Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Zanetti
wrote: Hi everyone, Lately my Buzz-fixed Freerunner began to make a rustling noise during phonecalls. I cannot hear it on my side but I constantly get complains from the persons on the other end. Some test calls here confirmed that the noise is really here and its really loud too

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-31 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/7/31 Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net: I have been able to solve it now and have put all the information from this thread into the wiki. https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Alsa_state_a7 Do note that page linked to the wrong statefile, which was earlier erroneously called the one

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong 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

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 21:54 -0700, Ben Wong 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

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Ben Wong lists.openmoko@wongs.net writes: 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. Isn't it better to have a consistent (maximum) +CLVL

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
With the default state file (is there such a thing? *cough*), what's the highest value you can use before it distorts? :M: ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de writes: With the default state file (is there such a thing? *cough*), what's the highest value you can use before it distorts? Michael, i hope you know that different A5, A6 and A7 versions have different hardware (some have extra caps in the

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Donnerstag, den 09.07.2009, 15:07 +0400 schrieb Paul Fertser: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de writes: With the default state file (is there such a thing? *cough*), what's the highest value you can use before it distorts? Michael, i hope you know that different A5, A6 and

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de writes: And i can't see why it can be better to tweak +CLVL instead of tweaking the statefile. What if the Calypso distorts in its output stage? All your tweaking the Wolfson input stages will not matter then. Is there a proof that distortion in

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Wong
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Jimersonvend...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong wrote:   mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume 68 Are you sure that mdbus call is correct I got two

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:17:45 pm Ben Wong wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Jimersonvend...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:54:15 am Ben Wong wrote: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 07:52:09 jeremy jozwik wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Michael 'Mickey' org.freesmartphone.GSM.Device.SetSpeakerVolume( percentage ). wow. thats quite a file name, do you have a path along with that? That should be a D-Bus call. Try mdbus -s. However you

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
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,

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Wong
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,

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-07 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
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

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-07 Thread jeremy jozwik
wow. thats quite a file name, do you have a path along with that? also, the wife is getting very frustrated with my phone now. she keeps complaining that all she hears is a rustling noise. have mono whathave you set to 6, am going to try 5 tomorrow. fun stuff On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 PM,

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-06 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Sunday 05 July 2009 19:44:43 Ben Wong wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Michael Zanettimichael_zane...@gmx.net wrote: Judging from the time when other people complains started I think it happened after an upgrade of my SHR unstable. But I'm not really sure. Yes, SHR-unstable is the

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-06 Thread Vibhav Sharma
Timo Jyrinki wrote: I believe the gsmhandset.state.new (the one) file is not good enough, even though it was toutet as such. The speaker and mic levels are too high, and apparently it may cause too high amplification of mic (ie. when mic2 is 3, mono sidetone is 7 and mono playback is 127 -

Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Michael Zanetti
Hi everyone, Lately my Buzz-fixed Freerunner began to make a rustling noise during phonecalls. I cannot hear it on my side but I constantly get complains from the persons on the other end. Some test calls here confirmed that the noise is really here and its really loud too. It is not the well

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Davide Scaini
the very same behaviour, i was thinking about writing a mail... i cannot use fr as a phone mainly because of this. d On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.netwrote: Hi everyone, Lately my Buzz-fixed Freerunner began to make a rustling noise during phonecalls. I

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread jeremy jozwik
, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net wrote: Hi everyone, Lately my Buzz-fixed Freerunner began to make a rustling noise during phonecalls. I cannot hear it on my side but I constantly get complains from the persons on the other end. Some test calls here confirmed

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2009/7/5 Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net: I am using the gsmhandset.state file suggested by Jörg. Anyone has an idea what could be the cause of this. In this current state my freerunner is absolutely useless as a phone. I believe the gsmhandset.state.new (the one) file is not good

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Davide Scaini
last question: is there a noise reduction already implemented on fr? (...there are several ways of doing that... combining two mics is the easiest...) d On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/5 Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net: I am using the

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread arne anka
last question: is there a noise reduction already implemented on fr? there's an at command to do that, iirc the bug report the gsmhandset.state file is attached to does mention it. if i am wrong, search the archives for noise reduction, there has been a number of mentions. whether your

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Ben Wong
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Michael Zanettimichael_zane...@gmx.net wrote: Judging from the time when other people complains started I think it happened after an upgrade of my SHR unstable. But I'm not really sure. Yes, SHR-unstable is the culprit. I'm currently dual booting SHR-testing and

Re: Rustling noise on phonecalls

2009-07-05 Thread Davide Scaini
ok, thanks for the explanations, i hope that the diff is known. d On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Ben Wong lists.openmoko@wongs.netwrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Michael Zanettimichael_zane...@gmx.net wrote: Judging from the time when other people complains started I think it