Mickey: Please set the default volume back down. I just confirmed (by talking to a human) that when the Speaker Volume is set to 100%, the other party hears an annoying echo of their own voice.
Thank you, --Ben P.S. I don't know if it matters, but I'm using a Revision A06 Freerunner, buzz-fixed. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Ben Wong<[email protected]> wrote: > Mickey: It seems a very bad idea to default to maximum volume if it > causes distortion. I'm not sure yet that that's the sole audio > problem in SHR-unstable, but I can say that when I turned the speaker > volume down to what it was in SHR-testing (68%), I was understood > perfectly, for the first time, by Google's voice recognition > (1-800-GOOG-411). > > For anyone wondering how to use D-Bus to set the volume to 68%, you > can do it by cutting and pasting this line: > > mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device > org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68 > > And this line will show you the current volume: > > mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device > org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.GetSpeakerVolume > > Please experiment with different values by changing the volume during > a call. I'm interested to know what values work the best for you all. > And does 100% actually work for anybody without distortion? > > --Ben > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Michael 'Mickey' > Lauer<[email protected]> wrote: >> FWIW, against my personal experience (where this setting lead to >> suboptimal results), people have forced me to uplevel the speaker volume >> in the phone to the maximum in ogsmd. It's very possible that this >> contributes to the distortion. Try lowering it, e.g. via >> org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume( percentage ). >> >> :M: >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
