Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-11-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Walery Strauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, i have tried 2008.7, Qtopia, FSO milestone 2 and 3 and debian. The sound has been described as if i sit in a barrel. Its very low with much interferance and echos. Im beginning to suspect somethings wrong with the actual hardware. If you suspend

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-22 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 22 September 2008, Angus Ainslie wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Vasco Névoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much better now. :) Say, what happens to the changed values when we terminate the phone call? They are lost, right? I mean, the volume values should be reset by the

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-21 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Vasco Névoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much better now. :) Say, what happens to the changed values when we terminate the phone call? They are lost, right? I mean, the volume values should be reset by the *.state files... Currently they are lost. I was thinking

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 18 September 2008, Armin ranjbar wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:29:53 +0100 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand your point now , this is my problem : VERY bad sound quality using Headset under Qtopia and openmoko mediaplayer , lots of Strange noises , echoes ,

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 18 September 2008, Armin ranjbar wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:50:03 +0100 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This sort of question is _much_ more likely to get a useful answer. I've not looked into this directly, but IIRC there were reports of pulseaudio doing

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-18 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Tom Yates wrote: i experimented yesterday with turning on the hardware echo cancellation, and that worked for one call (allowed me to increase Speaker Playback Volume to 117) but then things went back to being very echoey. so unless i'm willing to have a minicom session at the beginning of

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-18 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Armin ranjbar wrote: the Mplayer on om2008 is directly connected to OSS not alsa, when i -ao alsa it becomes 'very sensible' to loads , audio stop and resumes even after each characters into terminals , strange ... That's true... Using the oss output is really better here too. -- Treviño's

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 18 September 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Tom Yates wrote: i experimented yesterday with turning on the hardware echo cancellation, and that worked for one call (allowed me to increase Speaker Playback Volume to 117) but then things went back to being very echoey. so

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Tom Yates
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Daniel Hedblom wrote: If anyone has a good /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhanset.state where sound incalls is good i really would love to have it. Ive been fiddling with it in every way possible, tried all the distributions there is (debian, FSO mk II and III, OM2008.x

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Daniel Hedblom
Hi, Thanks! Now i get pretty decent volume. Albeit with static bzz but people can atleast hear me. I think this would be nice to have on the Wiki since most references about mic talks about changing mic2 in alsa and nothing about Mono Playback Volume. Maybe someone with more insight could write

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Daniel Hedblom wrote: Hi, Thanks! Now i get pretty decent volume. Albeit with static bzz but people can atleast hear me. I think this would be nice to have on the Wiki since most references about mic talks about changing mic2 in alsa and nothing about Mono

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Controls affecting handset mic volume for GSM: Control 48: Mic2 Capture Volume Control 12: Mono Sidetone Playback Volume Control 5: Mono Playback Volume Controls affecting wired headset mic volume for GSM: Control 49: Mic1

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Vasco Névoa
Angus, we owe you a big THANKS for writing this one. :D Just a small remark: isn't Handset supposed to control Mic2 (and not Mic1)? Vasco. Angus Ainslie wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Controls affecting handset mic

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Vasco Névoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angus, we owe you a big THANKS for writing this one. :D Just a small remark: isn't Handset supposed to control Mic2 (and not Mic1)? Vasco. Ooops I fixed that and added input volumes. Angus

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-17 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Vasco Névoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't see the differences online... have you uploaded the file yet? It helps if I put it in the right directory on the server. Should work now. Angus ___ support mailing list

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Hedblom
If anyone has a good /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhanset.state where sound incalls is good i really would love to have it. Ive been fiddling with it in every way possible, tried all the distributions there is (debian, FSO mk II and III, OM2008.x and qtopia ) and almost sacrificed a small

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-14 Thread Daniel Hedblom
Hi, 2008/9/14 Nicolas Dufresne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the noise worst when put your finger on the audio jack ? Its worse depending on how i hold the phone but never good, just less or more static. The real problem is the volume level thats turned down so low people cant hear me at all. This

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-14 Thread Nicolas Dufresne
I think that would be a good guess, I don't think amplifying the noise would make so much good to the sound quality. By the way, anyone from Openmoko has information about this ? When investigation finishes, will their be a repaire program in place ? I know you prefere working each case

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 13 September 2008, Daniel Hedblom wrote: I have tried mucking about with alsa levels to get better sound in various dists for the Freerunner. I havent got good outgoing sound in any distribution, everyone i talk to complains. Is there any way to get decent outgoing sound thats

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Hedblom
Well, i have tried 2008.7, Qtopia, FSO milestone 2 and 3 and debian. The sound has been described as if i sit in a barrel. Its very low with much interferance and echos. Im beginning to suspect somethings wrong with the actual hardware. //danielh 2008/9/13 Al Johnson

Re: Sound quality in calls.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicolas Dufresne
Is the noise worst when put your finger on the audio jack ? This looks like the famous buzzing noize which is described here as a hardware bug mixed with bad alsa settings. http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2008-August/000415.html Le dimanche 14 septembre 2008 à 01:42 +0200, Daniel