A critical friend of mine who has mocked my purchase of an "unfinished" phone just told me that our connection was as good as a landline! I followed Warren's advice below and lowered control.5 to 80 (I'm naturally conservative) which has (so far) completely removed the previously unbearable buzz my friend had observed on the other end of the conversation. Wow. Now I might not need to solder in a new capacitor!
For the demi-newbie: Open /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state Scroll down to control.5 and in that section change the line under 'Mono Playback Volume' from "value 110" to "value 80". Save file. Call OM skeptic. Gloat. Warren said: "I've always had people complain that they got a lot of static when they called me - I thought I had the buzz problem in fact. I just spent the time to figure out how to use alsamixer to tweak things, and if I set control.5 (Mono Playback Volume) to 83 from above 100 like I've seen in other gsmhandset.state files (ranging from 100 to 110 seems normal), I get a perfectly clear signal on the other end." _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support