having a mic on each earbud. I DO have a mic on each earbud. That made me wonder, does there exist some sort of app that actually does this? If so, which?
Thanks in advance!

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Stereo Bluetooth Earbuds

Anyone know of a good set of bluetooth stereo earbuds? I don't want headphones and I'd like something that can be used for phone calls as well.
I'm not exactly hard of hearing, but I do hear much better with earbuds in both ears than with just one.
Any suggestions?
I use the Jabra Clipper. It charges with the same cable that comes with the Note and it also allows you to use any type of miniplug headphone, as it's a powered BT receiver. It has a mic built in, too.
CradleRob said:
Anyone know of a good set of bluetooth stereo earbuds? I don't want headphones and I'd like something that can be used for phone calls as well.
I'm not exactly hard of hearing, but I do hear much better with earbuds in both ears than with just one.
Any suggestions?
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I use these both of these, mainly at the gym, I like them a lot...
http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/backbeat-903-plus - I like these the best
http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/st...10551&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666198163
I bought these, Samsung HS3000, a while back for my Captivate and in anticipation of the Note.
I like them because I can pop in my Sony studio cans or IEMs. Almost went with the Jabra Clipper mentioned above. With either of set you can jack them into a stereo Auxiliary and use your phone as a wireless remote.
I guess I'm most interested in Voice Quality. I want two earbuds in my ear. I want to easily hear someone when I am talking to them. I don't want the person on the other end of the call to know that I'm using bluetooth.
What are your voice call experiences with these?

Enable Phone Mic With Call Audio Through Bluetooth?

Here's my situation: In my car, I often have my OG connected to my stereo with an A2DP bluetooth audio receiver (without a mic). This works well for listening to music, or getting directions from the nav. However, if I answer a call while connected to it, I can hear the audio through my car speakers, but the other person can't hear me. I understand that the OG's internal mic is disabled at this point, as it is expecting a bluetooth mic to be connected. The work-around I have found is to disable bluetooth for phone calls. This plays the call audio through the phone speaker, and utilizes the internal mic like normal speakerphone.
What I would like is a mix of the two. I want the call audio to play through the car speakers, but enable the OG's internal mic so I can talk through that. Does anyone know of an app or setting I'm missing that might accomplish this?
Thanks.
No, but that sounds like it would be really easy to code if you wanted to learn some java.
(Disclosure: I don't know java)
I was hoping to use this in the next few days. I don't think I can learn java that quickly. But I agree, it seems like it should be pretty easy to accomplish. Software turns the mic off, it should be able to turn it back on.
Digil said:
I was hoping to use this in the next few days. I don't think I can learn java that quickly. But I agree, it seems like it should be pretty easy to accomplish. Software turns the mic off, it should be able to turn it back on.
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Hi Digil,
Did you find a way of doing this? I have a Galaxy Note 2 with the same setup in my car and I was wondering if you found a solution...
Thanks
Ishkatar
ishkatar said:
Hi Digil,
Did you find a way of doing this? I have a Galaxy Note 2 with the same setup in my car and I was wondering if you found a solution...
Thanks
Ishkatar
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Hey Ishkatar, nope I didn't find a solution yet, but I haven't spent too much time looking. I've been busy with work and traveling to see family on this holiday weekend. I'll definitely post here if I find anything.
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Digil said:
Hey Ishkatar, nope I didn't find a solution yet, but I haven't spent too much time looking. I've been busy with work and traveling to see family on this holiday weekend. I'll definitely post here if I find anything.
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The SoundAbout app seems like it will work when the phone is connected to a headset (audio out through headset, input via phone mic). But I can't find anything that will accomplish that when outputting audio through BT.
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...phone-input-and-headphone-output-on-nexus-one
Yes, I tried it and it did not work with BT... After much research and testing multiple BT Manager apps I decided to return the BT adaptor and I'll think about buying a full BT hands-free connector...
ishkatar said:
Yes, I tried it and it did not work with BT... After much research and testing multiple BT Manager apps I decided to return the BT adaptor and I'll think about buying a full BT hands-free connector...
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Yeah, I think I might be forced to go with that Belkin adapter shown in the link above, which Is too bad because I was hoping not to spend anymore money, haha.
phone mic instead of bluetooth device
I had the same problem. I got fed up and decided to move the bluetooth mic to a more convenient location in my car, since I could not disable it. Before I re-positioned the un-soldered mic to a new location, I decided to make sure my soldering did not inadvertently damage any of the device. To my delight, without the mic being physically present, it defaulted to my phone mic. So, for me at least my problem was solved by removing the mic in question. I have no idea if it will work on other bluetooth devices.
any progress?
Just for info, after much research I don't think this is possible as Android does not allow routing of call audio to A2DP at all, probably due to security reasons?
I just plug a lead to the headphone jack and patch into the auxiliary input of my stereo. I also had one of those USB dongal Bluetooth receivers that worked exactly that way but it stopped working and other ones don't work, the one that did work was able to connect to phone audio as well as media audio. So it seems that if the mic can be disabled form the other end the Android mic will kick in. Android OS sucks you cannot do anything with the hardware. PC's piss over Google.
They probably don't do it because of latency error affecting feedback canceling. And what has external hardware got to do with security. Google just uses it as an excuse to getaway with marketing an inferior OS.
I wonder if I can replicate this. I need to kill the awful mic in my car Bluetooth so I can use phone mic
Has anyone tested this with non-native Calls like Skype, Facebook Calling, Zoom.US, what's app etc.?
it's totally unacceptable that I can use A2DP stereo audio + Computer Built in Microphone, but I can't do this with android!
Companies are taking off the headphone jack but they haven't figured out HD Bluetooth microphones yet!
Are any updates on this thread? maybe some apps could rout mic?
z-dima said:
Are any updates on this thread? maybe some apps could rout mic?
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You can check this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nordskog.LesserAudioSwitch&hl=en, havent checked for myself but it worked for my friend

Headphones with microphone?

Hi guys just received my phone and noticed that my headphones doesn't have microphone.
I have got a guide book for the microphone MDR-NC31EM but on my headphone it says MDR-NC31E
Do your headphones have microphone?
PiskopatYazar said:
Hi guys just received my phone and noticed that my headphones doesn't have microphone.
I have got a guide book for the microphone MDR-NC31EM but on my headphone it says MDR-NC31E
Do your headphones have microphone?
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The microphones used for noise cancelling act as the microphone for calls.
I've tried them out in call and have had no problems.
TheOnlyIntruder said:
The microphones used for noise cancelling act as the microphone for calls.
I've tried them out in call and have had no problems.
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Just made a phone call with the headphones it is working okay. Its silly cos on the guide book there is microphone.
Thanks for your help
PiskopatYazar said:
Just made a phone call with the headphones it is working okay. Its silly cos on the guide book there is microphone.
Thanks for your help
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The red circle shows were the microphone is on the earphone, a way you can test it is if you activate the noise cancelling, rub your fingers across that part of the earphone, you'll hear that typical swashing sound when rubbing a mic.
(I took the photo with the Z2)
Hi, could you describe the method for recieving calls with this headset? Does it auto-answer, or do you have to press an answer icon on your phone display? As I understand it, this headset doesn't have any volume/answer buttons.
annoying
Correct, the headset doesn't feature any buttons. To me that's quite a downer. It's very inconvenient to pull out the phone for all actions like picking a call and pause/play/rev/fwd music. They sound good and noise cancelling works perfectly in flight, but I really dislike that they don't feature a button.
I've tested mine is nc31e without m.
and it has mic but I can't find where it is.
These are microphones in the headphones.
people i call with this headset dont hear me
Hi guys, as the title says, people i call always scream that they cant hear me. Did any of you got this issue?
same issue
hsgrazioli said:
Hi guys, as the title says, people i call always scream that they cant hear me. Did any of you got this issue?
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Same issue here.. Pls anyone could help?
I know this is an old thread but I've had a problem with my headset pretty much since day one. People who i speak with can hear the background noise a whole lot more (like a storm) more than what they can hear me.
It works perfect with noise canceling all on its own and with music, the problem lies with calls.
Can anyone offer a solution? (BTW, I've got a Z3)

Earbud mic button push to talk

Hello everyone,
I have a set of earbuds that fit my ears perfectly, have excellent sound, and are all around the best ear buds I've had in a while. The problem is that the mic seems to work only when I push the controller button on the earbuds. This makes using the earbuds inconvenient for phone calls. Is there any setting, or something that can be done on the Android system to remove push to talk during phone calls? I'm making this post under the assumption that it is a software issue, but I'll also be looing into hardware solutions on the earbuds themselves.
Thanks,
Misha

Hack Sony's Digital Noise Cancelling?

Hello everyone,
This might seem like an awkward question but please take time to understand how I'm thinking about this.
I had received the Sony MDR-NC31EM that fairly impressed me with their Noise Cancelling feature, especially when I was in any form of transport. Of course, like any other headset, the wiring deteriorated and I didn't try to fix it because the 5 pins are really hard to figure out and solder back.
Anyway, I know that you need a decent headset and a stereo microphone to achieve this, but has anyone tried to "hack" the detection of NC headsets so it might work with normal headsets with a mono mic?
I'm saying this because of two reasons :
When my MDR-NC31EM started misbehaving, sometimes the phone detected the NC feature so it enabled it but yet, only one mic was correctly working, the NC was pretty decent like everything was normal. This is maybe because the phone does not only rely on the detected audio but also uses something else (A friend explained me that due to latency, the phone might use a preset algorithm which may explain the possibility to choose NC type; Train/Bus, Plane, Office).
I have a second headset, with a mono mic and the wiring is a little deteriorated so sometimes the phone detects it as an NC headset and it works. Of course, the noise cancelling is not as precise as with the original Sony headset, but it still take off a part of the ambient noise (I've tried with few audio samples to make sure).
So, with some decent headset and a good mono mic, maybe it can work? Did anyone try to figure out how all this work? I've made some research and I bump on people saying that you need stereo mics and so on. But I can confirm you that with my crappy headset it worked partially. Maybe some fine tuning?
Finally, I'm not a specialist in all this, I might be really wrong, but I feel really curious about this.
Thank you in advance!

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